How many people actually
knows the truth who our Gurudev is?? They are just keeping His holy portrait at
their puja altar without understanding exactly the divineness, His greatness or
the unlimited power of our holy Gurudev!! Otherwise why they are always
complaining about their lives, why they are always restless and running to
various pilgrimages in search of mental peacefulness?? One side they would claim about their devotion
or belief for our Gurudev and then other side they would not believe in the
holy instructions or words of Him (Mantra Moolam Gurum Vakyam) and would visit
various temples or religious places or various other deities or even local
babas or gurus to attain mental peace or to get rid of their problems!!! I remember some incidents where quite
occasionally the greatness of our Guruji would come out!! Once it so happened
that Gurudev was residing at the house of a devotee at Bangladesh during World
War II where there was a routine practice of playing siren by the Govt. during
an air attack by the enemy forces and there were also bunkers made by the each
house-owner or govt. for hiding of people to save themselves from the bombs or
missiles fired by the aircrafts of the enemies. It was during such time that suddenly there
was siren being played and everybody started running to hide into the bunkers,
the house owner after sending each one of his family members into the bunker went
to Guruji and requested Him also to go to the bunker to which Guruji replied
with a very strong & dominating voice as This siren is for you all not for
me!! The Vajra (referred to the bomb) which can fell on my head has not been
made till now!!! After that fellow could not utter anything!! From this
incident can anyone understand as who can say this until & unless He is
none other than the Almighty Lord Himself!!
From here I would now take you all to Puri Dham where many times our
holy Gurudev have placed his holy feet. Guruji never used to visit the
Jagannath Temple at Puri and even if at all He went to give company to the
devotees He had never ever entered the temple which was always a great mystery
for many of His close disciples!! Instead He would wait for them at the
Singhadwar of the Jagannath Temple and it was during such time that a devotee
who had went inside the temple to offer his puja to the deity, when he came out
of the temple he saw a very strange thing!!! He noticed that a very very old
mother who was carrying all items of doing puja for the deity along with a
thali of arti was doing arti of our Holy Gurudev and Guruji was also standing motionless
as if He is none other the Lord Jagannath himself and accepting her offerings!!!
That old lady was doing arti with full devotion with tears in her eyes as if
she has seen something in Him and from his incident I remember a similar
incident from the life of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu where a devadasi of the
Jagannath temple became His devotee and the Lord also bestowed His mercy upon
her and showed her in secret as who He was actually and seeing this the
devadasi prostrated before Him with full devotion whereas there was a very
strict rule that the devadasi would never ever prostrate before anybody except
the Lord Jagannath Himself!!! Our Guruji was none other than the Lord Sri
Chaitanya Himself which is a known fact among all His devotees!! Similarly at
some other pilgrimage place most probably Sri Vaidyanath Dham of Lord Shiva
also an incident took place!! Guruji was accompanying a family and after
checking into a lodge the couple decided to visit the temple and asked Gurudev quite
reluctantly whether He would also like to visit (actually they wanted Him to
stay at the lodge to keep guard of their luggage, and may be that was the main
reason to bring Him along with them, how pity!!) Sri Sri Thakur who is antaryami, sensing their
inner feeling replied in negative and asked them to visit the temple!! They happily
kept their luggage below his bed and while going even asked a young boy of that
lodge at the main entrance to keep an eye on our Gurudev so that He doesn’t goes
out anywhere!! When the couple reached the temple and approached the deity, to
their utter astonishment they found that Sri Sri Thakur alongwith some other
devotees was circulating (doing pradakshina) of the Shiva Ling!! The couples
said that see this is the height when we asked Him to come along with us, He
didn’t agreed and now He has came here leaving all our valuables at the mercy
of the lodge people!! Fuming inside the couple hurriedly offered their puja and
returned to the lodge as soon as possible and found Sri Sri Thakur as usual
sitting on His bed!! The couple started shouting on Gurudev as to why did He
first did not agreed to go with them and then went to the temple and kept on saying
many things as how Gurudev can have any care for money since He is not a
grihasta and thus He doesn’t have any attachment for it etc. etc.!! Suddenly
Sri Sri Thakur spoke and said Had I not went there what you people would have
seen?? Listening this just one line sentence made them totally dumb struck for a few minutes and afterwards
they realised their fault!!! They had went to see the Lord Vaidyanath or the Lord
Shiva and thus Sri Sri Thakur who is none other than the almighty Lord went
there to give them darshan!! They fall at His holy feet and begged for
forgiveness!! Later on when they asked that young boy that did you saw the
Burababu ever leaving the lodge to which the boy replied that he was sitting at
the gate and didn’t went anywhere and he didn’t saw the Burababu or our Gurudev
going out of the lodge to anywhere!!!
Friends, we all are very very very lucky to have Tribhuvanpati, the Lord
of unlimited universe Himself as our Guru who is the Jagatguru also!!
Mannāthah Srījagannātho,
Madgurustri Jagadguruh, Mamātmā Sarva-bhūtātmā Tasmai Srīgurave Namah.
Salutations to Shri
Guru. My Lord is the Lord of the universe. My Guru is the Guru of the three
worlds. My Self is the Self of all beings.
Jai
Sri Ram!!
