Beauty in small things

Beauty in small things

Have you ever cared to look at a tiny wild flowers besides
the trail you walk daily up and down.?
Looking at them and you may wonder at their beauty so vivid in colors and shapes.

So far a flower meant to you something big.
You had a definite shape and size in mind.
You trampled tiny flowers because to you they were not flowers.
Usually we admire big things. We are lost in searching for big things in life,
a big house, a big car, a big garden.and so on.
How can such a mind, see the elegance
of small things, small acts, small events?
While reading this, stop for a second and listen to a chirping of a bird.
Look at the ant running on your table. Look at the tiny dew drops in a morning hanging at the end of leaves,
ready to fall down with the next wind.

When you wash your plate do it whole heartedly.
Enjoy a kind word some one speaks to you. Enjoy the greetings of others in a morning as you walk into the office. Enjoy the smiles of people passing by.
Life is full of small enjoys, moments of happiness, beauties and blessings.
Focusing on them will open a world so far you had forgotten.

Know the joys Life.

Our present concept of joy seems so rude and primitive.
We think that joy comes at the end of an achievement, not otherwise.
If you really seek joy in life the first step is to know it at the moment it arises.
We can of course identify big joys. However many a small joys go unnoticed.
Big joys are rare indeed in life. But small joys are abundant.
They are like the tiny flowers you trample on grass while walking.

Be sensitive to small joys.
Practise it as a meditation.
Go to a silent place..
Free your mind from the past and future .
Let go all the burdens. Feel free.
Come to the present movement.
When the mind is free and unoccupied with things of the thoughts,
Joy starts emerging out as a secret spring from the depth of your being.

Focus on joy arising from the inner being and get absorbed into it.
Joy arises in various qualities like the different perfumes.
Your mind needs to be subtle to make out them.
Being sensitive to subtle joys makes you inwardly rich, because joy is the wealth in life.

Excerpts from: 'Ocean in a drop of water'

Wonder

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'

The Voice of Life

The Voice of Life

One day awakened early in the morning,
I found Life was abundantly overflowing in me.
I asked Life' Want do you want' ?
It responded:
'Let me freely bloom like a lotus in a pond
Let me freely flow like river full of water
Let me freely emerge out like a fresh spring
Let me freely fly in high sky like a seagull'

Desire and Love

Love is stained with desire
But Compassion is as pure as a dew drop
.
If love is copper then Compassion is gold
If love is glass, then Compassion is Gem.

Love within the realm of pleasure.
Compassion is beyond pleasure.
In love there is a lover
In Compassion there is action itself.

Compassion has neither form nor quality.
Love ends in sorrow.
Compassion finds its completion in the Bliss.

Excerpts from: '' Ocean in a drop of water

Ocean in a drop of water

Ocean in a Drop of Water

Take a drop of water from the sea.

If it appears to you as nothing but

merely a drop of water then you are still within

the existential cycle of birth and death.

Friend, The whole of ocean exists

in a drop of water.

Take a lump of soil .

If it appears to you as nothing but

merely a lump of soil, you are still within

the existential cycle of birth and death.

Friend, The whole of earth exists

Within a lump of soil.

Look at your life.

If feel it as nothing

but your own life still you are within

the existential cycle of birth and death.

Friend, The life of all beings exists

in your life.

Look at your consciousness.

If you perceive it as nothing but

merely your own consciousness then you are still

within the existential cycle of birth and death.

Friend, The whole human consciousness

exists in your consciousness. .

If you feel you to be nothing but you

then you are still

within the existential cycle of birth and death.

Friend , You are

the whole Universal Self .

Your Actions

How you act reflects back on you

Some acts grow you old.

What kind of acts ?

Routine acts

Some acts make you young.

What kind of acts?

Creative acts.

Some acts makes you dark

What kind of acts?

Negative minded acts

Some acts makes you shine

What kind of acts?

Wise acts.

The Reality

Some accept. Others reject.

Some believe. Others doubt.

Some explain it in one way.

Others in different ways.

Some perceive it positively

Others negatively

Some observe it

Others do not

But the Reality exists as it is.

Excerpts from 'Ocean in a drop of water"