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 210 - Miraculous horn
An important condition for success in life is spiritual love. This will be illustrated by a legend of the king of Norway. He kept a horn in his room, the cavity of which was filled with water. He made an announcement that he would give the whole of his kingdom to the man who would drink all the water in the horn. Most of the persons came to drink water but none could empty the horn.
Although that horn was very small to look at, yet it was connected with the ocean and this was why it could not be emptied. In the same way, although your bodies are very tiny to look at, yet they have got their inner and latent connection with God-the Ocean of all the oceans. The man, who keeps his contact with God alive and maintains his adhesion to the ultimate source of unlimited power, is endowed with unlimited strength. When you are all absorbed in God, you are nothing else but God, and God's determinations are always fulfilled. Hence all your ideas, which have their root embedded in your Inner Self, are sure to be crowned with success.