|| Shri Hari ||
Who is Mine ?   

A man who is engaged in “satsang”  should first and the foremost think that who is mine and who is not mine?  

Pay attention!  It is an exceptional point !  We should realize that he who always lives with us, and with whom we live at all times,  is ours.   But He Who cannot always live with us, and with whom we cannot always live,  is not ours.  Now why do we not recognize Him,Who is ours? and why are we attracted to that which is not ours?

  We commit a mistake by regarding the wealth, property, sons, family, honor, praise, etc.  as ours.  Actually they are not ours because they don’t accompany us forever, they appear and disappear.  But we have a disinclination for God Who is ours,  Meerabai declared,  “None else except God is mine”.  We don’t attain God because unlike Meerabai we  don’t exclusively depend on God.  We should have an inclination to God because He is our own.  “He dwells in the hearts of all beings’  (Gita 18/61).  

I have declared several times that God pervades everywhere, at all times, in all persons, incidents, circumstances, and states etc., so He is here now in us.  As He belongs to all, He is also ours.  So we need not lose heart as far as His attainment is concerned.  But our affinity for the people of this mortal world is only in order to render service to them.  If we are attached to them, we shall have to suffer because they can’t live with us forever.  

Do not relish  the joy that you get from satsang (good company).  Have an inclination for God Who is the source of this joy.   God is the abode of that joy.  The body and the world are not ours.  If we are bold enough to accept this fact,  it will be very beneficial.

From book in "Ease of God Realization"  by Swami Ramsukhdasji.

Ram Ram