Monday, 20th October 2014
Forgiving is Greatness
Thomas Carlyle is the author of the book The French Revolution’ Once,
John Stuart Mill, the famous Philosopher and writer asked him, ‘Would you
kindly lend me the manuscript of your work. “The French Revolution” I would
like to go through the first part of your work. Carlyle readily give him the
manuscript
After some days Mill knocked at his door one night and entered the hall
in a dazed condition, What is it Mill? Asked Carlyle
‘My friend’ stammered the philosopher gasping ‘I am…. I …. Am sorry,
your manuscript was swept away by the maid and destroyed except for a few torn
pages.
Carlyle was stunned.
Gathering his wits, he slowly said, ‘Why do you keep standing ? Pray sit
down, Well, what has happened has happened, So, do not worry.
Mill sat down with a sigh. He talked with his friend for hours, well
past midnight thinking that he should console Carlyle. In the end Carlyle came
closer to him and said ‘Listen, my friend! Now do not think about it any more.
Take it lie this it is like the master asking a pupil who has written a bad
essay to rewrite it to perfection. “
So, if such great mistakes can be forgiven, how much more should we be
consideredate in forgiving the email mistakes made by our friends?
Courtesy Value oriented Moral lessons
How to get Sense of
Fulfilment From Work.
In one form or the other, we have to perform action/work during our
lifetime. In this industrialised society, our main motive for work is to earn
money. This motive becomes the driving force for all that we do and in course
of time our inner life becomes unrefined, with this total dependency on returns
for our work.
There are some people who love work for the own sake. they get pleasure
just doing the work. They get a sense of fulfilment form work. To them, returns
from work become secondary. A pat on the back, a word of acknowledgement or
appreciation may be all they are looking for A mother doing incessant work for
her family, for here children has this kind of attitude to work A mother/
father with an inborn sense of duty performs their actions without an eye on
returns.
A student who is studying is not paid for his work. There they be at the
back of his mind, plans for future prospects, for a future career. But for the
time being , he has to be absorbed and devoted? T his studies. He has to study
with a sense of duty. With this attitude, he can overcome his likes and
dislikes and pore deeply into his studies with total devotion.
But when then will be the motive to transform all our action into
karmayoga , the yoga of selfless action, or work done with a sense of duty
Work done with this attitude comes out better . we feel we have more
energy for work. Work gives satisfaction; we learn a lot from it Gradually,
this attitude helps us to see the larger process of life. Life becomes richer.
We see much more behind ordinary, normal things of life, which we had taken for
granted. We develop self-esteem . Our self-worth does not come from what
returns we get from the work, but from the feeling that we have done the work
to the best of our ability . this enrichment of our inner life through
work/action is called Karma yoga.
Courtesy PARTHA
Quote from the True
Charm and Power of Vedanta
There are many people, certainly, who mange to loosen the bonds of their
own egotism enough to be able to love each other more or less unselfishly
throughout their lives. Love, or at any rate the memory of love, Is always
present to some degree even in the unhappiest of relation ships. And , as
Narada reminds us, all love-no matter how the ego may distort or restrict it
–is in essence divine. But the question remains, can a consideration of these
states of imperfect human love be of any help to us in understanding the
concept of Bahkti Yoga?
The love of God described by Narada is a love in which there can be no
jealousy, no struggle of egos, no desire for material advantage or exclusive
possession, no dread of desertion; a love which is incapable or unhappiness.
Even the pain of temporary alienation from God cannot be called unhappy; for
the devotee who feels it knows , simply because he does feel it, that God
exsits and that the relationship between them is live and real.
But this concept of a love without unhappiness is just what we, as
beginners in the study of Bahkti, can scarcely grasp. That isn’t love at all,
we say to ourselves; It’s cold, unnatural inhuman. For we must admit, if we are
frank, that we have become so conditioned by the world’s view of love that we
actually need to be made jealous, need to suffer craving and anxiety, need to
make the hopeless demand for exclusive possession-because, without those
familiar pains, we are unable to enjoy the respites from pain which we call
happiness in love.
So perhaps there is still some usefulness in the old silly sounding
phrase; to be in love with love. Perhaps it can be helpful in giving us our
first glimpse of what is meant by Bhakti. Let us stop thinking of love as a
relationship between two individual egos and concentrate on the capacity for
love which is within each one of us. It
may be very small but it is our own and it cannot fail us. E can all agree that
our love, when it is thus regarded without relation to any external object, is
bot lovable for itself and completely free from desire or pain. And in this way
we can begin to grasp the , the idea that love is God
IF HE EXIST
I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 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 seven 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 seven minutes a day.
But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer
to waste seven minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 7minutes
joy that I derive 4m.
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Once, in Heaven there was a discussion among the gods to decide where the
miraculous secret power, the power by which man can achieve anything in this
world, was to be kept hidden. One of the gods suggested that it could be kept
hidden in the depths of the Sea. Another said it could be buried on top of high
mountains. The third one thought of a cave in the woods as the right place. At
last, the most intelligent among them said. ‘Keep it in the depths of man’s
mind He will never suspect that the power is hidden there because right from
his childhood, his mind is prone to wandering and he will not look within. Only
the intelligent among them will look within, and use the power and become
great’ All gods agreed. 
