The Great Saint once said humorously,
"God ever laughs on the occasion whenever 2 brothers divide their inherited property saying
'This is mine and that is yours!'”
Two gentlemen with two distinct problems of theirs visited the Head of an Ashram on the same day at the same time seeking a solution. The Head welcomed both and listened to their problems together with their permission. After hearing, He advised,
- "Be disciplined in your life for 3 months on the lines of
- To you and come back to me!"
The 2 gentlemen took permission from the Head and left the place.
On the day the Head mentioned, the two re-visited Him at His Place. One was seen happy and cheerful; the other as usual sad. When questioned, the sad looking man said,
“Sir, I did my best. I don't know, still my problem persists!”
The cheerful man said,
“Sir! You opened my eyes. I could see my mistake here. Now, there's no problem!”
The Head blessed them further advising to continue the disciplined life. After they left, a disciple observing all that urged his Master to tell him what would have happened in the 2 cases. The Head smiled and said,
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On the day the Head mentioned, the two re-visited Him at His Place. One was seen happy and cheerful; the other as usual sad. When questioned, the sad looking man said,
“Sir, I did my best. I don't know, still my problem persists!”
The cheerful man said,
“Sir! You opened my eyes. I could see my mistake here. Now, there's no problem!”
The Head blessed them further advising to continue the disciplined life. After they left, a disciple observing all that urged his Master to tell him what would have happened in the 2 cases. The Head smiled and said,
- “Dear! The basic indiscipline of man along with a tendency to expand in life beyond is the root cause of all evils of life and the problems related to day to day dealings in life take birth from not able to see the correction required there from one's end..
- Here the happy man with my advice could see instantly this indiscipline and expanding tendency in him as his real problem. Having understood that firmly, without much brooding over his troubling problem he sincerely started doing that, whatever required in the situation with a smile and new vigor..
- The other man could not grasp this in depth and is continuously seeing his problem and his indiscipline as two different issues with him. Thus, for him, the problem continued at his psychological level even though he became a 100% disciplined but only at the physical level..
- Of course here in both cases, I only told them to continue this living further, that's all. The cheerful man is lucky but the sad one has no go other than wait patiently for the dawn of that
- In him!"
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So true! Often the 'what' depends on 'how'. :-) Nice post.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the compliment, Pradeep.. Love it.. Wishes!
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