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                                                                             "Salt -VS- Rice

If you were to cook 3 cups of rice, would you add 3 cups of salt to it?

Certainly not!

So, in every preparation of rice, the rice always outnumbers the salt, yet a little salt makes a huge difference/impact in the overall outcome.

In the room in which you currently are, look up at the ceiling...
What is the size of the bulb compared to the size of the room? It is probably a ratio of 1:5000.
Yet, darkness flees the entire space once the small bulb is flipped on.

If I am the salt of the earth, and the light of the world, then "little me" has the ability to make big things happen.

Sometimes, because we feel outnumbered or overwhelmed at the sheer magnitude of evil or wrong-doers, we then choose powerlessness, and decide to go with the flow, not standing up for what we believe is right.

Little doesn't mean insignificant.
You are significant. Your presence should make a BIG difference. Stop waiting to be on the side of the majority. They may be the majority, but they are the trivial majority, and you are the impactful minority.

They are the rice of the world, and you are the salt of the world.
They are the room, and you are the light.
Make your influence felt!

Remember:
You are the world's seasoning, to make it tolerable."

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                                                                                        KARMAS

 

There are so many types of Karma and we can broadly classify them as

1. Collective karma

2. Karma of the time

3. Karma of a place

4. Karma of a family

5. Karma of an individual

There is individual karma, then you have family karma – what you call DNA.

Then comes the karma of a region, state and country.

Then there is karma of the time. During the time of World War II, all the people had similar karma and so all over the world there was war.

Some karmas yield their fruits immediately, and some take time.

For example, if you place your hand in a fire, you will immediately get burnt, right now, not tomorrow or anytime later.

But if you sow a mango seed today, it will take ten years for it to grow into a tree. You will be able to reap the fruits of the mango tree only after ten years of hard work.

In the same way, some karmas yield their fruits almost instantly, while some take time to bear fruit.
But do not think that every problem or suffering that you go through is only because of your actions from past lifetimes. Some of it also comes because of the foolishness and ignorance you have in the present lifetime also.

To free yourself from the results of past actions, you should regularly practice Bhakti.

It definitely helps to nullify the bad influences of the past karmas.

That is why the Bani says: Prabh ka simran, man kee mael jaae.

All karmas are dirt on the mind, which can only be cleansed away with His Simran alone, no other ways nor shortcuts  can ever help us. Many try alternative manmukh methods, while calling themselves sikhs childishly, for Truth is not realized by doing what many do, or we see them doing usually, but that Truth is solely realized within ourselves by faithfully following the instructions from the sacred Bani for that purpose of cleanliness/purity, and our union with Him.

ਸਿਮਰਉ ਸਿਮਰਿ ਸਿਮਰਿ ਸੁਖੁ ਪਾਵਉ  

Simaro simar simar, simar sukh paavoh:  Meditate, meditate, meditate on Him, and achieve true everlasting happiness.

Then also, at the same time we should act with intelligence as well.

Don’t try to analyze karma.

Just do your duty and move on. Keep moving ahead with love in your heart and with prayer in your heart.

Just drop everything and become His bhagat. Being His bhagat, means to have the firm faith and belief, that all Karmas will be cleared by His kirpa, if only, we have Him as our anchor.

Whether the action is from a past life, or something done 10 years back, or done just yesterday, or even 10 minutes back – it really does not matter. Ultimately, all Karma is Karma, that’s it. That is why it is said that the ways of Karma are mysterious and unfathomable. 

Knowing that this is what it is, you move beyond that.

You cannot understand the depth of karma, it is so vast. 
 
Know that you have been blessed with the power to clear all your karma, and then just do it.
Open your mind to the immensity of His Name, and then let it release you from all your karmas/impurities.
 
Stay blessed.
Sat Sree Akal.
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The 4 kinds of attitude one can develop, to handle our own mind.

 

1) Friendliness: Be friendly with people who are happy. If you are not friendly with happy people, you will be jealous. This is because you think that your enemy is happy, and you cannot tolerate your enemy being happy. So, shake hands with happy people. Such an attitude does a lot of good to your mind.

2) Compassion: Do not be friendly with people who are miserable, instead, have compassion for them. If you are friendly with unhappy people you will become unhappy. And if you become unhappy, you can never help them to come out of their misery. 

Many people have gotten into trouble by being friendly with unhappy people; both become miserable. It is like a doctor going to a patient who is sick, and the doctor also becomes sick. If the doctor also thinks, ‘How can I alone be healthy? Let me also share the patient’s misery’, then who will help the patient then?

So, what should be the attitude with people who are miserable? Compassion, not pity.

3) Happiness: For people who are doing good work or who are successful in the world, you should feel happy as though you are doing it.

For example, someone is a good singer, singing and bringing joy to everybody, seeing him you should think, ‘I feel so happy that this person is singing so well, and making everyone happy.’

If someone is a good entertainer and he entertains everybody you should feel happy about it. If someone is a great architect and builds beautiful buildings you should feel happy about it. Whenever someone does a good job, share that happiness with them; we need to have this attitude.

4) Indifference: For people who are doing horrible things in the society, destroying themselves, we usually get angry at them. When you are angry, your mind suffers a huge loss. You lose so much energy, you lose your mood, and your enthusiasm. When energy and enthusiasm goes away from you, you become angry and are no better than the other person. You do not know what you are doing. So, what should you do in such a situation? Have a sort of indifference in your mind.

For example, there are thieves in the world, they are there, what can you do about them? First accept, be indifferent. However, this does not mean you do not take any action. Your mind is indifferent (unaffected), but you act on it.

These are the four attitudes that will help us to save our mind. This is what we need to do, save our mind at all costs.

 

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                                                                       THE SNAKE AND THE SAW

 

A snake penetrated into a carpentry workshop.  As it slipped, it passed over a saw and got slightly wounded. Suddenly, it turned and bit the saw, and biting the saw, the snake seriously got wounded in its mouth!

Then not understanding what was happening and thinking that the saw was attacking "him," it decided to roll around the saw to suffocate it with all its body by squeezing it with all its strength, but it ended up being killed by the saw!!!

Sometimes we react in anger to hurt those who have harmed us, but we realize later that after all we are hurting ourselves.

In life it is better sometimes to ignore situations, ignore people, ignore their behavior, their words.

Sometimes it is better not to react so as not to suffer consequences that can sometimes be deadly or harmful.

Do not let hate take over your life because love is stronger than anything.

                                                               

                                                                      LAWS OF NATURE 

.... The food we eat, has to be digested and then thrown out of body in 24 hours, else we will fall ill.

.... The water we drink, gets in our body and is thrown out in 4 hours, else we will fall ill.

.... The air we breathe, has to be thrown out in 1 minute, else we will die.

What about negative emotions like hatred, anger, jealousy, insecurity ... we hold in our body for days, months and years.

If these negative emotions are not thrown out regularly it props up into psycho-somatic diseases.

And prayers are safest way to dissolve these emotions.

 

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