- One should have this ego – the ‘servant I.’ That is to say, ‘I am the servant of the Lord, I am His devotee.’ There’s no harm in that. Rather, it leads to God-realization.
- The attitude of the Master and the servant is very good. Look, everybody says that the wave belongs to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the wave.
- A maidservant refers to her master’s house as ‘our house,’ though she has her own home in another village. Seeing her master’s house, she says, ‘our house,’ but in her mind she knows that this house is not hers and that her own home is in the village.
- If ‘I’ simply refuses to go, let the rascal remain as the ‘servant I’.
- We are all children of God. We are all His servants. I also am a child of God, and His servant too. Uncle moon is everybody’s uncle.
Refuge
- The world is like a cloudy sky pouring rain; generally one cannot see the sun. There is sorrow the greater part of life. The clouds of ‘lust and greed’ do not let one see the sun. I say, why shouldn’t there be a way? Take refuge in God and pray to Him with a yearning heart for a favourable breeze to give you an auspicious opportunity. God definitely listens to the prayers of one who calls on Him with a longing heart.
- If you surrender to the Lord and call on Him with a heart full of yearning, He is bound to listen and take care of everything for you.
- God does make everything favourable. It may be possible that one is not married and so is able to devote his entire mind to the Lord. Or perhaps his brother begins to earn (money), or his son grows up, so that he is relieved of household responsibilities. In that case he can effortlessly give one hundred percent of his mind to God.
- One reaps the fruit of one’s actions. Give up this idea. By taking refuge in the Lord, one’s duties and karmas cease to exist.
- I am the machine and God is the operator. I do as He makes me do. I speak as He makes me speak. During a storm a dry leaf is sometimes blown onto a clean surface and sometimes into a gutter. The wind carries it where it wills.
- Hanuman said, ‘O Rama, You are my only refuge, I surrender to You. Bless me that I may have pure love for Your lotus feet and grant that I may never be enchanted by Your world-bewitching maya.’
- One should be satisfied with what comes of its own accord. The son of a rich family has no worry about his food – he gets an allowance every month. If you surrender your mind completely to God, He will surely provide for everything.
- There’s no danger if you take refuge in God. He will save you Himself.