Metaphors and their true Meanings !!!

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"Though Gunas emanate from the Lord, He is unaffected: smoke arises

from fire, but fire is unaffected; clouds form in the sky and move

about in the sky; but the sky is unaffected by them. All are attached

to Him, like beads; but He is free, unattached. The universe is based

on Him but he has no need for the universe as base.

 

Take the example of cloth; cloth is based on yarn, it is dependent on

yarn; but yarn does not depend on cloth, it is unaffected, unattached

to cloth. The pot depends on clay, but clay is independent. Again,

cloth is yarn, pot is clay. Clay is Brahmam; the pot is Prakrithi.

Yarn is Brahmam, cloth is Prakrithi, (the universe of Namarupa, of

manifold variety). Ignore the shape, the form and the name - the pot

is just clay. Ignore the form of the cloth and the name; observe the

basic thing that stays in and through the cloth, then you know it is

but yarn. Without clay you can have no pot; without yarn, there can

be no cloth. So too, without Brahmam, there can be no Prakrithi. It

is truer to say that all is Brahmam than to say, "Brahmam-is-in-

everything." It is grander to picture Brahmam as Sarva-aadhaara, the

basis of all, rather than to conceive It as Sarvabhutha-antharaathma,

the inner reality of all beings. That is truth."

 

Shri Satya Sai Baba

 

http://www.askbaba.net/geethavahini/geetha069.html - 3k - Cached

 

well, i normally do not quote Baba on this list but Sometimes we need

to look at all sides of a picture!!

 

Love and regards!!!