Monkeys are notorious. Everybody knows. One monkey in Pashupati Nath
was even more notorious than other monkeys can imagine. Suddenly one
day he got his tail cut on the thorny fences in the jungle near to
Guheswori.
Monkey society is different. Laws, rules,
regulations are very strict. I know the laws. Just sharing it now with
you. But you are also aware of it only problem is your memory power.
Don’t worry you will remember once you read this analogy. In monkey
society, the monkeys with tail cut are not accepted. Same happened to
that poor fellow. All monkeys started to hate him. He could not protest
against the hatred and could not do anything merely to leave that
place. When the hatred reached to its peak, he left the place and
started to meditate somewhere in the jungle little bit far from
Pashupatinath.
One day another monkey by chance came across the
place where the tail cut monkey was meditating. He was surprised to see
the tail cut monkey doing meditation. With curiosity to satisfy
inquisitiveness he asked the reason behind the meditation. The answer
was surprising.
Tail cut monkey said, “O my boy, once I lost my
tail, I started doing this, and whenever I do this, Hanuman comes to me
and talks to me.â€
The second monkey surprisingly said, “Really, please help to see Hanuman and talk to him and get blessed from him.â€
To monkeys Hanuman is their god. Seeing Hanuman is
being blessed. The monkey having tail begged for thousand times to
teach him the meditation. At last, he was taught the way to do
meditation. But it was worthless. He saw nothing. After meditation the
tail cut monkey again described glory, power, muscle, tail etc. of
Hanuman and the talks he had had with Hanuman. Next monkey was
surprised and became more curious to know about the reason behind not
seeing Hanuman during meditation. Later both of them came into
conclusion of tail. They figured out that it was because of tail, the
next monkey was not able to see Hanuman.
He also cut his tail. It was very painful to him.
But he was searching for Hanuman darshan, so the pain was nothing. He
started meditating with his cut tail. He did meditation despite the
pain in tail. He did it for 5 hours. He did it very seriously. But to
his surprise he did not see Hanuman. But the first monkey was still
describing about Hanuman. The second one again did the meditation for
second time… still there was no effect… “Oh… god… I am pissed
off.!!!!.â€, the second monkey said… “I am really pissed off…†he knew
that the first monkey was simply pretending him of fake visit of
Hanuman during meditation just to cut his tail. It was just a revenge
of first monkey. The second monkey now could do nothing. Neither he
could go back to old community where he belongs to again nor he could
get his cut tail back from the first monkey who himself was tail cut.
He did not have any idea except to follow the first monkey and start
meditation. Week passed, fortnights passed, months passed … the
meditation went on. Again one day another monkey came … and the same
story began… again some time later another came… the same story… later
after a year all the monkeys in Pashupati Nath cut their tail…