Small Stories #36

Fresh Lime Water

The other day I was preparing fresh lime water for the first time. I ended up adding five times the amount of lemon than needed. It was a disaster. It tasted so sour that one sip of it would have been enough to make a dinosaur dance. I had to correct it anyhow. How I wish I could remove some lemon juice from water to make it taste perfect again! But alas! Some things can never be undone. Some things can never be changed. There was no way to remove the extra lime. So what was the solution then? The only way to correct this was to add four more glasses of water and dilute the lemon juice to make five glasses of fresh lime water.

This made me think. Sometimes we cannot undo some things that have gone wrong in life. Some wrong decisions, wrong choices, wrong investments, wrong actions, wrong associations, wrong words or wrong doings can never be undone. So what is the solution then? When you cannot correct what is wrong, do not waste more time over it. It is like attempting to remove lemon from water. Instead, get busy in adding so many right things in your life that the wrong seems insignificant.

We all have a negative side to ourselves. We may not be able to remove or correct all our negativities. But we can definitely continue adding positive thoughts, positive reading and positive people in our lives and dilute the negativity. We all have to deal with some easy people and some difficult people in our lives. Do not waste time trying to change the difficult people. You will drain all your emotional energy in vain. Instead spend more time with the pleasant positive happy people and the difficult people will not affect you any more.

We all have been through lows in life and we cannot change that. But if we now add new highs in life, we will dilute the lows, isn’t it? In the end life will seem ‘mostly high’. We all have scars in life. We all have been through some pain in life. We all have made mistakes in life. We all have unfulfilled dreams, unanswered prayers. We cannot remove these bitter memories from life but we could get busy making new happy memories now.

Everything in your life will never be perfect. Do not waste too much time correcting what is wrong. Get busy doing the right things.😊😊💐💐

Do you pray

Do you Pray?

I loved this interpretation of Prayer.

What is a prayer?

Prayer doesn’t only happen when we kneel or put our hands together and focus and expect things from God.

Thinking positive and wishing good for others is a prayer.

When you hug a friend. That’s a prayer.

When you cook something to nourish family and friends. That’s a prayer.

When we send off our near and dear ones and say, ‘drive safely’ or ‘be safe’. That’s a prayer.

When you are helping someone in need by giving your time and energy. You are praying.

When you forgive someone by your heart. That is prayer.

Prayer is a vibration. A feeling. A thought. Prayer is the voice of love, friendship, genuine relationships. Prayer is an expression of your silent being.

Keep praying always…

Stay Blessed🙏

Remember the lotus flower

REMEMBER THE LOTUS FLOWER

Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them.
A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena.
A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey.
A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker.
Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower.
Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud,
It does not allow the dirt that surrounds it
To affect its growth or beauty.
Be that lotus flower always.
Do not allow any negativity or ugliness in your surroundings
destroy your confidence,
affect your growth,
or make you question your self-worth.
It is very normal for one ugly weed
to not want to stand alone.
Remember this always.
If you were ugly, or just as small as they feel they are,
Then they would not feel so bitter and envious.
Each and every time they are forced
to glance up at magnificently
Divine YOU.

Nagula chavithi

Nagula Chavithi (Telugu: నాగుల చవితి) is an auspicious day to observe Naga Puja. Nagula Chavithi is observed on the fourth day (Chaturthi) after Deepavali Amavasya during Karthika masam. Nag Panchami and Nagasashti are observed after Naga Chaturthi. In some parts of Andhra Pradesh it is also celebrated in the month of Sravana masam.

Nagula Chavithi, a festival to worship Nag Devatas (Serpent Gods), is mainly a women festival. Nagula Chavithi is observed by married women for their wellbeing of their children. During the Chavithi festival, women keep fast and observe Naga Puja. Devotees offer milk and dry fruits to Sarpa Devata at the Valmeekam or Putta (snake pits). On Nag Chaturthi day, Ashtanag (seven hooded cobra) is worshipped.

Nagula Chavithi in Kartika masam is a major festival in Andhra Pradesh and some parts of Karnataka. The rituals and puja procedures are different from place to place. Some people place Naga devatha idol at home and perform puja. But in some places, devotees go to ‘Putta’ (Snake pit) and offer naivedyam and perform other pujas there.

The popular legend associated with Nagula Chavithi in Telugu Hindu culture suggests that on the day Lord Shiva drank the poison Halahala or Kalkuta to save the universe during the famous incident of Samudra Manthan.

Pujas and prayers are held in Naga temples across the state.

Stop the Practice of Feeding of Snakes during Festivals

Nowadays, Nagula Chavithi day is noted for the notorious practice of offering milk and eggs to the snakes, especially cobras near snake pits. Snake charmers also bring cobras to villages and towns which are fed with milk by devotees. Such practices should not be encouraged as it leads to the death of snakes.

Snakes don’t drink milk but the practice has been encouraged by popular beliefs.

Worship of Nagas is a constant reminder to humans to live in harmony with Nature. And the ideal way to worship Nagas is by protecting the forests and grooves that are home of snakes and other animals.

Who is your fall back

Who is your fallback..!!

People help you the way they know to help you. To help you to come out of stress, one friend will ask you to drink and another will ask you to meditate.

To overcome hurt, one friend will ask you to take revenge and get even, and another will ask you to forgive and get ahead with your life. ‘Who is your fallback’ makes all the difference.

Duryodhana’s predicament, in his own words, was, “I know what is right but I am not able to indulge in it. I know what is wrong but I am not able to avoid it.” He needed a fallback. His fallback was his uncle Shakuni, and resultantly, Duryodhana moved from bad to worse.

Arjuna’s predicament was different. He was allowing his personal emotions to dominate his sense of duty, and hence wanted to escape from the responsibilities he had towards upholding righteousness. He needed a fallback. His fallback was Krishna, and resultantly, Arjuna was restored to his greatness.

Humans we are, at some point or the other, we all need a fallback. ‘Who is your fallback’ makes all the difference.

Choose Well .

Thoughts

Thoughts are the one power that we have in our hands.

We have to watch our thoughts because they become our actions, then our habits, personality and destiny.

Our feelings and emotions are the resultant effect of our thoughts.

Every positive thought adds to our energy and every negative thought drains our energy.

Stress is due to thinking too much, too fast, negatively or wastefully.

Feeling physically tired is generally due to feeling low.

Thinking negatively about someone or having low thoughts about the self is a form of violence towards others or our self .

Have patience

During world war II, Winston Churchill appealed to public of Britain only once to not to buy eggs as these would only be sent to warriors fighting war and since there is already shortage of eggs.

Immediately there was long queues of people outside shops of Britain, not for buying the eggs but to return already purchased eggs lying in their home.

If we love our nation, it would put us on trial too. This time would pass away soon.

Let us have some patience .

Take it my county men as revolution for better future.

This was my post 4 years back in Facebook timeline during demonetization ,thought of sharing with you people as this is applicable in this pandemic too .

Happy Diwali

Once, it so happened that Lord Krishna was standing in front of the mirror decorating himself.

He was trying on different crowns on his head and putting on some fine jewelry while his charioteer waited outside with the chariot ready.

His charioteer waited and waited and thought to himself – usually, Krishna comes immediately, today he has still not come.
So, out of curiosity, he went inside to find out if the program was still on, because Krishna was very unpredictable, anytime anything could change.

So, the charioteer went inside and he saw Lord Krishna standing in front of the mirror admiring himself.

He politely asked, “My dear Lord, tell me, why are you dressing up so much today. Where are we going?”

Lord Krishna said, “I am going to meet Duryodhana.”

The charioteer said, “You are dressing up so much to meet Duryodhana?”

Lord Krishna then said, “He cannot see my inside, he can only appreciate my outside. So how I am dressed will impress him because he cannot see what is inside.”

Then the charioteer asked, “ Why are you going to Duryodhana? You should not go, he should come to you. This I cannot accept.”
He continued to say, “This is not fair. Look at your status and look at him! You are the Lord of the world. You should not go, let him come.”

Krishna turned back, looked at him, smiled and said, _“Darkness does not come to light, light has to go to darkness.”

May the coming festival of Deepavali illuminate us from within.

While we all light our houses, lets spend some time today to light a few lamps inside us.

Light the first lamp inside you and let it burn your anger and jealousy that you may have for any one till date; see it melt away.

Light the second lamp and let it burn away unwanted greed and desires, feel happy and contented with what you have been blessed with.

Light the third lamp and let it fade away all insecurities that you may have in your mind related to financial matters or anything else; just beleive that God has given you life and he will surely give you enough to survive.

Light the 4th lamp and carry that lamp to each part of ur body; let it burn away all your diseased cells or any disease in making. Feel healthy as this lamp travels to each body part and illuminates each organ.

The 5th lamp is a miniature of the Sun, nothing but the divine light, light it in the centre of your body and let it fill the warmth and love inside your whole body, feel one with the Divine, let the love and warmth filled inside you ooze out of you through your smile, eyes, speech, and body.
Carry this love with you through out the day, you will find that everyone who meets you is happy and elated.

This is the biggest blessing that whoever meets you becomes happier after meeting you, this will also make you happier in return.
“There are lights everywhere except in the minds of the men.” And mind is a jungle of cravings, greed and material desires.

This too shall pass,
Light these 5 lamps each morning, carry the positivity wherever you go.

Diwali,the festival of lights is a good time to re-examine ways to remove darkness from within.

Let’s pray that the act of lighting a lamp this Diwali may be seen by all as a great opportunity to light the lamp within ourselves as well.

Light your lamp within &
stay blessed forever.

Happy Diwali .

Lessons Learnt#2

Life is itself a lesson. If you observe with your eyes wide open, you will realize that life teaches every day. In last few years, life has taught me the below lessons:

You will not be liked by everyone, no matter how good you are.

The more you grow, the more haters you have.

Be lenient and patient but learn to hiss time to time, else you will be taken for granted.

How hard you try, you can not please each individual. Pleasing a society is easier than pleasing each individual.

Be a listener more than a speaker.

Forgive people who abused your trust but don’t let them enter in your life again.

We often hear the proverb, “Excess of everything is bad.” I have realised this is 100% true in all the cases.

Nothing is wrong in this world. The only thing can be wrong is the way we do or consider things.

There is no shortcut to success, you have to work hard.

Small Stories #35

There was a millionaire who had severe eye pain. He consulted many doctors for his treatment done. He consumed heavy loads of drugs and underwent hundreds of injections.
But the ache persisted.

At last a monk who has supposed to be an expert in treating such patients was called. The monk understood his problem and said that for sometime he should concentrate only on green colours & not to fall his eyes on any other colours.

The millionaire got together a group of painters & purchased barrels of green color & directed that every object his eye was likely to see be painted in green colour.

When the monk came to visit him after few days, the millionaire’s servants ran with buckets of green paints and poured on him since he was in red dress.

Hearing this monk laughed said “If only you had purchased a pair of green spectacles, worth just a few rupees, you could have saved these walls and trees and pots and all other articles and also could have saved a large share of his fortune. You cannot paint the world green.”

Moral
Let us change our vision and the world will appear accordingly. It is foolish to shape the world.

Quotes for daily life

The Quotes We Need to Read many Times a Day.
Happiness doesn’t start with a relationship, a vacation, a job… or an election. It starts with your thinking and what you tell yourself today. Remind yourself of this truth. And remind yourself that the absolute best lessons we learn in life are the lessons we learn over and over again. The human mind needs lots of proactive reminders—lots of practice—to operate effectively through thick and thin. For example, deep down we know it’s OK to…

Say “no”

Speak up

Tell the truth

Believe differently

Change our mind

Prioritize our needs

Learn from our mistakes

Embrace our imperfections

Forgive and seek forgiveness

Begin again, stronger than before
Yet, we often seek the exact opposite when life gets stressful and we’re under pressure.

We do the wrong things even when we know better.

Because the human mind has weaknesses. It becomes forgetful and insensible when it’s stressed. And the only way to conquer these weaknesses is to practice conquering them.

Small Stories #34

Failure is a part of learning; we should never give up the struggle in life

The Elephant Rope (Belief)

A gentleman was walking through an elephant camp, and he spotted that the elephants weren’t being kept in cages or held by the use of chains.

All that was holding them back from escaping the camp, was a small piece of rope tied to one of their legs.

As the man gazed upon the elephants, he was completely confused as to why the elephants didn’t just use their strength to break the rope and escape the camp. They could easily have done so, but instead, they didn’t try to at all.

Curious and wanting to know the answer, he asked a trainer nearby why the elephants were just standing there and never tried to escape.

The trainer replied;

“when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.”

The only reason that the elephants weren’t breaking free and escaping from the camp was that over time they adopted the belief that it just wasn’t possible.

Moral of the story:
No matter how much the world tries to hold you back, always continue with the belief that what you want to achieve is possible. Believing you can become successful is the most important step in actually achieving.

Lessons learnt #1

Lessons from the five agreements.

  1. Become an inner warrior to reclaim your happiness.
  2. Understand that everything people do is about them and not you.
  3. Don’t assume people see the world how you do. Otherwise you will suffer.
  4. Forgive others to set yourself free.
  5. Take whatever you have, the height, the weight and personality. Accept it and realize, that you are blessed. Stay focused and live a healthy life.
  6. There is no competition in Destiny. Each has his own.

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