Tuesday, January 21, 2014

372. The Culprit in the Farm House ……………!

http://www.speakingtree.in/public/spiritual-blogs/seekers/self-improvement/the-culprit-in-the-farm-house


“We reap what we sow; we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind??? We make our own destiny.” Says Swami Vivekananda.


In a farm house lived a man all alone, he was very much worried because every night in his garden someone destroyed the flowering plants. He did everything that could be done to protect it. He put an electric fence, let his dogs to guard, and then arranged for focus lights to be lit whole night. Yet, every morning, the pots in the garden would be in a mess. The man was amazed and also astonished and did not know what to do. Then some enlightened soul was passing by his farm he ran to him and put forth his agony in a hope that the saint would be able to find some solution to his problem. The master closed his eyes and said, “Set the alarm on your clock at three o'clock in the night.” Surprised the man asked the saint, “How can setting the alarm at three ever help?” The saint said, “Son, do what is said never have doubts. Just set the alarm to ring at three o'clock. Then come the next day and tell me what happened.” 


The man was rather unconvinced but he had no other go. He set the alarm that night to ring at three o'clock and went to sleep. At the shrill sound of the alarm bell he was awake. He was standing in his own garden, a shovel in the hand wreaking havoc on his flowering plant pots. He was a Nidrachari (sleepwalker)! 


We are just like the sleepwalker at the farm house unaware of things that are happening to us. Precisely the same way as the man wanted to know who had destroyed the pots in the garden we react to the events of our life. We are not aware that it was we who have planted the seed of misdeeds or fortune deep in our sub conscious that is yielding miseries or making us happy depending on the seed planted. The moment we realize this truth we will neither brood at the miseries nor get over excited at the fortunes in life.


Miseries or Excitement will no longer affect us, it is only when we are unaware it affects us. When we are unaware we are affected; when we gain awareness, there is a distance maintained between us and the emotions. The greater the awareness, lengthier is the distance. A moment comes when we are so far away that it is as if it's not there at all. This is how the man at the farm house himself-in his sleep was destroying his garden and was unaware. In the morning he would be puzzled and would question, “Who did it?” And start searching for the culprit and suspect everyone who passes by. The culprit is not somewhere away he is inside us he is none other than our own mind.

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