INSEPARABLE LOVE BOND

 

INSEPARABLE LOVE BOND

 

"We should have unbroken and unbounded love. How can we praise love? Everything is insignificant before it." – Sri Sai Satcharitra, Ch.  43

 

Two brothers worked together on a farming field passed on from their parents. The one, the older brother, had married and have quite a big family. The younger brother was still single, and planned not to get married. When the harvesting seasons come, they always divide the harvest between them equally and fair. Always it has been like that. 

 

On one day, the younger brother who was still single thought about it, "It is not fair if we divide the harvest equally. I am still single and my necessity is not that much".

 

So, for the sake of his older brother, every night he would take a sack of his grain and secretly put it to his brother's granary., thinking that a sack a day might be enough to reduce his older brother's burden and his family.

 

At the same time, the married brother was also worried and concerned about his brother. He thought, "It is not fair if we always divide the harvest equally. I have a wife and children who will be able to take care of me later when I grow old. While my brother, he doesn't have anybody, nobody would care for him if he grows old and poor. He deserves to get more than me."

 

Therefore, every night, he too, secretly move a sack of grain from his granary to his younger brother's granary, wishing that at least a sack a day would aid his brother, later in the coming future.

 

So it went on for years that they kept moving a sack of their grain to the other's while keeping it as secret between them, and the amount of grain sack in the granary seems to be unchanged. Until one night they meet each other when carrying out their daily secret plot.

 

At that time, they realized what has been going on, and cried hugging each other. They knew, in silence, that there is a very deep love that has been nourishing their brotherhood!

 

 

 

When one lives in the spirit of true brotherhood, wealth and treasures becomes the glue of love and not the destroyer of love that is how it is.

 

Mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; and all are born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. Why is this universal spirit of living for each other forgotten? 

 

Let us try our best not to lose these precious values of brotherhood and let us love one and all with the same love as we love ourselves!