Words from the Master

A small story:

A Zen Master was walking with his disciple towards his city.
On the way, there was a river that was flowing.
There was a beautiful woman standing near it.
When she saw them, she requested the Master to help her cross the river.
The Master promptly carried her to the other side of the river, left her there and returned.
The disciple was totally disturbed by what he saw. He was burning inside with what he saw.
As they walked along towards the city, he couldn’t resist asking, “Master, how can you, as a Master, touch and carry a young girl?”
The Master replied, “I left her there long back, why are you still carrying her?”

(Laughter!)

Masters always answer the questioner who is asking the question, never the question itself. In this story, the Master could have as well explained his supreme state as a Master to the disciple and made him understand that it doesn’t matter to him whether it is a male or female who he carried. But he did not do that. He made the disciple understand that the block was in the disciple’s mind, not the Master’s act!

If you feel you cannot give up non-veg food without craving for it, eat until it drops on its own. Mind you, this does not mean that I am advocating non-vegetarian food. For my own life, body and mind, vegetarian food is conducive and so I eat it. If you wish to adopt my way of life, become vegetarian - that’s all!

But don’t give it up and crave for it, and torture other people also to give it up. We all take up small issues like vegetarianism and contemplate on it for hours together; that is the problem.

There are three categories under which you can fall:

First would be, not to eat non-vegetarian food and not to think about it. The second category would be, to eat it and forget about it. The third category would be, not to eat it yourself, but feel deprived and hence torture people around not to eat it as well! Please don’t fall in the third category, that’s all!

Yes…?

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.