Pela primeira vez, fazemos uma postagem em inglês, uma tentativa; depois de traduzí-la, será oferecida em português:
as he was intent upon his aim to shoot a bird
above. Dattatreya saluted him, saying, `You are my Guru! Though killing the
bird is bad, keeping your aim so steadfast in shooting the arrow as to ignore
my query is good, thereby teaching me that I should keep my mind steadfast and
fixed on Ishwara. You are therefore my Guru.' In the same way he looked upon
everything as his Guru, till in the end he said that his physical body itself
was a Guru, as its consciousness does not exist during sleep and the body that
does not exist should therefore not be confused with the soul -- dehatmabhavana
(the feeling that the body is the soul). Therefore
that too was a Guru for him. While he looked upon the whole world as his Guru,
the whole world worshipped him as its Guru. It is the same with Ishwara. He who
looks upon the whole universe as Ishwara, is himself worshipped by the universe
as Ishwara -- yadbhavam tadbhavathi (`as you conceive you become') What we are,
so is the world. There is a big garden. When a cuckoo comes to the garden it
will search the mango tree for fruit while the crow will only search the neem
tree. The bee searches for flowers to gather honey, while the flies search for
the faeces. He who searches for the salagrama (small holy stone) will pick it
up, pushing aside all the other stones. That salagrama is in the midst of a
heap of ordinary stones. The good is recognised because evil also coexists.
Light shines because darkness exists. Ishwara is there, only if illusion
exists. He who seeks the essence, is satisfied if he finds one good thing among
a hundred. He rejects the ninety-nine and accepts the one that is good, feeling
satisfied that with that one thing he could conquer the world. His eye will
always be on that single good thing.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi