Why Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Still Lives in People’s Hearts | Sadhguru
The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes
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🗓️ 13 May 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | People from the Indian background would know much about this. I was not going into the historical aspects of this person, |
| 0:07.0 | but there was a king. |
| 0:11.0 | Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, you know, |
| 0:16.0 | Shivaji, who was a great king or an emperor, |
| 0:22.0 | who was kind of acquired a tremendous amount of respect for his administration, for his bravery, for his courage, |
| 0:36.0 | and his strategy of how he fought in those times hugely respected, especially people from Maharashtra. |
| 0:44.0 | So Shivaji is relevant even today because of the way he conducted his administration, |
| 0:50.0 | very evolved, enlightened administration, he did. |
| 0:55.0 | Very little people know about his administration, generally they know only about his battle strategies which are admired and appreciated, |
| 1:04.0 | but the most important thing was his administration, very evolved administration, he did for his kingdom. |
| 1:13.0 | So he had a guru whose name was Ramdas. |
| 1:23.0 | Wanda Shivaji was standing in the balcony of his palace. |
| 1:30.0 | Then he saw his guru going from house to house with a begging bowl, begging. |
| 1:36.0 | Then he thought, what is my guru doing, begging on the streets? |
| 1:42.0 | Thamaking, my guru, can't be begging on the street, he must be. |
| 1:50.0 | Then he called Balaji who was his assistant, wrote a chit and sent it. |
| 1:57.0 | Please go and place it at the Guru's feet. |
| 2:01.0 | So he went and placed this chit at the Guru's feet. |
| 2:04.0 | So he picked it up and saw and Ramdas smiled. |
| 2:12.0 | And next day he came to the palace. |
| 2:18.0 | And he said, in this chit, Shivaji had written, |
| 2:24.0 | I am placing my entire kingdom at your feet. |
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