Faith works wonders. God is there everywhere but
we cannot see him because of lack of faith. There are many stories
which elaborate this point.
There was a village lady who used to earn for her
family through doing some work for which she has to cross a river
everyday. Sizable portion of her earnings was lost in the fare.
Once she was hearing a lecture delivered by a
preacher. He said,”The name of God is so powerful that by
chanting his name any one can easily cross over the ‘BhavSindhu’
or the ‘World Ocean’.” This world ocean is the
ocean of attachments and the resulting miseries, sufferings and
deaths in innumerable lives. But the lady was not aware of this
meaning. She thought that ‘world ocean’ is a real big
ocean of water. She had complete faith that God could do anything and
everything. She was very happy to know about crossing ocean by
chanting name of God because now she could save her earnings by this
trick.
So she stepped into the river with complete faith
that God will help her to cross over if she chanted his name. God had
to respond to her faith. The lady walked over the river and reached
the other side. She did not have to spend anything to cross over the
river. She crossed the river every time with help of chanting the
name of God.
She went to the preacher and thanked him for
telling her that chanting the name of God she could cross the river
on foot. The preacher thought she was making a fool of him. But she
insisted that she crossed the river everyday on foot. The preacher
went to check it himself. He could not believe his eyes to see that
the lady went other side of river walking over water. He touched her
feet and prayed,’O! God! Let such faith be filled in my mind
too.’