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Understanding unlocks priceless treasures

Understanding unlocks priceless treasures
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This was the time of Lord Buddha. He taught children how to understand each other.

"God, we're talking about what happened at home," said one of the children.


Swasti lost his parents at an early age. He keeps a buffalo and runs the family with it. He has a brother, Rupak and has two sisters, Bala and Bhima. With all sort of problems, he takes care of everyone like their parents. He tries his best for his little brothers and sisters so that they will not miss their lost parents. Urubela villagers are sometimes overwhelmed by this determination.


Swasti said God about one night. My younger sister Bhima cried twice. Rupak became furious when the younger sister’s cry ruined his sleep. He slapped Bhima in anger. The child began to cry even more. Because the child is deprived of love and affection of their lost mother,  I suddenly woke up and hugged Bhima. I could see that her body’s temperature was high and she was suffering from severe fever. Without doing anything, I took Rupak's hand and slowly placed it on Bhima's forehead.


Rupak looked at me with a sympathetic look and said, Brother, Bhima, has a high fever.


The hand, which had not been able to feel the fever while slapping, now understood the whole truth.

Rupak hugged Bhima with love. Tears welled up in his eyes. 


Rupak said, will Bhima forgive me? I didn't understand why she was crying. Before I knew it, I gave her a lot of pain.


Bhima was completely calm while wiping away her brother's tears. Without saying a word, her eyes could understand everything.


There was so much sympathy for Bhima in Rupak that when Swasti touched Bhima, He saw that her fever was completely gone. Bhima was feeling well.


God how did this happen ?? Swasti asked Lord Buddha.

                                 

With a smile on his face, God said that it is never possible for a man to understand or feel others when he does not understand himself. Where there is no understanding, violence, jealousy, anger, greed, pride, and selfishness grow in every moment. He did not know what he was doing. What he does in the subconscious state is very harmful to himself and others.

                               

Understanding is pure fire. It burns human ignorance in an instant. This is called the power of wisdom.


God said that what your brother Rupak understood. He got some wisdom. This is not entirely true.


The human senses move even further. When he can understand or feel what he is referring to as a body,  is a toy made of clay, water, wind, and fire. There is no such thing like ego or me. It is soulless. It's changing every moment. So the body destroys and it is temporary. If I will attach myself with it then I will get sadness. Similarly, the mind is also temporary, soulless and sorrow. Body and mind(thoughts and emotions) are not me and it's something which I am always carrying with myself.  Understanding this frees me from the clutches of pride or arrogance. This is the true wisdom of the people.


When a man is free from ‘I’, he does good for the world. Just like earthworm doesn’t have ‘I’, She lives empty-handed. Her survival is a blessing to the farmers.


Buddha said Swasti, you notice that only when it comes to understanding or understanding each other in human beings, then comes love, friendship, sharing with everyone, feeling compassion, feeling the sorrows and pains of others, happiness with the happiness of others, feeling of not neglected or no small or big feeling. There is a sense of equality, whether big or small and high or low. With this feeling, man becomes qualified with holy qualities.

                 

Only by understanding, peace and friendship can be established within oneself, in the family, in society, within the country. Then God rested his words.

                                 

Swasti understood the meaning of God's words and determined to follow the path of religion all his life, He touched the feet of the Buddha.


When one sees the other as a friend, respects the wishes of the other, and feels the feelings in the heart of the other then one does understand others. As a result, love and friendship shine out.


Arise, awake and stop not for the power of wisdom and understanding. Good luck.


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