"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

The Story Of An Avadhuta

Sri Ramana Maharshi
22-11-1945 Morning

Continued from here
In this connection Bhagavan narrated the following story:

"A king was passing through a forest in all his pomp and pageantry, with his army and retinue behind him. He came across a man with not even a cod piece on him, lying on the ground, with one leg cocked over the other and laughing away apparently supremely happy and contented with himself and all the world. The king was struck with the man's happy state and sent for him. But when the king's men approached the nude ascetic and delivered the king's message, he took absolutely no notice and continued in his ascetic bliss. On being told of this, the king himself went to the man and even then the man took no notice. Thereupon it struck the king that this must be no common and said: "Swami, you are evidently supremely happy. May we know what is the secret of such happiness and from which Guru you learnt it?" Thereupon the ascetic told the king: "I have had twenty-four Gurus. Everything, this body, the earth, the birds, some instruments, some persons all have taught me." All the things in the world may be classed as either good or bad. The good taught him what he must seek. Similarly, the bad taught him what he must avoid. The ascetic was Dattatreya, the avadhuta."

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