Me, My Guru - Desire

...contd....

Though it was said of ‘Sri’ it applied to each one of us!

She didn’t ask that question to Sri alone! She was asking us to recheck our excuses – not just about attending classes or sessions but also of our mind set.

When we liked going somewhere, no distance seemed far and no trouble made us think twice about it. But when we didn’t think it is important to go, even little distance seemed too difficult to cover. It was all in the mind! And it was all about our likes and dislikes. When we liked a person than any amount of trouble we took to please him seemed worth it. And if we disliked a person even just standing beside seemed to drain us of our strength! How strange was this game of like and dislike? And that’s why she had been asking us to grow above these opposites of likes and dislikes since ages. And we....as usual didn’t give it a hearing.

And a person who grew above these opposites was a ‘balanced person’. And again, this term was often misunderstood (mostly by masters and passed on to their students) as a person who didn’t have any feelings. No. It didn’t mean that a ‘balanced person’ is not a person who doesn’t have likes and dislikes. He does have likes and dislikes. But, he knows his feelings and emotions, owns them and yet doesn’t let them stop him from doing what needs to be done. For example if I am a balanced person and I dislike you and you fall sick or there is a function in your house, then I’ll do the needful ‘whole heartedly’ though I may dislike you. Mind you, the key feeling is that ‘I don’t carry anger, hurt, pain, hatred’ while doing anything for you.

Whatever I do, I’ll do it with ‘due respect and love’. Now that is difficult and hence the difference between a ‘yogi and a bhogi’ – a spiritual and a materialistic person!

Distance can be said to be inversely proportionate to my feelings. The rule that we followed was “show me the person and I’ll tell you the distance”. How silly was that!

This simple rule defined my relationships and there in lay my peace of mind and happiness.

Such a simple thing and yet so much lay in this ‘simple idea’.

I knew I could apply it in so many other places and situations and I tightened my seat belts to do so....

Not only should I do this but should also take corrective steps to right this wrong way of thinking to experience freedom from pain, helplessness, anger and whole lot of such negative feelings......

I left her place lot more aware of self than when I entered it...........

....concluded...........