Prasang 90

Complete Surrenderance to the Guru’s Words

Once, Yogiji Maharaj was in Gondal, where a sevā effort was underway to clean out a heap of trash. Yogiji Maharaj instructed the swamis to participate in this sevā. All the swamis were filling baskets with trash and dumping them into a dump truck.

Amid this, Yogiji Maharaj suddenly asked, “Where is Mahant Swami?” Someone replied, “Swami has a high fever of 103°F, so he is resting.”

Hearing this, Yogiji Maharaj instructed, “Call him. If he does sevā, his fever will go away.”

Some people present wondered, “How can Yogiji Maharaj call him for such laborious sevā while he has such a high fever? And how can sevā cure a fever?”

However, upon hearing Yogiji Maharaj’s wish, Mahant Swami Maharaj immediately obeyed without any second thoughts. With his frail, feverish body, he joined the physically demanding task of shoveling trash and continued for two hours!

Even for a healthy person, this task would have been physically exhausting. Yet, Mahant Swami Maharaj, burning with fever, dedicated himself to it completely. Later, recalling this incident, Mahant Swami Maharaj humbly remarked, “Yogi Bapa had said, ‘The fever will go away if you do sevā.’ But the fever never actually went away! However, the memory of that sevā has remained with me forever.”

Despite the fever not subsiding, he never doubted his Guru’s words. Instead, his focus remained solely on pleasing Yogiji Maharaj. Through this, Mahant Swami Maharaj demonstrated unwavering obedience to his Guru—to the extent of enduring physical exhaustion without question. When we develop such eagerness to serve and please our Guru, we earn their divine blessings and rājipo.