PARABLES OF RAMA - Hindu Online

Parables of Ramabody, into the quarantine of your little self. How canthat real Self, that Emperor of the Universe, forgethis old habits? How can he give up his nature?Nobody is capable of shaking off his own nature.Nobody can jump out of his own nature. So theAtman, the True Self, the real Reality in you,—howcan that give up its nature? You have confined thatin prison, but even in the prison it wants to possessthe whole world, because it has been possessing thewhole; it cannot give up its old habits. If you wishthis ambitious spirit, the avarice should be shakenoff, if you desire that the people in this world shouldgive up this ambitious nature, could you preach tothem to give it up? Impossible!MORAL:—People are ambitious because theycannot go against the all possessing nature of thesoul or true selfVol. 1 (87-88)25