Train Out of Cicero
This story takes you around the world, beginning in 1969 with my hopping a Train out of Cicero on the outskirts of Chicago, Illinois and an encounter with an angry hobo; to a tale about how to act in the face of aggression as told by Sri Ramakrishna, the great saint of Calcutta, India, telling of a snake and a sadhu and how to act in the face of aggression. Here are words, pictures and a recorded narration with music and sound effects. Every page holds a separate recording and at the end of the page, simply click to flip to the next one and the narration and music will continue. If you desire to listen to the story and wonderful music as a whole, without the breaks of the different pages, you will find on the very last page, the embed of the complete story and music: Train out of Cicero Music: Spann's Stomp, by Otis Spann, 1924-1970, the greatest Blues piano player of all time. The music on the final page music is from a live performance by: Anoushka Shankar, Bhairavi Raga
This story takes you around the world, beginning in 1969 with my hopping a Train out of Cicero on the outskirts of Chicago, Illinois and an encounter with an angry hobo; to a tale about how to act in the face of aggression as told by Sri Ramakrishna, the great saint of Calcutta, India, telling of a snake and a sadhu and how to act in the face of aggression. Here are words, pictures and a recorded narration with music and sound effects.
Every page holds a separate recording and at the end of the page, simply click to flip to the next one and the narration and music will continue. If you desire to listen to the story and wonderful music as a whole, without the breaks of the different pages, you will find on the very last page, the embed of the complete story and music: Train out of Cicero
Music: Spann's Stomp, by Otis Spann, 1924-1970, the greatest Blues piano player of all time.
The music on the final page music is from a live performance by:
Anoushka Shankar, Bhairavi Raga
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About a year later the saint came that way again and asked<br />
after the snake. The cowherd boys told him that it was dead.<br />
But he didn't believe them. He knew that the snake would not<br />
die before attaining the fruit <strong>of</strong> the holy word with which it had<br />
been initiated. He went out into the fields and searching here<br />
and there, called the snake by the name he had given it. And<br />
hearing his Guru's voice, the snake came out <strong>of</strong> its hole and<br />
bowed before him with great reverence. "How are you?" asked<br />
the saint.<br />
"I am well, sir", replied the snake.<br />
"But", the teacher asked, "Why are you so thin?"<br />
The snake replied,"Revered sir, you ordered me not to harm<br />
anybody. So I have been living on leaves and fruit. Perhaps that<br />
has made me thinner." The snake had developed the quality <strong>of</strong><br />
sattva or purity; it could not be angry with anyone and it had<br />
totally forgotten that the cowherd boys had almost killed it.<br />
The saint said, "It can't be mere want <strong>of</strong> food that has reduced<br />
you to this state. There must be some other reason. Think a<br />
little."<br />
And then the snake remembered that the boys had dashed it<br />
against the tree and it said, "Yes, now I remember. The boys<br />
held me by my tail and dashed me violently against the tree.<br />
They are ignorant after all. They didn't realize what a great<br />
change had come over my mind. How could they know I<br />
wouldn't bite or harm anyone?"<br />
And the saint exclaimed, "What a shame! You are such a fool!<br />
You don't know how to protect yourself.<br />
"But, Guruji" , the snake protested, "you told me not to harm<br />
anybody.”
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