I write this to share the experiences
and benefits our family has reaped, which is revealed in the manner of
transformation in our attitude of dealing with day-to-day happenings.
Our Master Sage TGN while expounding the
Practical Philosophy avers that any philosophy worth its salt should help and
sustain us in our daily lives. For instance, when imparting the Wisdom that we
are not our physical system, mind or intellect, but That Supreme Self, He
emphasises that the derivative of this Knowledge is that any ailment to the
physical system should not bother us or bog us down. He also gives us a
practical and simple methodology to adopt this attitude and gives the example
of headache - it is not that we suffer a headache but that our head has an ache
thereby creating a gap between us and the ailment. Time and again He also tells
us that we should counter adversities with humour (இடுக்கண் வருங்கால்
நகுக - திருக்குறள்)
and narrates how
our ancient Tamil poets managed crisis situations with humour.
My niece has been regularly attending
Master's Classes. Recently she suffered from an ailment which is known to cause
severe abdominal pain. She was rushed to a doctor who advised immediate scan.
On hearing the news I contacted her over the phone. Through her acute pain, she
told me that she is moving about crouching forward like Avvaiyar
and laughed merrily. This attitude of hers induced me to respond in similar
vein that Avvaiyar should soon become Andal. Now, I have seen people laughing off their ailment
after the worst is over but not when one is in the active phase. Then she
continued, "I am ninth in waiting list for scan to be done. I am utilising
this time to drink water since I have been asked to remain in full
bladder". She didn't mind having to wait with pain. Neither did she
grumble one bit. nor try to bypass the queue citing
the severity of pain. She did not trouble elderly parents but managed the
entire situation without as much as informing them. With Master's Grace, she
has been fully cured of the problem since.
Our family as a whole has had the good
fortune of being exposed to Master's Grace since childhood. Now I am able to
recall the effect of Master's Grace even then. This girl, even when in high
school when she could not have grasped much of the philosophy behind taking
one's mind out of a problem, displayed similar cheerful attitude. She was then
down with typhoid fever. Our neighbour, a well-meaning elderly lady, visited
her and advised that she should be on strict diet and not eat anything. After a
while we saw her writing furiously in her notebook. When asked what it was that
she was working on instead of taking rest, she showed us a list of items she
would eat after she gets well, starting from 'koda milagai sambar'!
Needless to say, she did get every single item of her wish-list
fulfilled later!
Another younger niece of mine even as a
toddler displayed the rare quality of not hurting another being. She was two
years old, having high fever and fretting. Her uncle carried her outside our
home to cajole her and asked her playfully whether we could give away her fever
to a pig that was seen nearby.. Immediately this child
protested, 'No, no!' I feel extremely happy and proud that Master's Grace has
established us intuitively in the Path of ஒழுக்கம்.
Our family as a whole remains grateful
and indebted to Him and we pray that Master's Grace should ever protect us and
keep us rooted in the Path shown by Him.
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