SRIMAD BHAGAVAD-GITA SLOKA
CHAPTER ONE
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Sanskrit:
Drstva tu pandavanikam vyudham duryodhanastada
Acaryamupasangamya raja vacanamabravit
English:
Sanjaya said: At that time, seeing the army of the Pandavas drawn up for
battle and approaching Dronacarya, King Duryodhana spke the following words
SRI RAMAKRISHNA STORY
UNFORTUNATE IT IS TO BE SEIZED BY
A WATER-SNAKE
ONE day as I was passing the Panchavati on my
way to the pine-grove, I heard a bullfrog croaking.
I thought it must have been seized by a snake.
After sometime, as I was coming back, I could still
hear its terrified croaking. I looked to see what was
the matter, and found that a water-snake had
seized it. The snake could neither swallow it nor
give it up. So there was no end to the frog's
suffering. 1 thought that had it been seized by a
cobra it would have been silenced after three
croaks at the most. As it was only a water-snake,
both of them had to go through this agony.
A man's ego is destroyed after three croaks, as it
were, if he gets into the clutches of a real teacher.
But if the teacher is an 'unripe' one, then both the
teacher and the disciple undergo endless suffering.
The disciple cannot get rid cither of his ego or of
the shackles of the world. If a disciple falls into the
clutches of an incompetent teacher, he does not
attain liberation.
Tales and Parables of Sri Ramakrishna
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
FAITH AND STRENGTH
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
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