he lived with his master throughout his life and there are stories i'm going to
tell when i talk about swami vivekananda in a minute i tell you how this vivekanand
relates to latu here is this prakhar intellectual and here is this rustic
and you see how they interact with each other i'm going to talk to you in a little
later stage of this particular story but let me talk about lattu little bit more
you see was a very unique character out of this world he could not conform to any regulation
once the master said how can you go to sleep at night you should be meditating
that was enough for him from that day on he would meditate all night
and later on even when they started the first you know the monastery
and all the brother disciples in the middle of the night they'll just you know put the oil lamp
out and go to sleep all everybody go to sleep nine pm switch off the you know snuff out the oil lamps
and then they could hear click click click in the middle of the night they were living in very poor
condition they thought some rats of mice are now beginning to play it happen every night so
one of the brother decides there's some mischief is going on here so next days i'm not going to
sleep i'm going to wait as soon as click click start in the middle of night he struck a match
and he saw a lot too quietly sitting up doing his meditation you know beats turning his beat that's
why the clip click was coming from he allah too do you want to surpass all of us when we sleep you
won't continue but here this is not your you stay with us don't go ahead of us and this is the kind
of fun and games also let me you see when i tell you some of the stories of la tu it will touch you
let me tell you why when ramakrishna passed away he served him to the last day
now latu is not going to confirm he's going to lead a life on his own he can't even stay in the
monastery because he can't conform to anything so how does he spend his life when you listen to this
this is the life of a real like a realized personality lattu would sit on the bank of the
river ganga and meditate spend his days and nights meditating how would he feed himself what were his
material possessions look if this doesn't bring tears to your eye nothing else will
he had one towel and once in a while somebody would give him little bit of one or two paisa
with which you would buy chickpeas chickpeas dry chickpeas so put those chickpeas in the towel go
to the bank of the ganga find a rock and put this towel with the chickpeas under the rock
and hold it down and the river would flow over it and lattu would sit on the bank of
the river and go into deep meditation when the meditation was over and hopefully the tide is gone
he would go looking for his towel pull it out the chickpeas will become wet and they can be eaten
you would eat it happily now you see we may go we may think ah this is polar two look
we are the poor ones this guy was in full flow chickpeas wore chickpeas he was eating nectar
for him there was no difference establishing god realization these things are very trivial
he had no difficulty with any of that he wasn't suffering we suffer we go dear he was in full flow
we never know what he was tasting more chickpeas much more sweeter in summer so the funny story
about latu that makes us smile and laugh and do whatever you like at night this is when sometimes
there was rainy season where can you find shelter this latte now in those days there will be you
know kind of lot of compartments you know cargo compartments of railway carriages would be in the
siding somewhere so you'll find some railway carriage for you know for transporting cargo
with open door he would finally say okay there's some straw there i can sleep in there so you would
quietly you know go into the railway carriage with cargo or things and just lie there and go to sleep
and then there's a lot to tolerate they say one day i was sleeping and suddenly you know
i got up with jolt that actually linked up that that particular carriage and taken it to another
village 50 miles away he got up in another town now he doesn't have money you see he has no money
at total toil is his material wealth so he said how do i get back the only way i can get back
is walk back 50 miles he said from that day or i decided not to sleep in railway carriage
too risky don't know where you wake up you see when you look at the story of
this lattu you see you see a transformation to the highest level of an ordinary person
turning into a great sage later in his life in the final days in his life
he spent his time in kashi banaras here lot of people will flock to him and ask him very subtle
questions spiritual questions about spirituality i told you remember what shri ramakrishna had said
pure vedas will flow out of his mouth when he opens his mouth purest of vedas will flow out
this is what used to happen just let me give you one example of the depth of this personality
somebody said maharaj this life is very burdensome look we all fulfill it we may
not acknowledge it but we all feel it life is burdensome so many things unresolved
issues coming up cropping up all the time is very burdensome how can we make it light
and look at the answer from this rustic he said my boy suppose you died in the river ganga
you dive deep in the river ganga do you feel the weight of the water
you see when you are archimedes nose you don't feel any weight
in fact you force yourself to go down you're not feeling the weight of the water in fact
your bullying being pushed up you have to be kind of push yourself down to stay in the water
there's no weight you don't feel the way anything weightless so you're using this exercise when you
dive in the ganga do you feel the weight of the water of the ganga on top of your head
in the same way when you are floating in the ocean of sachidan and the idea of this idea
that i am the spirit what wait the world appears a mention of marth merrimant everywhere i look there
is nothing but excitement spiritual excitement i live in bliss what burden my boy what burden when
you recognize that you are swimming in the ocean of sachidanan your essential nature as a spirit
the world doesn't appear like a burden it appears like that most pleasurable most sweetest thing
that you can ever experience nothing so this poor guy whether is eating chickpeas which are hard or
soft makes no difference it is all sachidanan for him full bliss so we look at this classification
good bad harsh for him it's all sweet this is what is meant by brahman brahmadan see this
young boy a rustic established in the highest if you like spiritual experience this is just
one of the 16 disciples of sri ramakrishna i can tell you all of them were god realized they were
very exciting all were as different as the as you can imagine each one is different and individual
there