He Accepts Every Circumstance With Utmost Humility
I heard something very deep and nice from a devotee that I met in Switzerland. He told me about how he had been staying at a temple there while Guru Mahārāja was visiting. He said that the maṭha-in-charge expressed his desire that Gurudeva speak about Bhāgavatam. But then an order came that he was not allowed to speak there.
In the room where the Bhāgavatam reading was, there was a young boy,. He was maybe only three months in the maṭha and recently came out of a completely material life, eating meat, smoking, etc. Anyway, he was the only one who had permission to speak about Bhāgavatam. And what did Guru Mahārāja do?
He entered the room, bowed down to this boy and he sat in front of this boy and listened to his Bhāgavatam reading. This is his humbleness. This is always the way; they teach by example, not by punishing or whatever.
When this maṭha-in-charge saw this whole situation, he decided in one moment to leave this institution forever. Although he left that organization, he did not leave kṛṣṇa-consciousness, And this is, I think, an example of how Gurudeva teaches people.
His teachings always happened inside you. It was not needed that he told you to do this or that. But the way he did things opened up inside yourself. Then you could do the steps in the right direction. And for me, this is the highest art of teaching—he was someone who had a very deep humbleness inside and can do this.
So when I told this devotee that we have this meeting here, he said, you have to tell this please on my behalf to everybody because this was life-changing for me and I got such a different approach to kṛṣṇa-consciousness after that. Later he opened up his own āśrama and it is with this new consciousness that he got he could do that. So that was what I wanted to share. It is another of a thousand examples of how much Guru Mahārāja’s humbleness was a big teaching.
Spoken August 27, 2023 at Zoom Meeting
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