The Salt Doll's Mission

Anecdotes

oi-Staff

By Staff

Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 10:42

A salt doll embarked on a mission to measure the depth of the ocean. It is was a mission impossible as once it touched the water, it melted away in it. Now there was nobody to report the depth of the ocean.

Brahman or the ultimate truth is beyond description as it eludes the very mind. In realizing the Brahman in samadhi one dissolves in it losing one's identity. Reason and the power to describe sink in the unfathomable depths of nothingness.

Thus all that aims to describe Brahman are mere pointers to it.