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 newly married girl in India. She was sitting with her sister-in-law and with her mother-in-law. They were having a very pleasant chat. The husband of this new bride was away from the scene. He was absent.
Then the sisters-in-law of this new bride passed some remarks against the husband of this girl. They made some statements which depreciated the husband of the new bride. Sweetly she said, "For your sake, for your sake, you who have to live with him for a few days only, you that have to pass with him a week or so, for your sake I will not play the child's part to break with the bridegroom with whom I have to spend my whole life."
Similarly, all these worldly ties, worldly relations, worldly connections will not last for ever. You have to spend your whole life with the true Self, that is Eternal, you cannot break with it. For the sake of this fleeting present, you should not break with the true Self.
MORAL: Our connection with the Eternal or the true Self should not be broken for the sake of the fleeting or the worldly things.