Dear friends,
Let this blog find you collecting clues to
answers you are seeking in life.
Here is a short story of a truth–seeker:
The Seeker Of Truth
After
years of searching, the seeker was told to go to a cave, in which he would find
a well. 'Ask the well what is truth', he was advised, 'and the well will reveal
it to you'. Having found the well, the seeker asked that most fundamental
question. And from the depths came the answer, 'Go to the village crossroad:
there you shall find what you are seeking'.
Full
of hope and anticipation the man ran to the crossroad to find only three rather
uninteresting shops. One shop was selling pieces of metal, another sold wood,
and thin wires were for sale in the third. Nothing and no one there seemed to
have much to do with the revelation of truth.
Disappointed,
the seeker returned to the well to demand an explanation, but he was told only,
'You will understand in the future.' When the man protested, all he got in
return were the echoes of his own shouts. Indignant for having been made a fool
of - or so he thought at the time - the seeker continued his wanderings in
search of truth. As years went by, the memory of his experience at the well
gradually faded until one night, while he was walking in the moonlight, the
sound of sitar music caught his attention. It was wonderful music and it
was played with great mastery and inspiration.
Profoundly
moved, the truth seeker felt drawn towards the player. He looked at the fingers
dancing over the strings. He became aware of the sitar itself. And then
suddenly he exploded in a cry of joyous recognition: the sitar was made out of
wires and pieces of metal and wood just like those he had once seen in the
three stores and had thought it to be without any particular significance.
At
last he understood the message of the well: we have already been given
everything we need: our task is to assemble and use it in the appropriate way.
Nothing is meaningful so long as we perceive only separate fragments. But as
soon as the fragments come together into a synthesis, a new entity emerges,
whose nature we could not have foreseen by considering the fragments alone.
May this story remind you
to integrate and synthesize the clues in your life into profound insights.
Warm regards,
