I recently came across this wonderful story and felt worth sharing..
In a forest, a pregnant deer is about to give birth to a baby. It finds
a grass field nearby a river and slowly goes there thinking it would be safe.
As she moves slowly, she gets labor pain.
At the same moment, dark clouds gather around that area and lightning
starts a forest fire. Turning left, she sees a hunter who is aiming an arrow
from a distance. As she tries to move towards right, she spots a hungry lion
approaching towards her.
What can the pregnant deer do, as she is already under labour pain..?
What do you think will happen..?
Will the deer survive..?
Will it give birth to a fawn..?
Will the fawn survive..?
OR
Will everything be burnt by the forest fire...?
Can the deer go left..? No, the hunter's arrow is pointing at her.
Can she go right... ? No, the hungry male lion is approaching her.
Can she move up..? No, there the forest is on fire.
Can she move down..? No, that is where the fierce river is.
Answer: She does nothing. She just focuses on giving birth to a new
life..
The sequence of events that happens at that fraction of a second
(moment) is as follows:
In a spur of MOMENT, a lightning strikes, and blinds the eyes of the
hunter..
At that MOMENT, he releases the arrow missing and zipping past the
deer..
At that MOMENT, the arrow hits and injures the lion badly..
At that MOMENT, it starts to rain heavily and puts out the forest fire..
At that next MOMENT, the deer gives birth to a healthy fawn..
In our life too, there are MOMENTS of CHOICE when we all have to deal
with negative thoughts from all sides. Some thoughts are so powerful they
overcome us, and render us clueless and helpless..
Anything can happen in a MOMENT in this life. If you are religious, superstitious,
atheist, agnostic or whatever, you can attribute this MOMENT to divine
intervention, faith, sudden luck, serendipity, coincidence, karma, or a simple
'I just don't know'..
The priority of the deer, in that given moment, was simply giving birth
to a baby, because LIFE IS PRECIOUS...! And herein perhaps lies some Lessons
for us to internalize:
- Behind the outer appearances of the physical realm are invisible forces that regulate the process of Life.
- Invite these forces to be supportive of you and they will be supportive in accord with your receptivity
- Whenever faced with a set of choices in Life and a dilemma which choice to exercise, always choose one that operates out of Love and Creativity, which is in harmony with the Universal Laws. By steadfastly focusing on giving birth to the fawn, acting in harmony with the Laws of Nature that always Creates lovingly and effortlessly, the deer dropped all fears (imagined or otherwise) and aligned itself to the forces of Nature to guide it through. Nature responded in its own loving way.
In future, may you always be inspired to have a focused positive
insight, oblivious of all imaginary, negative probabilities..
"LIFE is Flowing Like a River With Unexpected TURNS, We can learn
to enjoy Each Turn..”
