Thursday, June 28, 2012

Thought for the Day - 28th June 2012 (Thursday)


For food to taste good, you need to add salt to it. But only when you place a morsel of the food on your tongue you get to know if it has enough salt in it or not. So too only when you have moved about in the world and participated in its activities abiding by a moral code, you discover that, without the salt of jnana (wisdom), it does not taste good; if you take it with a pinch of this salt - the knowledge that you are not the body but the Indweller, that you are but the witness of the ever-changing panorama of Nature - then you will be happy and peaceful.

Agar makanan terasa enak, engkau perlu menambahkan garam ke dalamnya. Tetapi hanya jika engkau menempatkan sepotong makanan di lidahmu, baru engkau mengetahui makanan tersebut telah cukup garam atau tidak. Demikian juga, jika engkau telah bergerak dari duniawi dan berpartisipasi dalam kegiatan-kegiatan yang mematuhi kode moral, engkau akan menemukan bahwa  tanpa garam jnana (kebijaksanaan), maka tidak akan terasa enak, jika engkau mengambil sejumput garam ini – yaitu pengetahuan bahwa engkau bukanlah badan jasmani tetapi Indweller, bahwa engkau hanyalah saksi panorama Alam yang selalu berubah - maka engkau akan merasakan kebahagiaan dan kedamaian.
-BABA

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