Be True To Yourself
An old woman had spent her entire life being difficult. One morning, realization hit her that she had to change. She joined a charitable organization and said nice things to others. But to her surprise, she felt a vague resentment towards her activities.
She felt forced to be good and this only doubled her guilt, for now she felt guilty over her resentment towards doing good. Though confused, she intelligently reflected, “There is something dreadfully wrong. This isn’t goodness at all; it is self-enslaving and stage acting.
True goodness must be something entirely different.” So, she began a search for true goodness which she finally realized and understood after she met a sage who was famous for helping people out with their problems.
QUESTIONS
1. What did the sage tell her?
2. What is the implication of this story?
ANSWERS
1.
The sage said, “True goodness blooms in the absence of an unconscious
self-image of being
2. There is no higher deed than just being genuine in whatever you do. Being true to oneself gives ultimate satisfaction.
Help The Helpless
One afternoon, a Far Eastern Christian ascetic was climbing a mountain road in Tibet. With him, travelled a Tibetan monk. The two wayfarers were well aware that a storm was rising and that they must reach a certain
monastery before dark, or they would perish in the piercing mountain cold. As they hastened forward in the icy wind, they passed a precipice from which rose a groaning voice.
At the bottom, lay a fallen man, badly hurt and unable to move. The Tibetan said, “In my belief, here we see karma. This is the work of fate, the effect of a cause. This man’s doom is to die here, while I must press upon on my own errand.” But the Christian answered, “In my belief, I must go to my brother’s aid.”
So, the Tibetan hurried on his way, while the ascetic clambered down the slope, packed the man on his back and struggled upward again to the darkening road. His body was dripping with perspiration when at last he nearly fell over an obstacle on the ground and stood overwhelmed with pity and amazement.
Huddled at his feet lay his Tibetan companion, frozen to death. But the ascetic had escaped the same doom.
QUESTIONS
1.
How did the
ascetic escape the same doom?
2. What is the implication of this story?
ANSWERS
1. The ascetic was able to escape death because his hard exercise in carrying the injured brother on his back had kept his body warm and had in turn saved his life.
2. One should always help the helpless under all circumstances. Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or the other.
If we
cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service
will steadily grow stronger and will result not only
in our own happiness, but also that of the world at large.
Make Constant Efforts To
Once, Mark Twain met a budding author. The
two struck a friendship and became close friends. One day, the young author
told him that he was losing confidence in his ability to write. “Did you ever
get that feeling?” he asked.
“Yes,” said Twain. “Once, after I had been writing for nearly fifteen years, it suddenly struck me that I did not possess the slightest talent for writing.”
“What did you do then? Did you give up?”
Twain
gave him an answer that made the
QUESTIONS
1.
What did Twain
tell the young author?
2. What is the implication of this story?
ANSWERS
1. Twain told him, “How could I give up writing? By then, I was already famous.”
2.
Twain had been writing for nearly fifteen years. If one can pursue a profession
for fifteen years with a
Naturally, he can become popular too. If one pursues a goal aggressively for a long period, there is every possibility of such a person becoming famous.
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