A STORY OF FAITH
If you have put a little too effort to study the NCERT history
book of class 6th you might be familiar with the story of “Kisagotami”,
if not I’ll just recap it for you.
Once a woman named Kisagotami’s son had died. She was really
sad and roamed in the streets of the carrying the child with her, asking for
help to bring him back to life. A man took her to the Buddha.The Buddha said:
“Bring me a handful of mustard seeds, and I will bring your child back to
life.” Kisagotami was overjoyed and started off at once, but the Buddha gently stopped
her and added: “The seeds must come from the house of a family where nobody has
died.” Kisagotami went from door to door, but nothing of help. You know why!
So, if now I ask you what was the Buddha trying to teach the
sorrowing mother? The answer might be on the lines of “that death is inevitable”.
And if I say that the women did not understood it and yet continued to search,
then what would it be? It would be blind faith, which is what we are seeing in
our society these days.
May be the great souls
told us to do those things like walking bare foot to the temples, or putting
hemp on shiv and having it ourselves as an offering on Shivratri. May be these
all were a symbol to make us understand something. But we so lost in the
sadness of our lives took it otherwise. May be when they told us to have yearly
fast, it was meant to be a fast from one of our bad habits that’s destroying us
not the food. Or may be hemp offering to Shiva meant giving away our bad deeds
in form of poison and purifying oneself not using it ourselves in form of offering. May be lighting a diya was a symbolic
of enlightening our own mind and spreading it to others. May be worshiping a
cow was just a symbolic of respecting and loving animals and not killing humans
to save those animals. May be sacrificing goat meant to do a sacrifice of our hunger of pitty animal rather than sacrificing it to Allah and than enjoying the feast. May be respecting a holy book be it Geeta, Bible, Quran
or Granth Sahib was not literally meant to safe-keep these books but respecting and living the teachings
written in them.
May be most of us have become Kisagotami of modern era!! There
are a lots of may be, a lot more there can be, lets see if you have any in your
mind to share in comments!!!
Disclaimer:-These are just my personal thoughts and are not meant to hurt
any religion or sentiments.
Loving without conditions applied have become so difficult in the time that has come.
ReplyDeleteReasons: Innumerable
Way out:Love
Every mother is a Kisagotami in some way or other because the love between a child and a mother is the most innocent one .
Once the lived Sati savitri who brought her husband back to life from Yama. That's the power of love and faith .But "may be" can only be a word that shows unfaith or miracle.kya PTA aisa ho Kya PTA na ho .
May be we all live or we all die but with love we can conquer most of the evils in and around us.
With love we could understand that killing an animal can never be a solution and taking lives is in hands of the unknown soul. That's the law of nature.
May be when we understand that we are born Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Jews etc not by our choice but by birth, and that too with same flesh and blood we could get over the insecurities of exaggerated emotions.
May be when we understand the real meaning ofof wor said by great saints and epics we could find peace and love .
And see at the end it's just LOVE.
Love is the only question and the only Answer.
True ,our society filled with cluster of things and one of them is blind faith. I often heard the term mangalik...many more.
ReplyDeleteMilks and food wastage by offering instead of donating.
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ReplyDeleteToo gd story
ReplyDeleteIf only everyone could understand this! What an amazing place this world would become ❤️ Amazingly put and related to the story of Kisagotami.
ReplyDeleteReligion teaches us the path the path to live life..
ReplyDeleteWe ought not to lead our life based on it.