Sense of Mine (Apnapan) with God
Shree Hari
12th April, 2012, ThursdayVaishakh Krishna Shasthi, Vikram Samvat 2069, Guruvaar
Your daughter changed her sense of I-ness, she accepts herself as the wife of another household. What? Do you not have even that much capability as your daughter? You were not upset with your daughter when she transformed her I-ness, then the world too will not be upset with you if you change your sense of I-ness to I am God's, as it is the Truth. Meerabai said - "Mere toh Giridhar Gopaal, doosaro naa koyi." No one else is mine, besides Giridhar Gopaal and I belong to no one else.
If you do a job, you will get wages according to your abilities. But if you go home to your mother, will she give you bread according to your capabilities? She will give you bread whether you work or don't work. It is not so that by "bhajan" (adoration and worship), a relationship is developed with Bhagwaan, and by not doing "bhajan," there will not be a relationship. If you accept that sense of mine, that feeling of my very own (apnaapan) with God, that He Naath! I am your child only, then God will think, that however he is, he is my very own child only, then God will have to take care of you. Therefore, "I am yours only, and only You are mine," this is a very straight-forward path.
God says that this "jeev" is a portion of me alone, but it attracts the body, senses, mind, intellect, that are established in Nature (Prakriti), and assumes them to be its very own (Gita 15/7)!
O' what did you get entangled in? Look where you are from, and where you are entangled! Serve the world. Give happiness to others with your body, mind, wealth, intellect, abilities, rights, etc., but do not consider them to be your own. This feeling of my very own will not last. They are ours only for serving. All the things in this world that we assume to be our own, they alone make us dependent. It is a false notion that this entire family is mine, this wealth is mine, but as such they are not, you have become there. You have become dependent and subordinate to them. Neither will these stay with us, nor will we stay with them. Therefore with great enthusiasm and eagerness serve them, then the world will also be happy, and God too will be happy. You too remain happy at all times and rejoice. When there is no one there to serve, then the one desiring service will become unhappy, but the one who serves remains ever happy, ever joyful.
Naaraayan ! Naaraayan ! Naaraayan !
From "Bhagavaana se Apanaapana" in Hindi by Swami Ramsukhdasji
Ram Ram
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