HERE and NOW

EVEN BETTER TOMORROW MUST TURN INTO “PRESENT” TO PROVE ITSELF BETTER

There were two saints living in an Ashram, situated at a very aloof place. The saints had the privilege of getting teaching and life lessons from a respected Guru. As to gain knowledge about Nature as a part of their learning process, the two went to a forest and stayed there for few days. On their way back to Ashram, there was a bridge over a river which they had to cross.

As they embarked near bridge, they saw one little girl of about 10-12 years trying hard to start her journey on bridge. One of the saints felt her fear and went straight to her. He carried the little girl on his shoulder and initiated his bridge-walk. The journey almost took 20 mins and then, the two saints and little girl reached the other side of the river safely. The little girl was relaxed feeling herself safe and thanked the saint. The saint smiled at her and acknowledged her gratitude.

The two saints continued their journey and were already half a mile away from Ashram. The other saint, who witnessed this good deed of his friend helping a little girl showed that he was not actually a saint but a layman as such, by his next few words. He asked his friend, “Do you have any idea of what you just did? We are not allowed to touch a lady and you held this girl for 20 mins on your shoulder and you did not even feel otherwise doing so. Don’t you feel sorry for your sin? Did you forget all our lessons?”

The other saint answered, “There cannot be any lesson which prevents a human to help another. Helping a child can never be a sin. Just think once, even if you consider this as a sin, I did it for 20 mins, but you are carrying it since then. It is almost three hours now that I left the child and parted ways, but it is you who is still holding her in your mind and thought.”

This episode describes each one of us so as it portrays these saints. Such incidents usually happen in our life wherein we feel hatred or anger for people around us. Instead of having a discussion and finding ways to resolve those, we get boiled to our extreme. We unnecessary carry and live with the burden of things which has already happened and more importantly, the things which are not going to get alter now. Our indulgence into past and “who did what wrong” eats our present and peace both. We genuinely do not even attempt to understand that we are nobody to certify someone as right or wrong. Negativity and pessimistic approach are too burdensome to live with. Just stick to compassion.

With every 60 seconds of our involvement into things we did not like once, we lose 1 minute of our happy present which is in our hand. Future is composed of NOW and never THEN. Occupancy of our dislikes/prejudicial opinions for fluffy individuals will eat our part of thoughts which could have been filled with things we like and love. In a way, we are doing injustice to something we really like if we keep filling our mind with things that does not matter for us. Pour in only the thoughts you love. Mountains are not meant to be carried; they are supposed to be climb.

Let everything that happens to you, be a part of tomorrow’s miracle. Keep your treasure box filled with love, peace and happiness by learning to say NO to garbage and YES to affirmations !