A beautiful analogy

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The ocean is like the grace of God. When we are able

to converge our intelligence — intelligence

corresponding to sun’s rays — on this ocean of

anugraha or grace, we will get the vapours of thoughts

and ideas. These vapours are converted into the clouds

of truth. These clouds of truth will result in the

rain of prema. Drops of prema join together and begin

to flow as the river of ananda. The origin for this

ananda are the raindrops of prema, and the origin for

those rain drops is the cloud of truth. The cloud of

truth arises from the vapour of thoughts and the

thoughts themselves arise from the ocean of grace.

Such ananda arises from the ocean of grace, undergoes

all these transformations and finally rejoins the

ocean of grace.

 

Ocean water is salty when taken directly from the

ocean and can be compared to sastrajnana or book

knowledge. The water obtained from the river has

changed in taste and is sweet. This water may be

compared to anubhavjnana or wisdom obtained through

experience. More than the knowledge that you can get

from reading Sastra, you should value the wisdom that

you can get from experience. By taking the knowledge

from Sastras, you can convert it into wisdom of

experience by putting the knowledge into practice in

your daily life.

 

- Baba

Summer Showers 1973

 

Source: http://www.sssbpt.info/summershowers/ss1973/ss1973-25.pdf