Uncertain Realities

A tantric Yogi by name Agastya lived in middle of two neighbors who could not live in amity. He was well versed in divine and black arts. He once brought to life one neighbor who had thought of ending his life due to constant pestering from his neighbor. Agastya called the other neighbor and said,” If you do not undertake to care for your neighbor I shall cast spells on you and you will wish that you died instead. Do you agree yourself to be bound as your neighbor’s keeper?” His neighbor agreed though he did not like it a bit.
Soon after Agastya was plagued by disasters one after the other. He did every trick he knew to avert misery from dogging his steps. At last he went to Kailas to meet his old mentor and said,” Oh master I am in such a sorry state.” He explained his case and ended saying,” I meant only well; for all that good I did it is I who suffer! I used my gifts to force two impossible persons to keep quiet.”
His mentor said, “They are keeping quiet because they are afraid of your gifts.” The elder added, “What sort of gifts are they anyway?”
“Divine as you yourself taught me. Black as I taught myself.” “Can you say which gifts did you use to make peace?” Agastya thought for a while.
“No.”
“That explains it,” Old Mentor concluded,” Both spirits that of Black arts and Divine arts, they are constantly fighting and each claim for success.”
We are so interdependent on each other we shall never be able to say Success came to us because of anything special. Since it is a cooperative effort we ought to have a reasonable attitude to success or failure. Only that we can give our best shot at any enterprise and leave it at that.
Automobiles were invented to connect people and places. But speed kills. For all those astronomical figure of casualties since Henry Ford put motorcars on the road we can see those who have been saved because of them. Speed also saves lives. Uncertainty principle rules the universe.
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