Pearl of Wisdom

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa while explaining spiritual freedom once said....

"'If you mix milk and water, you can separate them again only after much effort. But if you convert milk to butter and keep the butter in water it will not mix.' This aptly describes the technique of living. Wisdom must be churned out of life, and, armed with that wisdom we can mix with the world, engage in any activity and live in any situation without getting diluted or lost. This is spiritual freedom in its perfection.

Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.

One interesting forward that I received today....

cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The
phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,

it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if
you can raed tihs psas it on !!

Doing good may not be enough.....

Dr S. Radhakrishna was berating the modern young men and women in one of his lectures, about their lack of beleif in religion, "I do not beleive in metaphysics or religion. I beleive in doing good. That is my philosophy", he said was the thinking of the modern young men and women. This was precisely what I subscribed to. I always beleived that "doing good" was enough. I need not bother about metaphysics, religion or philosophy. I read on.... curious to know how I was going to be proven as wrong. Next was another sloka with an interesting comparison....

Asuryā nāma te lokāḥ andhena tamasāvṛtāḥ

Tāṁste pretyābhigacchanti ye ke cātmahano janāh-

Curious I read further to see what the sloka meant.....A man who is not aware of his divine nature is like a man living in a deep cavern where sunlight has never entered. He who ignores this ever present reality of the Self is keeping away light and clutching at shadows. "ātmahana" means people who kill themselves. BY neglecting our true nature, by ignoring it and by clutching at the shadows of the non-Self all the time, we commit suicide; suicide of the most serious kind. In an ordinary suicide, only the body is killed, which is something external to us, but here we kill ourselves, our real Self.

Interesting thought.........