Parable of The Boy Who Could Not Tell The Time
A man asked a boy: "Little one, tell me what the time is now."
"Uncle, I cannot read the clock."
"I see; for how long have you been ignorant of this?"
The boy was silent; he could not answer this question. "God knows, uncle." He replied and kept mum.
Some intellectually proud people question the simple saints: "Since when has Avidya been veiling the Truth? Or, when did Avidya originate?" These questions are unanswerable; they are transcendental questions. The little mind cannot answer them. Silence is the answer. "God only knows."
Parable Of The Bird And The Cotton-Fruit
A bird has its nest on the branch of a cotton-tree. Near the nest there was an unripe fruit. Every day it would look at it and think: "Let it ripen; then I will eat it. It waited and waited. Suddenly one day, even as it was eagerly looking, the fruit burst and its content flew away! The bird was sorely disappointed.
A young man thinks that when he grew old he would practise Sadhana. Days roll by. Suddenly one fine morning life departs from the body. He had spent his life in vain.
Therefore, take time by the forelock; do it now.
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