Gadhi Realizes The Truth

Continued from here (Gadhi questions Vishnu)

Sage Vasishtha

In order to reassure himself, Gadhi once again went over to Bhutamandalam etc. Once again he heard the same stories from the people over there. Once again, he adored lord Vishnu, who once again appeared before him. 

GADHI asked: "Lord, I roamed for six months in the two realms and heard the same stories which the people there narrate as true. Pray, clear this confusion."

LORD VISHNU said:

O Gadhi, these incidents are reflected in your mind, though they took place unrelated to you, even as there appears to be a coincidental connection between the crow alighting upon a cocoanut tree and a cocoanut falling to the ground. Hence, they narrate the same story which you believe to be yours! Such coincidence is not uncommon: sometimes the same illusion is perceived by many. Sometimes many people have the same dream: several people experience the same hallucination and many drunkards may all of them simultaneously experience that the world is revolving around them. Several children play at the same game. Such a confusion may arise in the minds of people in regard to time too. Time a concept of the mind. Time is related to certain phenomena in a mutual causal relationship.

Lord Vishnu disappeared and Gadhi contemplated for a long time. Once again he prayed and the Lord appeared before him.

GADHI asked: Lord, I am utterly confused by your Maya. Pray remove this confusion by appropriate means.

LORD VISHNU said:

Whatever you saw in the Bhutamandalam and Kira were possibly true. The tribesman known as Katanja was indeed born some time ago. He lost his kinsmen and became the king of Kira. All this was reflected in your consciousness. Even as the mind sometimes forgets what it actually experienced, it also thinks it has experienced what it has never seen. Just as one sees dreams and visions, one experiences hallucinations even during the wakeful state. Though Katanja lived several yeas ago, it appeared to be in the present in your consciousnesses.

'This I am'  - such a concept does not arise in the person who has self-knowledge but only in the mind of an ignorant person. 'I am the all' - knowing thus the knower of truth does not drown in sorrow; he does not grasp finite objects productive of sorrow. Hence he is not swayed by joy and sorrow. Because you are not fully enlightened your mind clings to the illusion of objective perception, of concepts. This maya is spread out in all directions: he who remains established in  the centre is free from delusion. Get up and meditate intensely for ten years.

Gadhi engaged himself in intense meditation thereafter and attained Self-Realization. After that, he lived as a liberated sage, free from fear and sorrow.