गुरुवाणी

Once upon a time, I was angry with the world. I extremely loved a lot of people and many of them had taken advantage/ disadvantage of my love. I started cursing them. I started insulting them. I started blaming that they tried to fool me. I told them they don’t deserve my trust and love. I shouted at everyone as if I was someone great. Then I met my GURU.

He told me that “You change your point of view and you will be able to see, their view is RIGHT at their place.” I did it and I realised “He was right”.  

Then he told me that “You love others because you need them. You trust them because you are dependent on them.” I checked and found that “Yes. He was right.”

I asked him “It is very much true that I need them. But they also need me. They also need my love. Then why only I should change my view and not them?”

He further told me “You are angry with someone only if your expectations are not fulfilled. You love them and trust them against your expectations from them. It’s not a true love and trust. True love expects nothing, not even love in return. The true trust understands that there is hidden reason behind the behaviours and never gets destroyed.”

I thought for some time and realised that I cannot be angry because my expectations are not fulfilled. Either I should stick to my view and leave others or I should change my view. I can’t blame others because I have not achieved something. It is my failure. I must change the way of doing things.

He further explained me, “Today they may not be able to repay you in a way you want. That does not mean they are wrong. By blaming and hurting others, they will close the doors forever for us. If we feel that only we are right, we have to close the doors from our end without hurting them. Tomorrow when we understand the different views, we can open the door again for a comeback.”

He finally told me “Remember always, you are not the nature. You are a very small part of it. Give the time to nature so it makes you understand the things. The things and relations can be destroyed easily but it takes years to build it. Don’t try to overcome and rule if you don’t have the power of building it. We are here to change ourselves, not to change the nature.”

एका योग्याची डायरी - Faith & Reality

December 16, 2001

Faith & Reality are two base on which our life exists.

We think.

We do things based on what we think.

For every thought, we assume some reality as a base.

The reality is not our experience. It is something that is passed to us through someone else. We never check, whether the thought passed to us is true or false. We have faith on the person who passes it to us and we accept it. We call someone “Mother”, because the lady and others inform us about it. We never check whether it is true or false. This is “FAITH”. It may or may not be truth.

We think on what we know.

We think that what we know is truth.

We think that what we know as a truth does exist.

We think that our thoughts are based on the truth.

We repeat the thoughts again and again.

We do things based on our thoughts and we experience that the results of our KARMA are as per what we were informed.

Further we experience that our thoughts and experiences are as much as same to others. We think that all of us are right. Our faith increases that, the reality experienced by us does exist and it is the truth & only truth.

Truth has always a proof. The truth, which is assumed, is not the truth and is a reality. In my world, so & so lady is my mother. For me, this is reality. My thoughts about her are based on this reality. Similarly the other relationships are developed in my life, which are reality but accepted by me as truth.

The entire world is based on this kind of reality, which never exists.

Resulting, all our assumptions are wrong. Our thoughts are developed on this reality which never exists.  The thoughts are developed on wrong base. Again resulting, all thoughts are my imaginations and not the truth. We are living in the darkness of this reality.

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Someday someone enters in our life and who has a light in his hand. A clear path is visible in this light. We experience newly that that the reality is not 100% truth or not even 50% truth. We are shocked. Till the person having light in his hand is with us, we travel on right path. Our life becomes smooth.

A day arrives, light gets off. We are again in the darkness of the old reality. Now the person holding light in his hand is also lost in so-called reality as there is no more light in his hand.

When we were walking through the light, we had experienced many good things. Now we wish those things back in our life. So we start looking for a person having light in his hand. We wait for him to arrive in our life and show us path.

Most of us go to a person about whom this reality world informs us that he has light in his hand. Sometimes the person is right sometimes wrong.

Again now all above things are based on the so-called “Reality” or on the experience about the existing world, which we think or rather we assume as a truth.

The normal/ regular light existing in this world is different that of the one we experienced with that person. Both lights are part of this existing world. One is true light other is reality.

Once we experience the true light, we are suppose to search this true light.

All of us are running through the real world. But after experiencing the true light, most of us are losing the path again and again. The only way to survive is to become a true light ourselves.

Everyone has got light inside us. But all are searching the light outside.

I have seen the light. I had been a part of that light and now back to make others like me. My powers were limited comparing to those of yours. But still i reached there first, just because I studied and am studying all of you.

For this, first, you have to realise the difference in the so-called real world and the true world. 

You should know the difference in the light of this world and the true light. The knowledge is not sufficient. You have to experience this. You have to increase the range of experience and then only it will be a start of becoming light yourself.

I wish that all of you become lights and others walk in correct path through that light.

With Lots of LOVE

वासना आणि प्रेम

वासना आणि प्रेम यात फार सूक्ष्म रेषा आहे. जगात प्रत्येक जण स्वतःच्या भावनांना उदात्त प्रेम समजत असतो. मग खरे प्रेम आणि वासना यात फरक कसा ओळखावा?

दोन्हीमध्ये एक समान धागा आहे. ती म्हणजे कोणत्या तरी गोष्टीची भूक किंवा तृष्णा ....!

वासना असेल तर तृप्ती कधीच होत नाही. मन आणि शरीर सारखे सांगत असते "आणखीन पाहिजे .... आणखीन पाहिजे". कधी एकदा आपल्या वासनेची पुर्ती होते ही घाई लागलेली असते.

प्रेमाला मात्र संयमाची जोड असते.

वासना संभ्रमित असते आणि हक्क गाजवते तर प्रेम विश्वास देते.

वासना आपल्याला स्वतःला काय हवे तेव्हढेच पाहते. प्रेम स्वतःचा विचार करत नाही. सर्वांना काय हवे याचा विचार करते.

वासना व्यसनाला जन्म देते. एकदा तृप्ती झाली तरी थोड्या वेळात लगेच पुन्हा तृष्णा लागणे हे वासनेचे लक्षण आहे. पुन्हा पुन्हा तृष्णापुर्तीची आस लागणे यालाच व्यसन म्हणतात. माणसाला कितीही मिळाले तरी पुनः पुन्हा तेच तेच हवे असते .. परत परत तो त्याचाच विचार करत असतो. एखाद्या ठिकाणी आपल्याला हवे ते आहे हे समजले कि माणसे अक्षरश तिथून ओरबाडून आपली तृष्णा पुरवायचा प्रयत्न करतात. त्यांना याचे भान नसते कि समोर वस्तू आहे, निसर्ग आहे, व्यक्ती की शक्ती... फक्त आपले शरीर आणि मन यापलीकडे विचाराची धाव जात नाही. वस्तू तुटून जात असते, व्यक्ती मोडून पडत असते, निसर्गाचा संहार होत असतो, शक्तीचा क्षय होत असतो. समोरच्याने कितीही सांगितले तरी आपण काय करतोय हे भान नसते. पण याची पर्वा न करता ती वस्तू, व्यक्ती शक्ती नष्ट होईपर्यंत शोषण करत आपली तृष्णापुर्ती करण्यात माणसे मग्न असतात.

प्रेमात माणूस इतरांना काय देऊ शकतो याचा विचार करतो. आपल्याकडे नसेल तर कुठून तरी ते इतरांना मिळावे याचा विचार करत असतो. आपल्या वाट्याला जे आणि जितके येते त्याचा आदरपूर्वक स्वीकार करून ते आपल्या आजूबाजूला असलेल्या सर्वांना वाटून देत असतो. जो जितका वाटत जातो त्याला तितके परत मिळत जाते. कधी कधी तर इतके मिळते की वाटूनही पुन्हा झोळी भरलेलीच राहते.

प्रेमाची अत्यंत उत्कट अवस्था म्हणजे राधा  आणि मीरा ... एकीला सुरुवातीला थोडा काळ थेट सहवास मिळाला आणि त्यावर तिने उरलेले आयुष्य समाधानात काढले. दुसरीला प्रत्यक्ष सहवास किती मिळाला? मात्र तरीही ती प्रेमात बुडून राहिली. दोघींनीही कृष्णाला कधीही धमकी दिली नाही की मला तू अमुक दिले नाहीस तर मी तमुक करेन किंवा मला हे मिळाले नाही तर मी काही तरी करून घेईन. प्रेमाचा आधार असतो ... विश्वास ! तिथे धमकी नसते ... खात्री असते. जे माझे आहे ते मला आज ना उद्या मिळेल याची जाणीव असते आणि ते मिळेपर्यंत थांबायची तयारी असते.

प्रेम आणि वासना दोन्हीचा मार्ग काट्याकुट्यामधून जातो.... वेदनामय असतो.

वासना असेल तर माणूस समोरच्याकडे रडून, भीक मागून, धाक दपटशा दाखवून, भावूक होऊन, भावनात्मक धमक्या देऊन आपली मागणी रेटत राहतो. आपली वेदना हीच सर्वात श्रेष्ठ .. आणि तिच्यापुढे सर्व जग थिटे आहे हे स्वतःशीच घोकत असतो आणि समोरच्याला पटवून देत राहतो.

प्रेम मात्र माणसाला ताकद देते. कितीही वेदना झाली तरी चेहऱ्यावरचे हसू कायम असते ... मनापासून असते आणि मुख्य म्हणजे आपण काही जगावेगळे करतोय असा अविर्भाव, अभिमान यांचा लवलेशही नसतो. याचे अंतिम टोक म्हणजे आईचे प्रेम, गुरुचे प्रेम ... यात काहीही मिळवण्याची इच्छा नसते. लेकराने लाथ मारली तरी "सुखी राहा" हेच शब्द उमटतात.

आपण कसे आहोत काय वागतो आहोत हे प्रत्येकाने डोळसपणे पाहिले आणि अभ्यासले तर आपले आपल्या जोडीदारावर, मित्रावर, मैत्रिणीवर, नातेवाईकांवर प्रेम आहे की वासना हे प्रत्येकाला समजू शकेल. पण घोडे अडते ते इथेच ... डोळे उघडून माझ्या स्वतःकडे पहायची माझी तयारी आहे का?