The
Brave Dare the Path of Devotion
(Excerpts from Satsang of Pujya Sant Shri Asaramji Bapu)
One has
to sacrifice his individual self in order to attain God. The Gopis offered themselves as a sacrifice to the Lord and
poured their hearts out before the Lord in the form of tears; only then could
they attain the Lord. People, who are worried about their public image, are
but doomed to remain deprived of God realization. They are more concerned with
people than the Lord. They are trying to dec3eive the Lord. If you want to
attain God, you have to turn your back on both public praise and condemnation.
When Swami Rama Tirtha went to
Swamiji took the staff back and said, “I have my reason and my intellect with
me. Let people keep their remarks, praise and condemnation with them. I have
nothing to do with them. Whether people me a fool or fallen one or slander me
in any other manner, I simply don’t care, for I know I am the Atman. Nothing
can touch me. I am unsullied and non-attached. Whether people speak sweet or
bitter words about me it makes no difference to me.”
If you stop being a yes-man to people and start your journey on the path
of God-realization, you will remain unafraid even if people insult you, oppose
you or call you a fool or a degenerate. Look at the God-realized saints. How
fearless they are!
Even in the face of being opposed by the whole world, they don’t lose
their steadfast faith in their Real Self. They will
say, ‘Come what may, it will affect only the five elements of the Nature;
and in any case, they are undergoing constant change. Why should it bother me?
I am only a witness thereof, omnipresent and eternal. Nothing in the world can
cause even the slightest damage to the fort of my
What
fearlessness!
Hence, don’t bother about pleasing people. It is any way impossible to
please everybody. Just take care of the Lord dwelling in your hear. Always be
cheerful. Don’t care for the world even if it is reduced to ashes. Take care
of your hear; keep it ever peaceful. Once you attain unity with the Lord, you
automatically get Self-repose. And is there any objective higher than
Self-repose in human life? Verily, to realize the Self Supreme is the ultimate
purushartha of life.
Resolve within, ‘I will not grieve or feel dejected, if anybody opposes
me. To be sorrowful, one needs a deluded mind. A dashiki’s mind is always
engrossed in the Lord. Even if somebody neglects, I will not be distressed. I
will remain so calm and composed that any amount of effort to agitate me will
fail.