Yuvacharya Mahashraman
Successful Discipline
Wherever there is a group of people, they are bound to some rules and guidelines to live. Discipline is really needed to function and run the group.
Sometimes different people need rules interpreted to them, but the manner of interpretation could be different. Each person's behaviour demands different form of discipline meted out. Just like each different kind of ailment is treated with different medicine, circumstances and situations will require different forms of discipline.
Once there were two disciples who went to Bhikshu swami. One disciple said to the other, "O Gurudev! This sadhu is completely into eating good food".
The other sadhu replied that he could say the same thing to the other even more so.
After hearing both of them, Acharya Bhikshu told them both to give up six things each for six months. He also added that whoever comes first to him (Acharya Bhikshu) to ask permission to restart partaking any of those six things would be more greedier than the other.
This act of polite and just discipline by Bhikshu swami acted as a lamp in darkness to the two disciples.
It is rightly said - When a person is making a mistake knowingly or unknowingly, only good persons will guide them. Most of others will laugh at them.
