The vast ocean of love exists in your heart. The key is in your hands.


 "I"

Once, Socrates was walking on a beach. He noticed a weeping child standing on the shore. He went to him, put his hand lovingly on the boy's head and asked, "Why are you crying?"

The boy said, "I want to fill this ocean in the cup, but it does not fit in my cup." 

Hearing the child's words, Socrates went into dismay and started crying himself. Now it was the child's turn to ask : "You're crying too, but where's your cup?" 

Socrates replied, "My child, you want to fill the entire ocean in a small cup, and I want to fill the knowledge of the whole world in my small mind. Today you have taught me that the sea cannot fit in a cup, I was getting restless in vain."  

Upon hearing this, the child paused for a moment, then threw the cup away into the sea and said, "O ocean, if you cannot fit in my cup, then my cup can fit in you."

Socrates fell at the child's feet and exclaimed, "thanks to you, I have now received such precious pearls of wisdom!"

"O Master!
You cannot be completely absorbed in me, but I can be absorbed completely in you."

When God had to give knowledge to the wandering Socrates, He absorbed himself in that child and diluted all the pride of Socrates. Socrates, who was respectable for even the great emperors, had fallen at the feet of a child.

When God takes us in His refuge, then first, the "I" inside us disappears.
 
Or in other words, when the "I" inside us disappears, it is then that God's grace flows to us.

The "I" is actually "our ego," which prevents our consciousness from expanding.

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