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Just like the wonders of the world, if you analyse the linguistic wonders of the world, Saṃskṛtaṁ, the devabhāśā— language of Divine, will be the first and only linguistic wonder of the world.
The word Saṃskrit means well done, refined, perfect. Anything created out of the space of completion stands forever, stands eternally. Completion is eternal, Nitya.
A SMALL STORY
There lived a great yogi who had
special powers but was not yet
enlightened. He was a highly
egoistic person. He was
meditating under a tree in a
forest. A bird sitting on the tree
relieved itself and the droppings
fell on him. He lost his temper
and he opened his eyes, staring
at the bird. The bird was killed
by the power of his gaze. The
yogi was very proud of what he
had done. He then went on his
daily round of begging for alms.
He came to a house and begged
for food. The lady of the house
called out from inside the house
and asked him to wait as she was
serving her husband. The yogi
was upset. He thought to
himself, 'Foolish woman! She is
serving her husband, an ordinary
man, and she is making a great
yogi like me wait!'
Suddenly he heard the lady's voice again as if in answer, 'I am not like the bird in the forest to be killed so easily.
Your powers may be used against birds but not against me, so relax!'The yogi was shocked! The lady actually knew not only what he was thinking, but even what had happened in the forest!
The yogi apologized to the lady when she came out to give him food. He asked her, 'Mother, how did you know what I was thinking? And how did you know what happened in the forest?
Please teach me how I can achieve this. She replied, ‘You have attained śakti (power) but not buddhi (intelligence).
Go to the butcher who is down the road and he will teach you.’ Now the yogi was even more surprised. He thought, ‘How can ordinary butchers teach me anything about buddhi?’ But what the lady had done was too much for him.
So he quietly took the lady’s counsel and went down the road to the butcher’s shop. When he reached the butcher’s shop, he saw that the butcher was busy cutting up the meat of the animal he had just slaughtered. He could not imagine learning from a butcher. But he wanted intelligence, so he approached the butcher and asked, ‘I was told by a lady living nearby to ask you about intelligence.
Can you explain to me how to attain intelligence?’
The butcher explained how he
himself had achieved
intelligence, the ultimate
experience.
All he did to achieve it was do
his job with complete awareness
and total authenticity.
He did his job with complete
integrity and used the money
that he earned to take care of
his aged parents, which he did
with equal devotion.
Just the very doing of his
responsibility had liberated him.
The nature of his work, the act
of slaughtering animals,
was not important.
The attitude, space from which
he did it was what mattered.
CAUSING RESPONSIBILITY OUT OF COMPLETION
In the Mahābhārat, Karṇa is a great
warrior and close friend of
Duryodhana; his acts of charity and
generosity are much admired.
He is the immaculate son of Surya,
the Sun energy and the eldest son of
Kuntī, the mother of Pāṇḍavas. Being
born before Kuntī's marriage to King
Pāṇḍu, the unwed
Kuntī abandoned him at birth.
Karṇa lived as the adopted son of the
royal charioteer of the Kurus, and
struggled with misfortune throughout
his life.
Karṇa's famous charity was out of a
deep incompletion and a feeling
that he is not respected. What was
Karṇa's inner image, mamakāra? 'I
am a failure; I am not respected
anywhere I go.'
This is because he did not know his
parents' names, his origins.
So, his inner image, mamakāra at a
young age was 'I am not respected!'
So he was exploding with the outer
image, ahaṁkāra — 'I have to be
respected, I am respectable!'
And the best way to be respected
was to do charity work.
Even the great acts like charity,
when done out of incompletion,
only lead to the wrong effect.
If you cause anything out of
completion, what you get back will
be miraculous.
If you cause even a great charitable
act out of incompletion,
what you get back will be hell.
Even the so-called moral, good
deeds will only have bad effects.
