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 138 - Possession of Powers

A King Maker Fakir

There was a Fakir who could make a king of any person. How had he acquired this power? He answered that he fasted and after that ate the droppings of cows. He lived in a certain way and thus acquired this particular power. A brother said to him, "You give this power of a king to be enjoyed by everybody, but to you fall only the cow's droppings." Thus Indians respect and honour persons having these powers, that is all, they know that that which puts us beyond all want is simply the knowledge of Self.

MORAL: Possession of any kind of power does not put us beyond ail wants, nor does it lead to Self-knowledge.

Vol. 2 (40-41)

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