Friday, September 26, 2008

Origin of sorrows

Dattatreya told a simple story about origin of sorrows to his disciple, Parashuram.
We are pilgrim making journey for finding truth. The pilgrim while walking, sees an attractive red fruit on the sideway. He gets desire to eat it. He like the taste and can not stop eating more from the tree. Soon he gets stomach ache and he forgets his destination. He starts finding way out of it. He finds another yellow fruit tree, and in desperation, he eats them too. He finds himself in never ending sorrows and forgets his final destination.

Reflection: Human being are born to find the ultimate truth, but in greed they lose their way, get caught in sorrows and forget the destination.

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