PRAKRITAM AZHAGIYA SINGHAR(PART 13)

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PRAKRITAM AZHAGIYA SINGHAR,

MY ACHARYA, FRIEND, PHILOSOPHER AND GUIDE (PART 13)

 

Dear Bhagavatas,

Presented below is Part 13 on the above subject being excerpts from my talk

during the 600th Anniversary Celebrations of Ahobila Matam held at New York

during the first week of September 1998.

Dasoham

Anbil Ramaswamy

 

· ABOUT MONKEY AND MEDICINE

 

To illustrate how the more you try consciously to control your mind the more

erratic it behaves, the Swami narrated the following:

 

Once a doctor gave his patient some medicine for some ailment and cautioned

him that there was only one restriction. The patient should not think of

monkey while taking the medicine Every time the patient took a dose, the

thought of monkey automatically came to his mind!

 

· ABOUT A FAKE SANNYASI:

 

There was a King very devoted to Saints and was prepared to do what it took to

please them. A few thieves wanted to cheat the king. They caught hold of an

innocent fellow and dressed him up like a Sannyasi and asked him to act like

one. instructing him that if the King asked him what he wanted, he should

demand half of the kingdom but on one condition - that he should turn over to

them half of whatever he got from the King. The poor fellow agreed.

 

When he was presented before the King as a great Saint from the Himalayas, the

King offered him a royal reception and asked him what he desired. The fellow

was so overwhelmed by the Upacharam that he thought 'If even for acting like

a Sannyasi, he were to command so much respect, what is it he cannot get if he

turned really so'. He replied that he did not desire anything at all and

narrated how the thieves were misusing him. The King naturally gave due

punishments to them.

 

· ABOUT FORCE OF HABIT:

 

A person was sitting on a pile of stones heaped on the banks of a river. He

had heard that in the heap there was a precious gem and he wanted to take hold

of the gem. But, he was not sure how to locate the real one from out of the

heap. So, he started picking up the stones one by one to examine and when

found it was not the right one he threw it away into the waters. When actually

the correct gem came into his hands and before he could make a determination

he threw that also away involuntarily by force of habit!

 

· ABOUT UTTANAPAADAR:

 

When I mentioned that I was going to America, he visualized two persons one

standing In India and the other standing in America. Since the world is round,

when the feet of the one in India were down, the feet of the one in America

(which is at the other side of the globe) would have to be up. That is

probably why, he said, those in America were "Uttanapadas" with reference to

those in India and vice versa!

 

· "SERUPPU SAADHIYUM":

 

To emphasize how one should concentrate on the Sevai of Perumal while standing

at the Garbhagraham and nothing else, he narrated the following.

 

A person was wearing a new pair of very expensive footwear. As he entered the

temple, he had to leave it outside and there was no arrangement for its

safekeeping there. While inside the Sanctum Sanctorum, his entire thought was

riveted on his footwear. When the Archaka was placing Satari forgot to offer

him, he called "Swami! Seruppu Saadhiyum!" instead of saying 'Satari

Saadhiyum"!

 

· ABOUT THE APPROPRIATENESS OF WESTERNERS' CALENDAR:

 

He once remarked "Englishkaaran Romba Gettik Kaaran. Avan Varushathai

Devargalin Ushat Kaalamaana Margazhi Maasam Aarambikkiraan" meaning

" Englishmen are really intelligent. See, how they start their year in January

which is Margazhi masam deemed to be the dawn for Devas"

 

 

NOTE: There are far too numerous instances to relate all of them in this short

write up. I will allude to them in future postings as suit the contexts.

 

 

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