Once one Prince happened to visit Swami Rama’s Master: Prince: “Sir, you seem to be lonesome”. Master said” Yes because you have come. Before you came I was enjoying the company of my friend within. Now that you have come I am lonesome.” It is true that the highest of all companionship is the company of the real self. Those who enjoy the real self are never lonely. Who makes you lonely? Those who claim to know and lone us or those whom we love create loneliness & make us dependent. We forget the eternal friend within. When we learn to know real self we do not depend on externals. Dependence of external relationship is ignorance that needs to be dispelled. Those who know the friend within love all & are not dependent. They are never lonely. Loneliness is a disease. Being alone happily means enjoying the constant company – the constant awareness – of the reality.
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