Wednesday, February 23, 2011

18. Transformation from Within

Out of dissatisfaction or frustration with the things and people around, we wish they would change. Almost everyone wishes their counterparts would change.

In work place boss wants his employers to reach targets while the employee want their boss to be less demanding. Wife wants her husband to listen to her always while husband would appreciate if his wife would not be nagging. Parents want their children to be obedient and children would love if parents are liberal.

Is there a solution to this problem, if we look deep into this problem the solution is in making a difference in our self. Any change has to start with “me.” In fact, the truth is that the major thing that ever needs changing is “me.” The moment we truly realize this, transformation happens within us. So to change the world, we first have to change within.

Once there was a king who was suffering from headache and many of his personal doctors could not cure him. One day a sadhu from Himalayas visited the kingdom and finding out about the king’s headache the sadhu wished to look into the matter. So the sadhu went to the king and gave him some medicine and advised him that his headache would be cure in a week time and in future if the king has to get rid of the headache he has to make sure that what ever he sees should be green in colour. As told by the sadhu king was cured of headache and the king ordered the entire kingdom to be painted green and all his subjects should wear green.

After about a month the sadhu returned back to the kingdom. He was stopped by the gatekeepers and was told by them to wear green dress. The sadhu was surprised and wanted to know about the dress code in the kingdom, when he came to know about the advice he had given to the king. He wondered how foolish the king was to have painted the whole kingdom green instead he could have used green spectacles.

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