THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

What is the surest way to achieve the difficult task of taming our own ego? Bhagawan endearingly explains to us today!*

When someone suffers from stomach-ache, the best treatment will be salts or a hot water bag applied to the stomach, and not medicated collyrium for the eye. Suffering due to ignorance must be removed by acknowledging the universality of God and merging your individuality in the Universal. This first step is not as easy as it looks. Practice the attitude “I am yours.” Let the wave discover and acknowledge that it belongs to the sea. The wave takes a long time to recognise that indeed the vast sea beneath it gives it its existence. Its ego is so powerful that it will not permit it to be so humble, and bend before the sea. “I am Yours; You are the Master. I am a servant; You are sovereign. I am bound.” This mental attitude will tame the ego. This is the religious outlook named marjala-kishora - the attitude of the kitten to its mother, mewing plaintively for succour and sustenance, removing all trace of the ego.