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The Self Realization
of compassion. As compared with them, a disciple like me struggling with the forces of life and aspiring for Liberation finds himself at a very low rung of the ladder. O my Master, though I was full of faults and worldly attachments, notwithstanding them, you lifted me up from the worldly mire to the elevated condition of the spiritual enlightenment. This unqualified and immeasurable obligation you have done me is beyond my comprehension. Even one word of the enlightened Saviours like you properly accepted and followed leads the disciple to Liberation. Therefore one is always benefited in thinking and appreciating their favours done to him. The Self begins to enlighten him if he constantly meditates on the disinterested compassion and obligation of the enlightened Saviours to him.
How wonderful and astonishing is the height of spiritual attainment and obligation of the spiritual Saviours like you !
We feel lifelong obligation of those who give us employment in worldly life. Then what to talk of the obligation and compassion of the enlightened living Guru who transformed my life, who saved me from suffering in the world cycle of birth and death, whose contact changed my perspective, who removed my Self-delusion and ignorance of the endless past and by whose compassion I turned away from the external worldly activities and directed all my energies to the knowing and experiencing the Self - the internal spiritual nucleus in me. Only when I think of the difference between what I was and what I am made by the Guru, then I can to some extent realize the value of my contact with and the obligation of the .enlightened living Guru.
Humility is the way to greatness. Humility brings
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