Sri Sri Thakur – The Purushottam Dr. Rebati Mohan Biswas M.A., B.Sc.(Cal), Ph.D.(U.S.A.) Purushottam rebuilds a man from within. He reforms a man anew. According to Sri Sri Thakur, no man is evil by nature. As God is ever pure, man – His creation – is ever pure too. The evidence of evil that we find in man is due to temporary disease in him. Thakur asserts: Treat the man to irradiate his disease; the man will be practices from his very boyhood. A dark night prevails over Himaitpur (now in Bangladesh). The villains have gathered. They are just ready to start on an expedition when Thakur comes in their midst. They cannot imagine why he has come. They try to dissuade him from going with them but cannot. They come to a dustbin behind a room of a house. A woman is sleeping in the room. They intend to kidnap her when she comes out at the call of nature. Hundreds of mosquitoes are biting them, but like tigers they stand perfectly, still, to jump. Anukulchandra makes a sound-while driving off mosquitoes. Their alert ears twitch with alarm. They try to keep him quite. But he alone knows what he is doing. Suddenly he stands up and begins to run. Being afraid, they follow him like cows moving towards home before storm. When they stop to catch their breath at last, Anukulchandra says mournfully, “Oh, how foolish we are; we went endure mosquito bites! Have we no love for our life? Is it so mean and meaningless? Saying this, he becomes graver, and a divine light begins to glow all over his body. They cannot object to his ruse and he continues, “Are we not men? Why should we run after females like cats and dogs? Are we so vile that we can lose all our dignity in such an ugly way? If we be men, if we can acquire knowledge, power, strength and character, thousands of women will run after us.” His words are like bullets discharging fire and penetrate into their hearts. They become conscious of their fallen honour. They begin to weep and fall down at his feet like broken plants. And they rise to turn their energies to the enhancement of existence in their village. Thakur Anukulchandra moves very cleverly in his depraved environment. He has a thief-friend who calls him Dada Thakur. Anukulchandra loves him very much and helps him with all he can. One midnight Anukulchandra is on the riverside. A man is going that way. Anukulchandra calls and find his thief-friend on his nightly prowl. He takes his company and begins to discuss the ways and means of stealing. The thief-friend is very glad to get new suggestions and hopes for some active help from his friend. With this hope he hears him. But the night passed away thus in talk. As the dawn breaks, Thakur Anukulchandra gives him some money for his family and says, “Brother, whenever you go to steal, please take me with you, I shall help you as much as I can.” The next night the thief takes Anukulchandra along with him. He is filled with unlimited joy at having Dada Thakur. Suddenly Thakur Anukulchandra says, “Well brother, I think if the material you have stolen through your whole life be collected in one place, no one would ever have to steal again. But you have nothing at all of it. And what grievous hurts you have given to people’s hearts in one night. And so the Supreme Father permits you to save nothing and so you are always in want.” The thief thinks and says, “You are right Dada Thakur. Though I steal much I live from hand to mouth. I can save nothing for the future. If I miss a night, I starve next day.” Then his friend says, “Then think over the matter. What is the sense in it? And furthermore, you are here; but have you done anything to protect your own house? Have you left a light burning? Is your wife, for whom you are doing all these things, quite safe?” The thief suddenly becomes nervous, stops dead in his tracks. He wants now to turn back but his Dada Thakur urges him on, telling him that everything will be all right. But it is of no use. The thief has lost his confidence. He can no longer handle his tools properly. He rushes to the river Padma and throws in all the instruments. Returning to his friend he cries out, “You have undone me today, Dada Thakur. It is my last job.” The man has to suffer much, but he never steals again. On dark nights, however, he would sometimes become restless. Feeling that he could not control himself, he would come to Anukulchandra and spend the whole night talking with him. After a while he thinks, “I am a thief, a vile rogue abandoned by the society. But how patient and loving my venerable Dada Thakur is that he endures me night after night. Well, I shall not vex him again.” Thereafter whenever he is distracted by his passions, he comes to Anukulchandra’s cottage and moves round it the whole night, returning home in the morning. In this way he frees himself and gets way of living. Thakur’s technique is not to expose a man but to explore the inner aptitude and make him conscious of his potentiality. He never mentions the loop-hole in the man, but restores his lost confidence by bringing the latent possibilities out in him. A man residing in the very premises of Thakur-Bungalow committed a heinous crime. Some workers became furious and decided to give a proper punishment. But Thakur, when he came to know their plan, said, “I would be very gals if you don’t disturb him any way.” The man concern did not turn up before Thakur for more than one month. He had always been in apprehension lest he should be warned and consequently punished by Thakur. Once, in the morning, the man was sneaking away by the side of the boundary wall of Thakur-Bungalow. Thakur noticed him from a distance and called him, “Eh: hear me.” The man struck with terror of reprimand came before Sri Sri Thakur. He blushed in shame and was trembling in apprehension of sure reproach from Thakur. But to his great relief Thakur did say nothing of the sort. Instead, he asked, “Do you know astrology?” The man replied, “No, Thakur.” Thakur suggested, “Do you like study astrology?” The man said amazingly “I am not so much learned, Thakur. I studied up to class eight standards only.” Sri Sri Thakur exclaimed exuberantly, “That’s enough, my boy.” He called Nikhilda and asked him to bring all the books on the astrology that had been purchased from Kolkata a few weeks ago. Nikhilda brought all the books and handed them over to the man at Thakur’s instruction. Thakur instructed the man how to start, which book was to be learnt first and how to proceed step by step and said, “Come to me every noon after my lunch; tell me what you have read and discuss what the book is about.” The program started accordingly. Everyday noon, the man used to come and sit before Thakur with a book that he studied. Thakur used to ask him different questions on the topics that he studied and gave necessary suggestions and directions for improvement. About two and half years passed in this way. Once Padmashri Kiron Banerjee, the then General Manager of the Ordinance Factory, Ichhapur (West Bengal) remarked about the very astrologer, “Thakur, I showed the astrologer my horoscope as you suggested me. The astrologer gave a correct reading of my horoscope. When he said agree exactly with the reading of many famous astrologers that I met in India and Europe. Of course, he has said more than they predicted. I think he is also a good astrologer, Thakur.” The next noon, when the astrologer came to Sri Sri Thakur as usual, Sri Sri Thakur stared at him with a gracious look and said affectionately, “Do you know what Kiron has remarked? He says, you are a very good astrologer, See what you have achieved in this very short period. You are really a fantastic guy. If you just mend that little hole in your character, you can do great marvels no doubt. Is it not?” The man instead of shrinking in shame, flushed in a great joy, and said “Thakur, by your grace I will, I will, Thakur.” A sure touch of grim determination flushed over his face. Thakur smiled and said inspiringly, “I believe you can.” Thakur used to say, “don’t reject the leaky boat; mend the leak and stop the leakage, you will see that boat is carrying loads again.” He applied this principle in the case of innumerable human beings too. Purushottam comes from “above” and human beings come from “below”. Lord Jesus said, “I come from the above and ye from the below.” There is a heaven and hell difference between the Purushottam and the common man. “Above” means the world of sublimation and divine attributes; and “below” implies the world of passion and passionate attributes. Lord Jesus said, “….Before Abraham was I am”. A very continuity of conscious memory of the “above” in the Purushottam every impulse from Him goads man, especially the one who is regardful to Him towards becoming. Sri Sri Thakur is seated in the Parlour. Thousands of devotees have assembled around Him during the Utsav in April and October. They are observing their beloved Thakur from a distance. Sri Sri Thakur casting His affectionate glance over the vast crowed. Each of these innumerable individual thinks that Thakur is looking at nowhere but at him alone. Thakur’s very wistful glance penetrates the depth of his (her) inner being. Everybody feels a thrill of joy, a new sensation, a sense of well being his or her whole being. Consequently a new understanding flashes before him or her and he or she instantly finds solution of the problem intended to place before Thakur personally. Purushottam is ever conscious of his transcendent reality. He is related to the Transcendent God in terms of Cosmic Consciousness. As He is ever conscious of his transcendent reality, and the existence with the Beyond is consciousness itself, knowledge itself, the faculty of omniscience is ever bright in him. Purushottam knows the past, adjust the present and paves the future so that existence rolls in the bosom of cosmic consciousness perpetually. ■
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