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By kamlesh Tripathi
By kamlesh Tripathi
Long time
ago there lived a man, who wanted to prosper in life, very fast. He went to a
saint and expressed his desire. Saint smiled at him and gave him two coins, and
asked him to drop the coins one after the other, so that he could fulfil his
desire.
The person felt extremely happy about his
own sensible thought as his desire, was soon to be accomplished. And, before
the saint could give him any other valuable advice, the person, while the saint
was watching him ran away from there.
And after running a distance when he was
out of his sight, he halted, and dropped a coin to test. Just then, in front of
him, and as he was watching a golden chariot came and stood, and invited him
for a ride. In the chariot at a particular place it was written ‘Karma,’ and
excited and delighted the young man sat in the chariot. And as he sat the
chariot took to supersonic speed when the youth noticed there is no control
lever in the chariot. For some time he enjoyed the high speed of the chariot
but soon he got nervous, as he was not sure about where he was going and his
destination. He had no answers to his questions but the chariot was still moving
at supersonic speed. He got scared.
When he was pondering to save himself from
the high speed of the chariot, he saw a button on which it was written ‘stop’. With
great hope he pressed the button. And immediately the chariot stopped. When the
person jumped out of the chariot and heaved a sigh of relief.
The journey had tired him. And after some
rest when he was re-energised, with some renewed hope and strength he eagerly decided
to drop the other coin, and as he did that another chariot came and stood in
front of him on which it was written ‘akarma’ and it invited him for a ride.
But this time the youth was less scared of the chariot when he entered.
But to his surprise this time the chariot
was stationery, but around the chariot everything was moving at a very fast pace
and he was unable to see anything. And this moving of things at a fast pace started
troubling him, and he felt giddy.
When he could not withstand all this, to
save himself he pressed the ‘stop’ button. The moving of everything around him
stopped immediately. The person jumped from the chariot and ran towards the saint.
He complained to the saint that by using the coins he has made no progress in
his life.
The saint looked at him pensively, when he
decided to explain and said, ‘most people in the world want fast progress for
themselves and that too without any directional and sustained effort. While some
are just the opposite. But neither hard work alone nor idling or inaction can
give us progress.
Saint further added, ‘Every, karma of ours
should have an objective. And there should be a particular procedure to do that
karma and there should be a continuous effort, and in this, factors that help
are wisdom, intelligence, and sound ideas. And, when all these factors combine,
then only we attain worldly and spiritual progress.
This story conveys a message that ‘karma’
and ‘akarma,’ both without an objective and continuous efforts are like a vehicle
that does not have a control levers for direction and control.
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