Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 113
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✍️ Sadguru Ganapathi Sachidananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
106
Datta Guru blessed a disciple called Pingala Naga. Let’s learn the story. Pingala Naga was a great scholar and an ardent devotee of Siva. He heard about the greatness of Lord Datta and wanted to learn more from him about Lord Siva. He wanted to see Lord Datta.
When he went to Lord Datta, the situation there was very strange. Of course, the Lord knows ahead of time about the disciples coming to him. The tests for those disciples are automatically set. The tests were very strange, there were things that should not be seen, things that should not be heard and could not be understood.
Lord Datta was performing a yagna (ancient ritual of offering herbal preparations in the fire). He had the appearance of a mendicant. He looked nothing like an officiator of a yagna. He was performing the yagna as he wished. Sometimes, he would put the offerings in the fire pit, sometimes, he would them outside the fire pit. He did as he liked.
Sometimes, he would throw the ghee (one of the offerings in a yagna) up in the air, sometimes he would put too much into the fire and sometimes he would dump it into the herbal preparations for the yagna. His behavior was very strange. Sometimes, he would eat up the preparations himself. He was doing the yagna as he liked.
The sages sitting around the fire pit were overjoyed seeing the yagna. Pingala Naga was puzzled, “What is this? These sages are so great. They are very learned in spiritual truths. And they are ripe in age. Such great scholars! Why are they so happy seeing the Lord’s yagna? They have tears of joy. They are saying that the mission of their life is fulfilled seeing this yagna. What is this?
Nobody is finding any fault with the yagna. Moreover, everyone is praising him as Yagneshwara (Lord of the Yagna), Yateeshwara! Is he a Yateeshwara? He does not look like one. His long beard is unkempt, his clothes are shabby, he looks like a lunatic. He sometimes glances around like a mad man.
Sometimes, he’ll pull his hair, sometimes, he’ll pull his beard. Sometimes, he’ll throw away the clothes on him, and again wear them back on and again go back to doing the yagna. It is hard to keep track of all the things that seem wrong. What kind of illusion is this? Am I dreaming or is this real?”
He pinched himself hard to see if what he was witnessing was a dream. “Am I falling asleep while standing? Such a thing is expected to happen in Kaliyuga, but it already seems to be happening to me now. The sages are continuing to praise him as Yagneshwara, Yateeshvara, as the Knowledgeable One, as the Beautiful One and so on.
Is he beautiful? It was weird enough that they called him Yagneshwara and Yateeshwara, but they are calling this old man beautiful? Can they even see him clearly? Or are they dreaming themselves?” Pingala Naga was lost in these thoughts. See how many questions and doubts Pingala Naga had in the one second he witnessed all this in.
“But, he does not have the qualities of Yateeshwara. Yateeshwaras are supposed to have a few distinct qualities. One can instantly identify a Yateeshwara.
But, he did not have a staff or kamandalam (water pot with a handle and spout) like Yateeshwaras do. He was not chanting the Omkara. And even before the yagna was complete, the Lord was getting up, petting a few dogs, milking the dogs and drinking up the milk. He kept doing this intermittently – get up from the yagna, pet the dogs, drink their milk and come back and chant the mantras for the yagna.
The mantras could not be heard clearly. It seemed like was pronouncing them incorrectly. It was as if he was murmuring to himself. The Lord kept doing this. Occasionally, someone else would bring him something in a pot and he would immediately gulp it down”.
Now Pingala Naga wondered if going there was a mistake.
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05 Nov 2020
✍️ Sadguru Ganapathi Sachidananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
106
Datta Guru blessed a disciple called Pingala Naga. Let’s learn the story. Pingala Naga was a great scholar and an ardent devotee of Siva. He heard about the greatness of Lord Datta and wanted to learn more from him about Lord Siva. He wanted to see Lord Datta.
When he went to Lord Datta, the situation there was very strange. Of course, the Lord knows ahead of time about the disciples coming to him. The tests for those disciples are automatically set. The tests were very strange, there were things that should not be seen, things that should not be heard and could not be understood.
Lord Datta was performing a yagna (ancient ritual of offering herbal preparations in the fire). He had the appearance of a mendicant. He looked nothing like an officiator of a yagna. He was performing the yagna as he wished. Sometimes, he would put the offerings in the fire pit, sometimes, he would them outside the fire pit. He did as he liked.
Sometimes, he would throw the ghee (one of the offerings in a yagna) up in the air, sometimes he would put too much into the fire and sometimes he would dump it into the herbal preparations for the yagna. His behavior was very strange. Sometimes, he would eat up the preparations himself. He was doing the yagna as he liked.
The sages sitting around the fire pit were overjoyed seeing the yagna. Pingala Naga was puzzled, “What is this? These sages are so great. They are very learned in spiritual truths. And they are ripe in age. Such great scholars! Why are they so happy seeing the Lord’s yagna? They have tears of joy. They are saying that the mission of their life is fulfilled seeing this yagna. What is this?
Nobody is finding any fault with the yagna. Moreover, everyone is praising him as Yagneshwara (Lord of the Yagna), Yateeshwara! Is he a Yateeshwara? He does not look like one. His long beard is unkempt, his clothes are shabby, he looks like a lunatic. He sometimes glances around like a mad man.
Sometimes, he’ll pull his hair, sometimes, he’ll pull his beard. Sometimes, he’ll throw away the clothes on him, and again wear them back on and again go back to doing the yagna. It is hard to keep track of all the things that seem wrong. What kind of illusion is this? Am I dreaming or is this real?”
He pinched himself hard to see if what he was witnessing was a dream. “Am I falling asleep while standing? Such a thing is expected to happen in Kaliyuga, but it already seems to be happening to me now. The sages are continuing to praise him as Yagneshwara, Yateeshvara, as the Knowledgeable One, as the Beautiful One and so on.
Is he beautiful? It was weird enough that they called him Yagneshwara and Yateeshwara, but they are calling this old man beautiful? Can they even see him clearly? Or are they dreaming themselves?” Pingala Naga was lost in these thoughts. See how many questions and doubts Pingala Naga had in the one second he witnessed all this in.
“But, he does not have the qualities of Yateeshwara. Yateeshwaras are supposed to have a few distinct qualities. One can instantly identify a Yateeshwara.
But, he did not have a staff or kamandalam (water pot with a handle and spout) like Yateeshwaras do. He was not chanting the Omkara. And even before the yagna was complete, the Lord was getting up, petting a few dogs, milking the dogs and drinking up the milk. He kept doing this intermittently – get up from the yagna, pet the dogs, drink their milk and come back and chant the mantras for the yagna.
The mantras could not be heard clearly. It seemed like was pronouncing them incorrectly. It was as if he was murmuring to himself. The Lord kept doing this. Occasionally, someone else would bring him something in a pot and he would immediately gulp it down”.
Now Pingala Naga wondered if going there was a mistake.
Continues...
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05 Nov 2020