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You Can Not Multiply The Wealth by Dividing It !!!

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When the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great,

but when government takes all the reward away,

no one will try or want to succeed !!!

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Socialist’s plan”. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A…. (substituting grades for dollars – something closer to home and more readily understood by all).

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you’ll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

source:Mr.Rajendra Deshpande& Mr.A.V.Ramanathan

 

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Message For The Day…Give God That Heart , as Pure as HE Gave it to You !!!

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Many clamour for the experience of spiritual bliss, but, few earn it, because they find themselves too weak to reject the clamour of the senses! Practice assiduously the larger programme of controlling the senses. A little enquiry will reveal that the senses are bad masters and very inefficient sources of knowledge; the joy they bring is transitory and fraught with grief. So long as one is dominated by sense pleasure, it cannot be said that his spiritual life has begun. For, the senses rush towards the temporary and the tawdry; thus, they foul the heart. God asks from each of you no other gift, no more valuable offering than the heart He has endowed you with. Give God that heart, as pure as when He gave it to you, full of the nectar of love He filled it with. Your devotion to God is best expressed by achieving the control of the senses.

 Sathya Sai Baba

 

Better Than Perfect!!!!

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A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration. All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake of the festivities and celebrations. A wonderful time was had by all.

The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown and the groom was very dashing in his black tuxedo. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true. A few months later, the wife comes to the husband with a proposal: “I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how we can strengthen our marriage.” she offered. “Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier together.”

The husband agreed, so each of them went to a separate room in the house and thought of the things that annoyed them about the other. They thought about this question for the rest of the day and wrote down what they came up with.

The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their lists. “I’ll start,” offered the wife. She took out her list. It had many items on it enough to fill 3 pages, in fact. As she started reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear in her husbands eyes. “What’s wrong?” she asked.

“Nothing” the husband replied, “keep reading your lists.” The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her husband. She neatly placed her list on the table and folded her hands over top of it.

“Now, you read your list and then we’ll talk about the things on both of our lists.” She said happily.

Quietly the husband stated, “I don’t have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the way that you are. I don’t want you to change anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn’t want to try and change anything about you.”

The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.

In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don’t really have to go looking for them.

We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time in this world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us, and see the wondrous things before us?

I believe that WE ARE HAPPIEST WHEN we see and praise the good and try our best to forget the bad. Nobody’s perfect but we can find perfectness in them to change the way we see them.

source::::input from a friend of mine
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God Has His Own Plans !!!!

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Once there was a sweeper in a temple. Being very devoted and sincere, he thought that the lord standing all the time and giving help must be feeling very tired.

So one day very innocently he asked the lord whether he can take his place for a day so that the lord can have some relief and rest.

The deity of the temple replied, “I do not mind taking a break. I will transform you like myself, but you must do one thing.

You must just stand here like me, smile at everyone and just give benedictions. Do not interfere with anything and do not say anything.

Remember you are the deity and you just have faith that I have a master plan for everything.”

The sweeper agreed to this.

The next day the sweeper took the position. First a rich man came and prayed to the lord. offered a small donation and prayed that his business should be prosperous.

While going, the rich man inadvertently left his wallet full of money right there.

Now the sweeper in the form of deity could not call him and so he decided to control himself and keep quiet.

Just then a poor man came and he put one coin in the bowl and said that it was all he could afford and he prayed to the lord that he should continue to be engaged in the lord’s service.

He also said that his family was in dire need of some basic needs but he left it to the good hands of the lord to give some solution.

When he opened his eyes, he saw the wallet left by the rich man.

The poor man thanked the lord for his kindness and took the wallet very innocently.

The sweeper in the form of the deity could not say anything and he had to just keep smiling.

At that point a sailor walked in. He prayed for his safe journey as he was going on a long trip.

Just then the rich man came with the police and said that somebody has stolen his wallet and seeing the sailor there, he asked the police to arrest him thinking that he might have taken it.

Now the sweeper in the form of deity wanted to say that the sailor is not the thief but he could not say so and he became greatly frustrated.

The sailor looked at the lord and asked why he, an innocent person, is being punished.

The rich man looked at the lord and thanked Him for finding the thief.

The sweeper in the deity form could no more tolerate it, and he thought that even if the real lord had been here, he would have definitely interfered, and hence he started speaking and said that the sailor is not the thief but it was the poor man who took away the wallet. The rich man was very thankful as was the sailor.

In the night, the real lord came and He asked the sweeper how the day was.

The sweeper said, “I thought it would be easy, but now I know that Your days are not easy, but I did one good thing.”

Then he explained the whole episode to the lord.

The lord became very upset on hearing this whereas the sweeper thought the lord would appreciate him for the good deed done.

The lord asked, “Why did you not just stick to the plan? You had no faith in Me. Do you think that I do not understand the hearts of all those who come here?

All the donations which the rich man gave was all stolen money and it is only a fraction of what he really has and he wants me to reciprocate unlimitedly.

The single coin offered by the poor man was the last coin he had and he gave it to me out of faith.

The sailor was to die because of bad weather but if he would’ve been arrested and in the jail, he would have been saved from a greater calamity.

I intended the wallet should go to the poor man because he will use it in my service.

I was going to reduce the rich man’s karma also by doing this and save the sailor also.

But you cancelled everything because you made your own plans.”

Moral — God has plans and justice for everyone….we just have to have patience!

source::::input from a friend of mine
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Message For The Day…Let Your Body Not To Go After Mind…

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When the One manifests as Nature composed of the five Elements, do not imagine that its value is affected thereby. When a rupee is changed into ten paise coins, its value is not decreased at all. So too, see the Nature as the Supreme One with many manifestations, not as multiplicity of sense-impressions and attractions. Wherever your eye turns, whatever your ears hear, your fingers touch, your tongue tastes, your nose smells… take all to be God-filled. Do not allow mere sound, taste, etc. to captivate your senses. Practice to see the Divine, welcome and accept only such thoughts and feelings and discard the others. Sage Tukaram was once asked how can people keep this monkey-mind controlled from running after sensuous pleasures, the Sage advised, “Let the monkey mind run, you keep the body with you, do not let it go after the mind”. He encouraged, “Tell the mind, I shall not give you the body as your servant. Then the mind will desist and it can be defeated.”

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Message For The Day…Conquer Your Tongue….Victory is Yours !!!!

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All the five elements have been created by the Will of the Supreme. They have to be used with reverential care and vigilant discrimination. Reckless use of any of them will only rebound on you with tremendous harm. External nature has to be handled with caution and awe. So too, handle your inner ‘nature,’ your internal instruments! While the eye, the ear and the nose serve as instruments of knowledge about one particular characteristic (form, sound or smell) of Nature, the tongue makes itself available for two purposes: to judge taste and to communicate. So you must control the tongue with double care, since it can harm you physically and mentally. Without the control of the senses, spiritual practices (sadhana) are ineffective. If the senses are given full sway, it is like storing water in leaky pot. Pathanjali (the celebrated author of the Yogasuthras) said that if tongue is conquered, victory is yours.

 Sathya Sai Baba

Message For The Day….God Is Sculptor Willing to Transform You into an Idol….

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Offer your heart and your entire life to the Lord. Then your adoration will transform and transmute you so fast and completely, that you and He will be merged into One. You will be transformed, as a rock is transformed by the sculptor into an idol, deserving the worship of generations of sincere people. In the process you will have to bear many a hammer stroke, many a chisel-wound, for He is the sculptor. He is but releasing you from petrification! Do not defile time or waste this life and body seeking paltry ends. This life is part of the long pilgrimage you entered when you were born, which may not end even when you die. Never forget this fact. Be pure, alert and humble as pilgrims are. Treasure the good things and the truths you see and hear. Use them as props and promptings for further stages of your soul’s journey.

 Sathya Sai Baba

பிஞ்சு குழந்தைக்கு கிடைத்த பழுத்த சால்வை !!!!

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வேத பாடசாலை குழந்தைகள் சிலரை தம்முடன் யாத்திரை அழைத்து சென்றபோது, நல்ல குளிர் காலம், மலை பிரதேசம் வேறு. ’emergency ‘ கொட்டகையில் இரவு கடுங்குளிராக இருக்கும் என்று எண்ணினார்.

பழுத்த கனபாடிகளுக்கே வழங்கப்படும் சால்வைகளை, அந்த பிஞ்சு வித்யார்த்திகளுக்கே வழங்க செய்தார். அதுகளுக்கு கொள்ளை சந்தோஷம். பாதாள கங்கை சென்றார்.

திடீரென்று அங்கே ஒரு பழுத்த கனபாடிகளே வந்துவிட்டார். தரிசனம் முடிந்தவுடன் புறப்பட வேண்டிய அவசரத்தில் இருந்தார். பெரியவா அவரை சம்மானிக்க சால்வை கொண்டுவர சொன்னார்.

மானேஜருக்கோ அந்த குறுகிய நேரத்திற்குள் முகாமுக்கு சால்வை எதுவும் கொண்டு வரவில்லை. சட்டென்று அன்று பாடசாலை பசங்களுக்கு புது சால்வை கொடுத்தது நினைவு வந்தது. எனவே, பெரியவாளிடம் எதுவும் பிரஸ்தாபிக்காமல், காதும் காதும் வைத்தாற்போல் ஒரு பையனிடமிருந்து சால்வையை திரும்ப பெற்றுவந்து, கனபாடிகளுக்கு கொடுத்துவிட்டார்.

இரவு ஏமாற்றத்துடனேயே கையை காலை முடக்கி கொண்டு, அந்த பையன் தூங்கிபோனான். காலையில் எழுந்திருக்கும்போது,அதி சொகுசும், கதகதப்பும் தன்னை ஆற அணைதிருப்பதால் அதிசயித்தான். அவன் இழந்ததைவிட உயர் ரகமான சால்வை அவன் மீது போர்த்தபட்டிருந்ததே அந்த சுகத்துக்கு காரணம்.

“போர்வை வந்துதாடா?” மனேஜரின் குசலப்ரச்னம் அவனுக்கு உண்மையை புரியவைத்தது.

கூர்ந்த திருஷ்டி கொண்ட பெரியவா, கனபாடிகளுக்கு கொடுத்த சால்வை, பாடசாலை சிறுவனுடையது என்று கண்டுபிடித்து விட்டார். அதற்குபின் மாலை அனுஷ்டானம், இரவு பூஜை, எல்லாம் முடிந்ததும், மனேஜரை கூப்பிட்டு விசாரித்தார்.

அவர் செய்தது தனக்கு திருப்தி இல்லை என்றும், தன் சகாக்களுக்கு கிடைத்தது தனக்கு தங்கவில்லையே என்று எப்படி அந்த குழந்தை வருந்தும் என்று விளக்கினார். விட்டால், எங்கே தன்னுடைய சால்வையையே கொடுத்துவிடுவாரோ என்று மனேஜருக்கு கவலை வந்துவிட்டது.

எனவே தாம் முந்திக்கொண்டு “எனக்கு போர்த்திகொள்ள நல்ல கம்பிளி போர்வை இருக்கு. அதையே பையனுக்கு கொடுத்துடறேன்” என்றார்.

“தூங்கிண்டு இருந்தா எழுப்பாதே! நைஸா மேலே போத்திட்டு நீயும் போய் விஸ்ராந்தி பண்ணிக்கோ”

“நைஸ்” இதயத்தால், அதி நைஸ் போர்வை பாலனுக்கு கிடைத்து.

SRI KANCHI MAHA PERIVA THIRUVADIGAL CHARANAM

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Swami Sathya Sai Baba….Ever Alert For HIS Devotees !!!!

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The Lord – Ever Alert for His devotee
How Baba appeared as an old man to save Dr. Padmanabhan

Dr. R S Padmanabhan, a genial and highly renowned dentist practising in Bangalore, has been a devotee of Baba since 1942. His wife, Mrs. Kamala Padmanabhan and he are active members of Sri Sathya Sai Seva organisations. In his long association with Swami, the doctor has had wonderful experiences. Here is an instance where Baba saved them from a disaster as narrated to Smt. Shakuntala Balu in her book, “Living Divinity”:

Once, the doctor and his wife had gone to Puttaparthi and they were anxious to return to Bangalore the same night. That was during the monsoon season and Bhagawan had asked them not to travel at night but wait util daylight.

The doctor was restless thinking of the considerable amount of work waiting for him in Bangalore and, moreover, it did not seem like it would rain heavily. So they set off. Twenty miles later, the rain came down, lashing past the windows and drumming on the car. Visibility became very poor and turning back was impossible.

Dr. Padmanabhan kept the car crawling on – it was already dark and the road was empty – he felt it was better to plough on rather than stand still in the streaming rain and the darkness. He was also afraid, of the car engine stalling. The car bumped along, very slowly when, suddenly, there was a flash of light.

An old man was waving a hurricane lamp. Dr. Padmanabhan stopped. The old man told them that they were headed straight into a strong current of water that was flowing after a small bridge upstream had burst. The old man had halted the car, just in time: a few more yards and the car with its occupants would have been swept away.

“You are lucky”, said the old man who advised them to stop for the night as the bridge could only be repaired in the morning. Then he went away.

Dr. Padmanabhan drove back to his cousin’s house for the night and left again for Bangalore the next morning.

A month later, while Sri Sathya Sai Baba was in Bangalore, He castigated Dr. Padmanabhan for not heeding His words and starting out on the journey at night.

“If I had not been on the look out that night: what would have happened to you?” He asked, sternly.

The doctor, realising that it was Bhagawan who had rescued him that dark night, apologized to Him for having disregarded His words and expressed his gratitude for His grace.”

Reference: “Living Divinity” by Mrs. Shakuntala Balu. Page: 189-190. Published by S. B. Publications, Bangalore, 1983.

source:::::Devotees’ Experiences ….sri sathya sai .org.in
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