Monday, April 04, 2016
His
Ways Are Always Best
Once there were three trees on a hill in the
woods. They were discussing their hopes and dreams when the first tree said ‘Someday,
I hope to be a treasure chest. I could be filled with gold, silver and precious
gems and be decorated with intricate carvings. Everyone would see my beauty.
The second tree said, ‘Someday, I will be a mighty
ship. I will take kings and queens across the waters and sail to the comers of
the world. Everyone will feel safe in me because of the strength of my hull.
Finally, the third tree said. ‘I want to grow to
be the tallest and straightest tree in the forest. People will see me on top of
the hill and look up to my branches, and think of the havens and God and how
close to them. I am reaching I will be the greatest tree of all time and people
will always remember me.
After a few years of prying that their dreams
would come true, a group of woodsmen came upon the trees. One came to the first
tree and said.
“
When the first tree arrived at the carpenter’s ,
it was made into a feed box for animals, placed in a barn and filled with hay .
This was not at all what it ahead prayed for. The second tree was cut and made
into a small fishing boat its dreams of being a mighty ship and carrying kings
had comes to an end. The third tree was cut into large pieces and left alone in
the dark.
The years went by, and the trees forgot about their
dreams . then a man and woman came to the barn. She gave birth, and they placed
the baby in the hay in the feed box that was made from the first tree.
The man wished that he could have made a crib for
the baby, but this manger would have to do. The tree cold feels the importance
of this event and knew that it had held the greatest treasure of all time.
Years later, a group of men got in the fishing
boat made from the second tree. One of them was tired and went to sleep . while
they were out on the water, a great strom arose, and the tree didn’t think it
was strong enough to keep the men safe. The men woke the sleeping man and the
stood and said “Peace”, and the storm stopped. At this time the tree knew that
it had carried the King of Kings in its boat.
Finally, someone came and goat the third tree. It
was carried through the streets, and the crowd mocked the man who was carrying
it. Then , the man was nailed to the tree and raised in the air to die at the
top of a hill. When Sunday came, the tree came to realize that it was strong
enough to stand at the top of the hill and be as close to God as was possible
because Jesus had been crucified on it.
The moral of this story is that, when things don’t
seem to be going your way, always know that God has a plan for you. If you
place your trust in Hm. He will give you great gift. Each of the trees got what
they wanted, just not in the way they had imagined. We don’t always know hat
God’s plans are for us. We just know that His ways are not our ways, but His
ways are always best -Courtesy –The Vision
Quote from The
True Charm and power of Vedanta
Do you remember what the Bible says, ‘ if you cannot love your brother
whom you have seen , how can you love God whom you have not seen?’ if you cannot
see God in the human face , how can you see Him in the clouds, or in images
made of dull, dead matter or in mere fictitious stories of our brain? I shall
call you religious form the day you begin to see God in men and women , and
then you will understand what is meant by turning the left cheek to the man who
strikes you on the right . when you see man as God , everything even the tiger,
will be welcome. Whatever comes to you is but the Lord, the Eternal, the
Blessed One, appearing to us in various forms, as our father , and mother , and
friend, and child-they are our own soul playing with us.
As our human relationship can thus be made divine, so our relationship with
God may take any of these forms and we can look upon Him as our father, or
mother, or friend, or beloved. Calling God Mother is a higher ideal then calling
Him father; and to call him friend is still higher; but the highest is to
regard Him as the Beloved. The highest point of al is to see no difference
between lover and beloved. You may remember, perhaps the old Persian story, of
how a lover came and knocked at the door of the beloved and was asked “Who are
you ?” He answered ‘It is I and there as no response A second time he came and exclaimed
‘I am here’ but the door was into opened. The third time he came , and the
voice asked form inside, ‘Who is there?’ he replied ‘ I am thyself, my beloved’
and the door opened . so is the relation between God and ourselves. He is in
everything. He is everything. Every man and woman is the palpable, blissful living
God. Who Says God is unknown? Who says He is to be searched after? We have
found God eternally: everywhere He is eternally known, eternally worshipped.
Then comes another idea
that other forms of worship are to errors. This is one of the great points to
be remembered, that those who worship God through ceremonials and forms,
however crude we may think them to be , are not in error . It is the journey
from truth to truth, from lower truth to higher truth. Darkness is less light;
evil is less good; impurity is less purity. It must always be borne in mind
that we should see others with eyes fo love, with sympathy . knowing theat they
are going along the same path we have trodden. If you are free, you must know
that all will be so sooner or later, and if you are fee, how can you see the
impermanent? If you are really pure, how do you see the impure? For what is within,
is without. We cannot see impurity without having it inside ourselves this is one
of the practical sides of Vedanta, and I hope that we shall all try to carry it
into our lives. Our whole life there is to carry this into practice, but eh one
great point we gain it that we shall work with satisfaction and contemned,
instead of with discontent and dissatisfaction. For we know that Truth is
within us, we have It as our birthright, and we have only to manifest It, and
make it tangible.
But,
if He exists?
I drive joy There was a
doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation
on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they
argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been
misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I
agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But if He exists? I am afraid you
are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a
lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.
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