Mystery of Birth

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20. Here again a man by mere reading, preaching, propagating or advocating

(without himself adhering) gospels of vedanta, spiritual scriptures hymns

and slogans, without the inner voice and sense (Glow) set firmly for

spiritual attainment seriously and sincerely with all his heart, will not,

cannot and shall not attain Mukti as it would only be a show or imitation,

with his ego and pride for false fame and honour, in the garb of a saint or

philosopher by dress and talk.

 

21. The saints or sages in jungles or in Himalayan mountain caves, who do

tapas or meditation, do not know or like to know the mundane world. They

never go out for any preaching or propagating the God-cult. They strive and

strain to solve their own problems of attaining Moksha - as the proverb goes

charity begins at home-each man for himself and no man for any man. But

since the saint or the sage is a pure and holy man, while his prayers are

for himself, they are for all too, since his is a selfless service and

sacrifice, without any show, egoism or worldly false fame or notion. Since,

such a change in the mind will only scumble, tumble and perish one's own

progress towards attaining Moksha or Mukti, he is away from it.

 

22. The illustration given below will explain a man's lust, craze and greed

for power, pomp and prosperity and material glory, which are all unreal and

transitory illusions as a mirage in a sandy scorching desert, as compared

and equated to the action of a man as said hereunder.

 

23. A frog interested and concentrated in its attention on its prey in front

of it, is unaware of the fate awaiting ahead of it, where a snake

concentrating in swallowing the frog is closely following, crawling at its

back. The snake in its turn is ignorant of its fate ahead, while a vulture

or a kite howering over in the sky is closely following the snake. The bird

concentrated in carrying away the snake, is ignorant of its fate ahead while

a hunter, down below, with his arrow set at the bird is waiting to shoot it

down, and this hunter in his turn is ignorant of the fate ahead of him,

where a snake under the grass is crawling across to bite him. The hunter

lets his arrow out and hits the kite which falls dead, at the same time the

hunter, bitten by the snake, falls dead to the ground. Thus neither the kite

nor the hunter survive in this chain as the destiny rules. It is interesting

to note here that each one did not know- its own fate but was only anxious

to attain its object, meet its own, end foolishly, blindly and ignorantly

trying to conquer for its individual benefit, least realising where how and

when its end comes.

 

 

To be continuted......

(Source Sai Leela Magazine January 1977)