"I have gone nowhere"

[Guest guest]

This morning after Veda parayana, a gentleman who

came a few days ago, enquired of Bhagavan,

"Swami, it is said that though a jnani (a realised soul)

appears to be doing all the routine things, he really does

nothing. How can that be explained?"

 

Bhagavan:

"How? There is a story about it.

 

Two friends while travelling on business slept the night

somewhere, and one of them had a dream that he and

his companion had gone together to several places and

had done various things.

 

On rising in the morning, the other man had nothing to say,

for he had slept soundly.

But the first man asked his friend about the various places

they had seen together during the night, but the second

man could say nothing about them, having had no dream

like the other. He merly said, 'I have gone nowhere;

I have been here only'.

 

As a matter of fact, neither had gone anywhere;

but the first man had only an illusion of having gone.

Similarly, to those who look upon this body as real,

and not unreal as in a dream, it may appear real, but,

strictly speaking, nothing affects the jnani".

 

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Nagamma: Letters, entry 26th Oct. 1947

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