When the Austrian Government was aware the Consul had taken the case in hand, it sent the prisoner on board an Austrian man-of-war in the harbor. He got word to the American Consul that he was detained, and the Consul demanded that he be set at liberty. He pleaded that he owed none that he was an American citizen. After some years he went back to Austria, and was apprehended by the authorities, and put into prison for evading military duty. In due time he took out his papers and became a full-fledged American citizen. Arriving in due time, they marched towards the Capital and demanded the surrender at once of the captive Englishman, and he was freed, because he was a citizen of England.Īn Austrian came to the United States. Ships were summoned, an army was at once gathered, and under the command of Lord Wollesly they set out for Abyssinia. Immediately the British Empire was at work - a work that meant business. He is afflicted in his body his friends are absent they have stripped him for the lash, when he asserts himself, and asks, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and he uncondemned?” When the Centurion hears this he goes to the Chief Captain, and says, “This man is a Roman better be careful what you do.” At once the Captain is much interested and he goes to the prisoner and asks him, “Art thou a Roman?” And I can see that little man straighten himself up, and, looking his questioner in the eye, he replies, “I am.” The Captain says, “With a great price obtained I this freedom.” But the prisoner shouts it out, “I was free born,” and as a freeman he goes forth after receiving due apologies.Īn Englishman was taken captive by Theodore of Abyssinia, and after a few months’ imprisonment he managed in some way to get word to England that he was detained a prisoner in the Capitol of Abyssinia, by Theodore the King. 2:19 - “Fellow citizens with the saints.”Ī little man, so we are told, stands in the presence of the representatives of the greatest political power on earth at that time. 3:20 - “Our citizenship is in heaven.”Įph. You simply remain loose and natural and improvement happens on its own accord, and changes follow, and you will be transfigured completely – but not by you.Phil. Relax! The whole of existence goes on, and goes so perfectly well why are you worried about yourself? There is no need to improve there is no need to change. Just be yourself and let things happen, whatsoever happens – whatsoever, unconditionally: good and bad, misery and happiness, life and death. What do you expect us to do?” I don’t expect anything. You simply give us sannyas and you never talk about discipline. People come to me and they ask, “Give us definite discipline. The whole world is going on without you: the rivers go to the sea, the stars move, the sun rises in the morning, the seasons follow each other, the trees grow and bloom and disappear, and the whole is going on without you – can’t you leave yourself loose and natural and move with the whole? This is sannyas for me. You are simply asked to be loose and natural be yourself and let things happen. ![]() Says Tilopa: …for Mahamudra is beyond all acceptance and rejection. Rejection and acceptance are both aspects of the same coin. Don’t reject! Of course it is right! Tilopa is right, accept!” And if you listen to this mind, again you are in the same trap. The mind follows you like a shadow wherever you go the mind says, “Okay, I am with you just as a help, a helper. But immediately the mind says, “Then okay, we accept.” The mind never leaves you alone. You cannot cut it – there is no possibility.ĭon’t reject. Your innermost being is of the nature of emptiness. If you try too much, your sword may break, but the emptiness will remain undivided you cannot cut it. How can you cut emptiness? Your sword will go through it it will remain undivided. But how will you cut your consciousness? How will you cut your innermost being? It is not substantial you cannot cut it, it is like emptiness. ![]() If your eyes go against you, you can throw them away if your hand commits a crime, you can cut it off if your legs lead you to sin, you can cut them off – because the body is not you, it is already separate, you can cut it. How can you cut the being? There is no sword that can cut the being. You can cut the body but you cannot cut the being because the being remains the whole. And when you reject part of yourself you will be in deep trouble because that part is yours that part is organically yours you cannot throw it out. Improve, transform, transmute, transfigure yourself!” The mind goes on saying again and again and again, “More is possible, more is still possible – do it!” Then rejection comes. You can polish here and there, and you can become pure gold. The mind always says, “You can reach higher.
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