Discourse :- Mata AmritanandaMayi
Source :- Times of India
Date :- 02-02-2006
Humility and Simplicity are the characteristics of greatness. Think: 'I am nothing'. The coconut feels, "Because of me the dish was tasty". The cook will say,"My skill made it good". The fire would say,"I made the dish well cooked". But all ability is God's. Humility is God's nature. He is the everyone's servant. He is the Universal servant.
See God in everything, accept His will. Then one can only be humble because one whatever happens in life, positive or negative, is His will. All reactions disappear, there is only acceptance.
It is not the ego that should be made but the real 'I'. The mind should be expanded to embrace and accomadate the whole universe within. Children, however much rainwater falls on the mountain top, it will not remain there. It will flow down to the river below. The low lying areas receive water from all sides. Eveything will come running to the place where there is humility.
As soon as you realise you ar small, the ego disappears. We will feel that we have no refuge other than God, and the negative vasanas (tendencies) will fall off by themselves. Only by trying to become smaller than smallest, does one become greater than greatest. By developing the attitude of being everyone's servant. one becomes the master. Even who bows down even to the Shava ( corpse ) becomes Shiva.
If the seed has to sprout, it should go beneath the soil with the attitude, "I am nothing". When the button on the handle is pressed down, the umbrella opens. Similarly we cultivate and develop humility, when our ego made to bow low in the front of the Supreme and His creation, visualising everything as Him, our real nature unfolds. An egoless person cannot die, bcause he is not a body anymore.He is consiousness. Only people who are identified with a body die.
If you stop insisting that others should honour and respect you, honour and respect will come to you unasked. Be humble and patient and see how things around you change. When you stop demanding, others will start honouring you, if you dont want it.
When you are aware of your ignorance you remain with an atttitude of a beginner. Then you listen intently, open and receptive. Once you think that you know, then you do not listen anymore, you only speak. Your mind and intellect become full. The beginner is able to bow down with humilty and because of this, true knowledge flows into him. A person full of mere information becomes egoistic. So he cannot bow down and be humble.
Everybody wants to bcome a leader. No one wants to bacome a servant. In reality the world is badly in need of servants, not leaders. A real servant is a real leader who serves the people without an ego and egocentric desires. Real greatness lies in humility and simplicity. The awakening of the disciple within you brings the Guru to you. Your intense thirst to know the truth gives birth to the disciple within. The lover withing you awakens and the beloved appears. Without the lover there is no beloved; without the disciple there is no Guru. Only love can create miracle.
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