380. Our Inability to Use the Resources in a Proper Way……..

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We humans have been bestowed with Buddhi, the intellect which unfurls the activity of Viveka, the faculty of discrimination. Buddhi and Viveka have its accomplishment when the Mind goes to the extent of using them to take pleasure in the available resources. We fail in using those resources and curse our karma, fate, and sometime Absolute also. The Buddhi (Intellect) is insentient (Jada Vastu) but gets illuminated by the Consciousness which is ever charged with “Dhi Shakti.” The charging of “Dhi Shakti” to every individual irrespective of caste, creed, religion, whether atheist or theist happens every now and then.

Once there was a king who wished all his citizens to live happily and prosperously. One day he sets out to view the law and order situation in his kingdom. He happens to see a charcoal merchant who was in a pathetic state. King called the fellow to his court and enquired about his poverty. The poor fellow had a big family to take care and above that he was the only breadwinner in the family. The King understood the position and ordered his ministers to send 1000 cart loads of Sandalwood chunks to the merchants place.

After some months the King went again to view the law and order situation in his kingdom. He was shocked to see the merchant again in the same pathetic situation. He called him and enquired the reason for him being poor even after getting the loads of Sandalwood chunks.

Dear Fellow Seekers, I hope you all guessed what the charcoal merchant would have done. After getting the Sandalwood chunks he set them on fire and made charcoal pieces with it. He had sold the entire lot but got little profit from it, the king thought he would have made nice money but this stupid charcoal merchant had reduced the loads of Sandalwood to charcoal and sold them.

It is the same with many of us. We are incapable of using the resource called the Viveka that has come from the “Dhi Shakti.” We use it to be over smart or find faults or try outsmart other. We have never used the potential for our benefit at all. There are many insights found in the words of a philosopher or a mythological story but it is unfortunate we use our imaginative aspect to find the loop holes in those and try to be over smart just like the charcoal merchant.