Hit the fields and country lanes in spring, and you’ll see farmers and gardeners busy sowing seeds in the freshly prepared soil. If you were to ask any of these gardeners or farmers what kind of product they expected from the seed they were sowing, they would no doubt consider you a fool and tell you that they do not “expect” anything, that it is common knowledge that their product will be of the type that you are sowing, and that you are sowing wheat, barley, or turnips, as the case may be, to reproduce that particular type.
Every fact and process of Nature contains a moral lesson for the wise. There is no law in the world of Nature that surrounds us that is not operating with the same mathematical certainty in the mind of man and in human life. All of Jesus’ parables are illustrative of this truth and are drawn from the simple facts of Nature. There is a process of sowing seeds in the mind and life, a spiritual sowing that leads to a harvest according to the kind of seed sown. Thoughts, words and actions are sown seeds and, by the inviolable law of things, they produce according to their kind. The man who has hateful thoughts attracts hate on himself. The man who has thoughts of love is loved. The man whose thoughts, words, and deeds are sincere is surrounded by sincere friends; the insincere man is surrounded by insincere friends. The man who sows evil thoughts and actions, and prays for God to bless him, is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to give him a crop of wheat.
“What you sow, you will reap; look at the fields there, the sesame was sesame, the corn was corn; silence and darkness knew; thus the destiny of man is born”.
“He comes, reaper of what he sowed.” Whoever wants to be blessed, pour out blessings. Whoever wants to be happy, let him consider the happiness of others.
Then there is another side to this sowing of seeds. The farmer must spread all his seed on the ground and then leave it out in the open. If he greedily hoarded his seed, he would lose it as well as his produce, because his seed would perish. It perishes when he sows it, but when it perishes it produces great abundance. So, in life, we get by giving; we get rich by scattering. The man who says that he is in possession of knowledge which he cannot give because the world is incapable of receiving it, either does not possess such knowledge, or, if he does, will soon be deprived of it, if he is not already. . private. To treasure is to lose; to retain exclusively is to dispose.
Even the man who wants to increase his material wealth must be willing to part with (invest) what little capital he has and then wait for the increase. As long as he keeps the precious money from him, he will not only remain poor, but will become poorer every day. After all, he will lose what he loves, and he will lose it without gain. But if he wisely lets it go; if, like the farmer, he scatters his golden seeds, then he can faithfully and reasonably expect the increase.
Men ask God to give them peace and purity, justice and bliss, but they do not get these things; and why not? Because they are not practicing them, they are not planting them. I once heard a preacher pray fervently for forgiveness, and soon after, in the course of his sermon, he called on his congregation “to show no mercy to the enemies of the church.” Such self-deception is lamentable, and men have yet to learn that the way to obtain peace and bliss is to spread peaceful and blessed thoughts, words and actions.
Men believe that they can sow the seeds of strife, impurity, and lack of brotherhood, and then reap a rich harvest of peace, purity, and concord simply by asking for it. What a pathetic sight to see than to see an irritable and quarrelsome man praying for peace. Men reap what they sow, and any man can reap all the blessings now and at once, if he puts selfishness aside and sows the seeds of goodness, gentleness, and love.
If a man is troubled, perplexed, sad, or unhappy, let him ask:
“What mental seeds have I been sowing?”
“What seeds am I sowing?”
“What have I done for others?”
“What is my attitude towards others?”
“What seeds of trouble, sadness and unhappiness have I sown so that I can reap these bitter weeds?”
May he search within himself and find, and having found, may he abandon all the seeds of self and sow, from now on, only the seeds of Truth.
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