Be Like Lions
Look within. Look to the heart. Build your heart. Make it brave, make
it strong, make it courageous. Be lions, as Babuji wanted. He said, "One
lion is worth more than five hundred sheep." It is not that we do not
accept sheep but we accept sheep which are willing to become lions, not sheep
which want to stay on as sheep. So let us try to become lions. Let us use
this ashram as an arena in
which sheep can become lions. An ashram
is an arena where without fighting, without quarreling, without jousting,
as in the old tradition, we interact in such a way that hearts become stronger,
faith becomes evolved, courage evolves out of our inner sheep's hearts into
lions' hearts. And what was but a shepherd's pen has now become the jungle
in which lions roam freely. This is what we are setting out to achieve.
When Master said 'I want lions and not sheep', obviously
He did not want us to go on four feet and grow a mane! He
wanted our hearts to be like lions - brave, courageous,
capable of discrimination, able to give up everything for
the sake of the Master. This is what we have to become like.
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