A few years back Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif
endorsing for Pepsi Co's mango drink “Slice” reminds us the importance of being
patient and assures us that the fruit of patience is always sweet. In regard
she says mangoes should ripe the natural way, but what have we done? In greed
of making quick money the mangoes are ripened using Calcium Carbide. The mango
traders who indulge in artificial ripening of mangoes may have made good money
and become successful mango merchants but are they not putting their own
brotherhood into the harmful effects of Calcium Carbide consumption include
headaches, dizziness, and mental illness. Impatience involves greed and
jealousy.
Patience is the companion to wisdom and is our
passions restrained. Patience is waiting for the right thing to happen at the
right time even though we put our maximum efforts. Sometimes patience is
mistaken to passive waiting which is laziness. But to keep going when the going
is hard and slow is patience. The key to everything is patience. We get the
chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. Patience is not something that
can be acquired overnight. It is just like shaping up our muscle which needs
every day work outs.
In our mythology we encounter with numerous stories
about the importance of being patient one such story is the birth of Aruna, the
charioteer of Sun God. Aruna was born with half-body developed because of his
mother’s impatience.
Sage Kashyapa had two wives Kadru and Vinata. Once Sage
Kashyapa insisted his two wives to ask for a boon each. Kadru asked for one
thousand Nagas or serpents as her sons. Vinata wished for two sons with great
strength. In due course of time, Kadru gave birth to one thousand eggs and
Vinata gave birth to two eggs. The eggs were carefully placed in a steaming
vessel. After several years, thousand serpents emerged from Kadru’s eggs.
But nothing emerged from the two eggs of Vinata. As
days passed Vinata grew impatient and was also jealous seeing sons of Kadru.
Finally, she broke open one of the eggs and saw her son with only upper part
formed. His lower part was yet to take shape. Angry over his mother’s
impatience he cursed his mother to be enslaved by the women with whom she was
competing and said that she will be saved from slavery by her other son
provided she has the patience to wait for his natural birth.
After this Aruna rose to the sky and now appears
every morning as the crimson red sky at Arunodaya. He became the charioteer of
the single wheel chariot of Surya and came to be called as King of Dawn. The
other egg was born at the right time and he was Garuda who released his mother
from the slavery curse and then became the vehicle of Lord Vishnu.
Patience is the best armour…….!
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