you see i'm just giving you small snippets of some of these marvelous personalities if you examine
their lives and see the kind of depth of their experiences and the kind of variation you see
we can all learn from all of them because the the trials and tribulations and the way they
interacted with this great master in a way is our trials and tribulation because we face the same
issues that they faced how to experience god what are the what are the obstacles
they were facing the same issues that we face in fact i'm going to do now a short story about
a householder disciple i already talked about the monastic disciples and i talked about lattu
talked about rakhal and talked about narendra swami vivekananda i'm now going to just touch
on the life of one of the household disciples but we'll expand and do there are so many very
interesting interesting personalities i'll just give you some names like irish chandra gosh
mahindra nath m the author of the gospel aram krishna we'll talk about it in the
later session i'm going to do a session today and one of the household disciples
who is really very thrilling very excited says narendra is the the king of the monastic disciples
this gentleman can be called the king of the householder disciple of ramakrishna
so i just touched on this life it's a big look when i studied the first time i'm not making it
up actually i had tears tell you why i realized my shortcomings to be household a disciple of
ramakrishna the amount of dedication required amount of discipline required that it becomes
visible in the life of this particular gentleman made me feel so inadequate means i feel i'm
nowhere near you feel that oh what is this what is this it is that dramatic let me do the story
this is a story of somebody called naga mahashi or durga charon nag he lived in east bengal
again came from a very poor family lost his mother at a very young age his father is nice but little
bit mean little bit tough and he carries on with his father now for him to continue with his
studies they found that the only school available was 10 miles away from his village 10 miles so
the kindly aunt said you know you can't travel 10 miles you know 10 miles and we don't have enough
money for it to be able to stay in this place where it is a school we don't have the money
and the only way you can study is 10 mile travel and it's always working what else in in in in in
that part of the world so he said it's going to be difficult so give up your study he said no
i he was very focused gentlemen you know what is the most unique feature about this personality
that touched me his steadfastness to truth he will not compromise and ram krsna says
in this age in this age the only discipline you require
to become spiritual only one discipline you require is steadfastness to truth
if you are established in truth everything else will come to you just be established in truth
it will change your life forever and when i look at the life of this nag mahashaya i
see that here is a man establishing truth what do i mean by this it's not me it doesn't mean
that you go into a philosophic debate regarding what is ultimate truth and try and define now
you basically make sure that you lead a life that complies with your own concept of truth that's all
we all have an idea what is true and what is not true what is right what is wrong provided you are
able to control your life hardness your life so that you do not overstep the mark and continue
to maintain what you think is truthful that is enough that's all it says and yet we fail i fail
all the time it is so difficult because the name of diplomacy through carelessness you say things
which you can't do like i'll tell you i'll meet you tomorrow i don't know but i keep saying things
like that these are not right this nagmashi was a stickler stickler that was a little boy's tickler
you'll soon find out how when i do the story stickler he said no problem 10 mile not a problem
this boy used to walk 10 miles to go to school and walk back home 10 miles
from school 10 miles each way just to study he wanted to study medicine all the doctors turning
up i don't know they are attracted to rav gushing up somehow so and of course they didn't have money
to medicine he took on homeopathy because that's the easiest thing you can do in the village
homeopathy kind of herbal medicine he learned that mastered that and then the father and son
decided to move to kolkata for for business to set up a little clinic there now this
is a unique doctor homeopath he would treat the patient and charge them the minimum
because the cost of the herbal herbs are this much and the cost of just continuing for me to
survive is this much so this is my fee he lived on the minimum from time to time he would find a
patient who can't pay the fee of course he can't pay for the medicine i must say not a problem you
said no fee i'll treat you for free does he stop there no this is india calcutta what do you expect
he gets patient who can't not only pay for the medicine they don't have enough to eat so
nag master calls them to his clinic gives them free medicine and gives them money to buy food
now the father is getting agitated his name is he gets is agitated this boy
what is going to ruin ruin us ruin us this is not the way of running business
in fact every luana father will deliberately stop his son from running of sindhi i'm pretty sure
this is not about doing business we used to get agitated very worried this boy is going
to sell us sell our house and home you know what is he doing at the same time you see this part of
the story i forgot to but has mentioned this then they all wanted his son to get married
and the son with folded hands said father don't put me in hell i don't want to marry
father said no it's a very very you know boy who listens to his father no you have to get
married what's the reason for dindal insisting he wants to continue with the lineage kind of
continuity of the family tree so this is the reason why it's pressurizing you know this is a
sad thing that somehow we think that we can get you know eternal life if we can leave some seeds
behind they continue to flourish it is silly completely but this is how most human beings
think that somehow they will maintain a continuity if they were linear that carries on so they know
you get married force them again real story this is in the village before they came to kolkata
so he was married against his wishes but this boy could not stand the idea of physical contact
he couldn't never able to stand the contact by woman look again a modern youth forget it
you stay no chance that's why i said i felt myself highly inadequate when i saw this when i read this
story so this little story you make you laugh and the same cry and say what to do with this boy so
he's married his wife is in the bedroom this guy doesn't go in the bedroom he doesn't sit outside
on the veranda even he can't risk it he climbs the tree and sits on the branch at night i'm not
making it up so all night is spent on the branch i'm not i don't know how you must be hanging on to
the tree just not to fall off just to protect and make sure the wife doesn't come out and touch him
he climbs up every night he's sleeping like that this was going on and then you see the
story says suddenly the wife died she said hurry hurry you know i can come off come down the tree
i wish the wife a long life but this is what happened but do you think dindal will be happy
he said no second wife standard in india your wife's come and go so second wife they force
again he falls again with you know folded and said father don't make me do this no
my son is older you are my son remember the scriptures obey me second time but this time
the wife was helpful the first one would have knocked him out the second one was helpful
she recognized the greatness of the soul and never bothered him stood by him helped him
and always it was a steadfast help throughout the rest of his life the second wife stood by
now during this process while he was treating some patients he managed to there was a rich
patient he treated the patient was very seriously ill about to die and he recovered
and this the patient was so pleased normally you know he struggles to get his money
here he came with a basket full of silver coins this is ancient india 100 year old india so silver
coins will be available whole basket offers and india is watching you know his mouth watering we
are doing well today and this uh you know nagmash i looked at the money said this is not my fee
my fee is so many rupees some kind of trivial amount take the coins back and then they always
jumping up and down you see you send the money away took a few rupees that's my fee thank you
i can't take more than what i deserve say i told you stickler for truth
can't do it it just goes against my moral fabric i can't do it
and then there are mad i'm doing the funny story because you see the left of this person
he said what are you trying to do now you see if your gujarat used to book him also
book him or so you know then you're going to die of starvation but in bengal they do a different
language they say what will you do you will be kind of naked and you'll be living on dead frogs
means you know clothes to wear and eat dead frogs that's the way you sustain yourself
this is the language they use in that part of bengal that's what i read in the book
the moment he said that what will happen now you will have to live naked and on dead frog
the moment he said this i told you this guy is a stickler stickler he took off his clothes even
in the garden found a dead frog and started to eat it he ate it and said father i fulfill your wishes
i am free this is a real story in our world you know this is this is nagma
unusual character now you see time has come for him to he's to meet his master
so one of the disciples or the disciple i've not talked about took him to visit
ramakrishna for the first time and he sits with folded hands at the feet of ram krishna
again ram question like like lattu he looks in the oh dear what have you brought here
is a fire full of renunciation what have you brought here renunciation and nothing else here
blazing fire of renunciation what a marvelous personality
and then nag mashay said maharaj you know please can you make me a monk
i would like to become a monk and ramakrishna said look you are very special
you are going to tell the world how you can lead a householder's life and yet be spiritual
i want you to continue to lead a householder's life you will be the best example of a householder
who leads a spiritual life you will be that example so i am ordering you not to become
a monk stopped him you see wrong question give a different instruction to different
youngsters who came to him so nagmaj said you carry on you are the perfect example
so nagmashi continued his own way then they are jumping up and down and life life carried on but
he was such a lovely gentle person he could never utter if a a ill word for to end towards anybody
even they mistreated him he could never say ill about anybody and if anything slip out of his
mouth you know he would pick up a just look dude again don't try it at home he'll pick up a stone
and hit his head saying how dare you be nasty why did you use that critical comment you would hit
himself with a stone either there was a story from harry potter or something there was a character
doing that wasn't it so he this nag he was doing stuff like that and somebody to take
the stone away from others you know keep bleeding his life was like that and you see if for example
lived in a patched hut where the roof would keep licking every monsoon the roof would be
leaking you would keep repairing it again and again but this i cannot give trouble to anybody
so he would you know the wife would wait when he's gone out she'd find the roofer come here quickly
and repair before he gets back because he can't trouble anybody even if you are paying him you
can't trouble anybody so one day when roofer had gone up and i was trying to and now she came ah
he's doing so much for us this is not on he climbed up he said look i will do it you come down
and i'll make a hookah for you and have something to eat and drink and i offend you and i give you
money for coming i'll do the sword i'll sort it out sorry i've given you so much trouble so he's
giving him money while he's doing his work and fanning him and offering him tea and saying sorry
you see this is nagma can a person like that be alive could he could he have lived think
incredible this was his whole life his mannerism was incredible example of a householder's life
you