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Who is the True Seeker of Truth?
The Times of India, New Delhi
6th April 2007
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Our Children behave the way we teach them to. The courage to be authentic gives them the courage to be truthful
There’s a beautiful story in Chhandogya Upanishad, from the time when children were educated by sages in gurukulas. A boy named satyakam asked his mother Jabaala, “Mother, I want to live the life of a student of supreme knowledge. To join the gurukula, I need my family name. Please tell me what it is. Who is my father?”
“My son,” replied his mother, “I don’t know. In my youth when I went about a great deal as a maidservant, I conceived you. I don’t know who your father is. I am Jabaala, you are Satyakam, so call yourself Satyakam Jabaal.”
So the boy went to Rishi Gautama and requested him to accept him as a student. “ Of what family are you, my dear?” inquired the great seer. Satyakam told him exactly what his mother had said, concluding, “Sir, I am therefore Satyakam Jabaal.”
Rishi Gautama said, “None but a true Brahmin, a true seeker of truth, would have spoken thus. You have not swerved from the truth, my dear. Indeed I will teach you that supreme Knowledge.”
Our children behaved the way we teach them to. The courage to be authentic gives them the courage to be truthful. Jabaala was a rare mother indeed. She had the courage to admit how she had lived and her truth encouraged her child to accept the situation guiltlessly. She accepted that she loved many men, was loved by many men and didn’t know who Jabaala’a father was. A true mother! And the child was brave too. He told it to the Master; he repeated his mother’s exact words.
This authenticity appealed to Rishi Gautama and he said, “You are a true Brahmin.” This is the definition of being a Brahmin. A Brahmin has nothing to do with caste. The very word comes from Brahman, meaning ‘seeker of God’.
Says Osho: The first quality of the seeker is to be authentic, not to swerve from truth, not to deceive in any way. Because is you deceive others, eventually you are deceive by your own deceptions. If you tell a lie too many times, it starts looking like a truth to you yourself. When others start believing in your lies, you also start believing in them.
Satyakam who had gone in search of supreme knowledge did the right thing. He did not deceive the master. So Rishi Gautama accepted him and said, “It doesn’t matter who your father is. What matter is that you are authentic, sincere, unafraid—capable of speaking the truth without feeling embarrassed. Your mother has given you the right name. ‘Satyakam’ means one whose only desire is truth. You have a beautiful mother, and you will be know as Satyakam Jabaal.”
Jabalpur, the city I Madhya Pradesh, is named for this very Satyakam Jabaal.
-Swami Chaitanya Keerti
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Hurry: A Modern Disease
The Times of India, New Delhi
13th April 2007
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Man has known many sicknesses but none so problematic as ‘Harry’. Modern man is always short of time. As a matter of fact, he has no time
Once Mulla Nasruddiran to the river to catch a boat. He was going on a journey and he was in a great hurry for fear of missing the boat. When he reached the river, he saw the boat had just left the shore. He jumped and landed on the deck, but slipped and fell in the process. His elbows were bruised, his clothes torn but he was happy—he had caught the boat. He looked at his fellow travelers. Beamed and said, “Well, I made it!”
One of them replied, “I don’t understand, Mulla. Why such a hurry? This boat isn’t going anywhere, it’s just coming in to shore!”
Hurry makes normal people blind and they cannot see which way things are moving. Down the centuries, man has know many sicknesses, but there is one sickness which was not so prevalent earlier as it is today. That special sickness is known as ‘Hurry’. Modern man suffers from it tremendously. He is always short of time. As a matter of fact, he has no time.
Hurry is also special because it is an imported disease, not native to India. This infectious disease has been transmitted to rich Indians by the West.
Osho explains the root cause of this disease. He says: “The Western man has been living under a very wrong conception. It has created so much tension in people’s minds that they can never be at ease anywhere. They are always on the go, always worried that the end, they want to do everything. But the result is just the opposite. They cannot live joyously. Everything that brings joy seems to be a waste of time. They cannot sit silently for an hour, because their mind says to them, ‘Why are you wasting the hour? You could have done this, done that.’ It is because of this conception of one’s life that the idea of meditation needs a very relaxed mind—no hurry, no worry, nowhere to go… just enjoying moment to moment, whatever comes.”
Osho carries on: “In the Western world, they have believed death to be the end of life. in the East, we believe that we have so many lives that death is only a beautiful incident in the long procession. There will be many, many deaths. Each death is a climax of one life, before another life begins. As the Gita says, we simply change clothes.”
Osho points out that the idea of a short life is dangerous. That’s why even through the East is very poor, there is no despair, no anguish. The West is rich, but the richness hasn’t brought anything to its spirituality or growth; the West is very tense. It should be relaxed for it has all comforts. But the basic problem is that deep down the West knows that life is short; every moment brings it closer to death. Then, all the luxuries are meaningless, because you cannot take them along. You go into death alone, all alone.
The East is relaxed. First, it does not give death any Importance. Second, it is aware of its inner riches, which go with one, even beyond life. Death cannot take them away
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-Swami Chaitanya Keerti
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