THERE LIVED IN A VILLAGE A reputed lawyer. He used to chant Panchakshari Mantra and one could hear the chanting of 'Om Namah Sivaya' from his Puja room everyday. One day when he was in his Puja room, a person came to meet him for an urgent case. He asked his daughter-in-law who was present in the house, "Amma! Is the lawyer in the house?" "My father-in-law is in the house of the cobbler", replied the daughter-in-law rather loudly. On hearing these words of his daughter-inlaw, the lawyer came out and shouted at her. "What is this?
What are you saying? You are telling that I am in the house of the cobbler when I am chanting the Panchakshari Mantra in my Puja room! Are you out of your mind?" The daughter-in-law replied calmly, "Father-in-law!
While chanting Panchakshari Mantra, how many times did you ask: 'Amma, has he brought my shoe after repairing? Six days have passed when the shoe was given to him for repair; still he has not brought after

repairing it! All right, let him come, I will give him a sound thrashing.' Did you not say all this?" "Did you really recite the Panchakshari Mantra! Were you not thinking of the cobbler all the time?" She questioned. The lawyer realised his mistake and praised the intelligence of his daughter-in-law.

"Amma, has he brought my shoe after repairing?" Asked the lawyer from his Puja room.

While doing prayer, Bhajan, Japa (recitation) and Dhyana (meditation), we should not think of anything else; our entire attention should be fixed on God only. It is due to the effect of Vikshepa (unsteadiness) that our mind runs after all sorts of unnecessary matters and our concentration gets destroyed. Regular spiritual practice and God's grace are necessary to achieve concentration.

The sensory world is the cloud that hides the soul which ever shines in the firmament of your heart. The same mind that gathers clouds can disperse them in an instant.


 

Source: Chinna Katha* By Sri Sathya Sai Baba



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