Sri Sadguru Mahime

Author: Charana Dasa

Translator: Shri.Ganesh Prasad

Chapter 42: A tangled job offer, Gurus words

' When Charanadasa(myself) was doing higher studies in Mysore, once I was coming out of a hotel after having my lunch and saw a man who was having lunch keeping his plate on one of my acquaintance’s car. The acquaintance introduced him to me. I greeted him. He asked “and what do you do, Sir?”

I replied, I am studying Master of Arts. That was my first meeting with my Guru.

Later on when l was staying with him, once recollecting our first meeting I asked him, “Gurunatha do you know who all will be coming here before hand? For example, did you know I will come over and stay with you when we first met?

His reply was.. “One who has to take birth to be a Guru will make sure, his disciples from previous lives are born within a radius of 60 to 120 kms before he takes birth. Later when he gets instructions to call each of those persons he will press a button and that person will come running wherever he is. Then that disciple will be trained as may be necessary according to his needs”.

I had written two exams with the ambition of making it to the civil services. However they got engulfed in scams and tied in legal tangles. The third time when l was getting ready to write the exam, Gurunatha told me.. “Please do not write, your selection shall be done in what you have already written, rest assured, I am here to take care of it”.

In another instance before the concept of Guru had fully sunk into me, I once told him, “Gurunatha, I shall join some job somewhere, shall I?”

To that, he replied “Yes, in your age you have to work hard, sure you can join, but before you do that, can you serve food to these people who have come?”

I started serving food to the people who had gathered, he then looked at the crowd and said this two times at least “Oh people see here; his Guru is not able to get him a job”. I was overcome with guilt about what I had said, so I apologized to him saying “Sir, I didn’t mean to say that”. His composure changed, he sounded serious.. “ this or that.. why do you need a job? Just be with me, all your responsibilities are mine”. I was embraced by silence.

In another instance, we had come out late at night; I brought up the subject regarding my job. lmmediately, he replied, “See, it does not matter which power comes in our way, I will make sure you don’t fall off, will lift you off for sure”.

There have been instances where l have even quarreled with him about getting me a job; the affection and empathy he showed during those times are unparalleled. Once I asked him, “Gurunatha, it is said that our answer papers have been burnt, then what will happen to us?” feeling dejected.

To that he had replied, “See, none of the answer papers have been burnt, everything will come to the fore. My head might roll, but my words shall stay, your responsibility is mine, rest assured.

In the coming years, one person by such a name will go to court, all scams will get unearthed because of that. Everything will be revaluated. 1200 posts of 3 exams will go. You will be directly selected, he had said. Today all his words have come true. He had told me I will get the job but never told me when will that happen.

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