It is said that a mother plays the role of a Guru when the child is small and the Guru plays the role of a mother when the child grows up! For a Guru, every shishya is like a child, whom he guides, inspires, corrects and nurtures with motherly love and anushasan!
Param Gurudev was at Rajkot’s Royal Park Upashray, in the same room where Tapsamrat Pujya Gurudev Shree Ratilalji Maharaj Saheb used to sit. That day, Goda family had come for Param Gurudev’s darshan. Their baby boy was probably just two months old. Param Gurudev took that baby in his own hands and showered boundless love and blessings on him. After a while, the little one started crying and so, Param Gurudev asked his father to take him in his own arms.
He came forward, but his way of lifting such a delicate child was not quite right. He lifted him by his shoulder and the poor baby started crying even more. So then, the baby’s mother took him very gently in her arms and calmed him down. Observing everything, Param Gurudev told the baby’s father, “I will need to give you a lot of training on how you should handle your child! Look at his mother, she lifted her baby so carefully. Just imagine, if you were so young and if someone would have lifted you from the shoulder in this manner, wouldn’t you get hurt? This baby is just 2 months old! He’s YOUR baby, but I worry for him! Baadak Taaru, Chinta Maari!”
Probably, the baby was a child for his parents. But his father was also like a child for Param Gurudev. And so, Gurudev sowed the seeds of care and gentleness in his heart through his boundless compassion!
