Once a ghost
catcher caught a ghost and went to city to sell it. There he met a rich man,
the rich man asked him "what are you selling?" Ghost catcher replied,
"It's a ghost". This ghost has an immense power and no how difficult
the task is he can complete it within minutes.
Rich man was a
big businessman. His business was spread in many countries. Hi was tempted to
head the praise of ghost and asked “What is price of this ghost?” Ghost catcher
replied, “Only five hundred coins.”
Hearing this,
the rich man was surprised. He said, “What!! Just Five hundred coins.” He does
all the work so quickly and still his value is so less, Why?
Ghost catcher
replied, “Sir this ghost has innumerable qualities but there is one big flaw.”
If he doesn’t get any work to do, then he runs to eat the owner.
Rich man
thought that I have hundreds of businesses and work done. This ghost will get
tired but work will not end. Thinking this, he bought the ghost.
As soon as rich
man bought the ghost, Ghost stated saying, “Work, work, give me work.” Rich man
was also ready, He immediately told him many tasks at once but ghost was much
faster than his thinking. Ghost complete all the work within minutes as rich
man said it.
Rich man was happy
but after few days, he started to get nervous as all most, all of this work
already was done by the ghost. And he did not understand what work he should
tell him now. And if he doesn’t give any work to the ghost he will kill him and
eat him.
He started
worrying day and night, and slowly his health also started deteriorating. By chance,
one day a Monk came to rich man’s town. One of the man’s friends suggested him
to go to the Monk and ask for solution of his problem.
The rich man
wants to the monk and told him whole story of ghost. After listening to rich
man the monk laughed and said, “Don’t worry at all” It’s solution is very easy.
Do one thing, ask that ghost to bring a long bamboo with a lot of knots and
bury it in your courtyard. Just tell him work you want to get done and when
there is no work then ask him to climb up and come down that bamboo again and
again and keep counting the knots. This way your work will be done and he will
not come after you when you have no work.
The rich man
did this and his problem was solved. Now whenever he had any work he would ask
the ghost to do the work and when there was no work he would ask him to keep
climbing up and getting down the bamboo.
Conclusion:
If we see in
our lives, then we will find that. This ghost is none other than our mind. As
long as our mind is engrossed in some work it is fine, but if you want to keep
it free even for a moment then is runs to eat you.
Whenever your
mind is free different types of thoughts starts coming in it. And most of these
thoughts are negative and bad. Then this mind starts to distract you. That’s
why never keep your mind idle as long as you have some work keep it busy in it.
Breath is bamboo, and when you have no work always watch your breath come and go. With this your mind will not remain idle, and bad thoughts will not arise in it if you keep practicing it then slowly, slowly you will also start swinging in the swing of all kinds of happiness and peace.