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By Kamlesh Tripathi
By Kamlesh Tripathi
There lived a Mahatma once upon a time. To whom many people from in
and around used to come for spiritual knowledge. One day one person who
was particularly famous for his anger and cruelty came up to him and said, ‘Your
holiness, my mind is always filled with, bad and dirty thoughts that prompts me
to do wrong things. So, can you please help me, keep away from these dirty
thoughts? And can you also help me in acquiring some spiritual knowledge?
Mahatama, thought for a while and then said,
‘before I pass on any spiritual knowledge or message of peace I want to caution
you, that you’ll die within a month.’
Upon hearing this, the man got a shock of his
lifetime. Fear of death almost gripped his mind immediately. He hurriedly went across
to his wife and said, ‘I have troubled you a lot in the past but now I want to
correct my mistakes. Please forgive me, for as per holy predictions I’m going
to die within a month. Therefore I now want to live with you peacefully.’ Then he
went to his kids, parents, relatives, friends and neighbours and apologized to
everyone and started living with them peacefully.
The change in the state of his mind had
changed his behaviour almost in a dramatic way. Everyone then reciprocated to
his affection with cordiality and the whole ambience got filled with positivity.
But the man had one, regret; that he is going to die within a month.
On the last day of the month Mahatma came
to him, and asked about the experience. He replied, ‘Guru ji my mind is always
filled with the thought of death, and that has changed the state of my mind to
a great extent. Now people love me, and my mind is completely at peace, but I
have only one worry and that is I’m going to die now.
Mahatma smiled and said the very thought of
death within a month has changed you for good, and everywhere around you there
is peace, love and harmony. We all know life is impermanent and through our
karmas we can spread a lot of happiness, yet we don’t. You are not going to die
soon, but don’t let these beautiful thoughts ever die in you as they have
benefited you so much. Stay happily with everyone. And live in the present, as
that is the supreme spiritual knowledge.
Most problems of our life, stems from our
belief that we are going to live for a very long time, even, when, every now
and then we see death all around.
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