Bhagavan Ramakrishn short stories -
Henpecked men
Bhagavan Ramakrishna's short stories.
HENPECKED MEN
HENPECKED MEN
Posted earlier in my earlier blog in 2011 - Reposted 11th Aug 2015
Bhagavan Ramakrishna is famous for making people to understand worldly life and invoking faith in God by his short stories. We can know how far he had understood this world and the people from the following short story told by him to a devotee of him.
Once a wealthy man came to have a darshan of Sri Ramakrishna. He was well educated. During the conversation with Sri Ramakrishna, he started discussing on detachment from worldly things and said that a family man can also be detached and without getting caught by the worldly things. Sri Ramakrishna replied for that like this.
Do you know about the modern day man who never gets caught by the worldly things still being a family man? All the matters of the house will be looked after by the wife in such a family. Entire household will be looked after by her. The man in that house will not have any independence in financial matters. The reason is that he is not attached to any worldly things. For everything, he has to depend on his wife. Imagine, One day one poor person came to the house asking for help. The man in that house would have told that he had to ask his wife for that. Still when the poor man insisted for help from him, he will say come sometime later hoping he can ask his wife before telling the poor man. He feels that poor man is really to be helped. Later he would go inside to his wife and tell her it is better if we give Re.1/- for which she gets annoyed and tells we will give 2 annas. He had no other go than to give only 2 annas. Since he has no interest in worldly things, he does not insist with his wife for giving more than what she has decided. Later, when the poor man comes he gets 2 annaas.
Those who claim that they have no worldly interests and living in a family can only be henpecked husbands with no power to decide on any matters in life. Still people like this think that they are good people and mahans. Truth is they are neither.
Sri Ramakrishna has not told this story to have a good laugh, but to seriously think on matters of life and the requirements to be totally detached from worldly inclinations.
Bhagavan Ramakrishna is famous for making people to understand worldly life and invoking faith in God by his short stories. We can know how far he had understood this world and the people from the following short story told by him to a devotee of him.
Once a wealthy man came to have a darshan of Sri Ramakrishna. He was well educated. During the conversation with Sri Ramakrishna, he started discussing on detachment from worldly things and said that a family man can also be detached and without getting caught by the worldly things. Sri Ramakrishna replied for that like this.
Do you know about the modern day man who never gets caught by the worldly things still being a family man? All the matters of the house will be looked after by the wife in such a family. Entire household will be looked after by her. The man in that house will not have any independence in financial matters. The reason is that he is not attached to any worldly things. For everything, he has to depend on his wife. Imagine, One day one poor person came to the house asking for help. The man in that house would have told that he had to ask his wife for that. Still when the poor man insisted for help from him, he will say come sometime later hoping he can ask his wife before telling the poor man. He feels that poor man is really to be helped. Later he would go inside to his wife and tell her it is better if we give Re.1/- for which she gets annoyed and tells we will give 2 annas. He had no other go than to give only 2 annas. Since he has no interest in worldly things, he does not insist with his wife for giving more than what she has decided. Later, when the poor man comes he gets 2 annaas.
Those who claim that they have no worldly interests and living in a family can only be henpecked husbands with no power to decide on any matters in life. Still people like this think that they are good people and mahans. Truth is they are neither.
Sri Ramakrishna has not told this story to have a good laugh, but to seriously think on matters of life and the requirements to be totally detached from worldly inclinations.
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