Guru Nanak And The Two
Villages.
Nanak, the founder of Sikhism,
came with one of his disciples into a village where most of the people were very
nice, sweet, generous and religious.
Nanak and his disciple were
extremely happy to see this village where people were so pious. Nanak was very
pleased.
He said, "Let this place be
extinguished. Let this place have no existence."
"How can you do this?" said his
disciple. "This is such a wonderful village! All the villagers are so devoted to
God. Is this how you show your compassion?"
Then Nanak took the disciple to
another village where the people were corrupt and evil and there was all kinds
of fighting and quarrelling.
Nanak said, "I wish this
village to prosper."
"What is this? This is the
place that deserves to be destroyed and you are saying it should
prosper!"
Nanak replied, "Look here. I
said that the first place should be destroyed.
This is why: The people there
are so good, so spiritual.
When the village is destroyed,
those people will be scattered.
One will go to one village,
another to another village, another to some other place, so that each person
will be able to spread his good qualities.
In destruction good will be
spread, so there is no real destruction.
In the second village, which is
very bad, I said, let them prosper.
Let them not go outside the
boundaries of their own village or otherwise their evil will spread
everywhere.
Let them prosper here. This is
divine justice.
If we go deep within.... we
will see the larger reality and then we will understand the divine dispensation
(arrangement).
Otherwise, we will be really
confused.
This is what
happens many a times with most of us that whenever some uncertain things which occur in our
lives and if from our perspective it seems wrong than we doubt GOD'S
action......but in reality we don't know the real hidden great purpose behind
it... planned by ALMIGHTY.
