Sri Sadguru Mahime

Author: Charana Dasa

Translator: Shri.Ganesh Prasad

Chapter 51 :  Realm of words

“Every word you speak will stay in the sphere of words and according to your situation will rebound towards you like a ball thrown at the ground, so, always speak kind words and keep yourself in meditation of God. The words you speak, the thoughts that come to your mind will find their way through food to the person eating”. These used to be Gurunatha’s words about our thoughts and talk.

Once I and a few friends traveled in a car which belonged to one of the devotees and had some inappropriate conversations during our journey towards Sakharaya Patna. Gurunatha used to travel occasionally in that car, shortly after we reached there, Gurunatha boarded the same car to go somewhere. He told the car owner about our inappropriate conversations and said “speak kind words; the language you spoke is reverberating in the car”. Car owner later told me about this incident.

Always you shall be loyal to your duties and offer all your deeds to Eashwara. He shall take care of all your needs. A thing thrown at the sea won’t go anywhere it will surely come back riding on the waves, likewise do as many good deeds as possible, give alms to the needy all these will come back to you as sea waves when you are in need.

Some people used to come to Gurunatha citing family issues saying his brother or sister or a relative had wronged them. Before giving them a solution Gurunatha used to ask. . .”Don’t tell me what he/she did wrong, ask yourself whether you have done justice to your position in the family?“

“You shall be in everything, but never be in any particular thing while performing your duties” he used to tell us.

When questioned about Sadhana, Adhyatma he used to say...”being happy while spreading happiness among others and doing justice to the role you have to play in this world is Sadhana”

This reminds me of another devotee in sadhana state, once I and this devotee were standing together. It was evening and many young boys and girls were returning from college. Pointing at them he said how beautiful creatures aren’t they? Each one is different and each one is more attractive than the other.

I just replied “Yes”.

He continued, though each person has similar body parts we choose to call some brother, sister, mother, grandmother, friend etc... in their purest form they are just one.

Then it must be our feelings that are different and making them appear different isn’t it? I was mesmerized by the simple analogy he chose to explain adhyathma and advaitha.

Gurunatha used to explain advaitha in a slightly different way, “never live in two (duality), though we have two eyes vision is always one isn’t it? Similarly, never live with a divided vision of the world.

“You have different taps in various rooms of your house but the water that comes out of them is always one isn’t it? Water doesn’t tell us it is pure or impure, it is our view that makes it different isn’t it?

On the same lines you are the one who thinks flowers are pure and clean when offering them to the God and you think they are dirty unclean when you take them off the next day. The flower never tells us about its state. It was your thinking that differentiated.

Gurunatha used to give us these adhyathmic lessons while performing seemingly mundane routine activities in our duties, which was his specialty.

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