प्रेरक कहानियाँ
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One night Sri Adi Shankaracharya, the great Advaita master,
was desperately searching for something on the street outside
his small hut. When his pupil returned from his errand, he saw this
and curiously asked the Master, “Aacharya, what are you looking for
here on the street at this hour?”
Shankaracharya replied, “I lost my needle, I am looking for it.”
The pupil joined him in the search, but after searching for
a while, he asked, “Can you try and recollect where you might have
dropped it?”
Shankaracharya said, “Of course, I remember. I dropped it
near the bed in the hut.”
The pupil, utterly astonished at the strange answer, said,
“Aacharya, you say you lost it inside the house, then why are
we looking for it outside?”
Shankaracharya innocently replied, “There is no oil left
in the lamp, so it is pitch dark inside the house. Hence I thought
of searching for it outside, since there is enough moon light here.”
While holding back his laugh, the pupil said, “If you lost your
needle inside the house, how could you even expect to find it outside?”
Shankaracharya simply smiled back at the pupil and the pupil
got the message behind the acharya's puzzling act.
Isn't that what we do? We run to far away temples and
walk up mountains to search for what we have lost
inside ourselves. We are all seeking outside what we
have lost inside us.
Why?
Just because it is pitch dark Inside.
Silly, aren’t we ? !
Light the lamp inside by you and find your lost treasure right therein...!
Let your life be filled with the love & light of your own divine self..!!
Contributed by :
Ms. M. Date,
Satara.
(Maharashtra)
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