SHORT STORY - UPLIFTING FAITH ON GOD

I don’t know where I was walking. I don’t know where I started and where I am going. But, I continued my walking. The surroundings were filled with complete darkness and I couldn’t observe even the way, I was traversing. As I was moving, suddenly, a hand touched me at back, and after which, a flash of light showed me that one forward leap might have made me fall from a steep abyss (a deep hole). With the new guidance, I shifted to new direction.

But, by the action of my reasoning, I became panic with reference to my past experience of encountering a deep abyss of death. I stopped in my position and feared to make further progress. I was stagnated with fear and stood without movement.

But, something, deep inside my intellect spoke out motivating, “Don’t fear! The same hand might help you in future, as you encounter the deep hole of death!” This small faith moved me forward again in the new direction. My movement was slow now, because, “fear of depth” was having upper hand over “faith on hand.” After sometime, the assisting hand touched me again to apprise me about the steep depth of death. Again, I turned my direction, but with boosted faith and I started to walk without retardation, because, now the “faith on hand” took upper hand over the “fear of depth.” I continued my movement forward using the series of unknown guidance.

After thousands of similar experiences on the way, a superior enlightenment arose in my mind, which edified my intellect with new wisdom. The new knowledge allowed my intelligence to understand that the path I was traversing was “raising path of life.” Every time, when I was about to face life troubles, the guiding hand which helped me was the stimulus from the God. With faith on the hand, I raised up. But, at my current position of top intelligence, I was even able to observe other men life-paths with newer clarity. It exposed, “How people with finite intelligence are getting stagnated in their position, “with fear” about future and “without faith” in the guiding hand or God’s saving touch!”

This story has expressed truth about life: With faith we get accelerated, with fear we get retarded.

QUOTE: "What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now." - Buddha

WISDOM FROM THIRUKKURAL 3 – THE BLESSINGS OF RAIN

2. THE BLESSINGS OF RAIN

11. Living organisms are present only on earth because of the duly service of the rain. Rain which is an indispensible part of our existence can be considered analogous as ambrosia (a food eaten of Gods) to our life.

12. What a dedication from the rain! It helps us to gain food materials by aiding the growth of vegetables and fruits. Also, the same rain transforms itself into the food that we consume. Without rain, we won’t get grain.

13. Even though our earth may be enclosed by massive water sources like sea or ocean, if mother-like rain fails to show its blessing, every living organism might be troubled by drought and desertification.

14. Food is the basic need of our life. Food is produced by farmer, who is important member of our existence. If rain fails, farming fail, hence food output fail and at last, we fail.

15. Rain has ambiguous properties of destruction. By under-rendering its services, it makes lives on earth to suffer through drought and by over-rendering its services, it makes lives on earth to suffer through flood.

QUOTE: “Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.” - William Wirt

WISDOM FROM THIRUKKURAL 2 - PRAISE THE LORD

1. PRAISE THE LORD

6. Long will live the accomplishments of the men, who praise and follow the true, righteous path of the master of five senses, the most superior God. The five senses are vision, speech, auditory, smell, and touch. Problems rooted in men’s society can found their solutions by the proper delegation of control over the slave senses.

7. People, who praise the glory of incomparable God, will only identify and understand the ways to curb the problems which mind bears. The thoughts of God implants peace, hence, he identifies his original core nature and tackles life problems independently.

8. A human, who thinks continuously about the God, who is the ocean of wisdom and virtue, will only know the ways to swim over the life-ocean efficiently and effectively. The human existence usually relates with the material life and mixes with the “ocean of trouble.” But, in relation with God, he identifies a “ferry of wisdom” to cross the life-ocean.

9. The God possesses infinite capabilities and qualities. If a human being doesn’t understand such a simple knowledge, might be considered as useless as an animal with degraded sensual organs like body, eye, ear, mouth, and nose.

10. Human soul which understands the might of omnipotent, omniscience, omnipresent God will win the births and achieve God’s abode to experience infinite happiness. But, an ignorant soul will trouble itself with repeated rebirths on earth and experience discomforts of human life. Human birth, according to Hindu scriptures is a curse and our ultimate endeavour of human life is to reach God, which prevents rebirths.

Quotes: “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.” - William James

SHORT STORY - MUTUAL RELATIONSHIP

There was an old beggar living near a tourist spot. The tourist spot is a forest and it is famed for its rich resources of woody vegetations and wild animals.

When the old beggar was in his final years, he looked back at his life-track which he had traversed with list of sinful activities. He indulged in number of cruel murders, sinful thefts, child trafficking, smuggling etc. which repelled his parents, wife and children away. With the results of wicked nature, he had degraded old age without any saving or guiding hand for care.

His physical, depleted health conditions made him dependent for his life sustenance. He was bearing his body through begging from the tourists. The earnings, he made were so meagre that it was just sufficient for having a single meal a day. One day, when he was having his bread of the day, a dog was passionately observing him with an expectation of food from him. It's continuous and friendly expressions made the beggar to lend a small part of his food to the dog. That was first time, in his entire lifetime; the man was helping a living organism.

Next day, the old beggar died and his soul was departing towards the abode of the God of Death for judgement. As he was moving up, his soul felt, “How ill-fated my life was! My body lies careless without relationships and is going to become a food of wild beasts.” But, as he looked back, to his astonishment, the dog which he had fed previous day was guiding his corpse along with its friend dogs from the wild beast of the forest until the forest officials might identify and do necessary burial of the death body.

Just, single sharing of food with a dog brought a maximized output after his death to the wicked beggar. How his life might have transformed, if he had followed it during his youth age itself!

“Amount of help” we invest on others can be drawn later as “friendly relationship.” What stands in the people’s men behind our death is not how sophisticated we made living but how useful we were to others.

QUOTE: "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." - Dale Carnegie

INTELLECTUAL MOTIVATION

When we work for success, we get energetic. When we work not to fail, we get lethargic.

There may be hundred of books in our shelf, but, a book will find its way to our hands, only those that trains or motivates us to think and those that reflect our lives.

Every human has a magical intelligence (thoughts), through its “black magic,” he destroys his life (negative thoughts) and through its “white magic,” he develops in his life (positive thoughts).

If success is solely depended on intelligence and talents, world might not have evolved.

If we don’t what to change, even hundred of books or lectures or people can’t create a change. If we intend to change, even a single sentence will make a change. Change represents realignment of character, thoughts, etc.

Great men create great thoughts and great thoughts create great men.

QUOTE:"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein

WISDOM FROM THIRUKKURAL 1 - PRAISE THE LORD

Thirukkural is one of the ancient scriptures in Tamil composed by saint poet Thiruvalluvar. The Thirukkural found its birth thousands of years before, when civilisation were still nomadic in number of continents across earth. The scripture is divided into three majors concentrating on: Virtue, wealth, and love. The wisdoms contemplated in Thirukkural are still applicable to the modern society, as Plato says, “Truths are eternal.” One astonishing feature of this book is that there are millions of philosophies on better living have arrived but the purity and short approach stirs intellectuals to start their contemplation from this book.

1. PRAISE THE LORD

1. The sound of “Aha” stands first in alphabets list in every earthly language. Similarly, God is the preceding being for every living organism. God is the infinite intelligence, superior of the superior, having no dimension to explain, and beyond understanding of human intelligence.

2. What is the use of the education which doesn’t train our mind to think of infinite intelligence, the God? Utter useless. We have to train our mind with two form of education, material education – knowledge about making living and spiritual education – knowledge about immortal living.

3. People will experience everlasting joy in their life, if they think of the presence of the tender, flowery natured God in every life activities. When we observe beautiful flowers, we earn pleasure. When we think of the God, we earn peace.

4. The man who occupies his mind with the pervasive God, the conqueror of hatred, anger, favouritism etc will never face negative experiences in his life. With God’s presence in mind, our thinking will become synchronized with God’s characteristics. Negativities will be destroyed by purified activities.

5. Men, who have understood the might of the God, will develop strength to face right and wrong without duality. It provides intellectual, emotional, physical stamina to view positivity and negativity with equal vision.

QUOTE: "Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine." - Napoleon Hill

SHORT STORY – EXPRESSION OF LOVE

This was his new car, a father bought after days of build-up desires. It was his first drive with his five year old son in a highway line at the outskirts of the city. The child excited about the new trip said enthusiastically, “Papa! It is your gift to me and I will be careful that nothing will happen to this car.” Listening to his son’s words with smile, the father insisted, “Munna! Wear your seat belts because we traverse through highway!”
As the car approached a bridge, a villager suddenly intruded with a bicycle and dashed with the front side of the car. Because, the car was moving at low speed, the accident was not fatal. The villager with bleeding scratches in his limbs was standing before the car, with the expectation of pardon from the car owner.
Being, the sole mistake of the villager who dashed, the father rushed out to see what happened to his newly acquired car. The front headlight glass pane was broken. The father with rage accosted the villager saying, “Stupid country man! Do you know the cost of the car you have crashed? Pay me for your mistakes.” The father started to quarrel with the villager and was expecting an equivalent compensation for his losses.
The father after gaining his loss, entered his car, but, he observed his child still crying. In order to calm down his child, the father said, “No problem with your gift and we can replace the headlight within an hour, don’t cry, my child. Our car is not completely destroyed.” But, the child replied sympathetically which bombarded the core character balance of the father, “I am not crying for the broken car but for the broken man!”

QUOTE:"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein

INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHTS

Management is a cruel game where we have to kill ourselves sometimes for other’s benefit and kill others sometimes for our benefit. Understanding the balance when to kill ourselves and kill others will make us a “Perfect Leader.” (Kill ~ getting work out)

World will always spread its way for us, if we take a new initiative to express our competence.

Success is not achieved through the perfection in preparation of a plan, but, through the perfection in execution of the plan.

A perfect glacial mirror provide perfect facial reflection, similarly, our perfection is character is exposed by “good” men’s evaluation.

Strong stones break not only by the physical strength of men, but, also by their mental strength.

If we think of footsteps, we have left behind, we won’t move forward.

QUOTE: "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." – Samuel Johnson

PERFECTION WITH TIME

I have acquaintance with him for past three years and from my past observations, he was not a talented achiever and he has failed number of times before, as his small history shows. But now, he has moulded himself to make remarkable advancement in academics and practically in every undertaking. People, who are staying with him, in hostel, say, he spends number hardworking nights and exposed astonishment over his accomplishments. To understand the vitalising secret behind his success, I spoke to him personally, “Great are your achievements in academics! I came to know from your friends that you leave number of hard working sleepless nights behind every academic achievement.”


He smiled on hearing my ignorant words and the answer he replied, stroke my intellectual balance and revealed a truth which we can use to simulate for our successes. His reply was, “Actually, I don’t spend number of sleepless nights in hostels but I spend number of sleepless days in classes and that’s makes every difference in my life” and he chuckled. He added, “It is this habit or behaviour, the hiding secret behind my success in academics. Doing perfectly the prescribed task at prompt time will promote us towards success, what inborn talents can’t provide.” He concluded a sentence which still lingers, “When we think of footsteps, we left behind, we won’t move forward.”


His answer reveals a natural philosophy, which can edify our intellect: “Doing an action at perfect unison with time will bring us happiness.” We congest our mind with useless thoughts during useful period. This action drifts us towards failure trench. Happening is home are taken to colleges or work places and happening in colleges or workplaces are brought to our homes and this behaviour kills our high efficiency factor.


We affirm these words to success: “What happened is happened, what is destroyed is destroyed, what is lost is lost, but, an incredible truth is that nature brings those lost happenings or destroyed plans or lost opportunities in incremental or equal fashion, when we acknowledge and accept their loss and focus on further. When we focus on footsteps, we have left behind, we won’t move forward.”


QUOTE: "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." - Abraham Lincoln

MOTIVATIONAL THOUGHTS

Histories will points at us, if we point the world towards right direction.


What magnificent a good character is? It brings what millions or billions of dollars can’t create! Peace of mind.


Self-confidence is a stamina which helps us to rise, even when whole world suppresses us or moves against us. It stays in every blood drop and triggers every tissue in our brain. Millions of failures may be faced by us; self-confidence is the propelling drive after every delayed-success.


When we get angry, move towards our wristwatch and wait for a minute, before we express our anger to others. Many times, our anger is just a misunderstanding of other’s action without analysing their intensions. One minute delay will diminish hours of broken-relationship delay.


We should be more careful or cautious in dealing with our success, because, during success, our head overtakes our heart. Success mishandled is a failure.


Manoeuvring vehicles will help us to reach our predetermined destinations.
Manoeuvring thoughts will help us to reach beyond our predetermined positions in life.



QUOTE: "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to
do, and then do it." - Henry Ford