Saturday, 21 April 2012

Effort - 2

By remembering the words of the saint he decided to go further forward. This time he entered into much deeper forest. There he came across on river on his way. He hesitated first but then decided to go forward only. He made small boat with the woods fallen there and crossed the river.
 
 There he found the silver mine. He felt very happy and he took some of the mineral from there sold it and earn money. It happened for some days then again he remembered the words of the saint. He went forward from the place of silver mine. The way led to much deeper forest where plenty of snakes were there.
 
 First he felt fear but finally he overcome his fear and went forward, there he found the gold mine. He was very happy and took some mineral from there, sold it and earned good amount of money. He and his mother was very happy. After some days he again remembered the words of saint and decided to go forward. But his mother told ‘now our condition is good why you want to take risk?’. He replied ‘if  we loose enthusiasm and stop working our growth will stop’. By saying this he went much deeper in the forest there he found cruel animals roaming, even though he decided to go forward and by hiding behind trees he went forward.
There he found mine with diamonds. He was very very happy, took some diamonds and started to go home. There on his way he met the same saint, and told thanks to him. The saint blessed him and told that ‘because of your effort only you got all these my child’ and he went away. The young man reached home his mother felt very happy. Then he started living in good palace and wearing very rich clothes and he was much richer than his friends. So, effort never fails, do not leave until you get what you want.
This story is told by Sri Ramakrishna paramahamsa, suggesting that we should have sustained and progressive effort to reach God. 

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