Wednesday 18 September 2013

Arrogance in Descendants of Old Disciples


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!!