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 ...
There was a little child, a small baby that had just learnt to crawl, to walk on all fours. The child saw its shadow and thought it to be something strange, something remarkable. The child wanted to catch the shadow; it began to crawl to the head of the shadow and the shadow also crawled. The child moved and the shadow also moved, The Child began to cry because he could not catch the head of the shadow. The child falls down, the shadow is with it; the child rises up and begins to hunt for the shadow. In the mean time, the mother taking mercy on the child made the child touch his own head, and Io, the head of this shadow was also caught.
Catch hold of your own head and the shadow is also caught. Heaven and Hell are within you. The source of power, joy, and life is within you. The God of men and nature and nations is within you.
MORAL: The way to get anything is not to hunt after it outside but to search within.