Chinna Katha - 43 (Lashmana Counsels Guha) (Short Story: As told by Bhagavan Sri Satya Sai Baba)

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43. LASHMANA COUNSELS GUHA

 

The knowledge that you are architect of your fortune and that you can, by steady

effort, rebuild it or foster it, that you are every day laying on or pulling

down the structure of your career, will be a great inspiration provided you

welcome it.

 

It was the first night of Rama, Lakshmana and Sita in the thick jungle into

which they were exiled.

 

Guha, the chieftain of the fishermen, who had rowed them across the Ganges was

engaged in subdued conversation with Lakshmana, while Rama and Sita were

sleeping on the riverbank!

 

Guha was sunk in sorrow, that the inheritor of the empire should be cast on the

sands under the sky; he cursed the Queen and her wicked accomplices for

contriving this breathtaking tragedy.

 

But, Lakshmana prayed that he halt his tirade. “I too emitted fiery fury at the

perpetrators of this tragedy. For, I did not know the inner purpose of this

chapter of Rama’s history.

 

He has come in this human form to destroy the evil brood of demons, and so, He

has himself contrived this exile, to be free from imperial responsibilities

until that

aim is accomplished!

 

What do we know, dear Guha, of the mysteries of God or even of man, who is God

in human attire? Or of any living being or non-living matter, for they are the

entire inscrutable Divine, appearing to our limited senses in the way they do.

 

What their real nature is, how can we ever know, with these inefficient instruments of knowledge?”

 

(from the Book: "CHINNA KATHA" (Short Story, as told by Bhagavan Sri Satya Sai BABA))

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