From
the very beginning of my life I have felt that there is much more to
life than what we see or perceive. Yet we are not able to clearly find
out what that is. You want someone else to guide you for it.
In the matter of academic education, in the beginning of your life, you
join schools which your parents select for you. Later in life, when you
are mature enough to form your own judgment, you decide on your own, for
the education, you would like to have and what your goals in life are?
Here too you are limited in many ways.
Firstly, it depends on where you are born and what facilities are
available at that time. Even if the facilities are available, you may
not be economically in a position to make use of them. All these are
very complex factors and are often so interconnected that one gets
baffled with the course of events taking place, on which one has almost
no control.
If this happens in the academic field, much more complex it is in the
spiritual field. There too first the education is received through one's
parents in accordance with their faith and beliefs. But as one grows up,
one finds that what one learnt does not agree with one's own ideas.
Certain dogmas accepted by one's parents do not agree with one's
expanding mind trained on the basis of fresh knowledge acquired through
modern science. There starts the conflict. No doubt, the parent's
beliefs have a significant influence, but adjustments are made to suit
one's own individuality. This is what has continued to happen to me all
through my life.
Here I would
like to narrate a very special experience that I had sometimes in
1964-65. I was then stationed in Bangalore and was very much interested
in spirituality. One Maharaj Charan Singh, the spiritual head of Radha
Swami Satsang of Beas in India had come there. Some friend of mine told
me that I must go and see him as he was considered to be very spiritual.
I went to meet him and asked, “Maharaj ji, in every religion it is said
that without the will of God, nothing is possible. Not a blade of grass
can grow, nor a leaf can move. If that be so, we are all acting
according to the will of God. In that case, why does sin attach to man?”
He replied, “Yes, it is absolutely true that nothing moves without the
will of God. But when we do something good, we say ‘I did it’. When we
do something bad, we say ‘I did not want to do it but had to, because
someone else had done some thing bad to me’. If we do not find anyone
else to blame, we say, ‘It was the will of God’. So God’s will is only
for the bad we do, and not for the good? As long as there are two ‘I’s
in you, both sin as well as good will attach. Only if you can remove
these two ‘I’s , neither sin, nor good will attach to you.”
How true were his words? All the clouds of doubts vanished from my mind
and I could see the clear light of reason. My next question to him was,
“I want to find a Guru. How to find out who the true Guru is? The first
condition of a Guru is ‘to obey him blindly. If I get the right person,
it will be O.K., but if he was not, I will be lost for ever. How to find
the right person?”
To this he replied, “Guru is never searched as it is not the Diamond
that searches the jeweler. It is the jeweler, who searches the Diamond.
So one has to become a diamond and the Guru will come to him.” Again it
is so true. Diamond and graphite are made of the same element ‘Carbon’.
To become a diamond, Carbon has to pass through extremely high
temperature, pressure and for a long time. So is with us. All the
tribulations of the world for time immemorial are the pressures and high
temperatures through which we have to pass before we can become
diamonds. No shortcuts! No Gurus.
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From
the very beginning of my life I have felt that there is much more to
life than what we see or perceive. Yet we are not able to clearly find
out what that is. You want someone else to guide you for it.
