“A small story, it happened actually in My life.”
A small story, it happened actually in My life. I was staying in Himalayas at that time. A small ashram, ashram means it is not a structure, buildings like this, it’s a thatched roof, thatched roof, small, small thatched roofs… door. Only one person can stay in one hut, like this one few huts. The speciality of that ashram is, regularly, every night, tigers will come there. It is tiger haunted. Tiger haunted!
One night, some tigers have entered, they started shouting, roaring not even shouting. One elderly Swami who was experienced, he shouted ‘Hey, all of you close your doors.’ Closing the door is not going to help, because if the tiger gives one push in the door, the wall itself will give way! Like these small hut. At least keep some stones to support your door, so even if the tiger pushes, the door doesn’t give way. So all of us closed our doors and get some stones to support the door. Next day around ten o'clock that Swami came out to see how we are all doing, and how everybody is. We all shouted, and daytime actually tigers go away; he shouted and we all came out. Everyone is there except one, one person is missing. We rushed to his cottage, his hut. We saw the cottage is locked! So we were about to open and see, we wanted to open and break it and see, and this Swami shouted, ‘Hey don’t do, never do that, because tiger maybe entered inside through top! And might have had his dinner and waiting for the breakfast to be served inside the room.
You do not know, first let us call. We all shouted ‘Swami, Swami’. We got the voice from inside, we got the reply, he shouted back, ‘Oh Swami, I’m here please come inside and take me out!’ We thought something is wrong; we broke the window, entered inside. Inside we saw he supported a stone to the gate, to his door. We moved the stone, four or five of us put together, we with such a lot of effort we moved the stone, opened the door and brought him out. I asked him, ‘Now four or five of us put together, only we could move that stone; how did he move the stone yesterday night alone?’ Because, yesterday night there was nobody to help him.
He said, ‘What, I moved the stone! When I heard the tiger is coming, I simply lifted the stone, and supported to the door’. And it’s not a small stone, two hundred kg stone. The stone with which they grind the wheat and oil. In North Bharat they make rotis, chapati. For that they will put the wheat and oil to grind; that stone! Two hundred kg, stone! Not one feet or two feet. Three hundred, walk with the stone from kitchen to his room. When we heard the tiger is coming, he rushed to the kitchen and he couldn't find any stone, so he picked up this stone and walked all over, walked all over from the kitchen to his room; three hundred feet carrying the two hundred kg stone and supported the stone to his room. I asked him, ‘How did you manage?’ He says ‘Swamiji I also do not know; early morning I saw the stone inside my room, I never thought I’ll carry such a big stone! Morning when I woke up l saw this such a big stone inside my room. And morning I’m not able to move’. The same guy, he was able to move the stone at night, but morning not able to move. You need to understand one thing, we have tremendous potential energy than we think, than we imagine. The same guy, the same man, when it is necessary, when there’s an urgency, when there is an emergency, he is able to release tremendous energy.
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- 21 March 2004
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