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The Wooden Plank, Our Savior !
May be you will remember everything... may be you will recite all your prayers remember God or Guru... but at that time will anyone come to your rescue! Yes or no? Give me an answer
But, if suddenly your prayers are answered and God's messenger comes to you...you are struggling to save your life and this savior gives you a plank of wood and tells you "catch it, hold it, it won't let you sink.”
How important will that plank be? Will it help you to survive? How would you feel about that plank of wood? That plank would seem like your life saver your saviour! But that feeling of life saviour will arise only when the violent sea seems to be completely life threatening ! The plank seems like a blessing only when you feel and realize that you will soon drown in the deep and vast ocean.
"Only when the ocean seems like death, then a plank of wood seems like your savior!"
However, you only see this wooden plank as your life's savior when you are drowning in the vast ocean - when you are facing death. In normal circumstances, this wooden plank would not mean anything to you.
Our day-to-day activities, family, friends and work...we look at these as our life. Only when we realize that they truly do not constitute our life, and that we are actually suffering and moving towards death, only then, will we go in search for that wooden plank and appreciate its
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