By Manoj Das
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Jagmohan and Kumardev were friends and were very much interested in matters supernatural. But soon they parted ways—Jagmohan fascinated by Tantrik practices and Kumardev following a Yogi. They did not meet for many years. One night Kumardev heard repeated knocks on his door. He came out in the verandah and whom should he see but Jagmohan!
"Welcome Jagu, I hear much about the miracles you perform. They are quite wonderful. But what brings you here at this hour of the night?" asked Kumardev, while showing Jagmohan into his room. "My friend, what you have heard about my performance is right. I do wonderful things, but I do them with the help of a spirit whom I enslaved through a certain kind of Tantrik practice. But now, instead of my commanding him, he is commanding me. That is to say, I am expected to command him to help me in performing miracles—that is the only field where he can be of any use; he cannot get engaged in any constructive work. But can I go on showing miracles all the time? When he has no work to do, he keeps on pestering me. If I am asleep, he would wake me up and ask me for work. I get annoyed with him, call him names, but he is no human being to mind it and the kind of spirit he is, he is quite insensitive to my feelings. What do I do?"
Kumardev meditated over his friend's problem for a while.
"Do you have a dog?" he asked.
'Yes, indeed, a very good one," replied Jagmohan.
"Is its tail intact?"
'Yes, it is."
"Good" Kumardev then told Jagmohan what he should do.
Back home, Jagmohan summoned the spirit.
"Here I am, boss, what's the miracle you would like me to perform on your behalf now?" asked the spirit eagerly. He had been quite bored for lack of work.
"Look here, you great imp, you're quite friendly with my dog, aren't you?"
"I'm, boss."
"Fine, the greatest miracle will be to straighten his curly tail. You must do it without causing him any inconvenience. Go and begin at once!" commanded Jagmohan.
"But that I can do in a trice!" boasted the spirit.
"I wish you success!" was Jagmohan's response. "Now, go and do it!"
And the spirit is still trying to do that. He unfurls the dog's tail, and holds it straight, hoping that it will remain straight after he withdraws his hold. But that never happened. The tail curls up at once.
The poor spirit has never been able to perform this miracle of miracles!
(The dog's tail represents human nature. It stubbornly refuses to change. In Sri Ramakrishna's parable, the human nature is represented by a string of curly hair).
-- With Regards and Prayers (D. Bhanudas) 89035 36440 Visit: www.vkendra.org See : http://dbhanudas.wordpress.com See :The Ideal of Self-Confidence
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