04 Feb 2005
[The majority of people will oppose the spiritual path preached by You. Only one in thousands can accept Your path. Should You not be universal and preach a path acceptable to all?]
In spirituality, the majority always goes to hell. The Gita says that only one in thousands can reach the God. Even that one person will reach the Lord after several births (Kaschit Maam Vetti, Bahunaam Janmanaam). Jesus also says that the path leading to hell is very wide and full of rush. The path leading to the Lord is very narrow and only one or two persons will be traveling on it. The path to the hell is filled with flowers and the path to the Lord is filled with thorns. Therefore the path to the Lord is not acceptable to all. Then shall I recommend the path filled with flowers to all the people, which is easily acceptable to all of them? I am universal because I am preaching the narrow thorny path to all the people. But the path is not universal. I cannot help that. In the spiritual path only the minority rule exists. There is only one in millions like Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Jesus, Sai, Vivekananda etc., in the spiritual path. The gravel stones are in majority. There is only one Kohinoor diamond, which is valuable. The fraud Gurus show that flowery path which is ‘Amruta Visham’ i.e., it looks like nectar but it is actually poison. The Sadguru shows the thorny path, which is ‘Visha Amrutam’ i.e., it looks like poison but it is actually nectar. The Gita says the same (Yat Tat Agre Vishamiva).