Togetherness

Absolutely Nothing to Hold On To

If you try to climb a wall of ice, you will encounter so many difficulties. Highly experienced climbers can do it easily but we are extreme novices. Imagine attempting to climb a wall of ice, 6 metres tall, sheer, and smooth as glass (freezing cold too). You have no warm clothes, no hooks or croupons just a simple rope. There is a flat expanse of rock at the top but no outcrops that can be lassooed. (is that a word?)

Advancement in bhakti is like climbing this wall of ice, an endeavour made even more difficult by the criticsms and jeers of one's fellow "devotees" after every slip, and even, in some cases, attempts to drag you down.

To one who knows the process, climbing a wall of ice is easy. If the devotees simply all work together to form a human pyramid and by so doing, support their best climber and by their combined endeavours they lift him up level with the top of the wall.

The best climber, once on top of the wall, lowers a rope to the other devotees, who one after the other scale the wall the easy way, assisted by the rope from above,  plus lifting from below, till only one devotee remains who simply holds the rope and is pulled to safety by the combined strength of all of the other devotees.

Doing it on your own or with groups working against each other makes the task impossible for everyone. Years go by and nothing is gained but misery. Working together makes everything easy for everyone and very quickly, everyone completes the climb.

Intelligence makes work easy peasey, or would you rather live in the material realm of spite and opposition?

Joy to all beings