Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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Feeling of My Very Own (Apnaapan) with God

 

In reality, no man is an orphan (without a father, a Master, a Lord,

widowed, helpless). All men have a father (Master, Lord). For

everything in this life, there is a master (owner), then is there no

master for men - how can that be? He who is the master of all, is

also our master. We definitely know Him. In other words, to see

ourselves as an orphan (helpless) is our grave mistake.

 

Why does man experience this feeling of being orphaned? When he

begins to consider a particular thing or individual as his own, then

it's abscence begins to create a feeling of helplessness. It is a

rule that when a man begins to consider himself as the master of any

object (thing) or individual, then he forgets his own master

(father). Just like a child cannot live without his mother; but

when he grows up and begins to consider the wife and children etc.

as his own, then he begins to neglect and often becomes indifferent

to the very same mother. Therefore Bhagwaan (God) in the Gita has

called " Ishvar " to those embodied souls who believe the body to be

their own, rather he who considers himself to be the owner (master)

of this body -

 

" Shariram yadavaapnotti yacchaapyutkraamteeshvarah. " (Gita 15:8).

 

If besides God, man considers no one else as his own, then the

erroneous understanding of him being an orphan (without a master)

will be wiped out, and he will experience, having a master (a

protector, a husband, a Lord)

 

The truth is that only God is ours at all times, eternally. This

world was not ours at first, it will not remain ours at the end,

even at this present moment it is leaving us. But God was with us

before hand, he will remain with us and at this present moment is

also with us. If He does not ever meet us, then too He is our, if

He meets us all the time, then too He is ours and if He meets us at

times and not other times, then too He is ours. On the other hand,

this world appears to be with us at all times, yet it is not ours.

That which does not stay with us forever, and that which we cannot

stay with forever, it simply cannot be ours. Only that which stays

with us at all times, in other words, that which never parts

(separates) from us, is ours.