CHAPTER-2: THE SPIRIT OF DISPASSION [PART-II]
11. Referring to a man
who criticized those who renounce the world, Mother said, "My child, men
such as these are deeply drowned in the world. They never acquire love for God.
They simply carry on, 'coming into the world, suffering the calamities therein,
and going away from it' again and again. If after doing so many a time, the
Lord has mercy on them in some birth, they will attain liberation
12. "How little
intelligence does a man possess! He may require one thing, but asks for another.
He starts to mould an image of Shiva and often ends by making that
of a monkey. It is best therefore to surrender all desires at the feet of God.
He will do whatever is best for us. But one may pray for devotion and
detachment. These cannot be classed as desires."
13. "In one word,
one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all
suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in
the way of liberation.
14. "There is no
happiness while living in this body. The world is full of sorrow. Happiness is
only an empty word. Only those who have received the grace of the Master can
recognize him as God, and that is their real joy."
15. "What is there
in this world? Tell me what is good in this life? That was why
in the end the Master took only bitter things. I would try to give him sandesh
and he would say, 'What is there in sandesh? It is just the same as clay.'
16. "Do you notice
this human body? Today it is and tomorrow it is not. And the world is full of
misery and pain. Why should one be eager to have another birth? The body is
never free from its attendant troubles."
17. "However
spiritual a man may be, he must pay the tax for the use of the body to the last
farthing (i.e. undergo suffering and death incidental to the embodied state).
But the difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter
weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a
mere play."
18. "Everything,
husband, wife, or even the body, is only illusory. These are all shackles of
illusion. Unless you can free yourself from these bondages, you will never be
able to go to the other shore of the world. Even this attachment to the body,
the identification of the self with the body, must go. What is this body, my
darling? It is nothing but three pounds of ashes when it is cremated. Why so much
vanity about it? However strong or beautiful this body may be, its culmination
is in those three pounds of ashes. And still people are so attached to it.
Glory be to God.
19. "The whole
world is a dream; even this (the waking state) is a dream ... What you dreamt
last night does not exist now. ... A farmer who had lost a son dreamt at night
that he was a king and the father of eight sons. When the dream vanished, he
said to his wife, 'Shall I weep for my eight sons or this one?' "
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