Desire Binds Us... Short Story, as told by Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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DESIRE BINDS US

(Short Story, as told by Bhagavan SRI SATHYA SAI BABA)

Those who catch monkeys prepare a pot with a small opening and fill it with some sweets.

 

The monkey, who desires the food, will put its hand inside that pot and take a

big handful of the food.

 

Now, the monkey becomes unable to draw its hand out through the opening.

 

Only on releasing the grip will the monkey be able to take its hands out.

 

It is to desire for the food that has bound in hands. Because it took its hand

some food to fulfill its desire, it was bound there.

 

This wide world is like that pot and our ‘samsaras’ or families are like the narrow top.

 

Our desires are the sweet in the pot. The world being the pot, containing the

desires - sweets, man put his hand in the pot.

 

When he sheds his desires, he will be able to live in the world freely.

 

To get freedom, the first thing to do is to sacrifice.

 

In philosophical terms, this is called renunciation.

 

We think that the world is binding us but the world is lifeless. It is the

desire that binds us.

(Story #50, from the Book: "CHINNA KATHA")

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