To arrest marauding monkeys who invade homes, a bottle with nuts is used. However the opening at the top is just big enough for the monkey’s hand to slide in.
The lured monkey grabs the nuts and forms a fist which cannot pass through the small opening. The monkey has a choice to let go of the nuts and escape. However it continues to hang on to the nuts.
The monkey gets captured because of its greed. So often, we behave like the monkey. We grab beyond our need. We grab without bothering of the implications of choices fuelled by greed.
The lure of grabbing blinds us from the consequences of such actions. We hang on to what we grab, even if it results in our freedom being compromised.
We hold on to old things and ideas that can no longer help us to succeed. We refuse to change. We are comfortable with where we are and what we have, so we prefer to be held hostage there.
To be unfettered in life we have to let go of greed. Success does not come by grabbing possessions. It is realised by securing liberation from unreasonable greed that blinds and eventually binds us in a bind!
To be truly free, do not grab more
Ignore greed and learn to let go!
- Pravin K. Sabnis
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