What does God do?

What does God do?

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.

As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.They talked about so many things and various subjects.When they eventually touched on the subject of God,

the barber said:

"I don't believe that God exists."

"Why do you say that?" asked the customer.

"Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist.

Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people?

Would there be abandoned children?

If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.

I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things."

The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument. 

The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.

Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. 

He looked dirty and unkempt. 

The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again

and he said to the barber: 

"You know what? Barbers do not exist."

"How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber. 

"I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!"

"No!" the customer exclaimed.

"Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside."

"Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me."

"Exactly!" affirmed the customer."That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! That's what happens when people do not go to Him

and don't look to Him for help.That's why there's so much pain

and suffering in the world."

Ask and it shall be given , Seek and it shall be shown and knock and it shall be opened - said LORD. but we need to ask to get, seek to be shown and should certainly knock for the way to be shown or opened - it applies both to GOD and his beings. Don't expect people to understand your requirements - be it physical or emotional on their own. Speak up when you want or expect something from someone. to give or not though is optional (for them).....

wishing that your prayers be answered, 

revathi

Forgiveness and empowerment - II

Always remember,

NEVER CRY FOR ANY RELATION IN LIFE
BECAUSE FOR THE ONE WHOM YOU CRY
DOES NOT DESERVE YOUR TEARS
AND THE ONE WHO DESERVES
WILL NEVER LET YOU CRY..........

TREAT EVERYONE WITH POLITENESS
EVEN THOSE WHO ARE RUDE TO YOU,
NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT NICE
BUT BECAUSE YOU ARE NICE.........

NEVER SEARCH YOUR HAPPINESS IN OTHERS
WHICH WILL MAKE YOU FEEL ALONE,
RATHER SEARCH IT IN YOURSELF
YOU WILL FEEL HAPPY
EVEN IF YOU ARE LEFT ALONE..........

ALWAYS HAVE A POSITIVE ATTITUDE IN LIFE.
THERE IS SOMETHING POSITIVE IN EVERY PERSON.
EVEN A STOPPED WATCH IS RIGHT TWICE A DAY..........

HAPPINESS ALWAYS LOOKS SMALL
WHEN WE HOLD IT IN OUR HANDS.
BUT WHEN WE LEARN TO SHARE IT,
WE REALIZE HOW BIG AND PRECIOUS IT IS! ........

Even as we try to understand and implement it in our lives, continue with
- let go meditation
- forgiveness meditation
- and the rebirth meditation
because forgiveness is not yet complete….So,
until then,
revathi

Forgiveness and empowerment

Hello everyone,

So, found some peace forgiving few people for few issues? Good. But, I know there are miles to go in this path. It’s not as easy as said. We have read it umpteen no. of times but couldn’t do it completely till date. Because, we read and moved on. We ACTUALLY never ever tried any procedures to experience the joy of forgiving. So, today let’s do that.

For the start, do LET GO MEDITATION with PAIN, ANGER and EXPECTATIONS.

Please do rebirth meditation with hurt and pain.

Those of you who know FORGIVENESS meditation, do it.

These simple techniques will help to release all the psychic impressions that stop us from forgiving and forgetting.

Because always remember -


People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered
Forgive them anyway

If you are kind, people may accuse you of having selfish, ulterior motives
Be kind anyway

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies
Succeed anyway

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you
Be honest and frank anyway

What you spend years building, some one could destroy over night
Build anyway

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous
Be happy anyway

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow
Do good anyway

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough
Give the world the best you have anyway

You see in the final analysis
It is between YOU and GOD
It was never between you and them anyway.

While you do your exercises, I’ll take leave to do mine,

Revathi

baby bear talks to mamma bear during their walk ...

one evening, baby bear goes for a walk in the woods with his mamma...and he chats along.......(he has just 10 minutes before read the blogspot - kantipadam, so asks questions based on its posts...)

Baby Bear :If gratitude is just all that requires to make one successful and happy, how come it is found wanting in most of the mankind?

Mamma Bear : Because, gratitude requires that you first don’t hold any ill-feelings for anyone.

Bear Bear : Then, why do we hold anything bad against anyone?

Mamma Bear : ‘cause of expectations. When people don’t fit into our expectations, we feel cheated by them. We feel hurt and we presume it is because of them or their act. We carry these hurts and nurture either pain or anger for such of the people in our life.

Baby bear : But the wound often gets healed over the period of Time. Isn’t it?

Mamma Bear : No. Not these type. They tend to become deep unhealed open wound over the period of time that we prick periodically to see that they are not healed – ever.

Baby bear : oh! But why would anyone do that? Why wouldn’t people want to heal their wounds? Why would they work so hard to keep it fresh and hurting for such long stretch of time?

Mamma Bear : Somewhere down the line, they develop taste buds for pain. They start enjoying being in pain. When they don’t have a present issue to generate any pain feeling in them, then they log on to old memories and wounds. They re-live those painful moments (both imaginary or real) to experience pain. This pain then fans their ego and they are happy that they are suffering.

Baby bear : What? What did you say? They are HAPPY that they are SUFFERING? But how? Why? I mean ,,,,,I am confused!

Mamma bear : Every time, we are experiencing a certain emotion, we release chemicals into our system. The chemical reaction that follows generates corresponding by products which we know or name as feelings. Certain feelings are mild and are hardly felt in few areas of our body or for a very short span of time only. Body doesn’t experience great highs in such situations. But sometimes, certain feelings invoke great thrust of chemical reaction and as a result we experience intense feelings throughout the body.

Baby bear : I know, like when I get a prize fish for a catch. Right?

Mamma bear : Right. Like a drug, body longs for such feelings at regular intervals. And we feed the body such feelings by going into our past and by re-living some painful moments.

Baby bear : Something like a drug addict…..

Mamma bear : Absolutely right…

Baby bear : Very interesting but frightening too… now, how do I get de-addicted to pain then? In the first place, can I get de-addicted?

Mamma bear : Yes, ofcourse. Absolutely. Most important is that you make a commitment to yourself that you want to get de-addicted from pain. Next, forgive and move on in life.

Baby bear : But, if I forgive, how will they ever know that they need to change?

Mamma bear : That exactly is the point. Them changing or they knowing is not the criteria here at all. It’s all about your happiness. And the key to your happiness is forgive anyone whom you feel has hurt you. ‘cause the fact is many times, the pain is real but the feeling that they have wronged is only presumed. You may not know the complete picture at all.

Baby bear : But I know they have hurt me. How can I be wrong?

Mamma bear : ‘cause you may be right but not totally right.

Baby bear : what the hell, what’s the difference anyhow?

Mamma bear : Let me tell you a story first.

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.

The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in
summer, and the youngest son in the fall.

When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen.

The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted.

The second son said no it was covered with green buds and full of promise.

The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen.

The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfillment.

The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had each seen but only one season in the tree's life.

He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are up.


If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.


So, you see mamma bear continued, you can’t let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.
Don't judge life by one difficult season. Persevere through the difficult patches and better times are sure to come some time or later. One act of the person or persons doesn’t constitute their complete character. One or few acts of a person cannot be taken to hold it against him. To judge, you need to take him as a whole. And many times, we hardly know him in other aspects. Moreover, our expectations and pain blind us from seeing the good in that person for now and for ever. So move on……. Only when you let go, you actually are free from past and can glide into the future happily. Life is a journey. Don’t carry the unnecessary luggage of pain, hurt throughout your life. At the end of the journey, you anyhow need to leave it behind and go. Then why carry it through out your life and cry of pain?

Baby bear : Seems to make sense, but phir bhi, lekin kintu, parantu…..

Mamma bear : Sleep on this thought and I will talk to you later…..


Baby bear is put to sleep and mamma bear also snoozes alongside..

I came out silently. Need to do some thinking on this, so all the best for de-addiction. Will sign off, while you do some forgiving,
ok folks, bye for now,  
revathi

(also refer topic dt:3/5/09 and 12/3/09)

Is Luck by chance?

When your attitude is right, you convert your problems into opportunity.....

and if we are humble even a donkey can teach us this lesson!!!

Luck always favours the successful!!!

Everytime, we hear a success story or see a successful person, we unconsciously utter “how lucky!”. We by default assume that person’s life to be easy and success given to him dressed in a plate. We attribute the success always to the luck of that person. We very rarely look into his life before him being successful. It’s always full of situations that YOU and I would term as PROBLEMS in life. It’s the same situations that the LUCKY successful person converted into STEPPING STONES towards success.

Don’t believe me? Then read on……..

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbours to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down.

A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up.

As the farmer's neighbours continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!

IT MEANS :

Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well (of despair and self-pity) is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping stone. We can get out of the deepest well just by going, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.

Remember, when the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

There is no perfect situations in life, just opportunities in the guise of challenges waiting to happen. and to make them happen depends entirely on you and you alone.

Complaining mind sees cloud in every silver lining. A grateful heart and a person with gratitude sees silver lining in every cloud. In gratitude, we are placed in a state of mind which talks of opportunities of self-growth in a given situation. It talks of stock of things that you possess and how to use them to the best of your abilities to grow in life – both internally and externally. Every successful person thanks the situations in his life for what they are – because they made him what he is today. So, you wanted a success mantra – take the first one – be grateful for all that you have and plan to create the life of your choice out of these possessions of yours.

As you plan your success route, I go to dream on – ‘cause only those who dared to dream make it happen – sooner or later…..

Wishing you all a successful journey, I remain still

revathi

BEINGNESS WITH AWARENESS

One of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create a unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of being.

While we are home our thoughts are still absorbed with solving the challenges we face at the office. And when we are at the office we find ourselves worrying about problems at home.

We go through the day without really listening to what others are saying to us. We may be hearing the words, but we aren't absorbing the message.

As we go through the day we find ourselves focusing on past experiences or future possibilities. We are so involved in yesterday and tomorrow that we never even notice that today is slipping by.

We go through the day rather than getting something from the day. We are everywhere at any given moment in time except living in that moment in time.

Lifestyle is learning to be wherever you are. It is developing a unique focus on the current moment, and drawing from it all of the substance and wealth of experience and emotions that it has to offer. Lifestyle is taking time to watch a sunset. Lifestyle is listening to silence. Lifestyle is capturing each moment so that it becomes a new part of what we are and of what we are in the process of becoming.

Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be there, we will never master the art of living well.

Just remember WHEREVER YOU ARE, BE THERE.

When you’re at work work. When you’re at play play.

When you’re talking to you spouse talk to you spouse.

When you’re talking to your kids talk to your kids.

When you’re at the dinner table be at the dinner table.

When you’re at the game be at the game.

When you’re at the show be at the show.

Be there; don't let your mind wander. Bring your attention back; enjoy it for what it is.

Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections!

Hello, I am GOD speaking...........

       

Hello friends,

You all seem to have done a good job of thanking God the right and heartfelt way. He called me up yesterday, so I grabbed the opportunity to ask few other questions that’s always bombarded at me. Here’s the chat that followed. I am putting it up for you to see how it went about……


GOD: Hello. Did you call me?

Me: Called you? No... Who is this?

GOD: This is GOD. I heard your prayers. So I thought I will chat.

Me: I do pray. Just makes me feel good. I am actually busy now. I am in the midst of something.

GOD: What are you busy at? Ants are busy too.

Me: Don't know. But I can't find free time. Life has become hectic. It's rush hour all the time.

GOD: Sure. Activity gets you busy. But productivity gets you results. Activity consumes time. Productivity frees it.

Me: I understand. But I still can't figure out. By the way, I was not expecting YOU to buzz me on instant messaging chat.

GOD: Well I wanted to resolve your fight for time, by giving you some clarity. In this net era, I wanted to reach you through the medium you are comfortable with.

Me: Tell me, why has life become complicated now?

GOD: Stop analyzing life. Just live it. Analysis is what makes it complicated.

Me: Why are we then constantly unhappy?

GOD: Your today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday. You are worrying because you are analyzing. Worrying has become your habit. That's why you are not happy.

Me: But how can we not worry when there is so much uncertainty?

GOD: Uncertainty is inevitable, but worrying is optional.

Me: But then, there is so much pain due to uncertainty.

GOD: Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.

Me: If suffering is optional, why do good people always suffer?

GOD: Diamond cannot be polished without friction. Gold cannot be purified without fire. Good people go through trials, but don't suffer. With that experience their life become better not bitter.

Me: You mean to say such experience is useful?

GOD: Yes. In every terms, Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

Me: But still, why should we go through such tests? Why can't we be free from problems?

GOD: Problems are Purposeful Roadblocks Offering Beneficial Lessons (to) Enhance Mental Strength. Inner strength comes from struggle and endurance, not when you are free from problems.

Me: Frankly in the midst of so many problems, we don't know where we are heading..

GOD: If you look outside you will not know where you are heading. Look inside. Looking outside, you dream. Looking inside, you awaken. Eyes provide sight. Heart provides insight.

Me: Sometimes not succeeding fast seems to hurt more than moving in the right direction. What should I do?

GOD: Success is a measure as decided by others. Satisfaction is a measure as decided by you. Knowing the road ahead is more satisfying than knowing you rode ahead. You work with the compass. Let others work with the clock.

Me: In tough times, how do you stay motivated?

GOD: Always look at how far you have come rather than how far you have to go. Always count your blessing, not what you are missing.

Me: What surprises you about people?

GOD: When they suffer they ask, "why me?" When they prosper, they never ask "Why me" Everyone wishes to have truth on their side, but few want to be on the side of the truth.

Me: Sometimes I ask, who am I, why am I here. I can't get the answer.

GOD: Seek not to find who you are, but to determine who you want to be. Stop looking for a purpose as to why you are here. Create it. Life is not a process of discovery but a process of creation.

Me: How can I get the best out of life?

GOD: Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear.

Me: One last question. Sometimes I feel my prayers are not answered.

GOD: There are no unanswered prayers. At times the answer is NO.
(Please read the above line with full understanding. ......... .It has got an indepth meaning )

Me: Thank you for this wonderful chat.

GOD: Well. Keep the faith and drop the fear. Don't believe your doubts and doubt your beliefs. Life is a mystery to solve not a problem to resolve. Trust me.. Life is wonderful if you know how to live.

NEVER GIVE ANYONE THE AUTHORITY TO HURT YOU OR MAKE U SAD HAPPINESS IS NOT WHAT YOU DO OR HOW YOU DO IT IT'S THE WAY YOU THINK SO THINK HAPPY, STAY HAPPY KEEP SMILING!

SITUATIONS IN YOUR LIFE ARE MY GIFT TO YOU.....
HOW YOU DEAL AND LIVE WITH THEM IS YOUR GIFT TO ME !!!!

AND I LIKE TO RECEIVE MY GIFTS WRAPPED UP WITH A SMILE FROM THE GIVER…….

This conversation with God left me wondering if I was living my life happily or was I packaging it with grumbling and complaints every day of my life….

As I do the thinking and little (or rather lots of) revamping of my emotions with regards to the situations of my life, I suggest you to go on the similar tour of self-enquiry………

As it needs few hours to do the needful, I sign off for now,

Keep smiling (as told by GOD!!!), be happy till we meet again