Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Angulimaan, the Saint


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 Angulimaan, the Saint
Now, if we look into Angulimaan’s life, his fellow students’ envy brought about his downfall. Such people are part of our life at every juncture of our life. The trick is to recognize them and not get played by them. Be in regular sadhan and the process itself will protect you even if you can’t see it. (Just drawing symbols for buses or saying gratitude doesn’t count as Sadhan).
So wrong company and wrong Guru can be instrumental in our downfall if we listen and trust them, their words and their suggestions. As long as you don’t try to please wrong people, chances of you going hay wire are less. Here Angulimaan decided to fulfill his Guru’s wish of getting 1000 fingers. On the face of it, he could’ve recognized as senseless and left. He didn’t. Atleast the suffering of dead could jolt him to senses. It didn’t. So, though circumstances look responsible for his downfall, it was wholly him who let them affect him in such a way. 

This is not just a story of wrong choices but also of right choices. The world is full of Angulimaan’s – people who have taken to bitterness, being hurtful, mean, manipulative, less trustful and loving, hateful in short being all but with noble qualities what with such people and circumstances in their life. If he can take to healing and mending his ways, mind and nature, overcoming his habits built over years and go on to become one of the greatest saints, then, each person has that potential in him.

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