More Or Less?

                                         
                                                             More Or Less?    

                                                Day 2

Detachment from worldly things is necessary to obtain happiness from within. The more the mind gets entangled in worldly things, the more unsteady it becomes. If happiness could be found in worldly things, then the entire world would have been cheerful and happy.In all the worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession than he proposed to himself in the expectation.

"He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well".


The more the worldly things, the lesser the peace of mind. We might get wealth, power, name and fame, but the real happiness is missing from within. What kind of happiness do we need - the one obtained from worldly things or the true happiness from within. When we get sound sleep in the night, we say that we are feeling fresh. It is because we had no thoughts in our mind and no dreams. 


There are three things in life that we have to remember:  Until we keep increasing worldly things, until there are evil people in our life and until there are bad thoughts in our mind, our sorrows will increase and happiness will decrease. What is our mentality about this? Why do we want to increase the worldly items?
Health issues, tension, depression have increased or decreased? What is our experience in this? Arrogance will definitely increase in our lives, but there will be no peace. Arrogance might give us success but not peace. A Saint uses the same clothes for months and months, our ancestors used to manage their lives with few clothes by mending them. There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy.

                                         "Less We Have, More We Are,

                                          More We Have, Less We Are"

Today we own so many houses, flats, bungalows, farm houses. In one house there are so many television's, each member of a family has a mobile. There is no limit! Sometimes we wonder how our future is going to be. If we keep doing what we have done in the past, then our future will also be the same. If we don't change ourselves, then how can we expect change? A teacher might get a promotion but a person who rings the bell, will keep doing the same thing if he does not wish to change. Future will change when we do something different. 

We don't have to detach ourselves from all the worldly things. But we definitely have to detach ourselves from those things, people and thoughts that cause destruction in our life. We have to detach from those things that bring bad thoughts in our mind after seeing them. We have to move away from people who try to spoil our mind. We have detach ourselves from those thoughts that cause harm to us.  We try to be away from puddle, but we are not ready to be away from dirty thoughts. We don't want things, people or thoughts that will ruin u or our lives.

Do we want to go from this world laughing or crying? Only those people who live their lives happily will die happily! 

For eg. There was a 38 year old married man. He went to Gurudev one day and said that he is going away after 10 days. Gurudev asked where was he going? The man replied that the doctors said he would die after 10 days as he had blood cancer. His last days have come. He did not seem tensed or worried, but happy even after knowing that he was going to die in the next 10 days. The man also said that he thanked the doctors, nurses and everyone who had helped him. Gurudev was stunned to know that the man was happy even after knowing about his death. Gurudev asked," What do you want from me?". The man replied," I have read your books. Now I have come to take your blessings so that I can die with the same happiness that I had when I came from the hospital. The man also said that he has a 20 year old son and did not want to inform him about it. But he agreed to tell his son on Gurudev's request. He called up his son and told him that he is going to die within 10 days. The man asked his son to show his wardrobe. There were all colorful clothes but not a single white dress to wear for his funeral. He went shopping with the son and got him a white dress. The man also went and selected the prayer hall where people will find it easy to come for his funeral. Finally he also selected a photo for himself with garland on it. After all the preparations, he died happily. 

"If we know how a person died, we can say how his life was!"

Gurudev had once completed 10 pages for his book. There was no other copy as there were no photocopy facilities available. A 9 year old Saint was playing around. While playing, he poured water on Gurudev and the all the pages became wet. Gurudev's hardwork had been washed. Gurudev then called the 9 year old saint and asked him to inform the next time he pours water. Gurudev did not get angry on him nor did the 9 year old Saint's playful nature disturb his mind, because Gurudev knew how to control all of these. 

If our kid breaks our expensive watch, would we talk to him with love? It is tough to love in this situation, but  we have to practice not to disturb our mind.  Even in Science, after theory there is practicals. Likewise, we have to do it in practical in our daily life to bring the change!

Life will be tough. There will be obstacles, speed breakers and Red Signal. But if we know how to take diversion when our road is tough, lessen the speed when speed breakers come and wait for sometime when Red signal is on, we will succeed in life. Good deeds make our wishes come true and Dharm(Religion) helps to us to reduce what we have.