Salt of life

Salt of Life

An old and wise man advised a sad and suffering young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to told him drink it. "How does it taste?" the wise man asked. "Very salty and not good," said the young man.

The wise man told the  the young man to take another handful of salt and put it in a  lake nearby. They went to the lake side and the young man put the same amount of salt in to the lake.   The old man said, "Now taste the water from the lake."

Old man asked, "How is the taste now?" "Good!" said the young man. "Is it too salty?" asked the old man. "No, it is good" replied the young man.

The old man explained to the young man, " the pain of life is pure salt. no more. no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount we taste the pain depends on the container we put in to. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things.... Stop being a glass. Become a lake.

and now this spiritual twist:

Yes, when you dissolve the salt of pain in the love of Bhagavan pervading the whole universe, it becomes the salt of life which gives us  strength to move forward!