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becomes gurutam in the realm of the Self, and thus God
becomes very pleased with him. So do become laghutam.
Union of laghutam is a little difficult. It is difficult in the
beginning and then it becomes easy. Is there any fear for those
who want to be small? That is why I became laghutam first;
only then did I attain the state of gurutam. I have not tried to
be a guru. Those who become guru will continue to wander in
the cycles of different life forms. When they bind merit karma,
they are born as celestial beings. Then they return here as a
human beings and bind demerit karma, which takes them to a
life in the animal kingdom.
People have practiced all other yogas for so long. Man
has practiced them for countless past lives, then when someone
gives him a little respect, he loses whatever little he gained. Once
he gets a little respect he will start, ‘Not this, bring me this, bring
me that and this...’ So then he loses whatever he had gained
from all the yogas, whereas laghutam yoga is better because in
that practice, no one will come to do your darshan.
Undertake the yoga of laghutam
So ‘our’ yoga is of laghutam. Nobody in the world has
such yoga.
Questioner: What does a person have to do in such
yoga?
Dadashri: You have to become lighter day by day. You
have to become laghu, not guru (heavy); you have to become
lighter. By becoming a disciple (shishya) of everyone you will
become a disciple of the whole world, even of the dogs,
donkeys, trees, leaves; disciple of everybody and so you will
become laghutam. You become laghutam by making everyone
gurutam. Do you like this yoga of