Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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Why do you become a Slave to that which Comes and Goes?

 

Considering those things that are produced and later destroyed to be

in you, and feeling superior or inferior, is a grave mistake. Just

like one who on possessing wealth considers himself to be superior,

another sees himself as superior from living in a big house, another

feels he is great from wearing fancy and expensive clothes, another

expresses superiority from receiving a big promotion, while another

on not receiving these things believes himself to be inferior, all of

this is a big mistake.

 

You are yourself a part of God, pure consciousness, but taking inert

matters to be you, you consider yourself to be either superior or

inferior - this is your baseness. Taking inert things and considering

yourself superior is also base, and considering yourself to be

inferior is also base. You are the one amassing these things, and

utilizing these things. You are the one to know it's beginning and

end, then why do you become a slave to them?

 

Wealth is acquired and later departs - in this manner considering

yourself to be superior or inferior, on either attaining or

separating, for that whose beginning and end is known, is such a

mistake. With a little thought, this point will become clear that if

we have become superior on receiving a promotion than in reality we

have remained small, it is the position or post that has become big.

On receiving money if we have become big, then it is the money that

has become big, not us. If this point is understood today, at this

very moment, then we will not consider ourselves to be superior or

inferior, based on the things that come and go.