248 He will come with us
In this sweet morning time
When we bow at God’s feet
Our thoughts will become pure
All things will be accomplished pleasantly
He will be with us the entire day
He will complete everything properly
When we sit at His feet for few seconds
We too will be get ready to walk with Him
Who does not have suffering on this earth?
Who does not have burden in their heart?
When He is there to bear them
Where comes any depression to us
To do things for God
I don’t have anything with me
But to do things with God
I have everything as He is there to provide
Let us not have any other thought
Let us not troubled by suffering
Taking courage let us go with enthusiasm
As He is there to come along with us.
04-09-2014, Gurukulam, 5.50 a.m.
In the economy of God the sinless has to die for the sinful. And our Lord has done it on the Cross. And the cross become a symbol of suffering and also sacrifices. However, though the Lord hesitates to accept the cup of suffering, finally He surrendered to the will of God. Then the cross, for me not remains a mere symbol of suffering and sacrifice but triumphant. When the Lord came to the earth, He came not merely suffer ‘for’ us but suffer along with us. When He obeyed the will of God He has not done it ‘for’ God but with God. In the same way when Sevanand said that he is suffering in his body for the sake of the mandali. But he never did it with any attitude of suffering ‘for’ others but along with the Lord and mandali.
But in secular life (or even in our Hindu worldview) we have the view that we live, suffer and work ‘for’ others sake. To keep one person happy several have to toil and even suffer. But as a bhakta of the Lord He changed this view for me. I never do anything ‘for’ others but ‘with’ them. So this morning when I was thinking that by tomorrow I will be gone back to a busy and noisy world, I felt some kind of peace and joy in me and no grudge. Two days before when I lay down in the evening after dinner (generally I never do that); my mother came and asked, ‘are you not happy to go back to Mathigiri’. But I said ‘no’ but due to tiredness I want to take some rest. I never wanted to give the impression that I do this not ‘for’ her sake but ‘with’ her.
Then as I immersed in the silence around me and saw the beautiful dawn I said to myself, ‘as He is with me wherever I go each day is a bless day for me. I am not doing anything for the Lord or others but with the Lord and others.’ I often said that ‘no place is heaven or hell. Only people living there alone make it heaven or hell’. With the Lord every place is the heaven for us. That time I wrote this song.
4-9-14, Gurukulam.
248 உடன் வருவான்
இனிமையான காலைப் பொழுதில்
இறைவன் அடி நாம் பணியும்போது
சிந்தையாவும் தூய்மையாகும்
செயல்கள் யாவும் இனிது அமையும்
நாள் முழுதும் நம்முடன் இருப்பான்
நலமாய் அவனே செயல்கள் முடிப்பான்
அமர்ந்து சில நொடி அவனடி இருக்க
ஆயத்தமாவோம் அவனுடன் நடக்க
எவருக்கு இல்லை உலகில் பாடுகள்
எவருக்கு இல்லை மனதில் பாரங்கள்
சுமக்க அவனே இருக்கும் போது
சோர்வுகள் இனியும் நமக்கு ஏது
இறைவனுக் கென்று செய்து முடிக்க
ஏதும் இல்லை என்வரை தன்னில்
இறைவனோடு இணைந்து முடிக்க
எல்லாம் உண்டு எனக்கவன் அளிக்க
வேறு எண்ணம் நமக்கு வேண்டாம்
வேதனை எண்ணி கலங்க வேண்டாம்
துணிந்து நாமே முனைந்து செல்வோம்
துணையாய் அவனும் உடன் வரும்போது
04-09-2014, குருகுலம், காலை 5.50