The choice is all "OURS"

Bhishma once decided to test Yuddhisthir & Duryodhana by giving them one gold coin and asked them both to fill up one empty room with whatever they can procure with that coin.

Duryodhana filled the room with dirt/garbage/waste which he could get as much as he wanted in return of that coin. The room was full with with not a place for a pin-more of dirt.

Yuddhisthir placed just 3 things, (a) God's idol (b) Oil-lamp (c) flowers, leaving the rest of the room empty. On entering, Duryodhana laughed at the empty space in the room accusing Yuddhisthir of loosing the test. Yuddhisthir explained that the room was indeed ful as per the test. God ( is the idol ) was omni present in each & every atom of that room. The room was filled with light from the oil-lamp, not even a centimetre was unlit & the room was filled too with the fragrance of that flower.

We too have the gold coin given by the Lord in the form of this human-life. We are given the choice too, to fill up our life with dirt/garbage of materialistic pursuits alone OR fill our life with GOD representing our Bhakti, with oil-lamp representing the light of Wisdom & with fragrance of our karmas represented by the flowers.

The choice is all "OURS"

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  1. Gunjan ThakkarJune 18, 2010 at 7:55 AM

    Beautiful thought...
    reading this makes me feel that no one else but we our responsible of what we think about our lives...

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  2. UnknownJune 28, 2010 at 2:48 AM

    This is sooo true....so you get what you reap....

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