Baba's arrival and His reluctance towards popularity
Perhaps for more than
hundred-years of His life, Baba had been engaged profoundly in Yogic Meditation,
far away from social life. He was in search of the Absolute truth. For this
duration He did not have much of a verbal communication with anyone and
gradually became reticent. After wandering on the Chandranath mountains He
decided to descend to the plains of Ganges. He had chosen to come down to a
village called Barodi. There, He took shelter under a very old Peepul tree. It
was a sparcely populated village and the tree was situated quite a far away
from the locality. Occassionally, a few of the villagers used to pass by,
specially, when going to their field. When a few of such villagers saw Baba,
they got impressed by His sight. They spread the news in their locality that a
Charismatic looking saint had arrived to their village.
Thereafter, People from that
village used to come regularly to visit Baba and offer whatever they could. But
it was for a long time Baba had not consumed any food. He was an established
Yogi he could render His life for days to weeks to months without food and
water. So he did not eat the offerings in the beginning. One little girl used
to visit Baba and everday she used to bring with her little milk. Baba used to
drink that milk, and gradually, started eating soft fruits, because He could not
eat hard food as He has not been doing so for a very long time.
Baba used to stay there in
quiet. Of those people who used to come to visit Baba, many came to pay their
respect, and many came to get His blessings to get rid of some or the other
problems. By His grace and blessings no body returned empty handed. His
popularity began to grow. But Baba had never sought for His popularity.
However, it is the silence in
which Baba sought the truth and got His enlightenment.
Baba had once said, “Jato Gupta Tato Pokta, Jato Byakto Tato
Tyakto”. It is difficult to translate the exact wordings.
But what it means is more
important. “More is the silence or
secrecy, greater is the abundance or richness; and more it is expressed or
exposed, so much more is shunned or evaded.”
Baba meant that anything that
is full and rich does not need to express itself. When the time is appropriate,
it becomes self evident. Baba neither liked advertising his qualities nor
desired any kind of mass popularity. He used to spend His time in the state of
meditation and remained in eternal bliss. Sometimes even with His eyes wide open His sole
used to wander out of His lifeless Body and transcend to some unknown sphere
and then again after sometime gradually, His body come back to life.
Great saints and people of
substance seek quiescence because it is in this state they can connect their
soul with the Bramha. With popularity comes the commotion, and with it comes chaos; then the quietness and the serenity is lost.
…… will continue……
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