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There was a professional preacher who could rouse strong devotional feelings in the hearts of his hearers whenever he delivered religious discourses; but personally he was not a man of character.
Pained at the kind of life he led, I asked him one day how it was that he moved so many hears to devotion, while he himself lived such an unworthy life the man bowed and said ,”Yes, Sir, the broom though a contemptible thing , removes the dust and dirt on the floor and the street”.
Of course I couldn’t answer him.
–Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
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You need a proper Teacher!
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa adds one more anecdote to emphasise one must have a proper teacher.
One day I was going through the Panchavati, I heard the frightful croaking of a frog. I guessed it must have been caught by a snake. When after a long time I was returning by that way, I again heard the same noise. Peeping through the bushes, I saw a water snake with a frog in its mouth. It could neither swallow it nor let it go, and there was no end of agony for the frog.
Then I thought, “Well, had it been the victim of a cobra, it would have been silenced for ever after three croaks at the most (and then there would have been no more suffering for either the frog or the snake.). Bu here the snake’s suffering is almost equal to that of the frog’s. if an unenlightened man takes upon himself a foolhardiness the responsibility of saving another, there is no end to the misery of both. Neither does the ego of the disciple vanish, nor are his worldly ties cut asunder. If the disciple come under the influence of an unworthy teacher, he never gets liberation. But under a competent teacher the egotism of the Jiva perishes with three croaks.
–Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
–subham—
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