To travel in the air, is no big deal.
To walk on fire, is no big deal.
A practitioner once came to Ramakrishna Paramhamsa, and demonstrated his siddhi, of walking on water.
And Ramakrishna harrumphed, "You spent 30 years in sadhana to attain this one cent worth siddhi? A ferryman can merrily take you across the river for just a cent. Whatever have you done?"
- Communion with Truth, August 27, 2022
Mama hrdaya kanja niwasa kuru kamadi khaladala ganjanam
- Sant Tulsidas
The river was in spate.
A corpse was floating by. Rambola rafted across, reached Ratna's home.
Climbed up a vine, swung himself into Ratna's quarters.
"Propelled by my passion for you, I can cross oceans," he announced to her.
"With all this passion, if you had only turned around, by now you would have reached your core", she observed.
He became silent, turned inward, reached his core.
- Traditional narrative of Tulsidas
