The Salt Doll

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La muñeca de sal

--por Ramakrishna Paramhansa
Una muñeca de sal viajó miles de kilómetros por tierra, hasta que finalmente llegó al mar.
Estaba fascinada por esta extraña masa en movimiento, muy diferente a todo lo que había visto antes.
"¿Quién eres?" dijo la muñeca de sal al mar.
El mar respondió sonriendo: “Entra y mira”.
Así que la muñeca entró.
Cuanto más se adentraba en el mar, más se disolvía, hasta que quedó muy poco de ella.
Antes de que ese último fragmento se disolviera, la muñeca exclamó maravillada: “¡Ahora sé lo que soy!”.


Preguntas semilla para la reflexión: ¿Qué significa para ti la autorrealización? ¿Puedes compartir una experiencia en la que vislumbraste quién eres realmente? ¿Cómo reconcilias la toma de conciencia de la inmensidad oceánica de tu verdadera naturaleza con la pérdida de la oportunidad de la experiencia de la muñeca de sal?
Parábola original de Ramakrishna Paramhansa, sobre una muñeca de sal que quería medir la profundidad del océano. Editado arriba por Anthony De Mello.
Seed Questions for Reflection

What does self-realization mean to you? Can you share an experience where you got a glimpse of who you truly are? How do you reconcile gaining an awareness of the ocean-like vastness about your true nature with the loss of the opportunity for the salt-doll experience?

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Lyn
Oct 30, 2025
We don't awaken to, connect to, find... God is not a being we find,,,,,, rather we 'dissolve' into.... like a grain of salt into the ocean.
I, me, we .... plant, animal, mineral, ...atom, photon.... everything ... all... dissolved into all that is.... no polarity!!!
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Vinaya mohan
Mar 18, 2023
Any one asks who Iam ,tell him about SALT DOLL
AR
Nov 9, 2022
self realisation means to know our capabilty that what can we do if we have urge and desire to do that.....
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May 12, 2022
Kabir said " Hum sab mai, sub hai hum Mai".
Ocean is salt. Thus a salt doll is ocean. This is Self Realisation. We all exist differently but are a part of the same Creative Power of this vast Universe.
MA
May 12, 2022
A perfect parable showing our complete absorption into God when we accept the invitation to “Come and see”. We eventually surrender to the One inviting.
MA
May 12, 2022
Thank you. This parable highlights for me our journey into God. The invitation to “Come and see” if followed will result in our being absorbed into God.
DD
May 7, 2022
Such a lovely and profound story. Self-realization means to me becoming aware of what I really am, that is, I am Being or Ultimate Reality or Consciousness or God materialized in human form. I got little glimpse by little glimpse of the ocean like vastness of my true nature until it has become very clear to me that it is true. My awareness is growing of the salt doll experience happening for me.
ME
me May 12, 2022
AMEN. For me too!
VI
May 6, 2022
A gem of a parable! A perfect example of 'complete surrender'. The 'dissolved' ego, quite literally. Where there's not a trace of I, me, mine. If only realisation could be this simple :) walk, on salt doll, walk on and one day the sea will appear :)
JP
May 5, 2022
I love this short parable. I teaches us that under the duality there is oneness. The salt doll realizes that oneness by dissolving the separarateness. Our persoanl ego-based identity does not realize Universal identity as long as it holds onto ego bound identity. Selfrealization is the realizaion of my Real Self which is universal. It is anexpeirence of oneness regardless of appaternt differences. The wave is the ocean. I have had many glimpses of my real or trueself. When I am fully absorbed in meditation I lose my individual identity. Individual consciousness becomes universal consciousness. There have been times when I have expreinced oneness with nature. I have exprienced such oneness in unconditional love relationships. They are spiritual experiences for me. Such experiences have enriched my life and have made me a better person Namaste! Jagdish P Dave.  
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me May 12, 2022
Amen JPD.