"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

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Gadhi Investigates


Sage Vasishtha

Gadhi contemplated further: "That which I saw in a hallucination, my guest saw as a factual event! Ah, I should verify the story for myself." Having thus resolved, Gadhi quickly proceeded first to the place known as Bhutamandala. Men of highly evolved consciousness can, by appropriate self-effort, attain even what they mentally visualize: Gadhi thus saw, after reaching the destination, whatever he had seen in his vision.

There he saw a village which had been deeply impressed in his consciousness. He saw the very house of the tribesman (himself) and he saw the very objects which were used by him. The house was in a very bad shape. He saw there skeletons of animals whose flesh had been eaten by the family: for sometime he saw that dreadful place which truly looked like a cemetery. From there he went to the nearby village and asked the villagers: 'Do you know anything about that tribesman who lived in yonder house?'

The villagers replied: "Holy Sir, of course we know. there was a dreadful looking and fierce tribesman in that house who lived up to a ripe old age. When he had lost all his kinsmen he went away and became a king of Kira and ruled for eight years. He was found out and as a result many people died and he too killed himself. Pray, why do you ask about him? Was he related to you or do you think you are somehow related to him?" 

Hearing this, Gadhi was greatly puzzled.

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