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.
And Shri Nathji said: There is a glass in my hand. It is filled with water. Now, suppose, I want to put air inside it. How am I to 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’s sermons were unparalleled in their lucidity and simplicity. They were beautiful to a poetic degree. Urdu and Persian verses found a large place in his utterances. His parables explained the most complex of spiritual truths to children and adults alike.
Shri Nathji would say, pointing to attentive children amongst his audiences, They understand me from their hearts, the adults do so with their minds.
Indeed, the self-forgetfulness that held sway over Shri Nathji’s listeners reached out to the youngest of children as well, who sat and listened, spell-bound. Here was one of the greatest proofs of Shri Nathji’s divinity.
If an ordinary man in the street were to say, Let our nation declare war! his words would carry no authority. But if the King of the land were to use the same words, they would contain the full authority of power. Eternal truths could be voiced by learned men, sages, and pundits – but, when they came directly from the Eternal Source, they carried power and feeling with them.