Story - The light of life

[Gandharvi Gopika]

Hare Krishna
Please accept my humble obeisances
All glories to Srila Prabhupad
All glories to Gurudev

Found this nice story by HH Sacinandana Swami.
Worth reading..

Once there was a guru who wanted to train his
two disciples by giving them a practical task,
"Take 100 Rps each of you" he said "and use it
to fill up your rooms with whatever you are able
to purchase. In five days´ time I will return to
inspect your work."
When he returned and visited the room of the first
disciple, he saw it had been filled up with rags.
That disciple had thought that by hook or by
crook he had to, somehow or other, fill up the
room, and since rags were the cheapest items to
purchase, he had chosen them. The guru was
duly shocked.
When the guru came to inspect the second room,
he saw that it had been filled up - not only once,
but twice and his disciple returned 80 Rps back
to him and said, "Guru Maharaja, I only needed
20 Rps to fill the room twice."
He had lit a ghee lamp in the middle of room,
along with an incense stick. Light and fragrance
were spreading everywhere, from top to bottom,
from left to right, from the front to the rear.
The delighted guru said, "You have truly
understood. Life is very much like an empty room.
It should be filled with the light of knowledge and
the fragrance of service, and not with the
discarded filthy things of this world."

Yhs,
Gandharvi,,..!!