Story of leela Continued...
“I
want to see my husband,” the queen said.
When Lila
said she wanted to see her husband, she did not mean that she wanted to see the
old man. She wanted to see that form which was dead in a room in a different
place.
It so
happened that the old king who had just died in battle also had a queen, and by
chance her name was also Lila. This is a mystery which the Yoga Vasishtha does
not explain.
Then
Saraswati, the goddess, said, “Here is your husband. He has a queen like you,
and she resembles you. Her name is Lila.”
“Oh! I did
not expect that my husband would have another queen. I am the queen,” Lila
said.
Saraswati
replied, “In the relative cosmos, you cannot say ‘mine’. There is no ‘mine’,
and neither you nor anybody else has any interconnection. This interconnection
is a false operation of a dancing process of space and time, and you are
confused because you are attached to a particular relationship of space and
time.”
“Now, where
am I finally?” said the queen. “I want my husband.”
Immediately
Saraswati’s grace operated. She allowed the soul of the old king to enter the
corpse which Lila had covered with a cloth. The king got up, as if from a long
dream. He could not understand that he was ruling an empire in a different
space-time, and that he had waged a war and had died there. Nothing was known
to him. He simply shook himself and woke up.
Saraswati,
for whatever reason, also brought the second Lila back to the very room where
the king had died and re-entered his corpse, so now he had two queens.
Lila could
not understand this. “I don’t understand anything. Don’t make me mad!”
“No, you
will not be mad, by my grace. I am only trying to enlighten you,” Saraswati
said.
Then King
Padma ruled the kingdom once again, with two queens.
“I will tell
you something more,” said the goddess.
“Don’t tell
me anything more,” Lila said. “It is enough for me!”
“No, I want
to illumine you properly. The entire kingdom of thousands of miles that your
husband was ruling was actually inside the room of that Brahmin couple who
died.”
Lila said,
“The room was so small, approximately ten feet by twelve feet in that kingdom,
whereas my husband’s kingdom was thousands of miles.”
“Space-time
operations are mysterious. They can delude you into the belief of anything
whatsoever, and you will not know what is really happening. The large kingdom
of Padma was actually inside the room of the Brahmin couple, which was so
small.”
Saraswati
continued. “Now I shall go further. The large kingdom of the old king is inside
this room where your husband died.”
“Sufficient,”
Lila said. “I don’t want to hear anything more!”
The goddess
said, “I am telling you all this so that you can understand that nothing
whatsoever is existing independently. Neither are you existing, nor your
husband, nor the world. Nothing is there. You cannot say what is there.
Anything can be anywhere at any time, and in any form. Yesterday, today,
tomorrow—there is no meaning in these things.
A great
chaos of perception has been presented before you by space-time. Because of
this mysterious, unexpected, shocking operation of space-time, you are unable
to know that you are also involved in it. If you are involved in the world of
space and time, you cannot make any reference to the world of space and time
because that reference will apply to you also.
No one can
say, ‘I am here’ or ‘that is there’ because this ‘I’ is vitally connected to
the existence of ‘that’, and ‘that’ is vitally connected to the existence of
‘this’. What do you understand from this? Everything is interrelated in such a
way that nothing can exist independently. Everything exists by the operation of
all the things that are taking place in the universe, so that every individual,
so-called, is a universal unit.”
Love.
