The Pillars:

Who holds the seamless sky from falling on earth?!:

Hey, here I am back to blogging after getting few feedbacks and getting inspired from a fellow friend cum bolgger... I blogged many pages in last few posts but this time want to follow (not completely) the saying ‘Blogs should be short and Stories should be long’. Few have an opinion that my blogs run around melancholy may be I coated Vedanta & the inner meaning didn’t reach people... Anyways here is a post which is not completely mine but a story which gives an essential moral for the man who seeks for it..!

There was village in ancient India called ‘Devagiri’, Devagiri was a beautiful place having vast farm land and pleasant river named ‘Samrudhi’ was flowing. People in Devagiri were happy and believed in farming. There lived an innocent & wicked villager called ‘Nanda’, Nanda was a shepherd who spent most of the time with nature.

Once ‘Nanda’ was taking care of sheep’s in shade near the hill side, suddenly he felt quake and from a distance Nanda saw the huts falling, he got hesitant and started to run from that place and came to the center of village, there he saw few old houses with pillars getting collapsed in front of him. Nanda started to run with fear. Few villagers stooped and asked him “why are you tensed? It’s a quake, where can you run away?!”

Nanda told: Run guys, run, see those houses with 4 to 8 pillars fell down, huts fell down and just see the sky it is also falling because it has no pillars at all, before it fall on our head let us escape from it.

Villagers said: Nanda, Hey Nanda, stop..! How can a sky fall? Sky filled with clouds is just floating.. You wicked, stop!

Nanda ran and ran seeing floating clouds with fear from village to village till his energy dried up and finally felt unconscious near an Ashram called ‘Mukthi Dhama’. On seeing him the Sawami of that Ashram treated Nanda with care, fed him with Good food and asked the reason for his anxiety.

Nanda said: Swami I am from ‘Devagiri’ I ran to escape from falling Sky, see Swami, the houses and the huts with Pillars collapsed in quake then how can this Sky can stay without falling on our head?! You also run Swami Let both of us escape!!

Swamiji gave a deep thought after knowing the reason for Nanda’s fear and told:

Nanda, who told sky doesn’t have pillars?! Sky has strong pillars, can’t you see? It won’t fall, you don’t worry. I am here.

Nanda said: Swami I ran miles together, round and round in circles, I saw from hill top, from left, right of roads but didn’t see any pillars... Can you show me where the pillars which are holding the sky?!

Swami said: I will show you but you should do as I say, go in disguise as a beggar in this village and plead for food but make sure you scold them as bad as you can and get the offerings from them.

Nanda was shocked hearing Swami’s words and went to beg in disguise thinking how is this related to pillar’s for Sky??!!

Nanda went and scolded people and asked food, many of them scolded back, beaten him, kicked him telling being a beggar how arrogant you are. Nanda felt so bad getting hit from everyone but in evening he returned to Ashram in pathetic condition.

Swami asked Nanda: Child, my child, get up, did you get any offerings?

Nanda started weeping and showed the wounds on his body and explained his experience saying:

Swami many people hit me, few kicked me, few scolded me back hearing my scolding yet asking offerings from them but among the hundreds who ill treated me, I found only few people even after hearing my yelling, even after feeling bad by my odd behavior they told nice words to me and gave me something to eat, see swami only this much offerings I found. Now tell me swami where are the pillar’s for this vast sky? Even after many sin that man had committed how earth is holding all the pain? & why sky is not falling, are the pillars present? Even after harming nature how can people be safe from Quakes, Floods? Say swami, say!

Swami told: Child, Oh! Child, Yes you are right my dear, even after repeated destruction from man the Sky is still floating, whatever the man do to nature still from time to time we get rain, proper light, good air to breath, food to eat.

See Nanda, those people who offered something to you even after hearing your harsh words, who told nice words even after getting hurt and did good for those who came to do bad are the PILLAR’s for Sky. As long as these selfless, humble and good natured people stay good will happen to all, because of the good will and prayers of these few people, God will do good not only for them but to all of us, these good people are the backbone of this society.

My child, Do good and Be good no matter what others do and you will see good happenings around you. Till you are good do not fear to any one, God bless you. Go back to village and live happily!

Enlightened Nanda returned to Devagiri and led a happy life by being and doing good!

Enemy is within you but not without you,
before you judge others make sure to know what you are? 

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