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Thursday, March 5, 2009

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


Saturday, March 21, 2009

Why good people always suffer?

Thank god – life is not just


“I don’t expect anything much in life. I can accept deficiency in any sphere in life, but I can’t accept injustice meted by life on the good people around me. I can’t see ‘my people’ suffering. Why should always good suffer?”

These and related questions are always bombarded at me every time I touch the topic of expectations and anger. The above stands true and justified if touched topically. But, in the larger context of time and life there is nothing as suffering by the good. It is always chosen by the ‘good people’ for their own good by them. It is always by choice. It is never thrust at them by some unknown force above.
Before explaining this statement, let me first look at the first part of the question – “…injustice meted by life on the good people around me..”.
· When I am standing and talking to my friend under a tree, even without a thought I pluck a twig/branch (depending upon my muscle power), pluck a flower and then throw it and am gone from there. No tree taps me on my head (but, that’s what I would do if someone did what I did to the tree – right?). AM I GLAD LIFE IS NOT JUST!

· During rainy season when it rains I curse the rain for dampening my day. Rain doesn’t withdraw from my bore saying I had abused it so many times, so it wouldn’t flow in my pipe line (again this would have been my attitude towards my so-called near and dear if they had said something unwelcome to me-right?). – AM I GLAD RAIN DOESN’T HAVE MY ATTITUDE? AND LIFE IS NOT JUST?

· When I am sitting on the banks of any river, I throw pebbles at it – just for fun or because I don’t have anything better to do. River doesn’t throw water at me nor does it drown me when I wade into it for washing my feet. I would remember the hurt given by someone even years down the line and get back to them physically or at least verbally whenever I get a chance to do so. Right? THANK THE INJUSTICE OF LIFE. RIVER DOESN’T DO SO.

ALL THESE ACTS AND MORE ARE PERFORMED BY THE GOOD PEOPLE IN MY LIFE. Am I glad life is not JUST so many times with them? Think!
Well, coming to the part “why should good people always suffer?”
King Harishchandra underwent so many trials in life because he stuck to his principle “I shall live by Truth alone”. He CHOSE to suffer (as per others definition). But to him he CHOSE it for Truth. He was never unhappy with his choice.

Every person who wants to lose weight goes on a crash diet. They end up making a statement “I am working so hard and suffering not eating good diet to lose weight”. But all through his life Gandhiji chose to eat minimal food out of choice. He enveloped it on his own. He did not suffer it and others who did it out of compulsion. So your choice cannot give you suffering as it is your choice.

Arjuna wanted to be recognized as a great archer in the history. So he was placed in the situations that gave him an opportunity to experience bravery and also to fulfill his desire to be known as a great archer. He chose his life plan. His suffering was out of choice for something that he wanted out of his life. It wasn’t because he was good.

Jesus had to teach the unconditional love by forgiving his enemies also stating “forgive them for they know not what they do”. So he chose to die on cross and suffered the crucification. His suffering (if at all there was) was his choice and not because he was good.

Helen Keller born deaf, dumb and blind went on to become the world’s renowned motivational speaker. She had every reason to suffer but she chose to outgrow self-pity and be a living model to all depressed souls (those with full body parts intact!). She was good. She didn’t ask the question why me and suffer. Instead she chose to outgrow the limitation. She made the CHOICE.

Look closely maybe “trouble should be a new window in the Eastern wall of your house?”


There certainly must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea. But we need to suffer to experience them. But we forget that our GOD in His gracious thirst can drink us all, the dewdrop and the tear.

Once a great tennis player was diagnosed with cancer. A reporter asked her “why have you got this disease?” then the player said when 5 lakh children got the chance of being trained in tennis and I was one of them I didn’t ask “why me?” out of those 5 lakh 50 thousand got intensive training and the list included me, then I did not ask “why me?” when 5 thousand got advanced training and when I was there in it I did not ask “why me?” and when 500 of them reached the grand slam and I still continued to be there in that list I did not ask “why me?” when I won the grand slam out of the 500 people I did not ask GOD “why me?” then why now?

Sufferings may actually be the speed breakers in one’s life that toughens them and strengthens them for good. Isn’t it true that it’s the Turtles that can tell more about the roads than the hares? These sufferings soften the person in a strange beautiful and complete way. Remember the soft power of Gandhiji and Mother Teresa! Strange enough is the fact that the creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

We life by choice and not be chance! So rejoice at your choice in spite of it bringing you to the steps of suffering (as per your definition!).

So, stop suffering and start living for now,
revathi

for further details go to post dt:5/3/09,12/3/09, 28/03/09,29/03/ 2009 and 8/14/09)

Sunday, December 4, 2016

Me, My Guru Love – Bhagavatam





Me, My Guru


Love – Bhagavatam


We arrived a bit early today! We sat under the Mango tree in the courtyard. She was to come ½ an hour later. The morning breeze was cool enough to make us feel good and sunlight was warm enough for us to want to bask in it for some more time. The weather today was awesome! No, I didn’t notice this till others expressed it so. It was then that I realized that I was so oblivious to so many ‘good feelings’ around me. No doubt, they were more smiling and happier than me!


Suddenly someone asked “Are we actually benefitting from these classes? Obviously by way of ‘knowing data’ but are we applying it and letting it transform us and our lives?”


This was exactly what I was thinking before I heard it. It was as if someone had picked up my ‘idea’.


“After knowing about redundancy of doing rituals ‘blindly’ and mechanically, I’ve changed my approach towards my sadhan’ I started.


“Did you stop doing it all together?” someone asked and we all ended up laughing. I laughed too! Because, that was how I would have understood it earlier. Many other ‘statements of hers’ were also gloriously misunderstood in the similar way by me. I laughed at that possibility. And I thanked ‘her’ for being patient with me and insisting enough to push me to do ‘sadhan’ all these years which had resulted in this understanding. It was so easy to say “I understood on my own. I heard it elsewhere and I thought of it myself” and rob her of her credit. No, she never kept count of these credits. But it again reflected ‘my character’. How did I understand and why
not 10/20 years back, before meeting her? Why you took so long to understand? People were manipulative enough with their bent logic to not recognise scores of counselling that she gave. They didn’t validate her explanations. Her healing too was not taken into account. When understanding happens, the credit goes to me! And when things don’t work out in my life “why maam/God, when I trust you so much then why is this happening to me?” So simple! When things go wrong it is reiki/Guru/God’s mistake and when I achieve something ‘the whole credit is mine’. How convenient was that!


This was not my ‘understanding’. It was Rahul who explained everything to me. He also told me one more thing that hit me. ‘People who think they are smart use her name and quote her and get away doing what they want to do and what they want to say. They keep saying ‘oh, she taught us so much and yet when we look at their attitude, actions and character we see that they are lying and only fooling people to believe that they have ‘gratitude’ when in fact they don’t have any. They say these things to fool their students and project the ‘expected behaviour from their students’ this way.’ Then I noticed this game which others were playing and trust me, it really hurt me a lot! I respected and loved her more for all that she was receiving from ‘such students’.


But, I am glad atleast today and on this issue I am on this side of this line. I thanked her, reiki and myself too for sticking to her so long and not to have left her for someone else! Yes, it did take 20 long years for me to complete just this stretch of journey but am I glad I did it!


....contd.....

Monday, February 14, 2011

Why me?

Whenever we are faced with the situation or we need to live with a person whom or what we term as 'not aggreable' to us, we usually ask the question "Why me?"
Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledonplayer was dying of AIDS which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983.

From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed:
"Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease"?

To this Arthur Ashe replied:
"The world over -- 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'.


And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?' "

"Happiness keeps you Sweet,
Trials keep you Strong,
Sorrow keeps you Human,
Failure keeps you humble and Success keeps you glowing, but only Faith & Attitude Keeps you going...
If we want success, then failure is part of it.......we can't reject one side of the coin saying 'I don't like it...."
If I want to be 'married' then in-laws, spouse and the responsibilities that come with marriage is a package deal, we just can't pick up our choices and leave the rest ...........
When we take responsibility of our success, goodness, good health and all, we ARE SOLELY responsible for the failures, ill-repute, ill health etc.., we can't put the blame on someone else for the things going wrong if we take credit for the good that we do........
think......

Sunday, May 9, 2021

Need for pain

 

Contd....


Need for pain




I don’t predict future. I am a believer of ‘writing and designing our future’. And so am in ‘healing path’. Our future is going to be right whatever the outcome be. Note here clearly. I said ‘future is going to be right’ and not ‘good’. Good is subjective. What you consider as good is only your ‘desire’. And you are happy only when your condition of that desire is fulfilled. But, here I am not saying ‘good’ I am saying ‘right’. Right means ‘may be not up to my taste or as per my desire’ but still what is right for me!

This right is selected by the Universe. It is decided by the reiki. How can it be wrong for me? Whatever He decides, it’s got to be good. This is based on the fact and Truth that His love for me is greater than my love for myself.

Think about it! So many times we have asked things and situations for our pain. We attracted that which was painful for us. We choose things and people who are harmful for us. Agreed in ignorance, but choose we do. How we are wrong for ourselves!

HE is beyond ignorance. He is knowledge himself. How can he operate out of ignorance? And so, His decision for me can only be good and right at the same time! That is Trust I have in Him!

So whatever fears you have because of COVID surrender it to Reiki/Universe/God and just do your bit every single day.

Surrender doesn’t mean you throw caution to the wind. I know a gentleman who does pooja for a min. of 3-4 hours. He has chosen ‘celibacy’ (brahmacharyam) over married life. Why? Because, for him being with God in every thought is the only way of life. He takes care of his aged parents. He is a successful professional. He is from well to do family. And yet he is clear in his purpose of life. He went to ‘kumbh mela’ saying ‘energies of that place would not let virus come there’. He came back with COVID and both his parents in late 80s with co-morbidities are at risk because of him. His SIL who is mother to a one year kid is already infected. SIL’s both parents (who live in next house to theirs) are cancer patients undergoing cancer treatment. Just imagine the scenario.

Our belief should not be a cause of pain, suffering or trouble to others. Remember that always!

Contd....


# pain and suffering, desire and its fulfillment, destiny, twists and turns of life, life - a miracle, unfolding of life events, everything happens for a reason, everything happens for good, 


Questions addressed : 
  • Why do I suffer when my prayers are answered too?
  • Why am I not happy inspite of my wish being fulfilled?
  • Now I am afraid of asking for wishes as their coming true also gives me pain. Does that mean I don't ask for wishes? Then how do I run my life?
  • Who takes decisions when I am not taking decisions for my life?

Points to be understood : 
  • When my desire is fulfilled, Good!
  • But when my desire is not fulfilled then it is better for me as HIS WILL is present in the decision.
  • जब मेरी चाहत पूरी होती है तो अच्छा 
  • पर जब मेरी चाहत पूरी नहीं होती है थो बहुत अच्छा क्यूँकि उसमें उसकी रज़ा होती है..... 
  • What I desire for myself is not necessarily good! No arguments there!
  • What I want need not be for my good. 
  • There is His Love operational even in denial!
  • His love for me is much much greater than my love for myself.
  • I in my ignorance can want and chase things and people harmful for me.
  • HE never gives me anything harmful for me. It may be distasteful for me - but harmful - NEVER!
  • He knows more about me than I myself!
  • If you want to argue on that, first sit in meditation and go within. Know thyself! Then open your mouth to argue.
  • One who feels restless, fear, pain just by closing one's eyes and wanting to be silent for few minutes - what does that reflect about that person?

Please note : I am not communicating doesn't mean 'no teacher period and so make more noise and do no homework....!'
Some of you have been given special task to be performed for 3-4 months next. Are you doing it? I am sure i don't need to repeat saying this again.....

Read https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=why+God+doesn%27t+come+to+my+rescue  to understand how God helps people in Sadhan.

Also find answer to your question : Aren't energies of Kumbh mela and pooja supposed to protect a bhaktha? If no, then why be in sadhan?

Ask yourself this question before blaming Reiki/Guru/God "Am I here to question His Greatness and Glory or am I working towards experiencing a miracle happening through Him in life?"

Am I challenging his Glory and Greatness OR 

Am I being a torch to his Glory and Greatness?

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Swami Vivekananda's journey







\…contd….

We all know Swami Vivekananda’s trip to US and how he awakened every soul which had prayed to be shown a path that would lead it towards realization. But, how many of us know the travails he had to undergo during that journey. Please know it in his words…

Lectures from Colombo to Almora

My plan of campaign

(Delivered at the Victoria Hall, Madras)
...................

With all my faults, I think I have a little bit of boldness. I had a message from India to the West, and boldly I gave it to the American and the English peoples. I want, before going into the subject of the day, to speak a few bold words to you all. There have been certain circumstances growing around me, tending to thwart me, oppose my progress, and crush me out of existence if they could. Thank God they have failed, as such attempts will always fail. But there has been, for the last three years, a certain amount of misunderstanding, and so long as I was in foreign lands, I held my peace and did not even speak one word; but now, standing upon the soil of my motherland, I want to give a few words of explanation. Not that I care what the result will be of these words — not that I care what feeling I shall evoke from you by these words. I care very little, for I am the same Sannyâsin that entered your city about four years ago with this staff and Kamandalu; the same broad world is before me. Without further preface let me begin.

First of all, I have to say a few words about the Theosophical Society. It goes without saying that a certain amount of good work has been done to India by the Society; as such every Hindu is grateful to it, and especially to Mrs. Besant; for though I know very little of her, yet what little I know has impressed me with the idea that she is a sincere well-wisher of this motherland of ours, and that she is doing the best in her power to raise our country. For that, the eternal gratitude of every trueborn Indian is hers, and all blessings be on her and hers for ever. But that is one thing — and joining the Society of the Theosophists is another. Regard and estimation and love are one thing, and swallowing everything any one has to say, without reasoning, without criticising, without analysing, is quite another. There is a report going round that the Theosophists helped the little achievements of mine in America and England. I have to tell you plainly that every word of it is wrong, every word of it is untrue. We hear so much tall talk in this world, of liberal ideas and sympathy with differences of opinion. That is very good, but as a fact, we find that one sympathises with another only so long as the other believes in everything he has to say, but as soon as he dares to differ, that sympathy is gone, that love vanishes. There are others, again, who have their own axes to grind, and if anything arises in a country which prevents the grinding of them, their hearts burn, any amount of hatred comes out, and they do not know what to do. What harm does it do to the Christian missionary that the Hindus are trying to cleanse their own houses? What injury will it do to the Brâhmo Samâj and other reform bodies that the Hindus are trying their best to reform themselves? Why should they stand in opposition? Why should they be the greatest enemies of these movements? Why? — I ask. It seems to me that their hatred and jealousy are so bitter that no why or how can be asked there.

Four years ago, when I, a poor, unknown, friendless Sannyasin was going to America, going beyond the waters to America without any introductions or friends there, I called on the leader of the Theosophical Society. Naturally I thought he, being an American and a lover of India, perhaps would give me a letter of introduction to somebody there. He asked me, "Will you join my Society?" "No," I replied, "how can I? For I do not believe in most of your doctrines." "Then, I am sorry, I cannot do anything for you," he answered. That was not paving the way for me. I reached America, as you know, through the help of a few friends of Madras. Most of them are present here. Only one is absent, Mr. Justice Subramania Iyer, to whom my deepest gratitude is due. He has the insight of a genius and is one of the staunchest friends I have in this life, a true friend indeed, a true child of India. I arrived in America several months before the Parliament of Religions began. The money I had with me was little, and it was soon spent. Winter approached, and I had only thin summer clothes. I did not know what to do in that cold, dreary climate, for if I went to beg in the streets, the result would have been that I would have been sent to jail. There I was with the last few dollars in my pocket. I sent a wire to my friends in Madras. This came to be known to the Theosophists, and one of them wrote, "Now the devil is going to die; God bless us all." Was that paving the way for me? I would not have mentioned this now; but, as my countrymen wanted to know, it must come out. For three years I have not opened my lips about these things; silence has been my motto; but today the thing has come out. That was not all. I saw some Theosophists in the Parliament of Religions, and I wanted to talk and mix with them. I remember the looks of scorn which were on their faces, as much as to say, "What business has the worm to be here in the midst of the gods?" After I had got name and fame at the Parliament of Religions, then came tremendous work for me; but at every turn the Theosophists tried to cry me down. Theosophists were advised not to come and hear my lectures, for thereby they would lose all sympathy of the Society, because the laws of the esoteric section declare that any man who joins that esoteric section should receive instruction from Kuthumi and Moria, of course through their visible representatives — Mr. Judge and Mrs. Besant — so that, to join the esoteric section means to surrender one's independence. Certainly I could not do any such thing, nor could I call any man a Hindu who did any such thing. I had a great respect for Mr. Judge. He was a worthy man, open, fair, simple, and he was the best representative the Theosophists ever had. I have no right to criticise the dispute between him and Mrs. Besant when each claims that his or her Mahâtmâ is right. And the strange part of it is that the same Mahatma is claimed by both. Lord knows the truth: He is the Judge, and no one has the right to pass judgement when the balance is equal. Thus they prepared the way for me all over America!

They joined the other opposition — the Christian missionaries. There is not one black lie imaginable that these latter did not invent against me. They blackened my character from city to city, poor and friendless though I was in a foreign country. They tried to oust me from every house and to make every man who became my friend my enemy. They tried to starve me out; and I am sorry to say that one of my own countrymen took part against me in this. He is the leader of a reform party in India. This gentleman is declaring every day, "Christ has come to India." Is this the way Christ is to come to India? Is this the way to reform India? And this gentleman I knew from my childhood; he was one of my best friends; when I saw him — I had not met for a long time one of my countrymen — I was so glad, and this was the treatment I received from him. The day the Parliament cheered me, the day I became popular in Chicago, from that day his tone changed; and in an underhand way, he tried to do everything he could to injure me. Is that the way that Christ will come to India? Is that the lesson that he had learnt after sitting twenty years at the feet of Christ? Our great reformers declare that Christianity and Christian power are going to uplift the Indian people. Is that the way to do it? Surely, if that gentleman is an illustration, it does not look very hopeful.

One word more: I read in the organ of the social reformers that I am called a Shudra and am challenged as to what right a Shudra has to become a Sannyasin. To which I reply: I trace my descent to one at whose feet every Brahmin lays flowers when he utters the words — [my_plan_of_campaign_01.jpg] — and whose descendants............

Read the above speech 2-3-10 times to hear the pain and the suffering of Swamiji. Understand what emotions he had to face, what treatments he had to face inspite of the good work he was doing. understand how he stood inspite of these tough and painful situations....

...contd....

Friday, January 18, 2013

...contd...



I cleared my throat not to let out my surprise and said “Good Morning Guruji”.

She gave me a can of water and signaled me to water the plants. I took the can from her and started to water the plants. She started the conversation “where is your vehicle? I didn’t hear you park it?” I was like “What the hell? How much does she notice ?”And said aloud “Gave it for regular service Maam”. “Why?”She asked “Why?”She and her questions sometimes baffled me .But I still managed to answer her mechanically “To maintain my vehicle”.

“But you always sell your vehicle after 5 years why service it when you are any how going to sell it?” she asked.

She was so innocent in worldly affairs. She couldn’t understand such simple things of life. “If the vehicle is in good shape, then I’ll get a better offer when I put it for sale”. I said trying to enlighten her.

“Oh!”She said. There was silence after that. I completed watering the plants and placed the can in its place. She still had couple of plants to trim. I went and stood beside her.

“Gopi told me that you asked him to wash the shirt you had lent him the other day. Is it true?”She started the communication. She seemed lost today. She was starting the conversation by herself which was a rarity by itself? Over and above she was talking about such insignificant things that I felt I should leave soon today. The day no more looked promising “Yes” I replied as a matter of courtesy. "Why?” She enquired. “What why?” I thought but said aloud “Because it is basic etiquette to return the clean clothes that you take from others. I don’t like when others spoil it and return it to me .That’s why I asked Gopi to clean it and give back my clothes clean and pressed. That’s all!”

“Exactly. The clothes that I am wearing which you call my body is lent to me by HIM and I wish to return it in good shape back to HIM and hence do exercise and such activities to maintain it well. The way I keep, respect, maintain this body talks of my character and based on this I will be given a vehicle i.e. new body in next life. The reason  you have to take care of your vehicle are the same why I take care of this vehicle which you call as my body?”She asked.

Now I understood the whole conversation differently .She was answering my question which I had long forgotten. My day wasn’t wasted .Being with her did benefit me .But for that I have to be aware and not be judging impromptu . I took her leave and left satisfied.