In English
On the bank of a river, once a group of children were tending their cows. It was monsoon time and all of a sudden a furious current of water developed. Because it was a fast current, one bear, which had slipped into the water, was drawn into the midstream and was being carried away. One of the boys looked at the floating mass, and from a distance, it appeared to him to be a bundle of blankets floating in the water. He said to his companions, “I shall jump into the water and get the bundle of blankets out,” so he jumped into the water. With the mistaken idea that it was a bundle of blankets, the boy embraced, with his hands, the bear. Then the bear also embraced him with its own hands. However much the boy tried to extricate himself, the bear did not leave him. It held him fast. The boys on the shore shouted, “Oh, my dear companion, leave that bundle and come away.” The boy in the water, struggling to escape, cried out, “Though I want to escape from it, it does not allow me to escape.” So, in the river of life, plays like the bear and we mistake it to be a bundle of blankets. Hoping that it would offer us solace, comfort and happiness, we jump into the river and try to catch it. At a later stage, when we want to extricate ourselves from it, we find it impossible to do so. This illusion is created by but the divine principle is always one. has been teaching from time immemorial that though the forms are different, there is only one , which is the Unity in the diversity and multiplicity of forms.