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telling you that there is no difference between you, all these
others and myself. The master still insisted that he could see a
lot of difference and that he could not understand and accept
how the Lord could consider a master, a mayor, a chaste woman,
a prostitute, a pickpocket and a donkey and Himself as equal.
The Lord went on ‘Look revered master! The inner content
(the Soul) within you, the mayor, the chaste woman, the
prostitute, the pickpocket, the donkey and me is the same. The
only difference is that in me the Self is fully manifest and in you,
it is veiled. I can see in my absolute knowledge that from all of
you, the donkey has the least number of lives left before liberation.
Because dear master, the mental load that you carry from having
studied voluminous scriptures will take many lifetimes to unload
whereas the donkey will meet a Gnani in his next life and be
liberated!’
Intoxicated Ego And Liberation
Mental burden is really intoxication of ego. The lesser the
intoxication, the sooner liberation will come.
Those who have intoxicated ego will never attain liberation.
The attitude and feeling of ‘I know something’ is heavy
intoxication; it is present even in sleep. Only those who do not
have such intoxication attain liberation. Do people read scriptures
and assimilate them for the purpose of acquiring liberati on or is
it to increase their wandering for lifetimes to come, by increasing
their intoxication? Intoxication of a drunkard is easily removed
by splashing water over him but the intoxication one has of
having read the scriptures and ‘I know something’, can never
be destroyed.
Possesed By The Mind, Speech and Body
A person keeps looking in the mirror when he has a tiny
pimple on his face because he believes that he is indeed