The Story Of A Camel I think I am very much convinced that the best approach to life is to put all efforts toward becoming receptive to the Master and Naam. Naam inside and the Master physically outside. But also many impressions, you might say, tumble around in my mind and they control me still. The impressions still tug so much, even though I am convinced intellectually that this is what I want. There was one
majnu, who was very found of Lila, a princess. Once he left his home to meet
her, riding on a female camel. That female camel had a child left behind. Majnu
rode on the camel, absorbed in the thought of Lila, and the reins were relaxed.
The camel returned home, because she was attacked to her child, was she not?
Again he started . . . . they say it took him six months to reach Lila. Why?
This is a reply to your question. He relaxed the reins. Naturally
effort becomes Nature. Even though we know this theory intellectually, we are
still identified with the body and are dragged like anything. as a matter of
inference we know we are not the body. But when you daily rise above your body
at our will, then you will come to know that you are not your body. But at
present you may take six months or six years to reach the goal. Do you follow?
That is Nature. When you do anything, repeating it daily for a few months, if
you are going the other way you will feel drawn to the direction they have been
accustomed to move. This is due to habit. So do we gradually outlive these many impressions? Through meditation and living , do we just expend them? Yes. What is
that by knowing which nothing more is left to be known? By testing which
nothing more remains to be tasted? By knowing that happiness, no other
happiness will vie with it. That is within you. How important it is to
meditate. It takes five, six hours in the school, then homework for two or
three hours. Eight hours a day working for one year gives you one step, one
part. How much time do you put in now? Fortunately are here, so you are putting
in fours. But even that is not the actual time you are putting in. your
physical body is sitting of course, but that time only counts in which
attention was not relaxed, was not
slacked; continuously dwelling on one subject . so forget the past births, if
there were any or not. Ever since we were born we have been attached to the
body. We have been working at the physical level; we have never thought that we were not the body. Even now,
although we have come to the conclusion that we are not the body, all the same
we are working at the level of the body. Only remember this story of a camel ,
you see.[ chuckles] Habit
has turned into Nature , you see. We are to unravel it. all right, good night
to you all. |