In a remote village in Tamilnadu,
A new day for Jaishankar. He has completed a commerce degree and he knows there is a slim chance of getting a job, especially a highly paid job. He told his granny that he chose karma to live a moderate life. His granny was happy, he will be around her and losing him in the name of robusting career is painful.
He asked his grandma, “What is the real meaning of Karma?”
Grandma asked him to come closer to her, “What you choose is your karma. For example,Once you decide to go behind money then Money-Karma will take-over you and follow you with certain rules to do and not to do. If you know through your knowledge about the rules of money-karma, then there is no coming down in life, otherwise money-karma will destroy you by making you poor. Respect money-karma then you will be happy, in simple terms respect your effort behind your earned money. If you don’t respect your earned money by spending lavishly it means you’re not respecting your effort. Respecting you means respecting everything…”
He was able to understand but he asked her another question, how can he understand the real meaning of enlightenment?.
She told him to go to the mountains across the field and he will get the answer.
Jai decided to go for an adventure with some food and chocolates. When he moved near to the mountains, he found there is no such beauty in mountain seeing nearby and just moved around the mountain, found a few adjoining mountains and finally he was tired and slept under the tree. It was almost Noon, and he could hear the sound of something coming near him. Just got up to see, an old man was coming in his direction. He got up and the old man smiled because the old man had just not seen anyone around this place for a few years.
Jai was happy to see the old man and for the old man too. The old man knows this guy came to the mountains searching for something, he decided to have a chat and it went for a few minutes and Jai asked him his question: what is enlightenment?
The old man replied, “there is no specific answer but i can tell you first you should qualify to be a spectator to watch the enlightened. Then it leads you, further to understand the meaning of enlightenment and after becoming enlightenment, there is a final stage called ‘being enlightened’. Hence to know.. First, you should go around these mountains one by one to know which mountain is enlightened.
The oldman moved away, Jai started the journey and he first understood the scenery of mountains are so good by seeing far and it is full of rocky when you go nearby. he went around the mountains and while walking down the valley he saw a beautiful mountain full of lush greens and can see the thickly populated trees and full of fruits. How come this mountain alone has so much richness, he sat under the tree and closed his eyes.
The wind whispered to him, “when something gets enlightened, it becomes part of nature, then nature spreads on-and-around the enlightened. it is applicable for living and non living things”.
Now, this is a message,
he understood and he was able to recollect what the wise man said about ‘be a spectator first to identify the enlightened then it will lead you to everything!.
He packed himself to go back to the village and he knows his granny will be waiting with food to receive him and also to know the wisdom earned from his journey!