'NETHI' ( NOT THIS)- 'NETHI' ( NOT THIS)- 'NETHI' ( NOT THIS)- A ZEN story.
One day a zen disciple approached his master and asked him: Sir, I have disowned everything that I have got. Now I am here in front of you, the ultimate renouncer.
Master:OK. But you have to renounce, the very idea of renunciation also and finally the renouncer too.
Disciple: But, master I have told you , I have nothing else to renounce.
Master: Then hold on to that 'nothingness'.
Moral of the story
Renouncing one`s possessions alone cannot be absolute renunciation. Even the thought of renunciation is a bondage. Renouncement of the renouncer ( The EGO ) is the ultimate renunciation. Then all paraphernalia will take care of itself and the self will shine forth in all it`s splendour, as TRUTH, CONSCIOUSNESS and BLISS, resulting in 'Self-Realization' and Sahaja - Samadhi.
~Swaathmaaraaman
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