what i dont understand about asha and the baba

Originally posted by: tinoo

Something i dont understand is why asha felt she needed the baba's permission to begin with.

I mean I know a lot of women who believe in sadhus... but they go for an hour or two a day to the temple/ashram ... they listen ... and then they come back. The baba thing is more of an activity and not a person who decides what they do in the rest of their hours.

And asha too was not engaged in any personal consultations with the baba. Its not like he is the family guru who has to be consulted about kundalis and stuff before starting anything.

She too would go, sit, listen and come back.

In fact, the sadhu was himself quite surprised that she stayed back today to speak with him.

And what she had to say to him was not a highly personalized secret or something like that. It could have been said in the open despite four people sweeping around.

Something does not connect.

Originally posted by: tinoo

@monalisa -- yes, but i still dont get it. why would she need advice for her future? It's not like she was starting off on a career path or something highly radical? (Not that anandi's school can lead to a career anyway 😆😆😆😆). It was just supposed to be a halka-fulka activity that anandi was inviting her to - for a couple of hours a day -- nothing non dharmik or anything like that. Just go, make a few puppets or some sort of arts and crafts, socialize with the kakas and kakis -- and leave it at that.

Infact, the guru did not even expect him to consult her. He was so surprised when she stayed back - his eyes showed the surprise.

The point which Im trying to make is that there was nothing highly radical about something she was going to do -- like planning to attend a college, or to re-marry or to ditch her black outfit and start wearing a coloured ghagra choli like anandi -- which would require consulting him.

Originally posted by: andv

As far as I understand from what they have shown of his silly pravachans is that a widow needs to dedicate her whole life in the name of God. This involves pooja pat, fasting, etc, etc. Indulging in any other activity is termed as a big sin in HIS books. Going to study or spend time in A's class thus would mean deviating from his preachings which she did not want to do without taking his permission. This is what I understood... But the Cvs are experts in creating weird bloopers

Originally posted by: tinoo

Something i dont understand is why asha felt she needed the baba's permission to begin with.

I mean I know a lot of women who believe in sadhus... but they go for an hour or two a day to the temple/ashram ... they listen ... and then they come back. The baba thing is more of an activity and not a person who decides what they do in the rest of their hours.

And asha too was not engaged in any personal consultations with the baba. Its not like he is the family guru who has to be consulted about kundalis and stuff before starting anything.

She too would go, sit, listen and come back.

In fact, the sadhu was himself quite surprised that she stayed back today to speak with him.

And what she had to say to him was not a highly personalized secret or something like that. It could have been said in the open despite four people sweeping around.

Something does not connect.