 It's late at night in the forest. It's pitch dark by now and an old man is trying to make his way through the forest. He's so old, he's so weak that he can barely walk. So he's holding on to the trees to pull himself forward. So he grabs one tree, he drags himself forward by one step, he grabs the next tree, then he drags himself forward by the next step. At points you think that he's going to collapse and die where he is but something in him is pushing him forward. So he keeps going till he arrives at a hut and in the hut he notices in the window that the lamp is still burning. So with his last breath literally pushes himself forward towards the hut. Unfortunately he doesn't quite make it to the hut and he collapses and falls onto the ground just outside the hut. But as he falls the door of the hut opens and a woman comes running out. Now the story makes a point of telling us that she's not a young woman, she's not an old woman, she's just a sort of average aged woman. So the woman comes running out, she gathers him up as best as she can in her arms, half carrying, half dragging, she takes him into the hut, she sits down on a cushion on the floor, puts his head on her lap and she starts to stroke his head gently. And as she strokes his head, as the time passes gradually you notice that the man's breathing comes back, now he's breathing again. The woman still doesn't stop, she continues to gently stroke his head and as the night passes, as the hours pass you see that the old man is starting to become younger and younger till by the time it is the end of the night or almost the end of the night. It is no longer an old man lying there but a young strong, handsome man lying there with his head on her lap fast asleep. But the woman still doesn't stop. She now bends over and she plucks out three hairs from his head and she flings them away. And as she plucks out the hairs from his head and throws them away, the man suddenly turns into a little boy. He turns into a two-year-old boy who wakes up, looks at her, laughs out loud, jumps onto his feet and rushes out of the hut. Now in the story, the man is the sun, the sun that travels across the earth giving light and life to every single thing as it goes. But as it reaches the end of the day, it gets tired from its exertions and it starts to fade away and it has to be rejuvenated at the end of the night so that in the morning when it has to start again it is young and fresh once more. And the woman represents in the story Mother Earth. She is Shakti, she is the one who re-energizes you. So what is so special about this story? Why am I telling you this story today? Well it is the lessons that this story teaches you. Every story teaches a lesson and every lesson is important but I think some lessons are more immediate than others. Some lessons are those that you have to remember every single day and I think this is what this story brings to us. So what are these lessons? In the story we are talking about the sun. The sun that brings life to every single thing on this planet is the most powerful thing in the solar system and by the end of the day from its exertions even the sun fades away and needs to be rejuvenated. We are only humans. We definitely need to re-energize ourselves if we are going to go forward. The second is the woman in the story. You know the story makes a point of telling us that she is an average aged woman that she is not some young energetic woman who has got all the spare energy to give to the sun and it is not an old woman who has managed to acquire lots of magic over the years. It is an average aged woman and the lesson from that is that the energy that you are looking for is within you. You do not have to go out to look for this energy. You do not have to go to special places or go to special occasions to try and find your energy. You go within yourself because that is where the source of energy really is. You do not get your energy from outside. You get it from within you. And the third and possibly the most important of the lessons is where she plucks the three hairs out of his head and throws them away and immediately he becomes a little child. So the hairs represent the baggage that we take on of other people, the baggage, the burden, the responsibilities, the crap that we take on from other people and that slows us down and that makes us heavy and that makes us miserable. And if you want to move forward, if you want to go forward, you need to get rid of that baggage. You need to offload the burdens, the crap that other people put on you. So take a break and re-energize yourself. Understand the importance of re-energizing yourself because without that you cannot get any further in life. The energy that you need, the source of energy is all inside you. Do not go out looking for it. Go inwards. You will be amazed at what you find in there. And finally shed the baggage. Get rid of the crap. Lighten the load so that you can be productive and happy and healthy all over again.