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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Could have done, but didn’t

      Ravan and Vibhishan were real brothers born in the same family; both of them were wise and brave fighters. One chose his path different and the other chose to fight against lawlessness and the wrong. God has given humans the power to change the direction of the tide so that he can become his assistant.
      God has also given the will of asking boons. Ravan was Shiva’s devotee. He asked that he become powerful but also that he would die from the hands of a man. To end his tyranny, God himself had to take birth in the form of Ram. Shiva worshiped Ram. If the master of unusual powers and a wise man such as Ravan did not want to take the right guidance from Shiva, then his end is imminent. God has given the free will to humans.
      Living beings come on earth as pure water drops. On coming to earth, the water drop becomes mud; likewise the humans become disillusioned by Maya. It is up to the human to either lie in the mud or be in the ocean and expanding his consciousness become the clouds and showers his services over the society.
      God wouldn’t have even thought that human will chose the wrong path due to his free will. As far as other living beings are concerned they just follow the discipline laid out by God and live a natural life style. They are just confined to activities of eating, sleeping and mating. But most people are seen to follow such lifestyles, exhibit short sightedness and ultimately suffer and repent. This can be compared to a fly jumping into sweet syrup.
      A fly jumps into a bowl of sweet syrup to finish it off at once and gets trapped and kills itself. Whereas a wise fly sits at the corner, tastes it, fills its stomach and flies into the air. This restlessness causes man to go for quick results and doesn’t let him wait for the right duration, which if he had otherwise waited for, would have easily got the results.
      A fish only sees the bait. It doesn’t have the patience to find out whether there is some danger in it. The allurement of getting the food without any effort is so strong that it can hardly resist. The result doesn’t take long to come. The pin sticks in its intestines and finally gets removed after taking its life.

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