Haven’t you seen in many families where there is only one boss?
When you have two bosses, that family is in trouble.
Imagine the guidance given to children.
Let us say, you have four children in your family.
Mother says something, father says something else.
What will happen to that family?
Many philosophers say, “Know thyself”.
It is very important to know thyself.
It is Socrates’ philosophy.
For that matter Vedas and Upanishads in India and many other philosophies…
Buddha, for example, said, “Know thyself”.
Babuji said, “Forget yourself”.
It is not that you have to forget about your existence.
He says, ”Forget this ego aspect of your existence”.
He means to convey only this much.
”Forget your egoistic aspect of existence and move on with life”.
It is not always about you, you, you, you, you, you.
You have seen many people, right?
To what degree do you want to prevail upon someone?
Haven’t you seen in many families where there is only one boss?
When you have two bosses, that family is in trouble.
Imagine the guidance given to children.
Let us say, you have four children in your family.
Mother says something, father says something else.
What will happen to that family?
Suppose you are having a conversation in a family or in a board meeting or
you are having a conversation with, let us say, early morning meetings that
employees have and every time somebody or the other hijacks this conversation,
then what happens to such a meeting?
It just simply flops.
So when I have to be compassionate, when I have to be kind, when I have
to be loving, it is in reference to the other world, to other people.
So when Sahaj Marg proposes this idea
that, ”Forget yourself”, it is in reference to your egoistic self.
It is not always about ‘me, me, me, me’.
And when you see this Prayer also, Babuji talks about ‘We’ all the time.
Have you noticed all the words in our Prayer?
“Thou are the real goal of human life.” It doesn’t say ‘my life’.
‘We’.
It doesn’t say ‘I’.
“We are yet but slaves of wishes,
putting ball to our advancement, not my advancement.
So this attitude,
when we are referring a prayer to God or the Master, it is about ‘us’.
If it was only for others, substitute these words for ‘them’.
“Thou art the real goal of their life.
They are yet but slaves of wishes”.
We are offering prayer for ‘them’.
Then what happens?
The prayer will become very funny.
“Oh, they are slaves of their wishes and because of that they are not progressing”.
So it’s really, really, very interesting to understand this.
It is a very simple thing to grasp that when you say
“Forget yourself”, it means it is all about your egoism, your arrogance.
For coexistence, for a harmonious, peaceful social life in a community,
you need to give importance to others first.