Craving
Whenever somebody complains of lack of progress, it
is due to lack of craving in him. 'Anxiety' we may be having,
'Greed', yes, but there is no craving. We run to Master, touch
His feet, push Him down, and do everything else, out of anxiety,
greed; these are expressions of animal passion. We are only
actuated by greed, to possess something (we don't know what
it is either) which others are getting. It is a very low human
attitude, not craving. When craving is absent, indiscipline
manifests itself in our behaviour. When there is craving,
indiscipline goes away; if indiscipline goes, craving will
automatically come. It is discipline alone which can brings
craving.
What should be the real connection between the Master and
the disciple? Well, we blunder into the Marg, we are a human
being sitting before another human being trying to receive
something, and if that something is what He gives us, and
what we have received and we have experienced it to be what
it was, then it awakens that craving, latent craving in
the heart to get back to the 'original home' as Babuji said,
and gratitude comes. And out of gratitude, love comes.
Real craving for God will be found only in one person out
of thousands. What is real love for God? It is a state when
the trinity of the lover, the beloved and love itself disappear.
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