Then came Bhaktikaal which made us weak, cheap and lame. People used to start considering oneself as sinners, of low grades and held very low self-esteem. You are the greatest of all, you are everything and words like these emerged in the era of Tulsidas, in the era of Kabir and Meera. People started to consider themselves inferior and lost the charm.
Shankaracharya was unable to remove Padpadam’s ego and He gave him all the knowledge before time. He didn’t attack him, He didn’t test him and because of this, He faced that tragedy. It was a shortcoming of Shankaracharya’s life.
However, RamKrishna Paramhansa didn’t make this mistake. There was a shortcoming in RamKrishna Paramhansa that He got so emerged in the sadhana of Goddess Kali that He got amalgamated in Her. I am neither criticizing RamKrishna Paramhans nor Shankaracharya here. I am just telling the situation. There was a serious issue with RamKrishna Paramhansa, and His disciples remained concerned because of this. The disciples didn’t want Him to come out of the temple, or to go to any marriages. The reason behind this was that the moment RamKrishna Paramhansa used to hear the word “Kali”, it became very difficult to control Him, He used to get into deep meditation.
If RamKrishna Paramhansa would be delivering His sermon and someone uttered, “Hail Mother Kali”, he used to forget everything and used to fell into deep meditation. Vivekananda noticed this shortcoming of RamKrishna Paramhansa. RamKrishna Paramhansa was a great yogi and was also a Paramhans, yet He was not capable to make anyone else Paramhansa. This was His shortcoming.
There are two scenarios: being complete and to make someone complete. Both of them are two different things. It is good that you are a learned man, however it is even better to share your knowledge. Mahaveer Himself was a great knowledgeable man, however He didn’t have the capability to preach His knowledge to others.
Without any doubt RamKrishna Paramhansa was definitely a Paramhansa, however He was not capable to transfer His knowledge to others. Swami Vivekananda observed this shortcoming and He created a slightly different path called Rajyog. You might have read Vivekananda’s Rajyog. RamKrishna Paramhansa did a great wise thing. He energized three of the seven chakras of Vivekananda and told Vivekananda that He will energize the rest charkas near to His death.
Now Vivekananda was in a great distress because He had tasted the pleasure which emerged by energizing the three chakras…. however He also knew that the uncomparable eternal bliss can only be attained after energizing all the seven chakras. He started to think what should be done and how it should be done? And RamKrishna Paramhansa was aware that if He energizes all the seven chakras of Vivekananda, then He would also reach into a stage of deep meditation where He would be unable to share His knowledge just like me. And RamKrishna Paramhansa knew that if it happens, all His knowledge would die with Him. And due to this reason, all the knowledge of RamKrishana Paramhansa spread through the mouth of Vivekananda. RamKrishna Paramhansa lacked in explaining His knowledge. His entire knowledge, His consciousness, His sadhanas, His worship of Goddess Kali, His experiences all got narrated by Vivekananda. In other words, Vivekananda was RamKrishna Paramhan’s mouth.
And as you questioned, that by what means, by what process can we refrain ourselves from becoming into Padpadam? You are not becoming Padpadam. Guru must ensure that the disciple must not become Padpadam in life. No matter how much you try to appease Him, no matter how much you try to flatter Him, Guru must remain alert and must attack on the disciple.
He must test you because He will need only three seconds to take you to the level that He has dreamt for you. If I have five lakh rupees and I will just need five minutes to make you an owner of one lakh rupees. I will not need much time, I have to only give one lakh from my five lakhs. However, prior to giving anything, the Guru must ensure that you must not misuse it. It is because, a disciple can’t appreciate the worth of anything attained in life without putting any sincere efforts. He will only gain ego and it would be very dangerous for the Guru. Guru must ensure to free His disciple from any sort of ego.
And if we look into the history, then we can make out that such mistakes have been made and the disciples have misused the knowledge which led to nothing else but self destruction. Due to this reason, Guru must ensure that no more Padpadams get created and the disciple must try to become Vivekananda and there are three steps for it. And that are the steps of serving Guru, to have full faith in Him and to offer one self in His holy feet.
If you are serving me, you are not doing me any favors. You are also not favoring me by showing faith in me. You will become a normal man, just like several other fifty men in your allay. Someone is earning his living by means of cutting woods, someone is earning his living by means of iron ores and someone by any other means. And, even you can earn like this and live a life just like an animal. Your ancestors did the same and there is nothing great in such a life, there is nothing brilliant in living such a life.
Meera said, “Suli Upar Sez Piya Ki, Kis Vidhi Milano Hoye” i.e. the lover is sitting on a very huge thorn and how can I reach to that place? If I have to meet him, then I have to travel all this distance and have to bear the pricking of this thorn. This capability to bearing the pain of a thorn’s prick will help you to meet your lover one day.
And if you want to attain that knowledge, then you must be tested for this. You have to bear all the tests, you will have to bear all the attacks. He will attack you but you must bear all the pains smilingly, you must show your gratitude, you must show your faith with your soul, heart and your consciousness. You might have seen that during winter season Mansarovar lake get frozen and people can play football over it. At that time, swans fly away from there and they travel thousands of miles and reach Twang lake, which is a hot water lake. It is the only lake whose water remains hot even during winters. Mansarovar and Twang lake are around three thousand miles apart and these swans fly from Mansarovar and reach to this Twang lake. They take the shelter of same tree which they had used the last year. They don’t change the tree, whether it is green or has shed all the leaves. These swans stick to the same tree, even the birds have so much of understanding.
And we are such lame people that we keep on changing our Guru. Today we are with one Guru and tomorrow we will be with some different Guru. We make a Guru at Haridwar and an another Guru in Rishikesh the very next day. Those who keep on changing tree everyday, their life can’t get settled. Those swans are better than we human beings, because irrespective of whether the tree is green or not, they take the shelter of the same tree. Swan knows that if I can get a shelter, then this is the place. This is known as faith, these swans are much better and have more wisdom than human beings.
All these business men who come to meet me are more cunning than you people and they have earned a lot of money like this. They are more shrewd than you and still they have to keep their eyes lower before me because I am more clever than those people. I understand their cunningness, I understand their voice and they can’t fool me. They might be able to fool others, but they can’t fool me like this. This is because I know from where he is speaking. I have not cut grass in my life, I have done farming of humans in life. I know that this is a waste seed and this is a useful seed. This one has twenty five seeds where as this one is empty. I know this because I have spent my entire life in this thing only.
I have a complete barometer in front of me and just within a second I come to know where you stand in your life. No matter how you pray to me, no matter how much you worship me, I am not going to get fooled. The moment I see that you have attained that level of surrendering, I will need just a fraction of second to convert you into gold. You may attain this level by putting an effort of twenty years or five years. Someone may attain this level within five minutes also. I have told you that you have only three paths by which you can be converted from iron to gold in life. I have handed over the philosopher’s stone in your hand which are called as faith, service and surrendering. Guru knows very well what task He is giving to you. You don’t have to put your brain into it that why Guru has given this task to you.
You must know that it is clearly mentioned in Guru Granth Sahib that if someone makes a mistake, he must be given the task to clean the shoes whosoever comes to the temple. Barnala was the chief minister of Punjab when he was evicted from Sikhism and when he was taken back, he was sentenced to clean the shoes of people who come to Gurudwara for twenty four hours.
Guru knows it very well what task should be handed over to you. Thus, it entirely depends upon you whether you want to become Padpadam or Vivekananda in life. It is entirely in your hands, Guru will stand at His place. I am not going to repeat the mistake that Mahavir, Buddha and Shankaracharya committed. There were some shortcomings in their life and I am not hesitant in speaking about those. I know that there are thousands of their followers, it is possible that someone might come up with a stick in his hand, and this has happened with me. However, if I have power, if I have the capability then history will itself answer about it.
History will definitely narrate that whatever is said by this man is correct. If there were any shortcomings in the life of Shankaracharya, then it must be told and if there were any specialities in His life, then they must also be narrated. Due to this reason, the entire civilization became incorrect. Ocean himself stepped ahead and reached to Gangotri. This was the fault, Ocean must have not cross its boundary. It was too early for Shankaracharya to impart knowledge of highest form to Padpadam without removing Padpadam’s ego. And since ego was not removed, Padpadam started to think that now he should become Shankaracharya in life. However, to become Shankaracharya, he has to kill him first. Such a great crime occurred only because his ego was not removed, the dirtiness of his blood was not removed. This was the shortcoming of Shankaracharya, this was the biggest fault of Shankarachrya and He had to pay for it by losing His life.
Without any doubt, a disciple is indebted towards Guru. You are indebted because the Guru is giving you knowledge, and knowledge is something which can’t be obtained easily in life. You can’t attain knowledge by wearing saffron clothes in life. You can’t attain knowledge by wearing flashy clothes. You can’t attain knowledge by sitting on a throne kept at a higher place. You can’t attain knowledge creating an army of five thousand people behind you who are just your blind followers. You can’t attain knowledge by making ten thousand people praise loudly about you. I can easily call upon hundred two hundred ascetics by paying them five rupees each. A lot of beggars are there in Haridwar, Allahabad, who are ready to stand for you for a day in five rupees. I can make five thousand such people stand for me and make them speak out aloud “Hail Narayandutt Shrimali Ji!” and you people will feel that this Guruji is certainly very great as ten thousand ascetics are praising Him. I could have done like this, I just had to give five rupees for this. However I don’t believe in such plays. Only that person has to enact who doesn’t have knowledge in life!
The day I stop speaking about the truth, I can no longer call myself a Guru. That day, I won’t have any authority to call myself a Guru. If I have knowledge, if I have the capability and if I can speak out the truth, then I am a real Guru. Without any doubt, I am proud of myself and you must also be proud of this fact that your Guru always speaks out words full of courage and is ready to hear such words too.
And due to this reason, I bless you all that may you be able to attain that capability in life. May you be able to improve yourself, may you be able to reach the final level of surrendering….and you can clean your blood by these three steps only and the day you will be able to do it, the iron will itself turn into gold. You are already holding the philosopher’s stone in your hand and you just need to touch it. There is no chemistry left after that, just one second is needed for it. Now it is all in your hands how much sincere efforts you are going to put into this to attain such great heights in your life.
Ganges has to travel for four thousand miles to meet the ocean. If it stops in between at Haridwar thinking that what’s the need to go and get merge into the ocean, as thousands of people are already worshiping me, thousands of people are praising me, millions of people consider me holy and take dip into me, then why should I travel so far and meet the Ocean. However, in that case, the water of Ganges will only be left for bathing, then it would not be able to meet the Ocean (God) and if it gets dried up, then no one will praise Her. Her completeness is in uniting with ocean and thus She doesn’t stop in between.
If someone starts to pray you tomorrow, then you will stop in between your path thinking that what’s the need to progress further now? I have already attained some siddhis in life! However this is not your completeness. To get united with the Guru in life is termed as completeness of life. And I chose this path in my life and I traveled on this path. I know the traits of a disciple, I know the thought process of a disciple, I have served by becoming a disciple and due to this reason only I proudly speak about the traits and characteristics of a disciple with you people. I didn’t waste my life by just wearing saffron clothes, I have not just praised my Guru and I even don’t like getting praised. I myself don’t wish that you people should praise me and also there is no need to praise me.
I say that if there is something special in me, then people will definitely identify me. If they don’t me today, then they will identify me two hundred years after my death, but it will be too late at that time and they will regret for it . Today, after two thousand years of Shankaracharya’s death, we repent a lot that we killed a great personality – we made a great mistake in our life. Today when we go through Shankaracharya’s life we realize that what a great knowledgeable personality, how hard working and what a great yogi He was and He was an incarnation of Lord Shiva himself. We realize all these now.
Perhaps may be after one thousand or two thousand years of my death people will remember me. However, this personality won’t be there at that time with whom you can talk, in whose holy feet you can sit, from whom you can gain knowledge…that would be a big shortcoming of life. May Lord bless you through enlightenment that you may be able to recognize my true form, may your third eye get activated, may you become knowledgeable in life, may faith and surrender flourish in you, I am blessing you all for that. I bless you all from the depth of my heart again.
SadGuruDev Shri KailashChandra Shrimali
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