Hanuman said to Rama ‘I am bound by the delusion which you yourself spread on me. Lord! You are mighty and unconquerable. How can the servant be on a par with the Lord and Master? All beings are overcome and deluded by your strategy and pain! I desire to make a declaration, for which my Lord is witness. I know no other activity than adoring my Lord. When the servant is fostered and guarded by his Lord, why should he fear? The might of the Lord is the shield of the servant’. (RKRV Part II, p. 81)

People are all laid up in the sleep delusion. And, they are engaged in witnessing a variety of dreams. This is the way the men spend the night called ‘life’; the Yogis, self mastered people, they alone keep awake in the night, without being caught up in or enchanted by dreams. They have no use for the world and its contents. They have turned away from all sensual pleasures and entanglements. Until this stage is reached, people cannot refer to themselves as ‘awake’. When Jnana is attained and the Reality is realised, then, the bonds of delusion, fall off, and Love is fixed on the Lotus Feet of Shri Rama. (RKRV Part I, p. 349)

Once an I.C.S officer camped in a village. Some villagers cautioned him the house in which he was lodged was a haunted one. The officer wanted to investigate into the veracity of their statements; He put off the main light and switched on the bed lamp. He reclined on bed keeping one leg over the other. He was shaking his legs and was lost in thought. Suddenly, he noticed a giant shadow of his legs on the wall. The shadow moved as he shook his legs. The foolish officer mistook it for a ghost and was fear-stricken. Likewise, man is put to suffering because of his delusion. In fact, nothing other than Divinity exists in this world. All are essentially divine. Ekam Sat Vipra Bahudha Vadanti (Truth is one, but the wise call it by different names). Have firm faith in this principle of unity in diversity. Only then will you be free from worries and fear. (DD on 10-10-2002, p. 5)

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