PRIME DHARMA

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PRIME DHARMA

Baba said, "If you so loved your mother, why did you take Sannayasa?" in Sri Sai

Satcharitra, Ch. XXXI.

A young ascetic sitting in meditation under a tree was splattered by the droppings of a bird.

He looked up angrily at the culprit and such was the intensity of his wrath that

the bird was reduced to ash.

His concentration disturbed, the ascetic got up and went in search of food. He

knocked at the door of a house but there was no answer. He knocked again and

the lady of the house shouted that she was coming. Presently she came out with

food and seeing that he was annoyed at having had to wait so long, smiled and

said: "Please don't try to burn me with your angry glance like you did that

bird. My dharma as a housewife is first to take care of the needs of my family

before attending to the needs of others."

The ascetic realised that she was no ordinary woman and was ashamed of him. He

asked her to teach him what dharma was. She said he should see Dharma Vyadha.

The ascetic went in search of Dharma Vyadha expecting to find a venerable sage

but the man turned out to be a meatseller.

Dharma Vyadha made him wait while he served his customers. When the ascetic

showed signs of impatience, the meatseller smiled and said: "Just as the

woman's first duty was to her family, my first duty is to my customers."

So the ascetic waited. When the last of his customers had gone, the meatseller

turned to the ascetic and invited him home.

When they reached Dharma Vyadha's house the ascetic was again made to wait while

his host lovingly attended to his parents. It was quite some time before the

meatseller could return to his guest but the young man showed no trace of

anger. A transformation had come over him.

"Now I know what dharma is," he said, rising and bowing to the meatseller.

Giving up the path of asceticism he returned home and begged forgiveness of his

parents for having deserted them in their old age.

"I seek your blessings," he said, "to give me strength to do my dharma."

TAMASO MA JYOTIRGAMAYA….

True superioriy does not consist in being superior to others. The true superior

man is even he who today is superior to what he was yesterday.

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