Be that Beauty

In a place called brahmapuri, there lived a man named Ananda. Ananda was a spiritual, extremely devotional and good hearted person. Since his childhood, he was a devotee of Goddess Laxmi and used to visit Goddess laxmi temple everyday.

In India, Laxmi is considered as Goddess of health, wealth and everything in life.  Though the Goddess is one, she is worshipped with different names in different forms. Like, Goddess of health as Aarogya laxmi, Goddess of wealth as Aishwarya Laxmi, Goddess of Food as Annapurna laxmi and so on. 

Every day, one or the other laxmi used to come in his Anandas dream and teach him all about life and beyond. One day, extremely happy Ananda invited all the Goddess to his house for lunch followed by bajans. All the Goddess out of extreme affection towards Ananda visited him the next day. Ananda arranged sumptuous lunch for all the Goddess and started performing bhajans and was praising one Goddess after the other, thanking them for all the things that are doing.

It was almost night, there were two Goddess left about whom he need to sing and thank. One was Goddess Adrusta Laxmi and other was Goddess Duradrushta Laxmi. 

It was Goddess Adrusta Laxmis turn. He praised her so much for all the luck she has given him at all his odd times and her way of entering his house whenever he prayed for her and thanked her for all that. 
All the Goddess were waiting for Duradrushta Laxmis turn as she is the Goddess of unluck and were waiting to see what and how Ananda was going to appreciate her. 

Duradrusta laxmi was waiting to hear about her too. Ananda with extreme devotion performed a wonderful bhajan on her name and started appreciating her this way.

“Mother Goddess Duradrushta Laxmi, thank you so much for everything. You play the most important part in my life. Without you performing your work, I would have never been this happy, this wealthy and this healthy. You are the one whom I pray to everyday. Every morning, I pray to you thinking I see your face everyday and see you walking out from my house. You every step of walking outside through my door is such a beautiful thing to see and feel. I just feel and live in that beautiful picturization of my mind for few minutes and with all mesmerization, I start my day. You are the reason for all of this Maata. I’m thankful for all your patience and the toughest work that you do. Thank you so much!”
With extreme happiness, Duradrushta laxmi gave him the boon that she would do the same thing until he stays on this earth. And appreciated his beautiful way of seeing things. And explained him that his beauty of appreciating the way of leaving the ego, reactiveness and all the bad habits has made him the beautiful person in this world.

With all the wisdom, Ananda explains to his family members this way:

"Everything has its beauty woven inside it. Few things are appreciated when they come into the house. Few need to be appreciated when they leave the house. If one things gains the beauty by staying in, other things gain the beauty by leaving out. In this ever changing world, the thought of remembrance stays in the heart. Rest all either things or people or your attitude, enter the house and leave. Embrace all of them and appreciate them for their work that your mind is letting you do. And also thank the good things while coming in and also thank the bad (not required) things for leaving out."

Moral : Everything has a beauty. One is beautiful when it stays. Other becomes beautiful, when it leaves. All that should be prayed is to be that beauty by appreciating the beauty.
Appreciate the feeling of happiness, empathy and everything that makes you a human for entering into your place.
And also appreciate the feeling of ego, reactiveness and everything that your deepest heart says as not required for leaving your place. 

Reference: Everything said here is out of complete imagination based on a small bed time story which my Grand mother told me once.