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A short story from a Devipuram dinner in 2006. Guruji asks how to fry something without oil, and a joke turns into a lesson on time.
From the teachings of Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati (Guruji). Post title: "What is Pakodi Loop". Posted on Guruji's blog by Vira Chandra on 25 April 2016. The story below is Vira Chandra's record of the evening, with Guruji's own words inside it. Originally published at amritananda-natha-saraswati.blogspot.com.
It is 26th March 2006 around 8.30pm. Close to 10 devotees are having dinner in Devipuram canteen. Guruji is also sitting and enjoying fresh vegetables with slightly roasted brown bread and other low calory dishes. Everyone is enjoying that day's surprise delicacy - the sour cut-cucumber pickle with rice, made by the volunteers in canteen. Suddenly there comes a question from Guruji and everyone starts paying attention to Him. The question is difficult to answer, as it is slightly scientific. "How do you fry something without oil?". Guruji continues,"If a person wants to eat some fried pakodi and he should not eat fried stuff, what does he do?". The question makes everyone start thinking. There is silence for two minutes. No answers yet.
After sometime, Guruji Himself breaks the silence. "If this person eats away some fried Pakodis and goes back in time to the state, in which he was there before eating pakodis and erases his pakodi eating experience and comes back to present, would it help him ? By this, he eats pakodis and still be able to be in the state of no-pakodis-eating-whatsoever.Slight time management does the trick."
Guruji continues, "If one is so fond of eating pakodis and still likes to remain unaffected, he can experience the above two states continuously by being in a loop, the Pakodi Loop". Everyone bursts into laughter. Guruji is known for his subtle sense of humour and this "pakodi loop" words came during what seemed to be a highly scientific conversation. One of Guruji's disciples in the dining hall tells, "Guruji, bless us all with this siddhi. It'd be so nice". Guruji says "It is Kali, who can bless everyone with this siddhi to manage one's time".
This short informative and humorous explanation by Guruji put everyone in "let me think more deeply" mode. Still lot of people were laughing out at this funny and techie-buzzword "Pakodi Loop" used by Guruji. It was a memorable dinner for everyone to hear this short discourse of Guruji explaining "time management".
Recorded by Vira Chandra, "What is Pakodi Loop", Guruji's blog, 25 April 2016. The text is given as posted. A photograph of Guruji that appears on the original post is not copied here.
Guruji used humour to make people think. Here the joke is about pakodis, but the question underneath is about time: can we enjoy something and stay unaffected by it?
In Kaula practice, Kali is the Goddess of time. Guruji named her as the one who can give mastery over it. The post does not explain this further, so this page does not either.
You can take the story as a prompt for a quiet moment. Notice how a pleasure leaves a mark on the mind, and how awareness can stay clear of it.
It is a joke Guruji made at a Devipuram dinner in 2006. A person eats pakodis, goes back in time to before eating, erases the experience, and returns to the present. Repeating this is the loop.
Guruji asked this as a puzzle and then answered it himself. You go back in time after eating and erase the experience, so you have eaten the pakodis but remain in a state of not having eaten.
He said that slight time management does the trick. The story was later described as a short, funny talk on time management.
When a disciple asked for this siddhi, Guruji said that Kali can bless everyone with the siddhi to manage one's time.
Read the original: What is Pakodi Loop, on Guruji's blog.
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