When you teach a child that a bird is named тАШbirdтАЩ, the child will never see the bird again. ~ J. Krishnamurti
Acharya Prashant (AP): Beautiful quotation.
Because naming comes with a total bundle of association, references, memories, past, prejudices. Having named something, having tagged or labeled something, you are no more in direct touch with that thing. Now, you are in touch with the name and not the thing. Getting it?
It takes a beauty; beauty that lies in mystical unknowing. Now, you know. We have four rabbits here (at AdvaitBodh Sthal), deliberately we have refrained from naming them, one of them carries a name but the other three do not have names. And it is beautiful and we often do not know who is who. They are all white, alike.
What else are identities, what else are relationships?
Names.
When something takes a name, it takes a lot of meaning. Now, it is not merely a person; the fellow is now a story. The name is the pointer to that story. Yes? The naming may not exclusively belong to the language. You may not name somebody but the face, now serves as a name. ItтАЩs more about using memory rather than direct and immediate realization.
