you ready to abandon falsehood, to leave
knowledge and input provided in your wisdom, your own understanding.?
Naropa was a great scholar, a great scholar. This story happened before he
illuminate. It is said that he was the vice-chancellor of a great university
with ten thousand disciples of his own. One day he sat, surrounded by his disciples
. Around him were scattered thousands of
sacred texts, ancient and rare.
suddenly fell asleep and had a vision. Is so significant that
call would not be just a dream was a vision.
saw an old, horrible and ugly. Such was his ugliness began
Naropa tremble in your sleep ... She asked Naropa `What are you doing?`. He said
`` I am studying.
`What are you studying? 'Asked the old lady.
He said, 'Philosophy, religion, epistemology, language, logic ...' The old
asked, `Do you understand?` Naropa said, '... Yes, I understand'.
The old woman asked again: `Do you understand the words or meaning? 'and his eyes were
so pervasive that it was impossible to lie ... before their eyes
Naropa felt totally naked, transparent. ..
said: `I understand the words`.
The woman began to dance and laugh ... and its ugliness was transformed. A
subtle beauty began to emerge of his being.
Naropa thought, `I've been so happy, why not make it a bit more
Happy 'Then he said:` Yes, and I understand the meaning `. The woman left
to laugh, stopped dancing. Began to lament and mourn, and all its ugliness
reappeared, a thousand times worse. Naropa asked: `Why?
The woman said: `I was happy that a great scholar like you did not lie.
But now I cry because I've lied. I know, and you know, you do not understand the meaning
`.
The vision disappeared and became Naropa. He left the university, never more touched
a sacred text in his life. He understood ...
A man of wisdom, a man of understanding, has a freshness that
surrounding it, a fragrant life, totally different from that of a scholar, that of
a man of knowledge. One who understands the meaning becomes beautiful, the
that only understands the words becomes ugly. And the woman was only a projection
inside Naropa, his own being, which turned ugly for
knowledge.
Naropa began his search. The sacred texts are no longer useful, now
need a living Master.
Yoga: The Alpha and The Omega
Vol. 5, pp. 51-53
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