Swamiji Live and In person
23. May 2008
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Please be advised that Swamiji is constantly on the move touching seekers across the globe. You can check the itinerary on www.justbehappy.org to enhance your search for the truth by physically seeking the Absolute.
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Sorry for the long silence…
23. May 2008
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I will try and update regularly in a couple of weeks…
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199 - Parable of the rotatable tops
1. May 2008
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The Realized Sage is ever Active
Parable
A fast rotating gyroscope is apparently still. It’s speed cannot be followed by the eye, and therefore it appears to be still. Yet it is rotating very fast.
Meditation
So is the apparent inaction of the sage. People mistake it to be inertia. It is not so. His non-action is eternal and intense activity.
“By his non-action, the sage governs all”
Extracted from Meditation through Parables, published by BE HAPPY, INC.,
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198 - Parable of the two kings
27. April 2008
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The wise man is not deluded by worldly enjoyment
Parable
There were two kings. One lost his kingdom in a war and was taken captive. When he was released from bondage and given a small village, he was quite happy. Having suffered the pangs of limited existence in prison, he was happy just to be free.
The other king was totally free and yet, was not satisfied even with his whole kingdom. Having experienced the unlimited existence of freedom, he lived happily ever after.
Meditation
In the same way, a man of discrimination who has discovered the limitation of worldly enjoyments will no longer hanker after them. He will be perfectly contended with the fulfillment of minimum needs.
Extracted from Meditation through Parables, published by BE HAPPY, INC.,
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197 - Parable of the roasted seed
24. April 2008
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Desires do not create dependence in a man of wisdom
Parable
There were two famers. One sowed god seed, and they germinated and grew up into plants which produced more seeds and so on.
The other farmer sowed roasted seeds. None germinated. But the same sends when ground, made good food.
Meditation
In the same was, the man of ignorance and the man of wisdom both have desires. The former develops dependence on their fulfillment as they go on multiplying. The desires in the man of wisdom are like roasted seeds. They do not generate more desires which would drive him into a frenzy of worldly activities, because he has true knowledge about the illusory nature of the world.
The ignorant man’s action is born out of compulsion to fulfill desire; the wise man’s actions are born out of joy.
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196 - Parable of the Rishi and the twin calves
20. April 2008
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Sankalpa-less Buddhi
Parable
A devotee gifted a cow to a rishi (sage). The cow yielded twin calves. The rishi tied the calves together with a long rope, thinking he could keep a better watch on them.
A camel came along and lifted the calves by the rope which was binding them. Hearing the calves cry, the rishi ran out and saw them dangling helplessly in the air.
“Ah” he lamented, “O, desire, I now know your birth-place. You are born out of sankalpa. “If I had not made a sankalpa that ‘If I had a cow, I will have plenty of milk,’ I would not be experiencing this anguish now.”
Meditation
In the same way, sankalpa creates bondage. The man of wisdom stays in the world, enjoys every moment, then forgets about it. He entertains no sankalpa, no expectation of repeating the experience.
This is called Prasad buddhi. Desire-less, sankalpa-less buddhi aids liberation.
Extracted from Meditation through Parables, published by BE HAPPY, INC.,
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195 - Parable of the hunter who shot an arrow at a tiger
17. April 2008
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Prarabdha (destiny) of the body has to run its course
Parable
A hunter, thinking there was a tiger among the bushes, aimed his arrow at it and shot it. As the arrow left the bow and was winging its way to the target, he realized that it was a cow. But that knowledge could neither stop the arrow in its flight, nor could it change the arrow’s course. The arrow, once shot, it has to reach its target.
Meditation
In the same way, the body is the arrow that has already been shot from the bow of past thoughts, desires and actions. Propelled by the force of these thoughts and desires, the body has to perforce to go through the convulsions of sufferings and enjoyments. Nothing can stop or change this course. The realized man knows this and accepts it, and is not involved in the experiences of the body. He does not attribute it to the Self.
Extracted from Meditation through Parables, published by BE HAPPY, INC.,
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194 - Parable of the leaf plates
13. April 2008
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A jnani’s (Knower-Enlightened) disregard for the body
Parable
At a marriage feast, food is served on beautifully stitched leaf-plates. However beautiful they may be, they are thrown away once the meal is over-with no regrets.
Meditation
In the same way, after attaining the Supreme Knowledge, one only waits eagerly for the time when the body can be thrown away. he has no more regard for the body, nor regret for dropping it.
Extracted from Meditation through Parables, published by BE HAPPY, INC.,
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193 - Parable of the king in disguise
10. April 2008
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The experience of infinitude cannot be described.
Parable
There is hailstorm. A hailstone falls on the vast expanse of the ocean. It may sink a few yards below the surface; thereafter there is no going or coming. It becomes the ocean itself.
Meditation
Similarly, the mind which is in deep meditation can go only thus far… Thereafter, it is not possible to express in words the experience of the infinitude, nor can the mind even think about it. All that can be said is that it is Ananda. It is complete sense of fulfillment. It is a joy, untouched by the fear of loss.
When the mind meditates on Brahman, it becomes Brahman. There is no”this”, nor “that”, only “is-ness”
Extracted from Meditation through Parables, published by BE HAPPY, INC.,
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192 - Parable of the hailstone that fell into the ocean
6. April 2008
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The experience of infinitude cannot be described.
Parable
There is hailstorm. A hailstone falls on the vast expanse of the ocean. It may sink a few yards below the surface; thereafter there is no going or coming. It becomes the ocean itself.
Meditation
Similarly, the mind which is in deep meditation can go only thus far… Thereafter, it is not possible to express in words the experience of the infinitude, nor can the mind even think about it. All that can be said is that it is Ananda. It is complete sense of fulfillment. It is a joy, untouched by the fear of loss.
When the mind meditates on Brahman, it becomes Brahman. There is no”this”, nor “that”, only “is-ness”
Extracted from Meditation through Parables, published by BE HAPPY, INC.,
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