The
Spiritual Journey
The
farmer ignores food and sleep, and focusses on ploughing, levelling, scattering
seeds, watering, weeding, guarding and fostering crops. He knows that the
harvest he brings home is critical for his family’s subsistence and if he
fritters away the precious season in idle pursuits, his family will be
confronted with hunger and ill-health. So he prioritises all his attention on
farming alone and defers all other pursuits. He bears all difficulties and
deprivations, and toils day and night, watches over the crops and garners the
grain. As a result, he happily spends the months ahead, in peace and joy with
his family.
All
students and spiritual seekers must learn this lesson from the farmer. Youth is
the prime season for mental culture. Use these years intensively and
intelligently for your progress irrespective of difficulties and overcome every
obstacle. Silence the clamour of your senses, and control hunger and thirst;
the urge to sleep and relax also be curbed until spiritual harvest is obtained.
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