Belief, Disbelief and Beyond.......
Once a sage was passing by a village. He had a box with him, which he entrusted to one villager saying “this box contains five gold coins please keep it till I return”. The sage then left. After a while another man came along and saw the villager with the box. He enquired what was in it. To this the villager replied, “This box has five gold coins”. The man replied, “How do you know? What is the logic behind your belief?” The villager replied, “The person who gave me this box is a great person, and I believe what he said to be true.” The second man disagreed, and said, “I do not believe so, how would you know?” While the two men were in conversation yet another man stopped by, and enquired. The first villager narrated the incident and said. “The sage is a great man and I believe what he said to be true, but this person here refuses to believe him. What do you say?”
To this the third villager replied, “I do not know. But there is one way…lets see for ourselves and open the box and we shall see what is”
The first villager is a believer, who simply believes not willing to see for himself. The second a disbeliever, firm in his disbelief. The third person is a sincere seeker who neither believes nor disbelieves but has the courage to experience it.
Doubt is integral in any belief or disbelief. Experience, paves the way for knowledge and knowledge destroys doubt.
A Master does not encourage belief or disbelief but points the way to experience the Truth for oneself.
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5 comments:
Supah story! Yes Kichenette I have not been around surfing blogs for a long time because my internet connection was going through some change. Now the situation is better and gives this spider the time to play around on the world wide web!
Dear Swahilya,
Thank you and really glad to see you back on the net
A real Master teaches you "fishing" and not just supplying the fishes. belief is indeed primarily required to experience the beyondness too.
Dear Merging Point:
Belief is indeed a stepping stone, but to remain there, and gloryfing being a 'believer', is what happens to many a seeker. To have the courage to look ahead..to go 'fishing' is to move on the spiritual path.
Dear Merging Point:
Belief is indeed a stepping stone, but to remain there, and gloryfing being a 'believer', is what happens to many a seeker. To have the courage to look ahead..to go 'fishing' is to move on the spiritual path.
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