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live on earth for a stipulated time. he has not hesitated to get us endowed with conscience, intelligence and rationality. if we humans, having ignored his endowments, kill that short span of time by wallowing lazily in the luxuries of life, then we will have to leave this world before time. The petty desires, therefore, are to be restrained by conscience and the allotted time has to be properly utilized. Done so, one may achieve the desired goal.
On some other day, our Baba made us understand that it is our longing for God that earns God. God turns a blind eye to ostentatious display or regal air. One who has got an innate love and longing for him, one who has got that strong desire or earnestness to realize him earns him. Priceless jewels can hardly purchase him. To make us realize this point, our Baba narrated a story.
There was a Bheel King. he had in him neither piety nor any show of religiosity. One day he thought to himself, “i am a King, so is God. True it is that he is of a very vast country, but, i am of a small country. i should, therefore, develop a friendly rapport with him. But where to find him?”
The Bheel King knew nothing about his whereabouts. But he was all determined to befriend him. in quest of his whereabouts, he began to wander on horseback. Once while wandering along the bank of the Ganges, he saw a crowd on the premises of a temple of God shiva. Out of curiosity he began to note the activities of the crowd there. he saw that the people were pouring water on the shivalinga, some laying bel-leaves and some others paying their obeisance to the shivalinga with all piety. he being one belonging to the Bheels had no right to enter the temple premises. On enquiry, he came to learn that the shivalinga was nothing but the almighty God. Failing to find out the whereabouts of the King, the Bheel King returned home. in the evening he hunted a hare and headed toward the temple. it was then midnight.
There was then no other human being. The Bheel had no water bowl with him. so he took a mouthful of water from the Ganges. The door of the temple being kept shut, he broke it open with his legs. he then with his sandals on entered the temple, enveloped in darkness, with the hare bespattered with blood.
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