A food for thought

A good story which was told during one of our CHYK camps.

There was a village called as " potential land". The villagers there cultivated many things and they had to go to sell their things in a near by place called as the " Performance land".The villagers in the potential land were all doing the same type of work. The major difficulty was that to reach the performance land they had to cross a big river, where the water flow is thick and heavy and occasionally there used to be sudden drop of water from the top of mountains even.Almost every villager used to try crossing the river to reach the performance land so that they can earn their living . But only a few survived to reach the other bank. Many gave up in between, some were drowned, some got caught in the flow of river etc..This has been continuing for years.

Once, a new Officer came and saw the potential land and he studied deeply the problems faced by them .He thought that if there was a way to reach the performance land , all the villagers in the potential land can make a better living. So he thought of an idea .He decided to build a bridge across the river so that those from potential land can easily reach the performance land. It took months to build the river.By then, the officer had to move out from the village to some other designated post. Years later, the officer was curious to know about the people in the potential land.He imagined all of them prosperous and leading a good life there. Once he decided to check this out and reached the potential land. Alas.. he saw that the situation was still the same. He could not find any reason as to what has happened there. He asked a person near by. He was told that now that the bridge is there, they used to swim across the river, under the bridge. This helped them to stay away from the Sun.

This story is indeed a " grain for thought" .

Are we all not in the potential land?

All of us have to reach the performance land to do something.But we face many difficulties to reach that performance land, and only few of us succeed to perform well in the world.

Even if someone is ready to give us a helping hand, what are we all doing?

still the same old story in a new way..

You are successful and creative only when you see an opportunity in every difficulty

- Swami Chinmayananda