Basically I am quite introvert and loner by nature. Close to everybody but not close enough to anybody. In my personal life I behave with utmost care to whomsoever I meet. But things are restricted to the purpose for which we have met. No evening party. No unnecessary telephone conversion.Friends are only friends for me. No better friend. No best friend. All are good friends. I do not know why I am like that. But I find there is no harm in being like that. So life moves on. I move on. My friends too move on. But things are routine and simple. I am a friend to everybody. But I am not a better friend than somebody and nor am I a best friend to anybody in the regular sense. Therefore my bulletins are for friends both known and unknown.
From the concept of known- unknown and friendship, I remember a small story. Let me narrate it in brief.
Once upon a time, in good old days, one man had many friends and he wanted to know who his best friend is. Somebody advised him to meet a Saint who was living in the nearby jungle. Of course Saints in those days were only staying in jungle. Unlike present day Saints, they had no palace to stay, no car to move around, no film actresses to get coaching on Yoga, no politicians to ask for donations and of course no TV channels to broadcast their early morning sermons.
So the man went to the jungle to meet the Saint. On meeting the Saint he asked, “ I want to know who my best friend is. Will you please tell me his name?” the Saint did not answer that day and asked him to come next day. That day while returning the man was attacked by a tiger in the jungle. But to his good luck one jungle man came to his rescue and saved him from the attack of tiger.
Next day when he again came to the Saint he heard the roar of tiger. So out of fear, he started running fast towards the hut of the Saint and by the time he reached the Saint, he had almost fainted. The Saint took a good care of the man till he became normal. When the man became comfortable the Saint asked him, “Now my son! do you know who your best friend is?” The man nodded his head in negative. Then the Saint said, “My son! yesterday evening, your best friend was that Jungle man and today morning, it is me.” But the man was surprised. He asked the Saint, “Both of you are not my friend.” Then the Saint said, “My son! at a particular moment who-so-ever is near you, he is the best friend for you in that moment. Because of me now and that jungle man yesterday, you are alive today. Hence yesterday evening that unknown man was your best friend and today morning it is me.”
Yes! my friends in the walk of life and in every moment of life the person near us is our best friend, he/she may be known and unknown. Let us be the best friend to each other in that sense.
From the concept of known- unknown and friendship, I remember a small story. Let me narrate it in brief.
Once upon a time, in good old days, one man had many friends and he wanted to know who his best friend is. Somebody advised him to meet a Saint who was living in the nearby jungle. Of course Saints in those days were only staying in jungle. Unlike present day Saints, they had no palace to stay, no car to move around, no film actresses to get coaching on Yoga, no politicians to ask for donations and of course no TV channels to broadcast their early morning sermons.
So the man went to the jungle to meet the Saint. On meeting the Saint he asked, “ I want to know who my best friend is. Will you please tell me his name?” the Saint did not answer that day and asked him to come next day. That day while returning the man was attacked by a tiger in the jungle. But to his good luck one jungle man came to his rescue and saved him from the attack of tiger.
Next day when he again came to the Saint he heard the roar of tiger. So out of fear, he started running fast towards the hut of the Saint and by the time he reached the Saint, he had almost fainted. The Saint took a good care of the man till he became normal. When the man became comfortable the Saint asked him, “Now my son! do you know who your best friend is?” The man nodded his head in negative. Then the Saint said, “My son! yesterday evening, your best friend was that Jungle man and today morning, it is me.” But the man was surprised. He asked the Saint, “Both of you are not my friend.” Then the Saint said, “My son! at a particular moment who-so-ever is near you, he is the best friend for you in that moment. Because of me now and that jungle man yesterday, you are alive today. Hence yesterday evening that unknown man was your best friend and today morning it is me.”
Yes! my friends in the walk of life and in every moment of life the person near us is our best friend, he/she may be known and unknown. Let us be the best friend to each other in that sense.