Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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It is not a very old incident. A sage was sleeping in his hut. He dreamt of a river four kilometers away. There is a tree on the bank of the river. Some treasure is lying underneath the tree. The sage woke up on seeing the treasure. He thought it was mere a dream. When on the next day, and the day thereafter, the same dream was seen, then the sage could not restrain himself. He thought there must be someting, otherwise he would not have seen the same dream every night. The sage set-out. Just after walking four kilometers, a river was seen. A tree was also seen pear the river. Now the sadbu became anxious how to findout the treasure on digging under the tree. The sage returned back to his but after having waited for the policeman to leave the place. The sage came on the second day, and also on the third day, but returned back again when he saw the policeman not moving away from there.
When the sage came there after four days, then the soldier stopped him and began to say—“O great sage, I have to ask you something."
Sadhu-Well, ask it.
The policeman-I have been seeing a dream for the last three days.
The sage—“'I have also been seeing a dream for the last three days and I am coming here only to have that dream come true." The sepoy said—"First of all, you listen about my dream. I have been dreaming that four kilometers from here is the hut of a sage where a 'fakir' (a sage) is sleeping. Plenty of wealth is lying hidden under his bed. Are you the same sage ?" On hearing this much, the sage ran towards his hut. Oh! the wealth was near me and I was wandering somewhere else in search of it.
This is what is happening. The sepoy is seeking money in the sage's hut, and the sage is in search of a treasure somewhere else. Here, every person is looking for wealth, the God, between one another. No one is trying to see inside bis own self. God says that to know the wealth within is an attempt to see wealth, he who makes such an attempt is a real wealthy person. If you have forgotten your wealth, you have become a pauper indeed. Come