Indian Mythology - Shiva Parvathi - Me, My Guru

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Small act of others, we blew up to appreciate and still we belittled everything our family member did for us! We still suffered our family more so because of our nature than because of what they did. We didn’t know to appreciate their characters which we took for granted and hence could still justify our hatred and dislike and anger for them. When would we experience love in our family lives? Never with these qualities in us! No, we hadn’t begun our healing yet. We realized all this during our break. I don’t know if the person who sought answers to his question benefitted or not, but we all benefitted in our own way because of this lady’s explanation. It made us check our attitudes, our anger and allegations, our relationships and also our area of sadhan. Just discussing, reading good forwarded stories, SMSes or saying ‘thankyou’ quotes gave us an assumption that we were ‘sadhaks’ and were in sadhan regularly. Now we knew it was not so. We weren’t giving in as much to sadhan as we were expecting it to show results to us. We had our bag full of excuses ever ready to justify our action or rather inaction – no time, healthy, busy, office far, small child, relatives at home and what not!

The trouble with us was we all took ‘time’ for granted! We assumed he had lots of time!

She came to  continue the session and no sooner had she sat that someone asked “Guruji, what is this about Him sculpting us? What is He sculpting us from and what is each one of us to become? How do we know that the image ‘sculpted’ or one that comes out is the right one? May be I was meant to be princess and he sculpted me to be an actor. How would I know if what I have become is right for me?”

“Oh!” she said and ended laughing. Her chuckle was very melodious to (most of us) our ears! It felt like a stream flowing. Yes, it was musical and we looked forward to hearing her chuckle so. She continued too soon for us “Well – He is not sculpting your professions or achievements. That is not His domain or concern.  What I achieve is totally upto my desire, karma(destiny) and hardwork. He doesn’t meddle with that part of our lives. Then what does He sculpt? The Real Me – The Divine Atman of me from the covering called ‘maya’ (The illusion).

The artist takes a stone and chisels a beautiful sculpture out of it. When asked he said “I didn’t create that sculpture. It already was there in that stone. I just removed or chiselled the unnecessary parts of that stone to ‘bring out’ the beautiful sculpture from it. Mind you, he brings out, he doesn’t make it. Like-wise our sculptor – God knows as ‘Atman’ or consciousness, each one of us is pure, Divine, Truth, consciousness and blissful. It’s just that ‘our self’ is hidden by the ‘stone covering’ of Maya or illusion which is working through Ego. He just works on (our qualities) ego and brings out our ‘Real Self’ or ‘Divine Self’ to the forefront. That is same; I mean the end result is the same for all – so He can’t go wrong in sculpting. Everyone had to express our ‘Divine Self’ more and more and it by itself proves that His sculpting is going on. When our ‘animalistic’ nature is still stuck with us, inspite of our worldly riches and achievements, know that His sculpting hasn’t started yet. And then it is not His fault. It just means I am choosing to be an animal and express and develop my lower nature and so hasn’t chosen Him to sculpt me. That’s all!  Now did you get it?” she asked a little teasing in a way. Today she was her mischievous self – which was bit rare but when it was she had that child like twinkle in her eyes. But people who didn’t know enough wouldn’t know that she was actually teasing as a way of fun. They would still be afraid of her – as ever!

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