Autor: Danijel Turina Datum: 2010-07-21 13:21:36 Grupe: hr.soc.religija Tema: Yuktesvar o vibu i denu Linija: 50 Message-ID: i26ln4$anq$1@tornado.tornevall.net |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 A celebrated pundit received a similar jolt. With ostentatious zeal, the scholar shook the ashram rafters with scriptural lore. Resounding passages poured from the Mahabharata, the Upanishads, the bhasyas of Shankara. "I am waiting to hear you." Sri Yukteswar's tone was inquiring, as though utter silence had reigned. The pundit was puzzled. "Quotations there have been, in superabundance." Master's words convulsed me with mirth, as I squatted in my corner, at a respectful distance from the visitor. "But what original commentary can you supply, from the uniqueness of your particular life? What holy text have you absorbed and made your own? In what ways have these timeless truths renovated your nature? Are you content to be a hollow victrola, mechanically repeating the words of other men?" "I give up!" The scholar's chagrin was comical. "I have no inner realization." For the first time, perhaps, he understood that discerning placement of the comma does not atone for a spiritual coma. "These bloodless pedants smell unduly of the lamp," my guru remarked after the departure of the chastened one. "They prefer philosophy to be a gentle intellectual setting-up exercise. Their elevated thoughts are carefully unrelated either to the crudity of outward action or to any scourging inner discipline!" Master stressed on other occasions the futility of mere book learning. "Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary," he remarked. "Sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge." ( http://crystalclarity.com/yogananda/chap12.html ) - -- http://www.danijel.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREKAAYFAkxG2EAACgkQU8G6/NHezOdY1ACgkojNgyF9ADfrWmCKb5k9pUjj DpQAn0nuwa0CNJyRWlpU48c1sJVaw0qO =06nk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |