Yogi / Goring the Mahout
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before May 04, 2016
MiBeloved 3 years ago
Srila Yogesh spoke to me this morning about goring the mahout. The mahout is the person who rides in a basket mount on the neck of an elephant. Even though the elephant is a bigger animal and has intelligence it is inclined to do as instructed by the mahout, a tiny little man, who rides on its back. So why does such a large intelligent animal come to such a fate that it is controlled by a tiny man who also has intelligence but who does not have the strength to openly challenge the animal.
In terms of the degree of its awareness and perceptive capabilities, the core-self is like an elephant in comparison to the buddhi intellect organ which is like the mahout. But we find that despite its superiority, the core-self is directed by the buddhi intellect organ. Why is this happening?
Srila Yogesh was showing some more details of naad kriya for moving naad sound into the frontal part of the head of the subtle body, when he stopped and began lecturing on this. I was the only one there as the audience but he spoke as if he addressed a packed auditorium.
This is what he said:
Any creature which realizes that it was enslaved or unfairly treated and for a long time, is bound to react with dejection and anger. That is natural. The result of this psychological turmoil is to attack whatever or whosoever is the cause of one’s enslavement.
Therefore when an elephant comes to its senses and is no longer fascinated with the tiny stick of sugarcane stalk which the mahout gives it at the end of the day, it considers attacking the mahout. But this is a problem because the mahout has a way of mounting the elephant so that the elephant does not really understand how the mahout climbs to the mount.
The ears of the elephant are very sensitive and just beyond the ears on the neck is where the mahout has his mount. This means that the elephant cannot think of a way of attacking the mahout so long as the mahout is mounted. After reasoning this out, the elephant will think of a plan to attack the mahout when he is on the ground.
The elephant visualizes goring the mahout with one of its tusks. One good gore and the mahout will be done and the elephant figures, then it will be freed forever to roam in the forest, eating in peace, at will, not having to work for a tiny stalk of sugarcane at the end of the day.
Once when the mahout was careless and was feeding the elephant, by standing before the tusk of the creature, the elephant took the opportunity to ram its tusk in the direction of the mahout. The mahout for his part noticed that the elephant was irritable on that day, so he was alert and quickly moved aside.
Because of the force used by the elephant, its tusk bore two feet into the soil. If that had made contact with the mahout’s body, he would be dead for sure. Seeing that this was the attitude of the animal and that it might kill him if given the opportunity, the mahout decided to be more careful when dealing with the vengeful animal.
This means that the core-self cannot gain victory over the buddhi intellect organ by directly attacking it, or by focussing on it as the elephant was focused on the mahout. The elephant has to find a subtle means of subduing the mahout such as blowing its trumpeting sound.
The sound of an enraged elephant is so piercing so disturbing that even lions run away when they hear it. If the elephant could continuously make that sound, the mahout would be done and would not even think of mounting the animal.
Naad sound should be used to quell the disturbances of the buddhi intellect organ. Constantly day after day, use naad sound, and cause it to go forward into the frontal part of the head of the subtle body. There it will subdue the buddhi intellect organ.
