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 27 - Effect of Heaven or Hell on a Realised Soul

A Woman carrying Fire and Water

There was a woman who possessed the knowledge of Vedanta. She was going through the streets with fire in one hand and cool water in the other. People came up to her and asked, "What do you mean by carrying cool water in one hand and fire in the other? The man who put this question was a great Missionary. She said, "With this fire I am going to set your paradise and heaven on fire, and with this water I am going to cool down your hell."

To a man who possesses this knowledge that he himself is hell or he himself is heaven; to him all your heaven and hell lose all their attractions and fears. He stands above them.

MORAL: A Realised Soul is above all attractions of Heaven or fears of Hell, for he himself is all.

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