God - The Creator

Do not think you are the creator. The reason for tensions in life is this habit of saying " I did this, I donated, I have spread the religion, I prayed etc. there is no dearth of I's, it is never ending. We are gheraod by lakhs of "I" . Every step you become the maker, you put the stamp of I and carry this burden. Then you feel uncomfortable, you are wreathed in pain, there is no sleep, no peace, no hunger or thirst because of this burden.

Then you scream, shout that you are under stress, worries and pressure. Your life becomes miserable. You search here and there for some manta-tanta, some religious place, some prayer to soothe yourself and to get relief from this stressful life.

You yourself are responsible for this as you have carried the burden of "I am the maker". Whenever you want you can throw this burden and feel at ease. You are not the creator or maker. You are not the Lord. Who has created this universe, let him be the maker. Let him be the Lord. Why do you interfere in his creations and try to take his place. What is in your hands? Nothing. When your birth and death are determined by him, when you cannot breathe and walk a step also without his support, How can you decide that you are the creator? For what reason you say that "I did it" ? Think.

Happiness and Satisfaction

There is only one way to be happy and satisfied - Whatever you have now, feel happy with that at least, others do not have that to. Those who are intelligent, steady and patient, they know the truth of life is to enjoy and be happy with whatever is gifted to you by the Almighty.

Just try out this simple experiment. Many things can be learnt and experienced by experiments.
Just count on whatever you have, think that you are satisfied with it. Immediately you feel the sense of fulfillment, a feeling of happiness. You will find drastic changes in you, your mind will be free of tensions, worries, jealousy. Suddenly you will feel that darkness has gone from your life. Sun's rays are shinning on you, birds are chirping and there is a stream of happiness within you and your outside world as well.

Cultivate the habit of Satisfaction

Whatever God has showered on you like money status, special quality etc., try to make good use of it, enjoy it.

Utilizing whatever is with us means to first see it, check it, understand and analyse it, also feel it and then realize that what you have today is because of him. Atleast thank him for whatever is there today. But our desires don't end here, we always crave for more.

First ten thousand, then ten lakhs, ten crores, half of earth's property, then you want to be owner of this earth, more and more. This way one day you will drown with this burden of desires and wishes and die in the river of death.

Man's lust is never fulfilled. He is finished but not the desires. Man says I am not happy with what I am and what I have. I want to become something more. This want never ends. This is the habit in man that whatever he has, he thinks it as a waste and whatever we do not have have we go forward to grab that also. In the end there is no peace and no contentment.

Jo Teri Marzi (Whatever You Wish)

When there is sorrow or sadness in your life, there is a feeling of bitterness, there are problems.
A true disciple cries in front of God. This is the right thing to do to cry in front of God. Crying in front of others, who are already sad and unhappy will not make any sense because they will unburden their tales of sorrow.

If you cry without any inhibitions, with due respect to God in his lap, then you have learnt to pray. Your burden of sadness becomes light, all bitterness, hated,malice, problems all are washed out.

Then slowly, slowly a time comes, we cry in front of God but tears that drip from eyes are not of feeling of sadness, there is no stiffness. Tears are a symbol of Peace. Then we are calm and quiet and we agree with God and say " Jo teri Marzi, . There no complaints, only prayer and you leave everything to God and close your eyes. You are not bothered about any loss or profit. You say I am now holding your hand like a small child who holds his father's hand and walks free. Let father be worried, but the child is happy. singing any moving with his father in the crowd. He is free now,least bothered with no worries. Father is with me, there is no need to worry. You are mine.

True Peace

You have money but not attentiveness, no peace. You have high status but no respect. You have Gold but not God.

Without Peace and attentiveness, without respect and without God everything is waste, it is like dirt.

True property is Peace which you cannot afford to lose. Once you achieve it, it is always yours. Nobody can snatch and steal your peace.

Peace from within and peace outside as well is your ornament. Even death dare not snatch it from you. Neither fire, nor water can destroy it. No weapons can kill it. Real money or property is this peace. Rest of the things are false.

Do not live in dreams. Do not be under the illusion that you have achieved everything on this earth. If you have no peace, your condition is like a beggar all the time begging and wanting more and more.

If you accept this fact that I have nothing, I am empty, then your march towards Peace will start. You can become God of Peace.

Soft Heart

Cleanliness of Heart means softness of your feelings. It is neither harsh, neither cruel neither egoistic nor full of hatred.

Heart should be pure like River Ganga where your feeling of love abides. Become like a blank paper in your heart. Tell truth to your heart atleast, do not hide. If you are hiding things or feelings from your heart, means your heart is hard like a hard nut, difficult to crack. It is not pure, gentle and clean. There is all dirt accumulated in it.

Heart should be like a mirror. Love will not stay long in your heart if there is no purity in it. Without love life is rustic, like a mirror which is hazy. Life is waste, meaningless without love. Life becomes like a lamp without light, like a dried river, a desert and full of diseases. There are ruins only and death, only heartbeats can be felt.

Life revolves round love which makes you feel like as though a deserted place is filled and decorated with green plants, chirping of birds and beautiful scenery. There is fragrance of flowers. The atmosphere is pleasant, full of music and dance.

Language - Talk Sweet

Language is more piercing than an arrow. Sharp, pinching words should not be used while talking. Wound from a sword or an arrow can be healed but wounds given by words, your language, cannot be healed. Think and understand before talking. Talk sensibly. While talking think what would be consequences or results of the words used.

Your style of talking should be sweet, polite like a nectar. You don't have to give or spend anything while talking. Your polite way of talking can mesmerize. Do not use foul language as it may hurt somebody. It is worst than a poison.

Keep Firm Belief

All our worries are self created. The man whose mind is weak will never be free from worries. Do not worry. Keep calm and your mind strong.

Sit under shelter of any saint, a Guru or a trustworthy person whose views and ideas agree with yours. Whenever you have strong belief, remain firm Do not get carried away by weak minded people who carry dirt and unwanted ideas. You will get lost in unnecessary superstitions and fall prey to them.

Have full faith in Almighty. He will never harm you because He is an unseen power felt from within.

Remember

Maintain your personality and self respect intact. Keep your dignity alive.
But
Do not get egoistic and elated towards your achievements, your success, your strength, your beauty and intellect.
Accept
These qualities in you as God's gift, his blessings, his prasad.
Never feel proud or get lost in your achievements. but still, do not lose your self respect and self confidence.
Be little mild and kind. Do service to others. To a certain limit your good qualities are like beautiful ornaments worn over your soul. But once you cross the limit these same qualities become a burden, it stinks.
Think and ponder over your thoughts and action, where do they land you.
God is with you, Always with you.

Pay Attention

Remember Wrong or bad surrounding/environment ruins one's own personality and originality. One's souls is hurt. Man loses his own identity.

Surrounding has a very deep impact on your mind. A bad company leaves deep scar in your mind. Person feels wounded, guilty and is filled with inferiority complex. Specially people who are gentle and good natured, soft hearted, get affected more.

Best way is to keep away from bad company as it affects your conscience. The guilt feeling from the bad environment is deadlier than a major disease. It makes your body weak, kills your soul.
This can happen anywhere and with anybody.

So always be attentive and keep thorough watch or vigil on the people you are surrounded with.

Time is precious

Good jobs should be done instantly, that very minute. Bad work should be postponed, as far as possible avoid it

Those who respect Time, Time respects them.
Those who vile away their time, waste their time and opportunity, are losers.

Take care of your precious time, Health and Wealth. Do not lose them. Later on you may regret.

Try It

Learn to listen a little
Learn to smell a little
Learn to talk less
Learn to think a little

Keep your senses clean and clear. Keep them mild and pious.
Then watch. Everywhere you will find God. Everywhere you feel his essence.
Everywhere you will get his sigh. Every sphere of life you will get his indications.

Just try a little. There is no harm

Hatred : No place in Friendship

There were two good old friends, Gopal and Govind. Gopal had a unique habit of writing things on sand, wall anywhere instantly.

Once these two friends were walking alongside the beach and discussing something. Suddenly the discussion landed up in heated arguments. Govind wanted to stress his point but Gopal would disagree. In a fit of anger Govind slapped Gopal. Gopal was stunned by this behaviour of his friend. He did not react but instantly wrote with his finger on the sand that"Today Govind slapped me" They walked further quietly not talking to each other.

After walking together for quite sometime a little further there was an open ground full of water.
Gopal did not notice and slipped on it. Govind immediately rushed to pick up his friend. He lifted him up, cleaned him and hugged him. Seeing sudden change in his friend, he saw a stone and quickly wrote down in bold letters "today Govind helped me, he cleaned me"

Govind was surprised and found it very funny. He asked Gopal "When I slapped you, you wrote on the sand and when I helped and cleaned you, you wrote on the stone. What is the reason?:

Gopal smiled and replied "Oh! dear friend, I want to forget the bad experiences so that they get washed away in sand, but your good deeds I do not want to forget so I wrote it on stone"

This is true and lasting friendship. We should not breed feeling of hatred towards our friend at least. Nurture the good moments spent with your friend so that we find a true and lasting relation to rely on.

Are we doing it? Let's be honest about this.

Friend in Need

Be careful during the period when you are depressed, feel mentally weak, feel fearful and sad. You are filled with the feeling of guilt, sorrow, inferiority complex, you lose self confidence and self respect. You shrink from within and feel helpless with no strength in you. That phase of time if you do not keep awake, keep your self respect and confidence intact, then you are in a real trouble. You are sure to face loss. There are chances of developing physical and mental illnesses, you may go under severe depression, under abnormality.

This very time you need and a Sadguru, a very confident and trustworthy friend, who would listen to you, would inspire you and would boost your morale and self respect. A true and beloved friend who would always count on your talents, your good things and stand by you during your hard times. A person who would breed and shower love upon your dried sources of energy.

Alas! you may break totally, your personality may get totally deteriorated. You may catch all sorts of ailments. Search for a true and trustworthy friend now. Nurture that friendship. Do not hesitate and do not wait for the crises to happen. Control them now and do not let your ego be barrier between you and you true friend.

Shanti and Ashanti

In your life if there is Ashanti, then do not blame anybody. Then just ponder over it and think that something is going wrong. Are you going out of the laws of nature? Are you going away from a thing or a condition? Just check. Keep a watch. Look back. Ashanti is an indication, a red signal. Ashanti is our friend, our helper. It tells us that something a miss, something is going wrong. It alerts us that we are going out of our way. Find your way, your path.

Whenever there is no peace in life, just look back and think. Think about the incidences that have disturbed your peace. Definitely you have treaded on a wrong path. That is why you are away from Shanti (Peace).

Just wake up a little, open your eyes. Shanti(Peace) is your nature, it is your birth right. It is your way of living. You have deviated from peace due to your own fault. Peace is in you. Grab it.

Perfectionist and Ego

A sculptor who used to make beautiful statues was a disciple of a saint (A Mahatma). He was a perfect sculptor and the statues he designed and constructed would look real. As though some real person is standing. Nobody in that field was so perfect, they could not pin point any mistake in his work. He was so apt in that art that it would be impossible for anyone to differentiate between the statue and the real man. The Mahatma was very pleased with his work and dedication.

Once he told the Mahatma “since I have worked sincerely for you so many years, can you fulfill my one wish at least”. The Mahatma agreed and asked him about the wish. He said that he should at least know in advance the date, day and time of his death so that I will not allow death to come near me. The Mahatma granted his request.

Before the time of arrival of his death, he designed and built twelve statues of himself, exactly like him. There was no fault, they were perfect. When he knew his time has come, he hid behind one of the statues so that he could dodge God of Death(The Yamaha).

When Yamaha(God of Death) came, he was shocked to see twelve statues exactly the same. He was confused which one to take. Yamaha immediately rushed to the Lord, the Creator. Lord smiled and whispered something in his ears. The Yamaha laughed and the God also laughed.

Then Yamaha went and stood in front of those statues and said “ Oh! How beautiful are these statues, so well and perfectly designed. Lord Brahma, who created the universe, could not make it equally good. Nobody on this earth can beat this marvelous work of art, not even in future. But I feel there is a slight defect in one of the statues. Hearing this the sculptor immediately came out and asked “Where is the mistake”

Yamaha caught hold of his neck and said “This is the mistake. If you had kept quiet and would not come out, you could have won over death. But no, “I” cannot make mistakes. I am perfect. That I has brought me near you. Now all is over”.

This is not a story, it is a lesson we should all learn. If somebody boasts our ego, praises us to skies, we get bloated and trapped. Do not get involved and entangled in unnecessary praises and criticism. Within your heart of hearts you know where you stand. So be firm and do not let others hover over you. MOST IMPORTANT : DO NOT BE EGOISTIC. ACCEPT YOUR WEAKNESSES AND MISTAKES

Prayer

The way you pray is not the right way. Prayer should be deep from within. While praying forget what you are. You are neither man nor woman, rich nor poor, child nor adult, ugly nor beautiful, idiot nor intelligent, big nor small, you are neither Hindu, nor Muslim, nor Sikh, nor christian. That time you are not 'I'.
Just get immersed, get drowned in your prayers and forget everything. That minute only God, the Creator should be felt in each breath of yours, in each and every nerve of yours. You become God. Then you know to pray, your prayer is complete.

Only by bowing your head is not a prayer, bow your Self and totally surrender to the Almighty. This is the True Prayer. It is from the heart's content.

Life is in your Hands

Your life is in your hands. It is upto you to decide which direction would you like to mould it.
There is no restriction. You can live a life of a king or a pauper. of a rich man or a poor man, a saint or a fool. All is in your mind. To whom are fooling. You know in your mind, deep within you, where you stand. To whom are you fooling. You are responsible for your destiny as you have built it.

Do not know whether without thinking, either consciously or unconsciously, you have chosen your path. If you want, within seconds you can change your life style because all that you are living now is built by you. Make an effort, have some courage, a strong will power to take correct decisions to
bring changes in your life.

Make life beautiful, easy, melodious and beautiful. Make it enjoyable. Make your aim to live for self and for others.