A few years after we got married my ex wife knitted for me a
beautiful multicoloured wollen pullover
with a monkey cap. It was a beautiful one and whenever I wore it , people
admired it and enquired from which store I had bought it from ,and I proudly used to say that my wife had
knitted it for me. I thanked my ex wife for knitting this beautiful pullover for
me, There was so much love and caring behind it. She had taken a few months to
knit it. In those days I was sailing on the ship , as I was a seafarer. I had
worn this pullover from the biting Russian winters to the comparative milder winters in
India.
I wore this pullover for more than 15 years and was very much attached to it.
It became a part of me.
A I had participated in a
transformation workshop which lasted for a few days. Since it was winter I wearing the pullover. One of the participants
in the workshop liked the pullover and
at first jokingly remarked if I could
give it to him. I kept quiet and did not react. The third
day he again passed a similar remark. I got irritated and said” I am sorry I
cannot give you the pullover”. At that
point of time the thoughts that crossed my mind were “ How can I part with this
pullover which my wife had knitted for me with so much love and care and which
had become an extension of myself for more than 15 years. I was too emotionally
attached to it.
In the workshop
one of the lessons I had learnt was about the law of giving and receiving, the
more one gives , the more one receives in life and creates abundance for one
self in all spheres of one’s life. I decided to implement this lesson in my
life and not to be too attached to anything. A few days thereafter I met my
friend of the workshop and gave him the pullover which had become a part of my
life.
I was a bit
emotional while giving the pull over as if a part of me was being detached from
me. My friend saw my tears and we both hugged thereafter. I was now complete
within myself and moving on in my life. The universe has given me lots of
abundance in my life in various ways and giving and receiving has become a way
of being in my life.
