Gurudev told, it was in a very informal talk,
he told: You ask.
You are asking.
Asking from whom?
When we pray we pray to God: "Give me this."
There is nothing wrong.
To pray to God: "Give me this." There is nothing wrong.
I am just telling.
Be assured if you need something very openly you tell:
"Oh God I need this, give me."
There is nothing wrong.
Gurudev said: "What shall you ask?"
You are asking with your two tiny hands.
Divine mother has ten hands.
If you read the Bhagavad Gita
(Sanskrit)
Arjuna is praying to the Lord:
You be with thousands of hands.
You are not two handed Krishna, be with thousands of hands.
You are not just driving my chariot with two hands,
with one hand the whip, the other hand the reign.
With thousands of hands you come and help me, protect me, save me.
Gurudev is telling: You are asking the divine mother with your two tiny hands.
The divine mother is ready to give you in ten hands.
Forget about thousands of hands.
She is ready to give you in ten hands but you don't have enough place in your hands.
Your hands are so small.
Her hands are so big.
Why to ask for all these things?
Gurudev said: Just ask, take me to your lap.
Once the divine mother lifts you up
what more do you need?
Just you think.
What more do you need if the divine mother lifts you up?
You belong to your mother and mother belongs to you.
When you belong to mother and mother belongs to you...
If you belong to God and God belongs to you and you both are together.
There is a song: (Sanskrit)
When my mother is with me and I am with my mother
why should I be worried?
A fakir, a wandering monk wanted to get something.
He thought: "Why should I ask other ordinary people I will go to the emperor to ask."
He went inside and he asked for the emperor: "Where is he? I need something."
They said he is in his private room.
Because he is well known and
a fakir people respected him
he entered into the private room of the emperor
and he found the emperor was praying.
And he was happy to see that the emperor is praying but
in the prayer the emperor is telling: Do you know.
"Oh God give me this."
He thought: "Oh god. A beggar is coming to another beggar to beg.
Why should I beg from a beggar?
Why should I beg from the beggar if I can beg directly to whom he is also begging?"
So when he was going away
at that time the emperor finished his prayer and heard that the fakir came.
He went to call him and
when the fakir came back the king asked: "Can I help you?"
He said: "No, no I don't need any help.
I made a mistake. God opened up my eyes.
I made a mistake, God opened up my eyes."
The mistake is: "Why should I beg from you?
If I am to beg I will beg from my beloved.
If I am to seek something I will seek from my beloved."