POWER OF KNOWLEDGE MAKES SOUL STRONG
About Ashtavakra
Ashtavakra had a disjointed and clumsy physique. There were
eight broken joints in the body and a badly distorted weak personality. Rolling
on the ground he reached the royal court of King Janak. Everyone in the court
looking at him started laughing at him. They mocked at him. They wondered
whether he was a human being or an animal or some other strange creature. He
looked as a black disfigured and distorted figure not accepted generally by his
looks by the people. However, what kind of power did he [possess to enter and
be present in the royal court of King Janak and in a short time became the guru
of the king. Instantly he became a worshipable celebrity in the same court in
which he was joked about and mocked at. What was that power to bring him to
such a high position in a short while.
Knowledge and intelligence cannot be distorted.
Ashtavakra puts a question in the court to everyone’s dismay
and surprise – “The river is curved but the water which flows in the river is
not curved. It flows straight; The sugarcane can be twisted and distorted but
the juice inside the cane is not curved;
The world may look to be distorted but the maker of the
world cannot be twisted or distorted. The body of the person can be distorted
or twisted but his knowledge and intelligence cannot be distorted. The soul is
not twisted. Now I want to know from you all whether you are the evaluators of
the bones and skin or of the knowledge! Are you the people to acknowledge and
welcome the knowledge or of the twisted body?”
King Janak accepted Ashtavakra to be his respected Guru.
Upon hearing such a well-structured question the people who
had made fun of him stood up in reverence with folded hands and heads bowed
down and said, “We all extend our greetings to this honourable and
knowledgeable person. You are an extraordinary person in an ordinary body.”
By being associated with God there begin rising divine waves
in the ocean of happiness. A new form begins to grow which makes realise the
force of God and the power of knowledge. All the courtiers including the king
were impressed with the knowledge of Ashtavakra. King Janak instantly accepted
him to be his respected guru.
The mind should be stable and soul strong
While meditating on God and being in close proximity with
God, such a situation arises. Though many people look simple and weak yet their
spiritual power is strong and stronger still in their souls. Though not
educated yet they possess strong divine power. Their mind is stable and soul
strong.
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