Bhaishri's Message from Kathas # 2
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Be a Servant of Shri Hari
Being an employee is being subservient but we are slaves to money, power, fame and status. Sometimes we are slaves to our addictions and at other times we are slaves to our greed. Sometimes we become slaves to lust and at other times to anger or envy. We are dissipating our lives in vain having dumped them in sensual pleasures. If at all you want to be a slave, then be a slave to "Shri-Hari."
Muni Sutikshana says to Lord Rama in the Ramacharitamanasa (Aranyakanda 10.3): asa abhimana jai jani bhoren, main sevaka raghupati pati more. “Never let this exalted feeling disappear from my mind, even in an unguarded moment, that I am Rama’s servant and He is my master.” Only he who is a true lover and tyagi can be a true servant. Service will bring about happiness, love, joy and renunciation in your life.Seva is related to sat (truth) and only he who has a true understanding can renounce. By merely changing to saffron coloured robes one does not become a sannyasi. Only when one gains true knowledge and awakens into the divine consciousness does one realise that this world is an abode of misery. Being freed from this world and joining with God alone is true yoga. It is only a true lover who is useful to God while one who is not a true lover is of no use to Him. However learned one may be, if there is no love in one’s heart then even a learned scholar is like an animal. Without the grace of the guru one does not develop love for God. It is after surrendering to the guru that one gets joined with the Creator. We meet our guru simply by the grace of God.
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