Sri Sri Ram Thakur – Story of Sanyas of a Devotee

There is another incident mentioned in the book of Sri Phanindra Malakar about himself. Once he had a desire of taking sanyas from the sansar or renouncing the material world and go in search of God and do sadhana in a forest. But he didn’t revealed it to anybody in his home, he was unmarried at that time. Instead he thought he would quietly leave his home without anybody’s knowledge and take sanyas. But our almightly Guruji was knowing everything and on the night of his escaping Guruji alerted the family members of Malakar babu and he was caught and stopped from going. When Malakar babu came to know that they were informed by Guruji himself he felt very dejected at heart also felt being betrayed by Guruji. Next morning, when he went to met Guruji along with the family members He explained in detail as what is actual sanyas. He asked that have you acquired that qualification to stay in forest and amongst the animals? Do you have the basic eligibility? If you have violence in you heart, your violence will attract the animals to attack you!! First gain that qualification!! You have previous births karmas due to which you have taken birth here in this family otherwise you would have taken birth in some isolated part of the world and until and unless you pay all your debts you cannot escape from here. Where will you go? Wherever you go, your prarabdha will also follow you! (Guruji used to say that our forehead is our fate and you cannot keep your forehead at a place and go to some other place, it will go with you wherever you go! Further also when you die and your body is fully burned into ashes your forehead bone only remains!!) Don’t try to run away from your karmas instead face them (like Arjuna who also tried to run away from his duties but was ultimately brought back by Sri Krishna) Guruji also said that instead of going to aranya (forest) stay in this sansar aranya (world forest) and do tapas or sadhana through bearing with patience all sorts of miseries, blames given by family members, society etc. different types of difficulties, agony, sorrow etc. keep your mind at the lotus feet of God and do all your duties with an akarta bhav (detached state). This is called nitya tapasya and I bless you to be able to do that. So here we can see that how beautifully Guruji had explained us that sanyas is not escaping from your home instead facing all difficulties with patience and keeping your mind in God/Guruji. Jai Ram!