Someone said, “I will try to …”
“Don’t try,” Baba interrupted.
The more you try, the less are the chances to receive love. It is said that those who want love should, in the midst of life, become deaf, dumb and blind! This will gradually free you from the wants you would like fulfilled and also from those which you dislike.
In the end, you have to free yourself even from the want of “I want love,” or “I want to become one with the Beloved.” Of course, such a want frees you from all other wants, but even this singular want belittles the glory of love and it becomes a burden to the Beloved.
If this is not possible then you should, at the least, desire to become like dust at the feet of the Beloved. For this you have to obey me implicitly.
In the following lines a lover states how impossible it is to obey the Master:
O Beloved! You have tied my hands and feet to a plank
and have thrown me in the midst of a stormy ocean,
and you command me that I should not get my clothes wet!This simply means that unless the Master helps you and you trust him 100 percent, it is not possible for you to obey him absolutely.
I am God in human form. Be prepared to obey me with all willingness. I bestow the gift of love as and when I like. Better leave it to my will and pleasure.
Don’t worry, be happy.
On another day, Baba spoke in a similar vein:
One should approach me as if deaf, dumb and blind. He who has a tongue but does not “speak,” having ears but does not “hear” and having eyes but does not “see,” can see me and follow me and speak about me! Only he who turns a deaf ear to others, speaks of no one else and sees no one else can remain absorbed in God!
This does not mean that you have to remain inactive or lazy. On the contrary, it means that you have to be very much more alert toward the expressive beauty of the all-pervading Beloved.
In one of his couplets Hafiz has said:
O Hafiz! If you want your Beloved to be present,
do not absent yourself for one moment from his presence.This means that if you have an intense longing for your Beloved, leave all else and remain near him. Let not your mind wander for even an instant; keep it focused on him alone.
So beware, let not the Divine Beloved find you absent when he knocks at the door of your heart!
-www.lordmeher.org, p4707
June, 1960; Guruprasad