25/08/2023
A young boy named James lived in a deserted village, located in the vicinity of a desert. He was an educated person and doing business in surrounding areas. He had a beautiful wife and cute son . But he was not happy with his life. He always used to get worried and kept thinking about the problems.
Once a saint from distant city came along with caravan of 100 camels outside his Jame’s village . Soon, there were talks all around the nearby villages that saint solves the problems of people with his wisdom. James also decided to visit the saint. When James turn came for meeting with the saint. He asked , “Holy man, I am very unhappy with my life, all the time, the problems surround me. Sometimes business tension is there, sometimes family problems, and sometimes I am worried about my health. Please tell such a solution that all the problems from my life come to an end and I can live happily.”
The saint smiled and said, “Son, it is very late today. I will give your answer tomorrow morning … but will you do a small thing for me…?” James agreed . The saint said, “Look son, there are 100 camels in our caravan. The caretaker of them has fallen sick today. I want you to take care of them tonight. Just ensure that all the camels sit down and take proper rest. When all the hundred camels will sit down; then you can also go and sleep.”
The next morning, the saint met James and asked, “My son, I hope you had quality sleep last night”. James felt miserable and replied, “No, I could not sleep even for a single moment, I tried a lot; but I could not make all the camels sit down! ”
The saint smiled and said “I knew this would be the case. So far, it has never happened that all these camels sit together!”James asked in the voice of anguish, “Then why did you ask me to do this?”
The saint replied, “Son, did you notice what have you experienced last night? No matter how much you tried, all the camels did not sit together … if you ensured the camels on one side have sat ; then on other side you would have found few other camels standing.” “Similarly; when you solve one problem, then for some reason or other you will find problems keep coming in life. As long as you will live, these problems will keep arising … sometimes less and sometimes more…. ”
“So what should we do?”, James asked curiously. Saint replied, “Despite these problems, learn to enjoy the life. If you noticed what happened last night, there were many camels which sat down by themselves, for many of you had to put some effort but many camels did not sit even after your enormous efforts.” James confirmed that exactly same happened . The saint smiled and said, “And, if you went back after some time, you would have found that some of camels who did not sit even after a lot of efforts have now sat themselves.” James replied, ” Yes, it happened last night.”
The saint continued, “Problems are like camels, some problems get solved themselves, some get solved when you put some effort … and some problems do not get solved, even after trying your best. Trust the timings of your life and leave such problems on time. At the right time these problems themselves will come to an end.”
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