Three Pious Egoists.

A Parable Parabolic

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In my room at the Ashram, there were the three. An earthen jar (kamandal / कमंडल), an earthen lamp (मिट्टी का दिया / दीपक) and also an electric lamp (बिजली का बल्ब).

They would always keep silent and served others in their own way. Living for long in such a religious and spiritual place, all the time they always just kept / observed silence, while listening to and imbibing silently only all the talks, debates and the discussions that happened there. Then gradually they knew somehow about the meaning, purpose and the sense of 'just being and knowing'. In a single word, we could say -- they attained a level of perception  / consciousness and could now express and reciprocate the same through their talks and the unspoken words.

(First of all, this was revealed to me by none other than the अश्वत्थ / Ashwatth, who always talked to me in the Same way.

(For details, you can see my posts :

Silent Dialogues. )

One mid-night, while I was just sitting on my कुशासन / cushion seat, I was a bit scared and wondered what was all that going on there,  all about!

Maybe I was kind of in a trans or whatever, I could listen to them and grasp very clearly the sense and meaning of what they were talking about.

The earthen jar said :

Just like all creatures I am too is made of the  earth, water, air, fire and space only. I am no more or less greater or smaller than all those other creatures who, in ignorance claim that they are conscious and sentient beings and are far more superior to others such like the insentient ones like us. They call us प्रकृति / nature, and hope in their stupid audacious ignorance that they could someday conquer not only us, but the entire, the whole  प्रकृति / nature as well. They are even unaware what they are talking about, If they are apart or not from the  प्रकृति / nature. I can say this much only and know nothing more.

Then the earthen lamp said :

"We are all created by a Supreme Power that is the cause - the potential and instrumental also in His this Act of the Creation. Really, No one knows Him but He alone knows all and everyone, everything. I have understood this much only. Like the earthen jar, I too do not know any more! I too have finally, ultimately concluded thus, submitted to Him and all my personal desires and fears are no more. I am happy in this simple understanding, keep on distributing and giving out this light of my understanding to all whoever come to me".

The electric bulb was switched off and I was curious to listen to what he might have liked to say! So I switched it on :

Lo and behold !

He first thanked me and than narrated his own point of view :

"Oh my dear friends! With all due regards, love and respects I would say thanks to you all who are so humble, honest and yet keep a low profile! Still I feel the assumed feigned humility is really another form of ego only. I'm not criticizing any of you, yet I do feel I am just unable to see how one could cast off this ego! You see, The sense of being itself is the ego. The knowing of being too is again the manifestation of ego only. So how the ego could possibly decimate itself?"

I was truly impressed by all these silent Gods who were indeed Divine in their own nature. I bowed before them in silence, for I had no words to express my gratitude / sentiments.

After having lost deep for a minute or two, I come to my own and lazily stretched out my hand to find and get the :

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary.

I scrolled through pages without a clear idea about what exactly I was trying to find out.

Then I thought a little attentively and then searched for the word :

"Pious".

The result was like this :