Once there was a saint in a boat, crossing a river. The flow of river was high. When the boat was in the middle of the river, the boatman shouted, “oh God! Save us, the storm is very fast”. The flow of river was becoming very turbulent. He was trying his best to sail the boat to the shore of river. But it was many miles away from the land, and the storm was high. There was about fifteen-twenty people on the boat. Few minutes later when the boatman was tired, he told the people that you should pray to God, else there is no way to remain alive. All people were afraid and started remembering the God, But surprisingly the saint put up his ‘kamandalu’ and started to fill it with water from the river and pouring into the boat. One, two, three, four, five… he continued doing that. All the people tried to stop him, but he didn’t. After few minutes the boatman shouted that the storm has slowed down, and it seems that we can be saved by the kindness of God. Hearing this, the saint said, “Oh this is the matter”. Then he started to fill the kamandalu from the boat and pouring into the river. The people thought that the saint is mad.
At last the boat was at the shore. All the people went to their destination but the boatman went to the saint and asked, “ My lord, what was you doing? First you were pouring the water inside the boat and then you were throwing it out in the river.” The saint replied, “When you said that the boat is about to sink, I thought that the God wants that the boat should sink. Therefore I made my wish in accordance with the God’s wish. When you said that the boat can reach the shore, then I thought that it is the God’s will that we should be alive. And so I was acting according to God’s wish. Because it is my duty that I should always welcome His wish. But it doesn’t mean that you should copy me in every case, you should welcome every situation with your heart”.
Do you know what the saint had which we don’t have? It’s the worriless exhilaration!
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