Renunciation as Supreme Enjoyment

This is all Occult science, each and everything is related to the subject, to make more simplified for the human being the Upanishad are written.

Greek thinker Diogenes gave up everything. Like one of the Lord Mahavira, he lived naked. All he kept was a begging bowl, for begging and drinking water. One day, he saw a villager drinking water by cupping his hands, so he immediately threw away his begging bowl.

The villager asked him, “What have you done?” He replied, “I never knew that one could drink water by cupping one’s hands – now why should I be deprived of such a joy? The begging bowl is only a dead thing, and when I fill it with water I feel nothing from it. When I fill my hands with water, they feel the connection with water, its coolness, and its life-giving energy. My love also enters the water through my hands, and it becomes alive. So I will be drinking that too.”

The first time Diogenes cupped his hands and drank water from them, he started dancing! He said, “What a fool I was to use a dead vessel to drink water from, because it made the water dead, too. The energy from my hands, the heat, could not pass through to the water. And this was also insulting to the water.”

Our senses have become numb like his bowl. Whatever we receive through them becomes dead. Food on the plate looks beautiful; the minute it enters your mouth it becomes ordinary. Music becomes mundane when it enters your ears. Flowers lose their beauty when seen through your eyes.

We make everything ordinary – whereas everything in the world is extraordinary. The flower you see on a tree has never blossomed before. It is absolutely new. It is impossible to find another flower like it on this earth. It has never existed before, and it will never exist again in the future. Our eyes turn the existence of a unique flower into something mundane when we say, “It’s okay – we’ve seen thousands of roses like this before.” Because of the thousands you have seen, your eyes have become blind and you cannot see what is there, present, in front of you. What have those thousands of flowers got to do with this one?

Emerson has written that upon seeing a rose it came to his mind that the flower has no idea of the existence of thousands of other flowers – neither of the flowers still to come, nor of those which have gone before. This rose is present, here and now, offering itself to the divine. It is joyful because it does not compare itself with any other. But when he sees it, the thousands of others which he has seen get in the way. His vision is blurred, and the unique experience of this flower goes to waste. He doesn’t perceive its beauty; the strings of his heart are not moved, nor are his senses stirred.

We live in a unique world. The divine is manifested here in so many ways all around us. But we’ve made a grave of our senses. We are only passing through life – nothing touches us. We ask, “Where is bliss, where is godliness?” – and it is present all around us! Inside, outside, there is nothing other than godliness. By abusing our senses, we kill the one who could experience it.

Renunciation is the science of supreme enjoyment. Only someone who knows how to let go is able to experience. Let go of the meaningless so that you can realise the meaningful; let go of sensations so that you can perceive the subtle.

Renunciation is something a unique type of enjoyment, but very few can see it this way.

This cannot be among the common people, we cannot even think of parting with our belongings.

Live in accordance with the law of 'Nature'.......

It is said that 

“Pleasure is Medicine And LOVE has the Power to Heal”.

Indulging in Sex for reproduction or for sheer pleasure can be termed as one of the basic needs of all living beings along with Food Clothing Shelter and Sleep ! It has been a constant struggle for all aspiring people in their pursuit of spirituality to overcome this basic instinct which the mind tries to indulge! We heard about the sages like great Viswamitra विश्वामित्र too succumbing to this basic desire when meditating ......another theory says spirituality through sexuality...propagated by Gurus like Osho ! One thing is clear that one cannot ignore this basic instinct in whatever stage of life one is in and surely this cannot be judged as bad !

Our basic instincts often drive us back towards history when we were nomads living in jungles. Leading a natural life like Adam and Eve. During evolution, we made societies where these instincts were chained or put to shackles which were unnatural and forced. The constant conflict between natural and unnatural draws us back and forth resulting in sometimes a so-called civilized behaviour sometimes a jungle behaviour. Entire world is in under the spell of this kind of a regular conflict manifesting clear-cut divisions. There are people who want to celebrate primitive urges as 'valentine day' protagonists and 'Ram Sena राम सैना ' vandalizing their plans. Khajuraho खजुराओ or a Konark कोणार्क is no exception.

Sex is the nature's gifted mechanism for self-recreation and life creation. Mouth is the nature's gifted mechanism to eat and drink,..... it is never bad but always good for one's existence. All the natural mechanisms are good if used sensibly, selectively, timely, under pressure of need, at right place and at right time and right space. Contrarily not using the natural mechanisms of living body or misusing or abusing ... are disastrous.

Nowhere has it been said that sexual act is a sin. The thing is that sexual act must be coupled with moral values. Immoral sexual activities lead to degradation of character and the loss is instantaneous. One should practice abstinence till possible and if the impulse has come then relieve himself off the impulse. Yet one should place before him the highest ideal i.e. Bramhacharya ब्रह्मचार्य.

Use of sex is divine order,

Abuse of sex is sex addiction,

Misuse of sex is sex crime,

Disuse of sex is celibacy........!!

With Good Wishes and LOVE from Subhash.....!!

Om Asato Maa Sad-Gamaya … Tamaso Maa Jyotir-Gamaya … Mrtyor-Maa Amrtam Gamaya … Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih .

ॐ असतो मा सद्गमय ।

तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय ।

मृत्योर्मा अमृतं गमय ।

ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥...............

Meaning:

1: Om, Lead us from Unreality (of Transitory Existence) to the Reality (of the Eternal Self),

2: Lead us from the Darkness (of Ignorance) to the Light (of Spiritual Knowledge),

3: Lead us from the Fear of Death to the Knowledge of Immortality.

4: Om Peace, Peace, Peace.......

Unconditional Love - Heart Touching Story

A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Francisco.

“Mom and Dad, I’m coming home, but I’ve a favor to ask. I have a friend I’d like to bring home with Me.”

“Sure,” they replied, “we’d love to meet him.”

“There’s something you should know the son continued, “he was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mind and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to come live with us.”

“I’m sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find somewhere to live.”

“No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us.”

“Son,” said the father, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live, and we can’t let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He’ll find a way to live on his own.”

At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him. A few days later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police. Their son had died after falling from a building, they were told. The police believed it was suicide.

The grief-stricken parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue to identify the body of their son. They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didn’t know, their son had only one arm and one leg.

The parents in this story are like many of us. We find it easy to love those who are good-looking or fun to have around, but we don’t like people who inconvenience us or make us feel uncomfortable. We would rather stay away from people who aren’t as healthy, beautiful, or smart as we are. Thankfully, there’s someone who won’t treat us that way. Someone who loves us with an unconditional love that welcomes us into the forever family, regardless of how messed up we are.

Tonight, before you tuck yourself in for the night, say a little prayer that God will give you the strength you need to accept people as they are, and to help us all be more understanding of those who are different from us!

There’s a miracle called Friendship that dwells in the heart you don’t know how it happens or when it gets started but you know the special lift it always brings and you realize that Friendship Is God’s most precious gift!

Friends are a very rare jewel, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed they lend an ear, they share a word of praise, and they always want to open their hearts to us.

(Continued)

We are Borne why ? We have come here for certain work.

We shall have to do it. Afterward we shall have to go to our permanent House. By remembering God, we realize Him. That is true work. Work is worship when the sole frame of reference is the soul, the vibrant God’s name within our heart.

Every bit of work is worship. But the moment any kind of work grips our consciousness as the one thing indispensable and is stems the tide of our life, it is invested with the multiple nuances and derives of our ego and lacks spirituality.

Without this human body no other world divinities can taste His Love. In the body of a person resides Supreme Truth LORD KRISHANA is worshipped as a Paramyogi, a Sannyasi and a wise man. He is also a romantic lover, a shrewd warrior and a benevolent savior – all in one! This may be the reason why the Hindus worship him as the Purnavtar, a total incarnation of God on earth. No other incarnation of God is so much endowed with such diverse qualities as Krishna. All shades and colors of life – mischievous play fullness of a child, flirtatious romance of young man and ultimate maturity of a wise old man – meet in Krishna and they create a wide spectrum of colors, that has been attracting all kinds of artists, dancers, musicians, poets, writers and other creative people. The very meaning of his name Krishna is the element that attracts and pulls. Krishna is a magnetic force.

           

He is a perfect example of Maha Dhyani-(Greatest Mediator) who is equally comfortable and fully centered when he is surrounded by his 16000 Pretty Gopis and particularly when he is in the middle of an epic war. He is totally relaxed and playful in all these extreme situations and takes life as a cosmic Leela, an ultimate dance of existence, which the poets have described as Raas. “This word raas is very beautiful: it means the divine celebration, the divine dance. In this interplay of energies, which are Raas, Krishna and his milkmaids cease to be individuals, they move as pure energies.

                       

And this dance of male and female energies together brings deep contentment and bliss; it turns into an outpouring of joy and bliss. Raising from Krishna’s Raas this bliss expands and permeates every fiber of the universe. Although Krishna and his girlfriends are no more with us as people, the moon and the stars under which they danced together are still with us, and so are the trees and the earth and the skies that were once so drunk with the bliss of the raas. Although millennia have passed, the vibes of the maha-raas are still with us. “If someone goes to dance on the grounds where Krishna once danced with his Gopis he can hear the echoes of the Maha- Raas. If someone plays a flute near the hills that in the music of Krishna’s flute, he can hear those hills echoing it, everlastingly. In my view, Raas symbolizes the outpouring of the primeval energy as it is divided between man and women. And if we accept this definition, the Rass is as relevant today as it was in the times of Krishna. Then it is everlastingly relevant.”

So the body is to be treated as His Temple and taken care of. Only for performing the bodily duties has the riches of the body been given. Eat, drink, do everything, but remember Him, Who is inside the body. To move according to nature is the safe course.

We have come here to do all sorts of acting. We have come here as a guest. We have taken our body as a temporary place to enjoy God in the Maya (Creative force of God manifests in ever-changing nature)! We have come to taste it! But we have become otherwise engaged. Be always with God’s name then the objective with which we have come here will be realized.

We are here with this body. Just maintain the body, nothing else. Body is not ours. We have taken that body the temple of God as a temporary place to enjoy Him in the (God’s creative force which manifests in nature, and therefore God’s grace to us). When we have come here, we have come here with mind senses, desire and attachments. We shall have to give something to them. If we stop everything, they will revolt.

To be born with human form in this mortal world has only one happy object. That is the relish the joy of God’s Love. Only it is the tendency of human mind to run under the compulsion of innumerable allurements and attachments. But even being involved in them what a Supreme blessing is this human birth. How ineffably is this world filled with beauty and flavor! We have come to taste it! But we have become otherwise engaged. Be always with God’s name then the objective with which we have come here will be realized. Now the question is always arises in the mind of a person! Where did I come from?

Where did I come from?

Why not accept the saying: “God in His Supreme playfulness, by mere resolve, has been inclined to create the worlds and they were created forthwith.

When an individual first appears in the Womb of the mother, matters appear instantly. At that stage mind lies in a state of inertia. Mind and matter are nothing but one. With their gradual manifestation the difference in them is identified. From that state the individual is in the domain of nature and a series of phenomena determine one’s every development. Sometimes it seems mechanical.

There is no birth or death. Everything goes on changing from in the stream of eternity. Being born with a human body in this world’s itself destiny. One who has a taste for God’s love wants to be born again and again with a human body, because the taste of His love cannot be possible other than in that human birth.

Our psychosomatic (mind / body) existence is essentially feminine responding back and forth to the polarity of life. Human beings have individual shape (male / female) according to the Divine Will of Lord, in spite of the fact that they originate from the same natural elements. Both (male / female) are dictated by the prompting of the mind and ego. Moving and acting in the plane of mind, all are female and the only goal is to realize the supreme Male.

When we take on a body in the realm of nature the power of (Divine Creative Force) is bound to create restrictions and obstacles in the course of life for individuals, families, societies and even for nations.

The Substance is one. This Universe as we find it today is the result of a long process of steady evolution. The world is only a small speck. We proceed from the general to the particular, but ultimately the general and particular become one. Therefore we should change our angle of vision.

Human birth is the rarest of all the births, We should try to live our life keeping Him in view. Human life is meant to feel His divine Play and thereby understand the nobility of the Creator. The mystery of birth will be unfolded only when the sweetness and beauty of the God’s Divine Play, which is the eternal Truth, is realized by turning the consciousness inward.

Human mind is similar to an Ocean, which are active at its surface and more and more quite (Silent) at its depth. Human beings are borne in the body with God from His blissful world to get real aanand (Supreme Bliss) by the taste of His love in this mortal and illusory world. But superstitious human involvements and ignorant irresponsible attitude towards God do not allow us to come near to Him or to feel His love for which we get the rear human birth. We ignore God in pursuit of worldly pleasures, profits, and attachments, which please now and depress the very next moment. We waste the precious human birth given to us. We cannot give up the superstitious of our egoistic living in the world and we forget Him, the Truth.

We shall have no fear. The entire paraphernalia of nature is the creation of the Supreme Being. The all-pervading Truth, for the relish of His Divine Play. God has appeared many in the mirror of the mind. The divine play is intrinsically bipolar having positive and negative, ups, and downs, good and bad. Oscillation between them provides the basis for all the creative possibilities of the Play. When we are in the domain of nature, we have to acquiesce in Praabdha the evolutionary process of our life). When the play is over, the two poles coalesce into mere existence, all existents having disappeared.

Where am I going ?

We are going in the direction we have chosen, either drifting through life, at the mercy of events and of our own passing whims and moods, or taking adult responsibility for the whole of ourself, our character, our actions and our future. The full stature of manhood is the perfect expression of divinity in a human personality. We are choosing, at every moment, either to waste our opportunities and deny our true Self, or to accept our destiny and move consciously towards the goal of Self-realisation.

When I die where will I go?-

The substance is one and that alone is the eternal substance. There is no vanishing, no destruction of it. It is the supreme Integral Existence. We are the eternal substances of that unregimented Supreme Being.

We say a person dies. Where does one go? There is only one place. Still we think that at death a person has gone somewhere. One does not go anywhere. We do not understand the nature of death.

There is something called death as we call it. But it is God who leaves the body and He doesn’t go anywhere. His vibration stops in the body. But until the individual mind function is over the mind remains dissatisfied. Unless and until this mind is fully satisfied it will continue to come into this world. People who were together, come together again.

In the vacuous region of the heart, which is the Infinite, two sounds are constantly chanting. When those two sounds of God’s stop it is death. When these two sounds go off, the mind shrinks and a person dies. Then the mind shrinks and the person is merged in pervasive Existence. When the mind can resort to another body, it buds forth again.

Life has no death. Life is Eternal. What we call death or end of life is actually a phase and is concerned only with the body. Body consists of matters, which dissolve in time to their original form, but self has no dissolution. We have come for a few days not forever. Why should we bother for anything?

One has no right to put a violent end to one’s own life. Live the normal term of life doing your work. Without coveting the wealth of others and enjoying Him.

Individual has no existence of their own because exit from their mortal body is inescapable. That which holds the body will return to its own abode when it leaves the body. The reality of the mortal individual is then merged in that eternal and continuous Life Force which never moves from or to any place.

When God leaves the body He does not go anywhere. And we a bunch of fools do all kinds of funeral ceremonies for His benefit! Such rites are only for mercenary interest. The deceased for whom we perform rites receive nothing. Funeral rituals are meaningless and full of superstition. It is a business or trade of the priests that takes us far from Truth. We shall keep it in mind How many days we can or do live is not important. How we lived or live is important.

We have come to another’s house we must leave it someday. He will come and take us off. For the relish of His divine Play, God has appeared as many in the mirror of the mind. The divine Play is intrinsically bipolar, having positive and negative, ups and downs, good and bad, etc. Oscillations between them provide the basis for all creative possibilities of His Play. When the Play is over, the two poles coalesce into mere Existence, all existent having disappeared.

(Concluded)

(Continued)

What am I to do?-

Be like a log of wood in the stream of His will. Love lives, Love work, love duty. Be of good cheer. Only remember God. And do whatever you do in the name of Him. That is enough.

One who can fully relish and utilize the present, without worrying about present, past and future, he or she really enjoy the state of. His supreme Love. The essential thing about life is to see it and enjoy it as (God’s Play).

We shall follow our desires. Do not force them into a special pattern Eat, drink, do everything, but remember God, Who is inside the body.

To move according to nature is only safe course. Do not go beyond the limitation of the body. If we do not respect it, will it not retaliate? Go about doing everything while remembering Him, that is all that is needed.

What then are we to do? We have to brave the world, bear Prarabdh (Unavoidable evolutionary process of one’s life) with fortitude, and do our respective activities without any sense of ego.

Carry on. We have to do our duty. Duty is the first thing. Have patience with the vicissitudes of life, which are tokens of His infinite Love. Don’t restrain, don’t indulge. Be natural, shorn of all inhibitions.

Bear destiny or fate with patience. No restraint, no effort is necessary for Him. Relish His Love and taste the world of nature, with passive remembrance of God.

By doing our duties, which come from His, will we relish His Love and Bliss. We do and enjoy everything as we like but remember Him. We will see nothing will affect us. Try to act our role in the drama on this stage of the world perfectly.

Evaporation of ego, loving submission to God and braving the world of reality as His bounteous expression in our duty. The duty of all human beings is to carry out all activities of life with Him in view. Remember Him. That is enough, more than enough.

World cannot be discarded to become spiritualist. We have come to the world to do our destined works, Karma’s, not to get Him…. As He is already within. We have to do the work for which we are destined.

A vast field of activities is before us. Enjoy them with Him. (Life force) has everything. We can take meat, fish, and vegetables whatever we like. All are the same. Fasting is not good. Don’t go against your nature. Let our senses and mind do any manner of antics. Let our inner drives led our senses wherever they will. Be a passive spectator of the drama.

We have nothing to do except call to mind that God is within. Do nothing but practice remembering and adhering to Name. Repeat the Name, keep thinking about Him and the rest will be taken care of. Think of God. Keep on remembering God, the seed that has been sown in our heart. It is a wonderful key that makes every door open of its own accord.

We need not to shun the needs of the body. With birth we invited and came with certain desire, lust, passions, and greed. We cannot exist a moment without their help. The senses have an essential role. We shall have to give something to them. If we stop everything, they will revolt.

What is the use of this life?

To attain Mokska- liberation from the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. Birth means a soul entering a body and death is its departure from the Body. The soul itself has neither a beginning nor an end; it is eternal or anadi and ananta. The soul entering a body on this earth or on other planets of the universe performs some actions that are karma.

Karma may enable a soul to attain the eternal bliss or Mokska. On the other hand karma causes endless continuation of the cycle of birth and death of a soul. As you sow so you must you reap. Thus, Karma plays the pivotal role in a pilgrim’s progress towards Mokska; its attainment or the lack of it. In its Karma, the atama is absolutely free and unfettered. A soul charts its own course evasion on uncharted sea. How does an ataman go about it? The 14th mantra of the 23rd chapter of yajurveda gives an appropriate and crystal clear guidance:

Sanshito Rashmina Rathah Sanshiteo Rashmina Hayah Sanshito Apsvapsuja Brahma Sompurogavah.

 

The horses of the chariot of life must always be well disciplined and well disposed to go at the desired speed. It is though self –control and self – discipline that master of the chariot, ataman, and 10 horses that is indriyas (five sensory and five action organs of the body) perform Karma. The ataman requires Vedic knowledge or Brahma jnyanam to partake of anand and also motivate others to follow the same path.

A good control over the 10 horses or indriyas makes an individual a real Dashrath, a charioteer in complete command of his sensory and action organs. That of course, is the Vedic path leading the ataman to Moksha.

(To be continued)

The cause of unhappiness

The cause of most of the unhappiness on the earth is that man and woman have actually forgotten how to make love. This means that only the individual man or woman have any chance of starting to correct it. There can be no mass solution. The problem is too personal and too deep. Everybody has to do it for himself or herself or it cannot be done.

Who am I ?

Why am I here?

What am I to do?

What is the use of this life?

We are borne. Why?

Where Did I come From ?

Where am I going ?

When I Die Where will I go?  --

Who am I ?- We are part of the One Existence which men call God, We are divine in our origin and divine in our innermost nature, Our body is mortal; our spirit, which is our true Self, is immortal; our soul, which is the self which thinks and feels and regards itself as 'I', may win its immortality if it becomes the servant of spirit, and not otherwise.

Why am I here.

We are here in order to discover what we really are, and to bring into activity all the powers that lie sleeping within us. Since we are, in our true nature, a part of the divine life, we have within ourself all the attributes of divinity: infinite love, infinite wisdom, and infinite power. Humanity is still very young, and most of us have hardly begun the immense task of Self-discovery. But we are here to do this very, thing, and we have all the time we need to do it.  It is to realize God or Self, whatever we may call it. We have come here to make Love to Him, to be bathed in His love and to vibrate His love through the actions that come our way.

We have come here some day to play. Here is a Female here is a Male. She has got all the senses and desire, everything. He has also got the same thing. Both are the same. That is for His play. Male and Female are only for the theater, the stage His Divine plays. Body and life bestowed on us by God are to be fully tasted and enjoyed.

This time of the body is temporary. We are actors and we are paid according to our performance. We shall play our part well in the God’s play of love, shaking of desires and obsessions. Our duty is to watch His Play as passive witnesses. Be always in a natural state of Oneness with Him free of all senses of want.

We have sojourned here for relishing His (Tasting of God’s Love). We have come here to have a taste of His, God’ play of Love. Which this world displays is symbolized by copulation, moving to and fro between the opposite poles like a pendulum, the characteristic of duality and mental function. It is a stage where we are to enact our respective roles for a stipulated period time.

Just try to Love Him and do your duty. Duty is the first thing. Duty is Karma, work. Our responsibility is to perform our actions with full sincerity and honesty. We must do (activities). There is no knowledge without. We are seeing, hearing, and eating something…. All this is, and this, is knowledge.

We go through our daily activities, whatever one does is, Actions, and reactions in the mind lead to one’s activity. Let the fruit of action be decided and bestowed by Him because the result comes from Him. One cannot undertake any work without a pragmatic end in view. So, with attachment one has to do one’s work, although without any desire for the results. No sooner has the work been finished then the attachment evaporates. That should be the mental attitude.

(To be continued.......)

God’s Clinic

I went to God’s clinic to have my routine check-up and I confirmed I was ill. When God took my blood pressure, he saw I was low in tenderness. When he read my temperature, the thermometer registered 40 degree of anxiety.

He ran on electrocardiogram and found I needed several “Love by Passes” Since my arteries were blocked with loneliness and could not provide for an empty heart.

I went to orthopaedics, because I could not walk by my brother’s side and could not hug my friends, since I had fractured myself when tripping with enemy. He also found I was short sighted, since I could not see beyond the short coming of my brothers and sisters, when I compared about deafness, the diagnosis was that I had stopped listening to God’s voice talking to me on a daily bases.

For all of that, God gave me a free consultation, thanks to his mercifulness. So my pledge is to, once I leave this clinic, only take the natural remedies he prescribed through his words of truth.

Prescription

• Every morning, take a full glass of gratitude

• When getting to work, take one spoon of peace

• Every hour, take one pill of patient, one cup of brotherhood and one glass of humanity.

• When getting home take one dose of love.

• When getting to bed, take two tablets of clear conscience.

Do not give into sadness or depression for what you are going through to-day.

God knows how you feel…..

God knows exactly and what perfection what is being allowed to happen to you in your life at this precise moment. God’s purpose for you is, simply perfect. He wants to show you things that only you can understand by living what you are living, and by being in the place you are now.

May God give you:-

For every storm-- a rainbow,

For every tear-- a Smile

For every care-- a promises and a blessing in each trial.

For every problem life sends, a faithful friend to share for every sign, a sweet song, and an answer for each prayer.

SUBHASH RAWAT

The Evil you do, remain with you: The good you do, comes back to you.

A woman baked bread for members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passer-by. She kept extra bread on the window-sill, for whosoever would take it away.

Every day, a hunch-back came and took away the bread. Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following word as he went his way:

“The evil you do remains with you: The Good you do, comes back to you!”

This went on, day after day. Every day, the hunch-back came, picked up the bread and muttered the words: “The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!”

The woman felt irritated. “Not a word of gratitude,” she said to herself....everyday this hunch-back utters this jingle! What does he mean?

One day, out of desperation, she decided to do away with him. “I shall get rid of this hunch-back, She said. And what did she do? She added poison to the bread she prepared for him! As she was about to place it on the window sill, her hands trembled. “What is this I am doing?” She said.

Immediately she threw the bread into the fire, prepared another one and kept it on the window-sill.

As usual, the hunch-back came, picked up the bread and muttered the words:

“The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!”

The hunch-back proceeded on his way, blissfully unaware of the war raging in the mind of the woman. Every day, as the woman placed the bread on the window-sill, she offered prayer for her son who had gone to a distant place to seek his fortune. For many months, she had no news of him. She prayed for his safe return.

That evening, there was a knock on the door. As she opened it, she was surprised to find her son standing in doorway. He had grown thin and lean. His garments were tattered and torn. He was hungry, starved and weak. As he saw his mother, he said, “Mom, it’s a miracle I’m here. While I was but a mile away, I was so hungry that I collapsed. I would have died, but just then an old hunch-back passed by. I begged of him for a small part of his food, and he was kind enough to give me whole bread.

“As he gave it to me, he said, “This is what I eat every day: today, I shall give it to you, for your need is greater than mine!”

“As the mother heard those words, her face turned pale and red; she leaned against the door for support. She remembered the poisoned bread that she had made that morning. Had she not burnt it in the fire, it would have been eaten by her own son, and he would have lost his life!

It was then that she realised the significance of the words:

“The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!”

Do good and; Don’t ever stop doing good, even if it’s not appreciated at that time.

Advice From a 101 Year Old Doctor..!

Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara , Japan, turns 101 on 4th October 2012

As a 97 year old Doctor, he was interviewed, and gave his advice for a long and healthy life.

Shigeaki Hinohara is one of the world's longest-serving physicians and educators. Hinohara's magic touch is legendary: Since 1941 he has been healing patients at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo and teaching at St. Luke's College of Nursing.

He has published around 15 books since his 75th birthday, including one "Living Long, Living Good" that has sold more than 1.2 million copies. As the founder of the New Elderly Movement, Hinohara encourages others to live a long and happy life, a quest in which no role model is better than the doctor himself.

Doctor Shigeaki Hinohara's main points for a long and happy life:

• Energy comes from feeling good, not from eating well or sleeping a lot. We all remember how as children, when we were having fun, we often forgot to eat or sleep. I believe that we can keep that attitude as adults, too. It's best not to tire the body with too many rules such as lunchtime and bedtime.

• All people who live long regardless of nationality, race or gender share one thing in common: None are overweight. For breakfast I drink coffee, a glass of milk and some orange juice with a tablespoon of olive oil in it. Olive oil is great for the arteries and keeps my skin healthy. Lunch is milk and a few cookies, or nothing when I am too busy to eat. I never get hungry because I focus on my work. Dinner is veggies, a bit of fish and rice, and, twice a week, 100 grams of lean meat.

• Always plan ahead. My schedule book is already full until 2014, with lectures and my usual hospital work. In 2016 I'll have some fun, though: I plan to attend the Tokyo Olympics!

• There is no need to ever retire, but if one must, it should be a lot later than 65. The current retirement age was set at 65 half a century ago, when the average life-expectancy in Japan was 68 years and only 125 Japanese were over 100 years old. Today, Japanese women live to be around 86 and men 80, and we have 36,000 centenarians in our country. In 20 years we will have about 50,000 people over the age of 100...

• Share what you know. I give 150 lectures a year, some for 100 elementary-school children, others for 4,500 business people. I usually speak for 60 to 90 minutes, standing, to stay strong.

• When a doctor recommends you take a test or have some surgery, ask whether the doctor would suggest that his or her spouse or children go through such a procedure. Contrary to popular belief, doctors can't cure everyone. So why cause unnecessary pain with surgery I think music and animal therapy can help more than most doctors imagine.

• To stay healthy, always take the stairs and carry your own stuff. I take two stairs at a time, to get my muscles moving.

• My inspiration is Robert Browning's poem "Abt Vogler." My father used to read it to me. It encourages us to make big art, not small scribbles. It says to try to draw a circle so huge that there is no way we can finish it while we are alive. All we see is an arch; the rest is beyond our vision but it is there in the distance.

• Pain is mysterious, and having fun is the best way to forget it. If a child has a toothache, and you start playing a game together, he or she immediately forgets the pain. Hospitals must cater to the basic need of patients: We all want to have fun. At St. Luke's we have music and animal therapies, and art classes.

• Don't be crazy about amassing material things. Remember: You don't know when your number is up, and you can't take it with you to the next place.

• Hospitals must be designed and prepared for major disasters, and they must accept every patient who appears at their doors. We designed St. Luke's so we can operate anywhere: in the basement, in the corridors, in the chapel. Most people thought I was crazy to prepare for a catastrophe, but on March 20, 1995, I was unfortunately proven right when members of the Aum Shinrikyu religious cult launched a terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway. We accepted 740 victims and in two hours figured out that it was sarin gas that had hit them. Sadly we lost one person, but we saved 739 lives.

• Science alone can't cure or help people. Science lumps us all together, but illness is individual. Each person is unique, and diseases are connected to their hearts. To know the illness and help people, we need liberal and visual arts, not just medical ones.

• Life is filled with incidents. On March 31, 1970, when I was 59 years old, I boarded the Yodogo, a flight from Tokyo to Fukuoka. It was a beautiful sunny morning, and as Mount Fuji came into sight, the plane was hijacked by the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction. I spent the next four days handcuffed to my seat in 40-degree heat. As a doctor, I looked at it all as an experiment and was amazed at how the body slowed down in a crisis.

• Find a role model and aim to achieve even more than they could ever do. My father went to the United States in 1900 to study at Duke University in North Carolina. He was a pioneer and one of my heroes. Later I found a few more life guides, and when I am stuck, I ask myself how they would deal with the problem.

• It's wonderful to live long. Until one is 60 years old, it is easy to work for one's family and to achieve one's goals. But in our later years, we should strive to contribute to society. Since the age of 65, I have worked as a volunteer. I still put in 18 hours seven days a week and love every minute of it.

You are the creator of your own destiny

This woman is an INSPIRATION TO ALL THE WOMEN in our country!

At the age of 16, she was married. At 18, she became mother of two girls. Despite her husband’s disapproval she moved out of her village & joined a typing institute, did a craft course and earned ₹20-25 daily by stitching petticoats. She sold Sarees in the train, got a job as a Librarian at Janasrikrishana Nilayam and joined an open school where she continued her studies.

She learned software from VCL Computers in Hyderabad, got her passport and went to the US. She gradually started her own company and look where she is NOW!

Life with this kind of perspective

A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and the boy was the apple of their eyes.

One morning, when the boy was around two years old, the husband saw a medicine bottle open. He was late for work so he asked the wife to cap the bottle and put it in the cupboard. The mother, preoccupied in the kitchen, totally forgot the matter.

The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to it and, fascinated with its colour, drank it all. It happened to be a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages.

When the child collapsed, the mother hurried him to the hospital, where he died. The mother was stunned; she was terrified. How would she face her husband?

When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and uttered just four words.

“I Love You Darling.”

The husband’s totally unexpected reaction is 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 has taken time to put the bottle away, this would not have happened.

No point in attaching blame. 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.

Sometimes we spend time asking who is responsible or who’s to blame, whether in are relationship, in a job or with the people we know and miss out on the warmth in human relationships we could receive by giving each other support.

After all, shouldn’t forgiving someone we love be the easiest thing in the world to do?

Reassure what you have. Don’t multiply pain, anguish and suffering by holding onto forgiveness. Let go of all your envies, jealousies, unwillingness to forgive, selfishness, and fears and you will find things are actually not as difficult as you think.

If everyone could look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be fewer problems in the world.

The husband’s totally unexpected reaction is 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 has taken time to put the bottle away, this would not have happened.

Kindness Always Make You Feel Better

It was a beautiful morning I was alighting from the train at Euston station and walking towards Great Ormond Hospital for children where I was working as a pharmacy technician. As I approached the exit of the station, all of a sudden, I fell down and hit the concrete floor really had. When I came around I was literally carried away by three girls to a seat outside the station and asked me how I was. I said I was okay, and the girls told me to have a good rest and that when I recovered completely I could go where ever I wanted to go. I thanked them and wondered what had happened. A few minutes later I felt that my right arm below the elbow was wet. As I was wearing a waterproof Jacket I couldn’t see anything, so I put my left hand into my right sleeve of my shirt and felt some warm liquid. When I took my hand out, I saw a lot of Blood.

Then I knew that it was something serious but I didn’t feel any pain. So instead of going to work, I made my way to the University hospital which was about five minutes’ walk from the station. I reported in at the reception in A&E when a nurse took me into a room and examined my hand. She told me to wait outside the reception and said I would be the fourth person to be called. So, I sat down and waited for my turn. In the meantime, I also phoned (my) work and explained my situation. They told me to take it easy and let them know all about my situation. I was supposed to be the fourth person to be seen by the nurse but another three people join the queue. Then I saw an elderly gentleman came from the reception and join with us he was supposed to be the eight persons to be seen by the doctor or nurse.

I was looking at the time – it was quarter to ten two people had already been to see the nurse, so I knew my turn would be quite soon. I noticed the elderly gentleman was very impatient and kept looking at his watch worriedly; I felt sorry for him. When the nurse called my name, I asked her to see the gentleman in front of me. . . The nurse told me that in this case that I would have to take the gentleman’s place in the queue, waiting for another four people to go before me. She said that if I agreed she would see him now. So, I agreed the nurse called the gentleman in and took him inside their room for treatment. After few minutes, the elderly gentleman came out and thanked me for my generosity.

I politely asked him why was he in a hurry. He said he was going to see his wife at Tooting care home and to have lunch with her, she was 83 years old. He also hadn't been late or missed any day for the past three years even though she couldn’t recognize him as her husband as she was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. I was very pleased I was able to help somebody and I blessed him whole heartily and urge him to go and see his wife. He is certainly an inspiration. Bless you, all.