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Daily Sadhana by Swami Mukundananda
it is lack of simplicity, in order to surrender to God one must possess a simple heart “सरल स्वभाव ना मन कुटिलाई, निर्मल मन जन सो मोहे पावा”
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the Lord says I am NOT impressed by cleverness, by cunningness, by deceit, I'm impressed by a simple trusting childlike heart but the problem is that interacting with this world we learn to become clever,
first we practice cleverness with our friends and then with our relatives and when we engage in our profession, we learn cleverness there.
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One shopkeeper in India was telling me Swamiji what to do, my trade is like this, when I open my shop in the morning, I make a resolve "Jhoot hi bolunga, jhoot ke sivny kuch nahin bolunga"
I shall only speak lies that is the only way I can sell my goods to customers so all this cleverness that we have learned while dealing with the world, this needs to be thrown away and we need to go back to the state in which we were born, a simple trusting child.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=361
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There is a beautiful story in this regard that is very commonly told by grandmothers in India, there was this sanatan dharam mandir, a temple with many deities of different forms of God, the pundit ji had kept an orphan child to help him in the puja,
the child would get food to eat and be taken care of and pundit ji would have his assistance in the worship, so it was a win-win situation for both,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=404
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one day pundit ji had to go for a holy pilgrimage a teerth yatra, so he told the child, look the way I have been offering food to God, you must offer in the same way and only after God has eaten should you eat the Prasadam, I will be away for two months and I'm going to leave ration for two months,
the child said all right. He was a very trusting child and when he would accompany pundit ji in the puja he would ask who is this ? pundit ji would say he is Hanuman, he is an avatar of Lord Shiv, so the child would believe it, he would not see deity as a piece of stone but see the deity as the lord Himself,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=448
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so the next day the child prepared the food items, placed them on the plate, took the plate to the altar and requested the deities, O Lord, please come and receive this food eat to your heart's content, now the deities were unmoved, they had remained still for all these years of worship by pundit ji,
the child was expecting them to come and eat because when pundit ji used to make the offering, he would have the curtain closed and child did not know what was going on, he thought maybe the deities have not liked his cooking, so he took it away trashed it, prepared another meal, brought it and requested O Lord, please eat it,
now the deities were still not willing, so he started crying, he said you don't like my cooking, all right, if you are not going to eat, I will also not eat, he went hungry that night,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=508
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the next day again he prepared a meal with his faith and devotion and he placed it on the altar and he said O Lord, please come and receive this food, the deities were again unwilling to move ;
so this time the boy picked up a stick he said, look, if you don't eat, pundit ji will get annoyed with me and he will dismiss me from this job, I'm an orphan where will I go, what will I do, you better eat or I will beat you with the stick,
now that stick was a symbol of his faith, his conviction, that this is God, that is the kind of faith that comes from a simple heart ; that is what God was waiting for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=585
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He says “verse”, I'm not Impressed by Scholasticism, I'm impressed by the trusting heart ; so when that boy picked up that stick that my Lord you had better eat or I'll whack You with it, what was there for the Lord ?
He who is all-pervading in this world is also present in His deity, so the deity started moving, they reached the plate and they started gobbling up the food, Hanuman he was eating away so that little offering finished quickly,
the boy came replenished it, replenished it again, the result was that the rations pundit ji had left for two months, got over in a week, so now what to do ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=652
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So,this orphan child got a big task upon him, he would go to the market and beg from shopkeepers, sir, please give me something, I need to offer in the temple. Pundit ji returned in one month's time instead of two months, he said my child, I'm very hungry, give me something to eat,
the boy said pundit ji, you know we have got nothing here, I have to go and do bhiksha (begging) and then bring it. Pundit ji said, what do you mean ? I had left ration for two months, it's just one month over, there must still be food for one month did you go and sell it all in the market and see movies with the money ?
No no pundit ji, how would I ever do something like that, I will not lie to you, what could I do, God used to eat so much and Hanuman ji would keep eating away, pundit ji said really ?
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all right, offer it in front of me, let me see how they eat, now the boy went again, prepared a plate and brought it & placed it on the altar as before and requested the deities to please come and eat this time, the deities were not willing to move, so the boy became annoyed because he would be proved a liar,
he picked up his stick once again, he said, will you eat or not or I'll whack you with it again the deities started giggling (laughing), they came to the plate and started eating pundit ji, seeing the spectacle, was so shocked, he fainted there,
he thought in all my life, in all my worship I have never even seen the light of God and look at this little child, God was actually coming and eating from his plate, how fortunate he was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=787
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So that is the trusting heart, the simple heart that it enables us to win the grace of God right away. Now the saint Narayan said, “verse” what is so difficult in becoming simple ? the difficulty is in being clever, in being cunning,
simpleness is a straightforward behavior, the difficulty is that in the world, we have become habituated to cleverness and like the tail of the dog, it's crooked, no matter how much you pull it, when you release it again it becomes crooked,
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similarly our habit in the world, when we go in front of God and guru, we start the same habit there, what should I increase and say, what should I decrease and say, how should I get my work done from the Guru & from God, all this cunningness comes as an obstacle to our surrender, so if we wish to succeed in doing sharnagati, we need to understand this first obstacle and to get rid of it by developing a simple heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4Mk8hnxsY&t=923
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