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The Tight Spot. Kausika the brahmana, who is now roasting in Hell, set his heart upon Virtue and in all his life never told a lie, even in jest. Once, having seen their helpless victim run past him and hide, Kausika, sitting there where the rivers meet, answered the thieves, "That way."
The Deliverance. So be as the swan, who drinks from milk and water mixed together, whichever one he choose, leaving the other behind. William S. Buck, the Mahabharata
When we are not bound by duty and obligation to any worldly thing we are free to choose the Divine. This truth is the truth of Christ’s tight spot in his agony in the garden. It is the truth of Siddhartha Gautama when he rose one night and left his wife and child. It is the spiritual dilemma of Kausika, the Brahman. The act and more precisely the sovereignty to act is in fact a telltale sign of liberation and the intimacy with the truth.
Driven by patterns
and blindness with no beginning,
Humans follow the
rounds of birth, old age, illness and death.
It requires intimate knowledge
of truth to be able to be free and to voluntarily choose between the milk and
water. It is not merely intellectual facts or methods of knowledge that one can
memorize or learn but a transcendent recognition and intimate knowledge.
Duty, obligation and responsibility although basically
harmless are human concoctions that cannot help us discern between the absolute
and the relative or in more common terms between heaven and hell. It requires
divine knowledge, transcendent knowing.
Both Christ and Siddhartha both exemplify this transcendence and capacity
to choose. Christ could have chosen to run but he doesn’t. Siddhartha could
have chosen to stay in the palace with his wife and newborn son, but he doesn’t.
Both are sovereigns, both hold to a transcendent authority.
When we are tied and bound to our compulsions, driven and blind we are
not aware of the fundamental and supreme element. In
the hands of a spiritual master our compulsions tattle on us until we no longer betray the
Sovereign within.
I read an old saying this morning (I do not know the origin of the saying)...A deluded person makes the same mistake over and over, a wise person makes a new mistake every time.
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Marilyn
When I'm held back for a while, and finally somehow am able to let go and choose something, milk or water, it is liberating. And then whatever the delusion/binding/issue was, is done. Until the next time. And the next time. Knowing the truth, or at least seeking it, is the choice, and it is a by moment to moment one it seems to me. Sovreignty, isn't the choice. It seems to come on its own when the delusion drops away. Kind of like grace. I can always just throw caution to the wind and choose something, anything, and act. But sovreignty to act, implies something deeper. Something bigger. All-encompassing. "...until we no longer betray the Sovereign within." The Divine. Not exactly sure where I'm going with this, but much to think about here! Thank you.
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