BREATHING

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Dear Friends in TBP,

Love and Love alone....

 

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Love and Love alone...

 

P. Gopi Krishna

BREATHING

Posted by: " Uttishthata " uttishthata

Wed Jan 3, 2007 6:55 pm (PST)

BREATHING

(Delivered in San Francisco, March 28, 1900)

 

There was once a minister to a great king. The king displeased with

the minister, ordered him to be confined in the top of a very high

tower. This was done, and the minister was left there to perish. His

wife came to the tower at night and called to her husband. The

minister said to her, " No use weeping. " He told her to take a little

honey, a beetle, a pack of fine thread, a ball of twine, and a rope.

She tied the fine thread to one of the legs of the beetle and put

honey on the top of hits head and let it go with its heat up. The

beetle slowly crept onwards, in the hope of reaching the honey,

until at last it reached the top of the tower, when the minister

grasped the beetle and got possession of the silken thread, then the

pack thread, then the stout twine, and lastly of the rope. The

minister descended from the tower by means of the rope, and made his

escape. In this body of ours the breath motion is the " silken

thread " ; by laying hold of it we grasp the pack thread of the nerve

currents, and from these the stout twine of our thoughts, and lastly

the rope of Prana, controlling which we reach freedom.

 

By the help of things on the material plane, we have to come to

finer and finer perceptions. The Universe is one, whatever point you

touch, All the points are but variations of that one point.

Throughout the universe is a unity at bottom. Even through such a

gross thing as breath I can get bold of the Spirit itself.

 

The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 1 [ Page : 506 ]

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