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110/ Meditation and Enlightenment : Chandr Prabh
world are diverged from the white colour and are converged in it. You can experience it directly. The light of the sun is of white colour. But soon after the rain, when this light falls on the dewdrops or on the droplets of rain, then the attractive rainbow of seven colours begins to become visible. Likewise, make the light pass through a piece of prism in its image you would find the emergence of many colours.
Those who think of getting on just by eating the fruits fallen under the tree, they are entering, in the language of Mahavira, the 'Shukla leshya'. They are preparing to enter the order-cycle. Contrary to this, the person engaged in cutting-off the very root, he is in a state of unconsciousness, and is engaged in self-deceit.
Where there is attachment, unconsciousness, a person thinks only of striking at the root of what is in front of him. Tree is but a symbol. Man wants to cut-off the very leg of the other person. He becomes very bappy, if the other person becomes bankrupt, thinking-well, one more is gone. He gives a false consolation to his mind. This is what man has been doing, and this act of his bas not stopped; it is continuing. Man wants to cut-off others, uproot them.
I am giving an example. You can experience it too. Go near a tree and think in your mind. 'I would cut it down.' You would find the tree trembling only due to your thinking so. Why not it be so ? A tree is, after all, animate. You go on looking at the beauty of a flower, but as soon as you would think : ‘I would pluck this flower', the entire flower-plant would become sensitive. The leaves would begin to wither automatically. Those who have studied Darwin and Basu deeply, they can understand that if you just think in your mind, that mere thinking of yours would make the plant shudder.
When I was travelling in Tamilnadu, I once saw that some vultures were biting-off the flesh of some carcass. We were quite far away. All of a sudden, two boys came running from behind us. They caught hold of a vulture. Those boys writhed the neck of the vulture, peeled off its feathers, and began to chew its flesh
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