Shraddha and Saburi

Dear All

Those who are touched by / who touched upon Baba's Life history - the barest minimum visited one of his temples - would have definitely noticed these two words prominently displayed in his regime. These words (not literally) means Belief and Patience; For that matter, I read some where that the sanskrit word Shraddha is too potent that there is no single word in English to get the complete meaning of it...Lets not skip to etymology, now....Eh ??

Well, As I sat in a tranquail mood in one of the Baba temple close by to my home (not the one at my backdoors - this one is around a KM from my home), I was staring these two words which were written on the either sides of the wall of the main shrine where the majestic God Man was sitting and staring back at me. Suddenly my ever wandering mind got activated and I started connecting these two words.......and here is my latest musings......!!

Can there be a quality called patience without a belief ? Do we really wait eagerly about some thing that we dont believe ?? Normally we find Theists far more patient and enduring than their counterparts (let me ignore some extreme cults like Saktham, Shaivam and Bajrang Bali devotion where the God is bit fiery and too hot for soft minds - at least in my perception). Otherwise, at least in our culture, Athiest seem to be bit hot headed and always wanting to prove that there is "no God" (How can they ? poor souls !!) while a typical Theist dutifully goes to his daily chores after his mechanical worship of his chosen diety. He has nothing to prove to the atheist and prefers to keep quiet (some times, few of them reciprocate the animosity...there are always exceptions in practical realm - every where !! we are going bit objective, you see).

Now, let me put the other side of the coin.... Is patience needed when there is belief...? OR let me use a stronger word than what is normally referred as belief....TRUST !! When one trust some thing else in utmost intensity, is there a need to be patient to get it proved ? He is already fully with the object of trust...and there is no need for waiting for any thing which is an intrinsic quality for patience. I really dont mind patient people - all of them - are waiting for some thing - but there seems to be a close nexus between the two terms - at least the way I look at it.

It is now better to close this musing seeing the second aspect of the other side of the coin too. When you have decided to be patient / tolerant / enduring some thing, dont you actually transcend the quality or need of a belief ? To see a practical example, those who marched with Mahatma those days decided to be patient / tolerant to all the physical tortures inflicted by Britishers.....because they actually had trust in some thing else (which is AHIMSA). Do I see some thing too wierd in my thought process ? the point is still crystal clear to me.....YES, there is no need to trust the object which we decide to be patient with.....on the contrary, you are capable of being in this quality when you are trusting some thing else !! Another example could be a kid closing its eyes tight and gets ready for an injection of the Doctor....not because it likes the kiss of the syringe....BUT it knows (or brainwashed !!) that this pain will make the physical body ok.....!!

So that was my revealation today..... I am delighted with this posting which is coming in its fullest flow without any thinking process from my side as I type the words...and the miniscule moments at Baba temple was just a trigger for this posting....and was not a continuous thought process until this moment of posting...

SO, My Beloved Baba talks about two qualities that are needed for any body...which do not compliment each other....but seems to contradict each other. One who clearly understands, appreciates, and imbibes these two qualities with utmost intensity within himself, perhaps can internalise this God Man's message clearer......Hmm....

Suchoo

ps:- In fact my Baba braggings is quite a fun for me....For some one who never had any moorings on Bhakthi and these type of God Man, I am bit amused how much change has happened to me since Apr 2008. Well, Here is a musings that I have posted couple of years back...totally oblivious to what is going to happen to me 2 years since then.....!! Who knows what I will be in 2012 ?? CM of Tamilnadu .......Eh ?? Why note.....Please go thru' below too.......!! Krishnaarpanam as always.....

Sep 21, 2007

Hare Rama Hare Krishnaa
In the mornings, it is very common for us to hear the loud songs of Hare Krishna movement as there is a extremely pious gentle man who has a shop right in front of our flat...the shop is basically sells vehicle number plates & he also has a zerox machine....The shop is never crowded nor is dull...quite contended and modest very much like the owner of the same..He is a brahmin and he wears a very traditional dress - aged around 45 years and is an extremely silent man....The only violent thing about him is the big sound of the tapes / cds of the devotional songs that he plays daily .... most part of the day especially in the morning....When I walk down towards the Railway station, I used to have a glimpse of this gentleman who keeps fanning a big peacock feathered hand fan on the Lord Krishna's idol centrally placed in his shop...Some times, I have observed him sitting with closed eyes with Japa Malaa in his hands when there is no customers to his shop.....I have visited his shop quite often for zeroxing, he always meekly does the job himself (has no helper) and utters literally no word to me....and is all humility when he takes the money from me....Looks like he is a deep Bhaktha who has tasted the silence in utmost depth and intensity and does not want to get disturbed by any one or any thing around....I have great regards for this gentle man and a lump wells up in my throat to see the stage he has attained.....and while typing this, I resolve to myself that I will never do any thing to disturb him or his silence.... What else he expects from me OR from the world around him.....??
Posted by Suchoo at 9:36 PM