Awaken your innermost awareness

Simply sitting in silence ….

….. witnessing the thoughts, passing before you.

no interference

no judgment

no point of view

no conclusion

And sanity will be restored.

Karma the purpose of life

What is my purpose in life? I asked the void (my conscience).

“What if I told you that you fulfilled it when you took an extra hour to talk to that kid about his life?” said the voice of my conscience.

“Or when you saved that dog in traffic? Or when you tied your father’s shoes for him?” “Your smile of cheer brightened the faces of an aged couple early in the morning”.

 

“But your problem is that you equate purpose with goal-based achievement. The Universe isn’t interested in your achievements……just the heart. When you choose to act out of      kindness, compassion and love, you are already aligned with your true purpose.

This is explained beautifully in the central message of the Bhagavad Gita which is Nishkama karma which implies self-less or desireless action, it is an action performed without any expectation of fruits or results. So that is the purpose of our life.

No need to look any further!” and remember

So my dear friends please do share your views or your own real life experience of doing a Nishkama karma to inspire our readers.

Bye for now and be very well and safe 😊👍

 

A Calm Mind

Yes the world is in a state of turmoil and uncertainty and fear and panic lurk everywhere. Our scientists and researchers are toiling day and night 24/7 to discover solutions. Yet till then life must go on normally and naturally just as nature moves on silently and peacefully while accomplishing its purpose.

How nice if we too could be peaceful and calm like nature and happily go about our purpose with no fear in our minds. I feel the way to have a calm mind is to surrender completely to the Almighty and believe that he will take care of us just as He has till now. Allow Him to carry our worries while we do what our inner voice tell us to do. This approach will surely calm our mind and a calm mind will make us more alert to our own safety as also the safety of our community.

Be safe my dear friends and at the same time be also fearless and happy at all times. Replace Fear with Faith!

       Namaste

 

The Power of Faith

Hello dear friends

Sharing with you a beautiful story!! It’s surely worth a read.

In the country of Armenia, in 1988, Samuel and Danielle sent their young son, Armand, off to school. Samuel squatted before his son and looked him in the eye. “Have a good day at school, and remember, no matter what, I’ll always be there for you.” They hugged and the boy ran off to school.

Hours later, a powerful earthquake rocked the area. In the midst of the pandemonium, Samuel and Danielle tried to discover what happened to their son but they couldn’t get any information. The radio announced that there were thousands of casualties.  Samuel then grabbed his coat and headed for the schoolyard. When he reached the area, what he saw brought tears to his eyes. Armand’s school was a pile of debris. Other parents were standing around crying.

Samuel found the place where Armand’s classroom used to be and began pulling a broken beam off the pile of rubble.  He then grabbed a rock and put it to the side, and then grabbed another one.

One of the parents looking on asked, “What are you doing?”   “Digging for my son,” Samuel answered. The man then said, “You’re just going to make things worse! The building is unstable,” and tried to pull Samuel away from his work.

Samuel just kept working. As time passes on, one by one, the other parents left. Then a worker tried to pull Samuel away from the rubble.  Samuel looked at him and said, “Won’t you help me?”   The worker left and Samuel kept digging.

All through the night and into the next day, Samuel continued digging.  Parents placed flowers and pictures of their children on the ruins.  But, Samuel just kept working.  He picked up a beam and pushed it out of the way when he heard a faint cry. “Help! Help!”  Samuel listened but didn’t hear anything again.  Then he heard a muffled voice, “Papa?”

Samuel began to dig furiously.  Finally he could see his son.  “Come on out, son!” he said with relief.

“No,” Armand said.  “Let the other kids come out first because I know you’ll get me.”  Child after child emerged until, finally, little Armand appeared.  Samuel took him in his arms and Armand said, “I told the other kids not to worry because you told me that you’d always be there for me!”

Fourteen children were saved that day because one father had faith. Implicit faith makes us fearless in times of trouble in the face of diseases and above all we must accept God’s Will.

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A true Sufi ~ Disappears In God and Dissolves into God

One Sufi mystic was so full of love, and so full of joy — his whole life was laughter, music, dancing. And the story says God became very interested in him because he never asked anything, he never prayed. His whole life was a prayer, there was no need to pray.

He never went to the mosque, he never even uttered the name of God; his whole existence was the argument for the presence of God. If anybody asked him whether God exists or not he simply laughed — but his laughter was neither yes nor no.

God himself became intrigued with that strange mystic and He came to the mystic and said, “I am immensely happy because that’s how I want people to be — not that they should pray for one hour and do everything against it for twenty-three hours. Not that they should become very pious when they enter the mosque, and when they go out they leave their piousness in the mosque and they are just their old selves: angry, jealous, full of anxiety, full of violence.

I have watched you and I have loved you. This is the way: you have become the prayer. You are, right now, my only argument in the world that something more than man exists — although you have never argued, you have not even uttered my name. *Disappear In God, Dissolve into God and no more sufferings.

Those are superfluous things… but you live, you love, you are so full of joy that there is no need for any language; your very presence becomes the argument for my existence. I want to give you a blessing. You can ask for anything.”

The sage said, “But I don’t need anything. I am so joyous, and I cannot conceive there can be anything more. Forgive me, I cannot ask because I really don’t need anything. You are generous, you are loving, you are compassionate; but I am so over-full, there is no space within me for anything else. You will have to forgive me, I cannot ask.”

God said, “I had thought that you would not ask, so don’t ask for yourself — but you can ask for others, because there are millions of people who are miserable, sick, have never known anything for which they can be grateful. I can give you powers to do miracles, and you can change the lives of all these people.”

The sage said, “If you are insistent, then with a condition I can accept your gifts.”

God said, “With a condition? You really are strange. What is the condition?”

He said, “My condition is that I should not become aware of what is happening through me, by you. It should happen behind my back; it should happen through my shadow, not through me. I may be passing and my shadow may fall on a dead tree, and the tree may become alive again — again lush green, again heavy with flowers and fruits — but I should not know it, because I don’t want to fall back.

If I know it — that I have done it, or even that God has chosen me as the instrument to do it — it is dangerous. So my condition is: a blind man may start seeing, but neither should he know that it is because of me, nor should I know that it is because of me. My shadow behind my back will do all the miracles.

If you can accept my condition, and remember that I should not know at all… because I am so full of joy, so blissful. Don’t drag me back into the miserable world. Don’t drag me back to become again an ‘I.’

And it is said that God said to him, “You are not only strange, you are unique and rare. And this will be so: you will never know what things are happening around you. Miracles will be happening around you — wherever you will go, miracles will happen. Neither those people will know that you have done those miracles, nor you will know that you have done those miracles. I will remember the condition.”

*Osho*

Use your hands to heal yourself!

Dear blogger friends I’m sure you have heard or experienced alternative therapies such as Acupressure, Pranic healing, Reiki and other energy therapies where healing takes place with no medication. The sweet story below is another example of healing with the touch of your hands.

“Grandmother, how to relieve pain? “

“With our hands, darling. “

“With hands?”

“Yes.”

“Our hands are the antennas of our soul.”️

When you set them in motion by painting, cooking, playing or burying them in the earth, you send healing energy to the deepest parts of you.

Your soul lights up because you then realize it,s significance and importance.

“So, the signs of pain are no longer necessary. “

“ Are the hands really that important?”

“ Yes, my daughter.”

Observe babies: they explore the world through touch through their little hands.

See the hands of the ancients, they will tell you more about their lives than any other part of their body.

It is said that: “Everything that is done with the hand, is done with heart. “

Hands and heart are connected.️

All healers know this well: when they touch someone else’s body with their hands, they create a deep connection.

It is precisely from this connection that healing occurs. ️

“My hands … I have not used them like that!”

“Put them in motion, my love, start to create with them and everything in you will get in motion.”

Realize what you want to do with any pain, so that it will reveal your ability to make it into your most beautiful masterpiece.

The pain will disappear, because you’ve been able to transform its essence. “️

From pain to Love.

Because being a Lover is our essence.

Being a healer is our innate gift.

Put your hands in motion.

Send Love into this world.

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Credits Serio Healing Santuary

Love is ……

Hello my dear blogger friends,

“Love is not what you say

but what you do”! 💑                      

   

And of course “Love Heals”                            

Sending peace and love your way 🕺🏻🏃🏼‍♀️

                                                                

 

Being happy is so simple!

The kids expressions reveal their bubbling joy while posing for a ‘make-believe selfie’! It goes to show that very little is needed to make a happy life. Happy is not the one who is rich, but the one who does not need wealth. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

 

“Don’t educate your children to be rich Educate them to be happy, so they know value of things, not the price” ~ Victor Hugo

All my dear blogger friends wish you remain happy every moment 🎉😃🎊

Gratitude must be heartfelt

Dear friends the story below touched my soul. We all know very well that we must have gratitude for Almighty’s mercies. Yet we rush to take credit for achievements as we feel it’s only due to the hard work we have put in. Little do we realise that success could never have happened without the grace of God. For example “Are we in control of every breath that we take”?

It takes a warm slice of bread to soak in the butter put on it. It doesn’t matter how much butter we put, but if the bread is cold the butter will stay on the surface only. Bite into it and you will see how different the two taste! It is the same bread and same butter but a world of difference in taste.

And so is it with the ‘blessings’ in our life. It doesn’t matter how abundantly HE blesses us, but if we are not truly gracious in our acceptance, how can those blessings ever make a change in our lives? Pretty much like the layer of butter on cold bread, blessings not graciously and wholeheartedly embraced continue to remain on the periphery and fail to make any positive change in life.

Acknowledge your blessings with humility.

‘Accept’ with gratitude and understand that whatever we achieve is not only due to our own efforts but His grace.

Keep your bread warm.

Let the butter soak in.

Bathed in the richness of this butter, every bite, every morsel then is bound to taste divine.

“Gratitude must be deep and sincere and not perfunctory”.

Cheers and be happy always!  😎😎

Caring for each other!

Hello my dear friends,

I felt like sharing a happy little anecdote to lift your spirits and make you smile and feel good.

A teacher brought balloons to school and asked the children to blow them all up and then each write their names on their balloon.

They tossed all the balloons into the hall while the teacher mixed them from one end to the other. The teacher then gave them 5 minutes to find the balloon with their name on it. The children ran around, looking frantically but as the time ran out – nobody had found their own balloon.

Then the teacher told them to take the balloon closest to them and give it to the person whose name was on it. In less than 2 minutes everyone had their own balloon.

Finally the teacher said, “Balloons are like happiness. No one will find it looking for theirs only. Instead, if everyone cares about each other, they will find theirs as quickly as possible.”

Bye for now and wishing you the best of health and happiness.  Let’s remember “Caring for each other” is the mantra to believe in.

Cheers 🙂

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