I quoted Plato in the last post, "I guess its empty vessels like us who make the most noise."
Reading it a reader wrote in.
"A gentle nudge.... We are always taken in by the false. Empty vessels don't make any noise. Full vessels, too, don't make any noise, like the realised souls. It is the half-filled ones, like me,in my personal experience, who make the most noise... Due to the Ego of Incomplete Knowledge... food for thought."
It is equally true that empty vessels (empty to our eyes but it does contain air though) do not make any noise. Neither do those which are filled to the brim. It is the one that is partially filled that creates the most noise and din. This is a laymen's observation like mine, figuring that the vessel is shaken. Similarly those ignorant of a subject would not volunteer to delve, interfere, or give an opinion about it. Neither will those fully knowledgeable unless pressed for their opinion.
From https://personalexcellence.co/blog/empty-vessels/ we learn to understand this proverb from a different perspective that of science, physics in particular.
Empty vessels are used in the analogy because in physics, empty containers create louder noises than filled ones. If you take two empty glasses, fill one up with water, and then blow into both glasses, you’ll find that the empty glass creates a louder noise than the filled one. That’s because the air column (i.e. the empty space) allows sound waves to pass through and bounce off the sides of the glass, which creates an amplified vibration.
As I was writing this post my daughter who is taking movie making as a subject asked me to watch with her, a talk by Yasmin Ahmad, a film director, writer, and scriptwriter on TEDxKL. Coincidently she touches on this subject of emptying oneself from the perspective of a director.
Agathiyar says there is no right or wrong. Our experience deems a thing as right or otherwise. It is all in the eyes of the beholder. "Let it be," he says with such humbleness, without correcting.
Agathiyar says there is no right or wrong. Our experience deems a thing as right or otherwise. It is all in the eyes of the beholder. "Let it be," he says with such humbleness, without correcting.
Moving on now, a lady who attended our home puja for Agathiyar for the very first time on learning about him from my daughter, immediately asked us what we had gained from worshipping him. We were stunned. When a psychiatrist cornered me at a temple where puja was going on for Agathiyar asking if it could be a hallucination, reading my blog that carried conversations with Agathiyar, I told him off that I was not obliged to be the subject of his study and told him to carry out whatever I have done, including the prayers and rituals, to know him. Since we are so used to wanting to know the fruits of our actions, I am not surprised that we always needed a carrot dangled in front of us to make us move and put the effort. But the compassionate Siddhas do reveal the results when one does his given duties or tasks efficiently, only when we have completed them. Even before we were told of the greatness of the Siddhas and what they could achieve, they had already begun to show miracles, in the hope that we too might take an interest in following their way of life. These I have carried in this blog beginning with my very first post at https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2013/07/welcome-to-sidha-heartbeat-home-of.html and on my YouTube channel.
Once we came to their path we were told of the greatness of doing puja, and homam where Agathiyar extolled its benefits.
We were told of the benefits of doing Yoga.
As we venture to go within, we have yet to see the results of the journey although we are sensing some changes within.
Although coming into the fold of the Siddhas we come under their custody and they begin to take care of us, our needs, and safety, but as individuals, we carry past karmas that need to be shed. When a calamity strikes the nation we could die too. It doesn't mean that since we pray to the Siddhas we will be spared. But for those who besides worshipping them take up their way of living, சித்தர் நெறி வாழ்கை முறை, engaging in rituals for the betterment of the world and not for selfish purposes; building compassion by way of doing charity and feeding the hungry; practicing asanas and pranayama to perfect the body to become a vessel for their energy to work through them; and finally coming to subdue all forms of activities, plans, programs, and thoughts where a new journey awaits them leading them within, they might find the key to fight off death or we might be brought to higher or safer grounds. But lose no hope, for the Siddhas being compassionate shall show us mercy in our times of trouble and danger just as in this Buddhist Monk story.