Page 473 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6

“A few are so born who confuse dhal for boiled rice and take great pleasure in this confusion”
selfishness and egoism unmindful of the burden it casts on the Master who in His infinite compassion and love, tries to separate them from their self-created and developed ego and also to progress their advance towards spiritual welfare, He is forced to make a similar observation. He asks, ‘Is this the reward I get for all my labour’. The message holds great lessons for all abhyasis and trainers telling them clearly what ought not to be done if they are aspiring not only to get the Ocean by the grace
of the Sadguru but also retain it.
The topic mentions confusing between dhal and boiled rice. I made some efforts to verify whether this is an idiom in Hindi language but apparently it is not one at least in the common usage. Taking the sentence then somewhat at face value, we can say that rice is taken normally to be the staple food and dhal as its accompaniment or in other words the difference is between what is essential and what plays the role of an adjunct in the diet. Dhal is a nutritive supplement. One can survive without dhal but not without rice, we presume.
There are several kinds of confusion mentioned in the message. The first mention occurs when the Master traces the genesis of this system of yoga, which was kept in close preserve in the ancient times by the Rishis who imparted it only to a few of their own disciples. There were also those who could not so impart it. The method got lost in course of time as changing times and conditions had their effect. Truth vanished and untruth had sway. Ideas of differences of greatness and smallness were born and people ‘began to be satisfied with microscopic successes believing them to be complete’. This is the confusion between microscopic success (dhal) or minor spiritual attainments and complete success or attaining the Goal (rice).
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