Live happy and peaceful life
Does it feel like you spend your day on treadmill fast ,but going nowhere ? Are you exhausted at the end of the say ,with nothing to show for it ? There is a way to find peace in the busy -ness of your day ; to stop and smell the roses ; to focus on what is truly important in life . The answer lie with in .
Interesting Story of a greedy peasant :
There was a peasant in India who owned a small plot of land . He lead a life of peace and contentment until one day he began to envy a rich landlord. The more prosperous the landlord grew ,the more the peasant began desiring the same . He started saving his money to buy some land .
When he travelled to see the land ,he found that people living on it led a nomadic life . The peasant brought some gifts for the chief in charge of that territory . The chief thanked him for gifts and said he could have as much land as he could walk around before sunset . The agreement was that he start out in the morning and whatever distance he could walk by sunset ,the peasant could keep the land .
The peasant was overjoyed at the possibility of owing such great amount of land . The villagers gathered to watch his race against time . He started out walking extremely fast so he could cover more ground. When the sun was high in sky it became extremely hot . But the peasant did not want to waste time stopping for food and water lest he miss out on some more land .
He grew so greedy and ambitious that as the sun became hotter and hotter he refused to stop for water . His legs grew more and more tired ,but he refused to rest even for a few moments . Finally the sun was about to set . The crowd began to applaud his victory . As he retured to the starting point, exhaustion and thirst overcame him to the point that he collapsed . Before the crowd realized what had transpired,the man had died of exhaustion and thirst .
Sadly the people prepared for his funeral .
Thus the only land in needed was six feet by four feet of land in which his body would be buried .
Conclusion of this story :
This sad story of greed is not much different from the lives of many people on Earth . Most people spend their lives in a race to try to make as much money as they can ,accumulate as much as land and as many possession as they can ,make a great name for themselves as they can ,or gain as much as power as they can ,only to find the race ends at their time of death .
Few people find contentment and peace in their lives when they live to gather only material gains in this world . People think a time will come when they will finally have enough so they can sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labour . But too many end up leaving the world before they can find peace .
If we want peace and happiness ,let us resist giving to all the desire of your mind and instead honour the contentment that is our in depth of our soul . Let us find time each day to stop and refresh ourselves in the fountain of divine treasure within by spending time in meditation ....
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