The Power of Holy Feet of Sri Sri Thakur

 GOD OF MERCY SRI SRI RAMTHAKUR

When a devotee wants the mercy of his God or Guru his first duty is to worship the holy feet of his God/Guru as it is the devotion of those feet only which saves him from all the troubles & problems of his life and also brings divine happiness. At one place once Sri Sri Thakur happened to visit the newly constructed house of a devotee and that person was asking him to put his holy feet in all the rooms etc. Suddenly that devotee asked Sri Sri Thakur to put his feet on an iron box in which many valuable jewellery items were being kept!! At this Sri Gurudeva said that if I keep my feet on them then all those valuable items would get mukti and vanish!! Hearing this that devotee became scared and asked Him not to!! Readers can laugh on this but at the same time think about the power of Sri Sri Thakur!! Another place there was one young boy who was a drunkard & because of whom all his family members were being fed up. That drunkard happened to visit Sri Sri Thakur and while prostrating at his holy feet started sucking the thumb-finger of His right foot and started saying to himself as “drink man as much as you can as you will never find such delicious alcohol anywhere in this whole world!!" Sri Sri Thakur called the house-owner and other people of the house and they all separated that boy from Sri Sri Thakur. Sri Gurudeva became angry and said “What have you done!! You are destroyed!!” Hearing this, out of fear that young boy started crying to which beloved Sri Gurudeva said “don’t worry, I meant to say that all your bad karmas are being destroyed!!” The Jadavpur Ashram at Kolkata came into existence by worshipping the shoes worn by our Gurudeva!! Just like when Lord Sri Ram was in exile for 14 years, Bharat carried out all the work of the Ayodhya Kingdom by keeping the holy sandals of Lord Sri Ram at the royal throne!! Many few people know that there is ashram of Sri Sri Thakur in Tundla, UP which was originally a devotee’s house.  This is the only ashram in the whole world I think where there is no portrait of  Sri Sri Thakur!! Instead there are one pair of holy sandals (Sri Charan Paduka) of Sri Sri Thakur kept at the puja altar and they are being worshipped with great devotion and many miracles have happened or are still happening at that place even now also!! One incident I would narrate here. Once a Sadhu who was a devotee of our Gurudeva when came to know about this place decided to visit there & accordingly went there. That time one big utsav was going on there which is being celebrated annually every year.  There is a ritual that on the last of the festival those holy sandals of Sri Sri Thakur are being taken out for procession amidst harinaam sankirtan & they keep them in a decorated chariot and do procession and then again bring them back in the temple. That sadhu was given the task of carrying those holy sandals from the temple to the chariot. Accordingly, the sadhu went inside the garbhagriha of the temple to bring those sandals but he had always this doubt as only sandals being kept here without any picture of Sri Sri Kaivalyanath or Sri Sri Satyanarayan!! Is it correct?? Is Guruji actually present here?? Nobody was inside and all were waiting outside for him but long time passed & the sadhu didn’t turned up!! Everybody became worried and restless as to what had happened? When people went inside they saw to their surprise that sadhu was crying profusely asking to forgive him again & again to holy Sri Charan Padukas!!! When asked he narrated about his disbelief about the holy sandals and that when he came inside thinking this he saw that grabhagriha is full of many devtas, mahaprushas doing vandana or praising Sri Sri Thakur alongwith the holy padukas!! The sadhu realised his fault of suspecting the holiness of those Sri Charan Padukas and fall before them asking for forgiveness!! In Sri Guru-Gita also the greatness & glory of holy feet of Sri Gurudeva have been sung!! Even if anybody serve the holy feet of Sri Sri Kaivalyanath or Sri Sri Satyanarayan with pure devotion he is bound to get the divine mercy of Sri Gurudeva!! Jai Sri Ram!