Boasting & Realisation

Sri Sri Ram Thakur

Every human being on this planet have an urge to know something depending upon their beliefs or tastes. Similarly in spiritualism also people search through variety of books or internet and try to know about devotion, God, Guru, ancient temples of India & their history, stories about various deities and their respective devotees etc. Many a times it has been found that man starts to boasting about his so-called knowledge gained from the abovementioned sources infront of others without realising anything about those things!! You cannot simply measure the depth of the vast & unlimited sea by simply standing on the shore & counting the waves or by reading books. For that you will have to go inside it & realise it yourself!! Realisation & Boasting are completely two different things. A realised person never boasts just as a vessel which is full of water produce no sound! Empty vessels sounds much – this proverb we would have read many times in our schools, similarly those people boasts much who have only bookish or say netish knowledge & don’t have any realisation.  Renowned saint of Bengal, Sri Ramakrishna to whom many eminent scholars used to visit, they would recite before him various stages of bhakti as given in the various scriptures to which Sri Ramakrishna would say that he had already undergone those stages by the grace of Holy Mother Kali which are otherwise very difficult or say impossible for a common man to achieve. How it became possible?? Sri Ramakrishna knew nothing except his Mother Kali & would always chant her holy name & thus it became possible!! He used to say "In the scriptures you will find the way to realize God. But after getting all the information about the path, you must begin to work. Only then can you attain your goal. "What will it avail a man to have mere scholarship? A pundit may have studied many scriptures, he may recite many sacred texts, but if he is still attached to the world and if inwardly he loves 'woman and gold', then he has not assimilated the contents of the scriptures. For such a man the study of scriptures is futile.
"The almanac forecasts the rainfall for the year. You may squeeze the book, but you won't get a drop of water — not even a single drop." Said Thakur
When you do bhakti of your beloved God or Guru, it is He who bestow upon you all his mercy and give you all the knowledge automatically!! But this knowledge never brings proudness into your inner self as it is given by the Almighty Lord Himself & a pure devotee always knows this eternal truth deep inside his heart. But the materialistic people who gains this same knowledge through books or internet display lot of proudness in them as they think inside that this knowledge is acquired by them. After realisation of his beloved God, a devotee becomes quiet & talks only when it is desired so by his God!! God is like the Sun who don’t need any type of advertisement, introduction or announcement etc. When the sun arises in the east, everybody came to know about it, similarly God doesn’t need anybody’s help to inform about his presence in this universe. His presence can be felt in each and every vibration of his universe. When his devotees sing his glories & dance His presence can be felt there more. He resides into the heart of his devotees.  When you had realized Him you don’t even need to visit pilgrimage places, temples etc.  Once Sri Sri Thakur was in Puri with Sri Phanindra Malakar babu (who was very dear to Him) alongwith other devotees. One of the devotees asked malakar babu that did you had darshan of Sri Jagannath Dev? Come with me I will take you to have darshan! At this Sri Sri Thakur said let you all go and have darshan, Malakar babu doesn’t require it as his Jagannath resides always with him!! For Malakar babu Sri Sri Thakur was everything & infact actually he also didn’t wanted to go to the temple, therefore Sri Sri Thakur also did the same thing for him, so much blessed was he!! Malakar babu was knowing several divine & unbelievable incidents & miracles of our Gurudev due to his long association with Him for more than 18 years but he couldn’t reveal those things infront of others as he was under oath given to Sri Sri Thakur that he could only reveal those once Sri Sri Thakur leaves his mortal frame. This is called realisation which is only possible through pure devotion of your beloved God or Guru!! Jai Ram!!