Yaygahmburum's awakening

Yaygahmburum was at ground zero. His world revolved around him. Everything was about him. The pinnacle of selfishness. No one else mattered. His motto could have been “What’s in it for me?”

Then he started developing tinges of pity. Seeing less fortunate people, he actually started pitying them. But he stopped at that.

Next step was empathy. He could feel for these unfortunate ones. He started to realise how they felt. However, did nothing more.

As time went along, Yaygahmburum realised that he had to help these people. He would give them some money, or food. But he did it with a superior air. These people were somehow beneath him. He had been placed at a higher plane. He had to condescend to help them.

Yaygahmburum helped people, but in all transactions, he came first. His and his family’s needs had to be satisfied, and only if there was anything left would he give.

Every act of giving was remembered, and capitalised upon. Yaygahmburum never failed to mention, to whoever will listen, how he had given so much to so and so.

The rewards in the hereafter for all his “charity” was never far from his thoughts. He would include it in his prayers to remind the Almighty of all the charitable acts he had done, and what he expected the Almighty to do in return.

Yaygahmburum matured a little. He now realised that he had gotten the order wrong. In fact it was the Almighty who had given him all he had, and it had been given in trust, for Yaygahmburum to help anyone in need. Yaygahmburum was the Lord’s agent.

Spiritual dawn. Yaygahmburum surrendered to the Lord. He gave his time, money and life’s work to help those in need.

He was happy for his neighbour’s successes. He wished everyone well. He became an instrument of the Lord, accepting everything as the Lord’s gifts.

Yaygahmburum realised that his worldly possessions were not really his, and surrendered them at the Lord’s disposal, the Lord felt indebted to Yaygahmburum . He gave His all to Yaygahmburum. Divine Bliss.

Finally it dawned on Yaygahmburum. It had been his selfishness which had obstructed the divinity latent within him. Yaygahmburum had just moved aside the self to bring forth the SELF.