In English
One day an individual, who lived by the occupation of cutting firewood and selling it, was on the top of a hill. He gathered a lot of firewood. After this, he was running down the hill with the intention of selling this firewood. By the time he came down the hill, he was very tired. He could not continue to carry the load of firewood. He put the firewood on the ground and was resting. Later, he attempted to put the load back onto his head, but this was not possible. He was very tired and frustrated and in that frame of mind, he said to himself that he was very unlucky and that even the Goddess of death was not taking pity on him and taking him away from his vexatious life. When he was in this frame of mind, the Goddess of death appeared then and there. The Goddess said that she had come because he had called her. But the individual was not willing to give up his life and go with the Goddess of death. Then he said, “I called you because I could not get help for lifting this pile of wood onto my head. All that I wanted was some help.” Sometimes as a result of distress and difficult circumstances, we think that we better die, but in truth and in fact even an old woman who is not able to use her legs would not want to depart from life. In this, we should see that we are really hankering after permanency, an inherent quality of the in each one of us. We should ask what is it that makes us want to live forever and hanker after. We get the answer that it is . So, whether we are in the adhyatmic path or in a path completely devoid of belief in God, we are hankering after something, and that is the aspect of .