Prof Kasturi and his Story Kasturi will now Dance

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Prof Kasturi & his Story "Swami says Kasturi will now dance

Once, during the summer course, when I was getting ready to inflict myself on

the students, Swami introduced me saying, “Now Kasturi will dance!”

Yes, a dance, of course! When you are talking about Swami, you are bound to

dance with joy! Once, I told Swami that I have been invited to speak in a

certain place and asked for his permission

Swami said, “Yes, go and dance!” I said “Swami, when I go there, I may also go

to Calcutta.” “Swami said, Alright, dance there also!” Dance is joy. We have

the Dancing God, Nataraja, symbolizing that the whole creation is dancing!

In every cell, in every atom, dance is going on! Vibration, wave, hardening into particle, matter.

Swami said in one of his poems, Oh! That Telugu poem struck everyone! It was

such a revelation of His personality! And what did He say? He said, “ I am the

dance master. I am Nataraja, the prince of dancers. You all are my pupils. I

only know the agony of teaching you each step of dance.”

We are never in step! He has to teach us to dance. Dance is joy, bliss, and our

nature. Swami says, “Anandaswarupullara” Ananda is our nature. That is why

Swami told that lady to dance, to be happy. He told her, “Why are you worried?

There is someone supervising your life, someone who is guiding you and guarding

you and if He wills that you must be separated from your husband, let it happen.

 

That is your karma. God’s will shape by your actions. It is your due, and you

must be happy when you get your due. No quarrel”

And when you can dance? Not when you are proceeding towards unreality, towards

darkness, towards death. Turn your face away from these things. Turn not

towards appearance, but towards reality, not towards darkness, but towards

light, not towards death, but towards immortality.

Once you change your direction and move towards your destination. Swami will be

happy. “Ah! He has started, come on!” He will say. He will have the tune, and

you can dance according to His instructions. He only knows the agony of

teaching us dance.

Having come to save us, and if we don’t want to be saved, having come in order

to give us light, and if we are engaged in enjoying the trivial and the

temporary, and don’t want to learn even the first step in dance, He has agony.

The Avatar has come on account of compassion, and if Compassion is not

responded to, is not accepted, is not honored, is not revered, and is it not an

agony?

If I say, “Swami you are angry with me, and He has been angry with me many

times, He says “No. I have no anger. I am only worried. I am only

disappointed,” He wants us to help us, but we don’t want it. He wants to give

us, but we don’t stretch our hands to receive. He wants us walk straight, but

we enjoy stooping. That is agony of the teacher each step of dance.

That is why He says; I only know the agony of teaching each step of dance. How

can you dance if you carry heavy luggage? Be yourself. Then you can dance and

have the music of His voice to train you in the dance.

(Sharing With Sai Love) Ram.Chugani

 

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