A letter from a Giving Guru to a Receiving Sishya
Posted by Kalyani Bose on August 5, 2010 at 9:17am in KALYANI BOSE'S DISCUSSION CORNER
"In my last letter I gave you news about the new Haimavati that has grown up here. As I am writing I am looking at the landscape through the window, a strange mixture of the soft scene of Lohaghat and the rugged beauty of Almora. I am alone, completely alone. There is a small boy now who draws water for me everyday. I cook for myself and do my washing.
"There are a few pupils nearby. You know them. U.sees to it that nothing interferes with my work. A. has been a wonderful help. He copies all the manuscripts before they go off to the printer.They come twice a week to read Samkhya with me. M. comes every Wednesday to take lessons in Sanskrit. So you see it is just like what we had planned in Almora, with the difference that now I am doing all these things without the slightest idea of building up anything. I know that these students might fail me any moment. But I have to give what I have, and I give it not to the person, but to the spirit behind. Thus I serve Haimavati.
" Haimavati is a living idea, whether we are referring to the place where we live in Europe or to the house in Almora. The same is true of the house in Shillong. So there the house in the Swiss Himalayas and the house in Eastern Himalayas. Everywhere the living idea is that of the 'secret cave,' the temple in the heart of man in which Purusha is absorbed in himself.
"I am happy to know that your work is recognized and supported. Accept any help that gives you freedom on the explicit condition that you free yourself of every hindrance that might prevent you from serving fully. If you do it consciously and silently, Purusha will uphold you. Never betray and you will be in harmony with yourself- even if things become difficult."
After the end of Haimavati in Almora, Sri Anirvan moved to Shillong, in Assam in easternmost part of India.
Ramadi mentioned once that Mme.Reymond used to come to India and visit Sri Anirvan every year as long as he was in the physical body.
"without the slightest idea of building anything" very aptly reflects S.A.'s aversion to any kind of publicity, one of the reasons why he left his Guru's Ashram..
And of course, about Purusha- he speaks of Samkhya so simply that the difficult Philosophy becomes a part of life.
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