It
has been a long time since I wrote anything on this blog about our holy
Gurudev. Friends for the past few days I
had some bitter experience on a social network called Facebook. This similar
type of experiences I had earlier also though personally in my normal daily
life. Sri Sri Thakur had many disciples
whom He had Himself bestowed with Sri Naam and who were actually very much devoted
to Gurudev’s holy feet all their whole life. Now after so many years had passed
those holy souls have departed and the time is the modern era of 2013 and if
somebody goes and meet the descendents of those families like their grandsons
or grand-daughters one will be greeted with arrogant behavior and more
importantly high amount of proudness!!! In the past I had one such opportunity
to meet a particular family at Kolkata. The person who took me there was an
elder fellow and devotee of Sri Sri Thakur and he requested me to visit there
to meet the old fellow who had taken Sri Naam from Guruji Himself. When we
reached there the old man was not there and instead we interacted with the family
and was shocked to see their high level of proudness. They even went to the
extent of telling that it is their wish that their grandfather should now start
distributing Sri Naam like the Mohant Moharajas and while their conversation I
found at one point that they were even showing disrespect to our Gurudev as if they are
even great than Him!!!! Similarly, recently I again had an opportunity to encounter
a girl on facebook who was on my friendlist earlier and it was unknown to me
that she was also suffering from the same problem as she was also belonging to
a very close disciple of our Gurudev who had taken Sri Naam from Him personally
and this was also unknown to me!! There was a confusion where I found that her
posts are contradictory as it involved the declarations given by our Holy
Gurudev so I tried to correct her immediately which angered her and it was then
she started citing her family background as if I am nothing in front of her!!!!
I asked her to calm down as I also know many families who had taken Sri Naam
from Gurudev to that she became more angry and started arguing. I found her
higly egoistic and proudy and thought it would be useless to argue with her
anymore and deleted all my comments and unfriend her!! Now what is this?? What has
happened to the mindset of these families??? Are they following the footsteps
of their Grandparents who had taken Sri Naam from Sri Sri Thakur??? These
fellows have forgotten the basic criteria to be devotees of Lord is to leave
proudness, to be humble at heart, love God and believe in His teachings whole
heartedly!! Sri Chaintanya Mahaprabhu had also said Trinadapi Sunichen means to
be humble even more than a tiny grass, Tarorapi Sahishnuna to bear the destiny
like a tree who bears all the seasons on its body whole year Manena Amanden to
be stable both in respect or disrespect and Kirtaniya Sada Hari always chant
the holy name of Lord Sri Hari!!! Are they following all these??? I don’t think
so. They should instead become an example for the society to teach all how to
do devotion instead of boasting of their family background in front of all!! I
told her that each and every soul would
have to do sadhana on its own to attain salvation and no family name plate
would help anybody to reach it without proper devotion but that angered here
severely and I had no option left but to unfriend her!! In ashrams also this
same problem is existing. The families of the President, Treasurer, Secretary
of various ashrams are having the same problem!! If the Mohant Maharaj stays at
the home of a particular family then you can very well understand the mindset
of that family!!! I tell you that I am working at a senior position in a government office through
which I can arrange darshans or accommodations of various famous pilgrimage
places whether it is tirupati, shirdi or vaishno devi etc. sitting at my home
and can get the best treatments, all my office collegues uses this facility but
I had never ever used such things as I believe that one should go before the
Lord depending only and only on Him rather than on one’s own connections!!
Guruji also always used to insist as to be Akarta instead of having Kortitto!! See you
all at the next post!! Jai Ram!!
