Once there was an expert mountain climber who wanted to climb the highest mountain and to glorify himself he decided to do it all alone.
He started to climb the mountain all alone and in the eagerness to cover as much as possible in one day, he forgot that it was getting late.
Soon it got very dark and as the man could not see anything he slipped and started falling down at great speed.
In those moments of great fear, all the good and bad episodes in his life came to his mind and he was constantly thinking of how close to death he was.
But all of a sudden he felt the rope tied to his waist pull him away very hard. His body was hanging in the air and only the rope was holding him.
Clouds began to cover the sky and it was getting very cold.
In that moment of stillness he had no choice but to scream "Help me God".
All of a sudden a deep voice coming from the sky answered:
God: What do you want me to do?
Mountaineer: Save me God.
God: Do you really think that I can save you?
Mountaineer: Of course I believe you can.
God: Then cut the rope that is tied to you waist
There was a moment of silence, and the mountaineer decided to hold on to the rope with all his strength.
The next day the rescue teams found the mountaineer dead and frozen, his body hanging from the rope and his hand holding it tightly.. only ten feet away from the ground.
For us, the verses of Bhagavad-Gita/revealed scriptures are the words of God, and the rope which bind us is our material life.
Bg 4.40 —
But
ignorant and faithless persons who doubt the revealed scriptures do not
attain God consciousness; they fall down. For the doubting soul there
is happiness neither in this world nor in the next.
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