Once a student approached Swami Sugabogannanda…. He was disappointed in life… His ambition was to become a good doctor… He studied very well and used to be a top scorer in exams… But his 12th standard mark and entrance exam mark was not so good…… He was afraid he will not be able to enter into medical field….
From the child hood his ambition and expectations in life is to become a doctor…… He gave efforts….. for the same.. He concentrated and studied very well….. He in fact wanted to do medical service to poor people … and to help the people who are in need…..
So ….His ambition was correct, his approach was right… his thoughts were good still he couldn’t succeed ….. He approached Swami Sugabogannanda…. and asked him why this should happen in his life…
He was so dejected that he thought to commit suicide because of this failure… in life…..
That time, Swami Sugabogannanda told him this story:
It is a thick forest. There were three trees adjacent to each other. One day they were talking to each other about their ambition in life.
The first tree said I want to become a jewel box where gold, diamonds and other precious jewels are stored….
The second tree said I want to become a big ship where only the authoritative King can travel….
The third tree said I don’t want to do service for humans…. I want to grow more and higher and one day I should touch the sky and by that way touch the god…..
That time wood cutter came to cut the three trees….
He saw the first tree and thought that being a big and strong tree he will get more money if he sells that to make a big jewel box…
The second tree was straight without any curves in its stem… So the wood cutter thought he can sell that tree to make a big ship…
Both the trees were very happy that there desire and ambition is going to occur… The third tree, as soon as it was cut, was much disappointed as it wanted to grow more and more……
After some days, the wood cutter changed his mind and tree that wanted to become jewel box was used just to keep cow’s food…. in a diary farm… The box was placed in between the stinking smell of stool and urine of cows… The tree was so much disappointed as its dream is destroyed….
Next the tree that wanted to be a big ship just became a very small boat which was used to carry ordinary people to cross two banks of river everyday…. Thus second tree was also disappointed……by this way…
The third tree that wanted to grow more was kept unused …..
One fine day, a pregnant lady was going with her husband to doctor’s house and while crossing the diary farm she got labour pain… She gave birth to a child in that diary farm. The husband couldn’t find any good place to keep the child and so he kept some grass on the basket used to fee cow (1st tree) and placed the newly born child on the basket….
The first tree wanted to hold precious jewels… gold, silver and diamonds… However, than all them ……the most precious and priceless new born bay was placed on the box to save that new child …… Than taking care of the ornaments … this is a great responsibility for the wood… Thus the first tree thought god has given us more responsibility and a prestigious job than what he expected… Thus the first tree got much satisfied by that…
The second tree that became a small boat, one day carried people from one bank of river to other bank…. On that day a Swamiji also traveled…. Suddenly cyclone came and the boat was about to drown… The sage got up and he raised his hands on the sky and order as “STOP”…. The cyclone immediately stopped…… and they all came safe to the other side of bank… The second tree was so satisfied and happy that than an authoritative king, he had the opportunity to carry a person who can order the nature itself… Thus the second tree’s wish and ambition also got satisfied….
One fine day, the third tree which was just kept as idle wood pieces were taken out one day….. Those wood pieces were only used as cross for Jesus Christ….. Thus without growing much higher also….. The tree was able to touch god……
Thus the moral of the story is all our ambition will get satisfied one day ……. but may not be in the way we expect things to happen…
In this story, the student wanted to do service for the poor and needed people.. He may not be able to do the same by becoming a doctor.. But he will do the service…
THUS GOD ALWAYS SATISFIES OUR GOOD WISHES….PROBABLY NOT IN THE WAY WE LIKE.. IN THE WAY HE LIKES TO EXECUTE….
MAN PROPOSES,GOD DISPOSES…. — This is a famous proverb…
The proverb acutally means
…Man proposes , GOD DISPOSES the same…. in his OWN style
From the child hood his ambition and expectations in life is to become a doctor…… He gave efforts….. for the same.. He concentrated and studied very well….. He in fact wanted to do medical service to poor people … and to help the people who are in need…..
So ….His ambition was correct, his approach was right… his thoughts were good still he couldn’t succeed ….. He approached Swami Sugabogannanda…. and asked him why this should happen in his life…
He was so dejected that he thought to commit suicide because of this failure… in life…..
That time, Swami Sugabogannanda told him this story:
It is a thick forest. There were three trees adjacent to each other. One day they were talking to each other about their ambition in life.
The first tree said I want to become a jewel box where gold, diamonds and other precious jewels are stored….
The second tree said I want to become a big ship where only the authoritative King can travel….
The third tree said I don’t want to do service for humans…. I want to grow more and higher and one day I should touch the sky and by that way touch the god…..
That time wood cutter came to cut the three trees….
He saw the first tree and thought that being a big and strong tree he will get more money if he sells that to make a big jewel box…
The second tree was straight without any curves in its stem… So the wood cutter thought he can sell that tree to make a big ship…
Both the trees were very happy that there desire and ambition is going to occur… The third tree, as soon as it was cut, was much disappointed as it wanted to grow more and more……
After some days, the wood cutter changed his mind and tree that wanted to become jewel box was used just to keep cow’s food…. in a diary farm… The box was placed in between the stinking smell of stool and urine of cows… The tree was so much disappointed as its dream is destroyed….
Next the tree that wanted to be a big ship just became a very small boat which was used to carry ordinary people to cross two banks of river everyday…. Thus second tree was also disappointed……by this way…
The third tree that wanted to grow more was kept unused …..
One fine day, a pregnant lady was going with her husband to doctor’s house and while crossing the diary farm she got labour pain… She gave birth to a child in that diary farm. The husband couldn’t find any good place to keep the child and so he kept some grass on the basket used to fee cow (1st tree) and placed the newly born child on the basket….
The first tree wanted to hold precious jewels… gold, silver and diamonds… However, than all them ……the most precious and priceless new born bay was placed on the box to save that new child …… Than taking care of the ornaments … this is a great responsibility for the wood… Thus the first tree thought god has given us more responsibility and a prestigious job than what he expected… Thus the first tree got much satisfied by that…
The second tree that became a small boat, one day carried people from one bank of river to other bank…. On that day a Swamiji also traveled…. Suddenly cyclone came and the boat was about to drown… The sage got up and he raised his hands on the sky and order as “STOP”…. The cyclone immediately stopped…… and they all came safe to the other side of bank… The second tree was so satisfied and happy that than an authoritative king, he had the opportunity to carry a person who can order the nature itself… Thus the second tree’s wish and ambition also got satisfied….
One fine day, the third tree which was just kept as idle wood pieces were taken out one day….. Those wood pieces were only used as cross for Jesus Christ….. Thus without growing much higher also….. The tree was able to touch god……
Thus the moral of the story is all our ambition will get satisfied one day ……. but may not be in the way we expect things to happen…
In this story, the student wanted to do service for the poor and needed people.. He may not be able to do the same by becoming a doctor.. But he will do the service…
THUS GOD ALWAYS SATISFIES OUR GOOD WISHES….PROBABLY NOT IN THE WAY WE LIKE.. IN THE WAY HE LIKES TO EXECUTE….
MAN PROPOSES,GOD DISPOSES…. — This is a famous proverb…
The proverb acutally means
…Man proposes , GOD DISPOSES the same…. in his OWN style
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