The first trick is complete humility when you talk to another person. It is the sign of greatness. It is a sign of fulfillment, as the trees, when they are laden with fruit, they bend down
The second trick is how to master your own temper. And the third one is how to master the temper of others. That is even better.
I do not know if I have told you the trick of Gagan Gadh Maharaj, when I went to him.
HE IS A VERY HOT-TEMPERED avadhuta. He has lost the use of his legs. Because he was feeling hot, he was sitting in the water all the time. His feet are useless and he goes on a tiger, they say. I never saw the tiger, of course.
He knows about me and all that and he told everyone about me, so I went to see him. He is supposed to control the rain.
It was quite a steep climb for about four and a half hours, but as soon as I stepped out, it started raining, raining, raining heavily throughout and he could not stop it, so he felt very challenged.
When I went up, he was sitting on his own stone outside the cave with anger. He did not know what to do. I looked at him. Then I walked into his cave and sat down nicely.
Then he came. They brought him. He touched my feet. Everything he did and then he said, “You tell me now, why did you not allow me to stop the water? You got completely drenched.
I’m very angry with this rain I know, but why did you do that. Is it to control my ego?” I said, “No, not at all. I never knew you had ego or anything.”
“Then why? Because I’m a master, as you know.”
I said, “You see, you are a sanyasi and you bought a sari for me – that too of an orange colour – and I would not take the orange colour sari from you. Any sari I wouldn’t take because you are a sanyasi, but I had to get drenched to get the sari, isn’t it?” Immediately he made it out.
I HAD TO BE THE MASTER – first of all, how to melt him and, secondly, the master of his mind.
This is the subtler part of it. You can be the master of a person.
Like that, you can know what he has done for you, what he has prepared for you, what is coming for you. I would not say that you would know all the future, but if you try to know about a person, you can know everything about that person. It is very simple.
So first, try to understand a person
SHRI KRISHNA PUJA, 1 September 1991, Cabella Ligure, Italy