The Below Conversation between Swami and Prof.Anil Kumar is taken from www.saiwisdom.com... I asked Swami, "Swami, the speaker didn’t find time to clarify my doubts. He didn’t call for any question and answer session. I too have some doubts." Swami said, "What is the doubt?" I said "The doubt is this: The speaker mentioned three words – clay or mud, pot and the potter. But he has not said what they stand for. What is the clay? What is the pot? Who is the potter? What has it got to do with the Vedanta of dualism?". Swami said, "Clay or mud is the nature or five elements. Pot is the individual, all of us. We are made out of this nature. The body is out of earth. There’s space inside. There’s fire inside. All the five elements are there in every one of us. So, we are made of clay, nature. After death, the whole thing will go back to nature. So a pot is made out of clay. A pot you use again and again for years. When it falls, it breaks to pieces, again becomes clay, and again becomes pot. Pot, after breaking, becomes the clay once again. This is what we mean by birth and rebirth, the birth and death cycle. It gets repeated: clay-pot, pot-clay." "Swami, where is the end for that?" Swami said, "This pot has the name of a pot. This pot has a size. This pot has a lifetime, some period of existence between that period of its making and the period of its breaking, something like birth and death. Life is a span of time between birth and death. When once the pot forgets, gives up, the two, the name and form, it travels towards the Potter (the Creator, God, and Divine), which means man becomes one with God, Advaita, the merger, moksha, nirvana, liberation, birthlessness, deathlessness, immortal. This immortality is possible by giving up the name and form, so that the pot would become one with the Potter. If it remains in the state of name and form, it moves towards the clay. But so long as these two subsist, nama and rupa, the pot travels to the clay, towards nature, to continue the cycle of life and death." Sai Ram -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "saimsg" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
