Echamos de menos "qué" queremos, porque estamos obsesionados con el "cómo" lo queremos, por B.Aravind.
¿Alguna vez ha reflexionado sobre esta cuestión muy pertinente?
Una historia que invita a la reflexión.
Hay una historia popular. Bueno, por lo menos, es muy popular para mí y espero que sea popular para el lector también. Una ciudad se inunda y hay agua por todas partes. Un hombre piadoso es atrapado en el techo de un edificio y no tiene adónde ir. Las aguas crecientes poco a poco van rodeando el edificio y no tiene donde ir. Pero él no está preocupado en absoluto. Su fe en Dios es firme y simplemente comienza a rezar. Él dice:
"Dios mío. Toda mi vida te he adorado y tenido fe firme en ti. Por favor, ven en mi ayuda. "Dentro de unos minutos, las aguas habrán subido unos metros más y es sólo cuestión de 15 minutos más antes de que tragara el edificio completo. En ese momento, un barco se acerca y el barquero grita, "¡Señor! Tengo lugar para uno más en mi barco. ¿Te gustaría subir? " "¡No! Sigua y salve a otra persona. Dios me salvará ", es la respuesta. El barco se va. Minutos antes el edificio está completamente sumergido, un helicóptero sobrevuela la casa y con el megáfono, se escucha,"¡Señor! Por favor, espere. Nosotros le rescataremos. " "NO QUIERO TU AYUDA. Dios me salvará. POR FAVOR VÁYANSE ", el hombre grita de nuevo. Cuenta la historia que el hombre se ahoga y muere. Él se encuentra cara a cara con Dios y Dios, y lo acusa de engañarlo y abandonarlo (y por lo tanto se ahogo). Dios sonríe, le da una palmadita en la cabeza y dice: "Pero mi hijo, yo te envié un barco y un helicóptero. Y simplemente optaste por rechazar mi ayuda! "
Rechazo el barco y el helicóptero debido a la expectativa de cómo el Señor vendría a nosotros!
Los acontecimientos en el 22 de febrero 2005.
Con esta historia en mente, vamos a pasar por la situación similar en el que un grupo de nosotros simplemente se negaron a ver lo que Dios estaba haciendo debido a las expectativas que teníamos sobre "cómo" los eventos deberian desarrollarse. Cuando digo "Dios" aquí, me estoy refiriendo a mi Señor, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba Swami o como se le llama cariñosamente.
En el momento en que ocurriera el incidente, la sabiduría de la historia del barco y helicóptero no había amanecido aún en mí. Pero hoy, en retrospectiva, con la sabiduría de esa historia que me guía, podemos entender mejor los acontecimientos de ese día. Y es a la luz de la sabiduría de la historia que les presento el episodio aquí. Era un momento en que todos nosotros, los mayores mayores de postgrado en el albergue de la universidad de Swami, decidimos invitar a Swami para que visitara el albergue.
Es realmente una maravillosa ocasión cuando Swami visita el albergue. El sabor de esta visita se puede obtener mediante la lectura de los acontecimientos durante una de esas visitas que tuvo lugar hace unos años .
Una visita trae muchas interacciones cercanas con Swami . Swami habla a los chicos y los chicos tienen la oportunidad de expresar sus sentimientos por él a través de charlas, obras de teatro y canciones cortas. Por lo tanto, no es de extrañar que queríamos una repetición de la historia. Pero Swami siempre tiene sus maneras de negarse a hacer una visita a menos que los chicos insistieran lo suficiente. Nos preparamos para tales excusas del Señor, y fuimos al Mandir armados con una tarjeta de invitación grande.
El momento maravilloso cuando Swami visitó el albergue de las niñas en Anantapur.
Fuente: www, radiosai.org
Una imagen durante la visita de Swami al albergue de los chicos. Estas visitas dejan impresiones de vidas!
La tarjeta tenía muchas fotos de Swami con los estudiantes durante muchas visitas anteriores al albergue y la redacción decía,
"Swami, nuestra casa está vacía sin ti. Por favor bendícenos con su visita amorosa. "
Fue a las 4:15 pm que Swami salió para su ronda de darshan. Cuando Él se nos acercó, nos levantamos sobre nuestras rodillas con la tarjeta y se la mostramos. Miró la tarjeta y dijo en voz alta, "EMPTY(vacio)".
" Swami, está vacío porque no está allí. Si usted visita nuestro albergue, dejará de estar vacío. ", le respondí.
Swami asintió con la cabeza y nos dijo que vayamos a sentarnos en nuestros lugares.
Y este es el momento para un poco de sabiduría. Pido al lector hacer una pausa y pensar en lo que estábamos buscando y cómo lo estábamos buscando.
1. Lo que estábamos buscando - Queríamos que Swami interactuara con nosotros, nos hablara y nos diera la oportunidad de hablar con él a través de nuestras obras de teatro, discursos y canciones. Eso es lo que queríamos.
2. ¿Cómo lo buscamos ? - Haciéndole visitar nuestro albergue, así todo lo anterior se podía lograr. ¿Cierto? .
Ahora, volvamos a los acontecimientos de ese día, para darnos cuenta del hecho de que echamos de menos "qué" queremos porque estamos obsesionados con el "cómo" lo queremos! .
Las alumnas de grado 12, el último año antes de Universidad, había llegado a la mandir con algunas canciones en gratitud, que querían cantar para Swami. Swami les permitió hacerlo, y los siguientes 20 minutos, Swami se sentó delante de las chicas, escuchando las efusiones de su corazón, que se manifestaban en forma de canciones. Después de eso, él se pasó a nuestro lado y nos dijo que cantemos canciones si habíamos preparado algo. Agarrando esta oportunidad con ambas manos, comenzamos a cantar algunas canciones para él. Se sentó disfrutando de nuestras canciones también y todos estábamos tan contentos por esta generosidad inesperada.
Swami sonrió y sentimos que era 'vulnerable' para concedernos el deseo, y todos a coro y en voz alta, suplicamos: "Swami, por favor venga a la hostal."
Eso pareció ser una distracción para él. Apartó la vista y estaba a punto de irse. Pero se detuvo, se volvió y preguntó: "¿Tienen algún programa para presentar?" Esta fue una oportunidad de oro para prometerle un programa y ganar un espacio para nosotros mismos.
Se encontraba en una actitud " de concesión". Nosotros, nos encontramos en un modo de albergue a la visita. Entonces nos acercamos a él con la misma tarjeta y le pedimos que visitara el albergue - Por tercera vez!. Le dijimos: "Puede haber mucha gente en el albergue pero está vacío sin Swami ".
Estábamos todos arrodillados pidiendo que Swami viniese al albergue - nada más importaba!
Él nos dijo que volvería y nos envió de regreso a nuestro lugar. Nos preguntamos por qué no nos estaba respondiendo en forma positiva.
Have you ever pondered about this very pertinent question?
A thought-provoking story.
There is a popular story. Well, at least, it is a popular one for me and I hope to make it popular to the reader as well. A town gets flooded and there is water everywhere. A pious man is trapped on the roof of a building and has nowhere to go. The rising flood waters are slowly encircling the building and he has nowhere to go. But he is not at all worried. His faith in God is firm and he simply starts praying. He says,
“Dear God. All my life I have worshipped you and have had steady faith in you. Please come to my rescue.”
Within a few minutes, the waters have risen a few more meters and it is only a matter of 15 more minutes before they swallow the building completely. Presently, a boat comes by and the boatman shouts out,
“Sir! I have place for one more on my boat. Would you care to join?”
“No! You carry on and save someone else. God will save me”, is the reply.
The boat goes away.
Minutes before the building is completely submerged, a helicopter comes above and, over the megaphone, a shout is heard,
“Sir! Please hold on. We shall rescue you.”
“I DON’T WANT YOUR HELP. GOD WILL SAVE ME. YOU PLEASE CARRY ON”, the man screams back.
The story goes that the man drowns and dies. He comes face to face with God and accuses God of cheating him and letting him down (and thus drown). God smiles, pats him on his head and says,
“But my child, I sent you a boat and a helicopter. You just chose to refuse my help!”
Missing the boat and the helicopter because of our expectation on how the Lord should come to us!
The happenings on the 22nd February 2005.
With that story in mind, let us go through the a similar situation where a group of us simply refused to see what God was doing because of the expectations we had on ‘how’ the events should unfold. When I say ‘God’ here, I am referring to my Lord, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Babaor Swami as He is lovingly called. At the time when the episode occurred, the wisdom of the boat and helicopter story had not yet dawned on me. But today, in retrospect, with the wisdom of that story guiding me, we can better understand the happenings of that day. And it is in the light of the wisdom from the story that I present that episode here.
It was a time when all of us, the senior post-graduate students in the hostel of Swami’s university, decided to invite Swami to visit the hostel. It is really a wonderful occasion when Swami visits the hostel. A taste of such a visit can be obtained by reading the happenings during one such visit that had taken place a few years ago. A visit brings many close interactions with Swami - Swami speaks to the boys and the boys get a chance to express their feelings for Him through talks, short skits and songs. So, it is no wonder that we wanted such a repeat of history. But Swami always has His ways of refusing to make such a visit unless the boys plead hard enough. We prepared ourselves for such excuses of the Lord, and went to the mandir armed with a large invitation card.
The wonderful time when Swami visited the girls' hostel at Anantapur.
Source: www,radiosai.org
A picture snapped during Swami's visit to the boys' hostel. Such visits leave impressions for lifetimes!
The card had many photos of Swami with the students during many previous hostel visits and the wording was this,
“Swami, our home is empty without you. Please bless it with your loving visit.”
It was at about 4:15pm that Swami came out on His darshan rounds. As He neared us, we got up on our knees with the card and showed it to Him. He looked at the card and said out aloud,
“EMPTY.”
“Swami, it is empty because you are not there. If you visit our hostel, it will cease to be empty. t will become full”, we answered.
Swami nodded and told us to go back and sit in our places.
And this is a time for a piece of wisdom. I request to reader to take a break and think about what we were seeking and how we were seeking it.
1. WHAT we were seeking - We wanted Swami to interact with us, speak to us and give us a chance to speak to Him through our skits, speeches and songs. That is what we wanted.
2. HOW did we seek it - By making Him visit our hostel so that all the above could be achieved. Right?
Now, let us go back to the happenings of that day to realize the fact that we miss ‘what’ we want because we are obsessed with the ‘how’ we want it!
The girl students from 12th grade, the final year before University, had come to the mandir with some gratitude songs that they wanted to sing for Swami. Swami permitted them to do so and the next 20 minutes or so, Swami sat in front of the girls, listening to the outpourings from their hearts which was manifesting in the form of songs. After that, He came over to our side and told us also to sing songs if we had prepared any. Grabbing this opportunity with both hands, we began to sing some songs for Him. He sat enjoying our songs too and we were all so happy at this unexpected bounty.
Swami smiled and sensing this to be ‘vulnerable’ wish-granting moment, we all chorused aloud, “Swami, please come to the hostel.” That seemed to be a turn-off for Him. He looked away and was about to go. But He stopped, turned and asked,
“Do you have any programme to present?”
This was a golden opportunity to promise Him a programme and win a slot for ourselves. He was in a ‘granting mode’. Instead, we were in a hostel-visit-seeking mode. We went up to Him with the same card and asked Him to visit the hostel - for the THIRD time! We told Him,
“There might be many people in the hostel Swami but it is empty till you come.”
We were all bent upon ensuring that Swami comes to the hostel - nothing else mattered!
He told us that He would come and sent us back to our place. We were wondering why He was not answering us in a positive way. Today, I realize that if seen from His perspective, He too would have been wondering the same. He gave us an opportunity to sing and we stopped it midway because we wanted things to be done the way we expected. He gave us a chance to put up a programme and we scuttled it. He was also speaking to us!
He continued, “Emi Samacharam”, He asked.
This literally translates as - What news? This is the way in which Swami usually starts conversations. In the past, a single Emi Samacharam has led to 35-40 minutes conversations with the Lord. And here was Swami giving us that opportunity to converse with Him. But guess what we did?
We shouted out, “Swami please come to hostel. Please come to hostel.”
It became uncontrollable. Swami called the priest and told him to take Aarthi. He then left. All of us were left with the feeling that we almost achieved our objective but just missed it because Swami did not fully cooperate.
I am sure that Swami would have felt that He almost answered our prayers but just missed doing so because we did not fully cooperate!
The Lessons.
How many times in life have we missed ‘what’ we wanted because it did not come to us in the manner in which we expected it to? God always answers our prayers but we have to be open in our minds and, more importantly, in our hearts! So lost are we in our idea of how our prayers should be answered that we miss what is it that we are actually praying for itself!
And thus do we seek happiness by chasing money, influence and power. God smiles at us and tries to grant us happiness. But we just refuse to cooperate because for us, happiness (the ‘what’ we want) has to come through money, influence and power (the ‘how’ we want it). Similarly, we want love and we chase it via friendships and relationships. We close our minds and hearts to the Truth that all we have to do is to seek and the Lord will give it to us in the best manner possible. We become blind to the Lord’s gifts and bounty because our eyes are fixed so narrowly on ‘how’ we want them to come to us.
Let us sit back and think peacefully ,
El momento maravilloso cuando Swami visitó el albergue de las niñas en Anantapur.
Fuente: www, radiosai.org
Una imagen durante la visita de Swami al albergue de los chicos. Estas visitas dejan impresiones de vidas!
La tarjeta tenía muchas fotos de Swami con los estudiantes durante muchas visitas anteriores al albergue y la redacción decía,
"Swami, nuestra casa está vacía sin ti. Por favor bendícenos con su visita amorosa. "
Fue a las 4:15 pm que Swami salió para su ronda de darshan. Cuando Él se nos acercó, nos levantamos sobre nuestras rodillas con la tarjeta y se la mostramos. Miró la tarjeta y dijo en voz alta, "EMPTY(vacio)".
" Swami, está vacío porque no está allí. Si usted visita nuestro albergue, dejará de estar vacío. ", le respondí.
Swami asintió con la cabeza y nos dijo que vayamos a sentarnos en nuestros lugares.
Y este es el momento para un poco de sabiduría. Pido al lector hacer una pausa y pensar en lo que estábamos buscando y cómo lo estábamos buscando.
1. Lo que estábamos buscando - Queríamos que Swami interactuara con nosotros, nos hablara y nos diera la oportunidad de hablar con él a través de nuestras obras de teatro, discursos y canciones. Eso es lo que queríamos.
2. ¿Cómo lo buscamos ? - Haciéndole visitar nuestro albergue, así todo lo anterior se podía lograr. ¿Cierto? .
Ahora, volvamos a los acontecimientos de ese día, para darnos cuenta del hecho de que echamos de menos "qué" queremos porque estamos obsesionados con el "cómo" lo queremos! .
Las alumnas de grado 12, el último año antes de Universidad, había llegado a la mandir con algunas canciones en gratitud, que querían cantar para Swami. Swami les permitió hacerlo, y los siguientes 20 minutos, Swami se sentó delante de las chicas, escuchando las efusiones de su corazón, que se manifestaban en forma de canciones. Después de eso, él se pasó a nuestro lado y nos dijo que cantemos canciones si habíamos preparado algo. Agarrando esta oportunidad con ambas manos, comenzamos a cantar algunas canciones para él. Se sentó disfrutando de nuestras canciones también y todos estábamos tan contentos por esta generosidad inesperada.
Swami sonrió y sentimos que era 'vulnerable' para concedernos el deseo, y todos a coro y en voz alta, suplicamos: "Swami, por favor venga a la hostal."
Eso pareció ser una distracción para él. Apartó la vista y estaba a punto de irse. Pero se detuvo, se volvió y preguntó: "¿Tienen algún programa para presentar?" Esta fue una oportunidad de oro para prometerle un programa y ganar un espacio para nosotros mismos.
Se encontraba en una actitud " de concesión". Nosotros, nos encontramos en un modo de albergue a la visita. Entonces nos acercamos a él con la misma tarjeta y le pedimos que visitara el albergue - Por tercera vez!. Le dijimos: "Puede haber mucha gente en el albergue pero está vacío sin Swami ".
Estábamos todos arrodillados pidiendo que Swami viniese al albergue - nada más importaba!
Él nos dijo que volvería y nos envió de regreso a nuestro lugar. Nos preguntamos por qué no nos estaba respondiendo en forma positiva.
Hoy en día, me doy cuenta de que si se ve desde su perspectiva, él también habría estado preguntándose lo mismo.
Él nos dio la oportunidad de cantar y se detuvo a mitad de camino porque queríamos que las cosas se hagan de la manera que esperábamos. Él nos dio la oportunidad de poner en marcha un programa y lo ignoramos . ¡Él continuo y nos dijo, " Emi Samacharam ", preguntó. Esto se traduce literalmente como - ¿Qué noticias hay? . Esta es la forma en que Swami por lo general comienza las conversaciones. En el pasado, una sola Samacharam Emi ha llevado 35-40 minutos de conversaciones con el Señor.
Y aquí fue que Swami nos estaba dando la oportunidad de conversar con él. Pero que hicimos? Nosotros gritamos, "¡Swami por favor venga al hostel. Por favor venga a hostal. ". Y la situación se convirtió en incontrolable. Swami llamó al sacerdote y le dijo que realizara el Aarthi . Luego se fue.
Todos nos quedamos con la sensación de que casi habíamos logrado nuestro objetivo, pero simplemente lo perdimos porque Swami no cooperó plenamente. Estoy seguro de que Swami sintió que Él respondió a nuestras oraciones, pero acababa de decidir no hacerlo, ya que no habíamos cooperado plenamente !
Las lecciones.
¿Cuántas veces en la vida hemos perdido lo "qué" queríamos, porque no vino a nosotros en la forma en que nosotros esperábamos? .
Las lecciones.
¿Cuántas veces en la vida hemos perdido lo "qué" queríamos, porque no vino a nosotros en la forma en que nosotros esperábamos? .
Dios siempre contesta nuestras oraciones, pero tenemos que estar abiertos en nuestra mente y, sobre todo, en nuestros corazones!.
Así que estamos perdidos en nuestra idea de cómo nuestras oraciones deben ser respondidas, echando de menos por lo que realmente estamos orando en sí mismo! .
Así buscamos la felicidad persiguiendo el dinero, la influencia y el poder. Dios nos sonríe y trata de concedernos la felicidad. Pero simplemente se niegan a cooperar porque para nosotros, la felicidad (el "qué" queremos) tiene que venir a través del dinero, la influencia y el poder (el "cómo" lo queremos).
Del mismo modo, queremos amor y lo perseguimos a través de amistades y relaciones. Cerramos nuestras mentes y corazones a la Verdad, que todo lo que tenemos que hacer es buscar y el Señor nos lo da de la mejor manera posible. Nos volvemos ciegos a los dones del Señor y la generosidad, porque nuestros ojos están fijos de modo tan estricto sobre "cómo" nosotros queremos que venga a nosotros.
Vamos a sentarnos y pensar tranquilamente "¿Qué es lo que realmente quiero?" Digo esto, porque tan perdidos estamos en el "cómo" queremos lo que queremos, que muchas veces olvidamos lo que queríamos!
Swami dice que para Dios es siempre "Sí, Sí, Sí." Él está dispuesto a ayudarnos, pero debemos estar preparados para recibir la ayuda en la forma en que Él la provee.
En su lugar, nos comportamos igual que los pacientes que van y sugerir los medicamentos que necesitan al médico!. Que el Divino Doctor decida por favor! .
Así que ahora, vamos a resolver, "Si Swami viniera y me preguntara lo que quiero. Se lo dejamos totalmente a El para que nos de, de alguna manera, lo que es mejor para nosotros. Y no me dejes ignorar las respuestas, como hizo el hombre en el techo, dando la espalda al barco y al helicóptero o como los estudiantes de la Universidad hicieron al rechazar la gran oportunidad de interactuar con él y poner en marcha un programa .
No dejes que este preocupado por el "cómo" quiero que mi deseo sea satisfecho, cuando estoy perdiendo la oportunidad de mi objetivo original !"
Si te ha gustado este artículo, usted también puede disfrutar de los siguientes:
1. El mayor secreto de la vida: Lo que tienen dentro es lo que obtienes .
2. Cuando Dios me enseña a caminar - huellas en la arena .
3. El drama divino en Ooty y Chennai _8th 07 2012 .
4 Corazón y Mente - Una cuestión de elección .
OMSAIRAMMM...
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Missing what we want because of how we want it, by B.Aravind.
Si te ha gustado este artículo, usted también puede disfrutar de los siguientes:
1. El mayor secreto de la vida: Lo que tienen dentro es lo que obtienes .
2. Cuando Dios me enseña a caminar - huellas en la arena .
3. El drama divino en Ooty y Chennai _8th 07 2012 .
4 Corazón y Mente - Una cuestión de elección .
OMSAIRAMMM...
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Missing what we want because of how we want it, by B.Aravind.
A thought-provoking story.
There is a popular story. Well, at least, it is a popular one for me and I hope to make it popular to the reader as well. A town gets flooded and there is water everywhere. A pious man is trapped on the roof of a building and has nowhere to go. The rising flood waters are slowly encircling the building and he has nowhere to go. But he is not at all worried. His faith in God is firm and he simply starts praying. He says,
“Dear God. All my life I have worshipped you and have had steady faith in you. Please come to my rescue.”
Within a few minutes, the waters have risen a few more meters and it is only a matter of 15 more minutes before they swallow the building completely. Presently, a boat comes by and the boatman shouts out,
“Sir! I have place for one more on my boat. Would you care to join?”
“No! You carry on and save someone else. God will save me”, is the reply.
The boat goes away.
Minutes before the building is completely submerged, a helicopter comes above and, over the megaphone, a shout is heard,
“Sir! Please hold on. We shall rescue you.”
“I DON’T WANT YOUR HELP. GOD WILL SAVE ME. YOU PLEASE CARRY ON”, the man screams back.
The story goes that the man drowns and dies. He comes face to face with God and accuses God of cheating him and letting him down (and thus drown). God smiles, pats him on his head and says,
“But my child, I sent you a boat and a helicopter. You just chose to refuse my help!”
Missing the boat and the helicopter because of our expectation on how the Lord should come to us!
The happenings on the 22nd February 2005.
With that story in mind, let us go through the a similar situation where a group of us simply refused to see what God was doing because of the expectations we had on ‘how’ the events should unfold. When I say ‘God’ here, I am referring to my Lord, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Babaor Swami as He is lovingly called. At the time when the episode occurred, the wisdom of the boat and helicopter story had not yet dawned on me. But today, in retrospect, with the wisdom of that story guiding me, we can better understand the happenings of that day. And it is in the light of the wisdom from the story that I present that episode here.
It was a time when all of us, the senior post-graduate students in the hostel of Swami’s university, decided to invite Swami to visit the hostel. It is really a wonderful occasion when Swami visits the hostel. A taste of such a visit can be obtained by reading the happenings during one such visit that had taken place a few years ago. A visit brings many close interactions with Swami - Swami speaks to the boys and the boys get a chance to express their feelings for Him through talks, short skits and songs. So, it is no wonder that we wanted such a repeat of history. But Swami always has His ways of refusing to make such a visit unless the boys plead hard enough. We prepared ourselves for such excuses of the Lord, and went to the mandir armed with a large invitation card.
The wonderful time when Swami visited the girls' hostel at Anantapur.
Source: www,radiosai.org
A picture snapped during Swami's visit to the boys' hostel. Such visits leave impressions for lifetimes!
The card had many photos of Swami with the students during many previous hostel visits and the wording was this,
“Swami, our home is empty without you. Please bless it with your loving visit.”
It was at about 4:15pm that Swami came out on His darshan rounds. As He neared us, we got up on our knees with the card and showed it to Him. He looked at the card and said out aloud,
“EMPTY.”
“Swami, it is empty because you are not there. If you visit our hostel, it will cease to be empty. t will become full”, we answered.
Swami nodded and told us to go back and sit in our places.
And this is a time for a piece of wisdom. I request to reader to take a break and think about what we were seeking and how we were seeking it.
1. WHAT we were seeking - We wanted Swami to interact with us, speak to us and give us a chance to speak to Him through our skits, speeches and songs. That is what we wanted.
2. HOW did we seek it - By making Him visit our hostel so that all the above could be achieved. Right?
Now, let us go back to the happenings of that day to realize the fact that we miss ‘what’ we want because we are obsessed with the ‘how’ we want it!
The girl students from 12th grade, the final year before University, had come to the mandir with some gratitude songs that they wanted to sing for Swami. Swami permitted them to do so and the next 20 minutes or so, Swami sat in front of the girls, listening to the outpourings from their hearts which was manifesting in the form of songs. After that, He came over to our side and told us also to sing songs if we had prepared any. Grabbing this opportunity with both hands, we began to sing some songs for Him. He sat enjoying our songs too and we were all so happy at this unexpected bounty.
Swami smiled and sensing this to be ‘vulnerable’ wish-granting moment, we all chorused aloud, “Swami, please come to the hostel.” That seemed to be a turn-off for Him. He looked away and was about to go. But He stopped, turned and asked,
“Do you have any programme to present?”
This was a golden opportunity to promise Him a programme and win a slot for ourselves. He was in a ‘granting mode’. Instead, we were in a hostel-visit-seeking mode. We went up to Him with the same card and asked Him to visit the hostel - for the THIRD time! We told Him,
“There might be many people in the hostel Swami but it is empty till you come.”
We were all bent upon ensuring that Swami comes to the hostel - nothing else mattered!
He told us that He would come and sent us back to our place. We were wondering why He was not answering us in a positive way. Today, I realize that if seen from His perspective, He too would have been wondering the same. He gave us an opportunity to sing and we stopped it midway because we wanted things to be done the way we expected. He gave us a chance to put up a programme and we scuttled it. He was also speaking to us!
He continued, “Emi Samacharam”, He asked.
This literally translates as - What news? This is the way in which Swami usually starts conversations. In the past, a single Emi Samacharam has led to 35-40 minutes conversations with the Lord. And here was Swami giving us that opportunity to converse with Him. But guess what we did?
We shouted out, “Swami please come to hostel. Please come to hostel.”
It became uncontrollable. Swami called the priest and told him to take Aarthi. He then left. All of us were left with the feeling that we almost achieved our objective but just missed it because Swami did not fully cooperate.
I am sure that Swami would have felt that He almost answered our prayers but just missed doing so because we did not fully cooperate!
The Lessons.
How many times in life have we missed ‘what’ we wanted because it did not come to us in the manner in which we expected it to? God always answers our prayers but we have to be open in our minds and, more importantly, in our hearts! So lost are we in our idea of how our prayers should be answered that we miss what is it that we are actually praying for itself!
And thus do we seek happiness by chasing money, influence and power. God smiles at us and tries to grant us happiness. But we just refuse to cooperate because for us, happiness (the ‘what’ we want) has to come through money, influence and power (the ‘how’ we want it). Similarly, we want love and we chase it via friendships and relationships. We close our minds and hearts to the Truth that all we have to do is to seek and the Lord will give it to us in the best manner possible. We become blind to the Lord’s gifts and bounty because our eyes are fixed so narrowly on ‘how’ we want them to come to us.
Let us sit back and think peacefully ,
“What is it that I really want?”
I say this, because so lost are we in ‘how’ we want what we want that we oftentimes forget what we want! Swami says that for God it is always “Yes, Yes, Yes.” He is ready to help us but we should be ready to receive the help in the manner in which He provides. Instead, we behave like patients who go and suggest the medicine they need to the doctor! Let the Divine Doctor decide please!
So now, let us resolve,
“If Swami were to come and ask me what I want, let me only seek what I want. It is left totally to Him to give it to me in a manner that is best for me. And let me not turn a blind eye when He is sending answers like the man on the roof did by turning away the boat and helicopter or like the students of the University did by turning down the great opportunity of interacting with Him and putting up a programme. Let me not be so preoccupied by ‘how’ I want my desire fulfilled that I completely miss out on ‘what’ my desire originally is!”
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OMSAIRAMMM...
I say this, because so lost are we in ‘how’ we want what we want that we oftentimes forget what we want! Swami says that for God it is always “Yes, Yes, Yes.” He is ready to help us but we should be ready to receive the help in the manner in which He provides. Instead, we behave like patients who go and suggest the medicine they need to the doctor! Let the Divine Doctor decide please!
So now, let us resolve,
“If Swami were to come and ask me what I want, let me only seek what I want. It is left totally to Him to give it to me in a manner that is best for me. And let me not turn a blind eye when He is sending answers like the man on the roof did by turning away the boat and helicopter or like the students of the University did by turning down the great opportunity of interacting with Him and putting up a programme. Let me not be so preoccupied by ‘how’ I want my desire fulfilled that I completely miss out on ‘what’ my desire originally is!”
If you liked this article, you might also enjoy these:
1. Life's greatest secret: What you hold within is what you get.
2. When God teaches you to walk - footprints in the sand.
3. The Divine drama at Ooty and Chennai _8th July 2012.
4. Heart and Mind - A matter of choice.
OMSAIRAMMM...
OMSAIRAMMM...
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