Me, My Guru

Doctor in the village

...contd....

Doctor Saheb smiled and said ‘your question is senseless.  This is a hospital not a movie-theatre or a hotel where it’s good to be!  If the patient is treated as an in-patient it means he is serious.  All the neighbouring villages have water, which is highly polluted because of which they all are having kidney failure.  So, I admitted them as in-patients.  No one in our village is so sick.  Thank God for that!  They have regular ailments like cold, cough and fever.  So I treat them as out-patients.’

My Guru smiled as she concluded this story.

For the time time, I understood the answer to my question “Why are you partial to few students and spend more time with them and let go off many others after teaching few healing or cleansing techniques to heal themselves?’

Now, I understood.  She wasn’t being partial to any.  Her behaviour was totally dependent on the student’s requirement. The one who was more confused got to spend more time with her.  It was the only way she could work her way through their confusion, hatred and pain and give them clarity.  ‘To each his own’ that was her strategy.  I understood her love today. I understood as I took all the cases and reviewed them now.  I silently thanked her for being herself.  How true someone was when they said ‘A true Master’s ways are contradictory and beyond the grasp of he layman or his student” 

For once, I agreed whole heartedly!