Sant Sri Asaramji Bapu: Nothing belongs to me in me

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Nothing belongs to me in me...

-Translated from a discourse given by Sant Shri Asaramji Bapu

 

 

Swami Ram Teerth narrates an incident about a man:

 

A man was going to visit his in-laws for the first time therefore he was

carrying sweets, fruits etc. with him. He was riding on a horse along with

bag full of various things.

 

He had completed just a small portion of his journey when he thought: 'The

poor horse is so much in trouble! As it is the day is so hot, and on top of

it I'm sitting and then there is the weight of all these bags.'

 

That stupid man came down the horse and thought of carrying all the luggage

by himself. He carried his bedding & sweets on his back, some of the things

in his hands and put other things on his head. Thus that man tied up all the

luggage on his body as if he was putting everything on a donkey and then he

sat on the horse and thought: 'So what if I'm suffering at least this horse

is comfortable!'

 

By the time that man reached the house of his in-laws, he was tired like

anything. It was evening and the father-in-law was standing in front of the

house waiting for the son-in-law. Then he saw his son-in-law and said:

 

'Welcome! Why are you looking so tired?'

 

Son-in-law: 'I'll tell that later. Please set up a bed for me immediately.'

 

The father-in-law set the bed worriedly. The son-in-law came down the horse,

dumped all the luggage in a corner and then threw himself on the bed like a

dead body.

 

Everybody was very worried to see the son-in-law in such a state.

 

Father-in-law: 'How did you become so desperately tired?'

 

Son-in-law: 'How could this horse carry my weight along with the weight of

all the luggage? I felt pity for the horse and therefore I piled everything

on myself.'

 

Father-in-law: " Oh foolish son-in-law! Even after putting everything on

yourself didn't you sit on the horse after all? So the complete weight was

obviously on the horse. Unnecessarily you carried all the luggage and became

tired.'

 

The man had the illusion that all the weight is on him and not the horse and

therefore made his state so miserable. In the same way, in reality when God

is carrying the weight of the whole world, man believes that, " I've done. "

Doctors believe that they have cured the patients... The innocent doctor

does not know that he just cleaned and put medicine on the wound but it was

God who healed the wound and gave a new skin to the patient.

 

Similarly, you think that you are running the house. If you were not

earning, then everybody would have died of hunger. God makes arrangement to

feed the birds & animals, so will he not take care of members of your

family?

 

Cont'd.......

 

 

--

With Love,

Ganesh Baba

[Guest guest]

This story is not sufficient to establish the concept of god.

With regards

Rohri

 

--- On Sun, 1/3/10, Kriya Baba <kriyababa2 wrote:

 

Nothing belongs to me in me...

 

-Translated from a discourse given by Sant Shri Asaramji Bapu

 

 

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