Teachings of Gurudev

Most of the people are very sensitive about cleanliness when the issue of being religious or spiritual comes. Let us see what our Gurudev have said about it. Once a disciple who wanted to be initiated was present in front of Sri Sri Thakur who immediately asked him to take Sri Naam at that very moment!! But the devotee was in a little hesitation and pleaded that he should first take a bath and wear on clean cloths and after that only he can accept the diksha by Gurudev!! Sri Sri Thakur smiled at this and remarked in His style Ho Jan Gu er Bosta ta Dhuiya Niya Ashen!! (yes go & get washed the shit bag properly)!! Another incident happened where in the same situation the devotee pleaded that he hasn't taken bath for 2 days and he is wearing the same dress for the last 2-3 days and had even attended the nature's call with the same dress worn and so his body and clothes are very dirty to which Sri Sri Thakur said that yes inded they are dirty, but there is one thing that if one takes Sri Naam his endless births sins and dirts are washed off then is it not possible that your body's and clothe's dirt would also be get washed after taking the Sri Naam??   There are two things called Achar & Vichar and it seems people are much more busy with Achar instead of Vichar!! There was an incident where our Gurudev's dear disciple Sri Indubhushan Banerjee, the man behind the compilation of Vedvani had a deep desire to spend few days in a Ashram in his vacations to enjoy the spiritual bliss and so he instructed his family people to not to disturb him in those days!! Accordingly, he went to the ashram to spend some days there!! The very first day he narrates that he was forcefully waken up from his deep sleep at around 3 a.m. and asked to take bath!! Very reluctantly and with great pain somehow he completed the difficult task since those were winter days!! When he sat to take the morning prasad called Balyabhog, he was reminded of various types of rituals while eating and has to be very careful about them for ex. no sound while eating, not to use left hand, to start with another dish one has to wash his hands first etc. like these many rules were there!! Indu babu somehow started eating the prasad but within a few seconds the brahamacharis of the ashram cried foul as he had breaked some rule which would attract some sins!! The first day itself was so painful and torturing for him that he ran out of the ashram and came to his own house and heaved a sigh of relief!! Jai Ram!!

Sri Sri Thakur & His Precious Sri Naam

The actions of our beloved Gurudev were always very meaningful & of great importance which couldn’t be understood until & unless blessed by Him. It so happened once that our beloved Gurudev was passing through a very busy & overcrowded market of vegetables and fruits somewhere in Bengal and was also being followed by two or three devotees behind Him. The very narrow way in the midst of the market was insufficient to walk properly and was difficult to cross over from opposite directions by two passers at one time. Just during that suddenly a coolie carrying a big heap of vegetables on his head happened to come across the narrow way and approached Sri Sri Thakur from the opposite direction!! He seemed to be from the region of Bihar in India! He immediately stopped, put down his heavy weight from his head on the ground and prostrated into the holy feet of Gurudev!! Sri Sri Thakur also blessed him and after that the coolie again put on his items on his head and went away and very quickly mixed into the crowd within a fraction of minutes!! The devotees who were following Him were astonished at this and asked Guruji whether He knows the fellow!! Sri Sri Thakur replied may be somebody!! But the disciples were not willing to leave Him so easily and continued to pester Him to tell the truth!! Sri Sri Thakur then told that after taking initiation of Sri Naam Diksha that very person becomes familiar to Him and can be recognised very easily!! Another incident happened in the house of Rohini babu where our beloved God was staying for some months.  Sri Sri Thakur was busy in reading some books and writing letters to his various disciples staying at various places in his room and Rohini babu was outside his house in the garden doing some work when suddenly a devotee from a very far off place happened to visit there!! He enquired about Sri Sri Thakur and informed him that he has came there to have His darshan and with the hope of taking initiation from Him!! Rohini babu happily directed that person to the room where Sri Sri Thakur was present but that fellow came back and told that nobody is there in the room!! Rohini babu became little surprised as he has seen Gurudev just a few minutes back in the room, he himself went to the room but couldn’t find Him there, he even searched the whole house and all the possible places where he could find Him but to no use!! Rohini babu became very much astonished at this as to where had Sri Sri Thakur gone??? That devotee became very much disappointed at this and told that he has not much time to wait and would have to leave and lamented at his fate to not be able to get initiated!! Subsequently that person left the house of Rohini babu with a heavy heart!! After that person had left when rohini babu again went to the same room & to his wonder he saw that Sri Sri Thakur was as usual busy in reading books in the same way as he has seen Him earlier!!! Rohini babu asked Him as to where He has gone??? Guruji replied as I didn’t went anywhere!!! Then rohini babu narrated the whole incident and lamented about that person as he had came from a very far off place to see you and get initiation!! Sri Sri Thakur didn’t said anything at this but then rohini babu pleaded before Him to tell the truth to which Gurudev told that nothing is possible until the appropriate time arrives!! That person’s time hasn’t arrived yet to get initiated thus he had to go back!!! Gurudev used to insist to chant always the Sri Naam but people never used to listen to His advice. So once he lamented as nobody chants the Sri Naam, instead everybody has kept the Sri Naam locked in a box as a placard and use it only when required or when in trouble!!! There may be thousands and crores of disciples of our beloved Gurudev all around the globe but very few could understand the teachings and follow the instructions given by Him!!! As there was this incident where He had to lament seeing the mindset of the majority of these so-called devotees then on the other side there have been great devotees of Him whether it was Sri Prabhat Chakraborty, Sri Kichanlal, Sri Rohini babu, Sri Indubhushan Banerjee or Dr. J.M. Dasgupta or the famous railway pointsman Devendra etc.. There was description of one disciple who infact fought with Guruji to get initiation!!!! It so happened that a person who was very much devoted to our Gurudev wanted to take initiation from Him and everytime he would request Him Sri Sri Thakur would suggest him to take diksha from his Kula Guru!! But there was nobody surviving in the family of his Kula Guru except a lady and he didn’t wanted to take diksha from her but Gurudev would suggest him to take from her and even advised as there is no harm in getting initiated by her!! Like this months passed and Sri Sri Thakur would never agree to his repeated requests!! Then on one evening when Sri Sri Thakur along with one of His devotee was sitting on the bank of a river watching it, was approached by him. He again requested and as usual Gurudev again gave him the same advice but he wasn’t willing to listen and he started arguing with him and started giving various reasons & logics and each n every reason or logic would be nullified by Him and like this it became midnight!! Suddenly at that time that very person agitated and said if you don’t give me initiation then I would immediately end my life here at your holy feet at once!! Either you would give me shelter at your holy feet or I would end my life now immediately!! Listening this Sri Sri Thakur suddenly became still, went into a deep meditative state and His eye balls turned upside & seeing this both of the devotees became very much scared!! Like this after half an hour passed and Sri Sri Thakur slowly became normal and promised him to give initiation subject to permission given by his lady Kula Guru!! The devotee became very happy and literally wanted to dance and his lady Kula Guru also very happily gave permission as she regarded it as a great honour for her also because a person from her own disciple’s family  is going to be initiated by such a great Mahapurush!! So friends always remember the teachings of our Gurudev as Naam Koren!! Naam Koren!! (Please do chant, please do chant!!) See you all at the next post!! Jai Ram!!

Sri Sri Thakur’s Presence Post-Samadhi

 

So many incidents have happened about Sri Sri Thakur’s presence even after He left His holy body on 2nd May, 1949 on the Akshaya Tritiya day at Chowmuhani, Bangladesh!! In this blog only earlier I had written about our beloved Gurudev’s omnipresence everywhere but He has shown His presence even after leaving His holy body in the year 1949!! The first one happened immediately after leaving His body was when at Sri Sri Kaibalyadham, Chittagong, Bangladesh, Sri Jamini Maharaj (most probably) was busy in performing the Akshaya Tritiya Puja when suddenly he had a divine darshan of our Gurudev and he became astonished at this.  Sri Sri Thakur asked that haven’t you received any news?? Jamini Maharaj asked What?? Sri Sri Thakur replied I have already left my body!!! Another incident had happened at Kolkata Jadavpur Ashram some 30 years back where on an early morning a devotee from Varanasi happened to came there and told that he is coming from Varanasi and a disciple of Sri Madhob Pagla (about whom we had already discussed here in the past) and when he requested to initiate him to his Gurudev he instructed him to take diksha from our Gurudev Sri Sri Ramthakur showing  the portrait of our Gurudev at the ashram!! Everybody present there became astonished at this as how is it possible since Guruji had already left His body long time back!! Another incident had happened some 15-20 years back. A doctor had happened to visit Haridwar and Rishikesh and on an evening walk who was unknowingly going towards the forest of Rishikesh suddenly saw an old man standing in front of him and who cautioned him to not to proceed further as it is the jungle area and as many ferocious animals roam here and it is getting also dark. The doctor also asked him as you are also alone here, don’t you fear to which he replied as all protective Lord is with Him who is protecting Him and before the doctor could ask Him any more questions suddenly the old man vanished into the darkness and thick forest!! The doctor forgot the incident very soon and after nearly a month or two happened to visit the home of one of his patients at Kolkata and there he found a portrait of our Holy Gurudev about whom he enquired from the house owner. He replied that He is our Gurudev and has taken Mahasamadhi long time back to which the doctor exclaimed as how is it possible?? I met Him a month ago at Rishikesh!!!! The house-owner became astonished at this and told him that he is a very privileged soul to have darshan of our Lord which is not possible without His mercy!!! Like these still now many incidents are happening now all over the world, many of whom is unknown to all of us!! Sri Sri Thakur had once remarked as Shorir na thakle aro beshi koira paiben!! (After leaving the body everybody would be able to meet or see Him even more)!! Ajo to Leela Kora Sei Goraray, Keho Keho Baghoban Dekhibare Pay!! Jai Ram!!