Let Go Of Your Crutches Of Worries To Find Joy

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

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Thursday, August 21, 2008, 12:12

A small story: There lived a wise and compassionate king. All his subjects came to him for advice. A woman came to him and complained that her husband ill-treated her because she could not have children. Another man grumbled that his children were greedy. They were after his wealth and ill-treating him. A poor man petitioned the king for a money grant. He lamented saying how wretched it was to be poor. A rich man complained that he had no real friends. Every one he knew was nice to him only because of his wealth.

The king found that the same things: children, money, and health, induced people to worry and be sad. The king hit upon a novel idea. He called his ministers and said, 'What if we open a Worry Exchange Offer. People can come and exchange their worries?' A person who was unhappy without children could exchange his or her worry with another who was unhappy because he or she had children. A rich man who was unhappy could trade his worry with a poor man who needed money. His ministers thought it was a brilliant idea. So theWorry Exchange Offer was inaugurated.

On the appointed day, all the king's subjects arrived at the Worry Exchange Offer area long before it
opened. They stood around and talked, talked and talked. They all poured out all their worries. However, although the exchange stayed open until dusk, not one person came forward to barter or swap his own worry with another's worry. The king was disappointed and inquired of his subjects,
'Why didn't any of you come forward to trade worries? All of you thought that the Worry Exchange Offer
was a brilliant idea.'

The subjects replied in one voice, 'We prefer to live with the worries we know, rather than exchange them for something that we do not know!'

Over time, worries become our crutches, our companions. We seek comfort in our worries and we
feel lost without them. We need them to justify our behavior. We depend on them to lead our day-to-day life; worries become an extension of our personality. The truth is, our worries have no meaning or purpose. If we allow ourselves to release our grip from worries and relax in the present, we can begin a wonderful spiritual journey inwards where there is no room for worries. Life will become so beautiful. And you will understand how much of life you missed because of the worries you were carrying with you. The purpose of our life is to journey inwards and experience bliss. You just have to dare to live it!

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