When the feeling of indispensability goes away³²

I was speaking with a disciple, and in a joking way I said that her third ear heard me. There is no such thing as a third ear, but by way of a joke I said that she had an extra ear. Now I am telling you something serious.

I wish to say that the eyes can hear and the ears can see. It is absolutely true! The eyes can hear — that is perhaps easier to imagine. At times if you look at a person, your eyes may have the capacity to hear what is happening inside him. Look at the person using your concentration, your concentrative will, and you can hear a whispering message. Again, the ears can also see. It is very easy! Somebody may be entering into you while you are in a higher consciousness. The person is not in front of you or within your eyeshot. He is somewhere else, but you will be able to see the person. It is not that you are expecting to see that person, so naturally you will see him; but your ears actually have the capacity to see. As soon as you hear a sound, you will see that person. It may not be the person whom you were expecting. If you go a little deeper, you will notice that, through your ears, the sound carries the face or the body of the person.

Believe it! It is all true. I have done it countless times. Somebody is coming; that I can see with my third eye. But the ears also have the power to see, the way the eyes can hear. Everything is possible. The organs that we have can replace each other, the way individuals can replace each other. If one person is not doing well, somebody else can replace him. All the limbs can do that kind of thing. There are things that you expect your legs to do. If your legs are injured, your hands can do those tasks. The job was given to the legs first, but if something goes wrong, the hands can do it. Similarly, if the hands cannot do their job, then the legs can do it.

God has not made anybody indispensable. We say about an individual, “He is indispensable.” Let him go to the other world! In a second, somebody else will come forward to do his job. Somebody else can do it. In this world God does not want to make anybody indispensable. He has not created any indispensable human being. One instrument may be more important, let us say. In a printing press, one machine may be more important; but we cannot say that it is the only indispensable machine in the press. If it is that kind of press, nobody will go there.

The very word “indispensable” I can never appreciate! At the same time, I laugh and laugh. I know that no one is indispensable. I know that at this moment if I leave this world, my vision and my mission will remain on earth.

When the feeling of indispensability goes away, we make so much progess, so much progress! It is not that we are not needed; we are needed, but we are not indispensable. “I am needed, I am needed” — that is our great joy, our divine pride. But to say, “I am the only one” — that is absurdity on the face of it.

Never think of your indispensable existence on earth — never, never, never! Sometimes the replacement may be even better, far better. If one who thinks that he is indispensable is fired, or if something else happens, then his successor may be even far better as an instrument. Again, if bad luck prevails, the successor may not be as great or as good or as successful as his predecessor. But the feeling of indispensability must go away from each and every human being. When one loses the feeling of indispensability, he will become humble, and he will make very good progress.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Our sweetest oneness, Agni Press, 2012
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