Tears flow down my eyes whenever I choose to write about my master. What a divine being he was. Just as the word ‘water’ cannot quench a person’s thirst, any amount of depiction of my master’s personality cannot come even a few shades close to experiencing him first-hand. But anyways, words is all I have, to work like fingers pointing to the moon.
It could be a lucky stroke of randomness or result of the spiritual merit that I earned in my past lives; but meeting this giant of a man and being with him just like a son would be with a father is undoubtedly the most profound gift that existence has blessed me with. Upon thinking about him, his whole figure stands bang on my mind’s eye. Anybody who knew Guruji Rishi Prabhakar well can testify that he had the most wonderful set of eyes in the whole world. Replete with love, drenched in stillness and adorned with a sparkle that signified a life being lived in total contentment. He had a set of eyes that any man would lust after.
To me he had the one of the most charismatic personalities I have ever seen. First, his rajasic side. He had extraordinary self-esteem. He held his views very passionately. His courage of conviction was supreme. He chose to speak his mind no matter what. He didn’t bother about what others would feel about him. He was so deeply stationed in his nobodiness that people’s perception of his was the least of his concern.
I recall how during one of his public gatherings, he spoke his mind against the insensitive actions of one of the erstwhile political heavyweights of that constituency. He did this with total disregard to the leader’s political leverage. This led to some pandemonium immediately after the gathering and the next day. But none of it affected him. In fact when we mentioned to him the repercussions of his courageous vocalizations of the previous evening, he recounted a few of such past incidents and joked at the fact that it is always eventful and exciting to be around him.
What I saw was that unlike a wood that drifts with the current , he consciously refused to be tense about the happenings in his life. In fact, he deflated all the tension by his humorous recitals of similar past episodes.
To him, follow truth or Satya was more important than appearing nice. He was not into the game of pleasing people. I am sure that his context was that it was his responsibility to enlighten people with truth and in the process if he rocked the boat or if he ruffled feathers for himself and a few, so be it. Anything that happened as a fall-out of he following his Satya was incidental and he would deal with it as if it was one more game to enjoy.
