Color of Blood

Take some blood from all living beings like humans,animals,fish,birds and then mix it up.Looking at the red liquid can you differentiate...which blood is from which source?? Any second person looking at it will say it is the same color red and belongs to the same source which ever. When you cannot differentiate the color from outside then what right do you have to draw boundaries around caste, creed,rich & poor.Every living creature born in this world deserves the same love and affection and needs to be looked at with the same respect as your own soul.

The Sun,Moon,Stars,Air,Water and Nature shower the same affection to everyone.It is only we humans who have drawn square lines around us.Till such time we are happily entrenched in our own luxuries of life we fail to look at the sufferings, miseries and sadness amongst others.Most of the time we are not even conscious on what is happening around us and are only aware about happenings that concerns us only.

The source of life for everyone is through the eternal being.Only the form of life is different.This is how HE has created a complete world where each form of life exists for a purpose.Each one has been created to balance the existence with various LIFE colors.Amongst all life forms GOD made humans the most advanced in order to spread the message of peace,love,gratitude,sharing,caring and existing together.But look what have we done.We have completely defeated HIS vision and formed our own vision to rule this planet.Formed up our own corners of comfort.Displaced and disturbed the very agenda of GOD for creating us.Have we ever asked a question to ourselves as to why we have done this ? Why is it that for us the color of blood is different in our own way of thinking about others.Is it because of our own sophistication that we feel that others who are not so fortunate as us have a different blood.Really, this is highly distasteful if we look at the color of blood from a very sadistic and inhuman perspective.

However,the most selfish part of our existence is that the same blood which has come from the very same people who we shoo away for our sophistication and lifestyle entrenchments, is what we need from the blood bank when at the hospital facing a crisis.At that point in time no thought even remotely cross our mind at the source from which this has been generated.And we gladly accept and thank GOD for saving our LIFE. Is it GOD who has saved our LIFE or is it the blood which was made available to us when we needed it the most.We need to think.!! Why it then we fail to recognize the fact that all of us carry the same color blood.We must meditate, try and empty our mind from thoughts which are undivine. Only then we can clearly see the color of blood which is neither red or white but having the color of purity of existence,adundance of love,baskets of gratitude and loads of compassion.GOD from its rainbow in the sky has taken specific colors and filled our LIFE with all his love.

Blood banks are a source of inspiration if one is willing to understand the path to divinity.

Sanjiv Gupta

Creator Merrigold

Forgiveness

Forgiving people who have done wrong to you makes way for enriching your soul with calmness.Why should you carry a burden of pointless thinking about the incident.You only hurt yourself everyday and your near and dear ones around you.Just remember one thing.Your own virtuousness will carry you through all pains and miseries but you should have faith in the Supreme.No one can harm your soul or take it away from you.Your soul remains yours till such time you are alive in this world of illusions.They can only cause you an external grievance by way of speech & actions.Why should you be worried on what they are doing to you.Is it really that important to brood.You know what..? You are pained by the other people actions only when there is an attachment to the worldly possessions and feelings.Once you practice the art of de-attachment these issues will not bother you.Let me also reaffirm to you that what is in your destiny cannot be denied to you.If you are to receive something that GOD has willed to you it will be delivered to you when the time comes.If something is to be taken away from you it will be taken away.Nothing is ours since we did not bring it with us in this world.

Not only one should try and practice forgiving other people but also try and practice forgiving self.When you start forgiving yourself you also get to understand your own wrong doings and what is that you need to do to correct yourself.Forgiveness is a 360 degrees practice to get you on a 180 degrees straight line.But developing the art of forgiveness will take practice.Seemingly for the first time practitioners it is very hard.It is so not because of any defects with a person but due to the fact that over a period of time we have been tuned into a state of our own mind where the acceptability of the other person finds very little space.The reasons can be many but predominant amongst them is our materialistic attitude.Our own joys matter more to us than the grievances of others.We do not care to think twice on whether what we are doing is right or wrong.Everything at that point in time seems right to us because we stand to gain.We fail to foresee the after effects of what we are doing.And when we feel those after some period in time we try and ask for forgiveness from the person.We may be forgiven or not at that point in time is not in our hands.If we are fortunate enough we will get forgiveness which will clean out soul somewhat but the spot will remain deeply entrenched and many efforts would have to be made by us to clean it completely. If we have done someone some wrong and we know it consciously then no matter how hard we try this act of ours will come to haunt us definitely some day and in somepoint in time during our life. It is said that everything which we give comes back to us in some form or the other.This is the eternal law of the Universe.

Even before we start practicing the art of forgiveness, we should try and meditate and ask for forgiveness from the Supreme Soul.The moment we do that we will experience certain questions which will be asked from us by our own consciouness.The first & the last one would be " Why did you do an act which is so undivine?" We may have no answer to this and no matter how hard we try to reason, all answers will fall flat.This is the learning which GOD will impart at the first instance.When you open your eyes you will find that seeking forgiveness from Supreme is very hard because you are at fault.The Supreme anyways is going to forgive you not because you have asked for it but because it is his part within you which GOD wants to clean.You are just a means to carry a part of his consciousness within you as your soul.Your sinful thinking which tarnishes the soul needs to be cleaned by HIM since GOD cannot accept anything which is impure after your term on this earth expires.This would then make you think as to what is your entity.Frankly speaking NOTHING.You are no one since you do not have the power to create nature and its people.

So ask yourself a hundred times when you think of uttering even one word which is undivine and for which you will have to ask for forgiveness.Why do it when you can avoid it.Just mellow down yourself and think of only divine eternity as the true purpose of your life on this earth.Since what you own are only illusions and nothing more, then what is the need to cause grief and sorrow to others.Seeking forgiveness is your right only if you have committed some undivine act out of ignorance and not otherwise.We must try and act in a way where we should not ask for forgiveness from others but forgive others for what they do to us through ignorance of their existence on this beautiful planet.

Sanjiv Gupta
Creator Merrigold

Discounting Yourself

Have you ever felt that you have been neglected even though you are a prominent person.Has this hurt you inside.It must have.This is but natural.When we consider ourselves important and expect people to shower us with attention then this feeling is bound to arise.But if we discount ourselves and just take things as they are without expecting attention from people around us then this feeling also will fade away.The more we discount ourselves the more peaceful we will feel.Discounting yourself is also a form of mind meditation where you look at life which exists within, in the form of your soul.It is the soul which is your true self and not the outside body.Our eyes see what our mind tells them to see.It is the mind which has the power to stir our emotions.But when you start discounting yourself then it is your soul which then starts changing your perspective and you start looking at things with a more straight forward viewpoint.

Most of the time the root to our greviances,discontent,frustation,jealousy and degeneration is when we fail to discount ourselves.Our own importance supersedes everything.What is it that we are trying to achieve?This is the question we need to ask ourselves everyday,every minutes and every second.Who are we that others should give us attention?What is it that we have done that we deserve to be garlanded with attention from everyone.Frankly speaking nothing!!.Whatever we have achieved is only worldly ambition.And we want even more.Have we done something to please our inner soul.Have we realized our true purpose of life.We have not.Whatever we have achieved till date without any consideration of spiritual existence is worthless.It is worthless because we cannot take it with us.It is going to remain here and others will enjoy it.So let us discount ourselves from the present and let it go.Why bother..if somebody has ignored you.Who is he to you.Nothing.It is your inner soul and GOD which should matter to you.But this realization will only come after you start practicing discounting yourself.Some people will have a query as to what discounting yourself means.There is a very simple explaination."When you start understanding that this body is an illusion and the world around is also an illusion and nothing matters except your connection with the Supreme Soul and it is HE who holds your strings of life and death and nobody else. When you start looking at all events and happenings around you with calm and quietness of the vision without any form of distorted thoughts that is when the force of Discounting Yourself gets operational within you."

7 Golden rules of Discounting Yourself

Close your eyes for 2 minutes

Concentrate on controlling your heart beat.

Breathe slowly

Just let go of all thoughts

Visualise yourself as the means and not the end.

Smile

Practice.

As you start practicing the art of Discounting Yourself 5 things are going to happen to you over a period of time.Maybe more.

You will feel more relaxed.

You will feel more happy.

You will be more calm and at peace with yourself.

Your relationships will improve.

Your spiritual side will get enhanced.

When we trap our mind with narrow thinking and materialistic approaches the outcome is always inflated egos.This entices us to look at how important we are and we fail entirely in logical patterns of behaviour.What will happen? We start getting annoyed,short tempered,jealous,anxious and grieved and take actions which are uncalled for.Our relationships with others as a result suffer.On the other hand if we allow the process of discounting ourselves to take control, we will feel more at peace with ourselves.

So let us try and practice this art of mind meditation and see how discounting oneself enriches life making it more compassionate,gracious and worthwhile living on this planet.

Sanjiv Gupta

Creator Merrigold

Destiny

Why are we born on this planet earth ?? Who are we?? Where have we come from.?? Is it just a biological event which has been brought about through some explosion in the universe?? or is it something more complex.Who created all this wonderful existence of so many living beings.Not to forget the entire Universe where earth is only a small part .Hundred of unanswered questions still haunt us many times and we have not been able to find out the answers as yet.Not only living on this earth but death as well.Each one possessing life dies at some point in time.Young people,new borns,not so young everyone including others like animals and plants.Each one has a life span which is unknown.Many a times youngsters pass away sooner than the old. Why is it so.??After death where do we go..??Is there a written rule somewhere on the fate of each one of us.And by US I do not only identify humans but each living organism on earth.Maybe YES there is.Lets put a name to that written rule as Destiny and the unknown and mysterious as GOD or the creator.

Where you are going to be born,which family,place,time had been already written as also death.How you are going to be fed,brought up,engage and live,this also had been set for you.Who you are going to nurture,grow and flourish has also been dictated.Who all are going to come in your life and at which point in time those connections have already been linked up.It is just a matter of time sooner or later but is unknown to you right now.Just look back at the last 10 years of your life.Jot down everything which comes to you through the memory lane.You will be surprised at the sequence of events which fell in place when you never even imagined them during those early years.You lost touch with someone and the same person came back in your life again.You lost some money and it was returned to you when you had no hopes of recovering it.These are larger events which can be measured by you.What about food grains.Each grain itself is destined to be fed to someone whether an animal or a human.Many a times you have sat at your dinner table with the food completely laid out and you get a call leaving in a hurry without having your meal.Although, the meal was laid out for you but someone else was destined to eat it.Very complex but at the same time very simple to understand if you believe in destiny.

Some flowers are offered to the deity and some are offered to the dead.Some just wither away when the season ends.Even each flower has been put on the destiny line.Just notice a devotee at the temple plucking up flowers from the tree.It is a random action or is it so?? Think!!. Some get plucked and offered to the deity whereas some near the same spot just do not and they simply wither away.Similarly fruits.Some of them are offered to the deity are then cut into Prasada and offered to the devotess.Others are just eaten by us normally or animals or they simple rot away.What is the difference.First lot of flowers and fruits had an immensely satisfying and fulfilling purpose of life and it was achieved.The second lot just only existed.But then this was destined to be so for no fault of theirs.It was just a matter to getting plucked or picked.

What is destiny.A small explanation. It is a life path which has been drawn by the Creator offering us various opportunities,enlightment,means,connections ,energy and departure at different time periods.But all these are unknown to us.We can experience them only when we pass through that particular time segment.And each segment has a life span of its own.Nothing is permanent.What is yours today, will be someone else's tomorrow.This is the catch which most of us do not remember and forget .In other words actually destiny may be defined as a measure of GOD to evaluate us on our functioning on this planet.It is a reward system put in place depending upon one`s actions.Have you ever noticed that the fate lines which you are born with keep changing.These are images which you are carrying with you.The main frame computer is somewhere else .The corrections are made there and the reflections are seen here.

As the last parting words.One has to believe in GOD first and then believe in destiny.But then GOD says believe in your own soul first before you start believing in ME.

Sanjiv Gupta

Creator Merrigold

GOD`s Silent Angels

When GOD created this universe, planet Earth was picked up by him to serve as an abode for his siblings. He created Adam and Eve and they created us humans. Billions and Trillions of years have passed from our first existence to the present one. God also created plants, birds, insects and animals to add to the beauty of earth and to give company to his first creation from his own soul. Not only give company but to evolve from just being mere creations to something which is worthy.

But have you noticed that there are certain creations which are mute which cannot talk and converse like us. We have plants, trees, flowers, soil and maybe many others which are silent spectators witnessing whatever we are doing. Have you ever noticed that after a hard days work when you stand or lie down under the tree, you feel cool? When you pass by a field of flowers you feel light just by the sweet smell of the flowers. Sometimes when you feel ill then through consuming some herbs you get relief. The smell of soil when it rains brings back nostalgic memories. All these are silent angels of GOD which through their effervescence try and bring you back to earth from the present level of greed,selfishness,illwill,anger,abuse,pity and one way thinking. And from a plane you are not supposed to go. They try and diverse you to look at the objective for what we are here on this earth. We are all workers hired by GOD to create one of the world’s which is earth. He has different plans for each planet. How it is going to look like and what it would have and who are going to work there. It is like one big conglomerate that he has and the transfers are imminent. Neither we have come to this place of work with anything nor are we going to take back anything except how we have proved ourselves. Accordingly then we will get placed at various positions in the other worlds. We may take birth in some other planet created by GOD and as per what HE has destined. It may be that we may get born in this planet again if we have failed to complete our work. And the chances are very high. But will it be at the same level like we are presently that remains a suspense. No one knows.

So try and observe God’s silent angels on what they are trying to communicate to us. The trees try and tell us to give cool shelter to others when they are suffering and relax them. The plants tell us to eradicate the sickness and depression from our fellow human beings. The flowers give us a message to try and spread a smell of goodness amongst all and make them happy. The soil or earth humbly guides us to remember our purpose of being born on this planet earth.

Well…I leave it to you to take what you can. It entirely depends upon you. However, let me remind you that you can never take back anything in kind to the other world. Try hard if you can.!!!!

Sanjiv Gupta

Creator Merrigold

Sixth Sense

Some people call it the power of intuition and some term it as the sixth sense.However, not everyone has this special gift from GOD. Sometimes you wonder why is it that you thought about certain things and they actually happened in near future. Many a times it so happens that when you meet someone or visit a house you start feeling disturbed as if something is not right. You see a torn piece of paper and all of a sudden you can feel that this pertains to a certain event which is not true. Even if that piece of paper has only few words written on it and the rest is not known to you. What is more startling is that over a period of time, what you actually had visioned, that piece of paper had exactly that when someone mentions it to you.

Have you sincerely ever observed this phenomenon? If you have not then you must try and practice this. GOD has created earth and also created live organisms to live on this planet. We are also part of the same series but the only difference is that we are little more developed than others. Even ants have a sixth sense. Why only ants let’s talk about dogs. Their sixth sense is even more advanced than us. They can sense immediately a bad person who though poses to be your friend has an ill will towards you. This is one part. Second part is whenever; something bad is going to happen to you, the dogs take it upon them so that no harm comes to their master. I am a dog lover and have had a good fortune to get a company of pet dogs in my childhood since my father and grandfather both loved breeding dogs. I remember one instance though very vividly when I was a child. My father was not keeping well. One night I heard our dog Millie whimpering in pain. Over the next 2 days she was experiencing acute pain and used to lick her stomach. We took her to a veterinary doctor who diagnosed her with some incurable disease and administered her some medical doses.However, she could not survive and died after a few days. We could not bring ourselves to the fact that the so playful companion of ours was not there. Early in the morning she used to come and wake us up by licking our faces and jumped up in our beds to cuddle down at our feets.Her fur felt like silk to us and we used to push her but she was not the one to get down. Instead she used to lick our feets.The feeling of not having her with us now was overwhelming and tearfull.It was only after few weeks that my father told me that he was suffering from acute abdominal pain. Since he had nurtured and brought her up, it was like as if lightening had struck us. She had taken all the pain and suffering on to her. How can we forget her in our lifetime? Maybe, this was sixth sense with her which prompted her to help her master who brought her up and gave all the love and care like a child.

There was a parrot with us who we used to feed the chilies and he used to chirp and say

“Mithoo”.A little green cute bird with red beak and brownish red claws. Whenever, someone used to come to our house he used to shriek loudly and everyone became aware that we have been visited. At that point in time as a child I never used to understand his intent. But now crossing 46 I do. Whenever, someone good to us used to vist our house, the chirp was something like a joy and whenever someone with bad intent used to visit our house the chirp became a little shrilly. At that point in time we used to feel really angry and tried to shut him up. But he simply would not. He died after a few years and we felt sad. But actually I feel more saddened now since I remember why he used to cry so shrilly when someone visited us. The awakening has dawned only only when we have lost

some priceless piece of land to some scrupulous relatives by blood that used to visit us. The pictures is more clear now.HOWEVER, both heaven and hell are on this earth and one reaps what one sows.Understandbly so….!! Sure.

Even at your workplace you come across many acquaintances. I would call them acquaintances since they are not your friends and are linked to you only in terms of work related exigencies. Friends are your allies who are attached to you over a period of time and know you in and out. Are you really pally to everyone or to a certain few? Let me mention here that the term “few” would be even less than ONE. There are always people within your work set up who you are not comfortable about.Is`NT is so..?? I am 100% sure that each one of us feels and understands this fact.

Forget about all this.Look at the various Spiritual Channels.There are various esteemed gurus giving away their sermons.Watch them carefully.Try and activate your sixth sense.It will take some practice.What do you feel..?? I am not going to elaborate on this but leave it to you all to try and look at real facts of life through your sixth sense and not trust blindly what you are made to experience.!!!

Sanjiv Gupta

Creator Merrigold

Ignorance is Bliss

Butterflies have a very short life span.Just a few days to 11 months.But it is ignorant of this fact.That is why it flutters its wings and flies with gay abandon.If it was to know that it would die shortly then the strength to fly would just go.It will brood and just think about its short existence.Suppose if the pupa was to know that when it becomes a butterfly it will only live a short life, then perhaps it would loose its will to grow and come out of the cocoon.If it was supposed to be that the world would not have had the pleasure to see various colorful butterflies.The very existence of the cute little beings would come to an end.GOD has given life to all but at the same time it has taken away the powers to look at the future.He has just given that much where we can see our present and think & plan about the future without knowing what will happen,We may plan things but whether our plan is going to succeed or not depends entirely upon his strictures.Here we should not confuse with the plan which we make within our own circle on this earth.The plan which we are talking about here is where your life will take you in future.Just think about your childhood.You never thought about how the money is going to come for your needs.You just played,enjoyed with your friends and did various things with gay abandon.Your parents made that arrangements.As you grew up to be a young man then you started thinking about the woman you will marry, where you will work and what you will do,That was thinking about your future.But as time passed by, most of things you had planned for yourself did not go exactly as you had thought.There came a change in every phase of your life.You thought about becoming a businessman but ended up working for someone at a job which you never thought you would be doing.But GOD had willed this in your destiny so you ended up doing what you are doing presently.Suppose if you had the power to see this in your early years just think about what would have had happened.Maybe, you would have gone into a deep depression,fallen sick and died.But it was not to be so.GOD keeps each ones destiny in HIS own hands.The power to see through the future of each one of us rests with HIM and him only.Just imagine if all of us today were to have the power of looking at our own future we would only increase our own misery.There would complete chaos everywhere.The bond, the love, the affection which we presently carry in our hearts for people whom we know would just go away.I am not going to elaborate on this but leave it to each one of you to just imagine the wildest things which would have had happened if you had a third eye.

That is why it is said that ignorance is bliss.Do not plan too much, just continue your journey on this earth and work with complete dedication,honesty, integrity and faith in whatever you are doing and leave everything to him.This way happiness will float with you and you will float with the knowledge that HE is watching you and making arrangements for you like a father will do for his children.

Sanjiv Gupta

Creator Merrigold

You are in queue

Sometimes, when you are depressed,shattered and sad, take sometime out to watch the ants.These small creatures are found in each household so you do not have to go out in search for them.Particularly, as the winters approach they come out from their ant holes in search of food.Look at them carefully and you will observe that each ant is walking behind the other and together they form a long queue.All of them carry small fragments of food.There are two queues.One which is going to find the food.The other one which is coming back with the food.

The observation can lead you to concentrate on your conscience.Close your eyes and visualize the ants in the queue.Is it not after sometime you feel that this is the way of GOD.There are so many of beings on this earth and way of GOD is to give something to everyone but only as per the queue.You have to stand or walk in a queue to receive your share of good fortune.You will get the same only when your turn comes to receive it from the supreme soul.It is not his way to throw things in a crowd.If he was supposed to do that then the strongest will walk away with the most share of his blessings and the weak would be deprived of that.He of course cannot do that.So even in his kingdom he has devised a queue system to give away the goodies when the time is ripe and the turn comes for each one of us.

These are small observations but with a great meaning hidden within them.You have to open your soul eyes to understand the simple ways of GOD.

Sanjiv Gupta

Creator Merrigold

Moving Incident

One fine morning,as I was taking a morning walk breathing fresh air , I saw a female dog with its pups playing unmindful of the cars and trucks which were passing by on the road.Whether you are a human or an animal the playful instincts and the love perhaps is the same.I do not think that there is any definition for this instinct which can be worded but only experienced !!.

I looked at them and a feeling of warmth and sadness engulfed me at the same time,The pups and the mother seemed weak and skinny.The pups were desperately trying to mouth their mother for the morning feed but she seemed to ward them off.Seemingly, she had nothing to feed them from its own skinny body.Most of us would just pass by since we are humans and they are animals.But the soul is within them as well like it is in us.As GOD has crafted each one of us,the same supreme being has given them life too.We can express our inability,greviances and hunger to each other and if the fate is kind to us we would get some help.But for these animals someone from among us has to actually see through their eyes , look at the plight and be kind.

I bought a few packets of milk and a bread and spreading the bread on a platic bag which I took from the vendor poured the milk over it.Putting it at their side I watched the pups and the mother devour the bread and milk. After few seconds the mother left it and let the pups enjoy the bread and milk.She had sacrificed her hunger for her puppies.I could see at the end, small white droplets of the milk on their whiskers and they were cleaning them up with their little pink tongue.A feeling of satisfaction could be seen on their faces.They looked at me and wagging their tail followed me for some distance as if to express their gratitude.But for me this was something which I had not done for any gratitude but from a sense of pleasing my own soul and satisfying theirs..I looked up at the sky and thanked GOD and prayed that these acts of kindness should always be a part of my presence on earth till such time I am there.

Experiences likes these need to be shared.There is a golden proverb which says " when you share, you care"

Sanjiv Gupta

Creator Merrigold