Something Somewhere: October 2010

As rightly said by H.H. SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR (MY GURUJI) – “ Learn to distinguish the different fires. If your senses are engaged in goodness, you will create light and fragrance. If engaged in impurity, you produce smoke and darkness. It is samyama that transforms the quality of fire in you.”
Now here is a story on this:
Once there was this old farmer in a village where the main occupation of the people was farming. Everyone used to work hard on their fields but the yields were not up to the mark every year.
So this one farmer got some high quality seeds from somewhere and grew the crops and that year, his yields were the best. Every single family in the village was getting jealous of this farmer. The day that farmer harvested his high quality crops. 50% of the crops he sold to the processing factories, the next 30% he kept for his family and the remaining 20% he had saved.
So, his family members asked that why has he kept that 20% of the high quality crops aside. He said, “ I am going to distribute this to all the other farmers in the village.” Listening to this the members of the family became very angry and started to blabber “ we got the most profits this year, if you give this high quality seeds to others, our profits will be reduced.”
This farmer smiled and said, “ if we keep these high quality seeds to ourselves and grow them every year, a time will come when our high quality seeds will be affected by the other low quality seeds being sown all around our fields. So the best way to keep the high quality seeds and get this high yield every time is: we should give these seeds to others as well. So that every crop grown around us is a high quality crop and this gradually will increase the high yield every where in the surroundings.”
So, what is the catch of this story?
Give and share the good you have to the people around you. Never hesitate to share the knowledge, rather you should be proud that you have a kind of knowledge, that will benefit others in a way you never know.
For people who have done “The ART of LIVING” workshop. Bringing people to the path, telling them about the course is the best way to spread the goodness of the fire in you. So, bring the people around you to the path and we can obviously change the surroundings.