A small story:
A young sannyasi lived across the road from a beautiful courtesan.
The sannyasi was all the time trying to meditate.
The courtesan on the other hand carried on with her way of earning money.
Many men came and went from her house.
The sannyasi used to try his best to concentrate on his meditation, but his attention was more on the young woman and he kept cursing her for the kind of immoral life that she was leading.
The courtesan on the other hand was not even aware of the sannyasi staying across the street.
Despite her lifestyle of offering pleasure to men, the courtesan was immersed in her love for Lord Krishna and spent as much time as she could in praying to Him and playing with His image.
The sannyasi and the courtesan died on the same day and reached the gates of Lord Yama – the Lord of death.
After their records were analysed, the courtesan was sent to heaven while the sannyasi was sent to hell.
The sannyasi expressed deep feelings about the unfairness of the whole justice of Yama.
Yama calmly explained to the sannyasi: “All your life, under the guise of meditating, you were harboring lust for the courtesan. She, on the other hand, despite whatever she was doing, was totally focused on the reality of God.”
Moralists live a superficial, fearing and shallow life. They don’t live totally. They are in constant fear of stepping out of morality. Their true intentions are kept well covered under the guise of morality. That is the problem when you simply operate out of moral codes instead of your inner intelligence.
When you operate from your intelligence, there will be a certain purity in you. When you operate simply from the periphery, from moral codes, there will be no beauty or purity in you.
Those who are afraid and unsure of themselves, set up moral codes and follow them. Those who are intelligent, just act spontaneously and do the right things with a deep centering and no fear, that’s all.
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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.
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