The father was pleased and said to him: “My child, you have understood a little of Brahman. What Its cannot be expressed in words.” NEITHER ‘YES’ NOR ‘NO!’
The husband of a young girl has come to his father-in-law’s house and is seated in the drawing-room with other young men of his age. The girl and her friends are looking at them through the window. Her friends do not know her husband and ask her, pointing to one young man, “Is that your husband?” “No” she answers, smiling. They point to another young men and ask if he is her husband. Again, she answers, “No.” They repeat the question, referring to a third, and she gives the same answer. At last they point to her husband and ask, “Is he the one?” She says neither yes nor no, but only smiles and keeps quiet. Her friends realize that he is her husband. One becomes silent on realizing the true nature of Brahman. THE KING AND THE MAGICIAN
As you go nearer to God you see less and less of His upadhis, His attributes. A devotee at first may see the Deity as the ten-armed Divine Mother; When he goes nearer, he sees her possessed of six arms; still nearer, he sees the Deity as the two-armed Gopala. The nearer he comes to the Deity, the fewer attributes he sees. At last, when he comes into the presence of the Deity, he sees only Light without any attribute. Listen a little to the Vedantic reasoning. A magician came to a king to show his magic. When the magician moved away a little, the king saw a rider on horse-back approaching him. He was brilliantly arrayed and had various weapons in his hands. The king and the audience began to reason out what was real in the phenomenon before them. Evidently the horse was not real, nor the robes nor the amours. At last they found out beyond the shadow of a doubt that the rider alone was there. The significance of this