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He used to say that “God has hidden himself inside our hearts and exposed us. Hide yourselves and expose God! This is the real sadhana.”
Sri Lalaji had all the qualities of a truly great and perfect man being, as he is, next to God. According to Swami Vivekananda “ Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and the nature is both internal and external. It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander to know the laws that govern stars and planets, but it is infinitely grander and better to know the laws that govern the passions, the feelings and the will of mankind.”
This Great Master who was a prodigy of Nature, the Ultimate Reality, brought back to humanity the long forgotten art of transmission of the Upanishadic pranasya pranah and worked out a novel method of spiritual training which completely relieved the practicant of almost all of his responsibilities. With him dawned the new era of yogic training through transmission of which he was the Master. He could bring a man to perfection simply at a glance. It was he who made it possible that a man could attain perfection in one life – rather a part of it – leading just a normal family life. He simplified the method of spiritual training to a great extent and adjusted it to suit the requirements of time.
When he fell seriously ill, some of his disciples including Sri Jagadambika Prasad inquired of him about his representative. He calmly replied “when the candle shall be lighted, the moths would themselves fly to it.” On another occasion, Sri Madan Mohan Lal of Shajajanpur (U.P.) asked the same question, Lalaji smiled and said “Ram Chandra will be the light of the family (Ram Chandra Chirag –e-Khandan hoga).” On another occasion, Pandit Ganga Sewak put the same question and Lalaji said to him, “I am leaving my representative and he will himself appear.”
In 1931 when his illness got serious he began to remain immersed in thought of God and felt heart rending pangs of love. He would say.
“ Vadae vasl choon shavad nazdeek
Aatashe shauq Tez-tar gardad.”
“As the coveted hour of merger with the beloved gets nearer, so increases the fire of desire of him.”