Let The Rose Grow Within You

Monday, November 2, 2009
Let The Rose Grow Within You
Once a man planted a rose plant and watered it regularly. One day, he saw a bud appearing on the plant. Suddenly he felt that the bud cannot blossom into a beautiful flower as the plant is infested with thorns all over. He was so saddened and despaired that he stopped watering the plant. Soon it died..
The simple tale has a lot to do with us. Very few of us realize that thee is a rose within us. The God-like sweet qualities are implanted in our hearts when we are born. They grow amid the thorns of our faults. When we look at ourselves and others we see only faults beyond mending. We despair, thinking that nothing good can possibly be found in and around us. We totally neglect or fail to find the hidden goodness in us and we never realize our own latent potential to improve an change ourselves.
Sometimes we need someone else to show what we are. One of the greatest gifts we possess is our ability to overcome the thorns within us and find our own good ‘self’. This is the chief characteristic of love, which helps us look at the persons, knowing their faults, recognize their nobility and help them to overcome their faults. If we show them the rose, they can conquer the thorns. Hence it is our duty to help others by showing their roses and not merely their thorns. Only then it is possible to develop harmony among people around us.
(From Inspiration Quote)
Harmonizing One’s Thoughts and Speech, the Principal Practice. Quote from essence of Gita
The chief practice for this is to make our thoughts and speech agree with one another . Sir Ramakrishna used to say that real spiritual practice consist of making our thought and speech one. If we make our thoughts and speech the same and pray to God, won’t He answer our prayer? Remember the story of Dhruva; In the forest he prayed to God after making his thoughts and speech one. There was none to help him; he didn’t even have the help of a teacher. Because he had made his thoughts and speech one, God gave him a teacher and blessed him with His vision. Once we make our thoughts and speech identical, God will provide us with whatever we need. Even in the Gita , Sri Krishna tells us; “Make your thoughts and speech one.”
Humour in Life
Once a farmer awakened his hired hand just before Sunrise. They dressed up and then had breakfast. When the breakfast was over the hired hand said, “How about having lunch right now. We can save time by finishing it now. Then we wont have to stop work at all at noon. What do you say?’’
The farmer thought the idea was worth a try, so then and there they ate their lunch.
Then the hired hand said , ‘if we eat our supper now, we can work straight through till it’s dark why don’t we do that?’
The farmer thought that sounded good, too, so they immediately sat down to “Supper”.
When the meal was finished the hired man began taking off his shoes.
“What are you doing now?’ there farmer asked.
“Well”, said the hired hand, “I always go to bed right after supper”.
All things which have a soul, change and possess in themselves more according to the law and to the order of destiny.
I drive 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 10 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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