Abode of Happiness – A short
story!
There lived a Guru outside a forest
in a small hut which was in a small patch of land that had a mango, peepul and
neem tree in it. One day one of his disciples came up to him placed a pile of
gold ornaments, cash and such of valuable things in front of the Guru and
complained “Guru, I am fed up of chasing happiness all my life. When I first
asked you to show me the way to happiness you said “Get a job”. I did and later
when I still was dissatisfied you said get married. Then it was have children,
earn assets, tour the world, do charity, meditate. I did all that you asked me
to. But nothing gave me happiness. Today, I want to leave everything and be in
your company. Take all that I have (so saying he pushed the pile of valuables
that he brought towards Guru) and give me happiness”.
Guru looked at the man for some time
and then stared at the pile of valuables and again at the disciple and suddenly
with an odd laugh picked up the bag of valuables and started running. The
disciple was confused and stared at his Guru. Then seeing his Guru standing at
a distant with his valuables he ran after his Guru. As he neared his Guru, his
Guru started running again. Guru would run for some time and stop till his
disciple almost caught up with him. Then he would start running. Guru ran
through the forest, up and down t he hill, along the river and in the fields.
His disciple followed him everywhere. By sunset disciple was jet tired. It was
then he found himself at his Guru’s place where his Guru was in deep meditation
with eyes closed not a wee bit tired of all the running and with the pile of
his valuables in front.
contd.....
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