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There was a once a man who lived in a forest, it so happened that a tiger

stumbled upon his dwelling & seeing the man in panic, went after him. The

terrified man started running for his life, there were thorns & stones on the

way, but somehow he kept running, right then a flash fire started in the forest,

the man had to run through the fire because even his feet burned he knew that

stopping would mean definite death. Suddenly the path man was running along

reached its end, a cliff edge, the man fell, he was hurtling towards the river

below when somehow he managed to break the fall by grabbing the root of a tree,

the man looked down & saw a crocodile waiting in the waters below. The tiger

meanwhile was also waiting at the edge of the cliff, the man was just holding on

to the root for dear life, but the root was being bitten away on either side by

a black & a white rat. Above the man was a bee hive from which honey was

overflowing & the honey was falling into his mouth, drop by drop. If the man's

desperate predicament rings a bell, you should know you r leading a life like

his & ur situation is no better.

 

The crocodile with its mouth open is death, the tiger is life, the black & white

rats r night & day. As the rats keep bitting away the roots get closer to being

snapped & u get closer to plunging into the river with the deadly crocodile in

it, the ocassional drop of honey falling into ur mouth makes u happy & in this

happiness u forget death. The honey's sweetness gives u the illusion that

everything is fine though it is not, the running is always there, ur legs cannot

escape the heat of fire. It is also when u realise u r struck in a web of

stupidity that doors of spirituality begin to open, spirituality will then

automatically come ur way.

 

Each individual has his own understanding about life, for some life is all about

good food & wine, others see meaning in emotional & material prosperity, yet

despite achieving a lot people still find themselves looking for happiness. Life

may give them all that they expected, but still they remain dissatisfied. Energy

is immortal, it has no begining & it has no end, the decision to be with the

perishable material world or immortal world is urs to make.

 

If ur experience of life is beyond that of the materialistic world, then u have

understood spirituality, it is only then that u begin to live .......

 

Posted by: " Bhakta Dhruva " bhakta_dhruva