quotes and sayings!

Quotes and sayings!

On showers!

Showers are blessings sent from above unasked!

Wants and wishes!

On wants and wishes!

It is a great revelation to and of self when we realize we many times don't want what we wish for.....

and even if we want we work very hard to not let it come into our lives......

and if by some luck we find it part of our life, we then put all our resources to send it away from our lives.........

Odd?

or

funny?

or 

crazy?

On grace and blessings!

On grace and blessings!

One who craves, demands and expects to receive from His Guru/God, receives not!

One who desires to give to his Guru /God receives!

One who decides what his Guru's /God's duties are never gets his Guru even meeting him.

One who works to be his student / devotee gets a Guru.

Guru doesn't accept one who works out the "give and take table" as his disciple!

Guru /God comes in search of a disciple / devotee who ever works to serve him!

The ignorant, fools, selfish, greedy highly intelligent and manipulative call Gurus /God as 'egotist, narcissist etc' when this Law becomes operative!

The pure in heart just serve the Lord! They just surrender! They trade their ego with 'bhakthi' ..........

And the one attitude that stops ego from surrendering is 'adamant' nature......

Prasada!

Prasada!

What do you consider as Guru's/ God's prasada or blessing?

Patience

Patience!

There is a virtue called 'patience' that is hardly given its due - be it in living, waiting or healing.

This looks like a forgotten art! It is as I see....

The need and desire to have everything at our beck and call, the need to have our desire fulfilled, our agenda worked out and kept ready for our 'consumption' (by some menial workers whom we call as Gurus or God / Gods - but then do we not call them so so they can do the needful for us every single time - immediately!)

Even waiting for our desire to be fulfilled is a 'favour' we seem to feel as if we are doing on Gurus and Gods! How 'shallow' is the "worthiness" of our desires!  No doubt we end up saying "yes, our x, y, z etc desires and needs have been met but.....". We have to belittle "ALL" (read them  as plurals which run double digit and more - the wishes being fulfilled) ....

The hardly there acts of sadhan (like pranayamam. meditation, pooja or reiki) are processed in our brains as "great penances" that we have done over the life-times and under extreme conditions of self denial of comforts and inflicting pain on self! And we hold these acts of ours at such high levels that even a little bit of discomfort is intolerable, unacceptable to us and we demand immediate apology, remedy or justification of its walking into our lives! 

Even Rama, Krishna, Buddha and others had to face tough times, desires which got delayed (as per our demands and standards!!!) and were hardly fulfilled in many cases, had to undergo hardships - hearing this all we end up saying is "yes, i know all that maam and i have read all this but....i am not able to live with this (x/y) discomfort even for couple of hours in my life..."

My cry has to be heard!
My needs to be fulfilled!
My questions to be answered!

What other person / God has to face, undergoing is none of my business..and then why should it be? If I am looking into their sides then .......no. i am not bothered about others - be their limitations, problems or reasons for not doing what I want them to!

Where are we coming from with such thoughts and thought process? Selfish is a very small word for such an unpardonable behaviour and nature and yet HE lets us be and doesn't send some trouble as a form of punishment by itself is a huge "grace" I should be grateful for and yet.......

Only the day I get to do all that needs to be done by me completely - i repeat completely (sitting crying and finding fault with others and expecting someone to fix it for me doesn't count on any account as 'the thing I need to do to fix up issues in my life') like going to a Doctor if and when there is physical /mental ailment (sleep disturbances, depression, laziness etc also come under this type), doing all that needs to be done physically and spiritually and even then if the issue is not fixed, then realize that it is my 'karma' (not all karma can be healed and some has to be borne) to bear this pain, discomfort or suffering happily and be done with it.....

Most of them get over with within a short span of time.......but an adamant person who is not ready to accept even a wee bit of disturbance in his plan or routine will undergo it with lots of suffering.......but a grateful heart and an open mind will thank God for taking our the 'karma' with such small measure or way....

which side of the attitude are you?

That side decides the time you will be healed of your issue - sooner or later.

for further questions that arise read https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=healing instead of doing all the talking in that brain of yours.......

Questions answered addressed in this post :

- Why  problems / discomfort in life?

- How to address an issue? Everytime we face a gap between wanting and having, a little detour in our routine etc - is crying and complaining continuously about it the way to address it or live with it?

- attitude that betters life and issues and ones that stop or delay healing...

- anger on our demands not being met 

To choose or not to!

To choose or not to!


Sometimes in life, the most easiest thing to do is the most difficult thing to do!


What are your most difficult thing to do of easiest things to do? 

Light the lamp! - Me, my Guru

Me, My Guru - Light the lamp!

Light the lamp!

"There is so much of problems in my life and I don't know how to go about it - anymore." That was Sendhil crying out his pain. 

"I don't see the end of this dark, fearful, never ending tunnel. How long would it take to heal this pain and darkness from my life? I am simply tired!" He cried....

"Don't! Don't heal the pain!" she said "Don't sit and try to empty your life of its darkness. Simply light the lamp! "

Her answer was short and yet complete!

We didn't have to remove darkness and however much we remove we had to keep doing it for ever and with just lighting the lamp, we removed the darkness in one go..........

We didn't know what Sendhil's problem or problems were. We didn't have to know. That would just increase our baggage of 'darkness'. But our lamps too were lit while his was being lighted.........

Glad she found a way to answer all of us through one and yet it took years of 'my healing' to "SEE" and "validate" this simple truth!

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=darkness

On grace. receiving and wish being fulfilled!

On grace. receiving and wish being fulfilled!

The world owes you Nothing!

It was here FIRST!

God owes you Nothing too!

He was here FIRST! If anything, I owe Him, not the other way....

So when I do pooja, it actually pays the debt that I already owe Him. It doesn't mean He owes me and should come down running to fulfill my ---- wish!

A thought that says "when I do japa/ pooja / etc He is bound to do favours to me" says or treats God indirectly as a subservient who is deemed to fulfill your every wish - a la' genii ....is your God that?

If that is the definition of God then I got my word wrong to fit that definition - the words one should be using is "  genii or subservient ".

But unfortunately for us and fortunately for God, He is not bound by our definitions and expectations. He is what He is!

Either take Him or leave Him!

But we can't force Him to be bound to our definitions?

No Guru is bound to be your "wishing rod". You are not being generous in letting him serve you. You are not giving him an opportunity to serve him by putting forth your desires in front of him....

Guru's job and requirement is there to dispel your ignorance and to give you love and knowledge of the Divine - not to face the brick bats that you wish to hit God with. He is not the spokesperson who has to defend God to a 'self declared Bhaktha' who all that he knows is to "USE" God and then once a desire is fulfilled says "that is fulfilled but, now I am asking for this and He is not doing his job..."

hello, stop going to Gurus or God and be on your own......

If you want their help, then first know 'beggars can't be choosers'.

One who is receiving can't demand what he has to receive........