NPL - Day 26
In today's world, what is our mentality? It is easy to read the page of the book but not easy to change the page.
Here are three important things to be discussed:
1. I choose to live my life as per others choices: Most of the time, the things that we buy like, house, furniture, car, clothes, mobile, watches etc are bought keeping in mind others choices and not our own choice. We buy these things thinking about how others would like it or comment on it. Why do we give such top priority to others?
2. I choose to live my life as per my choices: Here we buy things or live our life as per our likes and dislikes. It takes a lot of guts to say No to other choices and give importance to our own choices.
3. I choose to live my life as per God's choices: It is not about others or our own choices, but we do what God likes or wants us to do. Did we ever think about what God or Gurudevn like and want from us?
Did we remember Gurudev when we do our daily routine? A Saint's life is very tough. Have we ever imagined the difficulties?
One man from Mumbai had come to meet Gurudev. He said, " I had come to meet you as I was thinking about you yesterday. My wife had made Pani Puri's for me. When I was about to eat, I thought about you and tears started coming out of my eyes. I was thinking that you eat whatever you get. I have decided I will never have Pani Puri from now on as my Gurudev also does not eat.".
So did we remember God, Gurudev while doing our daily acitivities like, wathching TV, Eating, Traveling, or doing any work? Try to remember God during any of these times and things will automatically become easy.
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.
Now lets understand how to Recharge our Relations:
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
Today is mine. It is unique. So Today one day what can we do to make our relationship better and be happy? This is not about Life Style but One Day Style that we can all surely try. Here are five things to practice today and check for yourself how beautiful life is:
1. I CAN LOVE TODAY:
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. Today one day let us forgive even our enemies, hold no grudges against anyone and love all. We might have around ten people with whom we have not so good relations. Let us try to have good feelings for them and not criticize them, at least for Today One Day
Once a teacher her students to write a Letter to God. An 8 year old boy wrote to God, " God in my family we are ten members. But all fight with each other and my father is not able to handle even ten of them. God, I wanted to ask you, how do you manage the world and all the people in the world?"
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
2. I WILL SMILE TODAY:
“Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
We might have lots of sorrow in life, health issues, issues regarding wealth or property, but lets try to SMILE TODAY no matter what. Today we will not complain about anything even if our expectations are not met.
Sometimes our heart makes an agreement for one day. It is the mentality of our mind. Suppose we go to someone's house as a guest for one day, would we adjust or complain? I am sure we do adjust thinking it is just for one day, even if we don't like some things.
“Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired.
Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision".
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in our family.
3. I WILL CARE TODAY:
The meaning of care is," Everything that happens to you matters to me".
The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else. Lets try to care for all our close one's today - our parents, son, wife, daughter, husband. We maintain our mobiles, cars, clothes very well but what about our relations? Do we try to maintain them? Lets try this for one day. No matter what, we will not spoil our relations and will care for all.
Once a teacher challenged her students to prove that God is here. She said anyone who proves this will get Rs 1000/-. One boy lifted his hand. The teacher was surprised. The boy said," Madam, prove that God is No where and I will give you Rs 10,000/-" This shows the boy's attitude towards God.
Today one day, we will not listen to anything bad, see anything bad or say anything bad. Today one day we will take care of our character and make sure we love and care for all.
4. I WILL PRAY TODAY:
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
There is a vast difference between saying prayers and praying. There is no one in this world who does not want God. In this world, no man is so powerful that he does not require another man's help and no man is so poor that he cannot help another man. We have to pray during both good and bad times. We have thank God for our eyes, good health, for the food we eat and for everything we can do. There are many people who beg God during sad times, but very few who pray in good times as well. God has always forgiven us for our Sin's and we are not able to forgive someone for the smallest mistake. It is because of God's blessings today that we are in good health and position.
For eg, In Indore as man was a Car Dealer. Whenever he used to deliver a new car to his customer, he used to pray to God before handing over the keys. He used to pray that this car should not meet with an accident and no one should meet with an accident because of this car. He did this for six months and not one car that he sold met with any accident. Such is the Power of Prayer! Prayer is the voice of faith.
Lets be grateful unto Him and pray today!
5. I WILL THINK WONDERFUL TODAY:
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. Today lets try to think wonderful and good thoughts and lets reject any bad thought that comes to our mind. Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive, because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive, because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.
A devotee use to pray everyday and invite God to come and stay in his heart. But God never came. He then complained to God, God replied, " When you call someone great to your house, you make sure your house is neat and clean, devoid of all dirt. When you invited I had also come to the door of your heart but when I looked inside I found so much dirt that I had to return. How could I stay in your heart?"
Let us try to think good thoughts at least for today one day.
So to stay happy and lead a wonderful life, lets practice all of these for just one day see the difference!
Each of us makes mistakes, lots of them to be more accurate. In spite of our best efforts to avoid mistakes, our lives are filled with untimely decisions, erroneous moves and flawed judgment. Try as we might to avoid making mistakes, we're only human. And that means we keep on making them, one right after another.
There are things we wish we wouldn't have done, words we wish we never had spoken. We would give almost anything to take them all back and rewrite the past. But we've already made the mistakes, we've already spoken the words... and there's nothing we can do to undo what's already been done.
" Its just a chapter in the past, but don't close the book, Turn the page!"
Once a man went to meet Kabir. He did not find Kabir as he had gone to a man's funeral. He was informed that he can meet Kabir in the graveyard and Kabir can be recognized by a spark of light inflamed on his head. The man went to the graveyard and asked one of them, " Are you Kabir? I want to talk to you." The man replied that he was Kabir and asked what he wanted to know. The man said," I noticed that you were the only one who had a spark of light inflamed when everyone came out. Why was it like that?"
The story actually shows that the other people were filled with grief and thought that the world was a very bad place to stay in, until they were there in the graveyard but once they came out, everyone had forgotten it and got into their normal daily routine. But Kabir had the same thought when he was in the graveyard and also when he came out and vice versa. So he stood out distinguished. In today's world, what is our mentality? It is easy to read the page of the book but not easy to change the page.
Here are three important things to be discussed:
1. I choose to live my life as per others choices: Most of the time, the things that we buy like, house, furniture, car, clothes, mobile, watches etc are bought keeping in mind others choices and not our own choice. We buy these things thinking about how others would like it or comment on it. Why do we give such top priority to others?
2. I choose to live my life as per my choices: Here we buy things or live our life as per our likes and dislikes. It takes a lot of guts to say No to other choices and give importance to our own choices.
3. I choose to live my life as per God's choices: It is not about others or our own choices, but we do what God likes or wants us to do. Did we ever think about what God or Gurudevn like and want from us?
Did we remember Gurudev when we do our daily routine? A Saint's life is very tough. Have we ever imagined the difficulties?
One man from Mumbai had come to meet Gurudev. He said, " I had come to meet you as I was thinking about you yesterday. My wife had made Pani Puri's for me. When I was about to eat, I thought about you and tears started coming out of my eyes. I was thinking that you eat whatever you get. I have decided I will never have Pani Puri from now on as my Gurudev also does not eat.".
So did we remember God, Gurudev while doing our daily acitivities like, wathching TV, Eating, Traveling, or doing any work? Try to remember God during any of these times and things will automatically become easy.
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.
Now lets understand how to Recharge our Relations:
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
Today is mine. It is unique. So Today one day what can we do to make our relationship better and be happy? This is not about Life Style but One Day Style that we can all surely try. Here are five things to practice today and check for yourself how beautiful life is:
1. I CAN LOVE TODAY:
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. Today one day let us forgive even our enemies, hold no grudges against anyone and love all. We might have around ten people with whom we have not so good relations. Let us try to have good feelings for them and not criticize them, at least for Today One Day
Once a teacher her students to write a Letter to God. An 8 year old boy wrote to God, " God in my family we are ten members. But all fight with each other and my father is not able to handle even ten of them. God, I wanted to ask you, how do you manage the world and all the people in the world?"
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
2. I WILL SMILE TODAY:
“Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
We might have lots of sorrow in life, health issues, issues regarding wealth or property, but lets try to SMILE TODAY no matter what. Today we will not complain about anything even if our expectations are not met.
Sometimes our heart makes an agreement for one day. It is the mentality of our mind. Suppose we go to someone's house as a guest for one day, would we adjust or complain? I am sure we do adjust thinking it is just for one day, even if we don't like some things.
“Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired.
Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision".
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in our family.
3. I WILL CARE TODAY:
The meaning of care is," Everything that happens to you matters to me".
The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else. Lets try to care for all our close one's today - our parents, son, wife, daughter, husband. We maintain our mobiles, cars, clothes very well but what about our relations? Do we try to maintain them? Lets try this for one day. No matter what, we will not spoil our relations and will care for all.
Once a teacher challenged her students to prove that God is here. She said anyone who proves this will get Rs 1000/-. One boy lifted his hand. The teacher was surprised. The boy said," Madam, prove that God is No where and I will give you Rs 10,000/-" This shows the boy's attitude towards God.
Today one day, we will not listen to anything bad, see anything bad or say anything bad. Today one day we will take care of our character and make sure we love and care for all.
4. I WILL PRAY TODAY:
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
There is a vast difference between saying prayers and praying. There is no one in this world who does not want God. In this world, no man is so powerful that he does not require another man's help and no man is so poor that he cannot help another man. We have to pray during both good and bad times. We have thank God for our eyes, good health, for the food we eat and for everything we can do. There are many people who beg God during sad times, but very few who pray in good times as well. God has always forgiven us for our Sin's and we are not able to forgive someone for the smallest mistake. It is because of God's blessings today that we are in good health and position.
For eg, In Indore as man was a Car Dealer. Whenever he used to deliver a new car to his customer, he used to pray to God before handing over the keys. He used to pray that this car should not meet with an accident and no one should meet with an accident because of this car. He did this for six months and not one car that he sold met with any accident. Such is the Power of Prayer! Prayer is the voice of faith.
Lets be grateful unto Him and pray today!
5. I WILL THINK WONDERFUL TODAY:
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. Today lets try to think wonderful and good thoughts and lets reject any bad thought that comes to our mind. Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive, because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive, because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.
A devotee use to pray everyday and invite God to come and stay in his heart. But God never came. He then complained to God, God replied, " When you call someone great to your house, you make sure your house is neat and clean, devoid of all dirt. When you invited I had also come to the door of your heart but when I looked inside I found so much dirt that I had to return. How could I stay in your heart?"
Let us try to think good thoughts at least for today one day.
So to stay happy and lead a wonderful life, lets practice all of these for just one day see the difference!
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