Sunday, January 16, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
The Only Solution
Once there was a man, who indulged himself in malicious gossip about a Sadhu. He approached the Sadhu one day and told him, “Swami I misspoke a lot of things about you. I have spread wild rumors against you through malicious gossip. Now I have come to realize that you are a very good person. Please forgive me for all the sins that I have committed and provide me with a remedy which can absolve me of all sins I have committed”.
The Sadhu said “Take a pillow from your house to a junction where several streets meet and rip the pillow of all the cotton inside it. After doing so come back and see me’. The man did as the Sadhu said and he went back to inform him about the same.
The Sadhu said, “If you are really interested in a remedy which could absolve you of all your sins, then I suggest you go back to same place, pick all the cotton you had ripped off from the pillow, stuff it back into the pillow case and bring back the pillow to me’. The man was confused and he asked the Sadhu “how can I collect the cotton which I ripped off from the pillow yesterday and stuff it into the pillow case as they have all got dispersed?”
The Sadhu said, ‘Yes. You cannot reclaim the cotton that got dispersed when the pillow was ripped. In the same way there is no remedy that will absolve you of your sins. The only solution for the problem is to abstain yourself henceforth from committing any sins’.
The Sadhu said “Take a pillow from your house to a junction where several streets meet and rip the pillow of all the cotton inside it. After doing so come back and see me’. The man did as the Sadhu said and he went back to inform him about the same.
The Sadhu said, “If you are really interested in a remedy which could absolve you of all your sins, then I suggest you go back to same place, pick all the cotton you had ripped off from the pillow, stuff it back into the pillow case and bring back the pillow to me’. The man was confused and he asked the Sadhu “how can I collect the cotton which I ripped off from the pillow yesterday and stuff it into the pillow case as they have all got dispersed?”
The Sadhu said, ‘Yes. You cannot reclaim the cotton that got dispersed when the pillow was ripped. In the same way there is no remedy that will absolve you of your sins. The only solution for the problem is to abstain yourself henceforth from committing any sins’.
Saint and King
A King, once passing through a forest, came across a sage and requested the holy person to accompany him to his kingdom. The motive behind the invitation was to expand his kingdom and acquire more wealth, with the help of the sage. The holy man, divining this intention, resolved to bring the king back to his senses.
At the palace, he dressed in costly silk garments, sprayed perfumes and ordered for rich food. The king, feeling that he had misconstrued a jolly person to be a sage, decided to send him back to the forest. Just as the sage was about to depart for the forest, the king could not contain his feelings and exclaimed bitterly, ‘I thought you were a saintly person. Why did you indulge in such merriment?’
To which the sage replied, ‘I wanted to demonstrate to you that I could lead the life of a recluse as well as a life of luxury and yet remain unaffected; whereas you have not yet mellowed.’
At the palace, he dressed in costly silk garments, sprayed perfumes and ordered for rich food. The king, feeling that he had misconstrued a jolly person to be a sage, decided to send him back to the forest. Just as the sage was about to depart for the forest, the king could not contain his feelings and exclaimed bitterly, ‘I thought you were a saintly person. Why did you indulge in such merriment?’
To which the sage replied, ‘I wanted to demonstrate to you that I could lead the life of a recluse as well as a life of luxury and yet remain unaffected; whereas you have not yet mellowed.’
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