Me, My Guru - On life and death – III!

 

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Me, My Guru - On life and death – III!

        

When other students saw him looking blankly at Buddha’s face, they thought he was shocked beyond repair. They shook him, shouted at him and pleaded him to cry even to release his pain and anguish. He didn’t talk. He didn’t explain. He didn’t fight or judge them. He kept looking at his master’s face!

 

After having tried doing everything to make him cry, talk or move and having failed, they rushed to Buddha. They told him about ‘this student’. Buddha smiled and said ‘Leave him alone! He is the only one doing what ought to be done at such times. The one who has to go would go anyhow even if you cry and create a scene. Nothing can stop ‘death’ when it comes. So saying even Buddha went into meditation.

Now, this student had a sister at home. She came to know of the entire incident. She decided to sit in meditation along with her brother. From that day onwards, she would complete all her works as soon as possible and sit and meditate all through the day and night. Few days passed.

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On understanding this post : 

"He is the only one doing what ought to be done at such times." - Everybody acts in response to a situation. But only the blessed few know to "ACT RIGHT". And this blessedness comes with every choice we make through the day, every day of our life. With every healing, this blessedness becomes us! Through humility that we are not 'entitled' to life or the niceties of life comes this blessedness. Through gratefulness for life and its gifts from the Creator comes this blessedness. On letting go off things that we want from life and in demanding situations to work out in our "fixated' way of desire we become eligible to receive this "BLESSEDNESS".

"She decided to sit in meditation along with her brother. " - To the READY student, to the pure in intent and heart, to the humble even hearing about some "right act" of others is enough to take them towards abundance. It connects them to their SELF! They work out their karma! They work out their destiny!