Who is God ?

What fills the entire universe (the ultimate of human understanding) and beyond?

The entire universe is only filled with matter and energy. The energy that pervades the entire universe is the God.
If a person doesn’t realize this, he is blind. Because the possession of this knowledge is the vision.
Once four blind men (human beings) tried to feel an elephant (God).
The one who felt the leg told that it was like a pillar.
The one who felt the ears told that it was skinny and flexible.
The one who felt the abdomen told that it was like a wall.
The one who felt the tail told that it was like a stick.

Because of their blindness (lack of knowledge), they were not able to feel the whole elephant (God). But everyone’s feeling was true, though were only a part of the entire knowledge.
Similarly, human beings all feel the same God in different forms. Shiva, Vishnu, Jesus, Allah are all the different parts of the same God. Just like you cannot compare different parts of the elephant, you cannot compare those manifestations. Legs cannot be compared with the ears or the eyes or the abdomen. They serve different purposes. When you feel the legs after you have felt the ears, the feeling of ears should not be forgotten.


It is the same energy that is present in all people also. So, human beings are also only a manifestation of God. Not just human beings, everything(living and non-living) has God. Only people don’t realize this.
Just like a stone laying on ground has less energy than the one falling from the sky, people have lesser energy, while Shiva, Jesus, Allah have more of the energy.

God never hurts anyone. Only people think they are hurt. There is absolutely nothing to regret. Though energy has control over matter, it is not bound to it. The body which you hold is not permanent. Live like you may die anytime. Never bind yourself to anything. Let the things that happen, happen freely. Do only things that keep you happy. Death is not a thing to feel bad about. Its after all a way to free your soul from this body. Your soul has always greater knowledge than when it is born in your body. In Mahabharata, did Krishna not know to save all his men? He let them die only because he knew that it was their best destiny.

Once God sent His slave to take the life of a poor and sick woman, who had a child with one arm disabled. The slave who was sent, because of his human thoughts, took pity of the child and leaves the woman. But God knows what happens, and gets the job done through His other slaves. He asks the first slave to go and live in earth, and live there till he learns the truth behind God’s action. The slave comes to earth and lives as assistant to a tailor. He never spoke a word. Few years later, one day a lady came with a baby with one arm disabled. The lady gave rich cloth and told that she wanted it to be stitched for the baby with one hand loose for the baby. Later another day, a rich man comes and wants a coat to be stitched for him. But the God’s slave smiles and stitches a blanket using the cloth. Seeing that the tailor yells at him. But quite in sometime, a man comes and tells that the rich man who came passed away, and wanted a blanket for him. Again in a few days, the wife of the tailor, chases him away for some reason, and refuses to give him any food. But the slave turns to leave without saying a word. Then the tailor’s wife feels sorry and calls him back. The slave again smiles. The tailor out of curiosity asks, why he never spoke a word and who he is. The God’s slave then explains the whole thing. He tells that he learnt three things during the time he stayed with the tailor. God, though took the life of the mother of that disabled child, had made arrangements for the child to have a rich and caring mother. The ways of God may be unorthodox, but they work better than human ways. Next thing, is that human beings never think that they can be dead anytime. The rich man who asked for the clothes was dead very soon. When they realize that they can die anytime, they will not want worldly pleasures, because they will not be their possessions after they die. At last, he tells that he saw devil in the wife of the tailor’s wife when she chased him away and quite soon saw God in her when she offered him food. Good and bad (God and devil) are not separate entities. They are only present in you. Only your mind determines who is present in you. So, never expect God to be come with a body. God is free of everything and so doesn’t possess any body. He comes only in the form of human beings. He will come in the body of people around you, maybe your parents, friends or people totally unrelated to you. When you believe God is present in the stone in a temple, why don’t you believe that he can come in the living body of the human beings? The slave then reached God again.


All happiness you get from worldly things are only temporary. From the experiences of many great people, it is that happiness that you get from God that is the greatest. But that cannot be expressed in words, only felt. All the pleasures and relationships you find in this world are not permanent. That doesn’t mean you have to leave them very abruptly. When you start craving God, they will happen in a smooth manner.

What you do in this world is totally unrelated to God. There are three ways to attain God.
By doing your work, without expecting the gains. Once, a saint helped a scorpion to get out of water but it stung him and fell back into water. He again helped it get out of water, but it again stung him. As this was happening a passer-by asked him why he was doing it. He replied that it was his nature to help it, while it was the scorpions nature to sting him.
By knowing everything. You have to know what is good and bad. At last when you realize that everything is meaningless there will be nothing you will hold your interest in. That is the highest state you can ever reach.
By devotion. You keep praying God, and want Him to take you. Here it allows you to have interests in things.

Whatever way you follow, at last you will find that everything is meaningless. There is will be no discrimination. You will find that your individuality is lost and that everything is only God. You will hold no interest in anything. That is the highest state

Examine Yourself, Watch Yourself

One day all the employees reached the office and they saw a big advice on the door on which it was written:
“Yesterday the person who has been hindering your growth in this company passed away. We invite you to join the funeral in the room that has been prepared in the gym”.
In the beginning, they all got sad for the death of one of their colleagues, but after a while they started getting curious to know who was that man who hindered the growth of his colleagues and the company itself.
The excitement in the gym was such that security agents were ordered to control the crowd within the room.
The more people reached the coffin, the more the excitement heated up. Everyone thought: “Who is this guy who was hindering my progress? Well, at least he died!”.
One by one the thrilled employees got closer to the coffin, and when they looked inside it they suddenly became speechless. They stood nearby the coffin, shocked and in silence, as if someone had touched the deepest part of their soul.
There was a mirror inside the coffin: everyone who looked inside it could see himself.
There was also a sign next to the mirror that said:
“There is only one person who is capable to set limits to your growth: it is YOU.”
You are the only person who can revolutionize your life.
You are the only person who can influence your happiness, your realization and your success.
You are the only person who can help yourself.
Your life does not change when your boss changes, when your friends change, when your parents change, when your partner changes, when your company changes.
Your life changes when YOU change, when you go beyond your limiting beliefs, when you realize that you are the only one responsible for your life.
“The most important relationship you can have, is the one you have with yourself”


Examine yourself, watch yourself. Don’t be afraid of difficulties, impossibilities and losses: be a winner, build yourself and your reality.

Song of the Bird

A man found an eagle’s egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eagle hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them.
All his life, the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet in the air.
Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings.
The old eagle looked up in awe. “Who’s that?” he asked.
“That’s the eagle, the king of the birds,” said his neighbour. “He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth — we’re chickens.” So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that’s what he thought he was.

comfortable with me

When I’m comfortable with me, I’m comfortable with you.
I can’t expect you to give me peace and serenity — they come from within, and they are nurtured by spiritual growth. If I’m uncomfortable with myself, not at peace, the tension spills over into my relationship with you, and nothing seems quite right.
We are each responsible for our own serenity. It develops out of knowing who we are and what we need, accepting our flaws along with our potential for positive change, and believing in the force for ultimate good.
To be comfortable with ourselves requires that we face our inner tigers and stare them down. When we can enjoy our time alone without needing to escape into some form of distraction, we know serenity.
How comfortable I am when I’m with you depends on my level of self-esteem. When it’s high and healthy, I can relate to you without demanding consciously or unconsciously that you make up for what I lack. The serenity I crave results from my own commitment to recovery through spiritual growth.

Moral:The inner work I do today will help nurture my relationships.

To Love and To Be Loved is the Greatest Happiness

A kindergarten teacher has decided to let her class play a game. The teacher told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a few potatoes. Each potato will be given a name of a person that the child hates, so the number of potatoes that a child will put in his/her plastic bag will depend on the number of people he/she hates.
So when the day came, every child brought some potatoes with the name of the people he/she hated. Some had 2 potatoes; some 3 while some up to 5 potatoes.
The teacher then told the children to carry with them the potatoes in the plastic bag wherever they go for 1 week.
Days after days passed by, and the children started to complain due to the unpleasant smell let out by the rotten potatoes. Besides, those having 5 potatoes also had to carry heavier bags.
After 1 week, the children were relieved because the game had finally ended.
The teacher asked: "How did you feel while carrying the potatoes with you for 1 week?" The children let out their frustrations and started complaining of the trouble that they had to go through having to carry the heavy and smelly potatoes wherever they go. Then the teacher told them the hidden meaning behind the game. The teacher said: "This is exactly the situation when you carry your hatred for somebody inside your heart. The stench of hatred will contaminate your heart and you will carry it with you wherever you go.
If you cannot tolerate the smell of rotten potatoes for just 1 week, can you imagine what is it like to have the stench of hatred in your heart for your lifetime???" Moral of the story:
Throw away any hatred for anyone from your heart so that you will not carry sins for a life time. Forgiving others is the best attitude to take!

Life is to be fortified by many Friendships.
To Love and to be Loved is the Greatest Happiness.

Fate determines who comes into our Lives.
The Heart determines who stays…

The Turtle Family

A turtle family went on a picnic. The turtles, being naturally slow about things, took seven years to prepare for their outings. Finally the turtle family left home looking for a suitable place. During the second year of their journey they found it. For about six months, they cleaned up the area, unpacked the picnic basket and completed the arrangements. Then they discovered they had forgotten the salt. A picnic without salt would be a disaster, they all agreed. After a lengthy discussion, the youngest turtle was chosen to retrieve the salt from home. Although he was the fastest of the slow moving turtles, the little turtle whined, cried, and wobbled in his shell. He agreed to go on one condition: that no one would eat until he returned.The family consented and the little turtle left.Three years passed and the little turtle had not returned. Five years...six years...then in the seventh year of his absence, the oldest turtle could no longer contain his hunger. He announced that he wasgoing to eat and began to unwrap a sandwich.At that point the little turtle suddenly popped out from behind a tree shouting, SEE I knew you wouldn't wait. Now I am not going to go get the salt.

Moral of the Story : Some of us waste our time waiting for people to live up to our expectations. We are so concerned about what others are doing that we don't do anything ourselves.

Inner Being Communicates Through Emotion

You are much more than you see here in your physical body, for while you are, indeed, a wondrous physical creator, you exist, simultaneously, in another dimension. There is a part of you, a Non-Physical part of you we call it your Inner Being that exists right now while you are here in this physical body.

Your emotions are your physical indication of your relationship with your Inner Being. In other words, as you are focused upon a subject and have your specific perspective and opinion about it, your Inner Being is also focused upon it and has a perspective and opinion about it. The emotions that you feel are your indication of the match or mismatch of those opinions. For example, something may have happened and your current opinion of yourself is that you should done better or that you are not smart, or that you are unworthy. Since the current opinion of your Inner Being is that you are doing fine, and that you are smart and eternally worthy, there is a definite mismatch in these opinions, and you would feel this mismatch in the form of negative emotion. On the other hand, when you feel proud of yourself, or love yourself or someone else, your current opinion is a much closer match to what your Inner Being is feeling in the moment; and in that case, you would feel the positive emotions of pride, love, or appreciation.

Your Inner Being, or Source Energy, always offers a perspective that is to your greatest advantage, and when your perspective matches that, then positive attraction is occurring. In other words, the better you feel, the better your point of attraction, and the better things are turning out for you. The comparative vibrations of your perspective and that of your Inner Being are responsible for this magnificent Guidance that is always available to you.

Honesty

I got an email which attacked me and called me a liar, a manipulator and all kinds of other lovely adjectives from a person who know me. At first, I was really hurt and cried. I was angry at the injustice of what was being said to me , when I had done absolutely nothing to deserve any of it. I started to email the person back to defend myself, and to “set the record straight”.
I got about half way though writing this email, angry and hurt back to the person. I then stopped myself. I started to breathe. I let myself calm down and really thought about what this email would accomplish. Would the person suddenly be convinced of my innocence? Would the suddenly see they light? Or would it simply go into the whole ugly she said and make things even worse?
Then I thought, what is the correct and moral thing for me to do at this point? The correct thing to do was to give the situation up to God. I wished the person well, I told the other people in my family that I love her and will pray for her And that was that.
It is indeed a hard thing to turn the other cheek when you are wronged. When people are unjust to you. she taught a very hard lesson with this one.

Emotions

Some times even your strongest emotions can hurt some times anger can cause you to break down resulting to anger causing you to do something you egret even hurting someone you love that has looked out for you. Latter you strongest emotions can set a stop sign for your madness but by the time it does damage had already been done some times you try to fix it but the only way is to go back in time witch is impossible but you try every thing you can but is not enough so your strongest emotions keep hurting even when the person you hurt is no longer mad they are still hurting and you still wish you could take it back.

Hate Tears

I hate tears.
But they come unbidden.
All the time.
I hate being lonely.
But I am all the time.
I love to laugh.
But the humour is drying up.

Hurting People Hurt People

Ever wonder why we act the way we do? Why do we do certain things that are hurtful, abusive, derogatory or divisive things? I am in no way attempting to even excuse the bad things that we do to each other yet to foster some understanding. We could all use a little more understanding and compassion. There really is a very simple explanation that will shed some light on our dark behaviors.
First of all, what comes out of us is in us. If I cause others pain it is because pain is in me. I give to others only what I have to give. My life is one big slide projector. You will only see outwardly what is in me. If hurt and pain are in the carousel of my heart then that is what I project onto the screen of others around me. Hurting people will forever be hurting people until they stop being hurting people.
This means that we must resolve our pain. This process of healing begins by answering a few questions honestly. What are the hurtful things that I am doing? What triggers me to do those things? What subconscious recollections do I have at the time these things are triggered? What hurts me more than anything? Why does it hurt me? Who did it come from? Understanding the source of our pain is the first step in healing. We aren’t looking for people to blame but only to get an understanding of why we hurt the way we do and what we need to do to fix it. There are contributing factors that have a lot to do with our families of origin but we are responsible for our actions.
We need to understand this cycle. Our families did things to hurt us but they were only doing it from their pain. They were projecting their pain and we were often the easiest targets. It really had nothing to do with us except us being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It didn’t mean that we were stupid, undeserving, worthless, ugly or lesser than in anyway. They were conveying on us how they felt about themselves. We often perceived those thoughts or feelings as being true since they were coming from the most significant people in our lives. They weren’t true. Yes, they could have gotten help or done better but many of them didn’t. You and I can.
We have the tools available to help us understand and resolve our pain in counseling and psychology. But the greatest tool we have is our relationship with our heavenly Father who loves us and cares about our every pain. He has given us His Son who died to take way our sins and our pain. We have His holy Word that brings healing to our lives. We have His Holy Spirit that is our comforter and counselor. Hurting people don’t have to continue hurting people.

Hitler Quotes

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

Hate is more lasting than dislike.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

Worries

"There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem."

"When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about."

"Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness."

Twist of Time

I DON'T remember how we got on the subject, but on a recent shopping trip to Mount Kisco I was prompted to tell my wife the story of ''Masha and Sasha.'' It's something I read in a book when I was a very little boy, and it stuck with me ever since. It seemed like such a valuable lesson to learn and to live by.
I DON'T remember how we got on the subject, but on a recent shopping trip to Mount Kisco I was prompted to tell my wife the story of ''Masha and Sasha.'' It's something I read in a book when I was a very little boy, and it stuck with me ever since. It seemed like such a valuable lesson to learn and to live by. The story of ''Masha and Sasha'': Once upon a time, in a little village, there lived a dry-goods merchant who had two apprentices, Masha and Sasha. After six months, Masha came to the boss and said, ''Boss, I've been here just as long as Sasha, but you pay him two rubles a week more than me. That's just not fair.''
''You may be right, my boy,'' said the kindly merchant. ''So let's see what we can do about it.''
''Look out the window, way up the main street, almost at the edge of town. What do you see in the middle of the road?
''A peddler,'' Masha said, ''with a horse and wagon, coming this way.'' ''Very good. Go see what he's selling.'' Masha put on his cap, ran out of the store, up the street and came back in about seven minutes, with this report: ''He's selling linen.''
''Hmmm,'' the merchant mused. ''We're running low and could probably use some. Ask him how much he wants for it.''
Masha ran out again, came back in three minutes this time, because the peddlar was continuously moving through town, and provided this information: ''He wants 100 rubles for each bolt.''
''Not bad,'' the merchant said, ''but I don't know how many meters to each bolt. Go find out.''
Another run out and back, and a minute later Masha brought back ''50 meters per bolt, Boss.''
''That's not bad. But how wide is the cloth?'' Another trip, another run - this time in the opposite direction, because the peddlar was by now heading for the outskirts of the village - and Masha has discovered that the goods are 60 centimeters wide.
''O.K., Masha. Take a well-earned rest. But first, ask Sasha to come in.''
When Sasha entered, the merchant posed the same problem. ''Sasha, do you see the peddlar who is just leaving our village? Go find out what he's selling.'' Completely out of breath, Sasha returns 10 minutes later. ''Boss, he's selling linen, and we're really short in this material. He has 50 bolts for sale, each one two-ply, 60 centimeters wide, 50 meters per bolt. He asked for 100 rubles a bolt, but I talked him into letting you have them for 92. He's unloading downstairs.'' Moral? In the old days, the moral would have been cloyingly obvious, as it was intended to be. But my wife objected. ''No way,'' she said.
''In today's real world,'' she sadly suggested, ''Sasha and Masha would both be making the same salary. Union rules, tenure, Equal Employment Opportunity and all sorts of governmental regulations would insist on it. Not only that, but if one of the two boys has to be fired, it won't be Masha. Count on it. He doesn't pose a threat to the boss's position!''
Times change. And with it ''the moral of the story.''

Acceptance and grace….

I am trying to learn acceptance in my life. I know that when I truly learn this lesson that I will be gifted with grace as my reward.
I have to learn to accept the things that are out of my control. I have to accept that I can’t be there for everyone who needs. I cannot fix the world, nor can I fix anyone else.
I have to accept that I only have control over me, my actions and my attitude. This is a very big and hard one to learn. I admit it, I become frustrated that I can’t do more.
For everything else, I have to put it into the God pile and take it out of my own hands.

Revolutions

The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution." - John Adams
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy." - John Adams
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake." - Aristotle