I happened to listen a very beautiful story in sangat this Sunday, so thought of sharing it with all of you.
" Once there was a priest who used to worship GODESS 'Laxmi' and was very dedicated follower of HER, one day he thought of placing a idol of Laxmi in the temple. He did all the rituals to complete the procedure of keeping the idol in the temple but he did not have enough money to build a temple in which he could place that.
He used to live in a small village and there is no wealthy person in the vicinity who can fund him. One day a 'Sheikh' got to know about this priest and decided to build a temple for the priest so that he could place the idol but Sheikh's town is little far from the village. So the priest decided to take the idol to the Sheikh's town. But again, being a small village there was no medium or any cart to take the idol to the temple so priest took a donkey and put the idol on his back and started moving.
On the way to the town priest has to pass through 2-3 small villages and while going from there he met some people who started bending with folded hands after seeing the Laxmi's idol. But donkey started thinking that people are giving respect to him and he felt very proud of himself.
After walking few miles they met some more people from other villages who started throwing flowers and dancing in front of the Laxmi's idol but again donkey thought that these people are doing this for me and he become boastful and arrogant, he refused to move ahead and dropped the idol to the ground. Upon seeing this villagers started beating him and left him into the jungle"
Crux of the story was, Most of us behave like that donkey because we forget that people giving respect to us, saying 'Dhan nirankar' and touching feet because we have been bestowed by the 'Divine knowledge' and it is by my Satguru's blessings that we are seeing 'Babaji's' image in each other.
But the problem is, we fail to recognize this and think that it is happening because of 'ME', 'My kind nature' , 'My vichar/geet' and we start feeding our 'EGO'.
~ Please bless all that we can overcome these obstacles in the spiritual journey and can live a blissful life.
- Anshuman
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