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Articles: Moral Stories | Just keep planting
- Prof. VENKATA RAMANAMURTY MALLAJOSYULA
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Freezing winds and blistering heat, landslides, floods and fires destroyed his work, time and again. But he kept planting.
One night, he found that a highway crew had come and taken tons of dirt for a road grade, and all the plants he had painstakingly planted in that area were gone.
But he just kept planting. Week after week, year after year he kept at it, against the opinion of the authorities, the trespassing laws, the devastation of road crews, the wind, rain and heat...even against plain common sense. He just kept planting.
Slowly, very slowly, things began to take root. Then, gophers appeared. Next were rabbits; and then porcupines.
The old copper smelter eventually gave him permission, and later, as times were changing and there was political pressure to clean up the environment, the company actually hired Paul to do what he was already doing, and they provided him with machinery and crews to work with. Progress accelerated.
Now the place is fourteen thousand acres of trees, grass and bushes, rich with elk and eagles, and Paul Rokich has received almost every environmental award Utah has.
He says, 'I thought that if I got this started, when I was dead and gone, people would come and see it. I never thought I'd live to see it myself!'
It took him until his hair turned white, but he managed to keep that impossible vow he made to himself as a child.
What was it you wanted to do that you thought was impossible? Paul's story sure gives a perspective on things, doesn't it?
The way you get something accomplished in this world is to just keep planting. Just keep working. Just keep plugging away at it one day at a time for a long time, no matter who criticizes you, no matter how long it takes, no matter how many times you fall.
Get back up again. And just keep planting.
Bhagavan Baba says, “The one with noble qualities of purity, patience and perseverance, is verily God.” Even sky is not the limit for a person who is diligent and determined, because he or she gains access to an infinite source of ideas and energy. Let us be persistent with our pure ideas and new vistas will open in our life conferring on us immense happiness.
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