There are so many stories that we can learn from and I though of doing this one today . We often think that the God does not respond to our prayers I have stated it many a times that I do not know anyone who has seen GOD . But do we ever try and do we try with full faith and trust that we will see Him ? In Indian culture we offer PRASAD , which usually a food to the God . We usually offer a sweet thing hoping that he will respond by giving us Sweet thing . We tend to offer the things that we like and also the amount is very small on daily Prasad offering and enough when we have invited many people for religious celebration. The quantity is judged to be ENOUGH for the number of the people invited and not for GOD. Because we are sure that once we offer it to God , all of it will be left for US to enjoy . So this a short story of sage Namadeo . when he was a child , his father used to do the daily pooja - the 16 steps devotional service to God , that we are suppose to be done . But one of the days , he had to go for some work and he did not have enough time for the elaborated Pooja . So he asked the son - Namadeo that he should do the Pooja . The father left and then the young son , may be 8 years of age or so went to do pooja . He did the pooja and then at the end of it he offered the Prasad.HE BELIEVED THAT THE THE PRASAD WAS FOR THE GOD . So he waied for the God to eat it when he had closed his eyes and offered it. When he opened the eyes the food was still there and he was not happy. So he did it again and then told the GOD that he must eat as he was not going anywhere till he ate it . And the the God did eat it
When his father came home . he asked the son as to where was the Prasad, the son answered that the he offered it to the God and the God ate it . The father was not amused . He did not trust the son. He told the son that he has been doing the pooja for many many years and he has offered the prasad to God every day and the God has not eaten it ever . He thought the sweet was too good that the son could not avoid the temptation. So he wanted to see if the son was telling the truth or not . So he told him to do it again next day. The son agreed and so he went to do the pooja next day. The father was hiding thinking that he will catch the son in act of eating the Prasad . But he witnessed something else. As the son closed the eyes had prayed the God to have it the prasad - the food disappeared . The father realized that the DEVOTION of the son was much more intense and HE the son believed that when we offer the Prasad to the God , HE WILL EAT IT . and the God had no choice .
If we offer with faith HE WILL RESPOND . If we offer thinking it is only for us , HE is not interested in eating it
When his father came home . he asked the son as to where was the Prasad, the son answered that the he offered it to the God and the God ate it . The father was not amused . He did not trust the son. He told the son that he has been doing the pooja for many many years and he has offered the prasad to God every day and the God has not eaten it ever . He thought the sweet was too good that the son could not avoid the temptation. So he wanted to see if the son was telling the truth or not . So he told him to do it again next day. The son agreed and so he went to do the pooja next day. The father was hiding thinking that he will catch the son in act of eating the Prasad . But he witnessed something else. As the son closed the eyes had prayed the God to have it the prasad - the food disappeared . The father realized that the DEVOTION of the son was much more intense and HE the son believed that when we offer the Prasad to the God , HE WILL EAT IT . and the God had no choice .
If we offer with faith HE WILL RESPOND . If we offer thinking it is only for us , HE is not interested in eating it
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