Short Stroy - A Letter to God

ॐ नमो नारायण ! जय श्री कृष्णा 

While teaching and explaining Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta, Acharya Shri Shivender Nagar Ji tells beautiful and knowledgeable short stories. These short stories are instrumental in explaining a point in the discussion. The following is one such short story.

The story, A Letter to God by G.L. Fuentes depicts the unwavering faith of a farmer in God. For quick understanding, summarizing the story as follows.

It begins with a farmer, named Lencho expecting for a rain shower to nourish his field of corn. He is confident that his harvest is going to yield him huge profits just like it does every year. To his utmost excitement, rainfall did happen but sooner, it turned into a hailstorm destroying his entire crop field. 

The damage posed a threat to the family's survival as their entire livelihood was dependent on the year's produce. Although disheartened, the family had a robust belief in the almighty. Lencho, despite having worked day and night at the field, knew how to write and thus, decided to write a letter to God explaining his situation and asking for help. I believe he asks for 100 pesos. He went to town to post his letter addressed "To God".

The letter on being noticed by the postmaster, at first amused him, but then motivated him to want to do something for the farmer so as to keep his immense belief intact. He contributes from his salary and collects money from his colleagues and friends who willingly contributed to an act of charity. To his dismay, he could only collect 70 pesos which he wrapped in an envelope to make it seem like a reply from the deity. On having found the letter, the writer (Lencho) is not at all shocked, but instead, he gets angry about finding that the amount is less than what he had expected. He again writes a letter to God conveying his disappointment and distrust in the employees of the post office who he thought had stolen the remaining amount

Teachings of the Story: Acharya Ji, normally uses this story to make point of how ungrateful humans really are and also to teach us about the attitude of gratitude. Now, irrespective fo the fact that Lencho has received a good amount of money as charity from someone, he is sad and complainging about the money that he did not receive.

Rather than to be grateful for the blessing he had received, he is blaming the people who actually had helped him with their hard-earned money.

The final teaching of the story is, We may deserve something or not, but we should always have pay gratitude towards what we have received.