Gautama Buddha with his five hundred disciples was walking towards Vaishali, city in India. There was a small village on the way. Gautama suddenly took a turn towards the village. The disciples asked him that why he turned towards the small village.
Gautama said “I want to visit this village. We will all go there.” The disciples asked “how can we all fit into this village? It is very small, hardly two to three hundred people are there and very few houses for us to stay or sit there. How can five hundred disciples accommodate in the village. They want have sufficient water and food for us. Let us straight away walk towards Vaishali.”
Gautama Buddha did not answer them and firmly said “let us go there.”
The disciples were surprised as they knew there is not much place for 200 to 300 people, how can they fit there. When they marched forward and reached almost near the village, they saw a young girl carrying food for her father who was working as a farmer. The young girl of 17 – 18 years did pranaam to Gautama and requested “shasta, till I don’t come back after giving food to my father in the farm, please do not start your pravachan.”
Gautama Buddha smiled and answered in affirmative. Gautama Buddha along with his disciples reached the village. All the natives of the village gathered and gave immense respect to Mahatma Buddha. They arranged for food, water and shelter for them. The villagers were happy and said that they are also very blessed that such a Mahatma has given Darshan to them. They were very excited that people from different places go to take Darshan of Gautama Buddha and here he has come personally to visit us.
The disciples of Gautama Buddha could not believe and were very surprised that they could all accommodate into this small village and they had sufficient food and other facilities for them.
The Head (mukhiya) of the village requested Mahatma Buddha to give Satsang and spiritual knowledge to the village people. All the people of the village assembled to hear Mahatma Buddha.
Mahatma kept silent. There was total peace and complete silence. As soon as the girl arrived Mahatma Buddha smiled and his faced bloomed like a flower. He started imparting his knowledge, his Updesh and said “I was waiting for this girl to come back, my friends. I have come to this village because of this girl. She is the right disciple, she has ability to learn and understand. She has this priceless possession of knowledge from her previous birth. I know the history of her previous births. I turned to this village as I knew that this girl stays here and has the hunger, the desire to learn and value knowledge. The person who has thirst, the curiosity to know, understand and learn, will find the well to get water. The river will find the sea.
Those who breed positive thoughts in their mind get positive response from all the sources but those who breed negativity will never find their way. The negative vibes get negative thought in response.
Keep positive thought and have strong faith, God will come in search of you. How Mahatma Buddha went in search of the girl from a small village whose positive thoughts attracted Gautama Buddha to impart positive knowledge in her. Due to her the entire village got positive energy from Gautama Buddha and they were blessed.
