This week's story.

[Guest guest]

A saint once went to a village and asked for alms

from the house of a rogue. The rogue was against

religions, gods and saints. He abused the saint and when the

saint kept smiling, he took a rod and hit him on his

head. The saint fainted outside his house.<br><br>

Meanwhile a farmer, who was very religious and kind, saw a

saint lying unconscious on the road, he lifted him and

took him to his house and served him well. After some

time the saint regained his consciousness and seeing

him opening his eyes, the farmer offered him a glass

of milk and continued dressing his wound.<br><br>

The saint smiled and thanked him. The farmer spoke,"I

am Krishna Lal, a farmer and I brought you home when

i saw u fainted on the road. Who hit you so hard

sir?"<br><br> The saint smiled and said," You are very strange

Krishna...you yourself hit me and abused me...and now you are

dressing my wounds and offering me milk...when will i

understand your games ?"<br><br> The farmer was perplexed,"

Swamiji, you are a saint you should not tell a lie...when

did i hit you?"<br><br> And he turned towards his

wife and said," Oh dear it seems, the hit has damaged

his brain and he is speaking crazy..believe me i did

not hit him."<br><br> But the saint kept

smiling.....Poor farmer could not understand what saint was

speaking.<br><br>_____________\

_<br><br> So friends, our sadhna can take us

on two paths

One we treat whole universe as God and expand our

consciousness to be one with the Universe.<br><br>Two we use

"Neti-Neti" (not this-not this)...and refuse to accept the

Universe as real and drown into our ownself to the find

the Truth.<br><br> Which idea, do you think, is

easier and fast ?<br><br>Hari Aum

[Guest guest]

SilentSoul,<br><br>In my path, I accepted the

universe as real, which to me is fine, but I denied all

the evil thoughts that I had and the circumstances

thereof as "Not I" and fought the "christian" devil, only

to learn that all the time, it was me! - the

universe, the good and the evil are all one. It took me a

little over 15 years to reach that point, but I dont

know that any is faster than the next. What we learn

by rote in our heads does us no good until it sinks

into our very spirits anyway and that is something

that only the creator of all things can answer.

<br><br>Still with my reading, it struck me that the Dhammapada

had the easiest "black and white" route to take...and

add to it The Lamp of NonDual Knowledge, same author

as Who Am I.<br><br>Now, I think that "all oneness"

needs to really and truly sink into just a small

multitude of us and we will change the world for the

better....or something...I still meditate this and dare to

dream the possibilities of it all.<br><br>vicki