SPIRITUAL BLISS: WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE IN HIS PLACE ?

Wednesday 24 October 2012

WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE IN HIS PLACE ?

A person,who is a gambler, was eagerly awaiting chewing pan
(betel leaves with betel nut) on the terrace of his house,
situated near the banks of river Godavari. A saintly looking
holy man came to take bath in the river, took his bath & was
returning back. As soon as he came near the house, the
gambler purposely spat on his head. The saintly man did not
even bother to look up,leave alone shouting & scolding.
He went back to the river to take bath again.When he
was returning back, the gambler spat on him again. The
saintly man quietly went back to take bath again.The gambler
spat on him again when he returned back.This went on from
early morning till noon, by which time the gambler got fed up.
The gambler came down & asked the saintly person, how
is it that he did not get angry or shouted at him, even though
he spat on him several times.
The saint replied that he came to the river to take bath
before doing puja to GOD,so that his body & mind are clean. It
is easy to clean the body. If he would have become angry, his
mind would have got polluted & it is more difficult to clean the
mind than the body.Hence he did not get angry !
The saintly person in the above story is saint EKNATH.
The gambler had taken a bet with his friends that he would
make EKNATH to get angry, when they told him that EKNATH
would never get angry ! A person who would not get angry at
all is GOD !
He is egoless which means he has achieved MANO NASHA

& he sees GOD in all !