Some quotes on Love

just a little humour!

Sing the song of Life!

Come to think of it, we started this journey to be happy and peaceful…..where did we pick up this seriousness enroute to finding happiness? Happiness is not a station to be reached. It is in the journey. The journey towards knowing the Self. And happiness is in just being…

When we get connected to ourselves, we develop sense of humour. We are amused at not so perfect things in the world. We are able to see the funnier and lighter side of situations. We stop being obsessed about perfection because we have outgrown our belief system which was set by our mind that said, “I can’t stand anything less than perfect." We keep striving towards perfection but along with it also are amused by the imperfections in characters around us and take it in our stride. Let me give a reason to amuse you today.

A letter from a Punjabi mother to her son. (This letter would be equally funny if not addressed as 'sardar'. Please don't stereotype people and see it as a funny situation.....see it just as a situation and laugh it off! The logic used in every sentence can be applied to any other Indian and it would still be the same funny story!)

My dear Jagjit,

I am in a well here and hoping you are also in a well there.

I'm writing this letter slowly, because I know you cannot read fast. We don't live where we did when you left home. Your dad read in the newspaper that most accidents happen 20 miles from home, so we moved 20 miles.

I won't be able to send the address as the last Sardar who stayed here took the house numbers with them for their new house so they wouldn’t have to change their address. Hopefully by next week we will be able to take our earlier address plate here, and that our address will remain same too. 

This place is really nice. It even has a washing machine, situated right above the toilet I'm not sure it works too well. Last week I put in 3shirts, pulled the chain and haven't seen them since. The weather here isn't too bad. It rained only twice last week. The first time it rained or 3 days and second time for 4 days. The coat you wanted me to send you, your Aunt said it would be a little too heavy to send in the mail with all the metal buttons, so we cut them off and put them in the pocket.

Your father has another job. He has 500 men under him. He is cutting the grass at the cemetery. Your sister had a baby this morning. I haven't found out whether it is a girl or a boy, so I don't know whether you are an Aunt or Uncle. Your uncle, Jetinder fell in the nearby well. Some men tried to pull him out, but he fought them off bravely and drowned... We cremated him and he burned for three days.

There isn't much more news this time. Nothing much has happened.

Love

Mom. P.S. Jagjit, I was going to send you some money but by the time I realized, I had already sealed off this letter

Smile your way through life – Always Remember, Life is all about learning and experiencing!

And as well said, life is not worth taking so seriously! – Checkov.

ज़िन्दगी जिंदा दिल्लो का नाम है,

क्या मुर्दे भी खाक जिया करते है.

Smile all the way to knowing…

because remember 'Don't take yourself too seriously. Nobody does'!

Achievers and non-achievers

Situation being same, what makes the difference?

Hell as depicted in Hortus Deliciarum

Once an Indian died and went to Hell and found out that every country had different hell for its people. First he went to a German hell and peeped in. He asked the devil as to how people are punished here. The devil answered, “For one hour, people are made to sit on an electric chair and then made to sleep on the bed of iron-nails. Later a German devil comes and beats them for the rest of the day.” Our hero did not like what he saw and heard. So, he moved on to check out the other hells.

Other types of hell:

Next, he saw more or less the same treatments being meted out in all other hells.

Lastly, he came to the Indian hell and found a long line of people waiting to enter it. He asked the people waiting as to why Indian hell had so much of people anxious to enter it. The person standing there told, “For one hour, people are made to sit on an electric chair and then made to sleep on the bed of iron-nails. Later an Indian devil comes and beats them for the rest of the day.”

Our hero was confused. It was same as others. So he asked, “It is same as other hells, then how come there is such a long queue for Indian hell?”. The person answered, “True! But the maintenance is so bad that electric chair does not work, somebody has stolen the iron nails and the Indian devil was an Indian Government servant. So, he comes, signs the register and goes off.”

Hell is hell everywhere. But, it’s the personnel who make the difference.

Marriage is marriage everywhere. But, it’s the personnel who make the difference in this institution.

Situation is more or less same everywhere. But it’s the person involved who makes a difference in the situation.

Mirror is a mirror everywhere. But the reflection depends on who stands in front of it.

Just the same. Life is life all along. It’s what you make out of it that makes it beautiful or otherwise.

“मिलो थो ऐसे मिलो के लोग करे आरजू और

जियो थो ऐसे जियो के दुनिया मिसाल दे”.

“If you meet someone, meet them so that they look forward to meeting you again,

and if you live, live life such that people set you as an example to live.”

Wishing you to make a difference in your life...........

I am OK, YOU are OK! Possible?

The common belief systems which harm our relationships are:

If I am right, all others who don’t agree to my opinion aught to be wrong.”

“If he is right, I am wrong.”

“Only one of us can be right”

“Either he or I am right. Tell us who it is?”

This Belief System puts us on the defensive or aggressive side (depending upon my character) and I automatically consider the other to be my rival whom I need to prove wrong. But, it is not so. Both of us can be right individually and yet not agree with each other. 

For eg. When five blind men touch the elephant, first one said “elephant is so small and so thin (He was holding elephant’s tail). 

The second one said “No, certainly not. It is so huge and erect. He was holding the leg of the elephant. 

The third disagreed with both as he touched the trunk of the elephant and said “but it is so long, not so fat but yet thin and moving to and fro”. 

The fourth who was standing between two legs shouted at all the others calling them blind and said “the elephant is not as any of you say. It is like two pillars with space in between.” 

The fifth who touched the tummy bursted out laughing and said “Oh ye fools, elephant is oval in shape and spreads along the sides”. 

All of them were right, yet none of them knew that the other was also right. 

Upon the road of Kalinga, a traveler met a man who lived in a nearby village and the traveler pointing with his hand to a vast field asked the man saying “Was not this the battle-ground where King Ashoka overcame his enemies?”

 And the man answered “this was never been a battle ground. This has never been a battle-ground. There once stood on this very field the great kingdom of Kanishka which was over-powered and plundered. But now, it is a good field, is it not?”

And the traveler and the man parted.

Not a half mile farther the traveler met another man and pointing to the field he again said “So this was where the kingdom of Kanishka was. Right?”

And that man immediately said “No, no. There never was Kanishka here. There was a monastery but was destroyed by people of foreign origin. And now, it is a great field.”

Now the traveler moved further along the road and sat down under the tree. There came a third man to whom the traveler said “So, there was a huge monastery as this place once?”

That man gave a odd look to the traveler and explained “There never was a monastery in this neighbourhood, but our forefathers have told us that once there fell a great meteor on this field.”

By now the traveler was totally confused. He met an old man who looked wise too. So he saluted him and asked him “sir, upon this road I have met three men who live in the neighbourhood and each denied what the other had to say about this field. Each in turn also had a new tale to tell that the other had not told. I am confused. Please enlighten me on this subject.”

The old man smiled and answered “ My friend, each and every one of these men told you what was indeed true; but few of us are able to add facts to different fact and make a truth complete thereof!”

Our opinions shouldn’t be our ego projections. They are at the end of the day only opinions which are bound to change over the period of time. Why be so protective about them? Opinions should help in knocking out our ignorance and help us in easing the situation and in bringing out the solutions to the fix we are in. Opinions shouldn’t be the problem creators, they are problem solvers.

 

Let us not identify ourselves with our opinions. They are ours. We are not because of them. We are not insulted if our opinions are rejected. Know this Truth. Apply it and become liberated.

The basis of any good relationship should be and can be only when we agree to disagree.

Just remember "A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep".

And when is the Opinion very strong? 

 

Are we carrying unnecessary luggage?

One morning I wasted nearly an hour watching a tiny ant carry a huge feather across its back on the terrace........

Several times it was confronted by obstacles in its Path and after a momentary pause it would make the necessary detour. 

At one point the ant had to negotiate a crack in the concrete about 10mm wide.After brief contemplation the ant laid the feather over the crack, Walked across it and picked up the feather on the other side then continued on its way.

I was fascinated by the ingenuity of this ant, one of God's smallest creatures.

It served to reinforce the miracle of creation.

Here was a minute insect, lacking in size yet equipped with a brain to reason, explore,discover and overcome.

But this ant, like the two-legged co-residents of this planet, also shares human failings. After some time the ant finally reached its destination - a flower bed at the end of the terrace and a small hole that was the entrance to its underground home.

And it was here that the ant finally met its match.

How could that large feather possibly fit down a small hole? Of course it couldn't.

So the ant, after all this trouble and exercising great ingenuity, overcoming problems all along the way, just abandoned the feather and went home.

The ant had not thought the problem through before it began its epic journey and, in the end, the feather was nothing more than a burden. 

Isn't OUR LIFE like that..? We worry about our family; we worry about money or the lack of it, we worry about work, about where we live, about all sorts of things. These are all burdens - the things we pick up along life's path and lug them around the obstacles and over the crevices that life will bring, only to find that, at the destination, they are useless and we can't take them with us....still............

Let's travel light.........when we worry about the facts and situations of life, we feel them as burdens.........but when we do what needs to be done with total love without the thought of 'worry' we enjoy what we do........

when we worry that becomes seed of fear that expresses as a disfunction in our body or a disease.....

We are creating the cause of disease in our body and expect someone else to heal us? Not possible! It will certainly take time but its time you address your fear once and for all and be done with it......that's the only way to come out of this situation once and for all....

And the only way to heal the 'fear' from the root is to 'heal' it with various healing techniques......and no technique gives you overnight results so be with it and benefit from it - for sure!

let's start living and stop worrying...........

because in the end nothing matters...........