Guest guest Posted January 30, 2003 Report Share Posted January 30, 2003 See yourself in All(Story taken from Swami Ramadas collection)Once a man bought a lot of little mirrors and fixed them upall around his room. He was very egocentric and liked to lookat himself. He stood in the middle of the room and sawhis reflections in all the mirrors and felt extremely pleased.Then he left the room but forgot to close the door. A dog happenedto come into the room. It too saw lots of reflections of dogs all aroundand started to bark and fight with all the reflections. It fought till itgot completely exhausted and in frustration left the room.This story illustrates that if we are able to see ourselves in the peoplearound us - then life becomes very joyful;while if we (like the dog) see others as different from us then all ourlives are spent fighting for our little turf and finally we exit (die) infrustration.(taken from another mailing list) om namo bhagavate sri ramanaya Ramasamy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 30, 2003 Report Share Posted January 30, 2003 Dear Ramasamy , thank you for the valuable posting .For those that find it difficult ,remember all beings share the One Consciousness with which we ourselves are imbued - the external form has been modeled by the Self for the journey of that Jiva in this Dream of Samsara ..Regards ,In Him, Alan --- List <littleeagle wrote: > See yourself in All > (Story taken from Swami Ramadas collection) > > > Once a man bought a lot of little mirrors and fixed them up > all around his room. He was very egocentric and liked to look > at himself. He stood in the middle of the room and saw > his reflections in all the mirrors and felt extremely pleased. > > Then he left the room but forgot to close the door. A dog happened > to come into the room. It too saw lots of reflections of dogs all around > and started to bark and fight with all the reflections. It fought till it > got completely exhausted and in frustration left the room. > > This story illustrates that if we are able to see ourselves in the people > around us - then life becomes very joyful; > while if we (like the dog) see others as different from us then all our > lives are spent fighting for our little turf and finally we exit (die) in > frustration. > > (taken from another mailing list) > > om namo bhagavate sri ramanaya > > Ramasamy > > Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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