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If
you resolve to wake up at five in the morning, you can certainly do it. To
resolve firmly is egoism. What cannot be achieved through egoism? One day
the saint Sahajanand Swami met a King, in the province of Kathiawad.
The king told Sahajanand Swami that a very impressive ascetic had
come to town. This ascetic
had remained buried underground for two weeks.
Swami told the king to make the ascetic repeat this feat in his
presence. The ascetic, through his ego remained buried underground for
fifteen days. At the time of his surfacing, Swami told the King not to
send a large procession to greet the ascetic as he had previously done,
but instead send just two policemen. When the ascetic surfaced and did not
see anyone waiting to greet him, he became enraged and began to shout,
“Where is the King? Where is the horse carriage? Where is the band?”.
He collapsed while shouting and died. He lived through his ego and when
that ego was not nourished, he died. To impose yourself where you are not
is ego.
Gnani
Purush Dadashri |
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