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I am the Soul
futility. He felt that he had lived his life without a lofty motive and that all his effort until now had been meaningless. He went deep into thought and time passed.
Now there was only one dose left. There was the urge to take that medicine - the packet which was seemingly filled with magic, which was capable of transforming life from its very roots. He felt so light and relieved that as he thought, he reclined on the sand where he sat and slept on his back. He opened and read the fourth packet. It said, “Write your worries on the sand!”
Arthur read and began to think. Worry! Where is the limit to my worries? How many should I recall? How many should I write? But no, this medicine has been my saviour. So I should write them out. He began counting and writing down his worries on the sand with his finger - one, two, three ... as he lay there on the beach. His mind felt so light - it seemed as if what was like a mountain of worries had all just disappeared. He somehow wrote down 4 or 5, and was trying hard to recall others when something touched his foot. He sat up with a start. What was it that touched me? He saw it was sunset time and the tide was rising. The waves were splashing up and it was the water from a wave that had touched his foot. He began enjoying the sight of the rising sea. And then came a huge wave and took away all the worries that were written on the sand, as it went back into the sea. Arthur was left watching. It flashed to him – Alas! I have been bothered by those worries which were ultimately to be wiped out by the flow of time. What a fool I have been!
Brothers! Man gets bogged down by false worries but out of the 100 worries that bother him, 96 never arrive. Of the remaining four, two are of the type that can get solved easily. There remain but two. In truth man has to confront but two worries, yet having been unnecessarily bogged down by a hundred worries and lost all energy in doing so, he has no strength left to face the ones that he has to.
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