Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Try Not To Get Stuck In Materialistic Things - A Story

Once a soul roaming in the heaven went to god and begged -"free me from this life and death cycle, i feel sorry for my mistakes, please forgive my mistakes, please give me another chance"
God said -"ok but you have to do a small work for me"
Soul said -which work??
God said- "you have to bring a box for me, its hidden at some place on earth. you just have to dig the ground, pull the box out and bring it to me, but you have to get that box in next three days after that box will get disappear from that place.
Soul said -"it easy i can do that but which is the place where i will get the hidden box"
God said- "Its 200 km from the place where i will drop you on earth. you have to travel in train for 5 hours than walk for 20-25 minutes after that you will reach the place where box is hidden.
God turned the soul into human and dropped him to the place from where he has to start his journey and said "try not to get stuck in materialistic things". God gave him the money to travel and to buy his food. God got disappeared then. 

Man was very happy about all this. He brought the train ticket, took his seat in the train and started his prayers. After few minutes he heard some laughing sounds. He ignored it and tried to concentrated on his prayers. After sometimes he again heard laughing sounds, this time he went to next compartment to see whats going on. There he saw few people playing cards and enjoying. They invited him to join them but he said "i don't have extra money to play". They said don't play with your money just play for no gain no loss. He said ok. They all began to play he won first few game, then he thought i should play with my money now because i am the best amongst them so that i don't have to walk i can hire some vehicle when i get out of this train. He then started playing with his money and this time he lost the game and lost the whole money. No money left with him now. He came back to his seat, put his hands on his ears and started pray to the god again. After few minutes, an attractive fragrance smelled by him. When he opened his eyes he say a very beautiful girl sitting next to him. She was alone. He started talking to her. She also replied in good manner. As no money was left with him she brought food for him. They ate it. Finally he came to the end of his journey and said bye to her. He then reached the place where box was hidden and started digging it but no box was found. He tried but nothing was found. It was getting dark so he stopped searching for box and slept there.

He saw a dream. In his dreams came the same girl. She was little disappointed. she said how you can be free from life and death cycle when you have not paid my debt.
He asked- which debt??
She replied- which i brought for you to eat.
He asked- the food
She said- yes
He said ok, i will pay you tomorrow but where will i find you
She said no need to search for me just give that food to anyone who is hungry, your debt will b paid
He said- ok
He then started looking for some work to earn money but couldn't find any work. In the evening, he saw a wallet full of money laying on the ground. He took it and purchased food for himself and gave some food to a hungry man too. Again he went to that hidden box place and started searching for it but still he was not able to find it. After many unsuccessful attempt he went to sleep. Girl again came into his dreams with an old man whose wallet was picked up by him. She said my debt is still not paid because you haven't earn that money and you have not even tried to find the owner of that wallet that's why your debts has increased, now you are not just my debtor but you are his debtor too. Because "God doesn't value things bought by money, he only value things earned by you by putting positive efforts into it"

Now he has only one day left and he knew that its impossible to earn that much of money in just one day. After few hours, he got the work but was not able to earn the amount needed so he didn't get the box even at the end of the day three. He was left on earth and waited for his next opportunity

This is the story about all of us. But many of us don't believe in such stories. Ok, lets not talk about this story and just think about whats going on in our lives. No one is happy today, it means something is going wrong in our lives.
"Journey of life is always easy and simple but we ourselves made it complicated with our unrestrained desires and started adopting unfair means to fulfill that desires".