Page 191 - Kailaspati: Paramhans Hansdevji Avadhoot

We asked Baba, “if a person boasts for having forsaken some- thing, then what is to be done to be free from it?”
Baba said in reply, “it does not befit a man to proudly think that since this visible and vegetable world is not mine, i forsake it forever. since nothing on earth is mine, i forsake it. One must not be proud of having forsaken it. My Guru Maharaj used to tell us, if pride overtakes one regarding a thing or two, one must look up. There is no dearth of men, better than me in respect of fortune, physical beauty, educational attainment, greatness and man of versatility. Then why should i feel proud of having been the owner of a petty kind of wealth? he used to exhort us—things of this world are owned by Paramatman, and not by me.”
Once shri shri Guru Maharaj told my husband, “Complete surrender, emulation and forgiveness are all. stick always to these principles.”
On question about the benefit of silence, Baba said, “silence prompts one to develop forgiveness. That means, it helps develop a quality to sustain embarrassment or loss of any kind and in the process it increases the power of forgiveness. since one has no job to do, one can ponder over a thing and has had a deeper feeling in him.”
Once Baba recited a Doha in Gujrati and elucidated—just as a dream, seen at night, gets lost at day-time (that is to say, it is nothing but an illusion), the concept of family which seems to be real since time immemorial gets lost with the acquisition of ‘Tatvagyan’ (i.e. wisdom). No wisdom, no deliverance. Baba then recited:
सब सुख हधोत वैिाग्से, तेज तपस्यामांय; भनक्से प्रभुता बढै, मुनक् ज्ञाितबि िांय।
saba sukha hota vairāgyase, teja tapasyāmāṃya; bhaktise prabhutā baḍhai, mukti jñānabina nāṃya,
That means, one can attain bliss by means of detachment. By means of meditation, one can acquire strength. But without wisdom, a man can hardly attain deliverance.
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