Parables of Sri Ramakrishna - 1

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Parables of Sri Ramakrishna - 1

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A disciple said to his Guru that his wife loved him very much and so

he could not renounce the world. The disciple used to practise

Hathayoga. To convince him of the hollowness of his plea, the Guru

taught him some secrets of this branch of Yoga. One day all on a

sudden there was great consternation in the disciple's house and

wailings and sobbings were heard all around. The neighbours came

running to the house and saw the Hatha Yogi disciple in a room,

quite motionless, in a peculiar convoluted posture. They all thought

that life was extinct in the body. The wife of the man was

crying: " Alas! where have you gone, dear? Why have you forsaken us?

Ah! we never knew that such a calamity would befall us! " In the

meantime the relatives brought a cot to take the corpse out for

cremation. Then they found themselves face to face with a

serious difficulty. As the man was in a contorted posture, his body

would not come out through the door. Seeing that, one of the

neighbours brought an axe and began to cut the wooden frame of the

door. Till then the wife was weeping in an uncontrollable fit of

sorrow; but no sooner did she hear the sound of the axe than she ran

to the spot, and though still weeping, anxiously enquired what

they were about. One of the neighbours told her that they were

cutting the door as her husband's body could not otherwise be taken

out owing to its peculiar posture. " No, no, " cried out the

wife, " don't do so now. I have been widowed and there is none to

look after me. I have to bring up my fatherless children.

If you now cut the door, it cannot be repaired again. Whatever was

to happen has happened to my husband. You had better cut his hands

and legs and take him out. " Hearing this, the Hatha Yogi at once

stood up, the effect of the drug having gone by this time and bawled

out, " Woman, you want to cut my hands and legs! " And so saying, he

went away with his Guru renouncing hearth 'and home.