Detachment

Dear Guru brothers/sisters! Jai Ram! I wish all of you who are located all around the globe A VERY VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS DEEPAWALI!! I wish that Diwali which is the festivals of lights may remove all our darkness of ignorance about the Almighty Lord from our inner selves! Today I thought that I should narrate something about Detachment which has been told manyatimes in our ancient scriptures and also by our holy Gurudev Sri Ramthakur! To know properly about detachment it would be better to describe some incidents from our puranas. It once happened that rishi durvasa who daily used to eat only two chappatis made of durva (grass) was meditating on the bank of river yamuna and Smt. Radharani the consort of our Lord Sri Krishna who was on the other side of the river had a desire of offering many delicious food items to the rishi. Accordingly, she prepared all the items and started for her journey to see the rishi but when she came to river yamuna she was shocked to find that the river was overflowing due to high tide!! Due to this no boatman was available to ferry cross the river!! She prayed to Lord Sri Krishna who immediately appeared there and after coming to know about the problem smilingly said that just go to the river and say that if Sri Krishna hasn't thought or touched any other lady except Smt. Radharani in his whole life then give me way to cross you!!! Hearing this Radharani was stunned as how it is possible?? Sri Krishna who is always surrounded of hundreds of gopis always! But whatever it is she went to the river and told as instructed by the Lord and immediately the river yamuna gave way to cross her!!! Radharani was again astonished!! After approaching the rishi and paying her respects, when she offered the food items to him, the rishi who was famous for his daily meal of two chapattis of durva, requested radharani to feed all the items with her own hands then only he would accept them!! She agreed and accordingly the rishi ate all the food. Now Radharani had to return back and again the same problem came to which the rishi enquired that how had she came here. She told the entire story and the rishi laughed mischievously at this!! The rishi then said that now go to the river yamuna that ask her that if the rishi has ate only two chapattis of durva today then give way to cross!! now this was again the moment for radharani to be shocked!! how is it possible as she has fed the rishi with her own hands but the rishi insisted and she went and told as asked by the rishi and again the river yamuna gave way to cross!! Friends, actually this is the sense of detachment!! Lord Sri Krishna may be always surrounded of hundreds of gopis but He used to see always only and only Smt. Radharani in each n every gopi and similarly the rishi durvasa who may have eaten many delicious food items but his inner sense was only accepting them as his daily meal of two chapattis of durva!! Sri Ramakrishna also used to give example of a kind of fish which is found in mud but you will not find any mud on its body!! similarly, stay in this world like that fish which is mud with a sense of detachment!! do all your duties but inside know the truth that these are not real and are temporary!! Once somebody wanted to check the detachment state or renunciation level of Lord Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and put some powdered sugar on the tongue of Mahaprabhu and even after a long time the sugar didn't melted and suddenly after some time the wind blew away the sugar as it is!!!! this is detachment!! But this is also correct that it is not possible without the mercy and grace of the almighty lord and we should pray for it from Him. Jai Ram!!