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Attunements-Distance &
Grandmaster
“Respect for the
individual and respect for the
Divine”
NN
: Somebody was asking what is respect.
So if at Reiki 2 you do not know what is respect….(asks
the assembly): I don’t know, you tell me what is respect.
Ch
: No, what I mean to say, we
have been brought up to the meaning of the word right from childhood, at times
it is confusing.
NN
: Why, which times is it confusing?
Which time it isn’t?
Ch
:
Specially when you deal with people who are older to you in age like say
parents level and in-laws level where you know, ok, if the other person is
saying, let it be, grant the person that age or...
RN
: What are you granting?
NN
: That he should be an old fool? …
What is it?
Ch
:
Granting that, ok, the person is so old, let us not talk back and hurt
him kind of thing.
NN
: Is that what respect means?
Ch
: No it does not but…
Ch
: But it is still believed to
be that.
(Pause)
NN
: What is the meaning of the word
respect?
Ch
: To give one one’s due.
NN
: What is due?
Ch
: As per the position the
person holds in your life the.....
Ch
: I respect the person—he
should treat me with the same unconditional love with which I ......
NN
:
Respect has nothing to do with love.
Ch
:
Respect means to give them a good place to live in.
NN
: No.
Give them a good two bedroon apartment with attached bath, kitchen?
(laughter)
Is that
what you are talking about? It’s
not that.
Ch
: Like Rama had enough respect
for Ravana because Ravana was a learned man; he had no love for him.
That proves that you can respect somebody without the condition of love
being necessary.
NN
: Good. So what does that mean...
You have a realistic or a correct appreciation of the persons capacity
and position and therefore you move accordingly.
Agar samne
saamp hai na, if in front of you there is a snake, oh he is an old
snake friend—you have to be
careful, that is respect also. So
respect can have many elements. It
can have element of caution, it can have an element of fear, it can have an
element of allowing a certain superiority of position to the other, basically.
If you boil it down, respect means a superiority of position in some
aspect. It need not be a total
aspect. But some respect
is given that this guy to is a superior gunda,
bandit; like Ravana was a superior gunda. So
to deal with him you have to be very careful. Do you understand?
Ch
: Can we say respect means
treating the person in the same way as you will expect him to treat you?
RN
: No, no.
NN
: No, that is not respect, that is
reciprocity, that is something else. That
I do something and you should do something for me, woh
nahin hai—that is not it.
Ch
:
Then what is the actual position the person has in life?
NN
: Well, let’s say that this chap
is a minister (or senator) in the government, that’s one part.
He is occupying the seat of a minister, at the same time personally he is
this particular type of a person. But when he is occupying the seat of the
minister he is a different person. So
I have to respect that. He may be
your best buddy but then when he is occupying the seat of
a minister, you can’t go and say kyon
paape, ki haal hai? (Hi!
Buddy—how are you doing?) This will create a problem unless he has given you
the right to do that publicly.
You can approach him like that, when he is sitting in his chair holding
his darbar or court or whatever.
The Prime Minister is sitting there with the cabinet, waiting, and you
come in and say, O yaar paape zara panj
minat late ho gaya, excuse me—Oh, dear old buddy old pal— excuse me for
being five minutes late. The PM is not likely to say koi
gal nahin puttar—no problem, my dear
old son! He is unlikely to say
that.
(laughter)
Ch
: So that way respect is even
for your junior, even the person who is weaker than you?
NN
: Yes, yes so what does respect
mean. In that position a person who
is junior to you ; O.K. so what is the understanding at that time, what is the
respect?
Ch
:
Displaying some other quality which you….
(Pause)
NN
: What is that quality?
Go on...
Ch
: He may be more learned or he
may be ....
NN
: No, no—the junior, what does he
do? He may be learned is a different thing but basically what is it that he
does?
Ch
: It’s the service that he
will do.
NN
:
Exactly! He is providing you a service that otherwise will be a big
hassle for you to do. Your chauffeur is acting like your legs.
So you respect your legs although they are the lowest part of your
body—they take you where you want to go.
Ch
: I look at it this way, in
cultured families they address children as ‘aap’
, in the honorific form.
Ch
: Give respect to your child.
RN
: Why?
Ch
:
Because that is how it should be.
RN
: No—but because you have to
recognise that there is a spirit or Divine particle in that being.
NN
: When you do namaste,
that’s where it starts from. Namaste means
respect to the Divine power.
RN
: And you respect that
particle of the Divine in the other person.
NN
:
Ultimately that’s where respect is coming from.
The Divine particle exists in the child. In other words Reiki is flowing through every living entity.
So that deserves respect—Reiki is flowing through every living being.
Ch
: But then, respect has been
clouded by society and we mean many other things.
NN
: Forget that, we are talking about
what is our understanding. We started with society’s understanding and now we
have reached this point. Society’s
minimum understanding, the vedic society, was namaste.
What is namaste?
“I bow down to that Divine particle within you.”
You, the bodily designated person may be a rascal but inside you, the
real you is divine and there is also the pure original Divine particle with you.
That’s the minimum understanding, that’s a very high understanding. So
there’s nothing wrong with respecting that. Respecting the individual and
respecting the Divine.
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