Whatever happens is a dream and the witness to it, the Supreme Self, the Bliss absolute, is my very own. Stay secure in this knowledge. Some people think, ‘My mother-in-law should change herself… my daughter-in-law should herself…my son should change himself…’ My dear! This is what is called worldly life. Don't enter the unending game of endeavouring to change your daughter-in-law, son, fashion style…instead, change your mental outlook.
‘They alone are the perfect men; who are happy in all the circumstances,
If God gives them wealth they are happy. If God keeps them in rags, they are happy in that too.’
‘Hurrah!’ you cry with joy when a friend of yours comes. And you are filled with anger and hatred at the sight of an enemy. But you should know that the friend has come to give you cheer and the enemy to make you strong and free from attachment. This is the beautiful arrangement made by God.
The Guru instructs you in the Knowledge, ‘The enemy will come and go and so will the friend. But my beloved God, my Supreme friend is forever with me.’ Those who find such a guru realize the Ultimate Truth that makes them immortal; they become capable of trampling happiness and sorrow under their feet. Honour and insult, life and death are to them like features in a dream. Death fails to frighten them.
True disciples regard death too as God’s sport. Death only takes away your worn out garments and gives you new ones to wear. In life as well as in death, the existence of God remains unchanged. Every day when you sleep, you are in a death-like inactive state. It only reinvigorates you. Similarly, death gives you a fresh new body. The sincere disciples of a true guru know, ‘I never die; what dies is the body UM…Um….’ And knowing this they attain their immortal Self.
‘They alone are the perfect men; who are happy in all the circumstances,
If God gives them wealth they are happy. If God keeps them in rags, they are happy in that too.’
‘Hurrah!’ you cry with joy when a friend of yours comes. And you are filled with anger and hatred at the sight of an enemy. But you should know that the friend has come to give you cheer and the enemy to make you strong and free from attachment. This is the beautiful arrangement made by God.
The Guru instructs you in the Knowledge, ‘The enemy will come and go and so will the friend. But my beloved God, my Supreme friend is forever with me.’ Those who find such a guru realize the Ultimate Truth that makes them immortal; they become capable of trampling happiness and sorrow under their feet. Honour and insult, life and death are to them like features in a dream. Death fails to frighten them.
True disciples regard death too as God’s sport. Death only takes away your worn out garments and gives you new ones to wear. In life as well as in death, the existence of God remains unchanged. Every day when you sleep, you are in a death-like inactive state. It only reinvigorates you. Similarly, death gives you a fresh new body. The sincere disciples of a true guru know, ‘I never die; what dies is the body UM…Um….’ And knowing this they attain their immortal Self.
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