Even when one is
suffering , small pleasures make him
happy ?
The fleeting joy
of human life in the veil
of darkness of Samsara
Summarized from
Tamil by
P,R,Ramachander
(Based on the very scholarly lecture
of Mukkur Sri Lakshmi
Narasimhachaya Swami which was posted in the face book.)
On a new moon day
one man was walking through deep forest,
Suddenly a tiger
started chasing him and he
ran with great speed,
And he fell in to a
dilapidated well, hit a
stone there and his head started bleeding,
But he was happy
as he has escaped from the tiger and he
tied a bandage and started
singing.
Suddenly
there was a movement inside the
well and he noticed a huge
very hungry Python ,
With open mouth was
moving towards him and he noticed a branch of a tree on the well wall,
And he jumped and
started hanging on it and then two big
bandicoots started gnawing the branch,
And he managed to
jump and catch the wall well ,
where there was a
very big bee hive,
And when he
was being bitten by the bees , one drop
of honey fell on his mouth ,
And it seems he
though he was lucky and enjoyed the sweetness of that honey.
Like this we are
walking in the forest of human life and the tiger called Karma,
Starts chasing us and fall in to the well called samsara and get hurt,
Suddenly a python called
sickness in old age is trying
to swallow us completely,
And we catch hold
of a branch called hope
gnawed by the bandicoots of time and death
Indicating
that we cannot be there forever and then we jump and catch hold,
Of the edge of the
well which is the doctor and at that
time thousands pf bees,
Who are relatives
try to exploit us and in spite
of all that unending misery,
We some times get
a momentary limited soon ending enjoyment like the drop of
honey,
And we
forget all our circumstances and
enjoy it and are just happy,
Instead of
surrendering to God and getting
endless joy,
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