peace of mind
This is a story from a Sheikh’s life…
Once the Sheikh was walking
from one town to another town with a few of his followers.
While they w ere travelling, they happened to pass a lake.
They stopped there and the Sheikh told one of his disciples,
“I am thirsty. Do get me some water from that lake there.”
The disciple walked up to the lake.
When he reached it, he noticed that some people were washing clothes
in the water, and right at that moment, a bullock cart
started crossing through the lake. As a result, the water
became very muddy, very turbid. The disciple thought,
“How can I give this muddy water to the
Sheikh to drink!” So he came back and told the Sheikh,
“The water in there is very muddy. I don’t think it is fit to drink.”
After about half an hour, again the Sheikh asked the
same disciple to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink.
The disciple obediently went back to the lake. This time he
found that the lake had
absolutely clear water in it. The mud had settled down and
the water above it looked fit to be had. So he collected
some water in a pot and brought it to the Sheikh.
Sheikh looked at the water, and then he looked up at the disciple and
said, “ See what
you did to make the water clean. You let it be…. and the
mud settled down on its own – and you got clear water. Your
mind is also like that! When it is disturbed, just let it
be. Give it a little time. It will settle down on its own.
You don’t have to put in any effort to calm it down. It
will happen. It is effortless.”
What did the Sheikh emphasize here?
He said, “It is effortless.” Having ‘Peace of Mind’ is not a strenuous
job; it is an effortless process! When there is peace inside
you, that peace permeates to the outside. It spreads around
you and in the environment, such that people around start
feeling that peace and grace.
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