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Life Struggles

 

A man found a cocoon of an emperor moth. He took it home so that he

could watch the moth come out of the cocoon. On the day a small opening

appeared, he sat and watched the moth for several hours as the moth

struggled to force the body through that little hole.

The moth seemed to be stuck and appeared to have stopped making

progress. It seemed as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could

go no farther. The man, in his kindness, decided to help the moth; so

he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the

cocoon. The moth then emerged easily. But its body was swollen and

small, its wings wrinkled and shriveled. The man continued to watch the

moth because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge

and expand to and able to support the body, which would contract in

time. Neither happened! In fact, the little moth spent the rest of its

life crawling around with a small, swollen body and shriveled wings. It

never was able to fly. The man in his kindness and haste did not

understand that the struggle required for the moth to get through the

tiny opening was necessary to force fluid from the body of the moth

into its wings so that it would be ready for flight upon achieving its

freedom from the cocoon. Freedom and flight would only come after the

struggle. By depriving the moth of a struggle, he deprived the moth of

health. Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our

life. If we were to go through our life without any obstacles, we would

be crippled. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. Give

every opportunity a chance, leave no room for regrets, and don't forget

the power in the struggle.

-- OM  GURU  NATHASAI  GURU  NATHA