Wonder
If a lump of copper turns into gold overnight
what a wonder will it be ?
Transforming inner suffering into Joy
is also a wonder similar to it.
What is this transforming force? It is Love.
Love dissolves away the hard core of the sorrow which is ‘I”
Surely Love is beyond self.
Choice
Where truth is a flower, false is a paper flower.
Where a pleasant word spoken is a bunch of flowers giving others,
A hard word is stone thrown to hurt another.
Where a wise word is a gem, an empty word is lump of soil.
Where craving is fire, freedom from craving is a cool blow of wind.
Where sorrow is the growing darkness in an evening , joy is the bright light in the morning.
In very juncture of life, there is a choice.
Your life is build upon the bricks of your choice.
Whom do you represent ?
Leaders are of two kinds:
Those who represent God and those who represent Devil.
Those who represent God build peace ,
harmony, happiness and prosperity on Earth.
Devil’s representatives on the other hand, work to divide humanity.
Division leads to conflict and conflict leads to destruction.
Even you, dear friend, belong to one of these groups.
Whom do you represent?
God or Devil?
Rolling snow ball.
Have you ever seen how a snow ball rolling down from mountain ? .
It is interesting to observe how they snow balls form.
It begins with a tiny snow particle slipping down.
As it slips down it gathers into it a few snow particles.
Thus in process of rolling it becomes larger and larger.
The speed of rolling also gathers momentum until it becomes an irresistible force.
When you see an injustice in your society you tend to
wonder what you could do as an single individual.
But if you start an action wherever people gradually join you,
making it into a larger and lager social movement
like a rolling snow ball.
Human Progress.
There is a common belief that ostrich hides its head in the sand
to run away from danger. I don’t know whether it is true.
We laugh off such behavior but we are no better.
Suppose someone criticizes my beliefs.
My tendency is to protect the belief through strengthening them
rather than changing or giving it up. I refuse to listen it.
As a result my intelligence stales.
I get caught to a narrow grove.
The poet William Blake said: ‘Expect poison from stagnant waters’
When stagnant within I become an agent of constraining
the progress not only mine but also others.
Fixed ideologies, be it religious, political, or whatever
bring slow death to human intelligence.
As a man cannot move swiftly forward with heavy stones bound to legs,
With fixed ideas, beliefs you cannot discover what is truth.
The human progress lies from false to truth and from truth to truth.
Spiritual life
Peaceful living goes hand in hand with spiritual living, because the ultimate source of peace is spirituality. By spirituality is that inner self that part within which is ever pure and therefore by the world and its ways.
This inner recess is as pure as the deepest water in a river.
A river may carry dirt on the surface yet in the deepest level water can pure and fresh as ever.
Spirit is the spring from which higher living qualities like happiness, love, beauty and peace arise. These human qualities are various expressions of basic Goodness in human nature.
Now it is obvious what is that drives man to be good. The Call comes from the spirit or the seat of spirituality. The more you experience Goodness the more you rise high. This is what we call human development.
The outer directed man is driven by the worldly rewards. He wants to fill life with things of the world. The inner directed life is different. He seeks for fulfillment through experiencing Goodness in forms of Love, Wisdom and Beauty
In the ancient Veda Scripture there is a simile to illustrate this. It goes like this: Two birds are sitting on a tree. One bird is eating fruit. The other is sitting quiet fulfilling itself through the food of inner bliss. The inner directed man is like the second bird. He knows the art of fulfilling the self deeply without struggling to achieve in world.
I read somewhere about a person who paid a visit to a sage in the Himalayas. He found the sage always deeply absorbed within with closed eyes. He asked ‘Sadhu, why are you always keeping your eyes shut’ The sage answered: ‘Son, Compared to the Joy I experience within there is hardly anything in the objective world for me to look and enjoy.’
Excerpts from'Ocean in a drop of water'
