Message For the Day…” Read Good Books and Practice What You Read…”

Books and facilities for mind-training are available in plenty, and at very cheap prices. The heaps of books that lie around cannot succeed in penetrating the heavy binding and emerge as light in you. For, just as God is hidden by the mountain ranges of lust, anger, envy, and selfishness within, the sun of wisdom is also hidden in the books. Though books and reading habits have spread to all corners of the earth, we can’t say that culture or wisdom has increased; the human is still not far from the ape. An attractive binding, title and beautiful pictures are what the reader seeks; these are transitory pleasures which give momentary contentment. Aimless reading of all and sundry books will confuse you and confer no peace. Hence discriminate, select and read books that contain life histories of saints and sages, and those that aid in the contemplation of the Divine. Practice what you read. Then you will realise truth and enjoy everlasting bliss.

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For the Day…” As the Sacred Heart is present in Everyone, You Must firmly Believe that GOD is in Everyone …”

Today in the world, we see many people who say that they have no faith in God. The one who does not have faith in oneself alone will have no faith in God. Truly speaking, nobody can live even for a moment, without faith in God; it is just impossible! Why? Do not be under the impression that God exists somewhere, having a special form, vested with special powers and so on. That which is contained in your own heart as a clean thought and as supreme consciousness is verily God! This sacred part of one’s heart is present in every being in the Universe. There is no one who does not have such a sacred heart. Hence, God is within you and you do not have to look for Him elsewhere. As this sacred heart is present in everyone, you must firmly believe that God is in everyone at all times.

Sathya Sai Baba

Just For Laugh …

For those who identify with the Irish…..
    

• Murphy told Quinn that his wife was driving him to drink.  Quinn thinks he’s very lucky because his own wife makes him walk. 
         

• An American lawyer asked, “Paddy, why is it that whenever you ask an Irishman a question, he answers with another question?”
“Who told you that?” asked Paddy. 
 

• Question – Why are Irish jokes so simple?
Answer – So the English can understand them.
 
 

• Reilly went to trial for armed robbery.  The jury foreman came out and announced, “Not guilty.”
“That’s grand!” shouted Reilly. “Does that mean I can keep the money?” 
 

• Irish lass customer: “Could I be trying on that dress in the window?”
Shopkeeper: “I’d prefer that you use the dressing room.” 
 
 

• Finnegin: My wife has a terrible habit of staying up ’til two o’clock in the morning.  I can’t break her of it.
Keenan: What on earth is she doin’ at that time?
Finnegin: Waitin’ for me to come home . 

 

• Slaney phoned the maternity ward at the hospital.  “Quick!” he said.  “Send an ambulance, my wife is goin’ to have a baby!”
“Tell me, is this her first baby?” the intern asked.
“No, this is her husband, Kevin, speakin’.” 

 

SOURCE:::: input from a friend of mine
Natarajan

Transparent Truths of Life That We Just Can’t Accept … !!!

We as humans are too blinded by what we want to see, and thence we are unable to see the reality. How often do we realize that we are offended by someone we love or that our peers aren’t as close to us as we thought?

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win the race, you’re still a rat….

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We make better judges while deciding on other lives. But we become good lawyers while dealing with our lives …

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 I don’t need to write that down, I will remember it..You won’t.

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 People want to see you doing well, but not better than them

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No one wants you to “just be yourself”. Everybody wants you to be the person they want to be around

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You can have all the confidence in this world and the individuals you meet, yet never put your faith at the wrong place.

SOURCE::::: http://www.storypick.com

Natarajan

 

 

Message For This Day… Shivarathri…” This Day is a Day When One tries to establish a Bond between Mind and God …”

Rathri means night, signifying darkness. Shiva means auspiciousness. ‘Shivarathri’ signifies auspiciousness which is inherent in darkness. It refers to the wisdom which exists in the midst of ignorance. Wisdom and ignorance are not two different things; they are essentially the same, opposite polarities of the same underlying principle. The state that transcends both wisdom and ignorance is Divinity, Paratatva. This Shivarathri is a day when one tries to establish friendship between mind and God. Shivarathri reminds everyone of the fact that Divinity is all-pervasive and is to be found everywhere. It is said that Shiva lives in Kailasa. But where is Kailasa? Kailasa is our own mind full of joy and bliss. It means that when you develop purity, steadiness and sacredness from within, your heart becomes filled with peace and bliss, and ultimately your heart itself is Kailasa.

Sathya Sai Baba

” God is Busy… So HE Sent me…” !!!

If you don’t know GOD, don’t make stupid remarks!
A young Canadian paratrooper was taking some college

 

courses between assignments. He had completed 3 tours of duty in Afghanistan. One of the courses had a professor who was an avowed

 

atheist and a member of the Canadian Civil Liberties

 

Association (CCLA).

 
One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, 
GOD, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform…I’ll give you exactly 15 min.”
 
The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop.
 
Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed,
“Here I am GOD, I am still waiting.”
It got down to the last couple of minutes when the soldier

 

got out of his chair, went up to the professor,

 

and cold-cocked him; knocking him clean off the platform.

 
The professor was down & out cold.
The young soldier went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other students were shocked and stunned, and

 

sat there looking on in silence.

The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken,

 

looked at the soldier and asked,

“What in the world is the matter with you? Why did you do that?” 
 
The young soldier stood up and calmly replied,
“GOD was too busy today protecting soldiers, who are protecting your right

 

to say stupid shit and act like an idiot. So He sent me.” 

SOURCE::::: input from a friend of mine…
Natarajan

The classroom erupted in cheers!

Message For the Day…” Bhakti is the Key of Devotion to get the Treasure of Bliss…”

When we keep valuable things in a box, we lock the box and keep the key safely with us. If we lose the key or forget where we stored it, we cannot retrieve the valuables when we need them most. So too, in this human body, we need a key to get the treasure of knowledge and bliss. Shankaracharya refers to this as the key of devotion (bhakti). When you use the key of devotion and turn it on the side of detachment, you will easily open the door of knowledge and bliss. But, if the key of devotion is turned in the wrong direction, away from detachment and towards attachment, you will not be able to open the treasure-chest. Therefore, either for detachment or for attachment, this key of devotion which is between the two is important, and you should protect it. It will be possible for you to have this devotion when you have faith in God.

Sathya Sai Baba

Jokes For the Weekend…!!!

“Simon, if I had eight apples in my right hand and ten apples in my left hand, what would I have?”

“Huge hands, sir.”

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Bob’s a factory worker, and one day, the boss is showing a bunch of Japanese investors around the factory. One of them sees Bob, and they promptly exchange handshakes and start talking like long lost friends. Afterwards, Bob’s boss asks him what that was about. Bob just replies ‘oh, I know him from a few years back, I actually know a lot of important people.’

His boss is sceptic, but Bob replies: ‘Tell you what, name anyone you can think off, I bet you that they know me.’ ‘Fine,’ says his boss, and he’s determined to have Bob be embarrassed, so he decides to put the bar high: ‘President Obama.’ ‘Cool, no problem,’ says Bob.

A week later they’re both standing outside the White House, and Obama comes out, spots Bob and goes “Bob? What are you doing here? Come in, bring your friend, let’s have a drink together.” Bobs boss has no clue how, but somehow Bob and the president are friends. Once they leave his boss goes ‘Fine, you know the president, but I bet you don’t know the pope’.

Bob accepts the challenge, and the next week they’re standing in Saint Peters square. ‘This isn’t gonna work, he’s never going to see me here when there’s this much people. You stay here, I’ll go talk to him and you’ll see me on the balcony, the guards know me too.’ Half an hour later, Bob and the pope appear side by side on the balcony. Bobs boss gets a heart attack, and Bob goes to visit him in the hospital.

‘What happened? Did you not expect me to actually know the pope?’ ‘No, it wasn’t that, I sort of expected that to happen. But there was a tourist next to me that asked ‘Who’s the guy in his pajamas standing next to Bob there?’
SOURCE::::: http://www.joke a day.com

Natarajan