Are You a spiritual seeker? Part-1 by Sri.N.Ananthanarayan.

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Radhe Krishna To all,A certain Sannyasin (renunciate) friend of mine narrated to me a very interesting story. This Swamiji, before he retired from service and took Sannyasa, was known as Mr. Rao and was in the army where his job was to train typists. This was in the pre-Independence days when India was ruled by the British. One of the students in Mr. Rao's class was a young Englishman named Thomas who continued to type badly despite all possible coaching. One day Mr. Rao got tired of him and asked him a straight question: "Mr. Thomas! You have been in my class for so long. And I have also tried to help you out as much as I could. Please tell me, how is it you still continue to make the same old mistakes?". To that Mr. Thomas answered: “Mr. Rao, the first mistake I made was to be born in this

world. All other mistakes followed in natural sequence". I shall never forget that incisive remark of Thomas as faithfully recapitulated to me by my dear Swamiji friend. Our plight in the world is because we are born into it. What is this world, after all? just a trap set by Maya to capture the individual souls in its net and keep them away from God. So, being born into this world means the same thing as being caught in Maya's trap. And for a trapped person, can there be any happiness? In a remarkable sentence, so reminiscent of the Gita description of worldly life, Thomas Hardy describes life in this world. Says the great English novelist, "Life is an onion. Weep as you peel it". How true! From birth to death, it is struggle, struggle, struggle all along. For some in this world, it is a struggle for very existence. For others, it is a struggle for money or a woman or a position. Some exercise to reduce weight, others strive to put it

on. Some spend ten years and twenty years running from pillar to post pining for a child. Others weep unable to support their children. People are distracted all the time. To a wise man, this whole world presents the spectacle of a lunatic asylum, where all men are in a very real sense, psychiatric cases. The vision of no man is perfect. The only exceptions are the God-realized sages whose wisdom is absolute. Among this suffering, distracted humanity, there are people whose pride will not let them admit that they are suffering. It is difficult to deal with this lot. !!! Will Continue !!!--------- "Hinduism in a Changing world - Challenges and Opportunity"Please watch the inspirational videos Part-1,2 & 3

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