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Here is one of my favourite Guru stories:
It recently came up in my facebook flow. So I post it here.
It is the american spiritual teacher Ram Dass who tells a mindboggling experience whith his Guru that changed his thinking about things permanently.
I have in this thread described in another post how the true Guru is beyond the time/space continuom and it therefore very free to know and act.
Here Ram Dass as a tourleader of a gang of seekers, had to make a choice between going to delhi or take a detour to a place of pilgrimage. The story tells how his Guru already knew everything.
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A wonderful story by Ram Dass (the famous one...) ~
The first time I was in India, I was told that I’d come back to India in two years. I came back and I couldn’t find my guru. That was very unfortunate because he said to come back in two years and then I couldn’t find him, so I decided to go a Vipassana meditation course; there were fifty people in this course in Bodh Gaya.
I was having a terrible time because as much as I wanted to be meditation, I kept thinking, “Where is my guru?” so I decided about halfway through the course that I would leave and go looking for my guru.
During tea time, I was telling the girl next to me that I was going to leave and she said, “Well I’d love to go and meet your guru. I have a friend who has a huge bus that he brought from England to India and maybe he would like to join us. We could take the bus to go looking for your guru.”
Twenty-four of us left the course in the bus and I was the leader of the posse. We were planning to take go directly to Delhi, for ice cream and soft beds after the meditation course. The owner of the bus asked if we wanted to go straight to Delhi, or off to the right to the holy city of Allahabad, the location where the Kumbha Mela is held, where all the saints come together. We did go to India to visit holy places, so I thought, “Yeah, that would be a very holy place.”
I sat in the bus debating, “Ice cream or holy place; ice cream or holy place?” and I went through a very tough time trying to make a decision. Finally the bus driver had to ask me, “Do we go straight or take a right?” And I said, “All right, go right. We’re all here in India for spiritual things we should visit a holy place.”
As we were coming to a huge field where the Kumbha Mela had been, there were maybe just a few walkers and dogs and someone in the back of the bus said, “There is Maharaj-ji [Neem Karoli Baba]!”
Maharaj-ji and his fellow devotee were walking by the bus going the other way so I said, “Let’s get out and touch his feet.”
We all got out and surrounded him and he said, “COME ON, FOLLOW US.” They had a rickshaw so this little rickshaw and a big bus began traveling together. He didn’t say where he was going.
That was at about 11 A.M. and I had made my decision to turn right about an hour earlier at about 10 A.M. Finally we arrive at a house and a woman comes out, the wife of the man who was walking with Maharaj-ji. She says, “Oh, we were waiting for you. At 6 A.M., four hours EARLIER, a phone call from Maharaj-ji woke us all up. He said, “I WANT YOU TO HAVE A TABLE OF FOOD READY FOR LUNCH FOR TWENTY-FIVE PEOPLE.” Twenty-five people included the bus driver! At 6 A.M., they knew we were going to come there for lunch, before I was busy trying to decide. After that, I don’t decide much anymore.
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