--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" <premanandp...@...> wrote: > > David, > > Well, Guru Dev speaks of thorns as a means to distinguish the Acacia from the > Mango, and he refers to the practice of spreading thorns to keep away monkeys > from crops. Further, he uses the Hindi word for thorns - "kantak" - in a > poetic sense when he mentions that:- > "Thug log saadh vesh apana kar sachche saadhuon ki bari raksha karte hain, > jaise gulab ke pushpon ko kantak raksha karte hain." > > 'Thugs who dress in the clothes of hermits greatly protect true sadhus, in > the manner that thorns protect the rose.' > (my own translation, from 'Guru Dev as Presented by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi' - > ISBN 978-0-9562228-2-4) > > Guru Dev tended to call a thorn a thorn, so to speak. But a Guru offering an > analogy about thorns that wither away without one's giving any > attention....... Please cite your source.
Dear Paul, sorry I got into this oppositional stance with you, maybe I had too much chocolate to eat that day! Whatever you think or do, that is OK by me - we each have our own unique karmas worked out by the infinite, so how can I criticise? But just for fun lets consider this analogy of thorns - a thorny problem, one might say... or maybe not! Clearly you are right, my analogy of thorns withering if we ignore them lacks some intellectual credibility! I can't give you a reference, because I just made it up, but I suppose my cloudy mind must have mixed up the thorns and the rose with the clouds that wither away with the rising sun, or are blown away by the wind, which is already blowing - this, I am pretty sure is from Love and God by Maharishi. That is precisely what I was trying to say - the clouds of ignorance and negativity are withering in the rising sunshine of Sat Yuga, the age of Enlightenment, Global Ram Raj, or whatever we want to call it. Let us welcome the rising sun! Thanks for giving me the intellectual challenge that sharpened my thinking, and made me better able to express myself. David
