Posted on: 04 Jan 2024
[Shri Uttam Chandra asked: When I approach some gurus for spiritual instructions, I hear something wrong about them about which my mind gets disturbed. What is the solution for this?]
Swami replied: You have approached the guru to get some spiritual advice. You take the advice and also discuss your doubts. You must confine to your angle for which you approached. You need not worry about the other aspects of the guru. If some bad aspects exist, such guru will be punished by God. All the matters of the world come under the administration of God and especially, the matters related to spiritual preachers are very close to God. Hence, God will take immediate action in such spiritual matters, which are closer to God than ordinary worldly affairs. Don’t think that you are alone observing and drawing correct conclusions. Your process of observation is very very limited. You can observe only the external behaviour at any time and not at all the internal behaviour. Even this external observation is not done by you throughout one day atleast. Based on these limitations your observation is very little, that too external only and not at all internally. You can never draw conclusions based on very little external observations and without a trace of internal observation at any time. Hence, your conclusions will be 99% erroneous. Therefore, you must always confine yourself to the narrow angle of your approach to the preacher, which is to learn some spiritual instructions, which can be discussed with the preacher also if there is a doubt. If you cross this angle and start observing the preacher in other unnecessary angles, you will slip in the case of especially Godly Men.
One traditional priest came to Shirdi Sai Baba on one holy day of Ekadashi. Baba was eating onions on that day, which is prohibited. While the priest was doubting in his mind, Baba vomited, and the vomited particles were not pieces of onion but pieces of potatoes only. You approach the temple of Kalabhairava in M.P. in which the statue of Kalabhairava drinks wine from the wine bottles offered. Here, your angle must be about the miraculous power of the statue drinking wine and not the angle that the prohibited wine is drunk by the statue. You must see the miracle in your desired angle and prohibition of wine is an undesired angle. Similarly, if you go to Brindavanam, the temple is closed at night and opened in the morning every day. One can see the clear proofs of disturbed bed, bitten paan (betel leaves), half eaten sweets and used sandal paste etc. The proven point is that Radha and Krishna enter the closed room in the night and all these points indicate the proof for their union at night. Here, the desired angle is about the miraculous entry of God and not the illegal love between Radha and Krishna. Since God is beyond our imagination, we shall take the desired angle only and improve our devotion to God. We should not touch the undesired angles because God and His activities are beyond our imagination and logic. Hence, we shall take the desiring side of the miracles to improve our faith and devotion to God. The most desired point in these miracles is that the unimaginable event called miracle, establishes the existence of the unimaginable God, who is the source of miracles. Even the atheist is expected to become theist and then, the devotee of God.