To Linda & Angela: The Drunken Monkey

[Guest guest]

Om Namah Shivaya,

 

Dear Linda,

 

The image of a monkey with a pin

in its foot was a variation of

an illustration by Swami Nihilananda

considered by many to have been a

Mahatma). In writing about Raja Yoga the

Swami said: " the mind of the average person

may be likened to a monkey which, restless

by nature, has taken a deep draft of liquor,

thus aggravating its restlessness. Further,

the monkey has been stung by a scorpion, and

finally has been possessed by a ghost. Just so,

the naturally restless mind, after a deep dose

of worldly pleasures, becomes intensely restless;

it is, further, stung by jealousy, and finally

possessed by the ghost of egotism."

 

Namah Shivaya,

 

GeorgeSon

 

 

 

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