A Lesson from the Spirit

A parable about a vintager and his sons.

“The father fell ill, and there was no one to tend the vineyard. So he called his sons and asked, ‘Who will care for my inheritance?’
The elder son said he would take on this burden.
The younger, knowing he would inherit nothing, was silent. He fell silent from hurt and a sense of injustice. Yet in the end it was he who came to help in the vineyard.
Because his heart was there, because he grew up with it. He did not grow up as an heir; he simply enjoyed that vineyard every day as part of his life. The elder looked at it as his enrichment, and his soul was not invested in it.
‘And who then inherited it?’
‘The younger. The younger inherited everything. For you must love with your soul the work you do, love it with your whole heart. Think of it and live it not as an obligation, not as a heavy burden or a restraint, but live it as part of yourself—an inseparable part of you, as an expression of your thoughts and actions, as that in which you manifest, as that which reflects you.
Then you will have success. Then with your intention you will shape the best future for your child, for your inheritance—through the soul, through an open heart full of love. So be it.’

The elder behaved as he did because he had no Godly core. For he lived for the future bequeathed to him from birth. He believed, certain in his mind of his own rightness.
But the mind is only delusion in matters of the soul.
When you live by your soul, everything around you transforms to suit you, adapting to the needs of your soul and its longings, its greatness, its significance.
So what is more important, the soul or the human intellect?
Go, and do not doubt the righteousness of your heart’s choice, that heart filled with the Creator’s true, unconditional love for each of you. So be it.