a tale of two doors
Found this in an old mail from last year while searching for something else, but thought its nice to post here…
Ramakrishna told about a corridor in a house, where
there were two doors at the end. On one of the doors
there was written “heaven”, on the other “lecture
about heaven”. When you looked at the floor in front
of both the doors, the floor in front of the door that
led into the lecture was worn through the varnish and
way down into the floor boards. In front of the other
door, the one to heaven, the varnish was as clean and
fresh as the day it was applied.
thanks sanjay, that was a very meaningful piece. sri ramakrishna’s life is full of such insights.