Monday, 27 August 2018

Savour your uniqueness

The Speaking Tree | Lifestyle | ET

By JANINA GOMES

Each one of us is unique. No one laughs and cries the way you do and no one walks, talks and works the way you do. We are all eminently qualified — to do the work just we can do in this world and to live the life only we can live in this world. Samuel Silver said, “Your thumb is a reminder that you are not just one more animated toy stamped out by a factory, but an individual, capable of doing and saying things differently from anyone else, capable of making a unique contribution, large or small, in your world, your home.”

The essence of spiritual life is to just be. When we are what we are meant to be, we reveal what we are by what we stand for and what we stand against. When our horizons widen, we see our personal ups and downs, desires, cravings and efforts in scale: small and transitory spiritual facts, within a vast abiding spiritual world and lit by a steady spiritual light.

Our uniqueness makes us aware of our goals and enables us to pursue them single-mindedly. Our journey in life is not meant to be left to chance, else, we would never get to our destination. There is a difference between the archer who aims deliberately and hits the target and one who keeps shooting arrows without direction.

Don’t bury your uniqueness to become one unidentifiable mass, losing your individuality and uniqueness. Paradoxically, real unity is not built on a lack of individuality and uniqueness. Real unity grows when we can celebrate our differences and pursue and build on our own God-given uniqueness and gifts.

DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

Here we shall be inclined to be skeptical saying if we existed before, why is it we do not remember our past? This seeming potent argument against pre-existence and reincarnation is really a very frail objection for how little we can depend on our memory . sometimes we do not remember what has chanced yesterday or the day before , while there are people who have a genius of remembering details of their lives even during infancy, nay, even prior to their infancy back into a former life. Merely non –recollection of parts of our life does not disprove our existence. For instance , we cannot say that our soul did not exist in our infancy because we cannot recall that period of our life. There is however, a great blessing in this forgetfulness, for sometimes our past recollections prove to be most fatal to our progress . they hang over us like dark clouds ever shadowing our destiny. Therefore, this veil is great mercy of Divine Providence causing us to forget and helping us to start afresh with each new life.  Courtesy Reincarnation and immortality

But, if He exists?

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 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 4m.

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