How a simple technique called Pranayamam and Meditation (which is considered - and is the highest form of technique for self-awareness and self-realization) will be discussed during the course of future posts.....

And that understanding would come only if each one of us would make it a point to meditate atleast 15 mts from today onwards....I'll explain the benefits over the period of time..

In the meantime, let's go through other understandings....

THIS IS HOW WE MISS OUT SOMETHING CALLED "LIFE".

A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and the boy was the gem of their eyes. When the boy was around two years old.

One morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open. He was late for office so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and keep it in the cupboard. His wife, preoccupied in the kitchen totally forgot the matter.

The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle fascinated by its color and drank it all. It happened to be a medicine meant for adults in small dosages and if taken in larger dose would prove to be poisonous.

When the child collapsed, the mother hurried him to the hospital, where he died. The mother was stunned. She was terrified how to face her husband. When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and uttered just five words.

QUESTIONS : 1. What were the five words ? 2. What is the implication of this story?

ANSWER : The husband just said "I am with you Darling"

The husband's totally unexpected reaction is a proactive behavior.

The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault with the mother. Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away, this would not have happened.

No one is to be blamed. She had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her.

If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be much fewer problems in the world. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step". And that step can be taken by US only and not wait for the other party to take that step......

Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. And you will find things are actually not as difficult and as painful as you think.

Many times, we are not even aware of the fears -unknown which is making us bitter towards a person/persons/situations which would be a simple day to day talk/routine. These fears,envy, unforgiveness, selfishness, ego makes us hurt a person who didn't deserve to be hurted....it makes us bitter through the day...it may even break a relationship....

..... Sometimes we spend time in asking who is responsible or whom to blame, whether in a relationship, in a job or with the people we know.

THIS IS HOW WE MISS OUT SOMETHING CALLED "LIFE".

ARE WE TO GO THROUGH LIFE SUFFERING AND MAKE OTHERS SUFFER ALONG WITH US OR ARE WE GOING TO CELEBRATE LIFE AND MAKE IT A JOYOUS ONE FOR OUR CO-TRAVELLERS?

Each one need to answer it to himself....honestly....and then take a RIGHT and a WISE decision....

May you meditate on these and get clarity of thought devoid of your ego-centric judgements....

May you understand the implication of every act,word,thought and feel that you generate even in your silence by your presence...

Reflections – on repairing sofa

 

Contd....

Reflections – on repairing sofa

Our Reiki channel of course was totally and blissfully unaware of their expression and its meaning.   

I on the other hand was purely amused with this incident. To me our channel operated purely out of ‘identification with his colony and area’. He gave one more valid reason though “I do Reiki before starting any work and I flow with the feel afterwards”.  

Fair enough! Though he was operating on those simple lines the benefit was huge. Let’s look at this scenario from other angles too. Let’s assume he had checked with few others too. He may have saved couple of hundreds there maybe?!? That’s a valid possibility. When we look into these things, we look at only ‘money part’. We are so obsessed about the seen ‘money’ that we overlook the ‘intangible benefits’ and collateral damage in the entire process. As these things are not ‘counted’ or ‘countable’ we don’t know to value things and situations right! This way we suffer inspire of having made ‘right calculated’ profits. Let’s look into facts to understand the same.

a.    He had given the contract to someone else. He stays far. That way he would charge high for conveyance. The money saved over repair would be more or less lost in transit money. ‘Penny saved is penny earned’.

b.    Here, he would just check on the shop as he goes for the walk. But for any other shop it would mean to ‘make a call’. We don’t count ‘pennies’ there, right?

c.     Don’t forget that! You all know that using phones generate harmful waves and that impacts our atmosphere and environment. Who bears the brunt? Phone has become a necessary evil. But can’t we reduce it’s use to some extent? We can by making such small changes in our life and life-style.

Karmically, this makes an impact on our ‘social karma’. By being conscious of the same, we can decrease ‘the quote’ of this karma being generated to a large extent.

d.   What about the vehicular pollution generated due to commuting sofa to a far off center? That is reduced in tote here. That way also his decision made an impact over air pollution. We all complain and suffer about air pollution. When it comes to doing anything about it, we put the same on ‘Government’s shoulders’?! Why?

e.    
Don’t forget ‘precious time’ wasted over long discussions with people to know about ‘good sofa repair person’. We also lose on our energy in all this useless activity. “Energy saved is energy available to put it to good sue elsewhere”!!!He also saved time and that he put to good use in ‘doing sadhan’ and ‘relaxing’. Both ‘priceless’ as many have dearth of time! His time and energy put to good use he benefitted physically, emotionally, psychologically, mentally and not to forget karmically!

f.      And that my dear, is the way to strike a ‘good deal’.

Contd....

# on dealing with day to day issues, little differences, stress on little nothings of life, looking at big picture, making life stress free, on calculating right, using mind the right way, 

Also suggested reading : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=medicine+bottle+open. 

Points to ponder :

• Is there stress in life or choosing it over and over again for ourselves?
• Is our worry for future reflection of we wanting to reach the future now? Think about it!

What are the points that caught your attention?

What did you relate with?