|
sleepy
zZzZzZzZz


Registered: 01/17/05
Posts: 3,888
Loc:
|
Thief and The Merchant, a Story Told by Anandamayi Ma
#5967658 - 08/15/06 09:15 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
"A wealthy merchant went on a business trip. A thief in the disguise of a businessman joined him, intent on robbing him at the earliest suitable occasion. Every morning, before leaving the inn which they happened to have put up for the night, the merchant would count his money quite openly and then put it into his pocket. At night the merchant went to sleep seemingly without suspicion. While he was asleep the thief would frantically search through all the belongings of the merchant without being able to find the money. After several nights of frustrating searching, the thief finally in resignation confessed to the merchant his true intention and pleaded with him to tell him how he was able to hide his money so successfully. The merchant replied casually: "I knew from the very beginning what you were up to. So, every night I placed the money under YOUR pillow. I could safely sleep, knowing full well that that would be the one place where you would never look.
God is within everyone, but man goes out in search of Him. This is what constitutes God's Play and God's Creation." From the book: Life and Teaching of Sri Anadama
also Here http://www.cosmicharmony.com/Sp/AnandMM/Mataji.htm
|
Cracka_X
Spiritual Dirt Worshipper



Registered: 01/25/03
Posts: 8,808
Loc: Swamp
|
Re: Thief and The Merchant, a Story Told by Anandamayi Ma [Re: sleepy]
#5968199 - 08/16/06 12:10 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
i like the story...
interesting site.
-------------------- The best way to live is to be like water For water benefits all things and goes against none of them It provides for all people and even cleanses those places a man is loath to go In this way it is just like Tao ~Daodejing
|
redgreenvines
irregular verb


Registered: 04/08/04
Posts: 37,534
|
Re: Thief and The Merchant, a Story Told by Anandamayi Ma [Re: Cracka_X]
#5968653 - 08/16/06 05:08 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
I predicted the ending. I often travel with business men you can't tell which are really thieves, but you can always trust a pillow.
--------------------
_ 🧠_
|
eve69
--=..Did Adam and ...?=--


Registered: 04/30/03
Posts: 3,910
Loc: isle de la muerte
Last seen: 24 days, 15 hours
|
Re: Thief and The Merchant, a Story Told by Anandamayi Ma [Re: redgreenvines]
#5968884 - 08/16/06 08:57 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
That's a really ignorant story. To think, that God would place something under someone's pillow, when all is God is really trite.
-------------------- ...or something
|
fireworks_god
Sexy.Butt.McDanger


Registered: 03/12/02
Posts: 24,855
Loc: Pandurn
Last seen: 1 year, 12 days
|
Re: Thief and The Merchant, a Story Told by Anandamayi Ma [Re: eve69]
#5969113 - 08/16/06 10:51 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Or an ignorant interpretation of the story. 
It obviously was not intended for any meaning to be direct and concrete.
 Peace.
--------------------
If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
|
leery11
I Tell You What!

Registered: 06/24/05
Posts: 5,998
Last seen: 8 years, 9 months
|
Re: Thief and The Merchant, a Story Told by Anandamayi Ma [Re: fireworks_god]
#5969618 - 08/16/06 02:22 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
curious. i was thinking he just had it in his pants, and he slept with his pants on.
that's a good way to do it. its a good message though.
-------------------- I am the MacDaddy of Heimlich County, I play it Straight Up Yo! ....I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow, to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human...... Om Namah Shivaya, I tell you What!
|
|