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a Bheel boy. You are reared in a Bheel family. You are a prince.” The boy paid no heed to his words. he laughed at the sage. he insisted, “They are my parents. it is our cottage. i am a Bheel boy rather than a Prince.”
The sage, accompanied by the Bheel couple and the boy then left for the Palace. They reached the entrance of the Palace. The sage then requested the Bheel couple to kindly wait outside the gate and accompanied the boy to the particular room, meant for him. he had the boy duly clad in a new robe and sent the message to the King. The King too, duly dressed in a new robe paid his obeisance at the feet of the sage and stood by his son. There was a big mirror, kept inclined on the wall. On being ordered, both the King and the boy looked at the mirror. The boy was surprised to see his own image in the mirror. it was the first time that he saw his own image reflected in a mirror. The moment he saw his own handsome image in the mirror, he could easily realize that he was not at all a Bheel boy. he was instead a great prince.
The sage asked him, “Who are you, my boy?”
The boy said, “i am a Prince.”
The sage said, “Can you recognize your father?”
The boy said, “Yes, i can. My father is with me. all these years
i was under the spell of an illusion and attachment. Thanks to your grace, i have recognized myself. i have been able to recognize my real father.”
On narrating this story, Baba said, “Just as the boy, brought up by the Bheel couple, knew little about his own identity, human beings remain too engrossed with illusory things to discover their own self or identity. Even if he is made to realize it, he least cares about it. he takes the home where he is born and brought up as his own home and one who rears him is taken to be his father. Thus being oblivious of both his home and his father, he lives away from home. however, if a good and gracious Guru helps him realize himself, he gets over the illusion, then and then only, he realises who he is, who his father is and where his home is.”
While our Baba was offering us advice, an old lady wept and said, “What am i fated to have? i cannot pray to God.”
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