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 192 - The curse of adverse suggestion

A man wanted himself to be initiated by a saint. The saint did so and gave him the sacred word to be repeated on a rosary. He said that after three repetitions on rosary, the sacred word shall produce the desired effect on him. But the saint warned him that, during the repetition of the sacred word the idea of monkey should not enter his mind. After a few repetitions, the man went to the saint again and said, "My Lord, I never thought of a monkey even in a dream. But now ever since your warning the monkey has been haunting me, and does not leave me." Do you know why it is so? It is because of the adverse suggestion. Such adverse suggestions are avoided in the American system of education.

Vol. 4 (145)

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