Have you ever wondered that besides the people you know on this earth and communicate with,the Creator also has his own ways to speak to you.Everyday HE is trying to speak to you,not directly of course but through various means of communication which have life.HIS ways are very different and more concious.It is only we humans who are so engrossed in our own materialistic ways of living that we overlook HIS ways to speaking to us.Everyday we go to the temple and pray to HIM for whatever, but the moment we come out of the temple we become our own self.I have seen people going to Hanuman temple on Tuesday with Prasada and offering it to the deity.With folded hands they pray but the moment they come out,they shoo away the children who gather around them with cupped hand for the prasada.Why should we become so? In a second we forget that as a statue, GOD does not accept our offerings but through these small living souls.Why are we so bent upon taking the Prasada home for our own and not distribute it amongst these children.Most of the time it makes me sad and something breaks within me.Here GOD is trying to speak to you and asking for his offering and you just simply do not understand his ways and shoo HIM away.
We go and bathe in ganges,offer water to the sun and do all kinds of remedial measures dictated to us by the pundits but fail in our own understanding on the ways of GOD to make life more peaceful and worthy.I always have two or three new blankets in my car which are there for giving away to the poor who I come across in winters shivering with cold.If you feed the less fortunate children of GOD and have an attitude to help and share some part of your earnings with them,you do not have to pray and go to the temple for one single day.Everyday is your temple of prayers.Also I have seen well to do people parking their cars walking in the temple and sitting down to have langar.The basic premise of throwing a langar here gets defeated.It is for those who are less fortunate to get their daily meal and is not meant for those who have the means to earn their bread.If you are well off and still go to the temple to have langar you are burdening your own soul with a debt as you have deprived that many less fortunate people on consuming the meal which would have meant a great deal to them.
Let me tell you a short story written by me through my various phases of spiritual inclination.There was this gentleman who never knew what special moments are....one day he went to the park in the morning and sat wondering where GOD is and who GOD is and how GOD communicates and so on and so forth..and he kept on wondering.....!!
The morning breeze touched him lightly on his cheek..but he could not feel.......that was the touch of GOD.Somewhere the cuckoo crooned but he did not listen....that was GOD calling him.The leaves of the tree under which he was sitting made a sound when breeze passed through them but he did not hear...that was GOD`s angel talking to him.A rabbit came out of the bush and sat near him and looked at him but the man ignored him and kept on wondering.....that was GOD looking at him.There are important leanings from various religious books written by saints who have experienced GOD.One of them says that you do not know in which form you can find GOD.So never deviate from your path of being virtuous and being kind to everyone.You may never know that one kindness you have shown to someone may actually be your test of GOD and the blessings you will get will remove all your troubles.Even GOD wants people who are close to his creations to function as his own arms.
As a last parting word..have you ever wondered why people come to you and share their problems....Look deeper. It is GOD who sends them to you since you are more fortunate and HE is noticing you on how you deliver and help.You are HIS channel through which he helps those who need the same.GOD is everywhere and in everything.Only one needs to feel and observe.The moment we develop that instinct we are BLESSED.
Sanjiv Gupta
Creator Merrigold
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