Dignity of labour – Ramayana Me, My Guru

Dignity of labour – Ramayana

Me, My Guru

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Or may, we ‘blew’ our problem so much that we believed it to be unique to us and it needed special treatment. It could also mean that I didn’t want or wasn’t accepting ‘the given solutions/answer’. The usual excuse for this was always ‘I know you would say this but....i agree with you but....’. We wanted an answer/solution our way only! And that was a dangerous condition we put ourselves in. It could mean any of the above reasons or all of them at once!

She being herself tried to put ‘the same and right solution’ in the ‘new bottle’ every time and those of us who were not part of the query like it. Whether we followed her advice and solution or not, whether we accepted it or not, one thing was for sure – we always enjoyed her stories that were part of her explanations. How she came up with so many of them was beyond us but it was good for us. We listened with rapt attention as she started her explanation “After waging war with Ravana and winning over him, Rama returned to Ayodhya along with Sita, Lakshmana and Hanuman. After coronation, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata and Shatrugna distributed all the work related with Rama amongst them. They were in immense love with Rama and longed to serve him the best and hence chose as much work as possible to fulfil that desire of

theirs. Hanuman was left alone. He approached and sought some or atleast one work. Not able to drive him away completely and yet being unwilling to share their work with him, they hit upon a plan. They called him and said “Hanuman we want to give the most important work to you. That is, whenever Lord Rama yawns, you ought to click your fingers in front of his mouth”. He readily agreed and was seen to be with Rama – day and night. Others got irritated. They gave him such an insignificant job so they could spend all the time with Rama but here was Hanuman right in front of Rama – day in and day out not leaving his side even for a second. Irritated and greatly confused they sought an explanation from him and he replied thus “How can I be careless in fulfilling my role? So, I am with Lord Rama day in and day out as one never knows when he would yawn”.

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