Faith –Price of Miracle

Monday, 10^th November 2014

Faith –Price of Miracle

A little girl went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jar from its hiding place. She purred the change out on the floor and counted it carefully. The total had to be exactly perfect . Carefully placing the coins back in the jar and twisting on the cap, she made her way to Rexall’s drug store.

She waited patiently for the pharmacist to give her some attentions, but he was too busy . with here feet she made some noise. Nothing happened . she cleared her throat with the sound she could muster. No good. Finally she took a quarter from her jar and banged it on the glass counter. That did well.

“What do you want?” , the pharmacist asked in an annoyed tone of voice.

“Well, I want to talk to you about my brother”, she answered back in the same annoyed toner. “He is really really sick… and I want to buy a miracle.

“I beg your pardon?” said the pharmacist.

“His name is Andrew and he has something bad growing inside his head and my Daddy says only a miracle can save him now . So how much does a miracle costs?”

“We don’t sell miracles here. Little girl. I am sorry but I cannot help you”, the pharmacist said, softening a little.

“Listen , I have the money to pay for it, if it is not enough, I will get the rest. Just tell me how much it costs”

The pharmacist’s brother was a well –dressed man. He stopped down and asked the little girl .”What kind of a miracle does your brother need?

I don’t know , she replied with her eyes welling up. “ I just know he is really sick and Mommy says he needs an operation. But my Daddy cannot pay for it- so I want to use my money ….”

How much do you have? Asked the man from Chicago.

“One dollar and eleven cents” she answered barely audible “And it Is all the money I have , but I can get some more if I need to”

“Well , what a coincidence” smiled the man. “A dollar and eleven cents. The exact price of a miracle for little brothers!

He took her money in one hand and with the other hand he grasped her hand and said. “Take me to where you live, I want to see your brother and meet your parents. Let us see if I have the miracle you need. 

That well dressed man was Dr Carlton Armstrong , a surgeon, specialising in Neuro surgery. The operation was completed free of charge and it was not long for Andrew was back home again and doing well.

Mom and dad were happily talking about the chain of events that had led them to this place. “That surgery . her mom whispered. “was a real miracle I wonder how much it would have cost! The little girl smiled . She knew  exactly how much a miracle cost…One dollar and eleven cents…plus the undaunted faith of little child.

Quote from the true charm and power of Vedanta

All this become high lightened towards the end of the Gita when Sri Krishna says

“Till now I told you the profound truths of science of religion. Now I tell you the profoundest truth; and it is this having achieved all the strength of manliness, now rise to the higher and final level of godliness, full saintliness, by surrendering the ego and all its powers and propensities to Me who am your own infinite Self. Don’t leave anything out to claim as exclusively your own.

When the separate “I” goes away completely, everything becomes God and nothing else remains. That is self-surrender, resignation to God, which is the same as the Grace of the Divine. The grace descends fully at that stage from the Blessed Lord into the heart of the seeker. As I said t the beginning this is the last word of religion. Complete surrender, when the devotee fully experiences being bathed in render, when the devotee fully experiences being bated in the Divine Grace, and looking back at one’s past life, the devotee finds that ti was that very Grace that was operating all the time at the earlier stages of purusakara also.

The experience of Divine Grace gives a new type of strength to man , namely, the strength to digest all experiences and to become the stronger through that digestion, morally and spiritually. As digested food increases physical strength, digested knowledge and information increases mental and intellectual strength, and lack of such digestion, increases the toxic elements of the body and mind leading to physical and mental disease, so also digested experiences-success or failure, happiness or unhappiness, gain or loss-increase the character strength in men and women, and lack of such spiritual digestion distorts his or her character and the inter human situation. Such spiritual digestion is the product of man’s contact with the Divine within himself or herself. In one of its many beautiful verses, the Srimad Bhagavatam reveals this sweet character =fruit of Divine Grace, Conveying the words of Lord Visnu to a devotee

‘if birth , actions, *youthful) age, physical beauty, knowledge, power, etc do not cause arrogance in any one, (know that) that is the sign of My Grace , Courtesy Divine Grace

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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Water the Elixir of life

Monday, 3^rd November 2014

Laugh

Past Tense

Teacher : “I am young and beautiful , Ramu tell what tense it is

Ramu :  “Past tense Madam”

With a smile

Income tax officer: “You should pay your taxes with a smile”

Young lady “I have tried thrice but every time they insist for cash”

Use it here alone

Kamlesh asked the teacher “Sir, shall I take this book home”? Teacher said, “ No, use it here alone I don’t give anything to home”

After some days the teacher came to Kamlesh’s house and asked for a broomstick to clean his house Kamlesh said “No , sir, I don’t give anything to home. You must use it here alone

Water the Elixir of life

Water is an indispensable part and elixir of life. It holds the key to food security, too. World Water Day is held annually on March 22 to focus attention on the importance of fresh water and advocate the sustainable management of water resources. At the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, an international day to celebrate fresh water was recommended. The united Nations General Assembly responded by designating March 22 ,1993 as the first World water day from then onwards . world water day annually highlights a specific aspect of fresh water . in addition to the UN member states, a number of NGOs promoting clean water and sustainable aquatic habitats have used world Day for water as an occasion to focus public attention on the critical water issues of our era

The world water day in 2012 is intended to draw the international attention on the relationships between water and food security

How is water related to food security? Today there are over 7 billion people to feed on the planet and the number is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050 To be able to feed everybody , we first need to secure water, in sufficient quantity and adequate quality . We will also need to produce more food using less water, reduce food wastage and losses, and move towards more sustainable diets.

Food security exists when all people at all times have both physical and economic access to sufficient , safe a and nutritious food that meets their dietary requirements for an active and healthy life . People who have better access to water tend to have better levels of nourishment. Lack of water can be a major cause of famine and malnutrition, particularly in areas where people depend on local agriculture for food and income in 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirmed the right or everyone to adequate food . it is inevitably linked to the accessibility of the most precious natural  resource, water . Hence it is the elixir of life and therefore , the world water day to stress its importance for human survival.

Quote from the True Charm and power of Vedanta

It is possible that some may not fully agree with this epigram. They would rather say: Science without religion is blind and religion without science is lame. emphasizing the fact that religion gives us vision, science gives us power. This point apart. Einstein was clearly of the view that between science and religion there should be strong reciprocal relationship and dependencies.

Science of course cannot enunciate the goals and create in us a motivation for reaching them. But in regard to means for reaching the goals which can be enunciated and motivated only by religion cab directly or indirectly learn much from science.

This point is clearly put by Bertrand Russel when he says.

…science can tell him how certain ends might be reached. What it cannot tell him that he should pursue one end rather than the other.

Science can make a bulldozer. But it cannot train the emotions of the driver so that he will stop it before a crawling baby and not run over it.

Religion on the other hand cannot make a bulldozer but it can train the emotions of the driver so that he will not roll it over the baby

To be sure, we require bulldozers. We also want to be sure that bulldozers will not go about crushing babies , temples, we require power and sanity to go hand in hand and in the power of science-which is a blind power-sanity is not inherent: therefore, it has to come from somewhere else. That “somewhere else” is nowhere else but to religion.

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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Where is The Power?

Monday, 27^th October 2014

Where is The Power?

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.

So, do you see that the difference between two people lies in their minds? One knows how to tap its power and the other does not. So, the truth expressed here is that in the depths of man’s mind lies hidden the miraculous power, using which one can become great.

All Power is Within

All of you desire success. Your parents wish to see you come out with      FLYING COLOURS through the examinations. You want to secure a rank within the first ten so that your further studies will be ensured. Your heart is set on studying Medicine, Engineering , Law or Physical sciences.

Now , are you confident that you will reach your goal? Do your have faith in your potential? Thinking about this, very often, you doubt, you fear, you feel nervous and diffident. You say ‘I do not feel confident. I don’t know why’

But the simple truth is YOU CAN achieve your goal, if you have faith in yourself, if you analyse and understand the capacity of you mind, you can shake mountains. There is tremendous power laying hidden in your mind unutilised. The way to success is to tap the power.

Courtesy value oriented moral lessons

Quote from the True Charm and power of Vedanta

The Upanishads are thus the perennial spring of strength and creativity, This creativity and strength desire from their vision of man as the Atman, the eternal, infinite dimension of the human personality, their theme is freedom of the human spirit and their message is fearlessness and love and service. They summon men and women everywhere to this mighty adventure of freedom and fearlessness, love and service. They summon men and women everywhere to this mighty adventure of freedom and fearlessness, love and service, and to the realization, by each man or woman, of his or her essential spiritual nature, and the transcendence of the limitations of finitude. They explain every great movement-social , political, or religious –nay the phenomena of life itself, as an expression of the urge to freedom inherent in every organism-the struggle of the infinite caught up in a cell or in a body. In a social

scheme or a political system, in a religious dogma or a philosophical creed, in a texture of relations or the network of relativity itself. Hence their constant summons to man is to wake up and march on; Arise!Awake and stop not till the goal is reached! As conveyed by Swami Vivekanada, adapting the powerful words of the Katha Upanishad. Uttisthata Jagrta Parpay varan nibodhata

In chandoga Upanishad we find a passage which symbolically expresses the idea of spiritual drunkenness’ in whose waters are like nectar, and whosoever tastes thereof is straightway drunk with joy; and beside that lake is a tree which yields the juice of immortality.

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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Forgiving is Greatness

Monday, 20^th 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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