In search of TRUTH........

Aren't we all doing that. Searching for that final truth/happiness/peace/nirvana or whatever we may call it.

And I am sure most of us (that includes me too) will keep on searching for it for the rest of our lives. The reason is.........That in our quest for it......We travel far and wide. Look in seemingly impossible directions. Think about absolute worthless things. But we forget the small things in life......That matter most.

I remember this story.........I read it in one of those books on Shri Sadguru Saibaba of Shirdi.
One day when baba was sitting alone in his masjid, a man approached him. He seemed to be a very wealthy man. Baba asked him what did he want?

 The man said that he wanted to understand the meaning of infinity, space and time. And whether God really exist.

Baba said to the man " Acquiring knowldege in these subject require very high skill as one has to bring together all the FIVE sensory organs into control. One also needs to part away from this material world.

The man said that he can do it and therefore Saibaba could start teaching him.

Baba thought for a while........he replied " Yesterday when you came out of your house, there was a beggar standing in front of your door. This beggar hadn't eaten for days. He asked only for a rupee. But did you give him.........NO !  u didn't. Even though you had FIVE hundred rupees in your pocket.

One who cannot part with a single rupee.......do u think he can understand the meaning of infinity.

The man felt ashamed and left immediately.

It is not in the outside world that peace exist.........It is inside.........In ourselves.