WEAKNESS WITHIN

PARABLES OF RAMA

Courtesy: Swami Rama Tirtha Pratisthan, 9,Vishnu puri, Church Road, Aliganj, Lucknow-226022

43 - WEAKNESS WITHIN (Finding Fault with Gravity) A man fell down and hurt his legs, and he began to find fault with Gravity and cried, “O wretched Law of Gravity, you made me fall. “Well, it is better for millions of men to fall and break their legs than for the Law of Gravity to be eliminated. Fight not with Gravity; take your steps cautiously and you will have no falls, all your injuries, all your hurts, all your anxieties and troubles are due to some weakness within you. Remove that and fight not with circumstances, do not blame your fellow men, throw not the blame on the shoulders of others, but remove your own weakness. Bear in mind that whenever you fall or suffer or are troubled, it is due to some weakness within you. Remember this and fight not with Gravity. What is weakness within? It is the dark pitch of ignorance which makes you look upon the body, the senses, as you. Get rid of it, discard it, and then Power itself you become. Moral: - Anxieties, miseries, sufferings and troubles cannot be removed by fighting with the circumstances but by removing one’s own weakness within, to which they are really due.

Vedanta says that your relations and connections to be an aid to you and not an obstacle. Everything you meet in this world should be a stepping stone instead of a stumbling block. Convert your stumbling block into a stepping one. –Rama tirtha