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PRABUDHHA JIVAN: AAGAM PARICHAY SPECIAL
AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2012
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this poem be apt for Valmiki, Angoolimal or Dradh acquired from all across the continent. After some time Prahari- all the three can be seen as 'bhari karmi' but into their friendship,one day Shams casually throws tad bhav or a few bhav moksh gaami.
away his precious precious books into the fountain in And one of my personal most favourite:
their courtyard and Rumi watches without any change If God said,
of expression or heartbreak. infact Rumi only watches ? "Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped with love, the only emotion he ever feels of any action you enter my arms",
of Shams. This friendship was where rumi had to unThere would not be one experience of my life,not
learn everything he knew , and instead of the outside, one thought, not one feeling ,not any act, I would
Shams taught him to look inside his own soul which 2 not bow to.
was the all knowing, which did not need any books or
teachers... It was its own master, all knowing and all & -Rumi
joyful. So we end with Rumi's best teaching to all of us 2 Imagine what allignment between word and thought,
hankering after a lover, wealth, a distraction, a passionthought and deed, word and deed. what awareness
A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take & and what 'antar nirmalta' to be in this state where ev
one whole heart home. And Thus Spake Rumi. erything you see, everything you hear, everything you speak, everything you feel and everything you are is
ORESHMA JAIN just taking you closer to your own God self within or (Reshma Jain is a student of life and a constant & towards a God out there.
seeker, stil not at rest within. Her guru is Shrimad 6 Before Shams came into Rumi's life, Rumi was a Rajchandra and that is her one and only constant.
brilliant receptive man, extremely intellegant, a knowerEverything else in her life is fluid and amidst them she C of many worlds. One of the many stories about Shams- has been a journalist for over 15 years, helped make
Rumi meeting is that Rumi had a library of books that a documentry and worked closely with Japan delnoone was allowed to touch, not his wife, nor his daugh- egates to try and make a bridge between India and cter. They were precious books of knowledge that he Japan for trade, cinema, textiles.
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whatever the saint said. The poor | while passing through a city met RESULT OF ANGER
man got the golden juice also. 12 alone poor man who seemed to be
While both of them were al worried. He asked him the reason behind his worries. returning, the saint told him not to get angry in any a The poor man said, "I am very poor and because case, even if somebody teases him, makes fun of him, 12 al can't feel my family members I am always under or whatever the situation is. The man was happy with 12 o stress.
the juice so he agreed to whatever the saint said. The saint said, "Dont worry. I will show you the While travelling the saint tested the poor man by !2 way to get money and how to become rich, but you telling him often that he received the juice because 2. will have to come with me. You have to go where of the saint only. The poor man after listening the 12
say and do what I tell." The man agreed and both of same thing again and again got excited and in anger
them started for the destination. The saint took him threw away the precious golden juice. 2 at the top of one hill which was full of greeneries. The saint shouted, "What have you done? You 12 2 Then the saint told him that the person who can bear lost what you obtained after a great effort. I had 12 2 all the seasons, who can remain hungry, one who warned you not to get angry. Now you will have to
can survive on fruits and vegetables and still does't repent." o feel unhappy, can only get the golden juice. Are you "You loose much because of anger." I ready for that? The poor man agreed. Then the saint
(From Nishith Sutra Uddesh 10) I showed him the ceremony to get the juice.
By Acharya Vatsalyadeepji 12 The poor man so much frustrated that he agreed to
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