Thread by @gowkinkara

Bedtime story:
There was great Suryavanshi king SUDARSHANA, who ruled over AYODHYA. He was an extremely righteous king, who ruled over his kingdom with great dedication, and performed great yagnas, Annadanas, and revered scholars and sages.
One day, when he was performing yagna

On the shores of Sarayu river, Narada Muni comes over. After doing all satkaras and Poojas to him, he humbly sits at his feet with folded hands, and hails his Bhakti to Vishnu. Narada Muni then says, that he is also a great devotee and is ruling his kingdom with Dharma, and there

Are discussions about his righteousness in Brahma loka too. To which SUDARSHANA humbly says, that it is bhagawans grace, and it is just the greatness of all that they are talking of someone unworthy like him. Narada then says, that all these Poojas, yagnas and annadanas have made

Him a tapasvi, and he now has the shakti of munis. When SUDARSHANA remains silent, Narada Muni takes a fistful of sand from the shore of Sarayu, and says check it for yourself, the tapas shakti in you would enable you to bring water from the river in a pot made of this sand. When

SUDARSHANA tries this out, to his surprise, the pot made of sand remains intact and he could fill it with water. Narada Muni blesses and leaves extremely happy SUDARSHANA. Now SUDARSHANA makes pots and vessels out of sand and does all Poojas with them. Not only that, he makes

Vessels and utensils with sand and gets food cooked in them, to offer as NAIVEDYAM to devatas. After a while, one day, he goes into the royal kitchen, and sees good food being cooked in the sand utensils, and overcome by joy, says how nice that because of my tapas shakti, we are

Able to cook food in sand utensils made of sacred sand of Sarayu. The minute he says this, the pots break to sand, and all the food gets spoilt. Startled by this, he starts thinking why it happened. Then he hears narada Muni's voice. When you didn't take pride in what you did,

And gave everything to Paramatma, you were humble, and that humility became your shakti. The minute you owned it up, pride took you over. Just as a pinch of salt spoils a pot of milk, all the tapasya you acquired vanished with the pride that crept into you. We can learn from this

Story that when we embrace responsibility without owning or cherishing the results, the humility makes us more enlightened,and we will realise the existence of an invisible power that will enrich us more.

Om sreekrishna parabrahmane namaha 🙏