Agankara and truth
Which one belongs to us in this world - Bhagavan Ramakrishana
Bhagavan Ramakrishna's short storyEarlier posted on Thursday, August 4, 2011 in my earlier blog - reposted here.
What in this world is OURS?
A wealthy man had an assistant to look after and administer his belongings. A lot of the property was under the control of the assistant. When somebody asked the assitant, about the details of the wealth he proudly used to say they belonged to him. It had become a habit for the assistant to tell everyone who asked him about the property and in fact, he would himself without asking tell everyone very proudly about this. The wealthy man had also a pond in his garden and had put up a board there that no one should fish in the pond. However, one day, the assistant was fishing in the pond and the wealthy man who went by that side, saw the same. He threw out the assistant from the job, duly making public about his activities and in front of everyone the assistant became small. The status of the man in front of the people became so low, who was all along telling everything belonged to him. Even some old pots he had kept with him in the wealthy man's house have to be left there and without taking them he had to go.
False pride only will lead to this that even what you possess will be lost. But we forget that everything belongs to the God and trumpet that this is mine and this belongs to us. May be to control this false pride only, god tests us by giving us all sufferings.
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