Picture of Mahasambodhi Dharma Sangha Gurujyu
– Bhuminanada Devkota
First of all, I would like to offer my gratitude to Maitri Dharma Sangha for enabling me
to have an audience with Mahasmabodhi Dharma Sangha Gurujyu who is an embodiment
of pure spiritual awareness, meditation and yoga. I hold deep and abiding reverence to
Gurujyu for much sought after and rare opportunity made available to me to be illumined
by his noble and pure thoughts, percepts and observations. Though some people may
dismiss the thoughts and observations of Gurujyu as baseless gossips, I am firmly
convinced of the depth, rationale and significance of the words spoken by Him.
In the interaction with this scribe (Aaalekhkarta) Gurujyu was emphatic on the need to
rise above and eliminate discriminations based on such attributes as religious faith,
communal affiliations, power, status, wealth and qualification. We are all aware that we
do not bring none of these things on this earth when we are born. It is therefore worthless
and futile to create disparities and practice discriminations based on selfishness,
prejudices, ignorance and egotism. They, in fact, pose hindrances to usher peace and
harmony in the society. It is better to throw them aside and pursue the path of non-
discrimination, harmony and righteousness. Gurujyu spoke to me on the need to eschew
false acrimonies, mutual hatred and animosities which can ultimately result into social
unrest and discord. Words spewed out of the mouth should not be let to hurt the heart of
the others. Only carefully worded right speech can help people move ahead constantly on
the journey of peace. He cautions against killing of animals and indulgence on violent
acts and also makes an exhortation to eat simple vegetarian food. Gurujyu emphasizes on
the need to bear the ecological interdependence of the animal world in mind and
mentions that this sensitivity can alone enhance weal and welfare of the animate being
and saves from all kind of destruction and calamities. Mentioning that the world is one
home and one entity, Gurujyu stresses it is not worthwhile to nurture parochial and
narrow identities and prejudices to the detriment of the welfare, peace and harmony.
When Gurujyu was doing deep meditation in Halkhoriya jungle, people used to throng
there at day time to see as if it was a strange sight, pelt stones, dart him, ridicule at
him. In the evening people used to get back home due to fear of the wild animals leaving
the child in deep trance to fend off alone in the dense forest. The birds built nest in his
body as it was a deadwood. Mosquitoes and wild insects fed on his body. But
Mahasambodhi Gurujyu was undaunting and surmounted all these adversities. Finally,
Gurujyu succeeded to attain enlightenment and declared Deshnama for the salvation of
all–animate and inanimate–being. One day in the sacred site of Halkhoriya Gurujyu was
attacked and bullets were sprayed on his body. The news spread that he was killed and
the newspaper also reported it. Next day police force came to recover his dead body.
Police surrounded the site but they discovered that the Gurujyu was alive, not killed. As
shared by Gurujyu with this scribe, he was provided cover and protected by Sarva Gurus
(all the enlightened masters) when the bullets were rained on his body. It is disconcerting
to note that the Forest department of the Nepal Government has ravaged and destroyed all
the sacred sites and spaces built in the holy Halkhoriya jungle. A conspiracy to displace
and remove Gurujyu from holy Halkhoriya Jungle was hatched. The Sanghs spread over
163 countries have emphasized on the need to develop the Halkhoriya holy jungle as the
sacred centre of pilgrimage by declaring it as the religious forest. No other option exists
than to preserve and protect the site to spread the message of world peace and human
welfare under the aegis of Maitri Dharma Sangha. The decision taken by the previous
government headed by Sher Bahadur Deuba, though very ambiguous, should be firmly
upheld and further clarified in concrete terms to declare Halkhoriya as the religious forest
by the incumbent government headed by K. P.Oli. This scribe also makes an
impassioned plea to the government to recognize the importance of the site and declare
and protect it as the religious forest.
Once an untoward incident occurred in the Halkhoriya forest. A gang of people wielding
Khunda and khukuris made an attempt on the life of the Gurujyu. Some news media
flared up the incident. Those miscreants who had not been able to follow and violated
21 code of conduct(Sheels) prescribed struck collusion with some evil forces outside
may be due to the lure and influence of the financial interests to defame and malign the
holy image of Gurujyu. They made unfounded and baseless charges and accusations
against him. The same group of miscreants continued with their misdeeds in defaming
Gurujyu, stole the important, invaluable and precious artefacts designed and produced in
accordance with the direction of the Gurujyu by three Khaibas namely Uttam Lama,
Sangbo Dong (Sindhupalchowk) and Chhewan Ghalan (Makawanpur) from
Parthagahatta where they were kept and preserved. This incident has hurt this scribe too
badly. Why is the government keeping mum and playing indifferent to what is being
done to malign the image of Gurujyu? Is it not the repetition of the unwise and insane
acts executed against the living enlightened masters ?The government needs to think of
preserving and protecting the precious spiritual resources and discourage the nefarious
activities of the miscreants and evil forces to malign the image of the enlightened master
to respect the sentiment of the spiritual people. In case the devout followers of Gurujyu
started to post the images of these precious spiritual resources in the face book and other
social media, this might raise a difficult situation for the government. The government
should therefore act promptly. It would be relevant to summarize a story to get the
message across in this regard.
Maitri Mangalam !