Discourses-----Day 7
October 18, 1939
In the evening a new visitor said to Thakur, “However much
we exert ourselves, everything depends on luck. Someone is not able to achieve
anything even after a lot of trouble ; while someone else comes out successful
after just a little effort.”
Sri
Sri Thakur said, “But luck depends on doing. It is to be understood that
one who is not able to achieve is disordered in his doing. Fate (the
unforeseen) means the effect of our actions that pervades the environment and
gets scattered beyond out sight. No orderliness comes into a man’s activity, no
harmony sprouts, individuality doesn’t grow, and the individual doesn’t get
integrated if there be no principle. The complexes alone guide the man.
Complexes are complicated and entangling. That is why they are called
complexes. Once entangled in one, a man is not able to see anything outside it.
It turns out to be his universe. There is no connection between one of them and
another. A man remains imprisoned in whatever he enters into. So many people work such a great deal. But a
peasant boy turns out to be a minister all of a sudden. How does he do it ? At
the root of this there is attraction or inclination towards a desired one.
Attachment is everything. I cannot claim that you won’t be able to find a
single great man in this world without active attachment to a superior beloved,
but there are very few such. We read history but we miss the glowing point in a
man’s life.”
The visitor said, “Why should I depend on someone ? I can do
it all myself.”
Sri Sri Thakur
replied, “Man’s very existence depends on
others. I used to say myself, ‘I am He ; I am He’ for a while, but that doesn’t
seem to fit in well with human nature. By that process everything seems to
recoil back on oneself. I can utter, ‘I am He’ only when I am able to see all
others to be the same as He. An ‘I am He’ and ‘All others are just nothing’
attitude does not get anyone anywhere. I like ‘I am Thine’. If there is
somebody as Thou, and if there is a tension due to an urge of fulfilling him,
our sensitiveness and receptivity increase. We grow as result of this ;
otherwise we go down and down under the weight of complexes and ego. In other
words there is libido in man. This libido wants to get attached. A man who
becomes active due to attachment of this libido to superior (mother, Guru and
so on) is bound to rise. The Gita says, “There is no intelligence
or becoming for one who is not attached, no peace for one who has no becoming,
and no enjoyment for one who does not have peace.” Perhaps in another place it
says, ‘Attachment is the technique of achievement.’ Is that not so ? It is the
sum and substance. The word Thakur means one who knocks. Our complexes are in
conflict with him. Adjustment results out of this conflict if there is
attachment.”
Visitor: “I understand the love for mother of Hitler and
Mussolini, but we don’t see any love for Guru in their cases.”
Sri Sri Thakur : “a deep
love for mother is sure to hurl you forward. Then comes love for Guru. One
needs a Guru because he can guide at every stage, and we grow bigger day by day
in our loving pursuit of him. If there be love for Guru or mother, motor
sensory co-ordination is inevitable.”
Regarding Lord Krishna, the visitor said, “I can at best
call him a superman. I can not look upon him as God. After all he was a human
being.”
Sri Sri Thakur answered, “
but I don’t understand God without man, and even if there be one, what have I
to do with him ? He does not even procure me so much as a piece of pie. When we
speak of God, we understand a man in whom the six virtues (wealth, strength,
fame, beauty, knowledge, and detachment) are alive. We cannot conceive of
Rabindranath’s poetic ability without Rabindranath. We come to think of
Rabindranath first and his poetic ability after. We think of a kind man when we
speak of kindness. Where can kindness exist without a kind one ? And how on
earth can we feel it ?”
Puja
vacation has set in. Today is the sixth day toward the full moon. Many people
have from outside, and are still coming. The responsibility of Ananda Bazar
(common kitchen) is on Sudhama. She is sick, and Sri Sri Thakur is much worried
on this score. Now he is asking Amar-bhai, now Bhusanda, Gopalda and Jatinda
about her. And again, he is trying to collect money. Bhusanda came to tell him
that vegetables were likely to run short. Sri Sri Thakur became restless, “how late at night will it be before
you are able to serve ?” he asked. How well he remembered things amidst this
confusion ! He sent for Pyarida and instructed, “Arrange to supply a bed pill
to Borobou.”
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