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!!