poem - Ghalib

Poem - by Ghalib on forgiveness

kuch iss tarah maine zindagi ko aasaan kar liya
kisi se maafi maang li aur kisi ko maaf kar diya......

कुछ इस तरह मैंने ज़िन्दगी को आसान कर लिया 
किसी से  मॉफी माँग ली और किसी को माफ़ कर दिया। ....... 

I have made my life simple so
from some i have sought forgiveness and some i have forgiven.....

your thoughts?!

Monk and the scorpion – Me, My Guru

 

Contd....

Monk and the scorpion – Me, My Guru

Virtue developed just for the sake of virtue raised a man to his Godhood even without his desire to become one!

Virtue was not a coupon to be encashed for material benefits. It is an investment towards our growth. Even a small act of virtue practiced gives immense satisfaction, happiness, contentment and peace. Every small act of virtue makes way for the man to claim his ‘Kingdom of heaven’. And no good act goes wasted!

As Rahul explained all this, we had goose bumps. We felt we had wasted our entire life arguing with silly reasoning that clouded our perceptions. But, we also knew ourselves. Even after being floored we would go back to our hatred, anger and arguments. We still would justify our emotions and actions with some day to day incidents to support them!

Our road wasn’t long. We made it so by choosing ‘not to walk it’ for our various reasons best generated by us! 

Concluded.....

# monk and the scorpion story, story on forgiveness, being self, character, helping and caring, being human, 

also read : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=forgiveness+and+empowerment 

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=poem+by+Ghalib 

Sit in meditation and look into your anger......address it and know yourself.......

once you seek the cause of your anger, its nature, its effect on your personality and relationships, its origin - no one need tell you what to do and how to do.......go within and look into your emotion......

on life! poem by Ghalib

मालूम सबको है ज़िन्दगी बेहाल है लेकिन 
लोग फिर भी पूछते हैं की क्या हाल है?

Everyone knows that life is difficult and yet
everyone asks "how's life?"

Go within to look into the redundancies of our social etiquette and the way we converse with one another...

drop all that look fake or useless and lo, you have started to live a life without pretense....

Me, my Guru – On complexity of life

 

Me, my Guru – On complexity of life

“Guruji, why is life so complicated?” asked Rahul. He looked disheartened today. There was that sadness that carried the weight of love, betrayal and heaviness of a broken heart.

“Life is really very simple. But we make it complicated with over thinking and over feeling” replied our Guru with a smile that was both soothing and understanding.

Rahul and a few others nodded their head in agreement.

Few of us kept quiet not knowing how to process it. We didn’t have the guts to accept our ignorance either. 

Others – well they were lost to this conversation. They always termed questions as our questions and their questions and missed learning from others’ questions. These were the ones who felt our Guru was partial to a selected few and gave her attention to just them.

Each unto his own!

We lived as we chose to!

We suffered as we chose!

And yet, we all believed in destiny that was written by God who was partial! How ironic and pathetic was that??!!

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# life, facts of life, life is simple, disturbed mind, outer world reflection of inner world, know thyself, peace, destiny and fate, karma 

also read: https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-winds-of-fate-poem.html 

and 

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2019/05/on-fate-ghalib.html 

Questions answered:

• Why is life complicated?
• Why can't I be happy always?

Pointers from the post:

"Rahul and a few others nodded their head in agreement." - The person if he is OPEN TO ANSWER and has FAITH IN THE PERSON WHO IS ANSWERING will receive the answer when given. 

Mostly people ask questions just to ask something.

Some ask to impress.

Some ask to show off that they can ask intelligent / complicated questions.

"Few of us kept quiet not knowing how to process it. We didn’t have the guts to accept our ignorance either." Few people get the answer but don't have the strength and courage to face reality. They hide behind the "not understanding maam" statement. Their go-to excuse and face-saving statement are "but, we are not that intelligent or we are after all humans with weakness".

" Others – well they were lost to this conversation." this category is the blessed one. They are not available to any amount of gems falling all around them. For them, knowledge is just useless. All they want is the shiny trivial things of this World. 

 "And yet, we all believed in destiny that was written by God who was partial! How ironic and pathetic was that??!!" - It is only when we accept that we have written our destiny do we have power to heal it. The day we accept that we are where we are because of who we are, we become empowered to change our destiny.

And yet, we want to "BELIEVE THAT IT IS GOD WHO WRITES OUR FATE". Because then all that we need to do is complain about God, hate him, talk ill of Him, hold Him responsible for our ills and pains. We don't need to change!

Thousands of Gurus have come to wake us up from our slumber. Healing regularly is the only key available to us to rise and shine!

Let's not waste our chance to do the same!