Yesterday I received a whatsapp
forward message, it was a story about two boys how they were playing on thin ice.
While one boy fell through the ice into the lake underneath, the other boy
rescues the victim by breaking a huge branch of a tree. When people asked how
the boy rescued the victim, a wise old man commented that the boy could achieve
this because there was no one around to tell the boy that this was impossible!
And so he did it.
Point to ponder!
I would like to look at the positive
converse of the above statement. It reminds me of our old mythological
character in Ramayana. Jambavan! Our mythological stories had so many
Characters, Gods, Themes etc and they talk about various aspects of life with
whom/which one can relate to at any point in time.
Coming back to Jambavan, he was
the old bear considered to be the wisest in the group that was around in the
jungle to help Lord Rama bring back his wife Sita. When it was found that Sita
was abducted by Ravana and taken across the ocean, they needed somebody to go
across. It was Jambavan who proposed the name of Hanuman. Not only that, it was
Jambavan who actually motivated Hanuman that only he could do this feat of
flying across the ocean. Mythology says that Hanuman does not remember his own potentials, and that it needed a Jambavan to remind Hanuman of his immense potentials,
and once done, Hanuman implemented with a certain ease.
In contrast to the story of the boys in the first
para – don’t we all need a Jambavan to identify and tell us about our own
potentials to achieve great things on our own, which we are capable of? We need a Jambavan to motivate us to think
beyond the boundaries, shake us out of our comfort zone and to make us achieve
things that we thought was impossible or we never thought of!
Wake up the Jambavan hiding
inside you…
You can do it Bro!
