PARROTING

  I have started doing some stories  and the moral conclusion out of it. I did one with Lord Krishna . Now I will do one that I heard about and it may or may not be true. I am sure some of you might have heard of the story ,but never thought it had some educational value.
  This is a story of Einstein. When he had published the theory of the relativity, he became very famous  and every university and every association wanted to call him and give a lecture . He was not very happy ,but he had to go for lectures . He was getting bored . So one day he had was invited for the lecture. He  was going to the place  and his driver was driving. He did not need to prepare for the lecture as he had given same lecture many times and he knew the subject as he was the one that had the theory published. So he was talking to his driver. The driver had also attended the lectures in the past  and he was smart . So when Einstein state that he was just tired of giving the same lecture over and again, he suggested that they can change the cloths  and Einstein can become the driver and driver can give lecture. Einstein agreed . They changed the clothes  and now Einstein was wearing the driver's uniform . When they reached the place , the driver went in as Einstein and gave the lecture. He had heard it many times  and he could rattle out the same words again without understanding anything.
    The lecture was over  and the driver was trying to get off the stage as he did not not the real thing . But the moderator wanted to have some Q and A session. So he asked if anyone had questions . One from the audience stood up and asked a question . The driver had stop and stay in his chair . He had no understanding of the subject  and so it was beyond his ability to answer  any questions . He was in trouble , but he was smart  and he stood up  and said .'The question is so simple that even my driver could answerer it ' and called his driver - Einstein ,from the audience.
   Let us for a second leave aside the possibility of such a thing really happening . Not very likely .But we do it all the time . We give comments based on what we have heard from experts  and we have not understood much . But it sounds good  and we can remember the answers. We do this all the time when we talk about the scriptures . We don't always understand nor we we follow the path. But we are ready to TEACH the others , only because we can remember and talk like parrot. 

THE DEVOTION

    To continue in this blog, I have decided to tell some stories that have some moral element to it  and these may be related to scriptures or otherwise. so let me start the first one with Lord KRISHNA.
    When Krishna was born . his parents were jailed  and the King Kaunsa was aware of the fact that the child born to his sister will kill him. But when Krishna was born, there was heavy rains  and river Yamuna was flooded. His father Vasudev decided to take the child out of jail . He was not too sure as to how he could do it . He put a child in a basket  and then the guards went in deep sleep and the jail doors open on own and then when he went to the river Yamuna , Krishna touched the water with little toe  and the river parted . He was taken to GOKOOL  and the new set of parents did the upbringing . They did not have  any child of own and they wanted to do big ceremony for KRISHNA . But they knew that the King Kaunsa will know so they did smaller ceremony. The priest performed the religious function and he then did shower in the river and had cooked his own food and then sat  and offered the food to the LORD / GOD . When he opened his eyes he saw baby Krishna eating the food . He was upset . He called the mother Yashoda  and told her to control the child  and did whole process again . Sower, cooking and then offering the food to Lord . He had closed his eyes  and the when he opened them he saw same thing , Krishna was eating food . He was locked in room and he still got out  and messed the food . The priest did this third time  and the same time happened.
      This time he REALIZED that he was offering the food to GOD/ LORD  and was not expecting that the LORD / GOD would eat it . But KRISHNA was the GOD and when offered, he was EATING the food .
      We often offer the Lord food -PRASAD . We always offer what WE like . We never for a second think that HE WOULD EAT IT . We decide the quantity based on how many guests we have invited ,not on how much God would like. We don't expect that GOD IS ACTUALLY GOING TO EAT IT..
We do not have FAITH in our own prayers  and devotions. So when the food is gone we are surprised  and this is the problem .We do religious ceremony for our own satisfaction and we do have unconditional love faith .
                                                WE NEED TO HAVE THAT!!!

ADDITION

    I have been writing on this Blog on Patanjali Sutra Yoga  and i have come to end .
I just wanted to let you know that I have started on KATHOPNISHAD IN MY NEW BLOG
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   I have also done a book on Patanjali Sutra Yoga which is available at Amazon books as E book as well as print form. It is little different than the Blog itself .
    I hope you will check it out , Thanks