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 Day Six :

“Don’t you have basic etiquette?” boomed my Guru’s voice through the silence of that church.  I was stunned – more than that shocked.  I had never seen her getting irritated and here she was looking very angry.  I was totally shaken up.

“This is a Divine place and you are spitting here?”  And you, why are you plucking flowers from that tree? Where is the need for you to be talking and laughing so loudly in this place?”  all through here voice was high-pitched and I could clearly see her being angry.  I was surprised.  “She and angry?” I didn’t expect this – ever and others were no better than me in receiving this shock.  All just froze with fright.

“Kneel down and ask for forgiveness” she demanded.  And all just meekly followed her orders.

She went into the bus and closed here eyes.  It was 11 am.  No one talked for the rest of the afternoon.

4 pm Same day

  

We reached an Ashram of a famous Guru.  Few of our friends were staunch devotees of that Swamiji and so all went in to have his darshan .  Luckily for us, he didn’t have any other visitors apart from us that time.  One of his devotees from our group asked him after being seated in his presence “Does a Guru ever get angry?”

It was straight attack on my Guru.  They were upset with her behaviour but didn’t have courage to say that personally and so were trying to insult her through this Swamiji.

“Unless he is fake – every Guru gets angry at some point of time for sure” he smiled as he replied.

“Then what is the difference between Guru and others if both loose their temper?” asked Priya visibly irritated at the answer.

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