This story talks about how two different people who are both equally pious understand God....
Once upon a time there was a very pious man who set out to meet God.
On the way, he came across a man who was relaxing, doing nothing much and singing devotional songs of God. The man asked him to tell God that his food and other basic amenities were coming to and end and that they need to be refilled...
Then he came across another man who was engaged in doing all sorts of complex yogic postures and asanas. This person told him to ask God as to when he would appear before him and give him Darshan.
The first person walked away thinking about how contrasting the requests of both the men he met were. Once he reached the abode of God and had a Darshan of him to his heart's content he related the request of the two people he had met on his way. God was immediately concerned about the first person's request and said that he would make sure that he would get all the needful immediately. Also he said that the second man was still not ready to get his Darshan. This puzzled the man since by the looks of it both men seemed to be very pious and devoted to God. Hence he didn't understand the bias in God's reaction towards them. But he remained quiet and kept his doubts to himself.
But God being God, read his mind and asked him to relate a story when he meets the two gentlemen on his way back. The man agreed and listening to the story left the kingdom of God. One reaching the man performing Yogic poses he narrated the story which God had told him to which he cried in disbelief saying, 'You fool, how can it be ever be possible? It doesn't look like you met God at all, you are just cooking up a fancy story to befool me.'
Bewildered by his reaction to the story, the man moved on and when he came across the man singing bhajans he was a bit hesitant to narrate the story but still went ahead and did it. To this the man started singing the praise of God even louder and said aloud that only God can do this, only God can do this...!
This made the man understand the bias in God's reaction towards them. Before I forget to mention the story God had told him was 'I saw God make a camel walk through the eye of a small needle!'
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