Me, my Guru – Bhagavatam – Bhaktha Prahlad and Hiranyakashyap

 

Me, my Guru – Bhagavatam – Bhaktha Prahlad and Hiranyakashyap

“Guruji, how can a parent be bad?” asked Swathi. When people asked such questions they didn’t mean it in a general sense at all. They ALWAYS had their relationships in mind. Here it was clear Swathi was questioning the way her parent was, but didn’t dare openly voice it.

When we found a parent ‘wrong’ our question would be “How can a parent be so?”

But, as a kid, we had reasons to justify our actions. There, “How we as kids are supposed to be” doesn’t seem to fit. So it was with every relationship. We always said, “But a “X” is supposed to be…” but our actions well, ….isn’t that odd?

But our Guru always answered in a general way – just as today.

“During Satyayuga, the first of yugas of Earth, lived a very powerful Daitya king – Hiranyakashyap” started our Guru. Most of us knew this story and yet we listened with rapt attention. That is the power of a story – just any story I suppose. We felt like kids – those who knew all the bedtime stories and yet asked for them to be told – again and again. There was a difference though. Here, our Guru didn’t lull us to sleep. If anything, she woke us from our slumber of ignorance and made us more ‘awake’ to life!

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also read suggested https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2015/01/can-i-give-only-bad-in-exchange-for-bad.html