Sri Sadguru Mahime

Author: Charana Dasa

Translator: Shri.Ganesh Prasad

Chapter 144 :  Accept the world as a Guru

All living and non living beings of this world are under the custody of the Guru. They will behave as per his instructions. If we try to show our ego and go against his wish, a disaster will be waiting to happen for us.

A lecturer used to visit Gurunatha’s house regularly. He was very friendly with Gurunatha. From time to time he would tell Gurunatha... “I want to write your life history (autobiography), please give me the permission to go-ahead”. Probably moved by his childlike stubbornness once Gurunatha agreed and said, “Ok, you can write”. Immediately the lecturer came back with a book and pen and started to write what Gurunatha said. This went on whenever Gurunatha was not surrounded by visitors.

Once Gurunatha called the lecturer and said, “By the time you come to 7th chapter, you will lose all your affection and love towards me and make an allegation against me and that will be the end, you will not be able to write beyond that. It shall end our friendship as well.”

As Gurunatha had said, he made false allegations against Gurunatha, fought and left. I was with Gurunatha when he visited the lecturer’s house in Bangalore for the last time. That day he greeted everyone with folded hands and never looked back in that direction. After about 2-3 years the lecturer probably realized his mistake and tried meeting Gurunatha again but was unable to do so.

This incident taught a couple of lessons to this Charanadasa.

With all the power Gurunatha had he could have easily stopped the lecturer from making any allegations against him in the first place or when the lecturer actually did make the allegations Gurunatha could have cursed him. But he did neither, he showed all of us that, in spite of having prior knowledge of all the events he is still bound to Eashwara’s rules and he experienced the whole sequence of events as a normal person would have.

Another thing, if someone commits a mistake, we should never scold him, the effects of his mistake themselves will make him realize his mistake and also warn us against committing such mistakes and be alert. So, in his own way he would have given us a valuable lesson. Gurunatha had walked his talk about... “Accept the world as a Guru, learn from it and move on”

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