If the Son Named Pride Is Alive, Then Everyone Is Alive
‘ Maya maathe shingada, lambe nav nav hath, Aage mare shingada ne piche maare laat.’
‘ Maya has horns on her head and nine long, long hands,
She pokes her horns from the front and kicks from behind.’
What does maya (the illusion that deceives the Self) say? She says, “As long as my son named pride is living, even if you kill all my other children, they will be resurrected. Anger, pride, deceit, and greed, attachment and abhorrence are my six children, and I am the seventh [member], and in this way, our family’s lineage will thrive.” So, this maya and her six sons have made the entire world be at war. Hey, if you want to drop an atom bomb, then why don’t you drop it on them! They are certainly the ones making you quarrel, and thus worldly life continues to perpetuate. Of her six children, anger is guileless. He immediately starts blazing up. Anyone can easily identify him. Someone or another will say, “Hey, why are you getting angry?” Pride is also a good one. However, he is slightly worse compared to anger. Someone or another will say, “Why are you so swelled with pride?” Whereas deceit ( kapat) and illusory attachment ( moha) cannot be seen by anyone and even the owner would not know about them. And the one taking the last position is greed. Even God grows wary of deceit, illusory attachment, and greed. They do not allow one to attain moksha quickly. This is a very powerful lineage of maya indeed! Maya is such that it cannot be won until the very end. On the traditional Kramik path, when the state of Godhood is coming towards one with garlands and bouquets to honor him, then at that time, this maya does not allow this union! It is in fact when one meets a Gnani Purush that a solution comes about, and the lineage of maya gets extinguished.
‘We’ do not do anything extra at all. ‘We’ simply uproot and remove her eldest son named pride, ego from the main root. Hence, all her other five sons and the old lady maya herself all perish. So, You are released and freedom is attained. When ‘we’ bestow Gnan, ‘we’ give You freedom from all [the family members] of maya.
Shrimad Rajchandra [Self-realized Gnani who lived between 1867-1901. He is also known as Krupaludev] has said, “If there were no pride, then one would attain moksha right here.” And maya, too, says, “Of my six children, as long as my son named pride is still alive, it will not take long for the others to resurrect. Kill as many of the other children as you want, but my son named pride will not die.” And yet, the Gnani Purush annihilates the son called pride, and he leaves the others alive. You can live here; there is no problem with that.