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” If you can keep it for a Day, then Why not Always ….” ?

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The merry season comes and goes, and once the decorations are packed up, presents are opened and the celebrations draw to a close, so does the Christmas spirit, and all the love, thoughtfulness, and unity that it brings. But what is it that discourages us from celebrating this joyous feast all year round? This year, with all my kind greetings and wishes, I would like to send you a reminder about something that is better than the observance of Christmas day, and that is – keeping Christmas.

 

Are you willing…

 

…to forget what you have done for other people,
and to remember what other people have done for you?

 

…to ignore what the world owes you,
and to think what you owe the world?

 

…to put your rights in the background,
and your duties in the middle distance,
and your chances to do a little more than your duty
in the foreground?

Keeping Christmas

Are you willing…

 

…to see that men and women are just as real as you are,
and try to look behind their faces to their hearts,
hungry for joy?

 

…to own up to the fact that probably the only good reason
for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life,
but what you are going to give to life?

 

…to close your book of complaints against the management of the universe, and look around you for a place where
you can sow a few seeds of happiness?

Are you willing to do these things even for a day?
Then you can keep Christmas.

 

Are you willing to stoop down and consider
the needs and desires of little children?

And to remember the weakness and loneliness of people growing old?

Keeping Christmas

Are you willing…

 

…to stop asking how much your friends love you,
and ask yourself whether you love them enough?

 

…to bear in mind the things that other people have to bear in their hearts to try to understand what those who live in the same home with you really want, without waiting
for them to tell you?

Keeping Christmas

Are you willing…

 

…to trim your lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front
so that your shadow will fall behind you?

 

…to make a grave for your ugly thoughts, and a garden with an open gate for your kind feelings ?

Keeping Christmas

Are you willing…
…to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world? Stronger than hate, stronger than evil,
stronger than death?
And that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem
1,900 years ago is the image and brightness
of the Eternal Love?

 

Are you willing to do these things, even for a day?

Keeping Christmas

Then you can keep Christmas.

 

And if you can keep it for a day,

why not always?

 

Share this reflection with your loved ones to wish them a happy Christmas, this year, and every day…

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Message for the Day…” There is no such thing as woman alone being bound and men being free; both are equally bound by the rules of dharma…”

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Sathya Sai Baba

Just as the woman should consider one person and one person alone as her master and husband, the man too has to be faithful to one woman and one woman alone, as his mate, his wife. She has to consider the husband as Divine and worship him and minister to and follow his desires for the fulfilment of her duty of loyalty to the husband (pativrata);so too, man should honour his wife as the ‘mistress of the home’ and act in accordance with her wishes, for she is theGrihalakshmi (Goddess of prosperity of the home). Only then can he deserve the status of ‘man’. Name and fame, honour and dishonour, vice and wickedness, good and bad are all equal and uniform to both men and women. There is no such thing as woman alone being bound and men being free; both are equally bound by the rules of dharma. Both will fall into adharma if they conduct themselves without due consideration of the attributes mentioned above.

Message for the Day…”Keep your eyes pure. Fill your ears with stories of Divine; don’t allow them to listen to calumny. Use your tongue for uttering good, kind, and true words”

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Sathya Sai Baba

People have taught the eye, ear, and tongue the luxury of constant novelty. Now do the opposite. Turn your mind towards the good and examine every minute’s activities. Each deed is a chisel stroke shaping the rock of human personality. A wrong stroke may disfigure the rock. Therefore even the tiniest of acts must be done with great care and devotion. For a drowning person, even a reed is some support. So too to a person struggling in the sea of inborn desires (samskara), a few kind words might be of great help. No good deed is a waste; every bad deed has its consequence. So strive to avoid the slightest trace of evil activity. Keep your eyes pure. Fill your ears with stories of Divine; don’t allow them to listen to calumny. Use your tongue for uttering good, kind, and true words. Let it always remind you of God. Such constant effort will grant you victory.

Message for the Day…””You must spread the glory of dharma by making yourself a shining example of the peace and joy it gives.”

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In ancient times, people never gave up the practice of Dharma even when threatened with death at the point of the sword. Now without even the slightest pressure from others, people slide down and fall into unrighteousness (Adharma). Practicing Dharma is not an ordinary affair. The one who does not practice dharma is as bad as dead; one who practices it is of the divine nature. Presently there is an urgent need to turn people onto the dharmic path through the traditional methods of counselling with good advice, sharing with them the attractive consequences of following the path, threatening to dissociate from those who do not, and inflicting punishment as a last resort. You should derive the greatest possible benefit from dharma and while following it, avoid causing any injury to yourselves or others. You must spread the glory of dharma by making yourself a shining example of the peace and joy it gives.

Sathya Sai Baba

 

Message for the Day…” God has equal affection towards all HIS children…”

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Everyone, be they learned or illiterate, should feel an overwhelming urge to know God. God has equal affection toward all His children, for to illumine is the nature of light. Utilising that illumination, some choose to read good books while others do their daily tasks, whatever they are! Similarly uttering God’s name, one can progress in the realisation of God, another may choose to do wicked deeds! It all depends on how you choose to use the light. But the Lord’s name is without blemish, always and forever. God’s name must be recited and listened to. For some ailments medicines are prescribed for external application while for others, they are to be consumed. But for this universal ailment of the cycle of birth and death (bhava-roga), the medicines prescribed are listening to spiritual discourses (sravana), singing God’s name(kirtana), and the like.

Sathya Sai Baba

 

Message for the Day…” When the indications are that dharma is in danger, The Lord will come to protect dharma from harm.”

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The Lord descends now and then to uplift the downtrodden and to reestablish righteousness (dharma). Clearly grasp this truth. Many who read the Bhagavad Gita take it that the Lord incarnates when dharmais ‘destroyed’ and when the forces of unrighteousness (adharma)begin to prevail. This is incorrect; The Gita does not say nor is there any basis to draw the conclusion that dharma gets destroyed. The word used is ‘diminish’ (glaani); that is to say, when the indications are that dharma is in danger, “The Lord will come to protect dharma from harm.” Lord Krishna did not say that He will come down to protect and preserve it after dharma has been destroyed! Of what use is a doctor after life has left? So too, the Lord will rush when the practice is declining or weakening. The protection of dharma is the task of the Lord, for dharma is the very breath of every soul (jivi).

Sathya Sai Baba

” இயற்கையிடம் மன்னிப்புக் கேட்போம்… இனியாவது ஆராதிப்போம் இயற்கையை …”

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ஏ.டி.எம் கார்டு இருக்கிறது. பணம் எடுக்க முடியவில்லை.
கையில் பணம் இருக்கிறது. அத்தியாவசியப் பொருட்கள் கிடைக்கவில்லை.
மொபைல் போன் இருக்கிறது. சொந்த பந்தங்களின் சுகம் அறிய முடியவில்லை.
வண்டி இருக்கிறது. ஓட்டுவதற்கு எரிபொருள் இல்லை.
ஒரு கரப்பான்பூச்சி வீட்டுக்குள் நுழைந்து விட்டாலே, ஊரைக் கூட்டும் பெண்மணிகள், அழையா விருந்தாளியாக உள்ளே நுழைந்த மழை வெள்ளத்தில் சகல விதமான ஜந்துக்களையும் பார்த்து விட்டார்கள்.
பாலுக்கும், காய்கறிக்கும், பிரட்டுக்கும் ஜனங்கள் தேடித் தேடி அலைந்த காட்சி நெஞ்சைப் பதற வைக்கும் ஒன்று. இறைவா, இனி இந்த அவலம் எந்தக் காலத்திலும் – எந்த ஊரிலும் – எவருக்கும் நடக்க வேண்டாம் என்று பிரார்த்தித்துக் கொள்கிறேன்.
பிஞ்சு வெண்டைக்காயைப் பொறுக்கிப் பொறுக்கி எடுத்த பெண்மணிகள், கடைகளில் கிடைக்கிற காய்கறியை ‘அடுத்தவர்கள் எடுத்துப் போய் விடுவார்களோ?’ என்கிற அவசரத்தில் அள்ளி அள்ளிப் போட்டுக் காசைக் கொடுத்த காட்சி, பரிதாபம்!
– இதுதான் சமீப நாட்களில் சென்னையின் நிலை.
சுமார் 100 வருடங்களுக்கு முன் இது போன்ற மழை சென்னையில் பெய்ததாம். நம் தாத்தாவுக்குத் தாத்தா பார்த்ததை, நாம் இப்போது பார்த்திருக்கிறோம். கொடுமையான சோகம்!
சுனாமி பார்த்து விட்டோம்.
புயலைப் பார்த்து விட்டோம்.
ஆச்சு. வெள்ளத்தின் விஸ்வரூபத்தையும் பார்த்து விட்டோம்.
சென்னை, காஞ்சிபுரம், திருவள்ளூர், கடலூர் போன்ற பல பகுதிகளில் பெய்த மழை உலகத்தையே உலுக்கிப் போட்டு விட்டது.
நாம் பிறருக்குத் தீங்கு செய்தால், அதன் எதிர்விளைவு நம்மைத் தாக்கும். ஆனால், எப்போது என்று தெரியாது.
அதேபோல் இயற்கைக்கு நாம் தீங்கு செய்தால், அது வரிந்து கட்டிக் கொண்டு நம்மைத் தாக்கும் என்பதை அடிக்கடி பார்த்துக் கொண்டுத்தான் இருக்கிறோம்.
ஆனால், திருந்தினபாடில்லை.
இயற்கைக்கு எதிரான நம் நடவடிக்கைகளை நிறுத்தினபாடில்லை.
பஞ்சபூதங்கள் ஆராதனை பல்லாயிரக்கணக்கான ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்னால் இருந்தே இருந்து வருகிறது.
ஆனால், இன்று?
பணம் பணம் பணம் என்று வாழ்வாதாரங்களான பஞ்சபூதங்களைப் பாழ்படுத்தி வருகிறோம்.
நீர்நிலைகளை சேதப்படுத்தி விட்டோம்.
வாயு மண்டலத்தை மாசுபடுத்தி விட்டோம்.
நிலத்தைக் கீறிக் கீறி வீடுகள் கட்டிக் கொண்டிருக்கிறோம்.
நீரை ஆராதித்தித்தோம். நிலத்தை வணங்கினோம். எல்லாமும் எல்லாமே தந்தன.
இன்று நிலத்தில் நீர் இருக்கின்ற இடத்தைத் தேட வேண்டி இருக்கிறது.
கிடைக்கிற நீர், எந்த அளவுக்கு சுத்தம் என்பதையும் ஆராய வேண்டி இருக்கிறது.
ஒன்றும் மோசம் போய் விடவில்லை. செய்த தவறுகளுக்குக் குழந்தைகள் மன்னிப்பு கேட்டுத் தாயின் கால்களைப் பிடித்துக் கட்டிக் கொள்வதில்லையா?
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கங்கையில் நீருக்கு வழிபாடு உண்டு.
நம்மூரில் இருக்கிறதா? புனிதமான ஆற்று நீரில்தான் எல்லா அசிங்கமும் (கங்கையிலும் இன்று அசிங்கம் நடக்கிறது).
விவசாய நிலங்களை அஞ்சுக்கும் பத்துக்கும் ஆசைப்பட்டு வீடாக்கிக் கொண்டிருக்கிறோம்.
‘இருக்க இடம் தேவை’ என்று நீர் நிலைகளை அழித்துக் கொண்டிருக்கிறோம்.
போகட்டும். போனதெல்லாம் ஒரு கெட்ட கனவாக இருக்கட்டும்.
இயற்கையை ஆராதிப்போம்.
அது நமக்கு எல்லாமும் தரும்.
வெறும் பணத்தை வைத்துக் கொண்டு எதையும் சாதிக்க முடியாது என்பதை சமீப நாட்களில் பார்த்தாயிற்று.
பக்தி வேண்டும். நேர்மை வேண்டும். செய்கிற செயல்களில் நியாயம் வேண்டும்.
இறைவா, நான் வணங்கும் காஞ்சி மகா தெய்வமே…
வணங்குகிறோம் – இனியாவது.
வாழ விடுங்கள்.
ஜய ஜய சங்கர ஹர ஹர சங்கர.
எல்லாமும் மாறும் என்ற நம்பிக்கையுடன்,
பி. சுவாமிநாதன்….a friend of mine
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Message for the Day….” Joy and peace do not reside in external objects; they are within you….”

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The body is the temple of the individual (jiva), so whatever happens in that temple is the concern of that individual. So too the world is the body of the Lord, and all that happens in it, good or bad, is His concern. From the observed fact of the relationship between the individual and the body, know the truth of the unobservable relationship of the Lord and creation. The relationship of the individual (jiva) and the Lord, the kinship between the two, can be grasped by everyone who acquires three chief instruments: (1) a mind unsullied by attachment and hatred, (2) a speech unsullied by falsehood and (3) a body unsullied by violence. Joy and peace do not reside in external objects; they are within you. But in your foolishness, you search for them outside yourself, in a world from which, today or tomorrow, you are bound to depart. Therefore, wake up now! Try to know the essence of the eternal truth. Try to experience the love that is God Himself.

Sathya Sai Baba

Message for the Day… “Love knows no fear, it promotes truth, it finds peace, it builds faith, and it promotes concord…”

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The individual ‘I’ believes it is limited; but that is an illusion. It is the same Universal Spirit, imagining itself to be limited. This awareness can come to you either through a flash of intellectual analysis or a flash of Universal Love. The awareness is an act of identification which requires Love. Love is God; Love is the means and end. That is why there are no atheists for there is no being without love of some kind or other. And love of any kind, of any measure, is but a spark of Divinity. Love knows no fear, it promotes truth, it finds peace, it builds faith, and it promotes concord. To develop love, the easiest, highest and the most fruitful sacrifice is that of the ego. Crucify it and be free. Dedicate it to God, and be rich and happy beyond all your imagination.

This Video of People Forming a Human Chain to Save a Drowning Man Shows the Spirit of Chennai…

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The nonstop rains since Monday night in Chennai have flooded several roads in many parts of the city, creating havoc everywhere. In such devastating conditions, residents are showing boundless strength and courage, and are leaving no stone unturned when it comes to helping those who are stranded in a crisis.

Chennaites displayed immense selflessness once again this Tuesday, when many of them got together to save a drowning man on a flooded road. The entire incident was recorded from inside a car and shared by Raghavan Chakravarthi, who was driving towards Tambaram when flood waters suddenly hit a road near Padappai. It shows how a bike rider lost his balance and got trapped in a gush of water that could have washed him away.

But bystanders did not think twice before abandoning their vehicles and running towards him in knee-deep water to form a human chain and pull him to safety.

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Source…. Tanaya Singh in http://www.the betterindia.com and http://www.you tube.com

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