Spiritual Stories: Post #3 “TWENTYFOUR WENTYFOUR GURUS

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MURUGA SARANAM

 

Spiritual Stories: Post #3 " TWENTYFOUR WENTYFOUR GURUS "

 

Dear Murugan Devotees,

 

Here is the third posting in the series. Hough this is a very small

one among all, it tells one important thing. That is we tend to learn

from the good deeds of people, by observing them, what we should do.

But we also have a lesson from the bad deeds of people – that is

learning what not to do. I remember my friend saying, we don't have

enough time in our life to repeat the mistakes that others did. Seeing

is learning. Why should we reinvent the wheel? Let us learn from the

mistakes of others as well.

 

May All Glories be o Lord Subrahmanya – The Most Merciful

 

MURUGA SARANAM

 

With Best Regards

Meyyappan S

 

 

Here goes the story as narrated by Bhagwan Ramana Maharishi

TWENTYFOUR WENTYFOUR GURUS URUS

 

A KING WAS passing through a forest in all pomp and

pageantry, with his army and retinue behind him. He came

across a man with not even a cod-piece on, lying on the ground,

with one leg cocked over the other. He was laughing away,

apparently supremely happy, contented with himself and all

the world. The king was struck with the man's happy state and

sent for him. But when the king's men approached the nude

ascetic and delivered the king's message, he took absolutely

no notice and continued in his ascetic bliss. On being told of

this, the king himself went to the man and even then the man

took no notice. Thereupon it struck the king that this must

be no common man, and said, 'Swami, you are evidently

supremely happy. May we know what is the secret of such

happiness and from which guru you learnt it?' Thereupon the

ascetic told the king, 'I have had twentyfour gurus. Everything,

this body, the earth, the birds, some instruments, some persons,

all have taught me'. All the things in the world may be classed

as either good or bad. The good taught him what he must

seek. Similarly, the bad taught him what he must avoid. The

ascetic was Dattatreya, the avadhuta.

 

 

Courtesy – Conscise Oxford English Dictionary

 

retinue

noun

a group of advisers or assistants accompanying an important person.

 

pomp

noun

ceremony and splendid display

 

pageantry

noun

elaborate display or ceremony.

 

codpiece

noun

a pouch to cover the genitals on a pair of man's breeches (short

trousers), worn in the 15th and 16th centuries.

 

ascetic

adjective

characterized by the practice of severe self-discipline