I always remember a childhood bed time story, after I started meditation, I come to know the essence of the story, I would like to share it with you, and it goes like this..........
Once up on a time there was king, who was ruling small kingdom in India. he had a problem with in the country.
Entire kingdom was suffering from drought, and every body in the kingdom started cursing at king. so he was unhappy and depressed and become more suspicious. he was not believing anybody, people in the kingdom were also not trust each other. because of that, kingdom got into more problems. Entire kingdom was in trouble and in chaotic situation. everybody killing each other.
One day king comes to know that, a monk from Himalayas was passing through his kingdom. though he is suspicious about monk, he invites him to his court and explains about the current drought situation and seeks monks initiation about that. Monk stare at king for some time and said "one should see every thing green around oneself that is the only solution for the problem", after that the king nodded his head and monk left the court.
Immediately king ordered his servants to paint green colour across the kingdom. Every body in the kingdom painted green colour to themselves and all things around them, but they could not paint every thing around them, finally found it is very difficult to paint every thing, But problems were not solved. king was so annoyed and coursed the monk & his solution. two months had passed away, king was so disappointed.
Monk on his return journey to the himalayas,he visited the kingdom again and enquired the king about the situation. King answered with a disappointing tone, expressed his feelings and what he did to see the green colour around him. monk replied to king with a smile and said "if you want to see the green around you,need not to paint the world around, just see the world through green spectacles. then entire world appears green. my intention was not to paint green colour around you. clear the negativity from yourself and also from others around you".
Morale of the story is, one has to clear negativity with in. if we change our self the world will appear in different form. every thing is in our consciousness, what ever we see, eat, listen and talk are with in us. Like an intelligent person identify intelligence in other. Unless we have the negativity in us, we can not identify same in others. If we can see through the eyes of a kid, every thing appears beautiful. ignorance grows along with age, to remove that one has to spend some time for meditation. so do keep meditation to change our srusti by changing the drusti.
- Meditation is medication for all.