Being Uprooted from the World

If a tree has many deep roots in the ground, and you want to uproot that tree, you need a very strong wind. You also need to moisten the roots to loosen them so that a strong wind can easily do its work. We have so many roots in this creation, with all our past karmas. We are so engrossed in the pleasures of this world that unless the saints shake us from the roots, we’ll never be able to uproot ourselves from this creation. So they sometimes use very drastic steps; their approach is very, very strict I would say, because they want to uproot us from this creation and take us back to the Father. A small tree which hardly has any roots can be blown down by even a little wind. But those trees that have very strong, long roots going deep into the ground need a very special wind, and they need a lot of watering and moistening before they can be uprooted.
_{Maharaj Charan Singh, Spiritual Perspectives, Vol. I}