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| Evolution of Love Part 2 |
| *Test your presence of mind.Have a break from Covidphobia* Below are four (4) questions and a bonus question. You have to answer them instantly. You can't take your time, answer all of them immediately. OK? Let's find out just how clever you really are . Ready? GO!!! (Scroll down) Question 1 : You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in? ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... -Answer: If you answered that you are first, then you are absolutely wrong! If you overtake the second person and you take his place, you are second! Try not to mess up in the next question. To answer the second question, don't take as much time as you took for the first question. Question 2 : If you overtake the last person, then you are...? ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... Answer: If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrong again. Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST person?! You're not very good at this! Are you? Question 3 : Very tricky math! Note: This must be done in your head only. Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator. Try it. Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. What is the total? ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... Did you get 5000? The correct answer is actually 4100. Don't believe it? Check with your calculator! Today is definitely not your day. Maybe you will get the last question right? Question 4 : Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Tana, 2. Tene, 3. Tini, 4. Tono. What is the name of the fifth daughter? ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... Answer: Tunu? NO! Of course not. Her name is Mary. Read the question again Okay, now the bonus round . . . Question 5 : There is a mute person who wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing one's teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done. Now if there is a blind man who wishes to buy a pair of sunglasses, how should he express himself? ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... He just has to open his mouth and ask, so simple. KEEP THIS GOING TO FRUSTRATE THE "SMART PEOPLE" IN YOUR LIFE. dont get Tensed 😜😝 😄😁😃😌😀😂😆😋Congratulations to all who Answered all correctly . 😓 |
It was a summer evening, and we were all sitting outside in the open space by the well. Suddenly one of the visitors started weeping bitterly. 'I am a horrible sinner. For a long time I have been coming to you, but there is no change in me. Can I become pure at last? How long am I to wait? When I am here near you, I am good for a time. But when I leave this place, I become a beast again. You cannot imagine how bad I can be -- hardly a human being. Am I to remain a sinner forever?' 'Why do you come to me? What have I to do with you?' demanded Bhagavan. 'What is there between us that you should come here and weep and cry in front of me?' The man started moaning and crying even more as if his heart were breaking. 'All my hopes of salvation are gone. You were my last refuge and you say you have nothing to do with me! To whom shall I turn now? What am I to do? To whom am I to go?' Bhagavan watched him for some time and said, 'Am I your Guru that I should be responsible for your salvation? Have I ever said that I am your Master?' 'If you are not my Master, then who is? And who are you, if not my Master? You are my Guru. You are my guardian angel. You must take pity me and release me from my sins!' He started sobbing and crying again. We all sat silent, overcome with pity. Only Bhagavan looked alert and matter-of-fact. 'If I am your Guru, what are my fees? Surely you should pay me for my services.' 'But you won't take anything,' cried the visitor. 'What can I give you?' 'Did I ever say that I don't take anything? And did you ever ask me what you can give me?' 'If you would take, then ask me. There is nothing I would not give you.' 'All right. Now I am asking. Give me. What will you give me?' 'Take anything. Everything I have is yours.' 'Then give me all the good you have done in this world.' 'What good could I have done? I have not a single virtue to my credit.' 'You have promised to give. Now give. Don't talk of your credit. Just give away all the good you have done in your past.' 'Yes, I shall give. But how does one give? Tell me how the giving is done and I shall give.' 'Say like this: "All the good I have done in the past I am giving away entirely to my Guru. Henceforth I have no merit from it nor have I any concern with it." Say it with your whole heart.' 'All right, Swami. "I am giving away to you all the good I have done so far if I have done any and all its good effects. I am giving it to you gladly, for you are my Master and you are asking me to give it all away to you.' 'But this is not enough,' said Bhagavan sternly. 'I gave you all I have and all you asked me to give. I have nothing more to give.' 'No, you have. Give me all your sins.' The man looked wildly at Bhagavan, terror-stricken. 'You do not know, Swami, what you are asking for. If you knew, you would not ask me. If you take over my sins, your body will rot and burn. You do not know me, you do not know my sins. Please do not ask me for my sins.' He wept bitterly. 'I shall look after myself. Don't you worry about me,' said Bhagavan. 'All I want from you is your sins.' For a long time, the bargain would not go through. The man refused to part with his sins. But Bhagavan was adamant. 'Either give me your sins along with your merits or keep both and don't think of me as your Master." In the end, the visitor's scruples broke down and he declared, 'Whatever sins I have done, they are no longer mine. All of them and their results, too, belong to Ramana.' Bhagavan seemed to be satisfied. 'From now on there is no good nor bad in you. You are just pure. Go and do nothing, either good or bad. Remain yourself. Remain what you are.' A great peace fell over the man and over us all. No one knows what happened to the fortunate visitor, for he was never seen in the ashram again. He might have had no further need to come. |
| Nowadays, in parts of Bangalore, when people are done with washing the dishes or online yoga, they register a start-up and appoint an investment banker to raise a hundred million dollars or multiples of that. Then, they look around for ideas to spend this money. Generally, everyone creates an App to do something that has been done perfectly well since the Vijayanagar empire. Like milk delivery. The one who sets up this skunkworks is called a Founder. But he should be called a Loser, because the only goal of every start-up is to burn cash in super-quick time, which process is called Cash-Burn (hope you are impressed). The current National Record in this Event, when reports last came in, is held by a company called Cred which earns Re 1 for every Rs 732 that it spends. Even a spendthrift friend of mine, who is utterly incompetent and runs a chaotic NGO, is in awe of such stellar performance. Generally, anyone who makes money is considered a Supreme Idiot by investment bankers, investors and the deeply philosophical, critically-opinionated experts of WhatsApp University, and no one, not even one of those magna-cum-laude-cum-accent types, wants to be considered an SI. General principle being - Don't waste your money on somebody, who doesn't want more of it (not me. Shakespeare. Honest) The idea is that once they raise money and lose it, they can raise more money that they lose quicker than the earlier pile, so that they can raise even more money - this is called Series C for an important reason, which is that it follows A and then B. They keep on raising money till Series AH, which is when they become Unicorns. A Unicorn is a company that people who are permanently affected by smog-induced shutdown of the frontal cortex of the brain think is worth a billion dollars or more. The next step is to write this idea down in a Business Plan, which is a document that nobody pays any attention to, unless they are done with work for the day and want to settle down with a cup of tea and some fiction. This Founder now spends all his time pitching to investors, using words like Traction and Network Effects which no one understands. Anyone who does not use words like Traction and Network Effects is considered to be Supreme Idiot, version 2.0 and escorted to the lift because no one wants to take chances with ignoramuses. If any Founder-Loser wants to raise less than hundred million (Supreme Idiot version 3.0), he is escorted to the lift too, but, in this case, the lift refuses to function - there is such a thing as self-respect, even for lifts -, so he has to walk down the stairs. So how do investors take decisions to invest? Actually, they don’t. They just wait for other clueless investors like them to invest and then they join the party (not me. Shakes-peer.) Gosh, that was really awful. Will not happen again. And how do investors make money? The rarified echelons of Higher Finance follow the Cardinal Principle of Advanced Investment Management. This is called The Bigger Fool Theory and says that, somewhere in the Investor Universe, at this minute, is a Bigger Fool who is waiting to buy you out. And, it works. |
| *English is FULL of contradictions* Here are some funny ones: *1) Found Missing* *2) Open Secret* *3) Small Crowd* *4) Act Naturally* *5) Clearly Misunderstood* *6) Fully Empty* *7) Pretty Ugly* *8) Seriously Funny* *9) Only Choice* *10) Original Copies* *11) Exact Estimate* *12) Tragic Comedy* *13) Foolish Wisdom* *14) Liquid Gas* *15) Working Holiday* *And The newest Mother of all is* *16) "Social Distancing"* 😂😄😂 Btw: Forgot to mention” Happily Married “!!!! 😉 |
| Dog named 'SEX' Folks generally aren't very creative in choosing names for their dogs. That's why there are so many named Rover and Spot. But, have you heard the plight of the fellow who thought he'd be cute and named his 🐕 dog Sex?😁 It goes like this: "One day Sex and I took a walk and he ran away from me. I spent hours looking for that dog. A policeman came by and asked what I was doing in this alley at midnight? I told him I was looking for Sex. My case comes up next Tuesday."😐😐 "But, that ain't the worst part.... One day, I went to the town hall to get a dog license for Sex. The clerk asked me what I wanted. I told him I wanted a license for Sex. He said, 'I'd like to have one, too.' Then, I said, 'You don't understand. She's a dog.' He said he didn't care how she looked. When I told him I'd had Sex since I was 5, he said, “You must have been an early bloomer."😐😐😁 "When I decided to get married, I told the minister I wanted to have Sex at the wedding. He told me I'd have to wait until after the wedding. When I protested that Sex had played a big part in my life and that my whole life revolved around Sex, he said he didn't want to hear about my personal life."😐😐😁 "After my wife and I were married, I took the dog with us on the honeymoon. When I checked into the hotel, I told the clerk I wanted a room for my wife and wanted one for Sex. She said. 'Every room in the hotel was for sex.' I said, 'You don't understand. Sex keeps me awake at night.' The clerk said, 'Me, too.' "😳😳😱 "When my wife and I separated, we went to court to fight for custody of the dog. When I told the Judge I had Sex before I was married, he grinned and said, “ Me. too."😜😜😱😁😁😐 "Now that I've been thrown in jail, married, divorced and had more trouble with that dog than I ever imagined, I'm in counseling. My psychiatrist asked me what my problem was. I said 'Sex has died and left my life... . It's like losing a best friend and I'm so lonely,' I told him. 😭😭😭😭 He said, “Look, you and I both know that sex isn't man's best friend. Get yourself a dog." 🐕 |
| Interesting...🙏 When Hindus were wishing each other with Namaste - They laughed When Hindus were washing hands and legs before entering home - They laughed When Hindus were worshiping Animals - They laughed When Hindus were worshiping Plants Trees Forests - They laughed When Hindus were primarily having Veg diet - They laughed. When Hindus were doing Yoga - They laughed. When Hindus were worshiping God and Goddess - They Laughed When Hindus were burning the dead - They laughed When Hindus bathed after attending a funeral - They laughed. Well guess what ?? No body is laughing now.. So Its Rightly Said;"Hinduism Is Not A Religion, It Is A Way Of Life" 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 |
| GOA RADIO ORGANISED COMPETITION FOR POEMS, IN WHICH THE FIRST LINE MUST BE ROMANTIC, BUT THE SECOND LINE SHOULD BE THE OPPOSITE. This was the winning entry sent by Joao Caitan : ==== _My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife,_ _Marrying you messed up my life._ _I see your face when I am dreaming,_ _That's why I always wake up screaming._ _Kind, intelligent, loving and hot;_ _This describes everything you are not._ _I love your smile, your face and your eyes,_ _Damn, I'm good at telling lies!_ _My feelings for you, no words can tell,_ _Except for maybe 'Go to hell.'_ _What inspired this amazing rhyme?_ _A bottle of Feni, little Salt n Lime !_ ==== *Award winning poem* 😝😛😝😛😝 |
In reply to Bhaiji's query Mother promptly said: "You will come to know it later. A man or woman who has the ego-sense the I-ness, or the sense of body-mind, can easily say, who he or she is. There is no such ego-sense functioning in this body. So whatever you say or observe in this physical vehicle – I AM THAT - WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?" "This last sentence", added Bhaiji: "was uttered with such an unearthly fervour and vehemence that it sent a thrill through my entire body. Since then I have not questioned Her about it. I stopped with awe and fear; I REALIZED at once, WHO SHE WAS"… These words of Mother exactly correspond with what Brahma, said in respect of Shri Krishna: "Men, according to the instructions of saints, always practise devotional songs and meditation to find out means to realize Thee. When their heart becomes sanctified with intense love and devotion for Thy Godhead Thou dost manifest Thyself exactly in those forms on which they contemplate in the core of their heart according to their intelligence and samskaras. Out of Thy boundless love for Thy devotees, Thou dost assume those forms to help them towards the realization of Thy Being." Mother said on another occasion: "You find that this body appears to different bhaktas in different Divine Forms. Those are only your lip expressions. You have not developed real faith in the divinity of images of God; without such living faith there is no proper realization of the Divine Ground of all those forms. In the Sastras you read about many manifestations of the Supreme Being; but those are only faint suggestions to direct your attention towards them. Just as in the Railway time-table you find the names and locations of many stations, but real experience of those places cannot be had from the Railway Guide; so to have real experience of the Supreme Being one must pass through various devotional practices which make concrete realization possible." Once a question was posed to Mother: "How can a man control the restlessness of his mind ?" She replied: "Mind is ever restless. It is its nature. It is ever seeking its own treasure the real object of its love; as long as it fails to achieve it, its restlessness does not calm down. To steady the mind one must needs focus all its forces upon one divine object or name of God. Repetition of the divine name or mantra at all times, constant meditation its meaning and on the Divine entity, which it symbolises, purify both body and mind, just as your kitchen utensils become bright and shiny by constant rubbing. When you find your mind wandering away in spite of your effort to control it, you should persist in taking the name of God, even against your disposition, either orally or by inner speech. Keep yourself in touch with the Divine thought or name, just as the kite moving about in the sky is in touch with one's hand by a thin thread. When such a direct tie is established between man and his Master, the mind will steady itself in the Mantra or Name. Then you will feel a joy emanating from the name of God, which was never experienced by you before. It is called delight in the Name. Try to devote three hours every day to this practice and increase the span gradually to six hours a day. The name of God will give you real and abiding happiness, in search of which your mind ever moves restlessly among the various fleeting objects of the world ." Mother lays great stress on Faith in God. It is the one essential condition to control the mind and to obtain success in spiritual life. She says: "Faith, steady and sincere, leads you directly to the Divine Being. But reasoned debates and discussions will make you recede farther from Him: God is the Eternal Sound symbolising PARABRAHMAN. Hold on to It and there will be no chance of your slipping away from It. Of course the strength of your hold is His, but at all times try to lay yourself down before Him with what little faith you possess. "If you want to talk, talk about Him; if there is a desire to hear, hear all about His glories; if there grows a desire to do any work, always offer your services to Him. Look upon your own body as His Temple, keep it ever pure and clean, just as you do with your shrines. Dwell upon those holy thoughts that cleanse your mind and soul. Try to find in the stainless mirror of your mind the reflection of your Real Self, the "I" of your Person. Find out who this "I" is. All your quest should be directed to discover it. You often hear people say: "Keep the mirror of your mind clean". Do it. He will reveal Himself and at the right time. You need not worry about His revelation. With what little He has given you in this life pass your days joyfully, being in vital touch with Him. "The more your doubts disappear, the nearer will be your approach towards Him. A time will arrive when you will find Him everywhere and you will be ALL ONE WITH HIM." In another letter Mother says: "In your thoughts all strength and driving force come from Him. So He alone should be the object of your thoughts and actions. Behind all your reasoning, His Guidance has to be realized. Your only business is to get on with your contemplation and worship at the appointed hour." The following words of Mother appear in a different letter: "In all affairs of life absolute reliance upon Him must be sought. Wherever you happen to be, pray to Him with as much devotion as you possibly can. There must not be any fear of transgression. He is ever with you in all forms. What ever happens to you all your opportunities and obstacles are ordained by Him. When He makes you do anything, He does it Himself; He does, He knows, He hears. The only course left to you is to depend on Him always." One more letter from Mother says on the control of the mind: "Your one duty is to keep Him always in mind; His presence will chase away all distractions; thoughts of the world cannot peep out through Him. The desire to realize Him, the Supreme Truth of all existence, will dominate all your thought processes." Mother is ever full of love for all men. This enables Her to enter into every detail of the life of Her devotees and of other persons. She looks upon all people as Her own. She finds their doubts and problems, their struggles and distractions to be Hers. She listens to them with great sympathy and understanding. She therefore possesses the Supreme Power of healing all wounds, sorrows and bereavements; so She is often called the "Great Healer" of man's woes. A small incident of Her life will illustrate what has been stated above. In the twin temples of Shiva near the lakes in South Calcutta, Mother sat in the S.E. corner of the Temple hall one morning; then the Ekdalia Ashram was not built. A crowd assembled in the small hall to celebrate the Holi festival with Mother. A large number of ladies pressed hard round Mother's body. Mother sat almost bundled up. The temperature was high, the rush of people was too tense for Her. Many persons sitting round Mother were profusely perspiring. It was felt that the pressure of people had become almost oppressive and suffocating to Mother. The following questions, to Mother and the answers they elicited from Her are given below: Question: Mother, why do you allow these people to crowd round your body? Answer: Perhaps this body draws them so close to it. It is not their fault. Q. Don't you find it highly oppressive and disgusting, Mother? A. No. It is a great pleasure to me to find them pressing so close to me. Q. Ma, we feel it awfully boring to have such a crowd pestering us with tales of their domestic troubles and worries. A. Because you feel that your own body and theirs are distinctly separate. As you do not feel the weight of your head, of hands and feet, of so many fingers and toes, of legs and thighs, to be a burden nor a heavy load upon yourself because you feel they are but vital parts of your own body, so do I feel that these persons are all organic members of THIS BODY; so I don't feel their pressure nor find their worries weighing upon me. Their joys and sorrows, problems and their solutions, I feel to be vitally mine. Their acts and awards, too, are essentially mine, I have no ego-sense, nor conception of separateness. Each one of you have the "height and depth of eternity" in me equally. These experiences of Mother, quoted above, find their echoes in these lines: "How wonderful! In Me, the shore-less expanse of My Being, the ripples of individual selves rise, strike each other down, play about for some time and then finally merge themselves into Me according to their nature." There assembled one day some devotees before Mother at the Kishenpur Ashram. Mother said to them: "You have brought down this body to the physical plane for accomplishing your work here below, for your spiritual uplift." She added : "I am ever with each one of you, wherever you happen to be. But your vision is tied down to worldly matters and you have little time to direct your eyes to this body in all your thoughts and actions. What can I do? But know it for certain, that whatever you do in thought or deed, whether you are near or in distant lands, never escapes my attention." "Just as at a 'lash of torchlight your faces gleam forth in their bold outlines, all your facial expressions appear in my mind when you meditate on me or talk about me or sit down to pray to me." Though Mother with Her Body Divine soars in the higher regions of spiritual life, yet we find in Her all the highest and noblest attributes of man, functioning in all their majesty and beauty. She is intensely human in all Her ways. No human mother has such selfless, pure and glowing compassion for the distressed. The highest expressions of human life as manifested in the lives of saints, those that reveal themselves in love, charity and goodwill towards all created beings, figure prominently in all Her actions and thoughts, at all times of the day and night. There is always, in all Her manners, a heavenly glow of supra-mental Intelligence and Joy in their fullness. She carries in Her Person a perpetual source of Divine Anandam. When She rests after day-long work, She lapses into the blissful state named in our shastras 'Supti - ragara, i.e. a state in which the body is physically relaxed in light sleep but the mind wide awake in the region of the Over Mind. When She retires covering up Her body with a bed-sheet, She says: "I am just going to do my office-work now like you. I move about in other spheres of life holding conversation with higher beings. |
| Exactly one year ago on Mar 13, 2020 - World Health Organization officially declared the Covid crisis a Pandemic. During the last one year, everyone brushed up on their medical terminologies. However, blondes understand those medical terms differently. (If your spouse is a blonde, please convey my apologies). A Blonde's Medical Dictionary - Artery - Study of paintings Bacteria - Back door to cafeteria Benign - What you are after you are eight Caesarean Section - Neighbourhood in Rome Cat Scan - Searching for Kitty Cauterize - make eye contact with her Coma - A punctuation mark Dilate - Live long Fibula - A small lie Labour pain - Getting hurt at work Medical Staff - A Doctor's cane Nitrates - Better than day rates Outpatient - A patient who has fainted Urine - Opposite of you're out Pelvis - Second cousin of Elvis Post Operative - A letter carrier Seizure - Roman Emperor Terminal Illness - Getting sick at the Airport Take care, be safe. |
| 🌺🍀🌺 JAI MA ANANDAMAYI 🌺🍀🌺 There was a Gujrati lady amongst us named Miss Mani Ben. She asked: "Mother, you have just referred to your visions of the past and future. How do you have them? Do you see them with your two physical eyes, or (pointing at the space between the two eyebrows) do you see them with the third eye that is here?" Mother: "How do I see them? Why, the eyes are all over the body. Don't you know that everything has in it (the essence of) all other things? Hands, legs, hair, in fact every part of the body can be made the instrument of sight. Of course, it is quite possible to see through the two eyes, which all possess; and the existence of a third eye of which you speak is also true. People do possess such eyes. This may sound strange to you, but nonetheless it is true. Once this body lived on three grains of rice daily for four or five months. Nobody can live for so long on such a meagre diet. It looks like a miracle. But it has been so with this body. It has been so, because it can be so. The reason for this is that what we eat is not all necessary for us. The body takes in only the quintessence of the food, the rest is thrown out. As a result of sadhana the body becomes so constituted that though no food is taken physically, it can imbibe from the surroundings whatever is necessary for its maintenance. In three ways the body can be maintained without food: One way has just been referred to viz. the body can take from the environment the nourishment necessary for its maintenance. Secondly, one can live on air alone. For I have just said that in everything there are all other things; so that the properties of other things are in the air in some measure. Therefore by taking in air alone we get the essence of other things. Again, it may so happen that the body is not taking anything at all, yet it is being maintained unimpaired as in a state of samadhi. Thus you find that as a consequence of sadhana it is quite possible to live without what we call food. In a similar way sadhana can effect such transformation of the body that by virtue of it any part of it can discharge the function of the eye. Shyama Charan Babu: We hear that sages can take over the sufferings of other people. Mother: "This is true. Sages can mitigate the sufferings other people in three ways: they can take the suffering upon themselves and thus relieve the sufferer; or without taking those sufferings upon themselves, they may distribute and apportion them amongst some other persons. This lightens to some extent the intensity and acuteness of the suffering. Also, it may so happen that sages out of supreme Grace can relieve an individual from all the consequences of his actions and restore him to Life Divine, which is his true Self. But such incidents are rare.. Hence it is said that purification comes through suffering." Myself: Mother, how is it possible to distribute sufferings amongst others? This looks like sheer injustice. Mother: "No, there is nothing wrong in it. Sages would divide the sufferings only amongst those who are only too willing and anxious to share them." Shyama Charan Babu: Why should I allow a sage to bear my cross? Mother: "That is well said. A bhakta would speak in this way. A devotee would not have the object of his devotion share his sufferings. He would rather bear his own cross. But sometimes such sufferings are too much for him, and his only concern then becomes how to get rid of them. In such cases only the question of mitigation or extenuation arises. With me, however, everything has happened spontaneously. I have seen that this body has taken upon itself the sufferings of others, not purposely, but without an effort of the will. Once I went to see a patient who was attacked by a severe type of dysentery. On my return I found myself attacked by that very disease. I had frequent motions and passed blood and mucus. This went on for twelve hours. Then I was all right again. For some time something like a blizzard passed over this body, then everything was quiet. The man who had the original attack came round as soon as this body had the disease. At another time this body took upon itself the fever from which another person had been suffering. Every third or fourth day I used to have a violent paroxysm of fever which lasted for three hours. The temperature shot up to 1030 or 1040. We were then at Cox's Bazar. The nature of the fever convinced Dina Bandhu Babu that it was nothing but malaria. Bholanath was of the same opinion, and was anxious to administer quinine. But I flatly refused to take the drug. Dina Bandhu Babu had an almost paternal affection for this body, which used to address him as father. He often would humour me by complying with my requests. Though a Brahmin himself, he had given up the Brahminical practice of uttering Gayatri Mantra. But I induced him to resume. However, when he found me suffering from repeated paroxysms of fever he lost all patience and wrathfully declared: "These devotees have conspired to kill my daughter. I won't listen to anybody. I intend to administer by force, if necessary, quinine this very night." I heard all this, but said nothing. In the afternoon this body fell into a trance-like condition. True to his words Dina Bandhu Babu came with quinine at night. Seeing me in a state of unconsciousness he shook me hard. Though his shaking and hustling made me open my eyes, they remained unmoved in a fixed stare. This pricked his curiosity. He examined me by focussing the light of an electric torch on my eyes and even thrusting his finger into them to see whether they would wink. When all his endeavours failed to restore me to a state of consciousness, he gave up the attempt to administer quinine that night. But he could not abandon the idea of trying the drug on me. Of course I knew how long the fever was to last. So I told him that if the fever persisted beyond a certain period I would take the medicine. But I did not take it, because within the specified period I was all right. I have just now referred to the incident of my living on three grains of rice per day for four or five months. That is an illustration of how creature comforts can be overcome by renunciation. I have not had that sort of renunciation, which you understand by the term in its ordinary sense. For this body has lived with father, mother, husband, and all. This body has served the husband, so you may call it a wife. It has prepared dishes for all, so you may call it a cook. It has done all sorts of scrubbing and menial work, so you may call it a servant. But if you look at the thing from another standpoint you will realise that this body has served none but God. For when I served my father, mother, husband and others, I simply considered them as different manifestations of the Almighty and served them as such. When I sat down to prepare food I did so as if it were a ritual, for the food cooked was after all meant for God. Whatever I did, I did in a spirit of Divine service. Hence I was not quite worldly, though always engaged in household affairs. I had but one ideal, - to serve all as God, to do everything for the sake of God. At that time I lived as one who had taken a vow of silence. I found enough time at my disposal even after the completion of all my household work. Usha lived near our house. She used to read out the Mahabharat at noon. One day I went to hear it. She handed over the book to me for reading. I took it in my hand but could not read; because at that time God's Name always bubbled out of me as from a spring. Somehow it got itself tacked to my natural respiration. Hence I found that any attempt to read the book only resulted in my suffocation. Moreover, you have some idea as to the range of my literary attainments. In order to read I had to spell through every word. When I attempted to read I found that I could not take in two syllables at a time. Suppose I was to pronounce 'aim. I could pronounce 'a' all right, but when it was time to pronounce "ml" I found that I had cleanly forgotten the 'a' and the effacement was so complete that I could not trace its existence in me. In this condition no intelligent reading was possible. But when I sat down to spin, I found that it was no hindrance to repeating God's Name. Both could go on simultaneously. I have spun a good deal of yarn. When I was at Bajitpur I myself prepared a towel and, with the help of a weaver, a pair of dhotis with my hand-spun yarn. At this stage a lady remarked: "Mother, once I have seen you singing and weeping." Mother: "There is nothing uniform with this body. Svabhava (Nature) takes Her unhampered course. The singing and weeping you mention are possible at a certain stage of sadhana. Suppose I sat down to sing. At that time my idea was that it was through God's Grace I was uttering His Name. As I went on repeating the Name, another idea took possession of me, and I thought: "Alas! I am praying so fervently and for such a long time, yet God is not revealing Himself to me!" This sense of frustration created a pang m my heart, and at once tears would trickle down my cheeks. These are, of course, stages of ignorance, for with the dawn of Knowledge prayers and sadhana cease. When the different stages of sadhana were being manifested through this body, what a variety of experiences I then had! Sometimes I used to hear distinctly: "Repeat this mantra". When I got the mantra a query rose in me: "Whose mantra is this?" At once the reply came: "It is the mantra of Ganesh or Vishnu" or something like that. Again the query came from myself: "How does he look?" A form was revealed in no time. Every question was met by a prompt reply and there was immediate dissolution of all doubts and misgivings. One day I distinctly got the command: "From to day you are not to bow down to anybody." I asked my invisible monitor: "Who are you?" The reply came: "Your Shakti" (Power). I thought that there was a distinct Shakti residing in me and guiding me by issuing commands from time to time. Since all this happened at the stage of sadhana, Jnana (Knowledge) was being revealed in a piecemeal fashion. The integral knowledge which this body was possessed of from the very beginning was broken, as it were, into parts and there was something like a superimposition of ignorance. At that time I was mouni (observing silence). This was also due to particular commands. The father of this body came to see me at that time. I could not make obeisance to him. Not that I refrained from doing it intentionally, but this body refused to do anything contrary to the commands it received from time to time. When the father of this body saw that I was not doing my duty by him, he took it to heart. But as I was mouni at that time I could not explain the situation to him. He came to regard me with suspicion. He argued that if my various moods and experiences had a spiritual origin, there was no reason why I should be disrespectful to those to whom respect was due. This led him to consult different persons regarding my condition. In the meantime Siva Ratri (auspicious night for the worship of God Siva) came. On such occasions it was customary with the father of this body to sit up the whole night and worship the God Siva. Corresponding to the four quarters of the night he used to perform puja four times. Each puja was meant for the wellbeing of a particular individual. This time also he proceeded as usual with the puja; and I sat up with him to make arrangements for it. When after finishing puja three times during the first three quarters of the night, he proceeded to perform the puja for the fourth quarter for the benefit of this body, a curious thing happened. He found that as he was proceeding with the worship, this body was uttering aloud all the relevant mantras and prayers quite automatically. This surprised him very much. Though he said nothing, he could not help looking at me from time to time. However, to proceed with the account of my sadhana. After some time I again heard the voice within myself which told me: "Whom do you want to make obeisance to? You are everything." At once I realized that the Universe was all my own manifestation. Partial knowledge then gave place to the integral, and I found myself face to face with the ONE that appears as many. It was then that I understood why I h been forbidden for so long to bow down to anybody." Myself: How long was the period intervening between these two stages? Mother: "Quite long. But in the meantime various Vibhutis were being manifested through this body. These manifestations have again occurred in various ways Sometimes they have been manifested in ignorance, e.g., I found that as soon as I had touched a particular patient he recovered in no time; but I did not know beforehand that he would be cured in that way. Sometimes the manifestation occurred with knowledge mixed up with ignorance, e.g., on seeing a patient I used to argue in this way: "I know from my past experience that my touch has a healing effect. If I touch this patient he may also get well." To verify this I touched him and found that he was cured immediately. Then again manifestations of Vibhuti have taken place with full knowledge and consciousness on my part. Thus I knew for certain that I could cure a disease by a mere touch, and I touched in full confidence of success." Jiten Babu: In what other ways have your Vibhuti been manifested? And how do they manifest themselves now? Mother: Vibhutis have now become a part and parcel of Svabhava. Jiten Babu; I do not quite follow you. Moiher: Vibhutis becoming a part of Svabhava means that everything is now regulated by Svabhava or the Supreme Self. Here there is no scope for the play of a limited self. This was so with this body from its very infancy. Such disclosures are not always made by this body. Since they are coming spontaneously now, I give them out. Let me tell you that what I am, I have been from my infancy. But when the different stages of sadhana were being manifested through this body there was something like a superimposition of aja (ignorance). But what sort of ajnana was that? It was really Jnana masquerading as ajnana. Let me tell you a story relating to my childhood. In childhood, when this body was at Vidyakut, a woman became pregnant, and her child was born when I was still there. I knew from the beginning that the child was not to live long. He came only to complete his cycle of births and deaths. However, the child became one year old. He was not very nice to look at. His complexion was jet black, but his body was very soft. That is why he was always seen in the arms of others, who all wanted to have the luxury of the touch. And the child was all smiles. When he was over a year and a few months old, his span of life came to an end; and he became seriously ill. I went to see him on the day he was to die. On my way I took with me a hibiscus flower, but rubbed it so that the people might not know what I had in my hand. I left the flower under the child's pillow. Those who were present there thought that I had left some 'nirmalya', seeing that the child was near his end. I did all this under the urge of Svabhava. At the stage of sadhana, Vibhuti first manifests itself as joy which comes from the recitation of God's Name. When people experience this, they think that they have got everything that sadhana can yield; and their upward progress is thereby arrested. But he who keeps himself always on the move without being overwhelmed by such manifestations of joy, finds himself in possession of various miraculous powers. But those powers are not meant for display. They should be carefully kept under control. He alone can know his true Self, who keeps alive within him an insatiable thirst for the Divine without being contented with the possession of supernormal powers, powers which enable him to cure any disease by a mere touch of the hand or which lead to the instantaneous fulfilment of all his desires. |
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