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!!!