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!!