Parables of Rama

by Swami Rama Tirtha | 102,836 words

Stories in English used by Swami Rama to illustrate the highest teaching of Vedanta. The most difficult and intricate problems of philosophy and abstract truths, which may very well tax the brains of the most intellectual, are thus made not only simple and easy to understand but also brought home to us in a concrete form in such an interesting and ...

Story 140 - Practice without Understanding

Superstitious Theory

A doctor used to heal wounds by keeping the diseased part under linen bandages for a full week and touching it daily with a sword. The -wounds were healed, being kept from exposure by the bandage. But he ascribed the wonderful healing property to the touch of the sword. So thought his patients too. This superstitious theory gave birth to failures upon failures in many cases that required some other treatment than mere bandaging.

MORAL: Practice without understanding leads to superstitious theories, and hence to failures. Success depends on right theory and right practice.

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