सतसं्गतवे ननससं्गतवं |

Sath sangathve nissangathvam

ननससं्गतवे ननममोहतवं |

Nissangathve nirmohathvam

ननममोहतवे ननशछलततवं

Nirmohathve nischalathathvam

ननशछलततवे जीवनमरुि्तदह |

Nischalathathve jeevanmukthihi

-भ्गवान आदद शंकर ||

-Bhagavan Aadhi Shankara

Company of the wise begets unattachedness Unattachedness leads to freedom from delusion Void of delusion brings steadfastness Steadfastness paves the way for emancipation

Guru Purnima

Antevasi, yes we are each a small wave of the Ocean of Truth, Source of our each breath and Source of our each thought. A very well attended Guru Purnima Today. All of us enjoyed blessings of Thatha. Memories of this year Guru Purnima are wonderful! Thatha was so full of energy even after giving away all his Punyam from his account. We were collapsing after 10 p.m. but he and my mother who was over 90 were still talking with so much energy. In the evening session, explanation given by Maharishi Narayan Devotee was profusely praised by Thatha. It was a wonderful day with full of divine energy. Thatha blessed Gnaneswar that he would become the most sought after scientist by not only ISRO but also by NASA and make his parents feel proud.

A young man asked a monk, ‘What is ego?’ The monk in turn asked him, ‘Who are you?’ The young man gave his name.

‘It is your name; who are you?’ monk countered. Young man: I am a boy.

Monk: It is your gender; who are you? Youngster: I am a student

Monk: It is your present station, vocation in life; who  are you?

Having nothing more to say, the young man finally told:  I don’t know.

The monk directed: Come after ‘I’ has gone.

(Note: Monk didn’t say ‘Come after I have gone’, which literally means after he has left the place. But what he meant is not that)

Next day the boy returned and pleaded with all reverence to the monk:

‘Sir, I don’t know who I am. But I want to know’.

‘Well, that is what Vedanta teaches,’ continued the monk.

Vedanta says man’s deepest core or substance within, is not conditioned by any description and that un-conditioned substance is called Athman or Self. The Athman is what a man is. Ego is what he appears to be. Athman is true, ego is false. Athman is never born nor dies; ego comes into being through ignorance and dies when wisdom dawns in a person. In the above narration, the monk was Ramana Maharishi.

Swami Vivekananda’s beautiful explanation of association.

Explaining meaning of ‘Association’ he said: “A rain drop falls from the sky.

If it is held by clean hand, it is pure enough for drinking.

If it falls in gutter, its value drops so much that it can’t  be used even for washing your feet.

If it falls on a hot surface, it will evaporate. If it falls on a lotus leaf, it shines like a pearl.

And finally, if it falls in an oyster, it becomes a pearl.

The drop is the same, but its existence and worth depends on whom it is associated with.

Always be associated with people who are good at heart.

You will experience your own inner transformation”.

Today once again Thatha blessed a man who was suffering for the past ten years from a skin problem for which all doctors like allopathy, ayurveda and other types of therapies could not give relief and gave up hope. He just tested the devotion and then with a simple remedy assured him that he will be cured since he is good and shows sympathy towards others, honest and sincere in all that he does. Like miracle, immediately things recommended by Thatha reached hands of that devotee so that he need not have to go in search of them. That is our Thatha the great! Once again he denied that he did nothing except advising the concerned person what came at that particular moment. He explained about using them once more and sent them with a big smile of relief in their faces. Both husband and wife thanked Thatha profusely and left. When shared that with Thatha, he said that faith is bhakthi or devotion. Whether a child or middle aged or old age, one should have faith, and without that nothing can happen. Even a Guru will bless a person depending upon his state of mind, whether he has faith, and only when he has proved that he deserves help or guidance from Guru, he will bless.

Thatha also shared his experience with his Guru, how he was made to disintegrate his body into so many parts and asked to assemble them again to understand anatomy of body. That is how he was taught about so many things. Guru’s methods will be different, depending upon the requirements of disciple. Not that all hundred were trained in the same way. Do not  think that space is empty. It is full of atoms. It has so much energy that when an object travels through space, it can be burnt into ashes if it hits against anything or some atoms. Creation is so wonderful that everything is interconnected and interdependent. For example, even planet earth is dependent on space, without space it cannot exist  and  it  eats  its  food from the space. We  are created in such a way that   any intake means there should be equal amount of output in different forms from the body. Otherwise body cannot survive. Same is the case with all types of things in this creation. Without understanding this simple law, we claim ownership of many things and dancing with ego, always using words like “I” and ‘mine’!

Then we discussed about an incident in which a lady gynecologist doctor whose uterus had been earlier removed was reportedly blessed with a child by Puttaparthi Sathya Saibaba. Thatha smiled and said “Saintly personalities can do anything. Raghavendra, Puttaparthi and Shirdhi Saibabas are all saintly persons. You educated people say that there are nine holes in the body. No? Then through these holes, anything can be put inside the body also. Since spare parts of body for all living beings are available in the space, it is possible to create once more. Any part removed from the body except heart, can be recreated like this using spare parts from space”.

Thatha says: Each one of us is accountable to our creator. Since our bodies are created out of combination of many atoms, on the final judgement day, we will be asked to give account for all atoms given to us how we used them. We should keep our income and expenses account ready for that day. We should be in a ready condition to submit account even before we are asked. All atoms are working day and night without any  rest. For a second if inhalation and exhalation stops, we are no more. That is how we are programmed by the creator. Even air is dependent on trees and plants to purify it. So even air cannot be proud about itself. Let us thank our creator for making us aware about all these things and secrets of creation through Divine messages and our Thatha!