Mystic Stories

Blossoming of a flower

The existence conspires to blossoming of the flowers............

Swami RamaTirtha was sitting in tehri Garhwal jungles in his usual fervor. a young
man approached a flower in the garden to pluck it. Swamiji refrained him from
doing that.The man said that he was plucking it to offer this flower at God's feet."
That's why I am refraining you from doing this. It would have been fine if the
flower was meant for your beloved. As regards to god, it has been already offered
to God, its blossoming confirms that it is at its ultimate destination, God......."
This is the whole essence of our journey towards God. Just blossom and you meet
your destination.Blossoming itself is sufficient. and whole existence is trying that
somehow the seed may get flowered. that the man may attain Godhead. This is the
conspiracy of the existance.Our own conspiracies do not work because they are
against this conspiracy of existence.......
An interview was going on. The candidates were being called by name. Sensing that it
may take sometime before the turn comes, the candidates got engaged in gossip.
Gossip assumed alarming dimension and no one paid any attention to their name. Last
candidates name was called, he appeared and got selected without any question being
asked since he was the only one listened to the call..
The existence calls through various channels but we are so engaged in noise created by
us that we are unable to listen to these subtle sounds. Each one is being called by name
but there are very few that listen to this call. Silence is the only opportunity to listen to
this call
A trader reached the open gathering of a king. The trader had come with a pair of
diamonds. One of these diamonds was true and the other was a replica of it. The
trader threw a challenge Can anyone distinguish between these two? If anyone
can do that I shall lose the real diamond. Both the diamonds were looking identical
and since it was an open court both the diamonds reflection was also equal. No
one in the Kings court was ready to accept the challenge since the question
involved was of kingdoms prestige. Suddenly some movement was observed in
crowd. A blind man was attempting to come forward to accept this challenge.
People were trying to prevent him from doing so. The Kind asked what was going
him. He was told that a blind person is ready to accept the challenge. The king
asked the man to go ahead with it. The blind man touched both the diamonds for a
moment and identified the diamonds. The trader was asked whether the
judgement was true. The trader agreed with the blind man and surrendered the
diamonds.
The trader asked the blind man basis of his judgement. Blind man said, Its quite
easy. The one which maintains his coolness is the real diamond and the one that
gets heated up is false..

Reaction devalues. In light of difficult situations those who maintain their cool are
the diamonds. Reacting devalues, the diamond turns into stone
The mouse trap

An experiment was being done with a rat in a lab. The mousetrap was divided into
six compartments. On Ist day food was kept in fourth compartment. When the
mouse was pushed into the trap, he first went into first compartment, then
second, then third and then in fourth. On second day again the food was kept in
fourth compartment, when the mouse was pushed in, he straightaway entered in
the fourth compartment. The experiment continued and it was concluded that
even a mouse is conscious of his destination and does not visit the places again
from where he has returned disappointed.
from where we have returned empty handed again and again. Gautam Buddha said
once that if a pile of bones from bodies from all our previous bodies is made,
mountains shall shy on This is the irony of mankind. We have been in this
mousetrap earlier too but still we visit those quarters seeing its height, if all tears
of our previous bodies are collected, rivers shall shy on seeing its flow. Thats why
experiments on recollecting previous birth experiences were done so that we may
realize the futility of our game plan
The all pervading

Swami Ramakrishan Paramhansa used to narrate this story to his disciples.

Two sailors were talking about the importance of water in life. A small fish was listening to
the whole dialogue. One phrase spoken by the sailors that Water is life disturbed the fish.
She was anxious to know where water was ? She started her journey in search of answer to
this question, from river to river, she asked this question from fellow sea creatures but the
answer eluded her. She went to deeper waters, asked big fishes, some of them laughed at
the question, some escaped from the question but no one actually knew where the water
was. At last an old fished answered her question. She said, We live in water itself. Water is
life for us. Why didnt I realize it ?, asked the small fish.
Because you have not been separated from water

Nothing separates us from God. In God we are born, in God we live and in him we
culminate our journey. We are not living, someone is infusing life into us. We sleep, but
breathing continues, the life is coming from he lamp but the light is coming from him