The Strange case of a Londoner and his Jhubba

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Dear Members,

 

I decided to post whatever true stories I hear about the Devi and

the temple in this forum.

 

This is story happened recently.

 

It was a Pournami(full moon). The crowds were dwindling as the night

approached.Suddenly there appeared five white men in the temple.

They got down from a Call-taxi. One among them was huge and gigantic

and wore a big kurta and nothing else below. The rest were his

disciples wearing pyjama jhubbas.

 

He came with his flutter of disciples in a big pompous way. But the

disciples seemed to be very humble and truly interested in

Gurubhakthi. It was a sight to marvel at. They obsequiosly removed

his shoes placing his feet on their knees and carefully removing his

socks and shoes,all the while gently chanting his name

as " Gurudeva " .

 

Then this great " gurudeva " entered the temple with his fawning

disciples.

 

Now, it is the custom of the temple for the males to remove their

upper garments while entering the temple both as a way of showing

respect to the Goddess and also for imbibing the essence of the 43

yantras embedded at various places.

 

When this was politely pointed out to the " Gurudeva " .

 

He retorted back, " Blokess! Mind your business. "

 

The woman who pointed it out was my friend. She is an old woman and

stays in the temple.

 

She said " Ok, atleast take the permission of Rajagopala Swami before

you enter like this "

 

For this the fuming White Guru replied " I dont care for darkskinned

Gurus of India. They are cheats and frauds. They cannot speak even

proper Enlgish leave alone Queen's English. Iam a srividya Guru

myself and I have come to see Goddess Rajarajeshwari myself in all

Her full glory. Do not bother me with your pussilanimous pinpricks. "

 

The lady then sighed and turned to his disciples who looked sober

and humble and requested one of them to go and get a written letter

from swami.

 

One of them in all readiness went embarrassed by his ''gurudeva's "

behaviour.(They however removed their jhubbas). They also said in

defence " If Gurudeva removes his jhubba he will be left with nothing

underneath except a two piece cloth " .

The lady replied back " I know your predicament. Iam just asking you

to get a written letter from swami which he will gladly give seeing

your great gurudeva and then there wont be any problem when you have

your darshan up by way of the priest(or other people) there scolding

you or raising his eyebrows for this biased treatment to a white man "

 

The disciple ran and prostrated before Swami Rajagopala who acted as

if he knew nothing and when told about the matter. He said

nonchalantly " ok " and gave a letter handwritten by him giving

permission to the " Gurudeva " .

 

After this the " Gurudeva " went up and saw the Goddess and came down

with his coterie. One sychophant asked his " Holiness Gurudeva " , " How

is the Goddess? Gurudeva! " And the Gurudeva responded back " She

looks brilliant with her rays flowing . I can see Her in all true

splendour and light and the munificence of what Srichakra is all

about.For she is verily...blah blah blah...blah blah blah " and a few

more 'blah blah blah'. The holy crowd departed with the " Gurudeva "

turning behind and blessing the 'lowly' temple with his Lotus hands.

 

All the inncocent Indians in the temple were looking at this

strange scene with openmouths. And they resumed their ways and into

hurrying back to their homes as it was late.They had come there in

buses and trains and not call-taxies! and it was getting late and

they did not want to miss the last bus or train and wait for an hour

in the darkness.

 

That night the " gurudeva " in his Five star suite with his yesmen

pressing his feet fell asleep.The humble but misguided disciples too

fell asleep pressing his feet.

 

Finally when all had blissfully entered the land of Morpheus(Greek

God of sleep). The gurudeva felt that his head was CHOPPED OFF. He

could see his headless trunk with his own eyes(after it was

decapitated) and he also saw Devi Rajarajeshwari in anger doing it.

He could not believe his eyes. How can one who looks so beautiful

and soft do such a deadly thing?.He was crying in pain and agony and

pleaded forgiveness for his supercilious act in the temple.

The moment he was repentant he came out of his slumber. IT WAS ALL A

DREAM...NAY! A NIGHTMARE!....Still in a state of torpor he quickly

dressed in his Jhubba and came to the temple and waited patiently

for the dawn to paint it's colours of morn' on the temple outside.

 

When the temple doors opened a ''surprised-looking'' swami

Rajagopala was blissfully adorned by this " Gurudeva " with profuse

tears on the swami's blue lotus feet.

 

Rajagopala swami then said " Your head was not decapitated it was

your ego. Now you are 'set-right' and go back to London and continue

your srividya puja.But before that please have your darshan and go.

And yes, you need not remove your Jhubba this time too. "

 

But the gurudeva threw his jhubba on the ground and ran to the still

uninhabited temple like a baby into the arms of his seperated mother

and had his darshan of Rajarajeshwari Matha with his two piece lion

cloth.He cried and cried till he was exhasuted and took permission

of swami and left the temple.

 

The jhubba which lay on the ground was not picked by him and was

used by some street-side urchins.

 

Eshwaree Rakshathu!!

 

Yours yogically,

 

Shreeram Balijepalli