WHITEFIELD AFTER DARSHAN PART 2

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WHITEFIELD AFTER DARSHAN PART 2

 

Evening Darshan is over and everybody is on their way out of the main gate I

always try to stay a bit longer & sit quite for a while before leaving the

Darshan hall as it helps me to absorb all the grace, blessings and love of

Swami. Second & worldly reason for leaving a bit late from the hall is to avoid

the rush so one can walk over to the main gate calmly and avoid the rush at

footwear depot.

 

As usual I went over to the footwear storage space to collect my sandals

(chappals). But the rack or shelve I had deposited my sandals on was empty.

Thinking, maybe I am searching the wrong rack so I looked at the next rack &

the next again, looked at the floor, under the heap of “leftover” sandals. No

luck! My mahogany color leather sandals bought in Bangalore right opposite of

Nilgiris supermarket, Brigade road expensive & of good quality are gone! rather

stolen. So, here I am walking bare foot looking at every passer-by’s

feet’s with suspicious eyes and hoping that I find this fellow red handed rather

red footed and teach him a lesson to keep his hands (feets) away from others

things.

 

Straight after the divine Darshan and meditation I’m back to my human nature,

in my mind I am cursing this guy who stole my comfortable sandals, my mind has

forgotten God it can only think of my attachment to material thing that is, my

sandals. Of course, I am praying to Swami please help me find my sandals. I

guess Swami was having fun at my expense He could really see and test me today

do I really practice what I preach? Because, every time one of my fellow

devotee has ‘lost’ his or hers sandal I’ll recommend them not to have

attachments to these material things and perhaps the person who has stolen the

sandals needs them more then they do... Today it’s quite the opposite I’m in

the Swami’s spot light “To preach to others is quite easy; but it is extremely

difficult to put even a fraction of what is preached into actual practice…” -

Sai Baba. There are so many poor & penniless people in the world who walk bare

foot nearly whole their life and never grumble and here I am, only half hour of

walking without my comfortable sandals is making me upset. How dare I yearn for

Moksha? This implies no attachment; not even to this material body.

 

I realize how easy it is to preach others and how difficult to practice. And

the worst part is, when we don’t even realize that we do not practice what we

preach and carry on with our old ways.

 

I LOVE YOU SAI

namar916

 

 

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