By Himanshu Dhingra
“The real truth we left behind while chasing inapt truth or more of a lie
it's all like chasing darkness in search of light
we ourselves existing is a lie
spirit is truth I tell thou
love we said
attachment it came out of truth
I me myself mine we said
ego it came out of truth
conditioning we do
superego it came out of truth
body, lust, fear, ego, superego, attachment we feel
a lie it came out of truth
ye let thy soul see this world
tell thy mind to sit quiet”
One Saturday night on their way back home from work Mark got a thought of going on a trip so he said
“Let’s go on a trip somewhere as we have a four-day holiday”
He mentioned four days but actually it wasn’t a four-day holiday but a holiday on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday so they thought of taking a leave on Friday thus making it a four-day holiday period.
Robert who is younger brother of Mark
“We all are the children of the God Almighty, so it doesn’t matter if there is a blood relation or not,
We all are tied with one thread
There exists brotherhood and sisterhood among all of us”
replied “okay, where do you want to go brother?”
Mark as always did not even pour attention on thinking of places to visit, and he just said "You decide, we can go anywhere “
Robert just listened and got a single thought of visiting Nirmala Ganga Ashram and without any further thinking he just said
“Let's make a visit to Nirmala Ganga Ashram”
Robert had a desire to visit Nirmala Ganga Ashram since long time Although he had been there before and wanted to live that experience again.
Mark replied “okay than its fixed we will leave on Thursday, and we are going to travel by bike only”
Robert asked, "what time we will be leaving?”
“Early morning at 5:00 o’clock “
” Okay! its fixed then”
As the conversation ended
they had now reached at Robert’s house where Mark dropped Robert
Gave Robert a hug
Said "Goodbye, Jai shri Mataji” and went home.
Now three days have been passed they both didn’t even get a thought of that they had even planned a trip
Up until Wednesday they were busy with their stuff and didn’t even think about the planned trip
Half past ten at night Robert made a phone call to Mark to discuss what do they need to pack for the trip, Robert knew as the Ashram is located in the mountains so they will need warm clothes
There is going to be chilly which he was feeling at the moment just at the thought of
“There’s going to be chilly”
Hilarious!
Mark answered the phone call
In a very humble way
Robert greeted him with "Jai shri Mataji, brother”
Mark replied "Jai shri Mataji, Robert” in the same manner thus making a connection which is divinely,a sense of true brotherhood.
““Love begets love, Violence begets violence”
It's a great statement actually it tells thoughts are like boomerang if you are full of love and respect you are going to pour love and respect on others and others are going to pour the same love and respect on you
Ergo your tank of love and respect would remain full of the respective purities
Same thing happens with the impurities
Pouring greed, lust, anger, jealousy will fill your tank with the impurities only…
Anyway, let's get back to the story”
Robert and Mark, after some useless, fun talks, got to the topic and discussed the preparations and arrangements they needed to make for the trip.
Robert and Mark did the necessary packing and went to sleep.
Next day Robert being lethargic had woke up at 8:00 o’clock thus making the plan of leaving at 5:00 o’clock look like a joke
Hilarious!
This didn’t make them postpone their plan, perhaps they left for the Nirmala Ganga Ashram with a sense of security in their hearts leaving everything upon Shri Adi shakti.
“This incident taught them divine discretion actually
You do your planning, but the things will happen according to divine plan
Another powerful saying is
‘What happens, happens for the best’
Divine plan is the best for us and to understand this thing there should be a divine discretion in an individual”
At Half past eleven they had reached Devprayag (a town in Uttarakhand, India), up until now the route they had travelled was a highway with good roads but now they had to travel through the jungle, and they didn’t know that they had to travel through the jungle because it was nighttime there was not much of visibility.
Their bodies were very much exhausted as they had been travelling for more than 9 hours on a single bike and in that exhaustion, they were just trying to keep themselves calm by visualizing Shri Mataji's picture on their Sahasara which means they were trying to be thoughtless.
As they were moving, a turn of the road came and they went on it which led them into the jungle as there were no lights on the road,
They kept on moving forward a piece of road came which was affected by the landslide and was not very good,
Robert was driving and they got stuck for a second there and had to stop their bike to get out of that piece of road.
Mark said "Now let me drive”
Robert switched with Mark, and they went ahead
After some time there came a road dividing itself in two parts one going up towards the hill of the mountain and the second going downwards
As it was nighttime and also the network was not very good, also their bodies and minds were exhausted they went upwards without giving it a thought.
After 10Kms,
Robert felt they weren’t on the right path, and he said "brother let's check if we are going on the right path or not”
He took out the mobile phone and checked
and realized they were not on the right track, they had to go down the hill.
Turned their bike they started to come back and after reaching the point where they had to go down the hill, they stopped to drink some water out of their water bottles.
After resting for some time, they began their journey again and went on the road, which was going downwards,
They were moving and just visualizing their destination in their minds wanted to reach their destination as soon as possible.
After some time, they noticed, some industry work was going on, there was a hanging bridge built for pedestrians to move between the valley, there were lights, sound of heavy machinery, sound of the flow of the river Ganges,
In that valley the scenario was horrifying and also a sense of relief for them at the same time as they were travelling through jungle where a single ray of light was not there except for their bike’s headlight.
They stopped to take some rest
Robert asked “Brother, do you have any idea what’s going on here?”
Mark said "they are laying railway tracks here”
Further he said in a funny manner
“Next time we will come here by train and in between we will pull the chain to make an emergency stop here and we will scream
We have reached our destination, drop us here!”
After talking for a while, they began to move forward towards Nirmala Ganga Ashram.
They had just started to move, and they saw a car coming towards them and as soon as the car and their bike had reached besides each other, the person sitting in a car lowers his car’s window and informs them that
“Don’t go further, I have seen a leopard sitting there at the back!!”
In a rush, the man pulls up his car’s window and just gets disappear in the dark.
As soon as the word “leopard” got into mark’s ears he went into his thoughts and got afraid of the scenario in his thoughts.
Robert, being naïve, didn’t know what a leopard could do to them, he just thought of moving further and reaching their destination as the Nirmala Ganga Ashram was only 10-15 mins away from them.
In a rush, Mark and Robert turned their bike and went behind the car and after some time they reached at industrial site again and stopped their to take some rest and to think of something to get out of this situation because they were in the middle of the jungle and in every direction there was danger of confronting a leopard.
Robert was enjoying the
Noise of heavy machinery, sound of the flow of Ganges River, a silence in his head and also, he was watching Mark who
On the other hand, I was thinking of something.
To relieve Mark from his thoughts, Robert thought that he should say something so he said “Brother, now what we will do?”
As soon as Robert spoke
Mark busted out and spoke
“You had been here before, how could you not tell me that the ashram is located in the jungle, a person should be alert, how can a person be so naive?!”
Robert didn’t spoke anything as he knew it was the result of his naïveté they ended up in this situation
he knew his brother was very much exhausted because of all this travelling so he didn’t want to bother him more, so he just stood there listening to every word his brother was saying
After some time,
Robert said "let's go back to the highway, we have to do something, and I guess this is the only thing we can do, the risk of confronting a leopard is less if we move towards this way” pointing in the direction where the car went.
“Less” not “none”, there were chances of confronting a leopard on that path also but were less, so they decided to move in the direction where the car had gone.
Mark agreed with Robert, and they went behind the car,
While driving Mark told Robert
“When we went up towards the hill in the wrong direction, you know the chances of confronting a leopard there were more…”
Robert just listened and couldn’t process the image of risk in his mind
Actually, he wasn’t afraid of leopards, he was afraid that he had put his brother’s life and his life in danger because of his naïveté.
They could have died if that man in the car had not inform them of the leopard in the wild.
After travelling for a while, they got on the highway and on the way, they saw some hotels but all of them were closed,
So, they decided to stop at one of the hotels where the lighting should be good because animals do not come in light
The chances of being attacked by the leopard were less there
Again, there were less but not none.
Robert asked Mark to stop at a hotel,
All of its outdoor lights were on, although the hotel was closed
they decided to stop there as the lighting was good
They parked their bike, settled their luggage at the front of the hotel and sat beside the luggage waiting for the dark to disappear and light to appear.
It was midnight
a silence was there in their heads
a silence was surrounding them
With no thoughts in their heads
They slept on the stairs.
Next morning, Robert woke up from his sleep at 5:00 o’clock
Although it was 5 in the morning there was still dark, the sun hadn’t appeared yet to spread its sunshine.
After waking up, with no thoughts in mind he saw everything around
No one was there around him then he had thought of Mark and started to look around for Mark, but he couldn’t find him anywhere.
Robert started walking on the road and spoke
“Brother Mark…., Brother Mark.”
He could listen to the silence around in the dark but couldn’t find Mark, so he came back and sat on the stairs.
After some time, Mark appeared in front of him, Robert got a sense of relief
As soon as he appeared in front of his eyes
He asked “Brother, where were u?”
Mark replied “I was in the building next to the hotel”
Robert further asked, "Did you sleep?”
Mark said "Not at all… As I was very anxious so i turned on one the Shri Mataji's lecture and started listening to it.”
Robert asked, "Now what should we do Brother?”
Mark said “Let's go ahead. There is a place there. We can do foot soak and meditate for some time. we will not get on that track until and unless light appears completely “
Light had just started to appear, they picked up their bag, turned on their bike and started moving towards the place where they can touch the shore of the Ganges River for Foot soaking and to meditate for some time.
Although Robert slept for 2-3 hours, he wasn’t feeling that energetic, he was still feeling sleepy.
After travelling 1-2 kilometers they had reached to the shore,
They settled their luggage and only at the view of the Ganges River they were very much relieved.
“Anything which is making you thoughtless either if it is art or someplace then it can be considered as sacred”
They pulled up their trousers from the ankles and folded them up their knees and sat on the stairs, putting their feet into the cold but soothing water of the river Ganges.
They just sat there for some time and enjoyed the heights of mountains, flow of the river, sound of the river, birds around them.
Now they were talking,
All the exhaustion their bodies and minds went through was over, they completely forgot what they went through and were completely relaxed.
“Now the discretion here is to understand that to meditate is to enjoy every moment
They didn’t do anything to relax or something you know, they just went into that thoughtless awareness state
It's like breathing you do not have to put efforts to be in thoughtless awareness
In tough times also where they were very much exhausted, they were just trying to be in thoughtless awareness state by visualizing Shri Mataji's picture on their Sahasara”
Now all the sleepiness and dizziness Robert was feeling had gone and he was full of energy.
So, he said “Brother, let's go…we have to reach our destination “
They picked up their bag and went to the bike and left for the Nirmala Ganga Ashram.
After some time, they reached the same industrial site where they were before the other night,
They could see everything around them very much clearly now,
As they were moving, they could now see the blue sky covering the mountains, the peaks of the mountains trying to touch the sky,
White clouds
“As mark would say
Clouds used to show-off on social media
Hilarious...!”
which were just there to complete the beautiful painting divine had made
And gave us the privilege to be a part of this beautiful painting
River Ganges moving with them, the sun spreading its rays over the mountains, an eagle in the sky which looked very much aesthetic in that valley and last but not least finishing the beautiful painting of landscape with the Nirmala Ganga Ashram.
This story is nothing but a series of paintings which have been drawn by these divine vibrations.
By Himanshu Dhingra
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