There was a king who presented his daughter with a beautiful diamond necklace. The necklace was stolen and his people in the kingdom searched everywhere but could not find it. The king then asked them all to search for it and put a reward for $50,000 for anyone who found it.
One day, a clerk was walking home along a river next to an industrial area. This river was completely polluted and filthy and smelly. As he was walking, the clerk saw a shimmering in the river and when he looked, he saw the diamond necklace. He decided to try and catch it so that he could get the $50,000 reward.
He put his hand in the filthy, dirty river and grabbed at the necklace, but some how missed it and didn't catch it. He took his hand out and looked again and the necklace was still there. He tried again. This time he walked in the river and dirtied his pants in the filthy river and put his whole arm in to catch the necklace.But strangely, he still missed the necklace! He came out and started walking away, feeling depressed. This time he was really bewildered and came out feeling very depressed that he could not get the necklace that would get him $50,000.
Just then, a saint who was walking by, saw him, and asked him what was the matter. The clerk didn't want to share the secret with the saint, thinking he might take the necklace for himself, so he refused to tell him anything.
The saint could see this man was troubled. Being compassionate, he again asked the clerk to tell him the problem and promised that he would not tell anyone about it. The clerk mustered some courage and decided to put some faith in the saint. He told him about the necklace and how he tried and tried to catch it, but kept failing.The saint then told him that perhaps he should try looking upward, toward the branches of the tree, instead of in the filthy river. The clerk looked up and true enough, the necklace was dangling on the branch of a tree. He had been trying to capture a mere reflection of the real necklace all this time.
As we are the tiny fragment of God;being his part we want anand/bliss; as he is the paramanand swarup/blissful.But we committed a great mistake to realize ourselves to be body rather than to realize soul. Hence we decided to get the bliss in the luxury of the body,flats,money etc etc. A truly god realized saint met us by God's grace & inspired us to change our direction for searching bliss.
ReplyDeleteRelating to the story; we are looking for happiness in the illusionary area which can never provide us true happiness;only it can show us the mirage of fulfillment.And if our desires come true in reality still we can't achieve even a fragment of bliss. Like as the saint in the story; a practically God realized saint who is the God himself shows us the path to achieve everlasting & ever increasing bliss, which dwells in everyone's heart the God himself, only he can quench our thirst about seeking for happiness upon showering the nectar of unlimited divine love on us. But God has already showered his grace on us through keeping us contact with a superman of this era, Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj who is the supreme acharya of Bhakti himself.It is now only our turn to obey his instructions and follow him in order to make useful our human birth.
All glories to my supreme acharya of this age.
All glories to Swami Shree Mukundanandaji.
Jay Jay Shree Radhey.
With the glimpses of happiness around world, that my mother could make me happy or my husband/wife could make me happy is the same reflection the man was seeing in river....and the saint is the same saint(Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj) who tells us that its just the mere reflection of the ultimate happiness...the worldly people are themselves the beggars, what they will give us if they don.t have the happiness themselves.....THINK UPON IT...
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