Hope you had a great time last week; I enjoyed the Navratri Advanced Meditation Course with Rishi Nitya Pragya ji.
After doing few DSN courses with Him it was pleasure to do an Advanced Meditation course with Him. As usual He bound everyone in His spell of Knowledge, Satsang, Devotion and presence of mind. His in-depth knowledge and study of Mind, it's working and taming it was really amazing! Truly amazing teacher, we got to learn lots of things; He left everyone totally rejuvenated, inspired - hollow and empty!
Rishi ji is one of the senior teachers to be with Guruji from the very beginning, having learnt directly from the Master Himself. Like Rishi ji, one of the other senior teachers Swami Pragyapad ji once mentioned His learning with Guruji.
Here it goes ... Swami ji said during building of Vishalakshi Mantap (beautiful meditation hall in Bangalore ashram) and the Am-phi Theater (beautiful satang place in front of Vishalakshi Mandap) He was waiting for Guruji for some directions on how to go about some final finishing touches to be given. When Guruji returned from tour, Swami ji asked Guruji how He wanted it to be. First Guruji didn't show any interest, finally Guruji directed Swami ji how He wanted things to be. After the suggestions Guruji went away on tour. Few weeks later when Guruji returned, Swami ji showed Him how the things have come out to be.
Swami ji said looking at the work done, Guruji said it was looking so ugly and asked Swamji, who had asked Him to do it that way? Guruji was looking from all the angles and complaining that it was looking ugly. Swami ji said He was totally taken aback, but could not argue with Guruji. Guruji kept Him reminding of the ugly work for sometime!
After a day or two Guruji again looked at the work and started appreciating it, saying it was looking very good...very beautiful and was very happy with it. And left Swami ji totally confused once again!
Swami ji thought for few days on why Guruji would have acted this way; first disapproving His own directions, indirectly blaming Swami ji and then after some time praising it Himself. Swami ji said - in life if something goes wrong we immediately blame others or people blame us and we start arguing and complaining instead of taking responsibility. Here, He said there was no way I could have argued with Guruji. He had no choice but to take that in-stride instead of arguing and complaining.
A big lesson learnt. Guruji has given all the knowledge in courses, books and talks but He does conduct practicals now and then to solidify knowledge learnt whether He is physically present around you or not :-)
I remember in one of the Asta Vakra Geeta CD, He says situations have been created for you to live the knowledge ... practical!
In Tibet there is a saying 'Dus nikalte hain tab koi Ek paunchta hai...!' (When Ten people start on the path only ONE reaches...!). I guess out of the ten only ONE succeeds the practical exam of the divine, others have to give the same exams again and again...event after events, birth after births. There is a beautiful story attached with this saying, will blog it some other day. Have a great week ahead and happy Dassera!
Love,
Satyajit
After doing few DSN courses with Him it was pleasure to do an Advanced Meditation course with Him. As usual He bound everyone in His spell of Knowledge, Satsang, Devotion and presence of mind. His in-depth knowledge and study of Mind, it's working and taming it was really amazing! Truly amazing teacher, we got to learn lots of things; He left everyone totally rejuvenated, inspired - hollow and empty!
Rishi ji is one of the senior teachers to be with Guruji from the very beginning, having learnt directly from the Master Himself. Like Rishi ji, one of the other senior teachers Swami Pragyapad ji once mentioned His learning with Guruji.
Here it goes ... Swami ji said during building of Vishalakshi Mantap (beautiful meditation hall in Bangalore ashram) and the Am-phi Theater (beautiful satang place in front of Vishalakshi Mandap) He was waiting for Guruji for some directions on how to go about some final finishing touches to be given. When Guruji returned from tour, Swami ji asked Guruji how He wanted it to be. First Guruji didn't show any interest, finally Guruji directed Swami ji how He wanted things to be. After the suggestions Guruji went away on tour. Few weeks later when Guruji returned, Swami ji showed Him how the things have come out to be.Swami ji said looking at the work done, Guruji said it was looking so ugly and asked Swamji, who had asked Him to do it that way? Guruji was looking from all the angles and complaining that it was looking ugly. Swami ji said He was totally taken aback, but could not argue with Guruji. Guruji kept Him reminding of the ugly work for sometime!
After a day or two Guruji again looked at the work and started appreciating it, saying it was looking very good...very beautiful and was very happy with it. And left Swami ji totally confused once again!
Swami ji thought for few days on why Guruji would have acted this way; first disapproving His own directions, indirectly blaming Swami ji and then after some time praising it Himself. Swami ji said - in life if something goes wrong we immediately blame others or people blame us and we start arguing and complaining instead of taking responsibility. Here, He said there was no way I could have argued with Guruji. He had no choice but to take that in-stride instead of arguing and complaining.
A big lesson learnt. Guruji has given all the knowledge in courses, books and talks but He does conduct practicals now and then to solidify knowledge learnt whether He is physically present around you or not :-)
I remember in one of the Asta Vakra Geeta CD, He says situations have been created for you to live the knowledge ... practical!
In Tibet there is a saying 'Dus nikalte hain tab koi Ek paunchta hai...!' (When Ten people start on the path only ONE reaches...!). I guess out of the ten only ONE succeeds the practical exam of the divine, others have to give the same exams again and again...event after events, birth after births. There is a beautiful story attached with this saying, will blog it some other day. Have a great week ahead and happy Dassera!
Love,
Satyajit
**Dus nikalte hain tab koi Ek paunchta hai...!'
ReplyDeleteAhhh..an awesome reminder.
Feel SO Blessed
Jai gurudev :))