63. Awaken your Spontaneity🔗

A small story which I told many times, but which I am always happy to repeat! This happened when I was young boy in my native place., I was born and brought up in a very small but spiritual town; which is less than a hundred thousand population in those days, in India hundred thousand population means it's nothing but a small village, a little bigger village that's all. Hundred thousand population is a bigger village, there'll be usually in India uh villages or cities or towns, in the center there will be huge temple. Around the temple there will be few streets of houses, that's all. That's a typical village or city in India, especially South India. All, almost all I can say ninety nine percent of the South Indian villages and towns are built around the temple. That was our university, that was the university of our culture and our tradition. All the knowledge, life science, everything is protected, preserved, promoted and spread from that universities. The Indian communities, Indian civilization, is basically temple-based community, temple-based community, that is why wherever they go, first thing they do is the temple, first thing they do is the temple.

India is temple-based community. I was also born and brought up in a temple-based community and every year they will have one ceremony of repeating Mahabharata, if you know the Mahabharata story you can understand this story, otherwise you may feel little difficult to relate with the story, sorry for it. Mahabharata, they will repeat morning they will repeat verbally, evening they will enact as a drama, small group of old people. Not professional artists, small group of old people. Some old men and one or two small tables, they will get into the stage and shout, there will be no microphone, there will not be any microphones. They will shout and it's, uh, sometime they will not get female artists so male they themselves will have the female dress and make-up and everything, and they will act. That day the story was Draupadi was Travagana, means uh they pulled the cloth of Draupadi in the court to abuse her, disrespect her. That's a story, as per the story, the man was dressed as a Draupadi, wearing seven saris, very thin saris, in India you will get saris which you can fold it and keep it inside a matchbox; not American-sized matchbox, Indian-sized matchbox. You can keep it inside matchbox; that kind of sari. This guy will be wearing seven saris and the Dushasana the

character, the villain character, who is supposed to pull the saris; by the time he pulls the sixth sari, he should act as if he's tired. And the Draupadi she was supposed to shout 'Krishna come' then behind the screen the Krishna will jump into the stage and say 'I have come, what do you want?' And, the villain is supposed to fall, saying that 'Oh I am too tired, too much of cloth is coming.' By the Krishna's grace, this was the whole scene supposed to be. If you know the story, you know the scene. That day, the story started, this old man was decorated as a Draupadi. He came, the story went on. The guy, the villain was pulling the saris, suddenly he forgot the count. (Laughter) Suddenly he forgot the count. This guy is wearing seven saris, he is supposed to pull only sixth, six. This fellow forgot the count, and he is pulling the seventh sari also. That Draupadi, she also lost the coolness, she was supposed to shout 'Krishna' and Krishna is supposed to come from behind the scene. She started shouting to that villain 'Hey leave me, hey leave me!' And I was sitting there I couldn't understand what is going on. Morning the story they told something else and now something else is happening. And slowly the backside, Krishna is slowly looking through the screen and waiting 'Why still I am not called,' smoking his bidi. Smoking his bidi, he is just looking through the screen. 'Why still I am not called, what happened?' And this Draupadi also got little messed up, she is shouting 'Hey leave me, hey leave me!' and she started fighting with the villain. And the whole mess finally, this villain fellow, the Dushasana pulled the sari. Now in the stage, Draupadi is standing above the hip all female dressed; below the hip with the trouser, male dressed. (Laughter) Above the hip all the female dress, below it all the male dress is standing in the stage, the whole crowd is laughing. The whole crowd is laughing but this guy is so spontaneous, he is not operating from memory. He's a village guy, beautifully managed the scene, 'Oh Krishna, because you are not able to come, you changed me from female to male and saved my pride!' He is not operating from memory, he is operating from spontaneity. An educated man can never do this, because our university will not teach you this. Our universities, colleges, the education system, everything, teaches you only how to add memory. Please understand, till human beings are taught how to unclutch from memory when needed, psychosomatic problems and psychiatric disorders are not going to leave planet Earth. The Vedic education system starts with a beautiful concept - the Gayatri initiation - where the first thing you are taught is unclutching, At the age of seven you are not taught how to acquire more and more memories. First awaken your super-consciousness, and then you are ready to start acquiring more and more memories.