Restoration Source: Hand Written Materials
Original Writing Date: Unknown
Restoration Date: 4/19/2016
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If memory serves me... Joseph Campbell tells his version of an ancient story:
There's a wonderful Indian story of a young man who was told by his guru, "You are Brahman. You are God."
What a thing to experience! "I am God."
So, deeply indrawn, this young man goes out for a walk. He walks through the village, goes out into the country. And coming down the road is a great elephant, with the howdah on top, and the driver on his head. And the young man, thinking "I am God. I am God," does not get out of the way of the elephant. The mahout shouts, "Get out of the way, you lunatic!" The young man hears him and looks and sees the elephant, and he says to himself, "I am God and the elephant is God. Should God get out of the way of God?" And of course the moment of truth arrives when the elephant suddenly wraps his trunk around him and tosses him off the road.
The young man goes back to his guru in a disheveled condition - not physically hurt, but psychologically in shock. The guru sees him and asks, "Well, what happened to you?"
The young man tells him his story and then says, "You told me that I was God."
"And so you are."
"The elephant is God."
"And so it is."
"Well, then, should God get out of the way of God?"
"But why didn't you listen to the voice of God shouting from the head of the elephant?"
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