The real student

...contd....

The voices faded as they crossed the road .But Vinay had heard enough. For a second it was foolish of him to believe that swamiji, was guiding him towards success. He got up not knowing what else to do. sun had risen .There was light everywhere .He picked up the dead rat and started walking looking at it .He wondered how to put it to use when he heard a voice “Is that rat for sale? Please sell it to me”. He turned around to find an old women standing in front of a hut calling out to him .He was surprised and asked “Do you want this dead rat?” She said “My cat is sick and can’t find a rat on his own. Save his life and I’ll give you a bowl of milk in exchange for this rat”.

Vinay gladly exchanged rat with milk .With the bowl of milk he started to walk thinking on how to go about with the next step when a man came rushing to him and said “Is it milk? Please can you spare it for our village head’s daughter. She hadn’t had milk since night and crying profusely”.

Vinay gave him the cup. The girl drank the milk and slept peacefully the headman thanked Vinay profusely and gave him a gold coin.

Vinay went to the harbour with gold the coin. He found a merchant selling his merchandise. He purchased few with the gold coin he had and started his business. Few years later, he returned to the same city Banaras a rich successful business man and went straight to the swamiji’s ashram and fell on his feet and thanked him for showering him with the blessings because which he was successful. But swamiji did not recognise him and said so.

Vinay narrated the entire story. Srinivas , who was standing beside guruji immediately said “I was with guruji that day”.

“And you still are the same” said swamiji, “You’ve stayed with me almost of your life yet you were what you were when you first met me. But this Vinay has heard just one sentence, lived it. Believed it and has transformed his life and realized that sentence. It’s not the quantity of time spent or the proximity that matters. Tomorrow when I am dead and gone you may even end up taking my place and live quoting and reciting my words and stories. But, that’s what they’ll be .My words which are empty when they are uttered by you. On contrary, they’ll be truths of lives passed on through people like Vinay, Who believed that my word meant. What it meant and they were pure enough to try it, live it and experience it.

Vinay was more than happy when he left the ashram. Now, he knew the secret to be close to swamiji. He need not physically be present with swamiji. He had to live his words and automatically would have his company. He felt complete and satisfied.         

The real student

Vinay had been sitting on the banks of Ganges since night .He was depressed .He had lost all that he had .He was bankrupt .He had no one to look up to .He could count on none .He had come here to end his life .His life which had become both miserable and senseless now .His death would end all his woes. No one would miss him either .All through the night, he had been going through his lives details and easily in the morning he had gone to sleep on the steps.

Now, few voices woke him up .It was still dark .It would be at least one hour later that sun would rise. He saw two people walking towards Ganges .They passed him on the dark they didn’t notice him. They climbed down the steps and were taking bath in the holy river. “But guruji, how can we change our fate when we have nothing in our hands” asked one of the voices. “By getting up and deciding to give life a tough fight” replied the second voice. He recognized second voice. It was swami Gnanatheertha. He was very famous guru with disciples over 1000 and above in his ashram.

He was considered the greatest of living gurus in today’s age.

 Vinay became more attentive towards the conversation.

“But how can a person who lost everything get it back guruji with nothing in hand, no one can build an empire “replied apparently the student of swamiji.

Vinay could understand that their topic or arrangement had something to do with fate vs hard work or purusharth .He listened half expecting the answer.

“If the person decides, he can use the dead rat lying there and build a huge empire” replied swamiji as he passed Vinay.

Me, my Guru On Buddha and sweets

Contd....

Me, my Guru On Buddha and sweets

“But, words are words. What has it got to do with playing with ball?” he was more than irritated now.

“Well, yes. You know things of the material world and use science and its craft to get best results there. But Master is one adept in subtler science – science of energies. Master knows words are not empty words. They are not made up of letters and sounds. They carry energy. That energy is received by ‘the word’ from the one who utters it.

Imagine ‘He desired and uttered the word and the creation came into existence!” Don’t hurry reading this sentence. Stop here. Meditate on it - its import, its power, its essence! Understand the power of ‘His Word’ that He uttered OM and the world came into existence” If you understand this you’ll understand the power of word.

Similarly, every person’s energy is carried in the ‘word’ that he utters” she stopped signaling a tea-break.

“So, you say our words don’t carry that much energy as Masters” there was contempt in Vaishnav’s voice now.

Though most of us didn’t have his anger or emotion, it was still difficult for us to process and understand what she just said. Why did these masters’s have more energy in their words? Time to become Master, we thought!

But she took her break seriously. She didn’t answer. She replied with a smile before retiring into her quarters. We had to live with samosa’s and kachori’s served by Rahul and Aziz and our displeasure till she returned.

Today ½ an hour seemed like an hour. Surprising how time expands when we are suffering and runs fast when we are happy? Does everyone feel this way or just me? 

contd....

# on receiving and giving advice, and state of receiver, willingness to receive, energies and how and where they function from

also read previous post :   https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=the+river+bank+vinay 

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=vinay+swamiji 

Read the above given link to understand these points : 

• to understand the power in a Guru's words and their impact in the believer's life
• it is not the physical proximity that bestows 'grace' but the 'purity of belief' that makes all the difference
• people who quote as 'I know him for so many years or I was with him for so many years' hardly get the benefit of 'being with the Guru'. Look at Judas who stayed with one of the best Gurus of all times - Jesus and yet remained slave to his greed and sold his Guru and soul for few silver coins.....
• Character of the person doesn't change because of the proximity to a Guru but when the person is ready to throw away his 'attitude' when he comes in proximity of a Guru receives more than he had come for......
• A person who defines the role of Guru and its impact in his life treats Guru as his genie who is to dance to his tunes. No doubt, he gets angry, irritated at his Guru even when his wrong is shown to him.
• But a person who surrenders to the word of his Guru drops his ego before coming to a Guru and that makes it possible for Guru's blessings to show results....
• When a Guru's blessing is received, a person even without working finds his works and issues resolved on their own.
• When we send reiki to others, they still have to work and our reiki goes to aid them ONLY. But when Guru sends reiki, works get done automatically! And so sensible and pure in heart shishya surrenders his achievements, success, happiness and every thing that he receives to his Guru.

Pointer to understand this post better : 

a. “But, words are words. What has it got to do with playing with ball?” he was more than irritated now. - How many times we must have got irritated for simple words uttered by others? Apply this not only with your Guru (if you have any) but also with your family and friends. Here Guru was explaining and V got irritated for no good reason.......many times our anger stems not from what is happening then but because of the anger that we carry over time on that person......meditate on this. 

b.“So, you say our words don’t carry that much energy as Masters” there was contempt in Vaishnav’s voice now. - Again, we read unnecessarily between the lines. We assume what hasn't been told also and get angry. We dump our anger, irritation, resentment on the other and yet consider ourselves good enough to receive only good from others?!?

Next, instead of meditating on our anger and finding the root cause of it, we justify it with our reasoning......and there in lies our cause of suffering....meditate. Meditate on the attitude especially anger, hatred, irritation (as we go through this post) to understand the root cause of it.....don't use some one as your punch bag for anger and then expect them to be good to you....even if they forgive and don't hold grudge against you, your karma of hurting them will come back in the form of others hurting you and giving back what you have generated and given to the person in your life....

c. Time to become Master, we thought! - what did the Guru say and how did the students interpret it? And then after becoming masters they are angry and confused when they find their issues just being where they were and how they were....wrong understanding comes from faulty mind set......clear the clutter of the mind and only then clarity of thought would develop. All that we presume is not 'correct'.Beware of your thoughts and assumptions!

d. But she took her break seriously. She didn’t answer. She replied with a smile before retiring into her quarters. - When the person is right and is not operating out of ego, they don't have to justify every single time. They are not ready to fight. Not fighting is not their weakness. It is their strength. Only the actual strong can apply 'restraint' even when provoked. They take their decisions when and how they choose to and when needed, not because someone is instigating them to........

e. We had to live with samosa’s and kachori’s served by Rahul and Aziz and our displeasure till she returned. - Here was snacks served by others. It was free which is welcome by many. Most people want to be given things by others. It pains them to give. And yet they couldn't enjoy 'the free' that they so want to receive because of the displeasure within. Situation doesn't give you as much pain as your mind does! Our mind is our greatest enemy!

f. Regarding time - time is time. one hour is always one hour. But when we suffer the pain it looks like eternity and because we want it to be longer while we are happy it seems to move very fast. Both are untrue. So, if we train our mind enough, the tough time also can be lived effortlessly and without counting minutes....it will pass in a jiffy with the right state of mind........mind training doesn't mean 'tough situations and time' wouldn't come but they will seem very small and trivial......

Hope this explanation helped you to understand this post better. This is the way to read all the posts too.........