Wordly Desires Brings Troubles

Today we will discuss as to how our worldly desires are the root cause of all our wordly troubles in our lives!! The place is at Kolkata at the house of a very close disciple of Sri Sri Thakur, Sri Motilal Banerjee mohashoy.  Sri Sri Thakur who was staying there had once ordered Banerjee mohashoy to invite the disciples such as S/Sri Indubhushan Banerjee, Prabhat Chandra Chakraborty etc. for an afternoon feast on a Sunday noon and accordingly Gurudev asked Banerjee mohashoy to bring 3 to 4 types of fish and some mutton and sweet-curd etc. for them. Accordingly, Banerjee babu brought them from the market early Sunday morning & left for his shop (he was the owner of a garment shop known as Satyanarayan Bastralaya at Kolkata). Banerjee mohashoy’s wife now started to cook all the delicacies and the first thing she prepared was the mutton. When she finished cooking the dish, it looked to be so attractive and smelling so good that suddently she had a deep desire in her mind that how good it would have been had Sri Sri Thakur tastes and eats some mutton!!!!! & immediately she felt embarrassed & subsequently guilty on her thinking as Gurudev was very well known about His food & apetite among all the devotees!! She again resumed the work of cooking the other dishes when suddenly Guruji appeared there in the kitchen and enquired about the progess of cooking and asked her to show the dish of mutton!! She very happily brought before Gurudev the bowl of the dish and then suddenly Gurudev asked her to give him 2 pieces of mutton in a small bowl!!! Moti babu’s wife felt very happy on hearing this order of Sri Sri Thakur and became astonished also on completion of her desire all of a sudden!! Guruji ate those 2 pieces and while going to the washroom remarked that this dish should NOT BE GIVEN TO ANYBODY as it is not eatable and throw away the dish immediately!!!  Hearing this Moti babu’s wife dumb struck and utterly shocked for a few minutes!!!! Such a beautiful preparation and smelling delicious had to be thrown!!! But what to do??? Suddenly the guests started coming as also Moti babu followed them from behind and he immediately came to the kitchen to see the progress of cooking. Moti babu’s wife narrated the whole incident and hearing this Moti babu became furious and scolded her to have a desire like this!!! Whatever it is, since the guests had already arrived, they immediately made arrangements for their meal and became busy with them and Moti babu’s wife subsequently forgot to throw away the dish of mutton!! After a while, Moti babu’s wife went to the kitchen for some work and cried out of fear in a low note as there was lying a dead cat near to the bowl of mutton with a piece of half-eaten mutton lying near it!!! She understood very clearly the reason behind Sri Sri Thakur’s caution to not to serve the dish to anybody as it had become highly poisonous!! She immediately called Moti babu and upon seeing the dead cat he fall on the ground from standing and started lamenting on his wife as she isn’t realizing how much damage she has caused due to her one desire!!! Whatever it is the dish of mutton was immediately thrown as also the dead cat!! The guests were still there in the house and Moti babu’s wife became restless as Gurudev had also ate some of those mutton!!! They waited impatiently for the guests to leave who subsequently left only at night 9.00 pm!! After the departure of guests Moti babu’s wife fall at the lotus feet of Gurudev and started crying profusely!! Guruji consoled her and assured her that nothing will happen to Him except some minor physical problem. After a while, Guruji started visiting the toilet quite frequently and on seeing this Moti babu became restless and decided to go for fetching a doctor but Sri Sri Thakur barred him from going out in the night to call the doctor and even told him that if Moti babu now went out in the night Guruji woud immediately leave their house!!  Moti babu and his wife had no option left except to watch Guruji helplessly!! Gurudev asked the couple to go to sleep many times but they didn’t slept and sat together alongwith Sri Sri Thakur. Gurudev kept on visiting the toilet till 3 am early in the morning and after that he told them that now there is no more poison left inside His body!!! Very soon it became morning and an employee of the shop of Moti babu visited their home to enquire about his master. On seeing him Sri Sri Thakur asked the employee to bring some fresh cooked breakfast from a shop for the couple as they hadn’t ate anything the previous day!!  After having breakfast and getting assurance from Gurudev about His health Moti babu left for his shop. Moti babu’s wife again fall at the holy feet of Sri Sri Thakur crying profusely and begged for forgiveness for her worldly desire!! Guruji said can you see now mother… just a small worldy desire brought so much of troubles, neither could you ate nor sleep!!! Please don’t have any worldly desires & try to avoid them as they are the root cause for all types of problems and tie you in various bonds and are also responsible for endless births!!  
Many of you may think that why the mutton became poisonous and it was just a simple infact very simple one desire..then why????
Actually this incident of mutton was nothing but a divine leela of our holy Gurudev and it became just a medium to make them understand the dangers or negative results one suffers due to keeping worldly desires..as it is a well known fact that desires only attract us to take various endless birth in this world and thus one cannot get rid from the continuous cycle of birth and death!!! Actually Sri Sri Thakur who is our Sadguru is an ocean of mercy and who is always eager to help us to get rid of this materialistic world and for this purpose He very often used to guide his close disciples/devotees through these various types of divine leelas..
See you all at the next post!! Jai Ram!!!

Joy Maa Kali!! Joy Sri Ram!!

 

What a beautiful day today it is!! The day is Tuesday and it reminds me of my Holy Mother Kali!! Kali Kali Jop Kore Mor, Moner Kali Jabe Dhuye!! Our Holy Gurudev was none other than Goddess Kali and infact He is everything!! Kali Puja is arriving very soon, after Durga and Lakshmi Puja now it is time of worshipping the Kali form of Mother in this Matri-Paksha!! I wish you all A Happy Kali Puja in advance!!

The instructions and advises given by holy Gurudev were always of very great importance and meaning.   For example, once He said to one of His disciples during a conversation as Bhujte Chaiyai to Amare Haraiyachen!!!! Just a small and one line sentence but what a deep indepth meaning it has!! It means whenever you are trying to understand or analyse anything with your knowledge or brain you are losing me immediately thus it is better to be always ignorant as then only you will be in total submission or in saranagati to me!!! Further, again He told that suppose you leave your home to reach Kalighat at Kolkata and in the midway you stopped to see some monuments or some plays/games etc. and subsequently forgot to reach your destination and lost it. But if you brought a railway ticket and board the train to reach your destination you will surely reach it, sometimes it may delay but it is sure that you will reach your destination!!! Similarly if you are in submission to the holy lotus feet of Gurudev and stick to your belief firmly, it is sure that you will reach or attain your salvation at His holy feet!! All this was told to one of His close disciple Sri Tulsidas Ganguly as he was in habit of reading the autobiographies & teachings of various Saints and Mahapurushas and thus was always in a confusion which one to follow!! It was during this time Doyal Gurudev Sri Sri Ramthakur said that too much reading of books brings lots of doubts and confusions and it is better to follow only one as Ek Dhorle Shob Pay, Shob Dhorle Shob Jay!!! Also Sri Sri Thakur said as Gronthe Gronthe Gronthi Bare (here Gronthe means books and Gronthi means knots) meaning of which has already been told aforesaid!! In Sri Guru Gita it is said as Dhyan Moolam Guru Murti, Pooja Moolam Gurum Padam, Mantra Moolam Gurum Vakyam, Moksha Moolam Guru Kripa!! Jai Ram!!

Typical Disciples

Place was Dhaka at Bangladesh where Sri Sri Thakur was staying at the home of a certain disciple. The room where He was sitting was having some 7 to 8 devotees including the houseowner himself who were sitting on the floor on a floor mat when suddenly one of them took out a packet of playing cards and subsequently all of them started playing cards in front of Guruji Himself quite shamelessly which also included shouting on each other, using abusive language etc. There was also a young disciple among them who was not playing the game and was not at all liking all these developments going on there. Suddenly, torrential rain started all of a sudden outside (Bangladesh is very famous for its torrential and high amount of rain all along throughout the year). During the game of cards one of them shouted as we must have some snacks as some puffed rice and fried items from some outside the nearby shop to enjoy this game fully!! But the question is who will go and fetch those fried snacks from  outside as at that moment there was half knee deep water everywhere!! That young devotee fearing since he is younger among all here, he may asked to fetch those fried snacks from outside, immediately closed his eyes and started pretending to be in a meditative state!! After sometime again one of them shouted as we must have some fried items to enjoy the game!! Nobody noticed when our beloved Holy Gurudev left the room in the torrential rain with a half-broken umbrella which can only protect the head to fetch those eatable items for them!! After sometime Sri Sri Thakur put before them puffed rice along with fried snacks items and they all happily started enjoying those things!! Nobody noticed that Guruji was fully drenched in water, He wiped & cleaned Himself on His own and those so-called devotees ate those items shamelessly without any notice towards Guruji!! The rain continued and also the game and the game only stopped after there was a call from inside the house for lunch. They all ran inside and after having their sumptuous lunch when they again came back munching their mouths with paans (beetel leafs), with an intention to start again the game of cards, the houseowner suddenly inquired from Gurudev who gave the money for the snacks to which Sri Sri Thakur replied that nobody paid it and He bought them through credit by telling the shopkeeper about the name of the houseowner!! That fellow then took out some money from his pocket and gave it to Gurudev and Guruji again took that half-broken umbrella in the heavy rain and returned with the balance money after the paying the price and gave it to the housowner who was playing the same game of cards shamelessly took them!!! He or the other so-called disciples didn’t noticed at all that again Guruji has been drenched fully in the heavy pouring rain!!!! Now, these people are also devotees or disciples??? What to say!!! Least they could understand or know that who is serving them!!! The Lord of all the unlimit universe, the Tribhuvanpati Himself is serving them & they were surely unaware of this!! What a pity!!! At some place I had read that a relative of Sri Sri Thakur who had earlier written a letter to Gurudev & when he  happened to meet Him, Sri Sri Thakur asked that why did he cut the last concluding note in his letter to which that relative replied as it is a well-known practice to write as “Sincerely in your service” but I had to cut that line since I don’t think we are actually doing any true service to you, on the contrary You are doing a lot for us so I had to cut those lines!!!! See you all at the next post!! Always be in submission to the holy lotus feet of our beloved Lord Sri Sri Ram Thakur Dev!!! Chant or remember the Sri Naam always!! Jai Ram!!

Sri Sri Thakur about Mahatma Gandhi

Today is 2nd October, the birthday of that great freedom fighter of India who is also the Father of this Nation & whose sacrifices given for the freedom of India requires no introduction!! “Mahatma” the title which was conferred upon him by none other than the great poet and the first Nobel Prize lauterate Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore was infact truly implies on Gandhiji or Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Bapu or the Mahatma!!!

Why on earth today I sat to write about this legendary personality was because in the past few days back certain incident happened in facebook which has shook me and my beliefs about the present day so-called devotees of Sri Sri Thakur from deep inside and which has forced me to think about the very basic criteria required to be a true disciple of our Gurudev Sri Sri Ramthakur and which has been described in Sri Guru Gita (which has been recommended by Guruji manytimes) as Mantra Moolam Gurum Vakyam (means the instructions or words spoken by the Holy Master or Guru is the basis of all Mantras)!!! The shlok is Dhyan Moolam Guru Murti means for meditation the form of Holy Master is the basis, Pooja Moolam Gurum Padam means for worshipping the holy feet of holy Master is the basis, Mantra Moolam Gurum Vakyam has been told aforesaid and Moksha Moolam Guru Kripa means for salvation the mercy of holy master is the basis!!! Now friends the question arise are we or the so-called self-acclaimed devotees or say the devotees who are always boasting about their devotions are following these instructions fully???? In my opinion, I don’t think so!! Whatever instructions have been given by our holy Master is not being followed properly and when in trouble would quite occassionly blame Him for all their problems!!!

Now coming to Mahatma Gandhi.. It has been found in many books of various devotees that while Gandhiji was being assassinated at New Delhi, Sri Sri Thakur on that very same day and same moment suddenly said as Gandhi Choila Gelen.. Gandhir Aar Jonmo Hoibo Na.. means Gandhi has left this mortal world and he would not take any more births!! Now the question arises that there were many other great and selfless freedom fighters fighting for the motherland at that moment who were being killed by the britishers very often but Gurudev why only talked about Gandhiji??? Why only him??? And not only talked about him also informed that he will not take anymore births!!! That means he has got salvation!!! At another place it has been found as Sri Sri Thakur while mentioning about Gandhiji has said as Gandhi to Poddo-Gandhi!!! Means Gandhi is just like a flower of lotus being in the mud of dirt is untouched by the dirt of this materialistic world!! But few days back I countered a female devotee who is dead against Gandhiji and hate him very much!! This devotee had earlier posted many controversial posts about the Mahatma which is nowadays very much being propagated in various internet sites by some negative minded people and after somedays shared a post of our Gurudev alongwith a writeup where there was a mention of Sri Sri Thakur’s words about Gandhiji!! I immediately countered her that this is contradictory to her earlier posts!!! This made her furious and she told me that she belong to the family of a very close devotee of Sri Sri Thakur who has been initiated by our Gurudev himself and who is her great grandfather and it was him only who has told her mother about various ill and misdeeds done by Gandhiji!! I told her that during my earlier days I was also very much confused about Gandhiji but the day I read what my holy Gurudev had told about him all my confusions have gone immediately and my perception & inner feeling for Gandhiji has become very very crystal clear!! We have very limited brain but our holy master knows everything and so I rely only & only upon Him for everything!! And moreover no devotee should indulge in finding faults of others as told by Guruji Na Loibe Karo Dosh Na Koribe Rosh Aponi Hoibe Shabdhan but that made her more furious and I understood very clearly that there is no point in arguing with this highly egoistic so-called devotee!!! this is what I experienced & I fear many of the young generation devotees must be having negative feelings about this great saint but I would suggest them all to remember the words spoken by our holy Gurudev about him!!! Rest I leave all up to you!!! Jai Ram!!! 

Raghupati Raghav Rajaram, Patita Pavan Sitaram!!!

Ishwar Allah Tere Naam, Sabko Sanmati De Bhagvan!!!! (For those who think ill about this great Mahatma who took birth in this country)