If you want to change anything about
your Life, change yourself first – from within!
Here's a fable to illustrate this
point. A bunch of disciples invited their Guru to join them on a pilgrimage to take a holy dip in the Ganges
at Haridwar. The Guru politely
declines. But the disciples insist saying they have gleaned from the scriptures
that such a dip in the holy river will cleanse and transform each of them. They
believe that if their Guru would
bless them and be by their side during this transformational ritual they would
be doubly blessed. The Guru counsels
them but to no avail. Finally, he advises them to take a bitter gourd as his
mascot with them. He advises them to also dip the bitter gourd in the holy
river when they bathe. The disciples grudgingly agree and set off on their
pilgrimage. A few weeks later they come back and report to their Guru saying how good their journey and
experience was. The Guru calls for
the bitter gourd. One of the disciples promptly pulls it out and presents it
respectfully. The Guru demands that
the vegetable be sliced and each disciple taste it. With much difficulty the
disciples taste the bitter vegetable, their contorted faces exclaiming with
anguish as the vegetable's juices enter their system. "Did you not dip the
vegetable in the Ganges, the Holy River," asks the Guru, demanding "Why then is it so bitter?" "We did Guruji. But how can bitter gourd stop
being bitter because it was dipped in a river, however holy it may be," reasons
a disciple. No sooner had the disciple finished saying the, the moral of the guru's
abstinence from the “pilgrimage” dawns on all his disciplines.
Transformation in you cannot happen by
changing the environment or by being ritualistic. Transformation has to happen
from within. A holy gip or 'Ganga Snan'
cannot change who you are unless you choose to change yourself. Only when you change from within will your Life change!
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