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We have become so insincere that when in the temple we say, "O Lord I am yours”. Then back at home we tell our wife and children, "I belong to you." We leave God to figure out what we meant by our pledge in the temple and back at home. It cannot happen until we learn to give completely. Until then the confusion will not go. Let us talk of a couplet from the Manas. Goswami Maharaj says that if you surrender once, only once, all the problems of all your births shall be taken care of, shall be solved. The question arises of how much time it will take. Goswami Maharaj says, "Now, in this very moment everything shall be fixed, there shall be no waiting. Your problems can come to an end today itself!"
Bigri janam anek ki ab hi sudhare aaj hohi Ram ko kaam taji tulsi taji kusaamaj.
Is this not our biggest problem? We are always under the stress of problems. There is no one in this world who can be held up as an example of a happy and peaceful person. Here I do not refer to saints and virtuous souls but to the worldly people. There is no one who can claim total happiness and say that he has no problems to make him restless. There are none who can claim this. Everyone has piercing thorns within him. Someone has rightly said,
Betabian samet kar sare jahaan ki, kuch bhi na ban saka to mera dil bana diya. We have so many problems, we are so much disturbed and sometimes this disturbance knows no limits.
Many years back I met a gentleman in Bareilly whose words I still remember. He told me, "I have a feeling". I asked him, "What do you feel?" He said, "I am so much disturbed that I feel like commiting suicide. I have a feeling to die". I said, "Fine, what better solution can there be if you think death can help you to get rid of your problems. Why not try taking your life? Why delay?" He said, "No, this is the dilemma". I was surprised. His whole life is being spent in a dilemma and what dilemma can there be after death? He said, ''The dilemma is that if I do not find peace even after death then what shall I do? If I face the same restlessness and stress even after death then what shall I do?" I said, “This is true, because even after death where else could you go?" One saint has said,
Jaate nahin hain koi duniyaa se door chal ke Milte hain sab yahin para kapde badal badal ke.
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