Discourses-----Day 29
November 24, 1941
There is a carnival of merriment around Thakur these days
in the early hours of the morning. Mothers and brother all gather around
Thakur’s tent, while he is still lying on his bed. Usually Induda, Bimalda,
Ishadada, Panchananda, Birenda, Kshitishda, Saratda, Sailenda, Devida, Pyarida,
Haripadada and other brothers along with Kalidasima, Saroijinima, my own mother
and others present. These morning sittings have continued for a couple of months
in this way. By the middle of November Kestoda, Chunida, Ratneswarda, Kedarda,
Nibaranda, Motida, Tarakda, Jogeshda, Kironda, Birenda, Jogenda Ashuda and
others started coming back to the ashram. They also gather around. Sweet talks
ensue. Sri Sri Thakur sometimes talks while sitting up, sometimes smoking and
reclining on a pillow, his face smiling and beaming with happiness and bliss.
His voice is sometimes flooded with sympathy, replete with a tune of affection
and intimacy, sometimes rich and resounding. A touch of the infinite is in his
look, suggestions various thoughts are in the movement of his brows, an
unfurling of deeper thoughts and emotions in the graceful movement of his
beautiful body. On the sandy river beach of the Padma in the fading of misty
winter evening there appears anew the historic days of past Rishis in their
forest abode. The unparalleled sweetness of these nights can be felt only by
those who have materially enjoyed them.
This morning Sri Sri Thakur was saying as though to himself,
“In God there is wealth
and mastery, in the way of fulfilling whom an individual’s knowledge in any
particular aspect fulfils his knowledge in all others, thereby turning out
meaningful in attaining final fulfillment. This is the relationship between man
and God. Man can discover God in another real man through a process similar to
the above, as Arjuna found in Sri Krishna and as Hanuman in Sri Ramachandra and
as Vivekananda in Sri Ramkrishna. In the urge for the desired one, in holding
him as the goal, all that is in him attains to a state harmony ; each quality
fulfills the next and gets integrated and consolidated. One gets welded on to
the next. This happens when all qualities are utilized for the felt necessity
of establishing the Ideal. Such a pursuit goes to converge all the passions,
explain and adjust them into a harmonious cosmos. Then is man automatically
raised to a state of abundance. Then also is God all in all for him.”
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