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maheswari
Lebanon
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 Posted - May 17 2011 : 02:28:43 AM
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"Once, for days together in the Ashram, I had been fighting against ants. They were everywhere, in my food, in my clothes, in my bed. I could not get rid of them. I washed, brushed and sprayed, but they were a never-ending stream. They were so small I could hardly see them, but my skin was blistered and I could not sleep.
I heard about Ahimsa every other day in the Ashram lectures, but the idea stayed on at the intellectual level. One morning, as I was searching to see where those ants could be coming from, I
found their hole under a big stone at my back-door. There were thousands of them. ... I sprayed “Flit” over
them till nothing moved. When all was finished, I sat on the doorstep. I was suddenly feeling very sad. And when I
went into the Bhajan Hall for the Darshan of Swamiji, imagine my surprise when he said:“To gauge your spiritual progress, see the way you behave with the little ants on your doorstep!”(This monk from India/Yvonne Lebeau) |
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the behavior with ants on your doorstep
