Adi Sankara was walking through the market place with his
disciples. They saw a man dragging a cow by a rope. Sankara told the man to
wait and asked his disciples to surround them. “I am going to teach you
something” and continued...
“Tell me who is bound to whom? Is the cow bound to this man
or the man is bound to the cow?
The disciples said
without hesitation “Of course the cow is bound to the man!. The man is the
master. He is holding the rope. The cow has to follow him wherever he goes. The
man is the master and the cow is the slave.”
“Now watch this”, said Sankara and took a pair of scissors
from his bag and cut the rope. The cow ran away from the master and the man ran
after his cow. “Look, what is happening”, said Sankara.
“Do you see who the Master is? The cow is not at all
interested in this man. The cow in fact, is trying to escape from this man.”
This is the case with our mind.
Like the cow, all
the non-sense that we carry inside is not interested in us. We are interested
in it, we are keeping it together somehow or the other. We are going crazy
trying to keep it all together under our control.
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