Guest guest Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 Bhagavan once told me a mythological story about a quarrel between Subramania and Brahma. Subramania once looked at the world Brahma had created and saw that all the people in it were obsessed by emotions such as jealousy, anger and greed. He looked a little longer and saw that these people were nearly always miserable and that they were often fighting and quarrelling with each other. He told Brahma that his creation was badly flawed. ‘You should have created a universe filled with perfection not imperfection,’ he said. ‘Why have you filled the world with such bad people?’ When Brahma refused to concede that he had made any mistakes, the two gods had a heated dispute which only ended when Subramania overpowered Brahma, imprisoned him, and wiped out the whole of his creation. To demonstrate the correctness of his arguments Subramania then decided to create a new world that would be perfect in every respect. He began his act of creation but soon discovered that it was not possible to put any life or movement into this world. Even the sun and moon that he had created refused to move in the sky. Because the only inhabitants of this world were jnanis, absolute stillness prevailed everywhere. Some time later Siva came along and asked, ‘Why have you locked up Brahma?’ Subramania replied, “That man was doing a lot of mischief. He was always creating people who were quarrelling and causing trouble. Look at my creation! All nishthas [people who are established in the Self].’ Siva studied the world for some time before remarking, ‘There is no movement in this world; no sun, no moon. You have created a world of sunya [void].’ Subramania reviewed his creation and had to admit that Siva was correct. He released Brahma from prison and permitted him to create another imperfect world. Bhagavan used to say that there can never be a perfect world because the world is always a creation of the imperfect mind. A perfect object cannot be made by such an imperfect tool. He also used to say, ‘While the mind exists, good and bad exist; but for jnanis, who have no mind at all, there is no good or bad and no world’. ........................... taken from LIVING BY THE WORDS OF BHAGAVAN edited by DAVID GODMAN vote. - Register online to vote today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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