Once there lived a king who decide to held a competition to find out who is the strongest person in his kingdom. He said that those who win his competition will get hundred gold coins. Many people, eager to get the prize went to the palace to participate in the competition. There the king showed them a huge iron gate, with a big heavy lock. The king said, "Whoever opens this door will get the prize." As soon as they saw the gate most of them backed out. They thought that it is not at all possible to open the gate. But a small boy who was just about five years old, came in front of the king and said that he would give a try. He went near the gate and gave a gentle push and the door opened wide. Everyone were surprised. The king laughed and said, "Actually we had left the door unlocked. All you needed to do was to just make an attempt. So this young boy deserves the prize".
Many a times in a life even before starting to attempt to do a work, we simply get bewildered by the complexity of the job and think that this is not in our capacity and fail to even start. For eg., when we see the no. of volumes of Srimad Bhagavatam books, we start wondering how will I be able to finish these 18000 slokas? And then we do not even start studying and lose the opportunity of such a valuable gift given by Srila Prabhupada. Just like the small boy in the story we should also make an endeavor to start our service irrespective of its magnitude.
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