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| Evolution of Love Part 2 |
| I used to go to the Temple with my mother . The temple had stairs. I used to ask her why can't they build the temple on the ground? Why do you have to climb the stairs each and everyday? *The excellent answer by mother.* You need to rise above your level to reach God. Each step of the stairs is a reminder that you are rising above your level in terms of your envy, greed, anger, ego and all evil parts of your life. It also suggests that you have to climb the steps one by one, you can't just jump off from first step to the last step. That is the cycle of life, once you conquer these aspects, you reach towards your inner core self- The divine YOU.... You are looking for satisfaction in the outside world because you think that all these objects you see in front of you are real. They are not. The reality is the substratum in which they all appear. This is what you should be seeking, instead of looking for external gods in different pilgrimage places. An elephant is made out of wood. If we see it as wood, it is wood. But if we get caught up in the name and form, we will see only an elephant and forget that its underlying nature is wood. All is your own Self. This form is different; that form is different. This is more powerful; this is worse. These are all judgments you make when you see separate objects instead of having the true vision that all is an undifferentiated oneness. There may be different varieties of light bulbs, but the current that activates and sustains them is the same. You must learn to become one with this activating current, the unmanifest Self, and not get caught up in all the names and forms that appear in IT. |
| _A 70 year old retired female teacher had one hobby - she loved to fish_. _She was sitting in the boat the other day when she heard a voice say, 'Pick me up.' She looked around and couldn't see anyone._ _she thought she was dreaming when she heard the voice say again, ''Pick me up._ ' _she looked in the water and there, floating on the top, was a frog._ _The retd teacher said, 'Are you talking to me?'_ _The frog said, 'Yes, I'm talking to you. Pick me up, then kiss me; and I'll turn into the most handsome man you have ever seen. I'll make sure that all your friends are envious and jealous, because I will be your young husband!'_ _The retired teacher looked at the frog for a short time, reached over, picked it up carefully and placed it in her pocket._ _The frog said,_ _'What, are you nuts? Didn't you hear what I said?'_ I said, 'Kiss me, and _I will be your beautiful, young boyfriend_.' _She opened the pocket, looked at the frog and said,_ _''Nah. I'd rather like to have a talking frog than a nagging man in my life...._ _With age - comes wisdom!_ 😄😂 |
| How a son/daughter thinks of his/her father at different age..... At 6 years....:My Dad is great! At 8 years....:My Daddy knows everything. At 12 years.....: My Daddy is good but he is short tempered. At 14 years....: My Daddy was nice to me when I was young. At 18 years.....: My Daddy is not in line with the current times. Frankly he does not know anything. At 20 years...: My Daddy is becoming increasingly cranky and unreasonable. At 23 years....: Oh! It is becoming difficult to tolerate Daddy! Wonder how Mother puts up with him! At 25 years...: Daddy is objecting to everything.. Don't know when will he understand the world. At 32 years...: It is becoming difficult to manage my son! I used to be so scared of my Dad when I was young... At 40 years...: Daddy brought me up with so much discipline.. I wonder how he managed to handle the younger generation!.. At 45 years....: I am baffled as to how my Daddy brought us up.. At 50 years...: My Daddy faced so many hardship to bring us up...(we were 3 brothers and 2 sisters) I am unable to manage a single child! At 55 years...: My Daddy was so far sighted and planned so many things for us. Even at this old age, he is able to control things. He is one of his kind and unique. At last...: ' My Daddy was great! Don't take so many years.....Realize it on time... Education is not a Name of Any Degree or Certificate that can be shown to others as a Proof ... But ... Education is the name of Our Attitude, Actions, Language , Behavior & Personality with Others in Real Life ... !! And thus it is Rightly said that ... To be Born with a Personality is a Gift from your Parents ... But ... To Die as a Personality is an Achievement of your Own and a Return Gift to your Parents .. #collected!! |
| A MINISTER OF THE KINGDOM of Shang came to visit Confucius. Never one to beat around the bush, the minister always asked questions in a blunt and straightforward way. So the moment he saw Confucius he asked, “Are you a sage?” Confucius replied, “I do not dare to claim to be one. I’m only someone who has studied much and read widely.” “Then were the Three Kings sages?” “The Three Kings knew how to use their courage and intelligence. Whether they were sages I would not know.” “What about the Five Emperors?” “The Five Emperors knew how to rule with virtue. Were they sages? I do not know.” “How about the Three Lords? Were they sages?” “The Three Lords knew how to use the right people at the right time. It’s not for me to say whether they were sages or not.” The minister was beginning to get impatient. “Then who do you think is a sage?” Confucius would not be hurried, so he waited until the minister calmed down again and replied, “Maybe far away in the West is a person who doesn’t talk about the art of government and yet his country is orderly and peaceful. He rarely speaks about promises but he is trusted by all. He does not use force, so everything runs smoothly. His heart is open and his actions are spontaneous. His subjects don t even know what to call him. I suspect he is a sage, but that he is truly a sage I would not know.” When the minister of Shang heard this, he was not pleased. He went away thinking to himself, “It doesn’t make sense. This fellow Confucius must be fooling me.” Does it really matter if someone is recognized as a sage or not? If you are truly honest, sincere, and upright in everything you do, do you need others to acknowledge your virtues to make you virtuous? |
| Love is painful because it transforms. Love is mutation. Each transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new. The old is familiar, secure, safe, the new is absolutely unknown. You will be moving in an uncharted ocean. You cannot use your mind with the new’ with the old, the mind is skillful. The mind can function only with the old’ with the new, the mind is utterly useless. Hence, fear arises, and leaving the old, comfortable, safe world, the world of convenience, pain arises. It is the same pain that the child feels when he comes out of the womb of the mother. It is the same pain that the bird feels when he comes out of the egg. It is the same pain that the bird will feel when he will try for the first time to be on the wing. The fear of the unknown, and the security of the known, the insecurity of the unknown, the unpredictability of the unknown, makes one very much frightened. And because the transformation is going to be from the self towards a state of no-self, agony is very deep. But you Cannot have ecstasy without going through agony. If the gold wants to be purified, it has to pass through fire. Love is fire. It is because of the pain of love, millions of people live a loveless life. They too suffer, and their suffering is futile. To suffer in love is not to suffer in vain. To suffer in love is creative’ it takes you to higher levels of consciousness. To suffer without love is utterly a waste’ it leads you nowhere, it keeps you moving in the same vicious circle. The man who is without love is narcissistic, he is closed. He knows only himself. And how much can he know himself if he has not known the other, because only the other can function as a mirror? You will never know yourself without knowing the other. Love is very fundamental for self-knowledge too. The person who has not known the other in deep love, in intense passion, in utter ecstasy, will not be able to know who he is, because he will not have the mirror to see his own reflection. Relationship is a mirror, and the purer the love is, the higher the love is, the better the mirror, the cleaner the mirror. But the higher love needs that you should be open. The higher love needs you to be vulnerable. You have to drop your armor’ that is painful. You have not to be constantly on guard. You have to drop the calculating mind. You have to risk. You have to live dangerously. The other can hurt you’ that is the fear in being vulnerable. The other can reject you’ that is the fear in being in love. The reflection that you will find in the other of your own self may be ugly’ that is the anxiety. Avoid the mirror. But by avoiding the mirror you are not going to become beautiful. By avoiding the situation you are not going to grow either. The challenge has to be taken. One has to go into love. That is the first step towards God, and it cannot be bypassed. Those who try to bypass the step of love will never reach God. That is absolutely necessary because you become aware of your totality only when you are provoked by the presence of the other, when your presence is enhanced by the presence of the other, when you are brought out of your narcissistic, closed world under the open sky. Love is an open sky. To be in love is to be on the wing. But certainly, the unbounded sky creates fear. And to drop the ego is very painful because we have been taught to cultivate the ego. We think the ego is our only treasure. We have been protecting it, we have been decorating it, we have been continuously polishing it, and when love knocks on the door, all that is needed to fall in love is to put aside the ego’ certainly it is painful. It is your whole life’s work, it is all that you have created — this ugly ego, this idea that “I am separate from existence. “ This idea is ugly because it is untrue. This idea is illusory, but our society exists, is based on this idea that each person is a person, not a presence. The truth is that there is no person at all in the world’ there is only presence. You are not — not as an ego, separate from the whole. You are part of the whole. The whole penetrates you, the whole breathes in you, pulsates in you, the whole is your life. Love gives you the first experience of being in tune with something that is not your ego. Love gives you the first lesson that you can fall into harmony with someone who has never been part of your ego. If you can be in harmony with a woman, if you can be in harmony with a friend, with a man, if you can be in harmony with your child or with your mother, why can’t you be in harmony with all human beings? And if to be in harmony with a single person gives such joy, what will be the outcome if you are in harmony with all human beings? And if you can be in harmony with all human beings, why can’t you be in harmony with animals and birds and trees? Then one step leads to another. Love is a ladder. It starts with one person, it ends with the totality. Love is the beginning, God is the end. To be afraid of love, to be afraid of the growing pains of love, is to remain enclosed in a dark cell. Modern man is living in a dark cell’ it is narcissistic. Narcissism is the greatest obsession of the modern mind. And then there are problems, problems which are meaningless. There are problems which are creative because they lead you to higher awareness. There are problems which lead you nowhere’ they simply keep you tethered, they simply keep you in your old mess. Love creates problems. You can avoid those problems by avoiding love. But those are very essential problems! They have to be faced, encountered’ they have to be lived and gone through and gone beyond. And to go beyond, the way is through. Love is the only real thing worth doing. All else is secondary. If it helps love, it is good. All else is just a means, love is the end. So whatsoever the pain, go into love. If you don’t go into love, as many people have decided, then you are stuck with yourself. Then your life is not a pilgrimage, then your life is not a river going to the ocean’ your life is a stagnant pool, dirty, and soon there will be nothing but dirt and mud. To keep clean, one needs to keep flowing. A river remains clean because it goes on flowing. Flow is the process of remaining continuously virgin. A lover remains a virgin. All lovers are virgin. The people who don’t love cannot remain virgin’ they become dormant, stagnant’ they start stinking sooner or later — and sooner than later — because they have nowhere to go. Their life is dead. That’s where modern man finds himself, and because of this, all kinds of neuroses, all kinds of madnesses, have become rampant. Psychological illness has taken epidemic proportions. It is no more that a few individuals are psychologically ill’ the reality is the whole earth has become a madhouse. The whole of humanity is suffering from a kind of neurosis. And that neurosis is coming from your narcissistic stagnancy. Everyone is stuck with one’s own illusion of having a separate self’ then people go mad. And this madness is meaningless, unproductive, uncreative. Or people start committing suicide. Those suicides are also unproductive, uncreative. You may not commit suicide by taking poison or jumping from a cliff or by shooting yourself, but you can commit a suicide which is a very slow process, and that’s what happens. Very few people commit suicide suddenly. Others have decided for a slow suicide’ gradually, slowly, slowly they die. But almost, the tendency to be suicidal has become universal. This is no way to live, and the reason, the fundamental reason, is we have forgotten the language of love. We are no more courageous enough to go into that adventure called love. Hence people are interested in sex, because sex is not risky. It is momentary, you don’t get involved. Love is involvement’ it is commitment. It is not momentary. Once it takes roots, it can be forever. It can be a lifelong involvement. Love needs intimacy, and only when you are intimate does the other become a mirror. When you meet sexually with a woman or a man, you have not met at all’ in fact, you avoided the soul of the other person. You just used the body and escaped, and the other used your body and escaped. You never became intimate enough to reveal each other’s original faces. It is painful, but don’t avoid it. If you avoid it you have avoided the greatest opportunity to grow. Go into it, suffer love, because through the suffering comes great ecstasy. Yes, there is agony, but out of the agony, ecstasy is born. Yes, you will have to die as an ego, but if you can die as an ego, you will be born as God, as a Buddha. And love will give you the first tongue-tip-taste of Tao, of Sufism, of Zen. Love will give you the first proof that God is, that life is not meaningless. The people who say life is meaningless are the people who have not known love. All that they are saying is that their life has missed love. Let there be pain, let there be suffering. Go through the dark night, and you will reach to a beautiful sunrise. It is only in the womb of the dark night that the sun evolves. It is only through the dark night that the morning comes. My whole approach here is that of love. I teach only love and only love and nothing else. You can forget about God’ that is just an empty word. You can forget about prayers because they are only rituals imposed by others on you. Love is the natural prayer, not imposed by anybody. You are born with it. Love is the true God — not the God of theologians, but the God of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, the God of the Sufis. Love is a tariqa, a method, to kill you as a separate individual and to help you become the infinite. Disappear as a dewdrop and become the ocean, but you will have to pass through the door of love. And certainly when one starts disappearing like a dewdrop, and one has lived long as a dewdrop, it hurts, because one has been thinking, “I am this, and now this is going. I am dying. ” You are not dying, but only an illusion is dying. You have become identified with the illusion, true, but the illusion is still an illusion. And only when the illusion is gone will you be able to see who you are. And that revelation brings you to the ultimate peak of joy, bliss, celebration. |
Hardly the day started and ... it is already six o'clock in the evening. Barely arrived on Monday and it's already Friday. ... and the month is already over. ... and the year is almost up. ... and already 40, 50 or 60 years of our lives have passed. ... and we realize that we lost our parents, friends. and we realize that it is too late to go back ... So ... Let's try, however, to take full advantage of the time we have left ... Let's not stop looking for activities that we like ... Let's put color in our greyness ... Let's smile at the little things in life that put balm in our hearts. And yet, we must continue to enjoy serenely the time that remains. Let's try to eliminate the "after" ... I do it after ... I will say after ... I will think about it after ... We leave everything for later as if "after" was ours. Because what we do not understand is that: after, the coffee cools ... after, priorities change ... after, the charm is broken ... after, health passes ... after, the children grow up ... after, the parents get older ... after, the promises are forgotten ... after, the day becomes the night ... after, life ends ... And after that it's often too late .... So ... leave nothing for later ... Because always waiting for later, we can lose the best moments, the best experiences, the best friends, the best family ... The day is today ... The moment is now ... We are no longer at the age where we can afford to postpone until tomorrow what needs to be done right away. |
| Zimbabwe's ex-President Robert Mugabe will always be remembered for his great wit and his colourful language. *These are some of the raw, hilarious and unforgettable 'Robert Mugabe quotes' :* 1) "When your clothes are made of cassava leaves, you don’t take a goat as a friend." 2) "If you are ugly, you are ugly. Stop talking about inner beauty because men don’t walk around with X-ray machines to see inner beauty." 3) "When one’s goat gets missing, the aroma of a neighbour’s soup gets suspicious." 4) "Treat every part of your towel nicely because the part that wipes your buttocks today will wipe your face tomorrow." 5) "Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on, rather than send it to your mum, and you realise witchcraft is real." 6) "If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so that I marry him first." 7) "Cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in a piece of paper with fire on one end and a fool on the other end." 8) Interviewer: "Mr President, when are you bidding the people of Zimbabwe farewell?" Robert Mugabe: "Where are they going?" 9) Racism will never end as long as white cars are still using black tires; If people still use black color for bad luck and white for peace; If people still wear white clothes to weddings and black clothes to funerals; As long as those who don’t pay their bills are blacklisted and not ‘whitelisted’… But I don’t care as long as I still use the white tissue paper to wipe my ass! With that only, I will always be very fine. 10) No African girl will choose six pack over six cars.. So stop going to the gym and go to work! 10) "How do you convince the upcoming generations that education is the key to success when we are surrounded by poor graduates and rich criminal?” 11) lf Adam & Eve were Chinese we would have been in paradise because they would have ignored the apple and eaten thè snake. 12) A person can love you and still cheat, just like we love God and still sin. 13) It’s better to sit in a bar thinking about God than to sit in a church thinking about beer. 14) Being kissed does not mean you are loved, ask Jesus about Judas. 15) "If I am given a chance to travel through time, I will go back to 1946, find Donald Trump's father and give him a condom." 😊😊😂😊😊 |
1. You're a very religious person following divine path but you don't lower your gaze when you see a member of the opposite gender. (A leaking bucket) 2. You wake up early morning trying to do your Pooja / Path but your mind is elsewhere and before you know it, you're done with your prayers (A leaking bucket) 3. You're very kind to outsiders/people in general and speak with them gently but with your own family you're always harsh/rude. (A leaking bucket) 4. You honour and treat your guests well but when they leave, you gossip about them and talk about their flaws. (A leaking bucket) 5. You try to read as much religious books, listen to Satsang /Keertan, participate in social services/ Sewa but you swear, insult, curse daily. (A leaking bucket) 6. You help others but you're doing it to gain something in return from them and not doing those acts of kindness selflessly. (A leaking bucket) 7. You frequently advice/preach others on religious matters but practice none yourself. (A leaking bucket) 8. You slander other devout persons out of hatred/spite when your views do not meet one another. (A leaking bucket) 9. You look down on others and feel more superior than them, judging their level of knowledge about religion based on external appearances (A leaking bucket) We struggle to fill our Jeevans (the bucket) with Kamaayi of religious knowledge (the water), hoping it will retain inside but it is leaked by the many flaws (the holes) that we commit daily. An excellent reminder for all, to try and patch these holes up so we may progress further on this beautiful path of life. 🙏 |
| My cup overflows I've never made a fortune, And I'll never make one now But it really doesn't matter 'Cause I'm happy anyhow. As I go along my journey I'm reaping better than I've sowed I'm drinking from the saucer 'Cause my cup has overflowed. I don't have a lot of riches, And the going's sometimes tough But with kin and friends to love me I think I'm rich enough. I thank God for the blessings That His mercy has bestowed I'm drinking from the saucer 'Cause my cup has overflowed. He gives me strength and courage When the way grows steep and rough I'll not ask for other blessings For I'm already blessed enough. May we never be too busy To help bear another's load Then we'll all be drinking from the saucer When our cups have overflowed. May your cup overflow. |
| DID YOU KNOW? Our belly button (NABHI ) is an amazing gift given to us by our creator. A 62 year old man had poor vision in his left eye. He could hardly see especially at night and was told by eye specialists that his eyes were in a good condition but the only problem was that the veins supplying blood to his eyes were dried up and he would never be able to see again. According to Science, the first part created after conception takes place is the belly button. After it’s created, it joins to the mother’s placenta through the umbilical chord. Our belly button is surely an amazing thing! According to science, after a person has passed away, the belly button is still warm for 3 hours the reason being that when a woman conceives a child, her belly button supplies nourishment to the child through the child’s belly button. And a fully grown child is formed in 270 days = 9 months. This is the reason all our veins are connected to our belly button which makes it the focal point of our body. Belly button is life itself! The “PECHOTI” is situated behind the belly button which has 72,000 plus veins over it. The total amount of blood vessels we have in our body are equal to twice the circumference of the earth. Applying oil to belly button CURES dryness of eyes, poor eyesight, pancreas over or under working, cracked heels and lips, keeps face glowing, shiny hair, knee pain, shivering, lethargy, joint pains, dry skin. *REMEDY For dryness of eyes, poor eyesight, fungus in nails, glowing skin, shiny hair* At night before bed time, put 3 drops of pure ghee or coconut oil in your belly button and spread it 1 and half inches around your belly button. *For knee pain* At night before bed time, put 3 drops of castor oil in your belly button and spread it 1 and half inches around your belly button. *For shivering and lethargy, relief from joint pain, dry skin* At night before bed time, put 3 drops of mustard oil in your belly button and spread it 1 and half inches around your belly button. *WHY PUT OIL IN YOUR BELLY BUTTON?* You belly button can detect which veins have dried up and pass this oil to it hence open them up. When a baby has a stomach ache, we normally mix asafoetida (hing) and water or oil and apply around the naval. Within minutes the ache is cured. Oil works the same way. Try it. There's no harm in trying. You can keep a small dropper bottle with the required oil next to your bed and drop few drops onto navel and massage it before going to sleep. This will make it convenient to pour and avoid accidental spillage. |
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