It had been 1 month since I had joined Art of Living and I was enjoying the daily kriya , the sadhana, though I was not so serious in other aspects like satsang and seva. One day Mr Vitappa prabhu who had introduced me to Art of Living, told me Guruji was coming to Mangalore and shall we go and meet him. I didn’t feel any great joy or interest in it as I thought he was just another person, though quite intelligent or smart who had discovered the sudarshan kriya and spread it in a effective manner. But since all of them were going in a jeep and I would get a free ride, I thought i would join them. So I went to Kateel temple where the darshan was. We were told to go to the temple hall and sit in parallel lines and he would come to where we were sitting. That itself was a suprise to me as I had thought we would have to que to meet him.
We waited for some time and then they were some bhajans playing in the meanwhile which I enjoyed. Then they started singing Bhagyada laxmi ( which was my favourite bhajan) and said our laxmi had come to meet us. Then I saw him at a distance walking toward me, a gleaming figure in white and spontaneously tears started falling from eyes, there was deep voice within me which told me I was meeting him after waiting so long. After so many lives of waiting I was meeting him. Then he came near and looked at me compassionately, I touched his feet and he moved on. No words were spoken but that one glance satisfied me completely.
After meeting all the people, He went on stage and just spoke a few words which had a tremendous impact on me and gave me a glimpse of his divinity. He asked all of us how we were, everyone replied that we were happy. He told us that there was nothing to be unhappy about, that he was there with us and that if we had any problems, miseries we should give it to him, he would take it all.
I had been to so many satsangs earlier , met so many other holy men, but I had never heard anyone say this. These were words I was longing to hear, because I had so many problems, so many anxieties and fears and It really relived me to hear him say this. It was just not the words, it was the simplicity and the love with which he said it, which really touched my heart.
Then he started to sing Jai Jai radha raman which I was hearing for the first time and which I realized later signified the end of the interaction. Then he left the venue physically, but always has been in my heart since then. Even today when I remember the beautiful first meeting in the holy Kateel Devi temple, I thank the divine mother for giving me this most beautiful grace of meeting my Guru at her abode.
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