Topics – Analogies

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Inner vision helps you to know your true nature: Beautiful analogies from householder’s life Embodiments of love!! Everyone sees physical Swami, but one should not see the physical form but seek inside. Outer vision is useless. Every moment one sees the physical world around but should look within. When one starts looking within then starts the journey inwards one’s true form. Hence one must not look outside but look within. The outside world harbours all useless things. There is the owner of a house. The owner throws away all the useless and waste baskets and other items outside. He throws all the valueless items outside but securely stores away the valuable items under lock and key in Godrej almirah. Servants see only the waste items thrown out but do not know about the valuables stored away inside. Therefore who is the one who seeks outside? Only the labours seek outside. The servants who work for the owner seek outside. The servant sees outside but it is only the owner who knows the items inside. The valuable items- the gold, diamonds, precious stones etc, inside the house is known to the residents of the house. Since everyone is looking at things present outside, everyone is a servant. What valuable things are present inside!!! The Tarakam, Sankhyam, Amanaskamu are like the most valuable diamonds. All these exist within one self but one is unaware of it. What is the reason? One has not become the owner yet. One can see these valuable things once he becomes the owner. God is the owner. When one belongs to God, the owner, one can understand all the valuable aspects. Therefore one must befriend the owner. How to befriend the ‘owner’? Vedantam gives good examples. Swami explains these aspects in a simple manner so that students too can understand it. The owner of the house is on the terrace. A visitor comes to see the owner. But there is a big Alsatian dog at the gate. That dog is likened to ‘Maya’. It will not allow the visitor to enter inside. What should the visitor do to enter the house? If one can overcome and control the ‘Maya’, the dog, then he can enter the house. Alternately, the visitor can call the owner, “Sir! Sir!”, then the owner who is on the terrace will come out and see. He would come down saying, “O! Hello! You have come!!” The dog would not say anything when the owner escorts the visitor inside along with him. The dog will remain silent when the visitor is in the company of the owner. But it will obstruct the path when the visitor tries to get in alone. The all pervading and eternal witness, God, is on a higher plane. He has appointed ‘Maya’ at the entrance. Control over this ‘Maya’ is ‘gnyaanamu’, wisdom. How to have control over ‘Maya’? Whose creation is ‘Maya’? It is the creation of the owner; it is the owner who has put the dog- ‘Maya’. The dog would give way inside when the visitor knows the master very well. The visitor must introduce himself saying that he and the owner are one and the same. This is stated as “Adwaitha darshanam Jnana”, the vision of non-dualism is true wisdom. Alternately, if the visitor calls out, “Rama, Krishna, Govinda”, the owner will come out to have a look. The owner then will come down and take the visitor along with him. Then the ‘Maya’ will not affect the visitor. Therefore in order to see the owner, God, one must follow either the path of Bhakthi, devotion or the path of Jnana, wisdom.