Sunday, 3 June 2012

Vasu Bansal_HRLP001_Self Leadership_May 2012


“True knowledge exists in knowing and stating your own truth.”


If you have the power to abide by truth, if you have thrust for knowledge then no one can stop you from learning.  Satyakama” is a young boy who yearns for knowledge. He is in quest of finding a guru. His determination is not shaken even when no one is ready to preach him. He kept pondering about the questions like “Where did I come from?””Who am I?””What is the truth of life?” Is my origin from river which finally meets the ocean or From the Sky or From the Drop of rain which finally meets the river? Like every river has two banks, where is our other side?

And the only answer he used to get was food is the ultimate truth till one day when he meets Guru Gautama and pleads to accept him as his disciple. When enquired about his father and gotra(lineage) , Satyakama rushes to his home to seek answer from his mother. Jabala,a women to stand by truth, preaches the same to her son and asks him to tell his guru , that He is Son of Jabala, Satyakama Jabala as she isnt aware of his father. The moment guru hears Satyakama truth; he agrees to accept him as his disciple.

Now the question arises how did Guru Gautama accept Satyakama as his disciple even after knowing the truth? For a while, even I got impatient to know the reason behind guru’s decision. The strong message which guru wanted to convey by his act was “Truth can only lead to Truth. A person who can speak truth, who can hear the truth deserves to know the ultimate knowledge”.

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