Gita Satsangh: ants and eagles

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--- madathilnair <madathilnair wrote:

> Namaste.

>

> The point I raised has not been answered.

>

> Both ants and eagles have bodies. If advaita is to

> really sink in,

> the body-sense must go. This is applicable to both

> ants and eagles.

 

Namaste both,

 

OK. I know the following is not about ants but I hope

the mouse will be a satisfactory substitute. It has

got eagles though. Also the story may be a trivial

diversion but it is Sunday and time to take it easy

for a while.

The story is a Native American one that I used to tell

my children more than twenty years ago; I hope that it

is not too far from the original.

 

'Once upon a time a young mouse lived at the foot of a

tree in a forest. As it joined its friends in play it

used to hear a rushing sound but the other mice, old

and young, told him not to be so silly, there was no

such sound, and to get on with his life in the nest.

One day, he could stand it no longer and went off to

search for the source of the sound. Louder and louder

it became and soon he came to a rumbling, tumbling

torrent of water flowing though a field.

"What a wonderful sight and sound," he thought.

A water rat was passing by and they fell into

conversation. The little mouse was disappointed to

find out that he could not live by the river as did

his new friend so he asked, "Where does this water

come from?"

Water Rat told him to jump and look to the North. The

grass was long and it took several jumps before the

little mouse was able to see some mountains far away.

"That is the source," said Water Rat.

The mouse resolved to journey to those mountains and

set off with the blessings of the Water Rat.

After several days and much effort he saw an old mouse

stumbling towards him. The old mouse told him that

this was as far as mice could travel in the search for

the source of the river and pointed to the

death-giving desert that lay between them and the

mountains. But the little mouse was determined and as

he lay panting at the edge of the desert a buffalo

came by.

"Can you help me cross the desert please?" he asked

politely.

And so he was invited to crawl under the furry tummy

of the buffalo to be protected from the burning sun

and so he was taken across the desert. At the edge it

was as far as the buffalo could go and so the mouse

began to climb up the mountain to find the spring that

was the source of that wonderful sound he had at the

beginning of his journey.

Suddenly he heard as rushing sound in the air above

him and found himself being lifted up higher and

higher, in a flash his vision changed and now he could

look down and see things far, far away. In the

distance he could see his old friends, Water Rat, Old

Mouse, Buffalo and even his nest at the foot of the

tree so he called out, "Hello all of you, I have found

the source of the sound."

And they all looked up and called out, "Hello Great

Eagle." '

 

Happy travelling

 

 

Ken Knight

 

 

 

 

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