Passage 6

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In plain words

‘I shall take My brother Bharata by the hands, plead with him, and make Rāvaṇa king of Ayodhyā,’ He said. ‘If such a lofty, noble, great and precious prayer truly arises in him, I shall make him king of Ayodhyā itself,’ He said. So such a broad feeling, ‘I am Yours’, must arise. In the same way Lakṣmaṇa too, because he thought, ‘I am Rāma's,’ gave up his property and possessions, wife and children, everything, and went with Rāma. ‘All that I call mine, mine, is You alone; beyond that I have nothing of my own,’ Lakṣmaṇa felt. The sādhakas of today, quite unlike this, work as hired labourers. When one works like a hired labourer and takes the wage, what bond is there between Me and him? They work for the fruit. They take the fruit, and they run off. So what bond is there any more between them and Me? When, with no fruit in view and craving nothing, one becomes God's own, saying, ‘I am Yours; Your work is my very work,’ He Himself becomes all his riches. There is a little boy in the home. Thinking of him as his very own, whether the boy asks or not, the father has all his clothes stitched for him! The father looks after all his food and drink and the rest!