Irritants and Jonah’s Fish

There was a man called Jonah who disobeyed Lord’s command and was thrown into deep sea. Lord provided a great fish to swallow Jonah and he was inside the fish three days and three nights.



From inside the fish Jonah explains about his experience through prayer he made to Lord. He cries with great distress. He called inside it was a depth of grave. He was broken and swept by the sea current and sea weave swirled over him. The engulfing water threatened him. The deep surrounded him. Seaweed was wrapped around his head. He was sank down to the root of the mountain. The earth beneath barred him forever. His life was ebbing, there are many who cling to worth less idols forfeit the grace of the lord.



The life inside the fish is more or less similar to the life in this world. The above bible story explains one of the kind of experience, but in practical we encounter with many such fish. There are Sharks, Cat Fish , Gold Fish , Tadpole, Crabs to swallow our soul and make our life miserable. Fish lives in water by eating the dead matters and smaller creatures to keep the water unpolluted from decaying dead matters. So it is obvious that what we find inside is the matter that are banned by nature that causes harm to other living creatures. The level of mental torture caused can be determined by the type of Fish and its eating habit.



There are many such spiritual creature that swallow our soul and take our mind and body to different kind journey of experiences both good and bad. In our distress and agony we should not loss our faith and hope on God. Through prayer and meditation we will be brought out and placed in a safe heaven.



I would like to share my own experience with such creatures that swallowed my soul and taken me to a painful experience of inmost being. What I saw inside is the people with mentally retarded cling to worldly desires like greed, pride, lust etc. In general fish is a garbage collection and storage system that keep us safe from the anti social element that cases harm to other living creatures particularly human beings. All these creature make us mad and lead to mentally unsound condition through worldly desires. Unorganized worship of idols is one of the chamber in many that forfeit us from God’s grace and barred us forever inside the creature.