At a small age, Bayazid left home and took to a life of asceticism to attain the truth. Left alone in the house, his aged mother was spending her time in praying to the Lord for her son’s well-being.
Through strenuous efforts and severe austerities, Bayazid attained certain spiritual powers. Self-mortification, solitude, Mauna (slience), japa and Pranayama purify the mind and do endow it with some psychic powers.
One day, Bayazid wearing an ascetic appearance in worn out clothes, stood at the door of his own house. Standing at the door, he heard his mother praying to God for his well-being.
Bayzid said, “Mother! I have come” “Who is there?”
“Your poor son.”
“O my son! You have come in my old age!”
“Mother! I have realized after so much trouble that what I had regarded as petty and insignificant was a great thing. After practicing all austerities, I have realized that the blessing of parents and elders is a great thing. Service to them uplifts one instantly. Mother! Now I will serve you.”
One night his mother said, “My son! I am very thirsty; please give me water.”
The broken pot that was used in the house for storing drinking water was empty. He went to the river that was quite faraway, and brought the water.
When Bayazid came back, he found that mother was fast asleep. He stood there holding the pot in his had thinking what to do. He didn’t want to put the pot down lest mother’s sleep should be disturbed by the sound. He didn’t want to sleep lest mother should wake up after some time and hesitate to wake him from his sleep. He kept standing in the same position.
After a few hours, mother woke up and then he gave water to her.
Mother asked, ‘Why didn’t you give me water earlier?”
Byazid said, “I didn’t want to disturb your sleep. So I was standing holding the pot of water in my hand.”
To keep standing with a pot of water in hand is not a big. Not doing so is not a crime either; but to remain uninfluenced by the pairs of opposites like happiness and sorrow while rendering service is a great thing. It was a cold night; he could have caught cold. He had low grade fever; but a goal was fixed in his mind-to serve the mother. He did not care for the pairs of opposites. Blessings came from the core of his mother’s heart and he became a great saint. ‘
Pujya Bapuji too served His parents from childhood itself and they blessed Him into a Jivanmukta and a world revered saint.
Bahut rat tak pair dabate,
Bhare kanth pitu asis pate.
Purra tumhara jagat me sada raheganam.
Logo ke tumse sada, puran honge kam.
Hed Bapuji not ignored the pleas of His mother and family members, who didn’t want Him to go to the Guru’s abode and surrender Himself at the Guru’s feet for God-realization, and had He stayed at home yielding to their attachment or had He not stuck to the Guru’s feet, He would not have become so great either.
Celebrate ‘Parents’ Worship Day’ and Not Valentine’s Day
Through strenuous efforts and severe austerities, Bayazid attained certain spiritual powers. Self-mortification, solitude, Mauna (slience), japa and Pranayama purify the mind and do endow it with some psychic powers.
One day, Bayazid wearing an ascetic appearance in worn out clothes, stood at the door of his own house. Standing at the door, he heard his mother praying to God for his well-being.
Bayzid said, “Mother! I have come” “Who is there?”
“Your poor son.”
“O my son! You have come in my old age!”
“Mother! I have realized after so much trouble that what I had regarded as petty and insignificant was a great thing. After practicing all austerities, I have realized that the blessing of parents and elders is a great thing. Service to them uplifts one instantly. Mother! Now I will serve you.”
One night his mother said, “My son! I am very thirsty; please give me water.”
The broken pot that was used in the house for storing drinking water was empty. He went to the river that was quite faraway, and brought the water.
When Bayazid came back, he found that mother was fast asleep. He stood there holding the pot in his had thinking what to do. He didn’t want to put the pot down lest mother’s sleep should be disturbed by the sound. He didn’t want to sleep lest mother should wake up after some time and hesitate to wake him from his sleep. He kept standing in the same position.
After a few hours, mother woke up and then he gave water to her.
Mother asked, ‘Why didn’t you give me water earlier?”
Byazid said, “I didn’t want to disturb your sleep. So I was standing holding the pot of water in my hand.”
To keep standing with a pot of water in hand is not a big. Not doing so is not a crime either; but to remain uninfluenced by the pairs of opposites like happiness and sorrow while rendering service is a great thing. It was a cold night; he could have caught cold. He had low grade fever; but a goal was fixed in his mind-to serve the mother. He did not care for the pairs of opposites. Blessings came from the core of his mother’s heart and he became a great saint. ‘
Pujya Bapuji too served His parents from childhood itself and they blessed Him into a Jivanmukta and a world revered saint.
Bahut rat tak pair dabate,
Bhare kanth pitu asis pate.
Purra tumhara jagat me sada raheganam.
Logo ke tumse sada, puran honge kam.
Hed Bapuji not ignored the pleas of His mother and family members, who didn’t want Him to go to the Guru’s abode and surrender Himself at the Guru’s feet for God-realization, and had He stayed at home yielding to their attachment or had He not stuck to the Guru’s feet, He would not have become so great either.
Celebrate ‘Parents’ Worship Day’ and Not Valentine’s Day
The children and youth of a nation, which belongs to the farsighted rishis, should shun ‘Valentine’s Day’, which ruins their vitality and energy. Celebrate ‘Parents’ Worship Day’ instead of it. On this day, children should pay respect to their parents and worship them by placing flowers on their heads and bowing before them. Parents in turn should shower their affection and blessings on their children. Parents and children should love each other in the name of God and awaken the divinity in their heart. Let the mother and daughter apply tilak to each other. Let the father and son do he same. Along with your external eyes, let your inner eye, the auspicious eye of discrimination and knowledge be opened as well.”
‘May the Mother be thy God, May the father be thy God, May the daughter be thy God, May the son be thy God’.
‘May the Mother be thy God, May the father be thy God, May the daughter be thy God, May the son be thy God’.
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