Local – Mumbai Samachar
The Story of Madhu Rai – Madhu Rai
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The son-in-law said, God seems to have lost his mind now. Ame ame vigadaveda, tayen sun!
Hario pretended to be asleep. Slowly found the eye.
‘Why Gaga, two dithi Tobaru chadara Farch, hai sun, talking to the stomach?’
Bhagavan asked turning his hand over his head.
Hariya saw the note in his hand. OIC The dream was going on, God came in the dream. Hario sat down in the dream, Ohoho, Antarajami, where are you from? Shri Bhagavan said, ‘Madman, when a fool like you gets confused like this, it is my job to come and remove the doubt from his mind. When you leave your office and are sitting in shame, I am here to wash away the filth of your mind, am I not you?’
It happened again to Haryana. Am I going to be you?
‘So M Haribhai, that you come in a dream while you are sitting with your hands folded. I am your soul too, right? I explain to you through your soul, wise! Your soul, your son-in-law’s soul, Ola Vignanik’s soul, I am all. So I am God, you fool!’
If we kill all the souls, be you, God?
Bhagavan began to take out his teeth. ‘Crazy leader, what is the soul, do you understand the root of something, or can it be measured and summed up? Soul is not such a thing that Lyo Haribhai’s soul was taken out and put in this bag and Vignanik’s soul was taken out and put in the bag. The soul is not joined or cut, madman.’
Back to the round talk. Keep it simple, God, I’m confused.
If the soul is not something that can be grasped or seen. If you sit with your ears, you will not hear. If you go to lick, it will not be licked, and if you go to smell, then you will not smell. Let the soul be felt by the mind, Lallu! The soul is something within.’ By God’s will, Haryana turned his hand to bamboo.
Crack some more, Lord. What kind of thing is inside?
Bhagavan held Hariya’s garment and said,
‘If this is a cloth, wet it, dry it, cut it with scissors, and cut it, dip it in grass, and make it dry.
It happened outside. The soul shall not be wetted, shall not be dried, shall not be cut with scissors, and shall not be easily cut with it. Haria’s soul is in Haria’s lap today, so tomorrow it will go to Chakla’s lap, Galavela!’
OIC So there is God in Hariya and there is God in Chakala, m? Then?
‘Then what, Bada,’ said Bhagavan to Haria Bada intently. I went to Haryana. ‘O God, what else do you find good in things? For example, in which world is the biggest lamp?’
Hario says that the sun.
‘That’s it, then the Sun in the lamp is God. Then the hands, feet, eyes and ears in a man or his mind?’
Hario says that the mind.
So God says, ‘That’s enough, then the mind in the human body is God. If a deer runs like that, its consciousness is God, and if a man-woman has intercourse, Cupid is God in it. Everything is done by God, madman. That is why Kartaharta has said it.’
Why do you call it Harta? Hariya asked wide-eyed.
‘O Koda-eyed, all green of God! It should not be divided between the one who makes it and the one who defeats it, everything is done, and everything is lost! The one who destroys is given away, and the one who defeats is given away, Budhu, everything else has started from there.’ God smiled and said, ‘In short, wherever you look, God appears in the form of a snake. Think Ganga in a river, think Himalayas in a mountain, think a lion in an animal, they are all forms of God, understand?’
That means the engine in the local, and the driver in the engine and the mind of the driver is God?
‘That’s it, now I understand, Harishrachandra!’ Bhagavan smiled and said, ‘But I am asking you to explain all this, do you understand? In short, wherever you see something good, understand God. The rest of the day he would not get up and start the engine. All the annoyances are caused by such superstitions. If you believe there is God in every thing, if you don’t believe then nothing.’
But why do all the Veenaniks dub-dub, God, give them some salampak, won’t you?
God laughed and said, ‘Ghela, in whom God appears, God…’
No, no, why is God not God? Why is nature God!
‘Crazy, I have a thousand names. I will answer by the name you recognize. If a blacksmith says that my Lord is my God, then I am many, and if a gambler says that my Lord is a gambler, then I am a gambler. Any master says that my Vidya is my God, Vidya is my brother.’
That is, the work he does. Work means God, or God means all gold work?
‘Say, it’s a very straightforward matter, you should do your work, don’t cheat in your work and work diligently. Don’t talk about whether there is a God or not, mad chief!’
Hey, one minute, Lord! Going by the way, where are you going, or are you going locally or are you going on earth?
‘Both do their own thing. Understand then.’ Saying that, God disappeared. Hario woke up. Turned green. Now it’s about Ola Vignanik.
Hario boarded local from Andheri. Vignanik climbs from Santa Cruz. Hariya had thought of all the names before he got there. It’s a matter of Veegananik!
Vignanik took the tiffin. And Haria said, ‘Welcome, welcome.’ At first he talked horizontally, Vegananikan turned the page. Then in the conversation Haria said, ‘Yes, yes, it is God’s will.’
‘God-God what a Haribhai, nature is nature.’
‘It is so, Professor, I call you Professor with my mouth, but in my mind I call you Vigananik. And your name is Shigarthbhai. But your three names are thousands and millions of names of God. Simja or not? God of course.’
Vignanik laughed. Kaye or ‘Well done! Then what Haribhai? All this progress has been made by man or God? Who invented electricity? Who built the airplane? What are you talking about, if God had left it and sat down, then he would still be going to the office sitting in the cart and thinking that the sun revolves around the earth!’
‘That’s the way it is, Professor, everyone does their own work, understand that.’
Vignanik turned pale. ‘So what do you mean? Doesn’t the earth revolve around the sun?’
‘Where did I say it doesn’t move?’ Haria said sternly. ‘Man felt that the sun is rotating, then it occurred to him that no, no, the earth rotates, then it occurred to him or not, no, the sun also circles the other sun, and tomorrow morning, when he wakes up and says, he circles everything reciprocally. What is true? Whatever comes to mind is true. A king in the mind is a king, and a prisoner in the mind is a prisoner.’
‘So what do you mean?’ Vignanik became tall.
‘So understand that this is like a local.’ Haria said loudly, ‘We are sitting in the locality, so we sat and the earth moved. And when we got out, we stood on the ground and walked local. What?
‘They do their own thing, don’t they? Did you do it locally, did it do it on earth, did it do it on the sun, did it do it on the ground or did it on the ground? Haria patted Vignanik on the groin. ‘When we were standing at the station, the car came. If we are sitting in the car, let us say that the station has arrived. Understand then.’
Vigananik became agitated.
‘Hey what are you doing, mister!’ Vignanik said with a frown. What has God got into this? Where did God’s will come from? This is a headache in dealing with an illiterate person. Take it, don’t put it.’
May the green light up with love.
‘God’s green is immense. Professor. People like you and me are doing okay but big and big people. If we collect all the books, there will be enough pages to cover the earth, and if we collect the ink, the river will overflow, and if we collect the stones, it will become a mountain like the Eucalyptus, understood, and if we collect the fountain, the forests of the world will be filled, understood or not?’
‘I don’t understand.’ Vignanik turned away and sat down.
‘This is local. E is running, we like it, but the head is eaten. Saimja or not?’
‘So?’
We may think that the local builders have created a work without a hitch, but the builders know that it cannot be done without a hitch. It’s like the world. Some of us like it, some of it we don’t like. A little understood and a little not understood, what did you understand. If it is left, then it will go away. Satisfied as we are. Another coke is poured into it. Ne Upwararo in the moustache, why not boiled, professor?’ Hario started laughing.
‘Are you laughing, mister? Why does your God do all this injustice?’ asked Vignanik irritably. ‘Why one king and another beggar? speak?’
Hario bared his teeth, ‘What does your nature lead you to do? Explain it, Professor!’
Vigananik became a net. ‘Nature has not claimed anything, Mr. K. It will give heaven to all. Nature means that everything should do its own thing…’
Vignanik stopped speaking. And everything started doing its own thing.