National integration-3 By Sri.Sri.Muralidhara Swamiji

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At first, Yogi lived below the ‘punnai’ tree near Tiurvannamalai railway

station. Later, some devotees bought a house for him. It was a house in Sannidhi

street near Arunachaleswara temple in Tiruvannamalai. It was from this house

that he was blessing the

devotees. He would be in that house or in the temple or in one of the shops that

abound the ‘mantap’ in front of the temple. He would roam about the streets of

Tiruvannamalai. He would be like a mad person, like a child.

 

At the time of the receipt of the letter he was in the sannidhi street house. He

told the devotee nearby, “Read this letter to me. My child asked me, ‘Shall I go

to the Arab country?’ I have permitted him to go. I had asked him to write to me

about his welfare there. He has written to me. Read this letter to me.”

 

That devotee read the letter and told the whole contents of the letter. He said,

“a friend by name Gurumurti hailing from Tiruvannamalai is helping him in all

ways. Because of his help he is doing very well there. He looks at that

Gurumurti as verily yourself.”

 

On hearing all these, that Gurunatha Yogiramsuratkumar felt very happy. Yogi

asked this devotee, “He has written that his friend Gurumurti’s parents are

living in Tiruvannamalai. Do you know where they live?” This devotee said, ‘Yes,

I know’ and mentioned the

name of the street where they lived. Yogi, “Oh! Then we will go to their house.”

Immediately the devotee said, “They are not ones who

come here. We do not know them. They are strangers. How can we go to their

house?” Yogi stressed, “No! We must go.” Yogi got ready to go to their house at

that time of the day.

 

At once the devotee said, “Well! It is all right even if we do not know them.

They might know us. Wait a while. I will go over, meet them and inform them

about your visit. They will prepare themselves to welcome you. Won’t they?” The

devotee says that he would announce Yogi’s visit to them and then take him

there. Yogi did not welcome this suggestion. “There is no need for this. Both of

us will go together. There is no need for any announcement of my visit!”

Even an ordinary man would expect some sort of a welcome when he visits some

house. He would expect all to recognize and welcome him. But, one who had

attained ‘God Realisation’, a great Jnani, one who was applauded by the world,

one to whom many industrialists and people holding high offices bowed down,

walks very casually in that hot sun to that house without any paraphernalia or

expectation.

He reaches that house and knocks at the door. The parents open the doors. They

could not understand the reason for this great Yogi in Tiruvannamalai visiting

their home.

 

At once Yogi looks at them and tells, “My child has gone to the Arab country.

There, your son has extended all sorts of help to my affectionate child. So,

this beggar (he would always call himself ‘beggar’) has become very happy. Since

your son has helped my child I feel that it is the duty of this beggar to bless

this house.” Saying that it was his duty to bless this house, he entered the

home in a very joyous mood, in a sort of a trance and uttering the Rama Nama

that he always chants and fanning the hand fan around he blessed the house. He

blessed the house in a very joyous mood and left. He did not see if they

respected him, if they welcomed him, if they felt happy about his visit. He did

not entertain any thought on the lines, ‘I am going without any invitation. What

will they think of me? What will happen to my honour?’ No such thought came to

him. He blessed that home and returned to his sannidhi street house.

 

Who can be so compassionate? They neither think of them nor do they worry about

them. But, they take those who seek them as their family. They bear the burden

of the families of their devotees. They worry over their problems and are

concerned only about their welfare. They feel, ‘it is not enough if I bless my

devotee but should bless all those who help my devotee!’ In Mahabharata, how did

Krishna view each and every one? Any friend of Arjuna was his friend.

Any enemy of Arjuna was his enemy. The deep love (‘anbu’/‘premai’) that Krishna

had for Arjuna was the reason behind this. It is this sort of love that Mahans

have shown to all those who have sought them. When these Mahans mingle with the

devotees without any

bias of Nationality, State, Caste, Religion or Language then we find that those

who seek them, those who come to them also forget all about the country, the

state, the caste, the language they belong.

Therefore, real tolerance, real national integration and compassion can come

about only through such Mahans who have attained Oneness with God.

 

The charitra of such Mahans are the proof for achieving national integration,

tolerance and compassion. Moreover, from the lives of several Mahans we are able

to understand their deep compassion. In

these we find that they have gone beyond religion, caste, nationality, language,

state and looking at Man only as Man, have blessed the people with the requisite

‘arul’ (Grace). Therefore, in the world when each and everyone attains such high

state of spirituality there is no doubt whatsoever that National Integration,

Compassion and Tolerance towards other faiths will come about. "