a deep well - an analogy for ajnAna

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Namaste.

 

I put in an analogy here for ajnAnam. Every human is thrown into

a deep vertical well called ajnAna and asked to climb out of it.

He/she is given a rusty tool called viveka. So, the human's task

is quite clear. He/she has to polish up the tool and, with the

light emitted by it or by using it in other ways, find the way

out of the well.

 

As we genuinely climb up, the space we climbed up vanishes, so that

we never fall down farther deep. Those who have climbed all the

way to the top have told us that the whole deep well vanishes at

the time of climbing out. The well, the climbing, the

inter-relationships we develop while in the well are all an

indrajAla, an illusion, a product of magic.

 

Each human (X for example), has a unique well of ajnAna which also

shows other humans and other species in their apparent struggles.

But they are all reflections only (in X's ignorance) and are all

part of the ajnAna of X only. X's ajnAna has to be removed by X

alone and X has to do the climb out of the well by him/herself.

The lesser the load X carries, easier for X to do the climb.

In this climb, the load is not the usual load carried on the back,

but this load is carried by the mind. Once we shed all that load,

the climb is easy.

 

[Actually this post arises out of the recent one (with no subject)

where Frank questioned my expression that perhaps the plant and

rock kingdoms may be closer to realization than the human kingdom.

I see the fallacy in my statement in that post. It is irrelevant

which species is closer to realization. It is only the individual's

ajnAna. All the species and all the humans are reflections in X's

ajnAna only. Thus the only thing that is relevant is X's

consciousness. In 1993, I asked Swami Jyotirmayananda of Miami,

Florida whether the rock and plant kingdoms are indeed superior

to the humans. The swamiji responded to me that what is of interest

is your realization and concentrate on it without worrying about

other species. I see the significance of that statement now. My

apologies to Frank Maiello for my putting a question which is

really irrelevant.]

 

Regards

Gummuluru Murthy

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