Enjoy Your Coffee

[Guest mehtab1singh]

Group of alumni got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, and some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee. After all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, THAT is the source of your problems and stress."

"Be assured that the cup itself adds no real quality to the coffee. In most cases, it's just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and then began eyeing each other's cups."

"Now consider this: Life is the coffee. . .and the jobs, houses, cars, things, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define nor change the quality of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us.

God brews the coffee, not the cups . . .

enjoy your coffee."

[citizen_soulja]

Vaahh Gurmukho!! what a clever little story that so beautifully relates to Sikhi Principles

[I humbly bow]

BUMP

I loved this story, and it's soo true!

Waheguru ji ka khalsa, Waheguru ji ki fateh

[K. SINGH DEEP]

ਏ ਸਰੀਰਾ ਮੇਰਿਆ ਇਸੁ ਜਗ ਮਹਿ ਆਇ ਕੈ ਕਿਆ ਤੁਧੁ ਕਰਮ ਕਮਾਇਆ ॥

Aei sareeraa maeriaa eis jag mehi aae kai kiaa tudhh karam kamaaeiaa ||

O my body, why have you come into this world? What actions have you committed?

ਕਿ ਕਰਮ ਕਮਾਇਆ ਤੁਧੁ ਸਰੀਰਾ ਜਾ ਤੂ ਜਗ ਮਹਿ ਆਇਆ ॥

Ke karam kamaaeiaa tudhh sareeraa jaa tuu jag mehi aaeiaa ||

And what actions have you committed, O my body, since you came into this world?

ਜਿਨਿ ਹਰਿ ਤੇਰਾ ਰਚਨੁ ਰਚਿਆ ਸੋ ਹਰਿ ਮਨਿ ਨ ਵਸਾਇਆ ॥

Jin har thaeraa rachan rachiaa so har man n vasaaeiaa ||

The Lord who formed your form - you have not enshrined that Lord in your mind.

ਗੁਰ ਪਰਸਾਦੀ ਹਰਿ ਮੰਨਿ ਵਸਿਆ ਪੂਰਬਿ ਲਿਖਿਆ ਪਾਇਆ ॥

Gur parasaadhee har mann vasiaa poorab likhiaa paaeiaa ||

By Guru's Grace, the Lord abides within the mind, and one's pre-ordained destiny is fulfilled.

ਕਹੈ ਨਾਨਕੁ ਏਹੁ ਸਰੀਰੁ ਪਰਵਾਣੁ ਹੋਆ ਜਿਨਿ ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਸਿਉ ਚਿਤੁ ਲਾਇਆ ॥੩੫॥

Kehai naanak eaehu sareer paravaan hoaa jin sathigur sio chith laaeiaa ||35||

Says Nanak, this body is adorned and honored, when one's consciousness is focused on the True Guru. ||35||

(Raamkalee Mehla Teeja Ananadu at ang 922 Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji)

[puneetkaur]

Awww lovely story!!

[xPreetx]

AWESOME!!!

[mskcan]

THat is a very important lesson, thank you for sharing.

Gurfateh!