THE GREAT REVELATION
A Guru promised a scholar a revelation of greater con sequence than anything contained in the scriptures.
When the scholar eagerly asked for it,
the Guru said, “Go out into the rain and raise your head and arms heavenward.
That will bring you the first revelation.”
The next day the scholar came to report:
“I followed your advice and water flowed down my neck, and I felt like a perfect fool.”
“Well.” said the Guru, “for the first day that’s quite a revelation, isn’t it?”
The poet Kabir says:
What good is it if the scholar pores over words and points of this and that but his chest is not soaked dark with love?
What good is it if the ascetic clothes himself in saffron robes but is colourless within?
What good is it if you scrub your ethical behaviour till it shines, but there is no music inside?
Disciple: What’s the difference between knowledge and enlightenment?
Master: When you have knowledge you use a torch to show the way.
When you are enlightened you become a torch.
THE PRAYER OF THE FROG PART 1
Anthony de Mello
