Guest guest Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 Dear Sangha with the permission of the wonderful listmom of millionpath group i forward her message from today to all of you this message of Ramana was unknown to me till now it come thru Grace at a crucial time in my life some days ago i discovered that my endless complaining about the "world" i was born in and still am in - without the world has having changed at all - was my form of being at war with the BELOVED ONE whose child i am like all of us this war is over and after realizing this in my way michael got this message this i call GRACE LOVE IN ACTION GD IN ACTION i understand myself because born in this time in this circumstances in a jewish family of unbelievers in GD but believers in socialism in humanity - i grew up with hearing so often all humans are brothers humans are good - i inherited the belief that someday somehow everything will be finde i want to share my moment of joy and deep deep relief with all of you being with you the last years was a great help to this step forward so please accept my gratitude for your help in GD i AM michael >viorica w <viorica > >MillionPaths <millionpaths>, NamoRamana ><namoramana> >CC: <> > Bhagavan - a story about an imperfect world >Wed, 6 Oct 2004 20:26:17 -0700 (PDT) > > >Bhagavan once told me a mythological story about a quarrel between >Subramania and Brahma. > >Subramania once looked at the world Brahma had created and saw that all the >people in it were obsessed by emotions such as jealousy, anger and greed. >He looked a little longer and saw that these people were nearly always >miserable and that they were often fighting and quarrelling with each >other. He told Brahma that his creation was badly flawed. > >‘You should have created a universe filled with perfection not >imperfection,’ he said. ‘Why have you filled the world with such bad >people?’ > >When Brahma refused to concede that he had made any mistakes, the two gods >had a heated dispute which only ended when Subramania overpowered Brahma, >imprisoned him, and wiped out the whole of his creation. To demonstrate the >correctness of his arguments Subramania then decided to create a new >world that would be perfect in every respect. He began his act of creation >but soon discovered that it was not possible to put any life or movement >into this world. Even the sun and moon that he had created refused to move >in the sky. Because the only inhabitants of this world were jnanis, >absolute stillness prevailed everywhere. > >Some time later Siva came along and asked, ‘Why have you locked up Brahma?’ > >Subramania replied, “That man was doing a lot of mischief. He was always >creating people who were quarrelling and causing trouble. Look at my >creation! All nishthas [people who are established in the Self].’ > >Siva studied the world for some time before remarking, ‘There is no >movement in this world; no sun, no moon. You have created a world of sunya >[void].’ > >Subramania reviewed his creation and had to admit that Siva was correct. He >released Brahma from prison and permitted him to create another imperfect >world. > > > >Bhagavan used to say that there can never be a perfect world because the >world is always a creation of the imperfect mind. A perfect object cannot >be made by such an imperfect tool. > >He also used to say, ‘While the mind exists, good and bad exist; but for >jnanis, who have no mind at all, there is no good or bad and no world’. > > > > > >.......................... > >taken from LIVING BY THE WORDS OF BHAGAVAN > >edited by DAVID GODMAN > > > > > >vote. - Register online to vote today! _______________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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