Making mistakes
All of us commit mistakes. However much we wish to be perfect we err and brood over it for quite a long time. It may be a miscalculation, misjudgment or misconception of any aspect of life. When we realize our mistake, we are full of tension, unable to concentrate, feel sleepless and even unable to find peace of mind. It is because we have come to know our mistake. Subsequently, we develop the fear of making a mistake again, which is the worst mistake of all. Such a fear creates uncertainty, and inferiority. It makes our image shrink. Should one continue with this inner fear?
We must come out of that state of mind. After all, mistake can be corrected, so why should we endlessly? Why should we give up hope and belief in ourselves before we try to find out our potential to correct and improve? True greatness lies not so much in making a mistake as in rising above it.
We are all mistake-makers, but thank God we have the power to be mistake-breakers. The capacity to rise above a mistake is the beginning of success. Mistakes give us an opportunity to find out our true worth. We must see that we correct ourselves and do not repeat the mistake. Wang Yangming, a Chinese philosopher said. The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is blessing, but they believe that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct himself and continually to make a new man of himself.
Keep An Attitude of Gratitude.
An attitude of gratitude-that is being grateful for everything God sends us- is a key to praying effectively. And it is a quality that takes some effort to cultivate on a daily basis.
One of my teachers , Rabbi Zelig Pliskin in his book “Gateway to Happiness”, relates the story of a man who one day decided to spend a few minutes appreciating his morning cup of coffee. It was a part of his daily routine and, God forbid, if something went wrong and he had to go without it, he surely missed it.
As he began to ponder over this cup of coffee, he jotted down his thoughts. First he noted that coffee beans grew in
But that was not all. The water for the coffee was boiled. The matchbox could not be left out. He drank his coffee with milk, so the dairy industry had to be considered and all the work involved from the time the milk left the cow until it reached his coffee cup.
At the need of writing eagerly for half an hour, the man had not even begun to describe the cup, saucer and teaspoon he used, the table he place them on, or the chair he sat on.
For the first time, he became aware of thousands of people whose work was necessary for him to have that cup of coffee. This awareness led him to a most intense spiritual experience. He prayers for the next few weeks were with a deep feeling of gratitude to his fellow human beings all of whom made it possible for him to exist on his planet.
He became aware of the thousands of people necessary for him to have a cup of coffee.
Now that is what appreciating a cup of coffee did for this man. But what about all the things that had happened that same morning before he came into the kitchen?
These same things happen to all of us in much the same order, and we can easily imagine the sequence of events; First, he woke up-there , he was alive! He opened his eyes and watches the objects in his bedroom come into focus. Yes he had eyesight. Then he moved his hand to rum his eyes. For his hand to move, thousands of electrical and chemical changes had to take place in his body and travel from his brain to his arm.
He looked at the alarm clock and murmured, “I better get going”, He did not give it a second thought that everything in his body was functioning just find he had eyesight, he had mobility, he had consciousness.
God made sure that he had all these things, but man took them for granted each and every day much the same way he had taken his coffee for granted.
When his coffee was not there one morning, he missed it. He appreciated it more when he was deprived of it, when he had run out of coffee beans, or the oven malfunctioned and he could not boil water. How much more would he have missed his eyesight , his limbs, his mind!
(Courtesy : East & West Series)
Samrat is a 26 yr old HR professional. On a regular day he reaches office around
Samrat knows that.” Life is hectic and it’s very difficult for me to visit and call up my friends on a regular basis. It is far easier to keep in touch with them on line, since most them are on line too. But it is true that the virtual world is becoming very real for us. We are moving away from the world around us.” he says.
……………………………………………………………………………………CourtesyTelegraph
I Derive Joy
There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 5 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the ten minutes joy that I derive from? I am not robbing you of your joy; why should you rob me of mine. He asked. The critics were silenced. –Baba- Chinna Katha
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