FAITH MOVES MOUNTAINS

I gladly  share with you and the group a letter about faith, as Jesus said FAITH MOVES MOUNTAINS.

 People with divine qualities hve faith in God based on experience, and to illustrate this point I will tell you a story: "Once a great sage called Narada Muni was going to see God and the spiritual world.  On the way he met a ritualistic priest that said please, when you are with God, ask me how many lives are to be here in the material world.  Then he found a humble shoemaker who asked the same thing.  Narada Muni asked God, "How many lives does the priest have left and how many are left for the shoemaker to be in the material world?"  God answered that the priest has left many lives, but the cobbler, this is your last life in the material world.  Narada Muni was very surprised and asked, "And how is it that the priest has so many lives left and the shoemaker only one?"  God said that you will understand when they ask and recieve the answer to, "What was God doing in the spiritual world?"  The answer being, "He was was passing an elephant through the hole of a needle."

 When Narada Muni returned to Earth and met the ritualistic priest, he asked, "How many lives left has God said that I will stay in this material world?"  Narada Muni replied, "He told me that you have many lives left."  Hearing this the priest stood in anger and started breaking the pots of sacrifice, offerings, altar, etc..  When he calmed down a bit he asked Narada Muni, "And what was God doing when you saw him?"  Narada Muni replied that, "He was passing an elephant through the eye of a needle."  The priest replied, "But what nonsense is this!  How can an elephant pass through the eye of a needle? That's not possible." 

Then Narada Muni went to the humble cobbler....  The cobbler asked about God telling Narada Muni about how many lives he has left here in the material world.  Narada Muni replied, "He said that this is your last life here, and you'll return with Him in the next life."   Upon hearing this the cobbler was touched, and tears fell from his eyes and the hairs stood on end and he was shaking all over the body sobbing.  Then the cobbler asked Narada Muni,  "What was God doing when you visited?"  Narada Muni replied that, "He was passing an elephant through the hole of a needle."  Upon hearing this, the shoemaker increased his spiritual ecstasy.   Narada Muni was surprised to see all this and asked the shoemaker,  "What, do you really think God can pass an elephant through the eye of a needle?"  The shoemaker said, "I live here by this banyan tree (the banyan tree is a giant tree, so huge that no one knows where it begins or where it ends), and God has put in a seed this gigantic tree, so why should I not believe that he can pass an elephant through the eye of a needle?"  Narada Muni thought that this is faith based on experience.
I was once told that in Europe and North America, there are people who are called de-programmers, or people who work on salary and their mission is to destroy the religious faith of the people who believe in God.  In this connection, I was in South India in a religious festival.  The festival lasted twenty days, and each day sacred deities were drawn in procession on a palanquin, all very nice, with lots of color, music and more.  Thousands and thousands of pilgrims came each day to the festival.  And on the last day of the festival, which was the main day, there entered into the temple three million people.  I was amused by the thought that the de-programmers come here to destroy the religious faith of these people.  They would ridicule them with a desire to remove the religious faith.  But actually to remove the religious faith of these people is like trying to remove sweetness from sugar, liquidity from water,  or heat and light and fire.  Is it possible to do this?  No.