Even after the attainment of Knowledge this 'I-consciousness' comes up, nobody knows from where.
You dream of a tiger. Then you awake; but your heart keeps on palpitating! All our suffering is due to this 'I'.
The cow cries, 'Hamba!', which means 'I'. That is why it suffers so much. It is yoked to the plough and made to work in rain and sun. Then it may be killed by the butcher. From its hide shoes are made, and also drums, which are mercilessly, beaten. (Laughter)
Still it does not escape suffering. At last strings are made out of its entrails for the bows used in carding cotton. Then it no longer says, 'Hamba! Hamba!', 'I! I!' but 'Tuhu! Tuhu!', 'Thou! Thou!'. Only then are its troubles over.
O Lord, I am the servant; Thou art the Master.
I am the child; Thou art the Mother.
You dream of a tiger. Then you awake; but your heart keeps on palpitating! All our suffering is due to this 'I'.
The cow cries, 'Hamba!', which means 'I'. That is why it suffers so much. It is yoked to the plough and made to work in rain and sun. Then it may be killed by the butcher. From its hide shoes are made, and also drums, which are mercilessly, beaten. (Laughter)
Still it does not escape suffering. At last strings are made out of its entrails for the bows used in carding cotton. Then it no longer says, 'Hamba! Hamba!', 'I! I!' but 'Tuhu! Tuhu!', 'Thou! Thou!'. Only then are its troubles over.
O Lord, I am the servant; Thou art the Master.
I am the child; Thou art the Mother.
- Gospel
of Sri Ramakrishna, P 105
(August 5, 1882)
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