Compassion
Every day, try to help uplift, as you would help
yourself or your family, whoever in your environment
may be physically, mentally, or spiritually sick, then
no matter what your part is on the stage of life, you
will know that you have been playing it rightly,
directed by the Stage Manager of all destinies.
–Paramahansa Yogananda, SRF Lessons
There is no shortage of those who preach and teach.
kathnaa kathee na aavai tot.
Millions upon millions offer millions of sermons and stories.
kath kath kathee kotee kot kot.
The Great Giver keeps on giving, while those who receive grow weary of receiving.
daydaa day laiday thak paahi.
Throughout the ages, consumers consume.
jugaa jugantar khaahee khaahi.
The Commander, by His Command, leads us to walk on the Path.
hukmee hukam chalaa-ay raahu.
O Nanak, He blossoms forth, Carefree and Untroubled. ||3||
naanak vigsai vayparvaahu. ||3||
– The Holy Granth Sahib
Dear Readers, I always try to send you short quotes so that it does not take you long to read it and you can make the Spiritual diary your daily habit without disturbing your busy schedule. This time on an experimental basis I am sending you a longer message, because it was difficult to truncate it. Let me know your reactions.
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The spiritual experience is of the interior world, and science is the exploration of the exterior. But both are wings of the same existence — the inwardness and the outwardness — they always have similar points.
Scientists have come to a strange conclusion in this century, that a few stars suddenly disappear… and stars are not small things; they are not so small as they look to you. They look small because they are so far away, millions of light years away, but they are huge. Our sun is a star, but of a mediocre size, medium size. In comparison to the earth it is vast, but in comparison to other stars it is a small, medium-sized star. There are stars which are a thousand times bigger than the sun.
And in this century, for the first time we had the instruments of observation and we were very much puzzled: suddenly a star disappears, not even leaving a trace behind of where it has gone. Such a huge phenomenon, and not even footprints — in what direction has it gone? It has just moved simply into nothingness. This was happening continually. It took almost twenty years to figure out this new phenomenon: that in existence there are black holes. You cannot see them, but they have tremendous gravitation. Even the biggest star, if it comes within their radius of magnetism, will be pulled in. And once it is pulled into a black hole, it disappears. It is the ultimate eath. We can only see the effect; we cannot see the black hole, we only see that one star is disappearing.
After the black hole was almost an established theory, scientists started thinking that there must be something like a white hole — there has to be. If it is possible that in a certain gravitation, magnetic force, a big star simply disappears out of existence…. We have been aware that every day stars are born. From where are they coming? — nobody has asked it before. In fact, birth we always take for granted; nobody asks from where the babies are coming. Death we never accept, because we are so much afraid of it. There is not a single philosophy in the whole history of man which thinks about where the babies come from, but there are philosophies and philosophies thinking about what is dead, where people go on disappearing to, what happens after death. In my whole life I have come across millions of people, and not a single person has asked what happens before birth — and thousands have asked what happens after death. I have always been thinking, why is birth taken without any question? Why is death not taken in the same way?
We were aware for centuries, almost three centuries, that stars are being born every day — big stars, huge stars — and nobody raised the question, “From where are these stars coming?” But when we came to know about the black holes and we saw the stars disappearing, then the second question became almost an absolute necessity. If black holes can take stars into nothingness, then there must be something like white holes where things… stars come out of nothingness.
– Osho
Have faith in God the Omnipotent, the Eternal, the First and the Last, who grants life and determines death. He bestows bounty, and only He can restore crushed hopes. Have faith, do not lose hope, wait patiently.
He indeed will create a way to deliver you from your hardships.
– Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jillani
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Recently I asked you if I can occasionally send you longer messages. So far I have received positive responses to this, I reproduce some. I am also grateful to some readers who often write to me with their reactions. This helps me to serve you better, and more scientifically.- manohar
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This is wonderful! Manohar.
The loger message is much more useful in agitating minds to think more deep, and might hlp the realization (whatever one wants to interprete as to wahat that Realisation could be!)
Thank you!
M. G
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I personally enjoy the long ones as it gives an opportunity to think & reflect
R.A
When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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The man Martin Luther King Jr. called “an apostle of peace and nonviolence” has been a teacher, writer and vocal opponent of war. The Most Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh (Thây), founded the Unified Buddhist Church (Eglise Bouddhique Unifieé) in France in 1969, during the Vietnam war.
Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, a poet, a scholar, and a peace activist. His life long efforts to generate peace and reconciliation moved Martin Luther King, Jr. to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967