Secrecy

[Jagat 1]

We all know Narottam Das' line Apana bhajana kathA nA balio jathA tathA--"Don't go telling the revelations you have received in bhajan here and there."

 

Here is a verse from Hatha-yoga-pradipika (2.9) that gives a nice example--

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gopanIyaM prayatnena

yathA ratna-karaNDakam |

kasyacin naiva vaktavyaM

kula-strI-surataM yathA ||</center>

 

Keep all these things hidden like a chest of precious stones. Do not talk about them to anyone, just as you would not talk about your intimate relations with your wife.

 

[This message has been edited by Jagat (edited 04-15-2002).]

[sha 0]

In Hari Bhakti Vilasa, verse 2.147, Srila Sanatana Goswami quotes Sammohana-tantra:

 

<font color="red">gopayed devatam istam gopayed gurum atmanah

gopayed ca nijam mantram gopayen nija-malikam</font>

 

<font color="blue">“One should hide one’s ishta-deva, one should hide one’s guru, one should hide one’s mantra, and one should hide one’s japa-mala.”

[sha 0]

SECRECY AND PUBLICITY

 

THE Buddha said: "Three things, O disciples, are characterized by secrecy: love affairs, priestly wisdom, and all aberrations from the path of truth. Women who are in love, O disciples seek secrecy and shun publicity; priests who claim to be in possession of special revelation, O disciples, seek secrecy and shun publicity; all those who stray from the path of truth, O disciples, seek secrecy and shun publicity.

 

"Three things, O disciples, shine before the world and cannot be hidden. What are the three? The moon, O disciples, illumines the world and cannot be hidden; the sun, O disciples, illumines the world and cannot be hidden; and the truth proclaimed by the Tathagata illumines the world and cannot be hidden. These three things, O disciples, illumine the world and cannot be hidden. There is no secrecy about them."

 

http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/btg/btg45.htm

[sha 0]

"Keep me as the apple of Your eye; Hide me under the shadow of Your wings."

 

Psalm 17:8

 

[tsaneladi 0]

I beg to differ with the Buddha. his commentary on Priests seems to needlessly indict gurus as being of a suspicious character.

 

While this fits nicely in his packet of godlessness, I have no room in my heart for this voidful dialogue.