How can God enter our inner selves when we have nothing but the world within us – worldly desires, worldly attachments, anxieties and the like? a man asked Shri Nathji.
In answer to this, Shri Nathji gave another example: There is a glass in my hand. It is filled with water. Now, suppose, I want to put air inside it. How can I do it? Can I grasp the air outside with my hand and put it inside the glass? No, all I have to do is to throw out the water, and the air shall enter by itself. Empty yourself of the world, empty yourself of your ego, your worldly ‘I’ and God shall enter within you by Himself:
Renounce all thought of my and mine.
And from a drop become the sea,
Lose thou thyself in truth divine
And know thou art Infinity.
When shall ‘I’ be free,
When ‘I’ shall cease to be.
Shri Nathji often said: What I have to say is nothing new. It is the Eternal Truth. It is the same song being sung by a different voice.
But what was different was the power the voice carried, the feelings it portrayed, and the awakening it instilled. It was the voice of authority. And because it came from the heart, it went to the heart.
Shri Nathji’s spiritual power was such that he could change a man’s life in a single glance, without a word being said, if he so willed.
Speaking,” he often said, is the smallest of my tasks. What I have to give, I give directly from within.
His exact words in Hindustani were:
“Bolnaa to meraa sab se chhotaa kaam hai. Main ne jo kuchh denaa hotaa hai main andar se hee de detaa hoon.”
Even when Shri Nathji was alone, all by himself, he was present everywhere, his work was continuing, blessing and reviving the world. Many people in different places felt his nearness at all times, and his helping hand reached out to them in their sufferings, even when they were very far from him.