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Homeless prince Gautam used to be practising austerity and penance to get self-knowledge. In the disastrous jungle, he was doing deep meditation by giving a lot of pain to his body. But there was no stop in his practising. For a lot of days, he endured this. One day with disappointment, he thought that even after attempting so hard, I still have not received awareness and self-knowledge. What can I do next? It appears not possible to get accomplishment. He became imbalanced, despair and dubious about his target. He became thirsty with all kinds of anxieties. He went to a nearby spring to quench his thirst.

He noticed an unbelievable scene close to the spring. On the edge of the spring, two cubs of a squirrel had been playing happily. Mother squirrel used to be observing her cubs and her eyes were fixed on the two cubs. Suddenly an unfortunate incident happened, the cubs fell into the spring water and they swept away with the waves of the running spring water. Mother squirrel could not figure out something for a moment. Then she rapidly went to the edge of the spring, she made her body wet with the water of the spring and came outside of the spring to make the water out of her body. She continued this again and again with quicker speed.

Gautam thought in his mind about the outstanding effort of a little squirrel. It is not feasible to dry the spring water through a little squirrel. Still, she is persevering with her effort in full swing. Gautam felt that the mom squirrel warns him through this action that she doesn’t know whether or not she will be in a position to recover her cubs or not, however, she is still attempting to dry up the water of the spring.

That day Gautam learnt a splendid lesson of not quitting from the little squirrel. The squirrel inspired him not to get diverted from his effort. He learnt the lesson that if the squirrel can strive to dry up the water of the spring within her limited potential then why am I so upset and disturbed? I am more capable than her. Thinking that Gautam again immersed into his practice with a strong determination to attain his target. At last, under the Bodhi tree, Gautam received enlightened. Initially, he got failed, however, his willpower and effort made him recognised as Gautam Buddha.

May all of us have that robust determination? May all of us proceed our continuous effort? Good luck.

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