Marcus Aurelius - quote: People are born for each other. Or they teach, or they put up with them !
A flight of birds!
We see them flying over the sea, but physically we can not fly with them. What we can do, is to look up to them with love and joy in our hearts for God's creation; to gaze in admiring wonder at what we see He has made for us, with us! The wise old oral tradition of such love of God's created world, is one of the pillars of life here in Europe.
Human thoughts, words; they build, and can also destroy. Human love is often misapplied, mal-practised, and may ruin lives .. For example: many people say that the physical and cultural distance from the other people repells people away from each other, but this is not true! People decide whether they like or dislike. Whether they live in the distance, or in close proximity, does not actually affect the outpouring of love. God gave us the loving capacity, and it depends on us to utilize it or not.
The ancient philosophers recognized in their time, Krsna's and Zeus's and God's etc teachings, many cultures but of one mind when it came to admiring sacred truths. Perhaps one of the easiest and at the same time most difficult questions, "What is man ...?" arose and was addressed. Jivera svarupa haya, nitya krsnadasa, the eternal form of the soul is servant of Sri Krsna. None in our more modern times have responded in 2012 with wisdom to surpass the "ancient" eternal wisdom!
"As leaves replace the fallen foliage, so also among humans. Earth puts the "leaves" to the wind, but replaces them with new ones again, and there is a beautiful spring, again. So it is among the human nations... Homer's ***, 24/VI. 46-149.
Krsna describes that the living beings are like a tree, that upon passage from the tree, the leaf dries up, but in its constitutional position, it is a loyal adherent to the sap and the roots. Each leaf is part and parcel of the whole. The self does not die, the leaf in our analogy, but the body dies, yet the soul is reborn again to serve its function in yet another place and time.
This is a great truth! Knowing such ancient secrets, the masters and saintly philosophers try to see to it that the light of knowledge does not sleep in a remote location on a secret pilgrimage!
The people everywhere are attracted by God's infinite wisdom - awakening consciousness - and from this quiet, silence is born, the silence of realization of the eternal versus the temporal. The unique treasure of wisdom, intelligence; only the best among men accept it fully; if we are lucky to be born with intelligence; the elixir of God's wisdom was not automatically put in our backpacks at birth ! ...enquiries must be made.
Euripides said: "The fools, if you bring a new wisdom, "crazy cannon", they will perceive this knowledge as a burden to their mind." ----- In other words, there is a repression due to obstinate ignorance, crushing truth, this is also one of the ancient classic examples of human knowledge which is timeless!
So, sometimes it is safer to listen than to speak ...? --- Lest the pearls before the swine prove wasted? Similarly, one should not teach the glories of the Holy Names to foolish and offensive persons. Better, safer to listen - listen to gold (proverb), because you "have a lot of what is beautiful, but there is nothing more wonderful than man." - Told Sophocles * 42/Antigoné 332-333. line).
The ancients often revered some degree of isolation and austerity, as by such performance, one soon realizes that false ego does not jumpstart your progress, rather progress goes backwards! Thus, the self-willed, egotisic, greedily ambitious, oh-so-highly-aspiring, autonomous people, why, nothing is duller, even in the shade not ! False ego may also blossom coverring the sun, like ministers assuming a great position of ego, thinking themselves saints above the rest.
Probably in the area of Mesopotamia, Babel Tower was built, ultimately to show limits in the power of man, in the book of Genesis. At that time there, "one language, and the whole earth was of one speech." Mózes11. The ancient tower of Babel in Biblical times is famous for human selfishness arising from a variety of languages, given by Godhead Jahweh, Jehovah, Ahura Mazda, to break the egotistical misused challenging demonic human uniformity "Then they said: Come, let us build a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven! And we shall surely get ourself a name that will not perish of all the earth ..." * 11.4 Móses But God knew that blasphemy, pride, and selfishness do not serve human development well, so he created divisions among them using many human languages, and as a result the people were sent out into all the world, false pride crushed ...or so that is the story.
"Again and again we have seen mighty empires rise,
and powerful kingdoms fall.
But the Eternal Kingdom of Vaikuntha remains,
ever untouched by them all !" - a devotee
Similarly, a materialistic man, without Krsna, is like a huge, self-standing tower of Babel reaching foolishly into the heavens where it shall not stand long. Even today a lot of shameful Towers of Babel are built ... You're actually building a giant tower of Babel if you live a life of mundane sense gratification. Sometimes, Sri Krsna also puts the devotees into what appear as great difficulties with higher purposes in mind, which we may not at first perceive or understand.
Some thoughts, I hope you do not mind ...
Rasa Manjari DD
Comments
Yes, human foibles determine how we we will react to another; we can do harm or do good to others by our use of language and our emotions. Therefore, we should cultivate God consciousness and be of pure mind, so that our interactions with others will benefit them and us also, and be pleasing as well.
God is kind to all, but He reciprocates as we approach Him. If we wish to cheat , then we will in fact be cheated ourselves. Therefore, a pure heart only is allowed to encounter the Godhead as He is.
Yes, a fool should not speak. As soon as a fool opens his mouth, everyone knows him a fool! Better to listen to the bonafide spiritual masters who are of good character and freed of illusions and false ego. Then we will hear truth spoken.
Association is very important. Associating with stupid abusive persons will not help one's spiritual progress; rather better to avoid them. And it is so, everyone has an opinion, a million opinions on everything! It is a Babbel-On alright!
Still one should speak what one knows to ones best ability, that is the process. Sravanam, kirtanam, ie hear, then chant or repeat. In this way, there will be remembrance and purification.
Rasa Manajari said;
Krsna's Nature, wildlife ...
Yes, the live animals in their natural environment, people do not. People are naturally anti-structure has been created. In large cities, clouds Shopping face, mammoth facilities, a huge stinking, polluting industries, etc.. unnatural formations, and businesses! These human monopolies displace animals and destroy the plant world: meadows, forests, fields ... Lakes dying from toxic chemicals, and the seas and oceans as well. Fishing in certain parts of the world, in countries such massive destruction meant that some species have disappeared from the seas, oceans. This is a tragedy!! The animal is able to adapt, even to the man as well. The human adaptation, humility, cooperation is often unable to! The animal does not kill, he maintains. The two are not the same! The need to survive out. The animals for fun, leisure, do not attack, do not kill. The man does! In addition to animals fed the deer in peace .
I realized why this is so! The intelligence tells me that the functions be simple, foreignness is natural, humble, little, kind-hearted, God, man, world-loving creatures. Where is it? What is not working correctly?
The flower is. There is breathing, they can enjoy God's beauty. The abundance of flowers shedding fragrance and beauty to the world. Does not think, give more beauty to the east than west. East, West, North and South alike can see the beauty of a flower, you can feel and smell delicious. A man thinks differently. Look at where you are the flower: high, crowded place, what kind of infrastructure, residential housing estate near the resort area, or because it does not matter. What kind of flower? Cheap or expensive, rare breed ...? If you are a rare breed, you crazy because you can sell a lot of money.
The first people to sobriety, self-control, self-esteem, humble, respectful; but now too often missing. If a table exposes two objects: a pebble, and pearl, most people would choose the pearls. I do not. The beautiful pearl, sea treasures, not the property of the people! Admire, and I would cautiously back to rightful owner of the sea. People steal the pearl and money doing it, can still kill him. The diamond is still the case!