Advaita, V'Advaita and Dwaita & Advaitin Satsangh

[Guest guest]

Namaste:

 

Let me join Sadaji and Sunderji to request everyone to take the

Satsangh as a serious Sadhana. Internet is one of the greatest gift

of god and it enables everyone in the universe to join and contribute

freely. Though internet is invisible, it is an ever present platform

for everyone to meet and discuss.

 

Let me provide an Indian story to illustrate the importance of

everyone's participation: Once upon a time, a small kingdom was ruled

by a compassionate king who was ever ready to help. The king wanted

to distribute free milk to all poor infants of the kingdom. Though

plenty of milk was produced in the kingdom, mostly rich families were

able to access them. The king consulted the minister for implementing

his idea of distributing free milk to the poor infants. The minister

suggested that a huge storage tank can be placed at the center of the

town for people with surplus milk to deposit. The king immediately

sent announcements to the entire kingdom and asked families with 2 or

more cows to deposit a glass of milk during early morning before

sunrise into the tank. The minister told the king that this scheme

will bring more than enough milk in the storage tank for the free

distribution. A specific day was set for the inaguration of this

welfare scheme and the king wanted to do the distribution himself on

the set day. A long que of poor people with infants were standing on

the line with the hope of receiving the milk from the king. The king

took a silver bucket and opened the tap of the tank to fill the

bucket. To his surprise and the surprise of all in the line, water

instead of milk poured on the bucket! The compassionate king was

visibly angry and called the minister for getting an explanation.

After investigation by the minister, the following explanation came

as the reason for the outcome: Every person who was supposed to

deposit a glass of milk thought that 'pouring one glass of water in a

large tank of milk' will be undetectable. Unfortunately, everyone

thought 'one glass of matter will not matter' because everyone else

will be depositing the milk in the tank.

 

The moral of the story is quite trivial and let us not think that

someone will always contribute and my non-contribution does not

matter!

 

Warmest regards,

 

Ram Chandran

 

Note: Anyone who joins the Toastmasters Club has to take the pledge:

that he (she) agrees to attend the meetings regularly and complete

the obligations requested by the Club. Those who attend Toastmasters

Club meetings know that their success is fully attributed due to

member participation and contribution. The success of this Internet

Satsangh also depends on member participation and contribution.

 

advaitin, "Sunder Hattangadi <sunderh>"

<sunderh> wrote:

>

> Let me add my voice to Sada-ji's!

>

> Let everyone take a pledge to contribute to the Satsang to

> whatever extent possible as an offering.