Solitude is a relief and it brings in the joy.
Solitude does not mean being lonely but being alone. Even when one assumes to
be in solitude he has a dialogue running in his mind. The talk between two
thoughts is constantly happening. No, it is not wrong to have such a dialogue
but it is the difference that creates the problem and that difference is due to
the individual identity.
“I” become a seeker of getting rid of that thing which
should not be there and so any sort of difference is caused only by this kind
of display of identity. When that “I” is just the witness instead of being a participant
then there is no chaos. Can that “I” remain just as a witness??? Yes, when the
other identifications are negated it can.
Sage Dattatreya talks of this negation which he
learnt from a woman. Once he was wandering in a village and it was lunch time
and he approached a house to seek Bhiksha (alms). The woman of the house requested
him to wait as she had to prepare the meal. She had a toddler to take care too.
The infant was asleep in the cradle and so she thought she could cook food for
the Sage.
She offered him a seat and went inside. She found
that she had little rice in the storage. She had paddy and she had to pound the
paddy to separate the husk. She started pounding the paddy. While pounding the
paddy the glass bangles she was wearing on her hands made the clink sound.
She thought that the clink sound would wake up her
child and she would find it difficult to cook for the Sage. To avoid the noise
made by these bangles. She started removing the bangles one by one.
Sage Dattatreya
who was watching this noticed that out of the 9 bangles on the hand, the woman
removed 8 of them letting the ninth one remain. And she began pounding again.
Now there was no noise at all. Yes! It takes two to make noise, Sage Dattatreya
understood.
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