Ref: Kamarpukur
Date: 07.04.2010.
!!!!! Jai Sri Sri Maa!!!!!
Today after morning tea & breakfast, I had been to take the darshan of mother's cottage. As I entered cottage where mother resided for fifty two long years from (1863 – 1915), Swami jyatrigahananadji Maharaj was about to leave the cottage. I offered pranams
to him with all the affection he asked me about myself. After replying to his questions I also explained him that as I was in kamarpukur from yesterday. I could see him delivering the discourse yesterday after evening aarti(prayer) on Bhagvad Gita . Further I said since I do not understand Bengali I could not attend the discourse inspite of wishing so. On my explanation he said, if you have any questions on sadhana you can please meet me, I asked about the time, pat came the reply within five minutes, you can meet me in the office corridors. Since I was not willing to loose the opportunity I immediately offered pranams to mother & her cottage & went to office corridors. Maharaj came took his seat & offered me mine. After I was made comfortable he requested me to go ahead with my queries.
Me: Maharaja whenever I visit Serene, Pious places like Belgaum, Vrindavan, and my mind is elevated the Naam japa starts coming on its own. But it is not consistent; when I go back the graph goes to its original.
Swamiji: Is your mind stable all the time?
Me: No.
Swamiji: It keeps on worrying about your children, wife, and family. It keeps on thinking when the cost of living & the prices of all the commodities are going sky high how do I maintain my family? How will I be able to make up the expenditure & maintain the style of leaving? So when you are not able to concentrate on yourself on god how do you expect to elevate your mind? So for concentrating on god what you need to do is keep yourself devoid of all worries. This is possible when you have utmost faith in god. About this lord has said in Bhagvad gita that those who surrender me completely, I take care of all their needs. Once they surrender I ensure that they get all those things which they need & desire. I preserve the things which they have for themselves. To do all these things, it is highly difficult in the world. But alike by reading the books on how to ride a bicycle or how to swim you will not be able to swim or ride the bicycle. For that to happen you need to start, Start & practice continuously. Do best whatever you can in order to explain how you can practice it in daily life he elaborated saying as you know that we all are embodiments of god. So while leading normal life you should practice following :
Whenever you are dealing with wife or children you should be able to realize that these are embodiments of the lord & lord has offered you the opportunity to serve him through them. Once you realize this, that you are serving the embodiments of god the things become more easy & different. With your changed approach you cannot hurt anybody. In today's age where difference of opinion between parents & offspring's, or between husband & wife is a major issue, if you adopt this you will not have any problem. In the process of doing so what really happens is that you are changing yourself. Once you change yourself the whole world will change. Now what is happening is that you are always in the process of altering / changing others & they do not change. Thus you get irritated with this methodology if you can see towards an incidence you will find the incidence completely different say somebody insults you & you get hurt. But if you really see towards it what is happening is both being (the one who is insulted & the one who is insulting) embodiment of the god. So the incidence is interpreted as God is insulting god & that is the fact.
Further to explain the ignorance from the reality, he narrated a short story; Once a devotee came to thakurji (master) & asked the querry whether should we carry image worship? This question has aroused in his mind because during those days in Bengal brahmo samaj was prevalent who did not believe in image worship, Similarly Christians & Muslims too do not believe in the image worship. Hence the above doubt peeped in the mind of the devotee. In answer to that Thakurji quoted a shlok(verse) from Vedanta (Vedanta is the small portion of the Vedas) He said everything in this world is made of five things (panchtatva) & those five things are aasti, bhati, priya, naam, roop. Out of these five things first three things are brahma roop. Aasti: means astitva i.e. existence; Bhati : means Luminous i.e. visible. Priya : means dear(Dear because of its utility value or any other reason like you are attached). Naam : Means identification i.e name used for identification. Roop : Means visibility. God himself has said that I exist in all those things which are aasti, bhati, priya means it is clear that god exists in all things whether living or non living which are asti, bhati, priya. The very birth of Sri Sri Thakurji was for spreading the jist of Vedanta in such simple words. But inspite of knowing all these things we are not able to sense it or implement it & it is only because of ignorance & when this ignorance will go? Only than when our guru does krupa & helps us to see that everything what is aasti, bhati, priya, naam & roop is nothing but embodiment of god.
Further in the continuation to the talk he asked me do you read gospel? I said, I have
Read it but I do not read daily on that he conveyed that, Swami Bramanandji maharaj & one more president maharaj has said that the devotee who is able to continue reading gospel for twelve continuous years without any break daily for fifteen to twenty minutes can attain salvation. He explained the reason behind the same & that is alike gospel of sri sri Ramakrishna there is no book in any religion which is written in the presence of the avatar. This is the only book which is noted as the avatar spoke. He further conveyed the tip that after reading the book you should think (ponder) over the thoughts expressed in the book (which is also known as chintan & manan on the portion read).
To continue with the discussions I asked Maharajji that holy mother has once said that" Joyrambati" is Shiv kshetra(Shiv Bhumi) " A three nught stay in Joyrambati will purify devotees body for sure this is Shiva's domain" Can you please tell me the story associated with this?
Maharajji, readily briefed the story once their were three very notorious people residing in Kolkatta they committed all possible sins during their life time & young age. As they started growing old, they realized their mistakes & to repent on the same. They approached Ramkrishna math at Belur. For getting initiation (diksha) the president there than (Swami Brahmanandji Maharajji) rakhal maharaj after seeing them he could come to know that these were very notorious people & have committed too many sins. Thus he refused to give dikhsa on such reaction of swamiji those three men started requesting & crying time & again. After listening to their urge swamiji said I cannot give you initiation; there is only one such soul in this world who can do so; you can go to Joyrambati & request holy mother for the same if she says yes or if she gives initiation to you than there is no problem. On listening to swamiji's words those three men visited Joyrambati & met holy mother on meeting her mother realized the truth on which she had funnily made a remark see all sons wherever they go what do they do? They send all good things to their mother from wherever they are but look here what has rakhal send me this time. After meeting this trio alike rakhal maharaj mother also denied the
initiation. On listening no from mother they started crying & holding the feet of the mother & requesting. After looking at them as usual mother changed her mind & asked them to stay for three nights in joyrambati. It is in this context she has said that stay of three nights in Joyrambati will purify devotees mind. After stay of three nights mother initiated them.
With this short story the discourse for the day was over. As other visitors came to see Maharaj. I took permission for the day.
Place : Joyrambati
Location : Corridor of the office.
Time : 6.30 Am to 7. 30 Am.
Details of PHoto : This is the residence where Holy mother resided for fifty two long years.
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