Page 488 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
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even as we have the fullest support of the Master. If one is entrusted with the task of training others, the responsibility is all the more. Letting go, of our notions, ideas and opinions of God, Divinity, Reality etc. and most importantly willingness to let go our egoism is eventually our choice and does not happen automatically no matter how much help we receive. There is a famous saying that a horse can be taken to the water but cannot be made to drink. That is the choice of the horse. Similarly, we have a choice of either sticking on to our ideas and notions or letting them go to embrace the Reality that comes to us by way of imperience rather than intellectual deliberation. The outcome otherwise is not of getting merely stuck with what we have assumed of ourselves but getting spiraled more in self-centeredness beyond the point of mending. Worst still, one may not even be aware of this digression and enjoy the self centered delusion causing much damage to oneself besides not being of much use to others whom he is entrusted to help.
Co-operation in this context would mean willing to let go, yielding to the Master, his Method, following His system with earnestness of purpose so that we continually move more and more in realms of selflessness and serve others selflessly. In absence of co-operation, our case risks becoming one such where even Master claims helplessness. The inability to surrender totally for serving the Divine puts a full stop to our cooperation.
In cases where he has perhaps found this, His helplessness and despair is evident in the way He proclaims thus - “ A few are so born who confuse dhal for boiled rice and they take great pleasure in this confusion.” One may think very highly of his state(dhal) but may not even be in the presumed state(boiled rice). It may not even be close. For e.g, one may think that he is devoted based on one's notion of devotion and not real
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