Madhusudan Naidu narrates an instance where Swami teaches about the path to God.

It all starts with Swami observing the physical act of a follower who makes room
for Him to pass through a narrow corridor. He utilises this opportunity to speak about a topic of
extreme spiritual significance. Swami tells the follower that the path to God is also
narrow and that to travel via that path one has to make room by relinquishing the self.

 He sums it all up in one sentence highlighting the importance of SAI over I. Madhusudan Naidu is
reminded of the time when Swami asked him to merge his I into SAI - the unification of one's self
with the Eternal Truth.
As Swami emerged from His room in the devotees' home at Salta, Argentina, Dr David Cornsweet
who was standing outside, guarding the door, stepped back to make way for Swami to move in the
narrow hallway.
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Swami, who noticed this, did not miss the opportunity to teach a lesson, as always and turned
this mundane moment into a spiritual sermon, when He said, “The corridor is too narrow for two.
It’s only one-way traffic here; if you are there, I can’t be there and if I am there, there is no place
for you.

Similar is the path to God; if you are there, God can’t be there and when God is there, you can’t
be there.” And, then in His signature style, He encrypted it all in one simple sentence,
“Where there is ‘I’, there can’t be ‘SAI’, and when there is ‘SAI’, there can’t be any ‘I’”.
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I was reminded of what Swami said to me once, “Merge your ‘I’ in ‘SAI’ and become one, for
there is no place for two.” Wisdom simplified.




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