Angulimaan, the Saint
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Angulimaan, the Saint
Not wanting to kill his mother as he had an option now, he
ran towards Buddha like a mad man. Buddha was walking at leisure pace and
Angulimaaan was running and yet when he neared Buddha, he found the distance
grow between them. In frustration he called to Buddha “hey you, stop!” and
Buddha smiled and replied “I’ve stopped long ago but do you stop too?”
Angulimaan was taken aback with this reply. He asked Buddha to explain that
(remember Angulimaan was a brilliant student and was good at grasping things). Later
when Buddha explained his statement, he told Buddha that he wanted to kill him,
to which Buddha replied ‘Fine but first cut that branch of this tree’. Laughing
haughtily Angulimaan did it with one stroke of his knife. And Buddha then said
“NOW join it back on the tree”. Angulimaan was dumb folded. He couldn’t, nobody could and to that Buddha replied “when you can’t give life to
one, you don’t have right to take one’s life too”. (This is the answer to all
who want to kill their family, boss, colleague who had been mean to them).
Angulimaan stood there perplexed, vexed and confused. Then Buddha said “If you
follow me, I’ll teach you to redeem yourself of your sins. I know to attach the
branch again onto the tree. I’ll teach you that too!” Having said this, he
started walking and Angulimaan dropped his garland of fingers, knife and with
head bent followed him silently.
Buddha brought him to his ashram and taught him techniques
of meditation to cleanse him of his sins. Guru gives you the path; you’ve to
walk the path. People say “Guru is one who takes ours sins”. So you are saying,
you want to enjoy doing your sins and someone else should pay the price of it
and you’ll be generous enough to tag him as your Guru! How wonderful of you!
Wake up! This doesn’t happen in real. The true Guru would never say ‘no need to
do anything and I’ll redeem your sins, just sing my name, do my pooja, do
salutations to me etc’. Real Guru is one who lets you go through your cleansing
process because that brings out the Real you ultimately.
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