--- In [email protected], bbrigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From the new book by Keith Wallace, printed in the MUM Review: > > As part of the book's afterword, Dr. Morris tells the following story: > > "I remember a story that was told long ago about a sage. It is the > story of > a scorpion that goes into the Ganges and starts to drown, and then > the > sage > saves the scorpion and the scorpion stings the sage. Then the > scorpion > goes > back into the water and starts to drown again. Again, the sage goes > and > rescues the scorpion, and the scorpion stings. After a few times like > this, > the people looking on are saying, 'What kind of man is this?' And > they > ask > him, 'Why do you keep doing this, when the scorpion keeps stinging?' > And the > sage says, 'It is the scorpion's nature to sting, but it is my nature > to > save.'
A very similar version of this story is told in the movie "The Crying Game" which the prisoner of the IRA, played by Forrest Whittaker, relates to his IRA captor, played by Stephen Rae. > > "I think that this is just the story of Maharishi in the midst of > this > age, > which in India is called Kali Yuga, a time of darkness, violence, > stress, > and strain that has been going on these last 5,000 years or so. We > see > the > violence in the world � we see people like tigers pouncing � and > there > is no > point in our trying to persuade them not to be tigers, because that > is > their > nature. > > "But what Maharishi offers to those in this world who have a peaceful > heart, > who have a peaceful wish for the human race, is that they just take > up > this > knowledge, and put it in their schools and colleges and universities > for the > children to rise in peace. The result will be that all of this violent > nature that exists in the world will simply disappear. It will just > quietly > evaporate before our eyes. This is the chance that is before us > today � > to > change the destiny of our human race." To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
