The Concealed Fish

Anecdotes

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By Staff

Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 17:51

Saints had their own way of teaching. An earnest aspirant with a keen eye to blossom within grasps the subtle meaning of the teachings. Sometimes instructions comes camouflaged in their actions that unravels on reflection and contemplation.

Ezhuthachan, a great saint and author once went into a temple with a few fish concealed on his body. The authorities on finding the hidden fish presented him to the King. On enquiry by the king, the saint replied that he was not to be blamed as he had the fish carefully concealed. The fault lay in exposing them. The saint further said that excreta when within the body is not considered filthy. It is taken as filth only when it is exposed. So also with the fish that was exposed.

Did He mean to say that when the mind is merged in the self, suffering is nonexistent .and when it emerges from the self to be exposed with identification, trouble sets in?

The ways of saints to deliver mankind from the maze of mind.