In another instance, when Eknath Maharaj was coming out of the holy river after his bath, one of the villagers spits on Maharaj. Maharaj with a very quite and composed mind and with a smile goes back for the holy dip again. Again the villager spits at Maharaj...again he goes back for the holy dip in the river for the third time.This keeps on repeating 108 times! The villager now feels guilty and seeing Maharaj's patience asks Maharaj, " Aren't you angry?". Maharaj replies, "I should thank you for what you have done.As I was blessed to take 108 dips in the holy river." In stead of getting angry Maharaj was thinking in a very positive way that he was fortunate to take 108 dips in the holy river.He never thought he was getting late for his sadhana and daily pooja schedule.
The above incident from Maharaj's life makes us understand people troubling us in our life are a blessing in disguise for us.Which will make us to be more patience or make us detached to materialistic things.It also makes us to understand things, look and think in a positive way.The more love we receive from people around us sometimes makes us bind to the materialistic world.
Reading and recollecting these stories will help us to control our anger and see things going around us in a positive way and accept them.
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