….contd…..
So, how will I know if I am following ‘real Guru’ or a ‘fake
one’? What will become of me if I follow a ‘fake one’?.
For me these questions don’t matter because I asked the right
question. “how to benefit even from a fake Guru?”
King Yadu once found a beggar totally at peace with himself
and so blissful that he was surprised. He went to that beggar and asked ‘you
are just a beggar and yet so blissful and I being the king am so unhappy.
Please tell me your secret. What’s that you have that gives you so much of
happiness.’ That fakir replied ‘I am happy because of who I am and not because
of what I have’. Then king said ‘tell me about it’ and to that fakir
replied “I am a student of Nature and my 24 Gurus have taught me all that I
know.”
King asked “where can I find them and how to approach them
and what did you learn from then?”
Fakir replied “one of my Gurus is wasp. The wasp is said to
take an insect, keep it in its nest, and keep stinging it every now and then
until the insect becomes one-pointed with fear. The insect is almost meditating
on the wasp in its terror, until it takes on the characteristic of its tormentor
and itself become a wasp. "Brahma vidya brahmeva bhavati," ("To
know Brahman is to become Brahman.") The situation is so reminiscent of
Sambhrama yoga that Kamsa practised. His fear of Krishna made his mind so
one-pointed that he attained liberation. So, I learnt to meditate on the name
of the God from Wasp.
My other Guru is a courtesan name Pingala. One day Pingala
was desperately waiting for her lover and as time proceeded her anguish
increased and at a point of time she could bear it no more. At that time, she
just went within (herself) and looked at her anguish and pain. She decided not
to suffer anymore because of her lover and out of sheer (detachment) vairagya,
dropped her attachment and turned her feelings towards God and the insight she
had, the transformation she had was so profound that she became divine totally.
Her story and her commitment to outgrow her pain taught me that when the
realization happens, it transforms anyone completely and then he is nothing
related to his past. This I learnt from
her and I also learnt how to be ‘committed’
from her.” Like this he goes on to explain about his 24 Gurus
….contd…..
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