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    Analogies Isopanisad

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    The document provides several analogies from scriptures to illustrate spiritual concepts: - The Vedas are compared to a mother who can answer questions beyond one's experience. - Living beings disconnected from the complete whole cannot be fully satisfied, like a severed hand. - Communists and capitalists claiming ownership without recognizing God is like stealing property. - The human body crossing the material world is likened to a boat navigating an ocean with scriptures as boatmen. - The Supreme Lord's energies are compared to the heat and light from a fire that can reach everywhere from one place.

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    The document provides several analogies from scriptures to illustrate spiritual concepts: - The Vedas are compared to a mother who can answer questions beyond one's experience. - Living beings disconnected from the complete whole cannot be fully satisfied, like a severed hand. - Communists and capitalists claiming ownership without recognizing God is like stealing property. - The human body crossing the material world is likened to a boat navigating an ocean with scriptures as boatmen. - The Supreme Lord's energies are compared to the heat and light from a fire that can reach everywhere from one place.

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    The document provides several analogies from scriptures to illustrate spiritual concepts: - The Vedas are compared to a mother who can answer questions beyond one's experience. - Living beings disconnected from the complete whole cannot be fully satisfied, like a severed hand. - Communists and capitalists claiming ownership without recognizing God is like stealing property. - The human body crossing the material world is likened to a boat navigating an ocean with scriptures as boatmen. - The Supreme Lord's energies are compared to the heat and light from a fire that can reach everywhere from one place.

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    Analogies Isopanisad

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    Sri Isopanishad : Analogies

    Sruti is considered to be like a mother.


    We take so much knowledge from our mother.
    For example, if you want to know who your father is,
    who can answer you? Your mother. … Similarly, if you want to know something beyond
    your experience,
    beyond your experimental knowledge, beyond the activities of the senses, then you
    have to accept the Vedas.

    The hand of a body is a complete unit only as long as it is attached to the


    complete body.
    When the hand is severed from the body, it may appear like a hand, but it actually
    has none
    of the potencies of a hand. Similarly, living beings are part and parcel of the
    Complete Whole,
    and if they are severed from the Complete Whole, the illusory representation of
    completeness cannot fully satisfy them.

    The capitalists cannot curb the communists simply by political maneuvering,


    nor can the communists defeat the capitalists simply by fighting for stolen bread.
    If they do not recognize the proprietorship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
    all the property they claim to be their own is stolen.

    The material world is sometimes compared to an ocean, and the human body is
    compared to
    a solid boat designed especially to cross this ocean. The Vedic scriptures and the
    äcäryas,
    or saintly teachers, are compared to expert boatmen, and the facilities of the
    human body
    are compared to favourable breezes that help the boat ply smoothly to its desired
    destination.
    If, with all these facilities, a human being does not fully utilize his life for
    self-realization,
    he must be considered ätma-hä, a killer of the soul.

    In the Visnu Purana, His potencies are compared to the heat and light that emanate
    from a fire.
    Although situated in one place, a fire can distribute its light and heat for some
    distance;
    similarly, the Absolute Personality of Godhead, although fixed in His
    transcendental abode,
    can diffuse His different energies everywhere.

    The living entities are qualitatively one with the Supreme Lord, just as the sparks
    of a
    fire are qualitatively one with the fire. Yet sparks are not fire as far as
    quantity is
    concerned, for the quantity of heat and light present in the sparks is not equal to
    that in fire.
    These qualities are present in minute quantity, for the living entity is but a
    minute part and
    parcel of the Supreme Whole. To use another example, the quantity of salt present
    in a drop is
    never comparable to the quantity of salt present in the complete ocean, but the
    salt present
    in the drop is qualitatively equal in chemical composition to all the salt present
    in the ocean.

    The advancement of learning by a godless people is as dangerous as a valuable jewel

    on the hood of a cobra. A cobra decorated with a valuable jewel is more dangerous
    than
    one not decorated. In the Hari-bhakti-sudhodaya (3.11.12), the advancement of
    education
    by a godless people is compared to decorations on a dead body.

    Sri Isopanishad points out that one who worships the demigods and attains to their
    material planets still remains in the darkest region of the universe. The whole
    universe
    is covered by the gigantic material elements; it is just like a coconut covered by
    a shell
    and half-filled with water. Since its covering is airtight, the darkness within is
    dense,
    and therefore the sun and the moon are required for illumination.

    The bona fide spiritual master cannot say that all paths lead to the same goal and
    that anyone can attain this goal by his own mode of worship of the demigods or of
    the Supreme or whatever. Any common man can very easily understand that a person
    can reach his destination only when he has purchased a ticket for that destination.
    A person who has purchased a ticket for Calcutta can reach Calcutta, but not
    Bombay.
    But the so-called spiritual masters say that any and all paths will take one to the
    supreme goal.

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