When you say things in anger

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper.  His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.  The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence.  Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down.  He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.  He said, you have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence.  The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. 

You can put a knife in a man and draw it out.  It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there." A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.  

Be great full for what God has given you

How grateful would you say you are?  Did you know that your gratitude level can directly affect your happiness?  Now that may sound little strange. 

        

Even financial experts agree that gratitude is a vital component for increasing wealth and success.  This basic premise of gratitude is to acquire a more positive and receptive state of being.  Here is how it actually works. You begin by being grateful for the smaller and more immediate things like having a place to live, food to eat, etc.  By placing yourself in a positive frame of mind through gratitude, you open yourself to all the good things the universe has to offer. 

That is when you can actually begin to attract good things to you.  And as you become more comfortable with the positive things that basic gratitude brings, you will likely find yourself feeling grateful for even bigger things like being alive, learning hard lessons, your past mistakes, the freedom to make choices in life, and more.  This type of gratitude catapults you even further along the path to a successful and happy life. 

    

Once you reach the point where you remain in a constant state of gratitude, you will become a magnet that attracts the good things to you.

       

Take some time every day this week to note those things that you are grateful for, from the smallest to the biggest.

Annoyed with someone

Many a times we find an excuse for our failure, we blame the society, unfair treatment, injustice etc. Resentment or bitterness is an attempt to make our own failure palatable. However, resentment is worse than a disease. It is a deadly poison which makes happiness impossible and drains tremendous amount of energy.

Resentment is also a “way” of making us feel important. Many people get a perverse satisfaction from the feeling “wronged.” 

It is an illusion whereby a person thinks, if he can feel resentful / bitter enough, and thereby “prove” the injustice, some magical process will undo the event of circumstances which caused resentment. Resentment is a mental resistance to or non-acceptance of something which has already happened.

Resentment is an emotional re-fighting of some event in the past. You cannot win, because you are attempting to do the impossible – change the past.

Resentment, even when based upon real injustice and wrongs, is not the way to win. It soon becomes an emotional habit. Habitually feeling that you are a victim of injustice, you picture yourself as a victimized person.

Habitual resentment invariably leads to self-pity, which is worst possible emotional habit anyone can develop. A person begins to picture himself as a victim and results in inferior self-image.

As long as you harbor resentment / hatred, it is literally impossible for you to picture yourself as a self-reliant and determined person. Your resentment is not caused by other persons, events or circumstances. It is caused by your own emotional response – your own reaction. You can control it if you firmly convince yourself that resentment and self-pity are not ways of happiness and success, but ways to defeat and unhappiness. 

Be aware of snowball effect of your thinking

Your negative and insecure thinking can spiral out of control. Have you ever noticed how uptight you feel when you’re caught up in your thinking? And, to top it off, the more absorbed you get in the details of whatever is upsetting you, the worse you feel. One thought leads to another, and yet another, until at some point, you become incredibly agitated.

Needless to say, it’s impossible to feel peaceful with your head full of concerns and annoyances. The solution is to notice what’s happening in your head before your thoughts have a chance to build any momentum. 

The sooner you catch yourself in the act of building your mental snowball, the easier it is to stop. You stop your train of thought before it has a chance to get going.

Undivided dedication of few for Shri Sainath

When the news spread there were different reactions from many devotees across the globe. Few felt offended and burnt effigies of Shankaracharya, few went on to protest in media. It was a disturbed sleep for me and a thought why all this had to happen whatever the reason may have been it was disturbing to the traditional staunch devotees of Baba for it may have wavered their trust and faith in Him for a moment.

In all the confusion and discussions amongst the devotees I found one dedicated true devotee who was not following Baba but was following the preaching’s of Baba by doing so he made himself a living Baba. It made me realize only actions make us Baba devotee and does Shri Sainath need our help to defend Him? All this may be His doing to wake us up to the practices we have been following until now.

A temple built for Sainath becomes a temple in the real sense only when it starts serving the sick and feeding the hungry apart from giving them the divine comfort feeling of visiting a holy abode of Baba.

One Baba devotee asked me is he your uncle? Why you mention Pudur temple which is around 70 kms from Hyderabad and Dr Narayana in your posts many times. I have not taken effort to visit many Baba temples and even if I do the day to day working of temple is not known. I had the good fortune to come across Dr Narayana a dedicated staunch devotee of Baba

The temple was constructed mainly to do serve to the needy people in and around the temple which consists mainly of poor people and farm labour.

A medical camp is organised every Thursday and the specialist doctors in the field of Dentistry, Ophthalmology, General Medicine, Gynaecology etc are present in the temple premises.. About 400 to 500 people attend the camp especially for Ophthalmology and Dentistry. Cataract operation is done on about 20 persons every week. Those patients who have other serious problems are referred to various hospitals in Hyderabad. The patients are picked up from the temple and dropped in the hospitals and once the treatment is over they are dropped back. in the temple and the patients go to their respective villages from there. The charge for consultation is meagre rs.10 and any hospitalization is taken care by the temple.

As there is huge rush for ophthalmology department, the temple decided to have dedicated ophthalmology department for six days a week.

Many patients from surrounding villages come from far off places, to consult and they enjoy the lunch provided by the temple. This system of providing lunch makes the villager come to the temple relaxed without bothering about their family’s food. Hundreds of devotee’s doctors and visitors are fed from the same kitchen making all feel one as family. So simple meal of Rice, Dal, Sabji, butter milk and sweet is served to the devotees.  About 600 to 800 people take their meals.

The hospital is totally eco friendly having water harvesting pit, Goshala (cow shed) for cows and gas plant to be used for cooking. Cow milk is used for preparing butter milk for the patients, cow dung is used for preparing vermin compost for being used in the garden which supplies grass and flowers to the animals and the temple.

The temple is also home to dogs which frequent the temple and watch over the temple in the nights. The temple is home to about 4 dogs and they regularly visit the temple during the Arati times. Solar panels are also used and slowly being increased as per need.

Come Rain, Sun or any disturbance the show is going on for the last 20 years and will continue to do so.