The Rose
One day Bhai Vir Singh was going for one of his regular walks. He would walk through beautiful fields everyday. The day was fresh and sunny…
As he walked he felt quite happy and content with everything. He came across this fresh grassy patch and in the middle of this grassy patch was the most beautiful flower he had ever seen. He liked it so much he decided to go up to it and smell it, and it smelt wonderful! He thought to himself “What a wonderful species! I think I will pick it and take it home.” As he started to pick it, he heard a voice…
“What are you doing!!” The voice had come from the flower. Bhai Vir Singh said “I saw you looking so beautiful I thought I would take you home with me.” The flower said “my beauty is not from me, it is from my roots.” Bhai Sahib said “OK, then I shall take your roots.” As he proceeded to take the roots another voice came…
“Don’t take us, we are sustained by the soil” said the roots.
As Bhai Sahib went for the soil, the soil said “Don’t take us we are sustained by the rain from the clouds above!!”
Then Bhai Vir Singh stood and looked at the beautiful white clouds gently swimming across the blue sky and he said…
“I know what the clouds are going to say! It is not us but it is that WONDERFUL AKAAL PURAKH that sustains us!! If that is the case then VAAHEGUROO! I WANT NOTHING ELSE BUT YOU. You sustain all these beautiful things, you are the source, it is YOU that I shall take home with me…”
Sometimes we get distracted by the creation and we forget the Creator…
Acknowledgement: http://tuhitu.blogspot.com/