But they both start with simple obedience. We regard these two as among the biggest challenges of our path.
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Obedience is another name for submission, and submission is another name for driving out the ego. All good qualities automatically take shape. Then there is obedience, there is submission, there is understanding. … When that love takes its place within us, all other things are driven out.
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When we are proud or full of ego, we do not like to submit to anybody, we do not like to be obedient to anybody. And submission is another word for driving out the ego. Obedience is another word for submission. If we truly love him we will do what he asks us to do. Maharaj Charan Singh once defined obedience as the practical face of love. He thinks that he is nearing the completion of his work, but rather he is missing by hundreds of miles what otherwise would be close at hand. On his own, the disciple interferes with what he has been ordered to do. Some people change or try to deviate from the command and then, when it does not bear fruit, they blame the sheikh. The sheikh’s command is like a specially selected seed which will certainly germinate and grow into a fruit-bearing tree, make no mistake about it. And he added a warning that if a disciple deviated even a little from the sheikh’s command, he would not reach his goal. Shams strongly emphasized total obedience to the guru (or the sheikh, as he calls him). It’s humble and loving acceptance of someone’s total authority over us and doing whatever he asks. And for us as satsangis, what is worship? Certainly not rituals or set prayers or gathering in some place of worship like a temple or mosque. He was a Persian poet-saint whose single disciple was the greatest Sufi poet of all time, Jalal al-Din Rumi, generally known to us simply as Rumi. Those are the words of Shams of Tabriz, a mysterious wandering dervish and spiritual teacher who lived some 700 years ago. Obedience is worship, contentment is devotion, and remembrance is awareness. God Almighty asks only three things from all: the first is obedience the second, contentment and the third, remembrance.