Me, my Guru On assigning values ...

Me, my Guru

On assigning values ...

Listening to others for a change I felt irritated sooner than later – today! It was the same old complain sung by each one of us – children irresponsible, marriage not happening, lost a job, wife not keeping house clean, siblings are selfish, parents stupid, boss bossy, colleagues manipulative ...oooofff, the list was so predictively boring!

Today I realized that our pains and suffering were so unpardonably repetitive and lacked creativity in terms of being so boringly mundane. It also amused me when I thought about it again. Here we were thinking ourselves to be different from all others and considered ourselves above the crowd when in actuality we were just one more in the crowd! Yes, statistics of our pain and suffering proved it. And to think that we believed or made a world of our pains! Disgusting!!!

Did this fact make the job of our Guru easy? For, she had to address the same question again and again? Or was it painfully boring for her to attend to same thing again and again? Was she responsible for not making it clear to all of us or were we blind and deaf to all her explanations over the time to be in the same loop-year after year? And to think we considered ourselves sadhaks and were proud of the fact that we were reiki channels and we were above the rest!

Today, I also felt guilty of using ‘her’ to vomit all our burdens – year after year. Not that she ever complained! But that doesn’t mean it didn’t hurt her! Just because we called her ‘Guru’ we thought it our right to dump all our ‘xxx’ on her – that was not the bad part – the worst part was that we took it as our right to do it. We didn’t validate her role here. We never considered ‘her’ as a ‘human’ worth some privacy or ‘her time’. We took it upon ourselves to assume ‘her’ as our property or right that we could use as and when we wanted. If we wanted answers we barged in at her place. We didn’t wait. We didn’t look back at her earlier explanation. No, we were so blinded by our ‘need’ that ‘she didn’t matter!

“What was the definition of ‘Guru’ for us?”

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