Intelligent people celebrate diversity

I guess this one is good to have on the blog, in-fact anything that is said by Guruji!

Question: What is the science of relativity? How does it work in life?
Sri Sri: You go on the internet. There is so much on it. Volumes and volumes. Everything is related: If you've slept well, you see everything better. If not, then things are blurred. The observer and the observed vary. That is why it is said that different states of consciousness understand different knowledge.

Have you heard the Japanese story?

In Japan, there is a rule that a motel-owner must give free boarding and lodging to monks. To test if a monk is genuine; the owner would ask a knowledge question. If the question is answered, monk can then stay. If the owner gives the right answer, then the monk will go further.

There was a motel run by two brothers. The elder one was very intelligent. The younger one was dull. The elder brother used to manage affairs such that he did not have to give free rooms to the monks. If the elder brother had to go away, he would tell the younger one: 'If any monk comes here, act dumb. If you're silent, the monk will not stay here.'

As soon as the elder brother left, a group of monks arrived.

They said: 'Come we will argue’
The younger brother gestured: 'I am in silence’
The monks: 'We will have a dialogue in silence’
They showed the forefinger to indicate 'one'
The younger brother had only one eye. The other eye was bandaged. He showed two fingers.
The monks then showed three fingers.
The brother then showed a fist.

The monks became very happy and left. When the elder brother came, the younger one explained what happened:

'They told me that you have only one eye’
So I said, 'You have two’
They then said: ‘The dialogue is between three eyes’
So I said: ‘I will punch you'

Later the monks returned and told the elder brother that the younger one had shared the highest knowledge in silence.

The monks narrated:

We asked: ‘What is the one truth?’
He said: ‘Not one, there are two: Buddham and Dhammam’
We said: ‘There are three things: Buddham, Dhammam, and Sangham’
He said: ‘They are all one!'

It was such a mind-blowing realization!

This story shows that different levels of consciousness can interpret different things, differently. Fools always create conflicts over nothing. And die for it. The intelligent will celebrate diversity. Fools can't tolerate diversity.

The ancient sages in the Rig Veda have said: 'Accept even the atheist and they have included them in prayers: Those who call You as no God and think there is no Divinity, I bow down. Those who say, You are not there, I offer my obeisance.'

One accepts even atheism.

That is true wisdom: You have broad vision which accepts people and differences. Intelligent people celebrate diversity, fools fight over diversity.

Love is blind

Story time...I don't remember from where I got this from :-)

A long time ago, before the world was created and humans set foot on it for the first time, Virtues and Vices wandered bored, not knowing what to do. One day they were all gathered and bored more than ever.

Suddenly genius had an idea and said "Why don't we play hide and seek?" And all of them liked the idea and immediately the mad Madness shouted "I want to count, I want to count!" And since no one else was crazy to seek for Madness, Madness leaned on a tree and started to count 1, 2, 3... And as Madness counted, the vices and virtues went hiding.

Tenderness hung on the horn of the moon.

Treason in a pile of garbage.

Fondness curled up between the clouds.

Lie said he would hide under a stone but he lied and hid at the bottom of the lake.

Passion went to the center of the earth.

Avarice entered a sack that he ended up breaking...

And Madness continued to count 79, 80, 81, 82. All the vices and virtues were already hidden by then except for Love, whom as undecided as he is did not know where to hide. This should not surprise us because we all know how difficult it is to hide Love. And Madness was already at 95, 96, 97 and just at the moment when she arrived at hundred, Love jumped into a rosebush and there he hid out.

Turning back Madness shouted "I'm coming! I'm coming!"

The first one she saw was Laziness, thrown to her feet because he didn't have any energy to hide.

Then she saw Tenderness in the horn of the Moon.

Lie at the bottom of the lake.

Passion in the center of the earth...

She discovered them one by one, finding all of them but one. Madness was getting desperate, unable to find the last missing one until Envy, envious with love for not having been discovered whispered to Madness "You are lacking Love and he is hiding in the rosebush." And Madness took a wooden pitchfork and stabbed at the rosebush and stabbed and stabbed until a heartbreaking shout made her stop.

After the shout, Love came out covering his face with his hands and from between his fingers run two threads of blood out of his eyes. Madness anxious to find Love, had took out Love's eyes with the pitchfork.

"What have I done? What have I done?" she shouted. "I have left you blind! How can I repair it?" And Love answered, you can't restore my eyes. But if you want to do something for me, you could be my guide.

From that day on, Love is blind! And is always accompanied by Madness!

Have a great day!

Satyajit