In the Samvat year 1876 on the twelfth day of the bright half of the month of Paush before sunrise. Shreeji Maharaj arrived in the residential place of the saints in the Durbar of Dada Khachar in Gadhada. He had put a white headdress on His head and covered His body with a large white double sheet of cotton. He had put a white upper garment over His shoulders. We was seated on a platform facing the west. Saints and devotees from various places had gathered before Him in an assembly.
Shreeji Maharaj fixed His eyes on the tip of His nose for a while and then started His discourse with these words. Everyone desires to worship Gad. But everyone’s understanding about God is different from others. God resides in all respects in the heart of those who know that it is God who keeps this earth steady and it shakes when He shakes it. He has kept this star- studded-sky high above us without any support. Under His command god of rains send rains Sun and Moon rise and set. The moon waxes and wanes and the oceans keep within their bounds. A human being is produced from a drop of water and he gets hands, feet, nose. caw, and all the (ten organs of senses. Water hangs high above in the sky. and lightening flashes and thunders in the mass of water. All these infinite wonders happen because the Lord commands the elements to work such wonders. And such a powerful Lord has revealed Himself to us. A true devotee believes that no other power other than Lord himself except the Lord Himself can work such wonders. A true devotee believes that wonders which have happened in the past, which are happening today and will happen in future also are the works of the Lord who has personally revealed Himself to us.
A true devotee behaves with equanimity of mind. He is unperturbed if dust is thrown on him, or is insulted. He takes it equally if he is given a ride on an elephant, or a ride on a donkey after cutting his nose and ears. He observes a beautiful woman, or an ugly woman or an old dame with an equal eye. He treats equally a heap of gold and a mound of stones. God resides in the heart of a devotee who possesses such knowledge, devotion, non-attachment. and such other auspicious virtues. Such a devotee derives infinite grandeur from God Himself by His majestic power. He can uplift infinite number of other souls. And though he possesses such great powers he accepts honor, and insults with patience and equipoise. That is his red greatness. And other person if he is in possession of such great powers cannot treat honors and insults equally. Persons who can accept honors and insults with equanimity are really great. They are so powerful that they
can impart vision to all the creatures of the universe because God has given them the power of vision. They are capable to impart power of walking to every creature because God gives them the power to walk. God reveals Himself through all the senses of such saints. Such saints are capable to energies the organs of senses of all the creatures of this universe. Such saints are the supporting pillars of the whole universe. It is their greatness that they bear the insult of even insignificant persons. They are really great who show such forgiveness. But those who browbeat the poor and frighten them, and consider themselves very great are in fact not the least great Those who frighten people by show of their super human powers cannot be called true devotees of God. They are mere creatures caught in the grip of Maya. They deserve to go to Yamapuri i.e. the place of punishment after death. Their greatness is restricted to this world only. In this world many do not have a horse to ride. So one who has a horse is thought to be greater. And if one has five horses he is thought to be still greater. In this world persons greatness is measured by the material wealth he possess. But he is not great among the devotees of God.
Anyone who thinks in his mind that, this woman is a very beautiful woman. or this cloth is a very fine cloth or this building is magnificent. or this bowl is very ace, or this vessel is very nice, such a person may he be a householder, or a mendicant, must be considered to be a man of very low intelligence. If you ask me whether such a person will achieve the ultimate good or not my answer is, ‘Even a non entity will achieve the ultimate good if he stays within the fold of our holy fellowship but that man will never acquire the quality of saintliness which I have described above, not will the virtues of
saintliness be found in him, because he does not deserve.”
With these words Shreeji Maharaj concluded his discourse and uttering Jay Sadchidanand returned to His residence.
