"Once a fishermans wife was a guest in a gardener's house. She was asked to sleep in a room full of flowers. But she couldn't get any sleep there. She was restless and began to fidget about. The gardener's wife asked her: 'Hello there! Why aren't you asleep?' 'Oh, I don't know', said the fishwife. 'There are flowers here. The smell keeps me awake. Can't you bring me my fish-basket?'. When she got her fish-basket, she sprinkled a little water in it, and taking the smell of the fish coming from it, she fell fast asleep."
Worldly people are like this fishermans wife. They are uneasy in the pure atmosphere that leads Godward and cannot do without the smell of worldy things. They do not want to smell the divine fragrance of meditation on God.
Courtesy: Ramakrishna Math Pune
