Part 8 (1/2)
”God is si else is complex Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature”
These philosophical finalities gently entered e of Kali Turning, I confronted a tallSADHU
”You have indeed penetrated the bewilderratefully ”The confusion of benign and terrible aspects in nature, as symbolized by Kali, {FN5-1} has puzzled wiser heads than mine!”
”Few there be who solve herriddle which life places sphinxlike before every intelligence
Atte no solution, most men pay forfeit with their lives, penalty now even as in the days of Thebes Here and there, a towering lonely figure never cries defeat From the MAYA {FN5-2} of duality he plucks the cleaveless truth of unity”
”You speak with conviction, sir”
”I have long exercised an honest introspection, the exquisitely painful approach to wisdohts, is a stark and shattering experience It pulverizes the stoutest ego But true self-analysis mathematically operates to produce seers The way of 'self-expression,' individual acknowledght to their private interpretations of God and the universe”
”Truth huinality”
I was enjoying the discussion
”Man can understand no eternal verity until he has freed himself from pretensions The hu with repulsive life of countless world-delusions Struggles of the battlefields pale into insignificance here, when man first contends with inward ene array ofman even in sleep, subtly equipped with a norant lusts seek to slay us all Thoughtless is theto the conominious?”
”Respected Sir, have you no sye was silent for a moment, then answered obliquely
”To love both the invisible God, Repository of All Virtues, and visible enuity is equal to the maze Inner research soon exposes a unity in all human minds-the stalwart kinshi+p of selfish motive In one sense at least, the brotherhood ofdiscovery It ripens into co potencies of the soul awaiting exploration”
”The saints of every age, sir, have felt like yourself for the sorrows of the world”
”Only the shallow man loses responsiveness to the woes of others'
lives, as he sinks into narrow suffering of his own” The SADHU'S austere face was noticeably softened ”The one who practices a scalpel self-dissection will know an expansion of universal pity
Release is given hio The love of God flowers on such soil The creature finally turns to his Creator, if for no other reason than to ask in anguish: 'Why, Lord, why?' By ignoble whips of pain, man is driven at last into the Infinite Presence, whose beauty alone should lure hihat Tenificence With a sweeping gesture, nity
”Bricks andus no audible tune; the heart opens only to the hu sunshi+ne at the entrance, where throngs of devotees were passing to and fro
”You are young” The sage surveyedThe ancient RIshi+S {FN5-3} laid down ineradicable patterns of spiritual living Their hoary dictums suffice for this day and land Not outuiles of materialism, the disciplinary precepts mold India still By millenniums-more than embarrassed scholars care to compute!-the skeptic Tie”
As I was reverently bidding farewell to the eloquent SADHU, he revealed a clairvoyant perception:
”After you leave here today, an unusual experience will come your way”