A
MUSSALMAN, while saying his prayers,
shouted:
"O Allah! O Allah!" Another person said
to him:
"You are calling on Allah. That's all right.
But why
are you shouting like that? Don't you
know that
He hears the sound of the anklets on the
feet of an
ant?"
When the
mind is united with God, one sees him
very near,
in one's own heart. But you must
remember
one thing. The more you realize this
unity, the
farther your mind is withdrawn from
worldly
things. There is the story of Vilwamangal
in the
Bhaktamala. He used to visit a prostitute.
One night
he was very late in going to her house.
He had
been detained at home by the Sraddha
ceremony
of his father and mother. In his hands he
was
carrying the food offered in the ceremony, to
feed his
mistress. His whole soul was so set upon
the woman
that he was not at all conscious of his
movements.
He did not
even know how he was walking. There
was a Yogi
seated on the path, meditating on God
with his
eyes closed. Vilwamangal stepped on him.
The yogi
became angry, and cried out: "What? Are
you blind?
I have been thinking of God and you
step on my
body!" "I beg your pardon" said
Vilwamangal,
"but may I ask you something? I
have been
unconscious, thinking of a prostitute,
and you
are conscious of the outer world though
thinking
of God. What kind of meditation is that?"
In the end
Vilwamangal renounced the world and
went away
in order to worship God. He said to the
prostitute:
'You are my Guru. You have taught me
how one
should yearn for God." He addressed the
prostitute
as his mother and gave her up
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