Just now I met a friend here in Bengaluru for a coffee at a restaurant. He is a 77-year-old retired long-time devotee of Ramana Maharshi, having retired as a senior executive in a pharmaceutical company, one who has a PhD in pharmacy.
Again this time, too, like he has confided in.me several times in the past, expressed his deep concern for his son who he feels is unable to be properly engaged with life and lead it without any hassles or troubles.
I pretty much told him what I wrote in my previous post and reminded him about what Ramana Maharshi says in the first two verses of Upadesa Saram, that is, who is the karma phala daata.
Hence, even he as a father has only a limited role to play in his son’s life and that, too, merely as God uses him in his son’s life as an instrument.
Si, I told him, “Every father who worries about his son is actually disrespecting God,” although of course, the so-called disrespect,too, is one way that God himself is manifesting in this world.
All the roles in this world, both the benefactor and beneficiary, both the aggressor and the victim, are being played by God.
Sarvam khalvidam Brahma.
