You are the cause of your own sorrow

You are the cause of your own sorrow

By

P.R,Ramachander

(Based on the  d face book post of Mohan Krishnaswami.My acknowledgements   to him)

One person went and approached  the sage ,

And said , “ I am suffering greatly  due to sorrow.”

And the sage   told   him   a little    story,

“Once upon a time , a man  kept   a cat as his pet,

And he loved   his   pet  greatly   and one day,

That cat caught   a rat   and killed it  and man was happy,

Next day , it killed the pet parrot of the man  and he felt very sad,

And on the third day , it killed   some  bird, man was  not bothered,

And the man understood   that  his moods are not caused by the cat,

But   by  his own mind, which hated the rat , loved the parrot and not bothered  about some bird.”

The  message   reached the person  who understood  clearly,

That his being in prison of sorrow was due to  himself only.