(Excerpts a Bapuji’s satsang)
There lived a childless Brahmin couple in the village somapuirya on the bank of river Ganga. Both were devotees of Lord Hari and hand faith in satsng.Whenever they would come by sadhus and sannyasins they would pay obeisance to them and listen to their teachings. Neither the husband nor wife hand and desire to have a son.
One day the husband was infected by cholera. The wife consulted doctors an physicians and did all she could do but the husband’s conition had become very critical. The wise Brahmin lady thought, ‘Something should be done before he dies.’ She was brooding anxiously when a Dandi traveling alone the bank of the Ganga passed that way. The Brahmin lady prayed to the sannyasin to initiate her husband into the sannyasa order.
The Dandi sannyasi said, “But he is lying ill.”
The Brahmin lady insisted: “Maharaja His death is impending. Therefore please initiate him into the snnyasa order. He will at least be relieved of the sin of one Brahmahatya (Killing of a Brahmin) and attain higher life after death through diksha.He will attain some elevation if not self realization. Is there any system of initiating one in to the sannyuasa order for his liberatime of death?
Seeing that the Brahmin’s condition was very critical the sannyasin initiated him into the sannyasa order even as he was unconscious on his death bed. The sannyasin took leave of the couple and the Brahmin lady started severing her husband with great reverence. As a result of good lick the husband began to recover and he was completely crued. His wife served him round the clock but now she would not touch him physically as she world do before. She rendered all her service without touching him The Brahmin asked, dear now why is it that you are serving me without touching.’
She said, “Swamiji” (till now she would call him, “patidev) When you were critically ill I had prayed to a Dandi sannyasin and made him imitate you into the sannyasa order so that you may attain higher life.” The husband was no less a virtuous soul. He hand imbibed satsang and had earned some merits. His discrimination was awakened.
“Well….. So you got me initiated into the sannyasa order by a Dandi sannyasi you did the right thing. A sannyasin is not allowed to stay at home. He should not touch even a wooden statue of a lady. So I should protect myself form your touch. I thank you mother for protecting me.!
The husband mentally touched the wife’s feet before taking leave. He traveled along the band of the Ganga and whenever he felt hungry he would beg for food and wash it with the water of Ganga before eating .He would do japa of Om. After eleven days of bathing in the Ganga, he reached ‘Haridwar’ the abode of Hari. In those days the lace was not much crowded. He proceeded further met a self realized sannyasin and donned the ochre robe after getting initiated into the sannyasa order in the prescribed into the sannyasa order in the prescribed manner. He then started reading the Vedas and books on Vedanta. He possessed some discrimination by virtue of having lived a pious life at home. He reflected on the teaching of the Vedas and Vedanta and become a good saint, sannyasin and acharya. The other sannyasins would come to listen to his discourses. In the month of Shravana, he would contemplate the teachings of land speak on the Brahmasutra. During Chaturmsa he would take recourse to vicharsangr, Panchikarna and other scripture on Vedanta.
The Kumbh mela was held in Haridwar. The Brahmin lady vested the Kumbh Mela along with her neighbors. She heard praises of the sannyasi. The people told her that the great acharya and saint was none other than her husband. She relied He is not my hushed but a sannyasi now.” The former wife followed the other ladies who were going for the sannyasi’s darshan. The satang was going on. No sooner did the group of ladies enter in than the Swami’s group of ladies enters in than the Swami’s eyes fell on his wife. He exclaimed, Hey. How did you come here? The lady said swamiji So you haven’t forgotten me yet?
The swami lowered his head never to raise it or see any body again. His hand remained tied as they were. Somebody or the other would bather him or feed him when he felt hungry. Thirty years passed by in this way. Once when he had gone out some Muslims injured him by thrusting a stick into his body. When the authorities came to know about this atrocity committed on a pious saint they ordered the people to burn down the villages of the diabolic elements. It was then that his hands rose up to forbid then people from doing anything like that. There are such men of firm conviction found in this world.
Tulsidasji was so infatuated with his wife that he crossed a river with the support of a corpse mistaking it for a log wood. He climbed the window of his wife’s room holding on to a python which was hanging on the wall. The wife was taken aback. She said,” You Art this hour?”
“Dear I have come fro you. Why you too have kept a rope hanging for me.”
“Why would I do so?
A lamp was lit.
Oh it is a python. Blinded by lust you climbed this to get in So infatuated you are with may body which is nothing but a cage of flesh and bones you couldn’t perceive even death which was hovering above you. Would you have had so much love for God, you would have attained liberation and been the saviour of others as well.
Tulsidas set out never to turn back and becomes Sant Tulsidas. The moment we learn to repeact our discrimination once the lamp of discrimination is lit, we should protect it form getting extinguished. We do possess discrimination but do not respect it when it shows us that something is wrong. We know by virtue of discrimination that the path to God and self control is good but we slip becomes we don’t respect pure discrimination. We are lured by wealth power flattery, and fall in the ditch of greed infatuation lust anger mine and yours. We should use our discrimination to realize what we should use our discrimination to realize what we gain in the end after attaining eating or doing, something or other visiting other places for sightseeing.
Satsang does light the lamp of discrimination in us but because we fail to protect it, it gets extinguished and we are enveloped by darkness. By the time we get to learn through suffering while living in darkness it is too late. We do get some consolation when somebody helps and saves us but we again extinguish the lamp of discrimination and waste our life. It is god’s compassion, His grace even when you face suffering. God wants to make you His own and neutralize the effects of your past action. It is His grace and mercy that he leads you to the door of a saint.
We could scale great heights if we respect our discrimination. That is why wise sadhaks at time go to cretnation grounds physically or even mentally to keep their discrimination awake. Discrimination brings shatsampatti (calmness, temperance, spirit of renunciation, fortitude, power of concentration of mind and faith) and kindles the desire for liberation.
There lived a childless Brahmin couple in the village somapuirya on the bank of river Ganga. Both were devotees of Lord Hari and hand faith in satsng.Whenever they would come by sadhus and sannyasins they would pay obeisance to them and listen to their teachings. Neither the husband nor wife hand and desire to have a son.
One day the husband was infected by cholera. The wife consulted doctors an physicians and did all she could do but the husband’s conition had become very critical. The wise Brahmin lady thought, ‘Something should be done before he dies.’ She was brooding anxiously when a Dandi traveling alone the bank of the Ganga passed that way. The Brahmin lady prayed to the sannyasin to initiate her husband into the sannyasa order.
The Dandi sannyasi said, “But he is lying ill.”
The Brahmin lady insisted: “Maharaja His death is impending. Therefore please initiate him into the snnyasa order. He will at least be relieved of the sin of one Brahmahatya (Killing of a Brahmin) and attain higher life after death through diksha.He will attain some elevation if not self realization. Is there any system of initiating one in to the sannyuasa order for his liberatime of death?
Seeing that the Brahmin’s condition was very critical the sannyasin initiated him into the sannyasa order even as he was unconscious on his death bed. The sannyasin took leave of the couple and the Brahmin lady started severing her husband with great reverence. As a result of good lick the husband began to recover and he was completely crued. His wife served him round the clock but now she would not touch him physically as she world do before. She rendered all her service without touching him The Brahmin asked, dear now why is it that you are serving me without touching.’
She said, “Swamiji” (till now she would call him, “patidev) When you were critically ill I had prayed to a Dandi sannyasin and made him imitate you into the sannyasa order so that you may attain higher life.” The husband was no less a virtuous soul. He hand imbibed satsang and had earned some merits. His discrimination was awakened.
“Well….. So you got me initiated into the sannyasa order by a Dandi sannyasi you did the right thing. A sannyasin is not allowed to stay at home. He should not touch even a wooden statue of a lady. So I should protect myself form your touch. I thank you mother for protecting me.!
The husband mentally touched the wife’s feet before taking leave. He traveled along the band of the Ganga and whenever he felt hungry he would beg for food and wash it with the water of Ganga before eating .He would do japa of Om. After eleven days of bathing in the Ganga, he reached ‘Haridwar’ the abode of Hari. In those days the lace was not much crowded. He proceeded further met a self realized sannyasin and donned the ochre robe after getting initiated into the sannyasa order in the prescribed into the sannyasa order in the prescribed manner. He then started reading the Vedas and books on Vedanta. He possessed some discrimination by virtue of having lived a pious life at home. He reflected on the teaching of the Vedas and Vedanta and become a good saint, sannyasin and acharya. The other sannyasins would come to listen to his discourses. In the month of Shravana, he would contemplate the teachings of land speak on the Brahmasutra. During Chaturmsa he would take recourse to vicharsangr, Panchikarna and other scripture on Vedanta.
The Kumbh mela was held in Haridwar. The Brahmin lady vested the Kumbh Mela along with her neighbors. She heard praises of the sannyasi. The people told her that the great acharya and saint was none other than her husband. She relied He is not my hushed but a sannyasi now.” The former wife followed the other ladies who were going for the sannyasi’s darshan. The satang was going on. No sooner did the group of ladies enter in than the Swami’s group of ladies enters in than the Swami’s eyes fell on his wife. He exclaimed, Hey. How did you come here? The lady said swamiji So you haven’t forgotten me yet?
The swami lowered his head never to raise it or see any body again. His hand remained tied as they were. Somebody or the other would bather him or feed him when he felt hungry. Thirty years passed by in this way. Once when he had gone out some Muslims injured him by thrusting a stick into his body. When the authorities came to know about this atrocity committed on a pious saint they ordered the people to burn down the villages of the diabolic elements. It was then that his hands rose up to forbid then people from doing anything like that. There are such men of firm conviction found in this world.
Tulsidasji was so infatuated with his wife that he crossed a river with the support of a corpse mistaking it for a log wood. He climbed the window of his wife’s room holding on to a python which was hanging on the wall. The wife was taken aback. She said,” You Art this hour?”
“Dear I have come fro you. Why you too have kept a rope hanging for me.”
“Why would I do so?
A lamp was lit.
Oh it is a python. Blinded by lust you climbed this to get in So infatuated you are with may body which is nothing but a cage of flesh and bones you couldn’t perceive even death which was hovering above you. Would you have had so much love for God, you would have attained liberation and been the saviour of others as well.
Tulsidas set out never to turn back and becomes Sant Tulsidas. The moment we learn to repeact our discrimination once the lamp of discrimination is lit, we should protect it form getting extinguished. We do possess discrimination but do not respect it when it shows us that something is wrong. We know by virtue of discrimination that the path to God and self control is good but we slip becomes we don’t respect pure discrimination. We are lured by wealth power flattery, and fall in the ditch of greed infatuation lust anger mine and yours. We should use our discrimination to realize what we should use our discrimination to realize what we gain in the end after attaining eating or doing, something or other visiting other places for sightseeing.
Satsang does light the lamp of discrimination in us but because we fail to protect it, it gets extinguished and we are enveloped by darkness. By the time we get to learn through suffering while living in darkness it is too late. We do get some consolation when somebody helps and saves us but we again extinguish the lamp of discrimination and waste our life. It is god’s compassion, His grace even when you face suffering. God wants to make you His own and neutralize the effects of your past action. It is His grace and mercy that he leads you to the door of a saint.
We could scale great heights if we respect our discrimination. That is why wise sadhaks at time go to cretnation grounds physically or even mentally to keep their discrimination awake. Discrimination brings shatsampatti (calmness, temperance, spirit of renunciation, fortitude, power of concentration of mind and faith) and kindles the desire for liberation.
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