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Me, My Guru - On Guru
At this point, we checked ourselves, our actions and our intentions. Oft times,
we had judged others here but today we took it upon ourselves to check
ourselves not others. After all, we came here for ourselves. We came here to
work on ourselves, know ourselves, then transform ourselves and then to
transcend our own sweet present self to grow into ‘our potential’! Oh, just
these words and their thoughts drenched me and others in the sea of bliss,
peace and contentment – in short in abundance. Well, on second thoughts, if
that was our agenda why and where did we get stuck we wondered!
“If you have issues with your spouse leave her but don’t use ‘Rama’ as an
example to do that. You don’t become his devotee by doing such an act! ‘I left
my wife as my family dislikes her. I am a Rama bhaktha. Like him, even I left
her for the family’. Now how fundamentally stupid statement is that! If you
want to act so, act. But own up your deeds. Be a man at least there! But don’t
tarnish image of your God or Guru their quoting their actions to justify
yours.
He loved his wife more than himself. He walked around 2600kms on foot through
dense and dangerous forests in search of her when she was kidnapped by Ravana. Moreover,
he didn’t even know that she was kidnapped and that she was taken to Lanka. He didn’t
suspect her to elope with someone. Did he? He wailed. He didn’t say “Good! This is what comes to
woman who is greedy and asks for golden deer’ or ‘she didn’t follow our
instructions and so she met her fate. Good for her!’ He didn’t give such lame ‘spiritual
talks’ to spite her or her actions. He was worried to death for her. He searched
like a mad man for her and one whole year even without a clue. That talks about
his love and commitment for her. He was so powerful king, handsome, great
warrior and any princess would be
willing to marry him. But he didn’t even
think of that option once. Without a proper army, just with few thousand
monkeys and bears, he set to fight battle with the demon king who had vanquished
devas and Gandharvas. Even Lord Indra was no match for him. To fight him to
rescue his wife from him – well, unheard of, unthinkable and basically by all
means a stupid idea. But he went ahead. That is his ‘nishta’ – devotion and
commitment as a husband towards his wife.
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