Light Of Life

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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possessed a rich experience of life; so it remained silent. It is the nature of an experienced one, to remain silent. Such a jiva would speak only when there is necessity. But the second frog was such that, it could not remain silent. It said, "How fortunate we are, to be thus saved from being drowned and washed away. When the whole city is plunged in water, we have escaped death". It also said, "How beautifully this log of wood is floating on the water and moving. We will certainly reach our destination". The third frog raised an objection and said, "Dear friend, You are wrong. The log is not moving. Actually, it is the water that is flowing". "Your opinion is wrong. We have to think about the matter a little deeply', said the second Frog.
The third Frog said, "You are wrong. This is a very strange matter and we have to think about it deeply. You must accept what I say as the truth. I tell you actually the log is not moving. It is the water that is flowing". The second one said, “This is a serious problem. Your opinion also is worthy of being given deep consideration. What you say is true, but what I said is not wrong". Thus a controversy arose between the two frogs. The fourth Frog had delved into the depths of yogdarshan expounded by Patanjali. It was profoundly mystical and philosophical and it always looked at the world from its own point of view. It did not possess a lofty point of view. So it said at once, "Both of you are wrong. You do not understand the truth at all. Neither the water nor the log of wood is moving. Actua. lly, we are flowing and moving, by ourselves. The great exponent of the Yogdarshan, Patanjali has said that we are flowing and moving; that there is a stream flowing through our minds; that the mind itself is a liquid which always keeps flowing and we are floating on the tide of that flood. Neither the river nor the log is moving. It is we that are flowing and moving by ourselves".
Those three Frogs thus obstinately stuck to their respective points of view. The first frog saw that a terrible
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