I was a little child. I was totally ignorant of the world. My mind was full of darkness. I was just like an animal having two legs, two hands, two eyes, two ears, one nose and one mouth. I was hankering after loaves and fishes. I only knew my own requirement- food, clothes and house. I only knew my parents, brothers and sisters. I became youth and got married. I became father of so many children. Now I forgot my parents, brothers, sisters and all relatives. I know only my individual family- I, wife and children. I started speaking lie. All evils entered into my mind. I started quarrelling with others for worldly things. I wanted to snatch every material for me and for my individual family. I fought with my own brothers and parents. I became worse than an animal. Animals have a few requirements but men’s have infinite necessities. When I meet one, another comes and so on. I was too much busy in solving problems and had no time to think anything else.
When I was in total sleeping state, a man came near me with a lamp in his hand and awoke me. I awoke like an elephant seeing a lion in the sleep. He completely removed the darkness. This awakening was not temporary. It was permanent. I started weeping for wasting my time in the past. The lamp man wiped my tears and consoled me. He forbade me to repent. ‘Subah ka bhoola sham ko wapas aane par bhoola nahi kahlata’. He had a magic lamp. He removed my all doubts. He showed me the right path to reach goal and conquer the whole world. He taught me to conquer the hearts of all creatures (the diamond treasure). He taught me to snatch sorrows and tears of the world. He taught me to robe love. He taught me to throw stones of respect on older and beat younger with a stick of affection. He taught to worship downtrodden like Bhagvan Ramana the human form of Lord Shiva.
I was hypnotized by the lamp man. I blindly started to follow the path shown by him. The path was simple and straight. It was the path of Self enquiry- ‘removing all thoughts and abidance in the Self.’ It was ‘Who am I’ method which is the practice to draw the mind to heart. Infinite thoughts may come. Ask all of them, ’To whom it came?’ The answer is, ‘It came to me’. The next question is, ‘Who am I?’ The answer is nothing but to enquire ‘I’ in the heart, the right side of the chest. Biological heart is in the left side. The process is nothing but only to draw the mind in the heart which was wandering hither and thither. The process should be repeated all the time. Initially this type of enquire is essential. After regular practice thoughts vanish and mind starts to stay in the heart (in the Self- in the original home). After regular meditation I start to live in my home (heart). The body organs work automatically. Ordinary person think yogi doing similar action like him. But in reallity he does nothing. He is like the child whose mother feeds him in the sleeping state and in the morning he asks if he had taken food at night. When mother says yes, he becomes satisfied. The mind is nothing but the collection of thoughts. When the mind (jeeva) merges in heart (Self), the false ego becomes real ‘I’. ‘I’ (mind, jeeva, false ego) vanishes in Self (real I, Atman, Govind ) and both become one. The Self (atman) is the guru. Om Namo Bhagvate Sri Ramanay. --------------------contd.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
UNSTABLE MIND
The gist of knowledge is stability. After study, mental exercise makes the subject stable. ‘Adhyayan ke baad manan.’ Keep water in the pot. Start to shake it. Will the water remain in it? As the speed increases, all the water will come out. So is the case with mind. In unstable mind no subject can stay. Unstable mind makes unlimited planning, starts so many projects at a time but does not complete even one. The result is that it wastes time and money and ultimately output is zero, rather negative. In stead, stable mind plans single scheme, works full heartedly on it and does not take rest until finishes it. After that it starts another project and completes it. This is the prime mystery of success. All successful persons have adopted this formula.
Today is Tuesday, Aug 3, 2010. The day before yesterday (on Aug 1, 2010), Mane left this world. He was merely 35 year old, tall handsome youth. Born in a very cultured family, he seemed very sober externally. But nobody knows the mind of an unstable man. His father is a very learned person. He is the Acharge of Jyotish Shastra. He is also land surveyor. He knows every inch land of village Karmauli. He is also a very good farmer. He is a retired teacher having good knowledge of mathematics. He had three sons. The eldest is Boolanjee, the 2nd Jibu and the third late Mane. Boolanjee is a very matured and able person having matured brain. He is at Bermo doing work of LIC. He is a senior agent there. He earns enough to maintain his family. He is the back bone of the family. He is strong devotee of his parents and serves them with full heart. He is a self pride person and can not tolerate anything against his will. He honors my suggestions only. Jibu is a simple youth having private job. There are many assets and liabilities of the family but Boolanjee manages all properly. About ten days before Mane poisoned himself. Doctor treated him but after ten days he collapsed.
Previously I did not know Mane well. Now I have concluded that he had an unstable mind. He had two wives. The first is from Sibipatti. She and Mane quarreled too much. The matter became very tense and situation of divorce came. Bulanjee and his father tried their best to patch it up but it could not be settled. Mane revolted against his father and brothers. He consulted a village lawyer Barunjee. Barunjee forbided him to do that and suggested to wait. The unstable brain of Mane was not ready to wait. In the mean time, Mane’s father-in-law Bambhola spoke some abusive words against Jyotshijee which pained him too much. Jyotshijee and Bulanjee started to keep themselves away from the mater. Mane got good opportunity and married another girl. This act was a blunder in his life. He had two daughters from the first wife and two daughters and one son from 2nd. Initially the first wife lived with her father but after some years she also came to Karmauli. Prominent persons of the village decided that she would also live in the family and would get necessary means to lead life. Her daughters would also have their rights. Mane agreed. For some years they spent peacefully. But human nature does not allow anybody to lead life on a track. Slowly the two women started to quarrel. The height of the quarrelling resulted Mane’s poisoning.
What may be the reason but the whole village and relatives are aggrieved. One can imagine the sorrow of the parent whose youngest beloved son has departed. Who is the defaulter? I strongly say non but the unstable mind of Mane. Had he compromised with his first wife, the situation would have changed. The story is very pitiable but remarkable. Everybody will have to face the same situation who have such type of unstable mind. May Guru Baba grace peace to the departed soul.--------contd.
Today is Tuesday, Aug 3, 2010. The day before yesterday (on Aug 1, 2010), Mane left this world. He was merely 35 year old, tall handsome youth. Born in a very cultured family, he seemed very sober externally. But nobody knows the mind of an unstable man. His father is a very learned person. He is the Acharge of Jyotish Shastra. He is also land surveyor. He knows every inch land of village Karmauli. He is also a very good farmer. He is a retired teacher having good knowledge of mathematics. He had three sons. The eldest is Boolanjee, the 2nd Jibu and the third late Mane. Boolanjee is a very matured and able person having matured brain. He is at Bermo doing work of LIC. He is a senior agent there. He earns enough to maintain his family. He is the back bone of the family. He is strong devotee of his parents and serves them with full heart. He is a self pride person and can not tolerate anything against his will. He honors my suggestions only. Jibu is a simple youth having private job. There are many assets and liabilities of the family but Boolanjee manages all properly. About ten days before Mane poisoned himself. Doctor treated him but after ten days he collapsed.
Previously I did not know Mane well. Now I have concluded that he had an unstable mind. He had two wives. The first is from Sibipatti. She and Mane quarreled too much. The matter became very tense and situation of divorce came. Bulanjee and his father tried their best to patch it up but it could not be settled. Mane revolted against his father and brothers. He consulted a village lawyer Barunjee. Barunjee forbided him to do that and suggested to wait. The unstable brain of Mane was not ready to wait. In the mean time, Mane’s father-in-law Bambhola spoke some abusive words against Jyotshijee which pained him too much. Jyotshijee and Bulanjee started to keep themselves away from the mater. Mane got good opportunity and married another girl. This act was a blunder in his life. He had two daughters from the first wife and two daughters and one son from 2nd. Initially the first wife lived with her father but after some years she also came to Karmauli. Prominent persons of the village decided that she would also live in the family and would get necessary means to lead life. Her daughters would also have their rights. Mane agreed. For some years they spent peacefully. But human nature does not allow anybody to lead life on a track. Slowly the two women started to quarrel. The height of the quarrelling resulted Mane’s poisoning.
What may be the reason but the whole village and relatives are aggrieved. One can imagine the sorrow of the parent whose youngest beloved son has departed. Who is the defaulter? I strongly say non but the unstable mind of Mane. Had he compromised with his first wife, the situation would have changed. The story is very pitiable but remarkable. Everybody will have to face the same situation who have such type of unstable mind. May Guru Baba grace peace to the departed soul.--------contd.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
UGRESH BHAIYA
Today is Monday, 26 th July, 2010. Ugresh bhaiya left this world the day before yesterday i.e. on 24 th July 2010. His two sons and one daughter Manoj, Vinod and Anita live at Chandigarh. They were coming so the dead body was kept in ice. Initially when I heard about his death, I was planning to come to Karmauli after five or six days due to work load in the office and thinking my back pain. There would be two trips up and down each. When Manoj telephoned and told that the funeral ceremony would be on 26 th, I changed my mind & decided to join in it.
We started at 4.00 pm on 25th and reached Belahi at 9.0 pm. Sent the driver from Madhubani. Stayed at Belahi in the night. Came to Karmauli at 7.00 am today. Manoj with all members came at 8.00 am. Went to Dhadhhara Gaachhi in our mango orchard. 69 people were present in the funeral ceremony.
Seeing him on funeral pyre, every scene of his life crossed before the eyes like cinema reel. His primary schooling, marriage, getting training of farming with father and latter becoming an independent farmer, his single daughter Anita’s marriage ceremony, separation of the family, quarrelling among brothers during division of land, his illness and lastly his death; all came at once in my memory. This is the very life of every person in the world. We ignorant persons spend the life in quarrelling for wealth and worldly things but nothing goes with us. We come alone having nothing with us and go alone leaving land, building, cars, friends, children, wife and everything. ‘Ghar ki nari ko kahe tan ki nari janhi.’
I remember his early life. I was five brothers and one sister. Serially, the names are Tejnarayan, Harinarayan, Ghurani, Ugresh, Kamalakant and Mahendra. Thus he was fourth among the six issues and third among the five sons. His one elder brother and one younger brother had died. One sister elder to Ghurani had also died. So she was named ‘Ghuranni- who had again come’. She was very beautiful and gentle. She was married to Chandrakant of village Maltole. She had two sons and two daughters- Babu saheb, Amar, Meena and Ameera. She died at the age of 40 due to paralytic attack. My mother died when I was mere four years old. My sister loved me too much. In my early life I spent more time at Maltole with my sister.
Ugresh Bhaiya was very intelligent student in his early life. I remember one event when I had started to go to school. He had got first position in class 4. He was also taking interest in farming. Father also required an assistant to help him. He was himself uneducated and did not know even his signature. He never paid much importance to education. I started to go to school with some of my friends of my age. I was four years old. One day when I was in the school, heard the news of my mothers death. Godavari, the neighbour girl told me the message. I ran to my courtyard with her and fell down on my mother’s body. My younger Mahendra was only two years old. Besides the last event there is nothing in my memory about my mother.
Life is but a chance. When I was in class two I went to Dhanbad. In class four I got admitted in Kapariya Middle School. At Dhanbad a better schooling in Railway school changed my study style. At Kapariya school I came in open competition with so many near by village’s students. Though high school teaching had been started in Kapariya School, I took admission at Kaluahi High School. There I again fought tougher competition. This type of revolutionary steps- taking admission in Kapariya Middle School in stead of Karmauli, adopting Kaluahi High School in stead of Kapariya High School helped me too much. Our brain becomes sharper when we solve tough problems and face tougher competition. Had I not visited Dhanbad, Kapariya and Kaluahi, I would have never succeeded. When I passed seventh from Kapariya Middle School, the then head master Sri Yamuna Pd Singh pressed me too much for taking admission in Kapariya High School. He convinced my father and Ramchandra Kaka who had gone for SLC. They surrendered before his arguments but I straightly denied and took admission in Kaluahi High School. This very decision was great step in my life and proved a mile stone. The 2nd student Pandit and third Thakur took admission in newly started Kapariya High School and spoiled their lives. They were better students but did not maintain their intelligence and became ordinary students.
Parents take primary role in children’s education. Especially during primary education, they have keen interest in playing, talking and all other activities except studying. When father encouraged towards farming, Ugresh Bhaiya left the school and became full time farmer. He became prominent farmer of the village. He had very good health and strength. He attended all the funeral ceremonies of the village and nearby relatives. Whenever anybody started work which required higher strength, Ugresh Bhaiya was necessarily called. He used to attend happily and became very pleased thinkig that he was also a useful person. He was like Jarbharat. He was so simple that even a child could make fun of him. He attended all the marriages ceremonies, thread ceremonies (Upnayan), after death rituals (shraddha karma) with full interest. In the villages, farmers use to weigh the produces. But all are not able to weigh the same. Specially while paddy weighing, there were huge heaps. A few persons in the village were able to weigh. Ugresh bhaiya was a prominent weigher. He could weigh hundred quintals in a sitting. While lifting of heavy wooden logs, mud built heavy grain containers (kothi), large thatched rooves etc, he was necessarrily called. May Guru Baba grace peace to his soul. ----------------------- contd.
We started at 4.00 pm on 25th and reached Belahi at 9.0 pm. Sent the driver from Madhubani. Stayed at Belahi in the night. Came to Karmauli at 7.00 am today. Manoj with all members came at 8.00 am. Went to Dhadhhara Gaachhi in our mango orchard. 69 people were present in the funeral ceremony.
Seeing him on funeral pyre, every scene of his life crossed before the eyes like cinema reel. His primary schooling, marriage, getting training of farming with father and latter becoming an independent farmer, his single daughter Anita’s marriage ceremony, separation of the family, quarrelling among brothers during division of land, his illness and lastly his death; all came at once in my memory. This is the very life of every person in the world. We ignorant persons spend the life in quarrelling for wealth and worldly things but nothing goes with us. We come alone having nothing with us and go alone leaving land, building, cars, friends, children, wife and everything. ‘Ghar ki nari ko kahe tan ki nari janhi.’
I remember his early life. I was five brothers and one sister. Serially, the names are Tejnarayan, Harinarayan, Ghurani, Ugresh, Kamalakant and Mahendra. Thus he was fourth among the six issues and third among the five sons. His one elder brother and one younger brother had died. One sister elder to Ghurani had also died. So she was named ‘Ghuranni- who had again come’. She was very beautiful and gentle. She was married to Chandrakant of village Maltole. She had two sons and two daughters- Babu saheb, Amar, Meena and Ameera. She died at the age of 40 due to paralytic attack. My mother died when I was mere four years old. My sister loved me too much. In my early life I spent more time at Maltole with my sister.
Ugresh Bhaiya was very intelligent student in his early life. I remember one event when I had started to go to school. He had got first position in class 4. He was also taking interest in farming. Father also required an assistant to help him. He was himself uneducated and did not know even his signature. He never paid much importance to education. I started to go to school with some of my friends of my age. I was four years old. One day when I was in the school, heard the news of my mothers death. Godavari, the neighbour girl told me the message. I ran to my courtyard with her and fell down on my mother’s body. My younger Mahendra was only two years old. Besides the last event there is nothing in my memory about my mother.
Life is but a chance. When I was in class two I went to Dhanbad. In class four I got admitted in Kapariya Middle School. At Dhanbad a better schooling in Railway school changed my study style. At Kapariya school I came in open competition with so many near by village’s students. Though high school teaching had been started in Kapariya School, I took admission at Kaluahi High School. There I again fought tougher competition. This type of revolutionary steps- taking admission in Kapariya Middle School in stead of Karmauli, adopting Kaluahi High School in stead of Kapariya High School helped me too much. Our brain becomes sharper when we solve tough problems and face tougher competition. Had I not visited Dhanbad, Kapariya and Kaluahi, I would have never succeeded. When I passed seventh from Kapariya Middle School, the then head master Sri Yamuna Pd Singh pressed me too much for taking admission in Kapariya High School. He convinced my father and Ramchandra Kaka who had gone for SLC. They surrendered before his arguments but I straightly denied and took admission in Kaluahi High School. This very decision was great step in my life and proved a mile stone. The 2nd student Pandit and third Thakur took admission in newly started Kapariya High School and spoiled their lives. They were better students but did not maintain their intelligence and became ordinary students.
Parents take primary role in children’s education. Especially during primary education, they have keen interest in playing, talking and all other activities except studying. When father encouraged towards farming, Ugresh Bhaiya left the school and became full time farmer. He became prominent farmer of the village. He had very good health and strength. He attended all the funeral ceremonies of the village and nearby relatives. Whenever anybody started work which required higher strength, Ugresh Bhaiya was necessarily called. He used to attend happily and became very pleased thinkig that he was also a useful person. He was like Jarbharat. He was so simple that even a child could make fun of him. He attended all the marriages ceremonies, thread ceremonies (Upnayan), after death rituals (shraddha karma) with full interest. In the villages, farmers use to weigh the produces. But all are not able to weigh the same. Specially while paddy weighing, there were huge heaps. A few persons in the village were able to weigh. Ugresh bhaiya was a prominent weigher. He could weigh hundred quintals in a sitting. While lifting of heavy wooden logs, mud built heavy grain containers (kothi), large thatched rooves etc, he was necessarrily called. May Guru Baba grace peace to his soul. ----------------------- contd.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
HATRED, LOVE AND WE
The creator of the universe is the Very Almighty whom we call God. We all are His dear children. No parent will be pleased if you hate his children. Since we all are the children of the same father, we are all brothers and relatives. Then how one can hate anybody. This is due to ignorance. When someone praises me, I become pleased. Hearing anything against me, I become angry. This is human nature. I love the person who loves me. I hate the person who dislikes me. Every creature has a sense to understand the love and hate. Somebody is so clever that outwardly, he shows his love but he has internally hatred. Nevertheless, this does not remain hidden. Our mind and heart are so manufactured that they know everything. What you think about me, my third sense knows it. ‘Gyani’ knows every thing of the universe by intuition. However, all ordinary creatures and we ignorant persons also, have a small machine in the body (heart) to know the inner feelings and thoughts of others about us. ‘Gyani’ acts same through all the three different ways- ‘mansa, bacha, karmana’. ‘Manashyekam, wachashyekam, karmashyekam Gyaninam; manashyanyat, wachashyanyat, karmashyanyat Dhoortanam.' Clever can hide his acts and thoughts for the time being and can become benificiary reagarding worldly affairs but a day comes when his real face appears and people begin to hate him.He is bicotted from the society. He becomes far away from Heaven.
Our bodies act according to our mind and heart, which are themselves, related to hate and love. Therefore, hate and love have great effect on our body. When we are among our own men (who love us), we feel secured. We sleep well, eat well and do normal behavior. When we are among the people who hate us, we feel unsecured and our behavior changes. We don’t eat and sleep properly and awake the whole night. When a child is near its mother, it plays and when it is with others weeps. The Indian scientist Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose has already proved the feelings of plants. Like us, plants and trees also laugh and weep. When a tree looks a person with an axe coming to cut it, it becomes angry. When it looks someone coming to give water in the roots, becomes pleased. Animals like dogs, cats, elephants etc have proved more loyal than men.
Love and hatred spread waves of different natures, which are caught by our well-wishers and enemies. However, we have forgotten our identities. We our children of The Same Father. There is no enemy. All are my friends, well-wishers and relatives. Lastly, I am in all and all are in me. I am That.
--------Om Namo Bhagvate Sri Ramanay.
Our bodies act according to our mind and heart, which are themselves, related to hate and love. Therefore, hate and love have great effect on our body. When we are among our own men (who love us), we feel secured. We sleep well, eat well and do normal behavior. When we are among the people who hate us, we feel unsecured and our behavior changes. We don’t eat and sleep properly and awake the whole night. When a child is near its mother, it plays and when it is with others weeps. The Indian scientist Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose has already proved the feelings of plants. Like us, plants and trees also laugh and weep. When a tree looks a person with an axe coming to cut it, it becomes angry. When it looks someone coming to give water in the roots, becomes pleased. Animals like dogs, cats, elephants etc have proved more loyal than men.
Love and hatred spread waves of different natures, which are caught by our well-wishers and enemies. However, we have forgotten our identities. We our children of The Same Father. There is no enemy. All are my friends, well-wishers and relatives. Lastly, I am in all and all are in me. I am That.
--------Om Namo Bhagvate Sri Ramanay.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
PATIENCE
The ultimate knowledge of all religion is to know truth. What is this ‘Truth’? This cannot be described by words. When words end, silence starts and we come nearer to the truth. What is this ‘silence’? When questions & suspicions end, we go to our home to take rest. While we are in our home, we take rest, enjoy bliss and we are in silence. When I come out of my home, my peace is disturbed. I come on the road. I face scorching sun, rains and unbearable coldness. Again, I go home. There I get all comforts. Outer world is very charming but cheater. It always attracts the creature. While I am in my home, I am safe. When I come out, illusion captures me. Creatures begin to take interest in illusion. They start to think it real. They become pleased when some thing happens in favor, become aggrieved when against will. They become very disturbed when event goes wrong. Some body becomes so nervous that they commit suicide- the largest sin of the world. They forget their original form, which is far above than these meager worldly valueless things. When Lord Ramana pours grace, we know our original form.
Even in the worst situation, one should not lose patience. ‘Tawat bhayasya bhetabyam,yawat bhay nanagat; aagatan tu bhayan beekshya, preeti kuryat yathochitam’. One should watch the situation and wait for the proper time. ‘Jab neeke din aaihen, banat na lagihen der’. Time solves all problems. We can get nothing before due time and more than allotted in the fate. We get matured, ripe and sweet result after proper period. When we show hurries, the result is always adverse and sour. ‘Jald kaam saitan ka’. Losing patience, we change the favorable situation to adverse. We cannot eat unripe fruits because it is sour. We take our food when cooked properly. Premature child seldom survives; if survives becomes handicapped.
We see the riches of our neighbors and want to be equal to him overnight, but we forget the time taken in earning the same. The result is that we lose even our original capital. ‘Gel bhains pain me, parru sahit’. It does not mean that we should not effort. We should always effort but should not lose patience. ‘Karaj dheere hot hai, kaahe hot adheer’.
The word ‘home’ indicated above is ‘Real self’. When ego (false mind- false self) goes home (real self) there is complete silence. There is only bliss. This state is called ‘samadhi’. This is like deep sleep. The experiences of deep sleep cannot be described. We can only feel it by silence. The state like deep sleep in awakened state is ‘samadhi’.
Even in the worst situation, one should not lose patience. ‘Tawat bhayasya bhetabyam,yawat bhay nanagat; aagatan tu bhayan beekshya, preeti kuryat yathochitam’. One should watch the situation and wait for the proper time. ‘Jab neeke din aaihen, banat na lagihen der’. Time solves all problems. We can get nothing before due time and more than allotted in the fate. We get matured, ripe and sweet result after proper period. When we show hurries, the result is always adverse and sour. ‘Jald kaam saitan ka’. Losing patience, we change the favorable situation to adverse. We cannot eat unripe fruits because it is sour. We take our food when cooked properly. Premature child seldom survives; if survives becomes handicapped.
We see the riches of our neighbors and want to be equal to him overnight, but we forget the time taken in earning the same. The result is that we lose even our original capital. ‘Gel bhains pain me, parru sahit’. It does not mean that we should not effort. We should always effort but should not lose patience. ‘Karaj dheere hot hai, kaahe hot adheer’.
The word ‘home’ indicated above is ‘Real self’. When ego (false mind- false self) goes home (real self) there is complete silence. There is only bliss. This state is called ‘samadhi’. This is like deep sleep. The experiences of deep sleep cannot be described. We can only feel it by silence. The state like deep sleep in awakened state is ‘samadhi’.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Sacrifice
Man is a social animal, totally different from all other animals. The human child can not survive alone. The child gains knowledge according to the society. The likes and dislikes of the society are blindly followed by the child and after some years it becomes habit, nature and religion of the person. The carpenter’s child learns carpentry, potter’s pottery, black smith’s black smithy, gold smith’s gold smithy, cobbler’s shoe making, farmer’s farming etc. Mental thought becomes same as of the society. Food habits, clothes and all other living arts naturally become according to the society. The person can’t think against it. Now a day some exceptions are seen but they have to face so many difficulties.
Our old society was based on specialization formula. There were four Varnas according to the professions. Brahmans were doing the work related to education, Kshatriyas administration, Vaishyas business and Sudras services to all. In four Varnas there were so many castes and sub castes. But all divisions were on profession basis. No one was superior or inferior. All were equal. Just like different parts of the body, different castes were the components of the society. In the body different parts have equal importance. So were the castes for the society. But specialization was the main motto. Each caste was specialized in its profession.
Brahmans were well versed in all shastras. They were like heads and brains of the body. Kshatriyas were ruling ( protecting) the society. They were like arms of the body. Baishyas were expert in farming and trading. They were like stomach of the body. Sudras were serving the above three Varnas. They were like lower portion of the body. They all were experts in their fields. Children got practical education from the very childhood. Automatically, they became well versed in the parents’ profession. All were very pleased and the society was running very smoothly & peacefully. That was the golden period. We were in Satyug, Treta and Dwaper period. In Satyug king left his kingdom, wife and son for truth. In Treta the king left his wife for the public. It was Ram-Rajya when the lion and the goat drank water together. Then Dwaper came. It was the time when all-rounder Lord Krishna came and killed all bad elements. True knowledge of Gita was taught. Society became free from evils. Next our Kalijug came. All evils came to the earth. The business of false things was started. We totally forgot our culture. All around, selfishness has spread. We forgot the word sacrifice. We are hankering after money. We want to be rich by any means, fair or unfair. We forgot to respect seniors & love juniors. Love among each other is rare.
We are doing drama and it is present day need. Actually, we have come here to perform our roles on this world stage. Our roles should be natural. We should always remember that we are doing drama. But we forget it & think the drama to be real and again start drama. I mean we start another drama in the original drama. We start false acting. Then how the natural acting can come.
One thing I wanted to tell since long. Like passengers in the train, we gather in a family for a long journey. According to our previous lives, we have different likes and dislikes. We should know the art of compromising. There is a youth. He marriages a girl. The male has different background to that of the girl. Both live together happily due to compromising nature. Each should respect another’s idea and act according to the combined decision. No one should impose one’s thought upon other. Never be rigid on anything. Always be flexible. You may be wrong. You will understand this when you think calmly. We gain much by sacrifices. We get nothing showing greediness. We conquer the world when we start sacrificing. We lose our identity (moral values, status, self pride etc) when we show greed.
‘Bin mange moti mile, mange mile na bheekh’. ------------------------contd.
Our old society was based on specialization formula. There were four Varnas according to the professions. Brahmans were doing the work related to education, Kshatriyas administration, Vaishyas business and Sudras services to all. In four Varnas there were so many castes and sub castes. But all divisions were on profession basis. No one was superior or inferior. All were equal. Just like different parts of the body, different castes were the components of the society. In the body different parts have equal importance. So were the castes for the society. But specialization was the main motto. Each caste was specialized in its profession.
Brahmans were well versed in all shastras. They were like heads and brains of the body. Kshatriyas were ruling ( protecting) the society. They were like arms of the body. Baishyas were expert in farming and trading. They were like stomach of the body. Sudras were serving the above three Varnas. They were like lower portion of the body. They all were experts in their fields. Children got practical education from the very childhood. Automatically, they became well versed in the parents’ profession. All were very pleased and the society was running very smoothly & peacefully. That was the golden period. We were in Satyug, Treta and Dwaper period. In Satyug king left his kingdom, wife and son for truth. In Treta the king left his wife for the public. It was Ram-Rajya when the lion and the goat drank water together. Then Dwaper came. It was the time when all-rounder Lord Krishna came and killed all bad elements. True knowledge of Gita was taught. Society became free from evils. Next our Kalijug came. All evils came to the earth. The business of false things was started. We totally forgot our culture. All around, selfishness has spread. We forgot the word sacrifice. We are hankering after money. We want to be rich by any means, fair or unfair. We forgot to respect seniors & love juniors. Love among each other is rare.
We are doing drama and it is present day need. Actually, we have come here to perform our roles on this world stage. Our roles should be natural. We should always remember that we are doing drama. But we forget it & think the drama to be real and again start drama. I mean we start another drama in the original drama. We start false acting. Then how the natural acting can come.
One thing I wanted to tell since long. Like passengers in the train, we gather in a family for a long journey. According to our previous lives, we have different likes and dislikes. We should know the art of compromising. There is a youth. He marriages a girl. The male has different background to that of the girl. Both live together happily due to compromising nature. Each should respect another’s idea and act according to the combined decision. No one should impose one’s thought upon other. Never be rigid on anything. Always be flexible. You may be wrong. You will understand this when you think calmly. We gain much by sacrifices. We get nothing showing greediness. We conquer the world when we start sacrificing. We lose our identity (moral values, status, self pride etc) when we show greed.
‘Bin mange moti mile, mange mile na bheekh’. ------------------------contd.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
My Childhood
At the age of seven I went to Dhanbad with Hari Bhaiya. His wife had chest infection. Badka Bhaiya (Tej Narayan) and Hari bhaiya were working in railways at Dhanbad. For the treatment she went to Dhanbad. Both the brothers were living in the same railway quarter. It had one bed room, a small verandah, a small courtyard, a service latrine in one corner of the courtyard, a small concrete water storage tank and a coal storage concrete tub. The service latrine was only for lady members. Gents used to go to common toilets constructed in the end of the block. The morning scene was pitiable. But it was very entertaining and laughing scene. There was a long queue of persons. Everyone having water pot in the hand. People, smoking and chewing tobacco had great urge for being light. They were shouting, knocking the doors and quarreling. The quarter was in old station area. The number was 162 ‘H’. It was in the name of badka bhaiya. When Belhbarbali bhabhi went there, they took another one quarter of the same type on rent. In the new quarter I and badka bhaiya lived. In the day time I was living in 162H. We took food in old quarter. When Hari bhaiya went to duty I was the only medium of communication between badka bhaiya and belhbarbali bhabhi. In our society husband’s elders and youngers’ wives never talk. Even touching clothes is prohibited. I used to serve food and water to drink and did other works as required. I went to new quarter only to sleep. There were approximately twenty quarters in one block. On one block there were two water taps a few distant apart, each having bathing platform. Though I was very lean and thin, I was very strong. I had come from a rural area and I had capacity to bear the higher coldness and scorching sun. I was stronger both physically and mentally than most of the boys of the school and of all the boys of my class. There was one Vindeshwari singh. He was a senior friend of badka bhaiya. His youngest son was Lal babu, one class junior to me. One day I was taking bath on the platform. Lal babu came and pushed me and started bathing.It was very humiliating and unbearable for me. Moreover I was stronger and always defeating him in wrestling. I gave him a stronger push and came direct under the tap. While I was bathing, Lal babu came silently in my back side and gave a hard blow on my nose with a metallic pot. My nose was cut and bleeding started. I was taken to railway hospital and treatment was done. There is still a cut mark on my nose which always reminds me the event. I got admitted in railway school in class two. The school was only 500 ft away from my quarter. At that time only two subjects Hindi & Mathematics having one book each were taught. I had memorized all the two books. I had not need of the book to read Hindi or to solve problems of Mathematics. I was able to write all the questions and answers without a stop. In the railway school students were reading Hindi very slowly and took more time in solving Math’s problems. When teachers saw my speed they became very surprised. They started to take interest in me. I got first position in the class. The school was very good and teachers were scholars. In class three I started to learn English. I started to solve Math’s problems from the book of Chakravarti. It was a marvellous book. It was collection of thousands problems. It was old style of study to make specialists. When you solve many problems of similar nature you become master of the topic. You can solve those types of sums in little time. This type of study is called professional. I had experimented it on Vimalji, my youngest son and the result was good enough. But Vimalji could not continue it because it is some boredom and requires more labor. --------------contd.
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