Chapter 18
✍️ Bhau Kalchuri
📚 . Prasad Bharadwaj
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To guide human consciousness through these seven shadows is his duty, and he takes on this duty to help guide others, whether one seeks his help or not The Avatar is our guide; his guidance is our strength. That guidance reveals the path
toward Truth through these seven shadows.
If we accept him as our strength to cross these worlds of shadows, we have to depend on his guidance completely, just as a traveler in a foreign country must depend on a guide to find his way through unfamiliar foreign land.
But, how does one depend on him? Once we have accepted him as our guide, his guidance becomes our strength, and so we do not need the pride of material strength.
The world prides itself in wealth, name, fame, intellect, authority, education, etc., but one has to remain detached from these material attainments, because they are not really strengths. They are only attachments.
The one way to be detached from these forces of the world is to accept him as one's guide. It is by his guidance that one finds the strength to be led beyond the boundary of happiness and misery.
How does one remain detached? Let us suppose money represents the strength of the world. A banker is always in contact with money. A banker deals with money all day long, millions of dollars are deposited and are drawn out, and the banker keeps a careful account of the money that is deposited and withdrawn.
However, he remains detached from the money itself, because he knows the money does not belong to him. In the same way, one should remain detached from the material strength of the world, knowing that money is only a form of attachment to the world.
The banker knows full well that the money does not belong to him, and we should know that his attachment does not belong on the path of Truth. Money is simply one of many attachments.
To remain detached from money and the many other strengths of the world, one must be attached to the Truth, and this can only be achieved by accepting the guidance of the Avatar who leads one to realize Truth.
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