9/8/2007 5:22:16 AM
Before March 2007, I used to go to a masjid which is some 5km from our home. That masjid is very big and had a big idol of our beautiful baba. I liked it so much that I continued going there every week for the noon arati. Now that we have the new masjid near our home, I have stopped going there. Every Wednesday they used to clean and wash the whole masjid. Unfortunately I couldn’t take part in that deed. After the arati, the pujari asks everyone to sit down, men in the left side and women in the right side. He used to tell us all the incidents from satcharitra, also few people used to describe their experiences with baba. Whatever Prasad was brought was mixed all together, like rice+curd+sambar+chapati etc. it contained all the tastes, sweet, sour etc. the first time when I took the Prasad I did not like the taste, to be honest, as it was mixed with curd and as well as sambar. And one after noon a handful of Prasad was given, I used to finish all the chapatti pieces first and eat the remaining curd+sambar mixed rice with so much dislike. Used to ask him ‘if I don’t like it then why are you forcing it to me’. I believe eating like that is as equal to throwing it away. I felt helpless, couldn’t make my stupid brain understand. The next week I thought of avoiding the Prasad as they were distributing so many kinds. Thought of accepting one variety. I don’t wanted to take that whole mixture so I was about to move aside from it, one woman was after me to take it when I hesitated, she said ‘this is the main Prasad, you can not avoid it’. I know I will somehow get a blasting from him since I was behaving like an idiot. Then I took it from her and while returning, I saw one big picture of baba in which he was laughing naughtily. I understood his look which was like ‘acha hua, you deserve it’. What to do now I have to eat it, no matter how much he teases me and when I ate it I found only chapatti pieces in it and not that much of mixed rice. Got my lesson for that day that our tongue should know no taste but we are helpless humans anyhow, forgive me for that baba. om sai ram.