🤔The Root of All Troubles🔻
(Story told by Sri Ramakrishna)
In a certain place the fishermen were catching fish. A kite swooped down and snatched a fish. At the sight of the fish, about a thousand crows chased the kite and made a great noise with their cawing. Which-ever way… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
We are all like this in the world. A legend tells how once Narada said to Krishna, ‘Lord, show me Maya.’
A few days passed away, and Krishna asked Narada to make a trip with him towards a desert, and after walking for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
When the Hindu says the world is Maya, at once people get the idea that the world is an illusion. This interpretation has some basis, as coming through the Buddhistic philosophers, because there was one section of philosophers who did not believe in the external world at all. But… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Those last dying words of his always thrilled through my heart. He was old, he was suffering, he was near his death, and then came the despised outcaste—he lives on carrion, dead animals; the Hindus would not allow them to come… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
💞‘I cannot Trade in Love’❤️
(Story told by Swami Vivekananda)
One of the disciples of Krishna, the then Emperor of India, was driven from his kingdom by his enemies and had to take shelter with his queen in a forest in the Himalayas, and there one day the queen asked him how it… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
One evening Sri Ramakrishna was seated with Totapuri near his sacred dhuni. Both of their minds were almost completely absorbed in nondual knowledge as they talked about God. The Atman, as if dwelling in the flames of the dhuni, was… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
In one who dwells longingly on sense objects, an inclination towards them is generated. This inclination develops into desire, and desire begets anger.
(BG 2.62)
Anger generates delusion, and delusion results in loss of memory. Loss of memory brings about the destruction of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…