Everything happens for the good

Hi,

Musing#15

Many a times things don't go according to our plan or we have to face sometimes untoward incidents also. At this juncture invariably everybody keeps rueing over their bad luck or misfortune and while away their brooding.

How about taking everything as it comes and consider that whatever happens, happens for the good only.

This message is brought out very well in the following story.

"Once a king and his well learned minister go for hunting in the forest.

While hunting, accidently the right thumb of king gets severed from his hand and he gets

very depressed as he can not shoot arrows from his bow due to loss of his thumb.

His minister in order to console him tells him that whatever has happenned has

happenned for the good only. This infuriates the king very much and in his anger he asks

his soldiers to take the minister back and put him in the prison. For this also the minister

says that this is also happenning for his good only. King thinks his minister has lost his

mental balance.

The king keeps going further alone into the forest to continue his hunting expedition.

Suddenly he comes across a group of cannibals who capture him and they start preparing

to stew the king in a big vessel. As part of the ritual they start examining the king

minutely to rule out any deformity as they can not consume any deformed men, as per

their custom. Then they notice that the king's right hand is deformed without his thumb.

Hence they set him free.

On the way back the king is thankful of his good fortune and recollects his minister's words

that his losing bhis thumb was for his good. After reaching his palace he goes straight to

the prison and releases the minister telling him the incidence with the cannibal.

Also the king asks the minister why he told that imprisoning the minister was for the

minister's good, for which the minister replies that if he was not imprisoned he would have

accompanied the king further into the forest and would have been caught by the

cannibals and would have become their meal as he was not having any deformity.

From that time onwards the king also accepted this philosophy of "Everything that happen

happens fo the good only" .

Hope you all got the message.

mentor mohan