Bhagavan Ramakrishna's short stories - Understand Vedhanta
BHAGAVAN RAMAKRISHNA'S SHORT STORIES
UNDERSTAND VEDHANTA
A sadhu living near a forest had a lot of disciples. One day when he was preaching to the disciples told- "all things in the world were gods forms. Understand this and pranam everything in this world". Days rolled by after the preaching. One day, a disciple went to the forest to fetch some firewood. At that time, he heard a thundering noise and also noise of trees getting uprooted. A human voice followed that - "everyone around runaway as an an elephant had turned wild and mad". Other people around the disciple started running in all directions. But the sadhu's disciple did not run from there. He told in his mind the elephant was a god and he himself was a god and why should he run? Soon the elephant came near the place of the disciple. Looking towards the elephant, the disciple started chanting Narayana Sthuthi. The Mahout on the elephant started shouting "run away! run away!" The disciple did not move an inch even after hearing that. The elephant lifted the disciple and threw him away and the disciple was injured seriously but escaped death. People from the ashram came to know of that and they reached the place and rescued the disciple and he started to come to his senses after a while. An other disciple asked him why he did not runaway from that place before the elephant could attack him? For that the disciple answered " all things in the world are nothing but the different forms of God as told by the guru, I thought god in elephant form is coming and hence I did not run away.
This answer by the disciple was heard by the Sadhu and he told him everything what you said was alright but the mahout on the elephant had been warning everyone and was he not a God also. You should have given credence to the words of the mahout also a form of God, would that not have helped to overcome the situation.
Those who are devoid of bakthi or having bakthi, having purity of thoughts or not, and those who are straight and others who do not, in all these there is the manifestation of God. This is the truth. But one should not have contacts with those who are impure of mind, bad people and even in times of necessity, should stop with a few words with them. Distancing from such people is the best.
UNDERSTAND VEDHANTA
A sadhu living near a forest had a lot of disciples. One day when he was preaching to the disciples told- "all things in the world were gods forms. Understand this and pranam everything in this world". Days rolled by after the preaching. One day, a disciple went to the forest to fetch some firewood. At that time, he heard a thundering noise and also noise of trees getting uprooted. A human voice followed that - "everyone around runaway as an an elephant had turned wild and mad". Other people around the disciple started running in all directions. But the sadhu's disciple did not run from there. He told in his mind the elephant was a god and he himself was a god and why should he run? Soon the elephant came near the place of the disciple. Looking towards the elephant, the disciple started chanting Narayana Sthuthi. The Mahout on the elephant started shouting "run away! run away!" The disciple did not move an inch even after hearing that. The elephant lifted the disciple and threw him away and the disciple was injured seriously but escaped death. People from the ashram came to know of that and they reached the place and rescued the disciple and he started to come to his senses after a while. An other disciple asked him why he did not runaway from that place before the elephant could attack him? For that the disciple answered " all things in the world are nothing but the different forms of God as told by the guru, I thought god in elephant form is coming and hence I did not run away.
This answer by the disciple was heard by the Sadhu and he told him everything what you said was alright but the mahout on the elephant had been warning everyone and was he not a God also. You should have given credence to the words of the mahout also a form of God, would that not have helped to overcome the situation.
Those who are devoid of bakthi or having bakthi, having purity of thoughts or not, and those who are straight and others who do not, in all these there is the manifestation of God. This is the truth. But one should not have contacts with those who are impure of mind, bad people and even in times of necessity, should stop with a few words with them. Distancing from such people is the best.
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