Guest guest Posted March 2, 1998 Report Share Posted March 2, 1998 namaskaaraM, Many thanks to Srini for sharing this beautiful story which highlights how honour & dishonour are both momentary!! > > %versemeanings > > Oh, my Mind! in your heart great courage hold, > > Oh, my Mind! and insults do endure; > > Humble words always utter, > > Oh, my Mind! to everyone refreshing joy do offer.. 7.. > > > > Hi Shree > > am reminded of a beautiful story which comes in chinna Katha by > the Sai Sansthaan. > > This relates to the instructions to the mind which tells it to > endure insults. > > The Bhagwad Gita in one of its chapters asks us to rise above > Heat and Cold - This is to ask us to rise above bodily comforts. > Happiness and Misery - This is to rise above the vagaries of the mind > Maana and Apmana - This is with regard to the intellect. > > In this particular shloka Samarth Ramadas addresses the mind and > asks it to endure insults ie asks the intellect to rise above > maana and apmaana. The story relates to Maana and Apmaana. > > There were these two travelling salesmen in a village > who set out together to another village to close a deal. The first one was > riding a horse while the other was walking. The guy who was walking > was also carrying a pillow for resting when he reached > his destination. > > Enroute to their destination they passed thru a village where the > villagers saw the salesperson on the horse ahead with the other > salesperson following him holding on to his pillow. > > The people commented "there goes the master on the horse and > his servant follows him carrying the master's pillow." > > When they reached their destination the salesperson with the pillow > walked on to the inn and set his pillow in the patio and rested himself > while the other salesperson dismounted from his horse and took it to the > stable for watering the horse and giving it fodder. > > The people in this village commented "there is the master who is > resting in the inn while the servant is taking the horse to the > stable" > > Actually neither of them were master or servant. But the world > decided in one instance to label them master and in another > instance labeled them servant. > > Such is the nature of honour and dishonour that the world > heaps on us. None of it should affect us. all of it is > momentary. > > Before one takes the honour to heart one would do well to > remember the saying "Pride goes before a fall" or better still the > beautiful verse in Bhaja Govindam : > > Maa kuru Dhana Jana Youvana Garvam > Harati Nimeshat kalah sarvam > > (Pride in retinue of followers, money and youth will be taken > away by time in one hundredth of a minute) > > so it is better to be humble as samarth ramdas instructs the mind to be. > > will write in more later. > > love > > srini -- Regards, Shree -------------------------- email: shree satsangh: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8891/ bhajans: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/4637/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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