सद्गुरुंच्या शोधात

सद्गुरुंच्या शोधात

एक प्रसिद्ध सुफी गोष्ट आहे :

एका गावातला एक तरुण सद्गुरुंच्या शोधात निघाला .त्याची सद्गुरू मिळवण्या साठी जगभरत कुठेही  फिरण्याची तयारी होती , पण  ते सद्गुरू खरोखर ब्रम्हज्ञानी असावे , खरे सद्गुरू असावे असे त्याला वाटे व अश्या सद्गुरुंना  शोधण्यासाठी  त्याने निश्चय केला.

बाहेर त्याच्या गावात एक  वृध्द, झाडाखाली बसून असलेले त्याने पहिले होते . त्याने त्यांची  भेट घेतली व  तो त्या वुद्ध  माणसाला म्हणाला, " आपण कधीही आपल्या आयुष्यभर ऐकले आहे का ? आपण तर एक भटके  दिसता ..."

तो वृद्ध त्या तरुणास उद्देशून महालाला  " हो मी एक भटका आहे. मी सर्व पृथ्वीवर भटकंती केली आहे .".

तो तरुण त्या वृद्धास म्हणाला " मग तू योग्य व्यक्ती  आहेस . तू मला सूचित करू शकतोस मी जावे कुठे? मी एक परिपूर्ण गुरूंच्या शोधात आहे व  एक शिष्य होऊ इच्छितो.

म्हाताऱ्या माणसाने  त्याला काही पत्ते सुचविले, आणि तो तरुण  त्याचे आभार मानून  आपल्या मार्गाने गेला.

३० वर्षे लोटली . ३० वर्षांच्या ह्या भटकंतीत त्याच्या अपेक्षा पूर्ण करील अशी कोणतीही व्यक्ती त्याला सापडली नाही . उदास आणि हताश , तो आपल्या गावी परतला . ज्या क्षणी तो त्याच्या गावात प्रवेश करत होता तेव्हा त्याची नजर एका वृक्षांतर्गत बसलेल्या म्हाताऱ्या माणसावर पडली  तो आता फारच  म्हातारा झाला होता. आणि अचानक त्याने आपल्या सद्गुरुंना ओळखले .धावतच तो त्यांच्या पायाशी नतमस्तक झाला व म्हणाला " स्वामी आपण मला तेव्हाच का नाही सांगितले कि आपणच ते माझे सद्गुरू आहांत ज्यांना मी गेली ३० वर्षे संपूर्ण पृथ्वी भ्रमंती करून शोधात होतो?

म्हातारा माणूस म्हणाला, "पण तेव्हा ती वेळ आली नव्हती . तू मला ओळखू शकला नाहीस . तुला  काही अनुभव आवश्यक होता ." पृथ्वी भ्रमंती ने तुझ्यात एक विशिष्ट परिपक्वता, एक विशिष्ट समजून आली आहे.

आता तू मला पाहू शकतोस. गेल्या वेळी  जेव्हा आपण भेटलो , तू मला पाहिले नव्हते मी फक्त तुला दिसलो .ह्यात फरक आहे .तू  मला परिपूर्ण गुरुं बद्दल विचारणा केली हाच पुरेसा पुरावा होता  की, तू मला पाहू शकत नाही. की, तुला माझ्या उपस्थितीची जाणीव नाही.तुला माझा सुगंध जाणवत नाही. तू  पूर्णपणे आंधळा होतास ; त्यामुळे मी तुला जाऊ दिले. म्हणून मी तुला चुकीचे पत्ते दिले व भ्रमंती वर धाडले .काय आहे की कधी कधी चुकीच्या लोकांत राहून सुद्धा चांगले शिकायला मिळते !ज्या क्षणी तू गुरूच्या शोधात माझा कडे पाठ फिरवून निघालास , त्या क्षण पासून गेली ३० वर्षे मी तुझी इथेच वाट पाहत बसलो आहे. मी हा वृक्ष सोडला नाही. तो तरुणही काही आता तरुण राहिला नव्हता .त्याने त्या वृक्षाकडे एकदा आश्चर्याने  चमकून पहिले कारण , तो तोच वृक्ष होता जो गुरूंच्या शोधात निघण्या पूर्वी त्याला स्वप्नात दिसत असे व त्याला नेहमी वाटे की त्याचे सद्गुरू त्याला असेच वृक्षाखाली भेटतील .पण गेल्या वेळी त्याला तो वृक्ष दिसला नाही , ना त्याचे सद्गुरू !! कारण तेहवा गुरु ही फक्त त्याच्या साठी एक कल्पनाच होती व तो त्या कल्पनेतच रमला होता . सर्व काही तिथेच होते , आज जसे आहे तसे , त्याच्यासाठीच , अगदी तयार . पण तो मात्र तेव्हा तयार नव्हता .

 

Osho – “Guida Spirituale”

In Search of the Master

In search of the Master 

There is a famous Sufi story: a man went in search of a Master. He was ready to go around the world, but he was determined to find the Master, the true Master, the Perfect Master.

Outside his village he met an old man, a nice fellow, sitting under a tree. He asked the old man, “Have you ever heard in your long life — you look like a wanderer…”

He said, “Yes, I am a wanderer. I wandered all over the earth.”

The man said, “That is the right kind of person. Can you suggest to me where I should go? I want to be a disciple of a Perfect Master.”
The old man suggested a few addresses to him, and the young man thanked him and went on his way .

After thirty years of wandering around the earth and finding nobody who was exactly fulfilling his expectations, he came back dejected, depressed. the moment he was entering his village he saw the old man who had become very old now, sitting under the tree. And suddenly he recognized that he is the Master! He fell at his feet and he said, “Why didn’t you say it to me, that you are the Master?”

The old man said, “But that was not time for you. You could not recognize me. You needed some experience. Wandering around the earth has given you a certain maturity, a certain understanding. Now you can see. Last time you had met me, but you had not seen me. You had missed. You were asking me about some Master. That was enough proof that you could not see me, you could not feel my presence, you could not smell the fragrance. You were utterly blind; hence I gave you some bogus addresses so you could go. But even to be with wrong people is good, because that is how one learns. For thirty years I have been waiting for you here, I have not left this tree.”

In fact the young man, who was not young anymore, looked at the tree and was even more surprised. Because in his dreams, in his visions he was always seeing that tree and there was always a feeling that he would find The Master sitting under this tree. Last time he had not seen the tree at all. The tree was there, the Master was there, EVERY thing was ready but HE was not ready.

Osho – “Guida Spirituale”

Sufi Ishq - सुफी इश्क

सुफी : इश्क

हमने भी इक उम्र गुजारी है इश्क की इबादत में एै दोस्त II

आैर एक वो है के मिलेसे भी न मिलता है II

अब तो इस इश्क के दरीया मे डुब ही जायेंगे II

आैर एक वो है के खुदको ही राजदार रख्खा है II

न छोडेंगे हम भी उन से मिलने का जहद  II

उस परदा नशीन को हमसे बे परदा होने का जहद II

सुना है की इस तारीख में ये नही मुंमकीन II

मेरा कयामत की तारीख तक है इंन्तेजार का जहद II

( Ajay Sardesai ) मेघ 

بادل

From GOD IS NOWHERE to GOD IS NOW HERE

Swami Ramtirtha used to tell a beautiful story:

There was a very great atheist and he was continuously talking against God. He had written on the wall of his drawing-room in big golden letters: ”God is nowhere.” And then a child was born to him,and one day he was playing with the child and the child was learning language. He was not capable of reading such a big word – ”no-where” – so he divided it in two. The child read the sentence:

”God is now-here.” ”Nowhere” was too big a word; he divided it in two: ”now-here.” It must have been a rare moment for the atheist. In fact, when you are playing with a child you forget

your seriousness, you forget your ideologies, you forget your religion, you forget your philosophy,you forget your theology. When you are playing with a child, something of meditativeness happens to you, hence playing with children is of great value. Playing with a child, for a moment you become a child. And remember Jesus’ saying again and again: Unless you are like small children you will not enter into my kingdom of God.In that moment something happened. The child said, ”God is now-here,” and the father was taken unawares. He heard it and he was in a playful mood with the child. And you cannot argue with a small child by saying, ”There is no God.” And because he was playful, silent, enjoying, the statement from the child became something of tremendous importance, became very pregnant, as if God had

spoken through him.He looked at the wall for the first time. His whole life he had been looking at that sentence. It was never: ”God is now-here.” It was always: ”God is nowhere.” He had never conceived that ”nowhere” could be divided into ”now-here,” that ”nowhere” consists of ”now-here.” He was transformed. It became almost a satori. He was no more an atheist.

People were puzzled. They could not believe what had happened because he had been so argumentative and he had had so many proofs against God. ”What has happened?” And when they asked him he would shrug his shoulders. He would say, ”I can also understand why you look so puzzled. I myself am puzzled. Ask this child – he has done something. Hearing this sentence from him, something has changed in me. Looking into the eyes of the child, something has been transformed in me. And it is not only that logically I am a different person, I am existentially different

too. Since then I have been seeing God now-here: in the wind passing through the trees, in the rain falling on the roof, I hear his footsteps, I hear his song. The birds sing, and I am reminded God

is now-here. The sun rises, and I am reminded God is now-here. Now it is no more question of argumentation, it has become something of my experience.

Osho – “Guida Spirituale”