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christiane
Lebanon
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 Posted - Sep 28 2009 : 12:05:28 AM
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Once there was a prosperous farmer. He owned a piece of
fertile land and was doing well. He had two sons. As he grew
old he knew the time had come to hand over things to his
sons. He said to his sons ‘both of you farm the land together.
Whatever comes out of it, divide it equally.’
At that time in India people did not divide the land, only the
crop was divided because it was always easier to work the
land together rather than in separate pieces. We changed and
we find today that we can’t get along with anybody. So we
have to split the land nowadays.
Coming back to the farmer, he said to his sons, ‘you work the
land together, and whatever comes divide it equally.’ The boys
agreed and life went on. The crop was divided equally. Then
one of the boys got married. He had children. Over the next
few years he had five children. The other son never married.
He lived alone but the crop was still divided equally.
One day a worm got into the mind of the married man. You
know sometimes worms enter your mind, isn’t it? This work
started its work. He began thinking; ‘I have a wife and five
children; I have a large family to support. I get fifty percent
and my brother is alone and he also gets fifty percent. When
I grow old I will have five children who by then they will be
young and they will take care of me. My brother is alone,
when he grows old who will take care of him? What is the
guarantee that my children will take care of him? So he
should have more because he has no insurance for his old
age but my brother’s principals are such that he will not take
anything from me. He will stick to father’s words.’ So that
night when everybody slept he went to his store, picked up a
sack of grain and secretly transported it to his brother’s store.
Whenever this thought would come up he would take one
sack of grain and put it in his brother’s store.
After sometime, the same worm entered his brother’s mind.
He thought, ‘I am alone, I get half. My brother has such a
large family to support and he gets only half. This is not
fair but he will not accept my generosity.’ So he started
transporting sacks of grain into his brother’s store. This
reverse went on. They were growing old and the children
were growing up.
One day their paths crossed while they were transporting the
sack of grain into the other’s store. They looked at each other
and understood what had been happening they stood there
for a moment and then avoiding each other’s eyes continued
their journey to throw the sacks to their destination.
Time passed and people of the town wanted to build a temple.
They were looking for a site. After considering many sites,
they decided that the spot where the brothers had met and
understood, with embarrassment, each other’s generosity
would be the best place to build a temple.
The moment you give without any ulterior motive and your
own generosity embarrasses you and you would like to hide
it, for your sake and not for the sake of others. It means that
at that moment a small temple has grown within you.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev |
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