BLISS BLOSSOM - ALWAYS CONSIDER YOUR INTEREST

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Baba said, "Always consider your interest and welfare" in Sri Sai

Satcharitra Chapter X.

 

Whatever you do, do it as a service to God and for His sake. Feel

that you are enjoying the highest favour of the all-merciful Lord.

Rely completely on His grace; and, whatever be the result of your

action, accept it most cheerfully as a dispensation of the all-

blissful Lord.

 

Life is ebbing fast; every moment we are approaching death and very

soon the sands of life will run out. Knowing this, keep yourself ever

harnessed for the coming journey, disposing of all your worldly

affairs. By harnessing oneself for the journey meant absolute

renunciation of the attractions of the world and developing an

intense longing to meet the Lord.

 

Live in this world as an actor in a drama; never be remiss in playing

your part, nor should you ever claim anything as your own. Remissness

in playing your part will constitute an act of disloyalty to your

master, and to claim anything as your own will be dishonesty. Know

this world to be a stage, but play the part allotted to you as

earnestly as if the world were real.

 

Everyone has his good points as well as weak, and everyone is liable

to error. If you start picking holes in another's work as soon as you

see it, you will develop a very bad habit in course of time and you

will begin to find fault even with the actions of the noblest type.

The result will be that you will grow miserable yourself, and will

make others miserable. Instead of this if you cultivate the habit of

observing only the good points of others your outlook will become

Sattvika. The cheerfulness of your mind will increase. Your will get

peace. From this habit of observing only the good points of others

and see happy you feel.

 

Do not seek other's errors; forget them if you happen to observe

them, appreciate from the bottom of your heart their good motive,

industry and devotion to work, and try to discover the good points in

their work. You will become virtuous and good.

 

Courtesy: Sri Hanumanprasad Poddar in Wavelets of Bliss.

(Shri Vasukimahal Shirdi Saibaba Trust, Coimbatore-641025, India)