Me, My Guru - On thanking God!

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Me, My Guru - On thanking God! 


Our Guru continued "How long do I do that? 


If you think your son is worth one day’s gratitude, do it ‘one day’.

If you think you are happy with him and grateful for him for a week, do for one week.

Hope you got it!”

“But maam I am not yet married!” blurted Vaishnav.

“Good for you. No need to do this extra work!” she replied lightly.

“But this is not about just son. It is  about   every  blessing  that  we are living  with  and enjoying. Many we had received over the years which we brushed aside as ‘we got few wishes fulfilled but……” replied Rahul haughtily.

"You can plant a tree on his birthday every year! So you can for every blessing in your life!" she concluded.

"That would start with our birthday. Our life though we are ever complaining ever about is a huge gift that we abuse every day crying and cribbing about it" said Kshama.

We all nodded our heads. And then came our special days - like the day we got our jobs, degrees, we met our best friends etc....and it was then clear to all that each had so many blessings that had come their way but no one actually did anything much about that! 

Many had even forgotten many blessings or have started taking them for granted.

Some good souls have even started complaining about them! Like “I am suffering in my office when they had wanted this job badly!” etc…

Now the ball was in our court. What each one of us did with this ‘knowledge’ depended solely on our ‘character’.

“Just hope no one ends up coming and telling her “maam I have been even thanking God for all the blessings He has given to me! How mean and manipulative is He for expecting that from me? Or why is my wish not getting fulfilled inspite of me being ‘grateful’ for the ones fulfilled?” said Aziz and we all laughed.

That seemed quite possible what with the type of students she had!

But for now we had our 'to do list' prepared. 

Concluded.......

Points covered :

• Why there is emptiness and sadness within us?
• What is the cause of loneliness and suffering?
• Why there is listlessness in our life?
• Not having our wish fulfilled is not the reason we are unhappy and angry. We are so because of ingratitude......
• Working for our dreams and desires doesn't mean 'we make ourselves "pity" desiring vessels for others to feel sorry for and make our dreams come true.
• Waiting for our desires to be fulfilled doesn't give us license to shout and be angry at God/reiki/master/Universe for not fulfilling our desires. Sooner we understand that good for us! 
• Gratitude is not a word but should express itself if it is real.......
• No God or master is expecting or demanding your 'gratitude' for you to call them names like egotist etc.....
• Being Grateful is for you not for the God!