Swim across the world with faith.

Swim across the world with faith.

We must have faith in everything. Without faith we cannot solve anything. In India Varanasi is a Holy Town, with thousands of devotees daily worshipping at Lord Kasiviswanathar temple. Several saints were also living in Varanasi and they are very learned people in Vedas, Sasthras and Puranas.

Once a saint wants to cross the river Ganges and go to a village for purana lecture. He entered in a boat and took his seat with other passengers. Without keeping silent he was making a great display of his erudition, saying that he had studied various books the Vedas, Vedanta and the six systems of philosophy. He asked a fellow passenger, Do you know Vedanta? That passenger told “No, Swamiji”. Saint asked another passenger whether he knows “Samkhya and Patanjala?” He also replied in negative. The Saint laughing at them and proudly telling about his proficiency in Vedanta’s and Puranas. He also told them that he is going to a village for “Vedanta” lecture.

The Pandit was talking in this vain way and the passengers sitting in silent. That time, when a great storm arose and the boat was about to sink. The passenger seated by the side of Saint now asked him, “Swamiji can you swim?” “No” replied the saint. The passenger told him that “I don’t know Vedanta, Samkhya and Patanjala, but I can swim.” The saint now kept silent without uttering a single word.

The lesson of this story is what will a man gain by many scriptures? The one thing needful is to know how to cross the river, when some danger happened. We know that God alone is real and all else is illusory. We have to swim across the world with faith as well as to learn everything to swim across the real River. In our life we must try to learn everything not only depending on a particular subject. Then only we can able to cross even the sea and the moon.

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