WHO IS THE MOST BUSY MAN?
by sri swami sivananda.
(Sai Sudha june 1944)
A Contractor says, " I am the most busy man in the world. I have taken many contracts in Delhi, Cawnpore, Allahabad and Calcutta, I have to build a three storeyed building at Calcutta, a High School at Delhi and a big temple at Allahabad. It is very difficult to get cement and other materials. I have to run here and there. There is no time for me to take my food. I am very busy. I sleep at 2 a.m. My son is very sick. I have received a telegram. I cannot attend on him."
A Doctor says, "I am the most busy man in the world. Cholera has broken out. I have to give two hundred injections, daily. I have to attend on two hundred patients in the out-patient department. I have ten serious double-pneumonia cases in the Hospital. There is no time to change my dress even, I took my food at 3 p. m., to-day. My mother-in-law came to see me. I had no time to talk to her even.
An Advocate says, I am the most busy man in the world. I have to take briefs and coach up witnesses. I must attend the High Court on Tuesday and the Small Cause Court on Wednesday and Sessions Court on Thursday. My car is out of order. I am going in tonga now. Last night I woke up till 3 a. m. I had to. refer to so many law books."
An Executive engineer says, " I am the most busy man in 'the world. This is war time. I have to supervise the construction of three bridges in Assam and special buildings in five different places. I have not answered my letters to the Superintending Engineer for the last fifteen days. I have a huge bundle of papers. I do not know what to do."
An Auditor says, " I am the most busy man in the world. I am in charge of the Military accounts now. There is not a wink of sleep for me for the last ten days. My assistant also fell ill. I have to audit the Accounts of the other division also as the auditor, has gone on leave. My head is aching."
All these people are doubtless busy in some way or other. They run about hither and thither in cars and saloons, They have no time to take food and bath in these days. They cannot masticate their food properly. They have to bolt their food hurriedly to catch the train in time. Their state is really miserable and pitiable too.
They do not know what they are exactly doing. Although they are very busy they have not done anything useful, substantial, laudable and praise-worthy-. They have not done anything which can propitiate the Lord, the Indweller the silent-witness of their mind and its activities. Some other creatures also are very busy throughout day and night.
_ The most busy man in the world is the silent Yogi who sits in Padmasan in the Himalayas. He is extremely busy though he does not move about and talk. He is very busy though he does not do any physical work. He purifies the whole world by his magnetic spiritual vibrations. He transmits soul-elevating thoughts of comfort, hope, solace, peace and spiritual strength to the different corners of the world. He changes the mentality and lower nature of deserving aspirants by his thought transference and magnetic thought currents. He lives to help the world. He is busy to help others. He has no selfish purpose to be fulfilled. He is entirely unselfish.
The fly wheel of the engine appears to be at standstill when it moves with a tremendous velocity. So is the Sattvic mind of a silent Yogi who is sitting with his crossed legs in a cave of Himalayas. Worldly people will regard him as a man of inertia but he is tremendously patient, vibrant and radiant. His Sattvic subtle mind moves with a tremendous velocity. He can do and undo things. He is omnipotent and omniscient. He can move the whole world. Worldly people cannot understand him. They cannot fathom and gauge his worth and depth of knowledge and power.
A doctor also is indeed very busy. In what way ? He is busy in filling up his pockets. He is busy in sending his bills to collect his fees, visiting fees and the fees for injections. A contractor is ever busy in collecting money for his false bills by showing third class bricks as first class bricks. A lawyer is ever busy in coaching his witnesses to tell deliberate lies. All are doubtless busy but you can now have a clear understanding of their busy nature and activities. A silent Yogi does marvellous good to the world without expecting anything in return. This is his very nature. The other busy people are really doing nothing, though they appear to be busy. Animals too are busy throughout the day and night in search of food and comforts. I leave this for the readers to judge now.
Sri Sankara, Lord Buddha, Lord Jesus were very busy though they remained silent. Whatever they have done still remain as a spiritual monument in the world. Still they inspire people. Whatever these so-called busy people have done cannot last even for a few hours. They have done more harm than good. How can selfish people who worship mammon, who are slaves of lust can do even an iota of good to the world ?
A Yogi or a Sannyasi or a Bhagayata or a Sadhu who rest-ing in his own Swaroopa or essential divine nature disseminates divine knowledge, conducts Akhanda Kirtan, trains aspirants and works for the solidarity of the world in a variety of ways is the most busy man, although he does not move about. Glory to such busy men of this world. They are a blessing to the World at large.
May this world abound with busy people like Sri Sankara, Lord Buddha, Lord Jesus and silent Yogis who can move the whole world, who can establish Dharma on the surface of the earth, and who can guide people in the path of Truth, Righteousness and Divinity !!