Do all that Master tells you to do. Then what is the question of sacrificing yourself a hundred times a day on the Master? You can sacrifice yourself on Him a million times a day. Surrender your wealth, your body, your mind, your everything to the Master; and then you have sacrificed your everything to Him. But what happens? We people surrender our wealth to the Master, but you will find hardly anyone who is fortunate enough to surrender his mind. When the mind is surrendered at the feet of the Master, then all the problems go away, because the root of all evil is in the mind. A wife may surrender her body to the husband, but she never surrenders her mind. In the same way, we surrender our body to the Master but we do not surrender our mind, and that is why we do not take good advantage of the Master.
He who has achieved anything on this Path has done so only by sacrificing himself to the Master. And the thing which we need to sacrifice to the Master is our mind, because mind is the only wall between us and the Master.
If we read the history of all the Sant Satgurus we will find that only because of Their sacrifice for Their Master, Their Master gave Them the crown of Spirituality; and Their Master sat within Them, bringing all the prosperity, all the riches, only because of Their sacrifice and simplicity.
Also, I always say that unless you reach Daswan Dwar you should not write any spiritual song, because behind your words, behind those bhajans or songs, you don't have any charging of your renunciation, or your sacrifice or your meditation. That is why those words will not have any effect for the people who read or hear your bhajans. Because whatever you have in your heart, your words will also carry the same effect. In your heart there is lust, anger, greed attachment and egoism. Because you have the fire of all these passions burning within you, whoever will read or sing that bhajan will have the same effect.
For eleven years, Guru Nanak Sahib made a bed of stone and pebbles and sat on it for doing meditation. He suffered hunger and thirst and sacrificed Himself for the Master. Only then He realized Almighty Lord. Even after doing so many things and so much meditation, what does He write in His writings? He says, "O Lord, by doing repetitions, performing austerities, and remaining in abstinence, I did not realize anything. I was the poor one, I did not even know the value and the means of doing seva. Nanak says, 'I am the one with very mean karmas. I pray to You that since I have taken refuge at Your Feet, You should save my honor.'"
Once a Westerner got Initiation from Master Sawan Singh, and a day after getting Initiation, He wrote Master Sawan Singh that he was not getting any experience and he was not progressing. Master Sawan Singh said, "The people in the West-- most of the--do not pay any attention to working hard, making efforts; they always look for the fruit without working for it."
Guru Nanak sat on a bed of stones and pebbles for eleven years, and He did the meditation. He suffered hunger and thirst, and He suffered the criticism and taunts of the worldly people. Many people called Him a ghost, many people called him a demon; they used very bad words about Him. Even after suffering so much, what did He tell His Master? He said, "O Master, I did not do anything, I was not capable of doing anything. It was only because I took refuge at Your Feet that You showered grace on me."