I know! I know!!     Chinna Katha



ONCE WHEN A HUSBAND AND HIS wife were sleeping in their house, a thief started making a hole in the wall of their house at midnight. Hearing that sound, the wife woke up her husband and said, "Perhaps a thief is making a hole in the wall." The husband replied even without opening his eyes, "I know, I know. The thief is making a hole. It is in the southern wall of our house." Saying this, he continued to lie down in his bed. After some time, the thief collected all the utensils of the house and kept them in a corner. The wife said again, "Please get up. There is the sound of utensils. The thief is tying all our belongings into a bundle." Immediately, the husband replied, "I know, I know. Not only has he tied everything into a bundle, he has carried them near the wall of the house." Saying this, the husband turned to the other side in his bed. After some time, the sound of jumping over the wall was heard. Once again, the wife said, "At least get up now. The thief is taking away all our things after jumping over the wall." The husband said, "I know, I know. What to talk of jumping over the wall? The thief would have already gone quite far away from our house." Enraged at hearing this, the wife exclaimed, "What is the use of saying 'I know, I know' without doing anything when a thief is running away after plundering our house! Is this the sign of wisdom?"
 

There are many so-called spiritual seekers who spend all their life reading many spiritual books and listening to discourses. Spiritual practice lies in living up to at least a few of those precepts that you read and listen. Those who merely say, 'I know this, I know that' after reading a number of books are like the husband in this story.        Read the next story:  Leave What Must Be Left

Source: Chinna Katha* By Sri Sathya Sai Baba


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*Chinna Katha" - When Bhagavan intercepts the speeding current of His Discourse with these three Telugu words, meanings, "One little story" all ears are alert, all hearts are quivive. For, the story that follows is a flash that illumines, a shower that cools, a joke that tickles, a "tablet" that alleviates, a peep into epic grandeur or pompous absurdity, a poetic parenthesis, an exhilarating prick, a lilt that enlightens, a sugar-coated pill of profundity, a disarming repartee, a volley of raillery on religious rigmarole! It may be a tonic tale of the past or the report of a contemporary comedy; it may be a thrust on theological disputation or a dear little dig at some egoistic dignitary. The Chinna Katha, if only we ponder over its relevance, is an effective instrument in Bhagavan's educational process. When He is discoursing, these parables and stories, ever on the wing, hover in flocks in the firmament of His Love; He lets a few fly into our hearts and nestle there, until we fondle and foster them and make them part of our thought and behaviour patterns. Here is a charming, fragrant bouquet of these multicoloured kathas, for our delectation, meditation and inspiration.
- N. Kasturi