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PRABUDDH JEEVAN
MARCH 2014
Thus He Was Thus He Spake : Time
'Main samay hoon...' (I am Time) was a line I grew up puru thavu joiye. - He gave many other heartwarming with while watching Mahabharat every Sunday for years and occasional exasperating examples of Bapu's and that commanding sound used to resonate in my always keeping his own deadline by the minute and child ears , intimidated but in awe of the complete power expecting the same precision from all others - including that Time had.
when he chided the then Congress President And yet would wonder with my half child half growing
Lokmanya Tilak on being half an hour late for a meeting up woman brain- if Time was really this powerful, why
.'Jo Swaraj ardho kalak maudho padyo, to tame could it never turn back, give more, stay frozen-None
jawabdar....." The stories of Bapu are so inspiring, so of it. The only thing it could really do is Go... This
within our reach, touchable, doable, so extraordinarily invaluable irreplaceable concept/ object called Time was
simple...and yet what it requires is passion, purpose, actually like a chameleon- It became light or heavy
persistence. depending on situation and it never stopped ever. In my 37 years I have seen ordinary people leading a Then: when I turned sixteen and was offering my slam purposetul gentle life by understanding and managina book to various people - our dear Tara ben (Prabudh
time well- I have seen extraordinary people do Jivan's ex editor Raman Bhai's wife) wrote
extraordinary things by managing Time. 'Priya Reshma-Samayam Goyam ma pamaye-( Lord
Looking back at my life and the spiritual guides I have Mahavir's message that was told 36 times to his
encountered- Smt Neela Shashi Mehta (Neela Ma), Gandhar Gautam Swami ji) - That became my
Suman Dalal- all of them had one thing in commontouchstone in life. She explained the meaning to me
they never complained about time. They always had and it became my favourite quote churning in my head
enough time for everything and thus I slowly realized constantly striving but I could never really live by.
that for time to matter, for every second, minute to
matter, every breath to matter- every word you speak, And then Pujyashri Rakesh Bhai happened.
every action coming your way,every thought springing A spiritual quide/ master whose 'Time' table comes out in your head, every feeling bursting out has to count on the 31st of December for the whole year ahead- the and can you imagine the wonder of cultivating such a finest time management coach whose each minute was persona where there is no day dreaming' and yet the accounted for and who yet always had time for world itself appears at all times like a dream), where everyone.
these is no inane talk, where there are no voids, no
time wasted. And that for me was magical- discovering This was alluring. For me it was a phenomenon- Here
that time, this all powerful time was actually putty in was a human being who made his every minute count
our hands. We could make time good or bad by simply and yet ate, drank, did body kriyas, laughed, loved, chit
willing it-that we as human beings are far greater than chatted, went for 'coffees', had family retreats, had alone
time only if we stop doing sankalp vikalp which is time, had friendships, and all this was along with being
essentially constant thinking based on past or future a master for thousands of his disciples and spreading the message from his master every second of his life. So as i sit here giving this article way past the deadline,
I bow to all the people who know and work their lives Gurudev (Pujyashri Rakesh Bhai) introduced us this
out within 'samay maryada' and make an inner resolve week to the inner workings of Mahatma Gandhi (Bapu)
to reach my final timeless existence through the strict and his phrases resonate through my mind tilll now -
discipline of time. AMEN 'Gaja thi vadhare kaam karvani and karavani aavdat hati bapu ma. About 'Samay ni keemat.' - Gurudev
RESHMA JAIN informed that Bapu used to say 'Ghadiyal na takore
The Narrators shuru thavu joiye, but also ghadiyal na takore kaam
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