Almost a decade back I attended an Ayurveda conference in
Rishikesh and was listening to a very interesting discourse by Dr. Robert Svoboda.
When he started chanting Hanuman chalisa and asked us to join, I realised the
sad truth that I didn’t know it by heart. I felt ashamed that Dr. Svoboda, a
westerner knew it and I didn’t. On coming back home I learned it and started
chanting every day.
A couple of years later we were in a Shiva temple in
Lucknow. When we came out, I noticed that one of my chappals was missing. I
heard some sounds from the top of a nearby tree and looked up to find a monkey
holding my chappal. I looked at it, pleaded in my mind to return the chappal,
and it promptly threw down.
In Myanmar too
We
reached Yathaypyan cave in Myanmar on 11th September 2019 at around
3.30 pm. It was drizzling and the sky was cast with dark clouds.
We had to pass through a small bridge, where so many monkeys
were roaming, and go up through steps to the cave on the mountain. I was
hesitant to take off chappals and walk all that way. But that was the rule
there. So hesitantly I left the chappals and off we went. On coming back I noticed
my chappals were missing. We searched all around, but couldn’t find them. When
we reached our car, told Mr. Amo (who was driving the car) about missing
chappals, and voiced our doubt that somebody must have taken them. If it was
taken by a monkey, most probably it would have taken only one, not both the
chappals.
Mr. Amo was very perturbed to hear that. He told that it has
never happened that people have stolen chappals. As we got into the car, He
went off to search. After about 15 minutes, he came back beaming, with my
chappals in his hands. He told that he and another local person searched and
saw they were lying at quite a distance from the bridge, one on either side.
Thandayuthapani temple
On
13th September 2019 we started from Mawlamyne (Myanmar) early
morning, Mr. Amo told there was an Indian temple on the way. I was chanting
Kamakshi mantra in the car (I chant different mantras at different times) and
was surprised to see an idol of Kamakshi Devi when we stopped at the
Thandayuthapani (Indian) temple.
We
noticed that there were too many steps to climb to reach the main temple and
since we had a long day ahead, thought of saying namaskar from down only. I was
feeling a little uneasy regarding that, and then noticed a monkey sitting on
the top in a small opening on the archway. It was looking at me intently, and I
felt ok, it was fine not to go all the way up.
I took a photograph of the monkey sitting there. Then Mr. Amo
saw it and he tried to take a snap and I saw to my amusement, it turned its
back towards him.
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