आश्विन कृष्ण द्वितीय श्राद्ध , बुधवार , विक्रम संवत २०६८
Success of Human Life
I tell you the plain truth, but brothers and sisters you do not have faith in it. O' Brother! I neither cheat you, nor betray you; I do not deceive you. I share with you that by which you can realize the "self" very quickly. You yourself create an obstacle to quick self-realization by holding the view that how it can be possible so quickly? Do as I advise you to do and see the result. If it doesn't happen that quickly, then the long road is always open to you. I do not object to following the longer path. If it happens quickly then it is only a great gain, or else the longer path is always open to you. What is the obstacle in doing so? If you do as I say, then you will get much support in the longer path, as well. If you ask me then there won't arise a need to follow the long path. Such a means is rare indeed. People don't know it. I myself did not know this method which can lead to self-realization. Without any ability, knowledge, meditation or deep trance (Samadhi) etc. one can straight away attain that state, in which there remains nothing to be done, known and acquired. When I did not know this quick method, I led a controlled and secluded life and stopped meeting anyone. You will be surprised to know that I ate meager meals weighing the food, for the bare maintenance of the body. I reduced the duration of my sleep and minimized my necessities and possessions. I committed myself to not asking anyone for anything at all and to never say to anyone that I do not have this. I lived like that for many years. I faced so many difficulties for years, that if I share with you, you will be astonished. I know that an ascetic is honored and he attains peace if he does not beg for anything, otherwise he is degraded like a beggar. It is not good for me to say all this, but I am doing so in order to convince you of the truth, that I have done all those things and seen for myself. That too is a path, but it is a long path. Spiritual disciplines undertaken do not prove fruitless but it takes a very long time. I am bent on finding out the quickest way to attain perfection or self-realization. Now too I am in search of that.
Our desire for anything for ourselves is itself Death. He who feels that I need medicines, I need clothes, I need house, I need conveyance etc., then he becomes lowly. He who has become a slave to the base things, is lowly himself, how can he be great? I dislike one who asks (begs) for things, it feels as humiliating as if someone as hit me with a shoe. Those `sadhus' living with me, if they bring up that I want such and such thing, then it is great disrespect, an uncommon insult. There is no "sadhu-ness (saintliness) in them, there humanity! A man is needed by others. Even if you do not get a piece of bread, so be it ! You may say that you will die without food. Will you not die by eating and eating? Whether you dies eating or you die being hungry, death is inevitable. Then, why should you die being slaves to others? Why should you not die an honorable death instead of dying being humiliated and downtrodden? If you are to die, then die with respect. If you don't beg for anything, you attain great joy! You attain great peace! This life will become a success. The benefits are so very much that there is no end to it. It is such gain that has never been possible in any birth and which is beyond description. (to be continued)
From "Ease of God Realization" in English by Swami Ramsukhdasji
Date : 12th September, 2011 - Bhagwat Praapti ki Sugamtaa
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