Mine and Yours and Identification

‘Mine’ and ‘yours’ — these attitudes are only for identification. They are not real; they are temporary. ‘His’ (All belongs to the Lord) — that is the truth, the eternal. It is like the headmaster of a school being in temporary charge of the furniture of the school. He has to hand over the items when he is transferred or retired. Treat all things with which you are endowed just as the headmaster treats the furniture. Be always aware that the final checking-up is imminent. Wait for that moment with joy. Be ready for that event. Have your accounts up to date and the balance already calculated to be handed over. Treat all things entrusted to you with care and diligence.

Baba (thought for the day) 

Yours and mine – are the attributes of identification. It is like ‘you and I are we’ first step, what Swami reminds us that first we have to be ‘we’, because as long as we are on the level of mine and yours, it is not real. ‘You and I’ is on the level of the body and the mind and as all belongs to the lord, we have to begin with ‘we’ or ‘ours’. If we are on the level of mine and yours we are on a temporary level only if we go beyond it and it is about ‘us’ or ‘we’ the right level will be there.

As our beloved Swami said, second step is ‘we and he is I’ and that means his only, and all belongs to the lord only. That is the eternal truth.

‘Mine’ and ‘yours’ — these attitudes are only for identification. They are not real; they are temporary. ‘His’ (All belongs to the Lord) — that is the truth, the eternal.

Baba explains it with the example of the headmaster in a school and he is in charge of the furniture and he has to hand it over when he is retired and that is how we should treat things which we are endowed with, we have to give it back, it is only a job, it is not mine or yours.

  

It is like the headmaster of a school being in temporary charge of the furniture of the school. He has to hand over the items when he is transferred or retired. Treat all things with which you are endowed just as the headmaster treats the furniture.

And he asks us to be ready for it. We never know when the final checking-up can be, it can be any time and that tells us we should be ready for it. If we all make a constant effort to be ready at any moment we are actually not wasting time on the spiritual path, even if it is not yet that close, we still do our best to be ready already today and we never forget it. We are just permanently here on that journey and we should not waste time and think, it can be postponed on later, as it needs a certain focus and time as Swami explained already in a thought for the day, it is a matter of time, it grows inside and in us and if we don’t allow that growth to happen one day it will be too late for it and it means we will not be ready.

Be always aware that the final checking-up is imminent. Wait for that moment with joy.

That is why our beloved Swami said, ‘you and I are we’ and we have to understand it right, there is no reality in being only ‘I’ or ‘you’, there is reality in being ‘we’ and when we add the divine message and his words actually, we are on the second step and that is ‘we and He is I’.

All those insights and that contemplation is only possible because of ‘us’, it would not be possible only with ‘I’, because I would not have the inspiration and the patience and the motivation to do it only for my own self. Even if it is about self-realization, it is shared, it is not something we do alone, but it is done together.

We are two and we add the thought for the day and that is ‘he’, that are his words and by thinking it over and contemplating about it every day and whenever it is coming up again in constant inner contemplation about the divine what is present in his words, we get to the insight and understanding of ‘I am I’, but it is not understood by the mind and it is not what we think, he is the doer and he is the knower and he is the giver of the answers.

Mine and yours is not real, it is only temporary, but when it is about ‘we and he is I’ it is not anymore temporary but real and he is present in every word he said and he is alive in it and that is Baba’s presence and not ours. We and He is I, it is his only, only he exists.

And as we know we go back to him, we have all reason to look forward to that moment with joy. That is why we should make constantly and every day again an effort to get the message and to think it over and it helps if we see it in our own life, only seeing it in our own life helps to understand it.

Be ready for that event. Have your accounts up to date and the balance already calculated to be handed over. Treat all things entrusted to you with care and diligence.