There is an old story told of a man who fell into a drunken sleep. His friend stayed by him as long as he could but, being compelled to go and fearing that he might be in want, the friend hid a jewel in the drunken man’s garment. When the drunken man recovered, not knowing that his friend had hid a jewel in his garment, he wandered about in poverty and hunger. A long time afterwards the two men met again and the friend told the poor man about the jewel and advised him to look for it.
Like the drunken man of the story, people wander about suffering in this life of birth and death, unconcious of what is hidden away in thier inner nature, pure and untarnished, the priceless treasure of GOD
However unconcsious people may be of the fact that everyone has within his possesion this supreme nature, and however degraded and ignorant they may be, GOD never loses faith in them because. HE knows that even in the least of them are, potentially, all the virtues of GOD
So GOD awakens faith in them who are deceived by ignorance and cannot see thier own God-Nature, leads them away from thier illusions and teaches them that orignially there is no diffrence between themselves and GOD
Extract from the book “ Teachings of Buddha”
Crafted by: Mahesh Mahtani
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