Allow few minutes of silence

Once, there was a farmer who discovered that he had lost his watch in the barn. It was no ordinary watch because it had sentimental value for him.

 

After searching high and low among the hay for a long while; he gave up and enlisted the help of a group of children playing outside barn.

 

He promised them that the person who found it would be rewarded.

 

Hearing this, the children hurried inside the barn, went through and around the entire stack of hay but still could not find the watch. Just when the farmer was about to give up looking for his watch, a little boy went up to him and asked to be given another chance.

 

The farmer looked at him and thought, "Why not? After all, this kid looks sincere enough."

 

So the farmer sent the little boy back in the barn. After a while the little boy came out with the watch in his hand! The farmer was both happy and surprised and so asked the boy how he succeeded where the rest had failed.

 

The boy replied, "I did nothing but sit on the ground and listen. In the silence, I heard the ticking of watch and just looked for it in that direction."

 

Baba said that a contented mind is the surest sign of association with the holy, further He continued how can a wandering mind be considered as being surrendered to God? In Shri Sai Samarth Satchrita, chapter 6 Ovi 41. Let us try to control our wandering mind towards the One Holy in silence and try to find out God's watch ticking sound.