"When have worldly people time to think of God? A man wanted to engage a pundit who could explain the Bhagavata to him. His friend said: I know of an excellent pundit. But there is one difficulty: he does a great deal of farming. He has four ploughs and eight bullocks and is always busy with them; he has no leisure.' Thereupon the man said: 'I don't care for a pundit who has no leisure. I am not looking for a Bhagavata scholar burdened with ploughs and bullocks. I want a pundit who can really expound the sacred book to me.'
BLOGGER'S VIEWS
*Should all pandits sit on lazy couches and speak 24/7/365?
*A genuine seeker would have gone behind the pandit to the fields, running with the ploughs and bullocks and learnt both Bhagavata and tilling! The pandit could become a scholar of Bhagavata in spite of being engaged in tilling unlike Ramakrishna who was just an empty talker and talker!
*Ramakrishna had 24 hours time to spend on Gods and Goddesses eating luchis and sweets, while others pay for his luchis, his building rents and cart hires.
*Why Ramakrishna did not do farming?
*What could be more sacred than farming?
Here it will be relevant to quote from Gitanjali of Rabindranath Tagore:
Leave this chanting and singing and telling of beads! Whom dost thou worship in this lonely dark corner of a temple with doors all shut? Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee!
He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the pathmaker is breaking stones. He is with them in sun and in shower, and his garment is covered with dust. Put of thy holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil!
Deliverance? Where is this deliverance to be found? Our master himself has joyfully taken upon him the bonds of creation; he is bound with us all for ever.
Come out of thy meditations and leave aside thy flowers and incense! What harm is there if thy clothes become tattered and stained? Meet him and stand by him in toil and in sweat of thy brow.
1 comment:
its definitely more appreciable to posses both the knowledge of ploughing and reading bhagavat,but being well versed in suchlike issues u must be aware that if an individual truly attain to enlightment he cannot bear to engage in any mundane material activities any more.why do we till soil etc?to earn for a living,isnt it?then is it possible for one who have actually felt dat this world is an illusion n temporary to perform bread earning chores?to do dat would amount to hypocrisy.wat is meant by ramakrishna is dat one should try to hear about god from such a person who have seen god,rather than one who have merely gulped up some scriptures.remember the parrot of rabindranath's 'tota kahini'?try n get in the spirit of the sayings rather than dissecting at it.
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