A glimpse to the mysterious man; Sarkar spend some days in nursing home in Calcutta in
year 1989-1990 due to heart problems. I was that time in India.
Before leaving to India I had asked Finnish members to make paper
flowers for Sarkar, but leave them without opening the petals. I
carried those flowers all the way to India. When I reached there I
heard Sarkar was in nursing home. I requested permission to go and
decorate Sarkar's room in his residence quarters with the flowers
before he came home. But I didn't get the permission yet before I
heard the order from Sarkar, that everyone had to leave to Ananda
Nagar, to our development project place. I hesitated whether I should
stay and wait until I got permission to bring those flowers to
Sarkar's room. But no - I decided to go with others. I heard that
when Sarkar had come back from the nursing home, one sister who
stayed behind due to her sickness, had opened the flowers. She was
the only one who knew how to open them. She brought them to Sarkar's
room and Sarkar had said that they were beautiful.
DharmaVedananda tells
more about those times; When Sarkar was leaving the nursing home,
he spoke to the nurses and doctors individually and collectively and
addressed them ma. He also distributed some sweets for them, the
nurses were crying. The last person to meet him was his doctor Mr
Sen. He was one of India's leading heart specialists. He said: “We
all thank You for putting Your holy feet in our nursing home. But You
are not a man, or even a superman, You are a God. “Then he did his
prostration to God at his feet.
Dada Keshavananda told
DharmaVedananda that a few days previously, the doctors had protested
while Sarkar was composing Prabhat Samgiit songs in the emergency
ward even though they requested him not to do any work, because it
would tax his heart. In one day alone he wrote 13 songs. When one
doctor strongly protested, Sarkar responded by saying: “Composing
Prabhat Samgiit does'not require any special effort from my part.
Similarly when ever I write Shabda Cayanika (His encyclopedia), it is
a spontaneous expression...Rather than considering these processes to
be my work, you should title them my pleasures.”
Dada asked Sarkar what He considered to
be work. Sarkar answered; “When I conceptualized the idea of
this mission, or
Prout, or Microvita,
or Neohumism, these original revolutionary creations required a
little exertion.” Dada asked him, which of the works, that he had
ever done, has taken his greatest energy. Sarkar replied; “The work
which occupied my effort for the longest time was the invention of
our pratik (the symbol of our mission). It took me thirty minutes.”
Another occasion, concerning Dr Ramesh,
a specialist at the clinic. One day he told to Sarkar;”Your health
is not good. But I understand you frequently scold your workers.
Anger is not helpful to your cure. So I request to refrain from such
rebuking.” Sarkar became furious, shouting loud enough to cause
everyone to jump; “Who is he to tell me such a thing!” The
workers were annoyed and the doctors became afraid. In a twinkle of
an eye, Sarkar again changed his mood and said sweetly: “Now do you
mean like that?” Dr Ramesh still shaking: “Yes.” But Sarkar
said; “No need to worry. You see, I say all such caustic words from
my throat, not from my heart. It does not affect me.”
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Sarkar used to be easily angry when
something was not done properly or enough speedily, but equally he
used to be heart melting loving and caring when something good was
done. I have my own memories of those kind of occasions, that I might
tell some other time.
Sarkar: Inferior people do not
even start any great work because of the mere anticipation of
opposition. Mediocre people no doubt start some work, but when
confronted with opposition they leave the work unfinished. The best
type of person never gives up any work unfinished. Even if they are
confronted with enormous difficulties at every step, they persist
until the work is successfully completed.
Once I said, “It is good to die
working, but still better to work even while dying.” So one should
always bear in mind, “I am alive in this world for the fulfillment
of my mission. This is the reason I am eating, dressing, sleeping.
Apart from this, I have no worth.” And if one ever lives a life
without a mission, then in that case, no endeavor in the psychic
sphere will bring success. If you do not want to work, if you do not
want to serve the world, you will become a burden on the world. It
would be better to leave the world than to live as a burden on it.
Human life should be enriched with intense activity.
The fortune of a person who is sleeping
also sleeps. Here “sleeping” does not mean sleeping in the
worldly sense. Its real meaning is to remain drowned in darkness,
that is, the physical body is of a human being, but his activities
are not like those of a human being.
Likewise I say to you “Go ahead with
your work – in this lies your good and also the good of the
society. Not from today, but from this very moment, jump into the
world of action and pave the way of your well-being”.
Human life is an ideological flow,
and there lies the fundamental difference between man and animal. So
what should a man do? A man should decide at an early stage of his
life what he is to do, what his mission in life is. The sooner it is
done, the better it is, because you will get more chance, you will
get ample scope to do, to materialize, to translate this goal into
the actional flow.
To love is not the only work of the
guru. One who only loves you is your enemy, and one who only
punishes you is also your enemy. But the one who both loves and
punishes in a balanced way is the real guru.
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Didi Annapurna
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