Saint Tulsidas and his wife

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Submitted by Selvaratnam Selvakumar <selvauk

 

Om Namah Sivaya

 

Before his spiritual quest, Tulsidas (author of the Tulsidas Ramayana) was a

businessman. He was madly in love with his wife, and his physical craving for

her was so intense that he did not even want to go to work.

 

Once, when she went to her parental home, Tulsidas' craving for her grew so

uncontrollable that he walked a long distance in the dark, through wind and

rain, just to be with her. So determined was he that he mistook a dead body for

a boat to cross a torrential river. Finally, after midnight, he reached his

destination only to discover that all the doors were locked. Since his wife's

room was on the upper floor, he had to climb in order to reach her room. Taking

a python to be a thick rope, he scaled it and slipped into his wife's room.

 

After all his difficulties, he expected his wife to be happy to see him. But

instead, she was so ashamed of his insane attachment to her that she said to

him, 'Had you directed this craving that you have for me towards God, you would

have realised God long ago.' Those words came as a shock to Tulsidas, a blow to

his ego, and he himself must have felt extremely ashamed of his unintelligent

and foolish attachment to her.

 

He must have felt the burden of his attachment. Thus his whole being, every

cell, every atom of his body, every heartbeat, every breath, and every pore of

his body turned inward. That very moment he realised the heavy burden of

attachment he had been carrying in the name of love. His heart skipped a beat to

unload it and then was filled with pure love for God. At that moment he decided

to die to his body-consciousness and to live in God-consciousness. He left his

wife and home and wandered as an ascetic.

 

Later he became the renowned saint we know as Tulsidas.

 

 

 

 

 

Sivaya Namah

 

 

 

 

"Gurur Brahma Gurur Vishnu

 

Gurur Devoh Maheshwar;

 

Gurur Shakshat Parambramha

 

Tashmai Shri Gurur Veh Namah"

 

May the Merciful Sri Sai Baba always shower His grace on us and our families and

remove our problems and anxieties by giving us all - strength , goodluck,

success and happiness with peace of mind.

Sai bhakt,

Deepa H

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