As we see it ..... Received from a Hanuman devotee r_ramasamy@...

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We need to approach life with the right attitude. The world will

appear to us only as we see it.

 

The saint Ramdas wrote Ramayana and he used to read it to his

students, as he wrote it. Unknown to anyone, Hanuman also used to

sit among the students and listen to him. One day the saint was

describing that Hanuman approached the Ashoka vana and saw the white

flowers there " .

 

Hanuman appeared suddenly and said, " I did not see any white

flowers, I saw red flowers " and he asked the saint to correct it.

The saint Ramdas insisted that he had written rightly and they took

the disagreement to Shri Rama so that he could say who was right.

Shri Rama said that the flowers were indeed white, but since

Hanuman's eyes were red with anger they appeared red to him.

 

The world too appears to us as we see it. If we think that there is

distrust and hatred in others then that is what we will see. If we

show love and compassion for all beings and see friendliness

everywhere, we will be happy. We need to cultivate the capacity to

see God in all beings and then our attitude to every one will be

good and our actions will be selfless.