Monday, October 30, 2017

on legacy!



Contd............


On legacy!


Then why does ‘Divinity’ only shine through them? Why they are called “Divine Incarnations” or Gods child and not us? Are we not children of the same God? Then, why this difference?





Yes, both Ravana and Gandhi are children of same God. Yet inspite of having greater abilities, knowledge, strength and achievements in life, Ravana is not called great, whereas Gandhiji is. He, Gandhi was a simple mortal living in rags but his simplicity and conviction on non-violence shook the British Empire by unifying this great nation like never before. The world just watched the power of love win over hatred and military regime. His simple smile and purity of intent was the seed of miracle that the world witnessed. He let the quality of ‘love’ and ‘non-violence’ of the Divine shine through him like no one before. So, he became Mahatma. Many countries regained their independence but no where the leader who was instrumental in gaining independence to that nation became ‘Mahatma’.



Take anybody’s character. It is the same way they let some Divine quality express through them. So, you too can develop these qualities and raise to their levels of ‘greatness’ and you too can perform the little miracles that they performed (I am calling them little because when quality of character is developed powers to perform these miracles come automatically and incidental to few of the qualities and then these miracles look very little like as kid lifting a chair is great but as an adult it is common like-wise). The necklace that I buy and the million worth slippers (I saw a business tycoon’s daughter wear a sandals worth a crore) are both mine. Yet I wouldn’t wear my slipper around my neck. Would I? (I can and then you know what to call me....) both being mine and expensive, I would treat them differently. Why? Similarly both Ravana and Rama being His, God would treat them differently for the qualities that they choose to express! So you see Divine Incarnations are not what they are because of their abilities – but they are so for the choices that they made over the time and the qualities of character that they developed over the period of time!


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