There is a significant episode in the life of Mohammed. Mohammed is a rare kind of sannyasin. Everyday his followers bring all kinds of gifts for him. Someone brings sweets, another brings cloths, and another brings money. Mohammed shares everything with his visitors and others, and if something is leftover by evening he asks his wife to distribute it among the needy. By evening Mohammed again becomes a pauper, a fakir. When sometimes his wife suggests that something should be saved for tomorrow, he says, “Tomorrow will come as today, and it will care for itself. Worrying for tomorrow means I don’t trust existence, which has provided everything for today. I trust existence will provide for our tomorrow too.” Mohammed insists that his wife give away everything that is left over saying, “With trust in our hearts we will wait for tomorrow” I am a theist, and if I save for tomorrow God will say, “Mohammed, don’t you have even this much trust in me?”
This is the way Mohammed lives all through his life. And when he was at death bed, his wife saves few coins for some future emergency. That night Mohammed asks his wife about it and she was surprised he knew about it. Mohammed answers his wife, “Looking at your face tonight I can see you are not calm and peaceful as you always are. For sure there is some money in the house. Those who are worried become acquisitive and acquisitive people become worried. It is a vicious circle, so take out what you have saved and distribute it so that I can die in peace.” His wife was worried if she could find someone at that mid night. Mohammed says his wife, “Just call out and someone will come.” And someone, a beggar really appears at the door. Mohammed says his wife, “Just see, if someone comes to take in the dead of night, someone else can come to give as well.” This was his last act and he died at peace.
If each day, each moment, each act is complete, it will be followed by a complete tomorrow. Then the tomorrow will be new and fresh, not old and stale. The future will never confirm to our expectations, because the future is immense and our hopes and desires are petty, trivial. The immense, the infinite cannot be controlled and manipulated by the trivial. A drop cannot decide the course of river; the river goes its own way irrespective of what the drop wants. This is man’s misery: it is hopes and dreams of future that turn into frustration and despair.
One who lives each moment totally knows no anxiety and no frustration. He is contented and blissful and fulfilled.
Wishing you good health & happiness,
Dr. Dwarakanath, Director, Mitran foundation- the stress management people
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