Guest guest Posted January 23, 2002 Report Share Posted January 23, 2002 Guru Bahans and Guru Bhais . Jaya Jaya Jaya Guru Dev Businessmann and Lies Immediately after graduation I got an opportunity to live in a multi religious Sadhana place for thirteen moths as a Sewak, but never got ordained or got any dikchya there. Since I did not planned to live there for ever I asked the Bhikchu, head of the ashram about having to tell lies as a business person. He firmly maintained that lies should be avoided by keeping the truth to yourself. I was inquisitive and asked him...." Yes, may be possible when marketing and selling but when somebody comes to you for borrowing cash (WHICH YOU ALWAYS HAVE) and if you do not want to, then we will be cornered and forced to lie that YOU DO NOT HAVE THE MONEY!!! He said that also could be modified and you can simply say " I DO NOT HAVE YHE MONEY... TO LOAN TO YOU ". I liked the trick and have been applying this principle for the rest of my life for more than 20 years now. It works. Why is the western world more prosperous ?? Why are we (people in the Eastern Part of the world) poorer than the western one despite the fact that we practice spritually more with part of the goal of getting materially more prosperous??? The Bhikchu gave me the following answer ...... Yes, it looks like we do the Good thngs in life more than a western person but in reality they have the superiority because the good things come to them automatically. Ane he gave an example of Meat eating. He said meet eating is taboo. But if you do not know or are aware of eating meat you are not involved in the killing. People in orient eat the animals not the meat therfore they tend to involve in killing in a higher degree. For example The orient eats Murga the west eats chicken.... the orient eats Bakara the west eats Mutton, the orient eats Suwar the west eats pork, the orient eats Gai (GOU Mas) the west eats beef. Look at the western child, it can hardly relate between chicken (meat) to a rosster or a hen, it can hardly relate mutton to a living goat or beef to a cow. Therefore the western child is eating vegetable all the time. Potato, Couliflower, beef, onion, mutton etc. The oreint languages I have studied endorse this. Hindi, Panjabi, Haryanavi, Burmese, Shri Lankan, Burmese, Thai, Chinese all call _Gai ki Mas, they do not have the expression - beef. Therefore they are all killing the animal while eating meat and they are suffering for the same type of follies they have been making. I am convinced to some extent. How did I meet Pujya Bade Guru Dev? After I left the Ashram in 1978 I came back to the material world and got employed. The last instruction I received from the Ashram was to practice - Mitta by chanting Sabbae Satta Avera Hontu, (May all Beings be free from Concerns or enemies) Sabbe Satta Avyapizza Hontu, (May all beings be free from suffering) Sabbe Satta Aniga Hontu (May all Beings be free from Worries) Sabbe Satta Sukhi Attanam Pari Harantu, (May all Beings be able to attain Sukha) Sabbe Satta Yatha Lata Sampatti taw Mavi Gatchantu ( May all Beings be able to retain their material wealth) and Sabbe Stta Kamma Sa Ka ( May all Beings be governed by their Kamma) This is in Pali and translation as I understand. I chanted and practiced this until 1997 for about twenty odd years. UNtil I found my elder Guru Bhai who made me go to the lotus feet of Pram Pujya Guru Dev. It took me more than six months to be persuaded to go to Guru Dham and take Dikchya in Laxmi Puja Shivir in 1997 October. I wil write about this first trip and about my feelings before I was taking Diokchya from Param Pujya Guru Dev and my feelings afterwards. CHeers Jaya Guru Dev bishnu Global Medicine Pvt. Ltd., 3/555 Harihar BhavanP. O. Box 5659, Kathmandu, NepalFax 977 1 523282, Phone 977 1 528372 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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