Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta
Vedanta and Privilege
There was a certain
king who had a huge number of courtiers, and each one of these courtiers
declared he was ready to sacrifice his life for his master, and that he was the
most sincere being ever born. In course of time, s Sannysin came to the king. The
king said to him that there never was a king who had so many sincere courtiers
as he had. The Sanysin smiled and said he did not believe that. The king said
the Sannysin could test it if he liked. So the Sannysin smiled and said he did
not believe that. The king said the Sanysin could test it if he liked . so the
Sannysin declared that he would make a great sacrifice by which the king’s
reign would be extended very long, with the condition that there should be made
a small tank into which each one of the courtiers should pour a pitcher of
milk, in the dark of night. The king smiled and said . Is this the test? And he
asked his courtiers to come to him and told them what was to be done. They all
expressed their joyful assent to the proposal and returned. In the dead of
night, they came and emptied their pitchers into the tank. But in the morning ,
it was found full of water only. The courtiers were assembled and questioned about
the matters. Each one of them had thought there would be so many pitchers of
milk that his water would not detected. Unfortunately most of us have the same
and we do our share of work as did the courtiers in the story.
Ability
to be self-aware
According to
Aristotelian theory, humans are the most evolved form of thinking and feeling
beings so far. What is more, we alone have the potential to grow and evolve
into the spiritual dimension. But what precisely, if anything, sets us apart
from other living creatures? Is it the faculty of reasoning? But reasoning does
not, and cannot, teach us anything new. Socrates was a man, a mortal being.
Therefore, Socrates is mortal.
You can see here that
there is no new truth that the third and concluding statement expresses that is
not clearly implied in the first two sentences.
The conclusion of any
piece of syllogistic reasoning does not enable us to learn anything new other
than what is contained in its premise. You have the same limitation with
inductive logic where you arrive at general truths from particular examples.
The mind grasps
reality by establishing relationships between entities that it perceives new
and perceptions that it carries from the past. The distinguishing feature of
humans lies in our capacity for self-awareness.
Other living
creatures may have the ability to perform a greater variety of tasks or may
have developed superior sensibilities in certain areas, but we have the
capacity to look at ourselves and be aware of ourselves.
We can attain
knowledge, but what is unique about us is that we can also get to know how we
can attain that knowledge. A human being is like a computer that can see how it
has been programmed and, thereby, transcend its programming.
But, if He exists?
I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who
spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this,
his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was
wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into
believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am
wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your
entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why
should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.-
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