The Discourse- Between The Teacher and The Disciple
by This is an excerpt from a philosophical dialog between a teacher and his disciples.
The Discourse
The Teacher: “Needless to say that there is something wrong with the root; that is why the plants are pale”.
The Disciple: “The external environment too matters to getting them pale, Teacher…..!”
The Teacher: “My child! You are right; the plants get pale, but because the roots are not enough good”.
The Disciple: “O my… you know better than me the tricks existing in the outer world, Teacher, even the plants with stronger roots get pale”
The Teacher: “Were the roots enough excellent the leaves would have resisted strongly to the tricks of the outer environment, my child”!
The Disciple: “But Teacher! How unfathomable, deceptive, tricky and maneuvering the outer world is! You taught us how things are contrived, changed, so even the roots can be impacted because of the intractable tricks of outer world”.
The Teacher: “My child! Let’s put it in this way… If you fail to sustain goodness in you it will be your slipup, why to blame the world outside you”?
The Disciple: “But Teacher! I am conscious being, “I think therefore, I am”, but plants lack consciousness”?
The Teacher: “Only that in nature is potential to be conscious that is strong, fit and good enough to grow; all that is in nature, and is not conscious, is because of their own growth limitations”.
The Disciple: “Does this mean that if I do something bad, it would be because of the learning not enough good”?
The Teacher: “Not the learning, but the roots of the power to absorbing the learning in you would not be strong enough—say your consciousness?”.
The Disciple: “But then what is the role of the external influence; isn’t it too overwhelming to be capitulated”?
The Teacher: “No my child, not at all! The objective world is like a disciple, and the subjective world like a Teacher; the Teacher has to tame the disciple; if the Teacher fails in doing that, he/she would be a weak Teacher”.
The Disciple: “But Teacher! It was you who taught us that the great Teacher is that whose disciple transcends beyond his knowledge”?
The Teacher: “The Teacher and the disciple carry on in life the process of learning; the knowledge does not exhaust, the life does. Yes the disciple tries to go beyond what the teacher knows, and the teacher keeps learning new things… its endless… Let me add it here, a good teacher never becomes peer of his/her disciple”.
The Disciple: This means the disciple will have to remain just a disciple always?
The Teacher: O ignoramus! Let me explain to you… The Teacher, on the one hand, has to let the disciple supersede; but on the other hand, the Teacher has to keep growing so that the disciple also keep growing under his shadow.”
The Disciple: “Does this mean that the knowledge of a Teacher does not exhaust and the disciple can never reach the Teacher”?
The Teacher: Disciple keeps reaching the teacher; it’s endless … un-exhausting… knowledge does not die.
The Disciple: What if make a row, a chain of consciousnesses that we place till the end of the time, which keep learning, still you think knowledge will not exhaust”.
The Teacher: “My child! I will not give judgment either knowledge would ever exhaust or not. But the day it will happen, the world will cease to exist. Knowledge exists in the form of being. If it exhausts, it will gulp the being as well. The likelihood of that does not seem possible”.
The Disciple: “So which is endless, thought or being”?
The Teacher: “Both”.
The Disciple: “Which is finite, thought or being”?
The Teacher: “Both”.
The Disciple: “I beg your pardon; I need a pause to contemplate on”! (The disciple runs until he disappears in the bushes)…
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