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In Search Of Truth
A man was on his mission in search of the truth. He met an old man who was sitting under a tree outside his village. He seemed to be the first religious person whom he encountered. On approaching him, he told him of his mission and asked him as to where he can find his true master and what his characteristics would be.
The old man's answer was simple. He explained that the seeker would find him sitting under a particular tree, in such and such posture with such and such gestures and said that was suffice to know the true master.
The
seeker
began
his
search
and
wandered
far
and
wide
for
the
master.
Thirty
years
passed
and
he
returned
to
his
own
village
meeting
failure
in
finding
the
true
master.
As
he
was
returning,
he
found
the
same
old
man
who
directed
him
thirty
years
back
with
the
descriptions
of
a
master.
To
his
amazement
he
found
the
same
old
man
who
directed
him,
with
himself
bearing
all
his
descriptions
of
a
true
master.
The
seeker
sensed
his
folly
and
fell
at
the
feet
of
the
old
master.
The seeker enquired, " Why did you not reveal yourself to me when I first met you? Why did you misdirect me thus to wander fruitlessly for thirty long years?"
The master replied, " I was very much here fitting myself exactly to all the descriptions that I gave you, sitting under this very tree. But just that you would not see me!"
The master pointed out, "You were more interested in searching than the very truth itself!"
He continued, " You were not ready to listen. You were not ready to come home without all your wanderings, that you knocked on different doors before you ultimately came here. Your mind lay in searching elsewhere than seeking me right here! You were not alert enough. Imagine my condition, waiting for you for thirty long years, trying to maintain my posture for your arrival, as I knew you would be coming! But what if I had passed away?!
Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi says that the master is the external representation of the ultimate truth which is one's own self. Hence He is ever present and ever available. Quite often we miss out 'the truth' which is ever present within us in seeking to know 'about the truth'. When one's attention is turned inwards, the truth shines there eternally, where the seeker merges with it in realisation.
The seeker in this short story misses the truth in his search by focusing his attention outwards in his wandering. At the end of the fruitless search he comes upon it when he turns 'homeward,' in his very 'own village'.
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