Steady water!

A night before the day of Matsya Vedh (Piercing Fish eye) competition, Krishna and Arjuna are conversing.

Krishna says, "Arjuna, take care, put your step forward and concentrate on the eye of the fish".

Arjuna says, "If I have to do everything, then what will you do?"

Krishna in a very soft tone tells him, "What you can't do, I will do".

Arjuna asks, "And what is it that I can't do?"

Krishna answers, "I will keep the water steady..."

While preparing for the certification recently, more than certification syllabus or anxiety of the exam, I was worried about the power cut that usually happens amidst important meetings now and then. I kept on praying along side certi prep, “I will do my part, but make sure water (wifi) remains steady this time also so that I can complete certification without any hiccups”. 

The d-day I sat to take certification, praying ‘keep water steady’ and whole duration I sat infront of laptop there was no power failure, however somehow the connection for video feed didn’t seem to work properly. After spending around 2 hrs for troubleshooting, when video feed didn’t work I finally gave up bit disappointed of not being able to take the exam but still convincing myself that if ‘water isn’t steady it is His doing’. 

Rescheduled the certi for next day, but the same story repeated and I came to know may be office laptop won’t support taking the certi and I reminded myself ‘if water isn’t steady, it is still His doing.’ 

3rd attempt to take the certi, same story and same reminder. I then heard some of my colleagues had been able to successfully attempt using office laptop but somehow it wasn’t working for me. I tried taking help from IT specialists but it didnt seem to work. Before attempting for 4th time, I thought may be I would borrow laptop from someone in my circle near by, but surprisingly no one seemed to have a laptop, ipads tablets etc being new normal, or someone had laptop but of different configuration. 

I had to attempt 4th time again on same laptop and still it didn’t work. More than certi or wifi, I was now worried about being able to attempt exam atleast. It got so frustrating that I discussed with my better half that may be buying a laptop was the only option left. Within a day or so order was placed, laptop arrived a few days after and finally day came to attempt for the 5th time. 

Well, there was no power failure on 5th day and to my surprise video got started within minutes that I had to cross check with the proctor whether everything was well? Having spent hours and hours to troubleshoot in past, such a smooth start I wasn’t expecting. Certi went fine and I kept pondering about steadiness of water after the Certi for few days. 

Pushing video feed out of an office laptop was no big deal, it had worked for my colleagues, getting help from IT folks to sort out issues was also no being deal, finding someone having a personal laptop with right configuration was also not a big deal, but somehow one after other turbulences kept coming even after I was praying for steadiness. But if it was time to bless with a new laptop, these turbulences in water were required. Had any of these things worked, I would’t have bought a laptop as I wasn’t even thinking to buy one. 

So thankyou 🙂 Please use it & me too! 

One Nirankari

Just back from Sangat where I heard the story of the One Nirankari.

Someone mentioned the name of Nirankari Mission in a discussion between group of people. Listening name Nirankari, one of the attendees (say Rob) took special attention and he mentioned that he too knows One Nirankari.

This Nirankari is milkman who comes and delivers milk everyday at Rob's place. The milk that he delivers is very thick and rich. Rob wondered how come this milk is thick, compared to all other milks that Rob had tried. Is there something mixed in milk? Or are the cows of different breed? These thoughts bothered Rob so much that one day he went to test the milk at milkman's residence. 

On reaching there Rob first of all checked the containers, was there something sticking to the walls of container. But he didnt find anything. Then he let milkman milk the cows. Cows also looked of normal breed. All of a sudden Rob sees that milkman is stirring something in the container. Feeling milkman was caught red handed, Rob asked milkman what was he doing?

Milkman replied that he was stirring the milk to let the froth settle down. Else he would have sold froth along with milk to the customers. He mentioned that God Almighty is watching over him, and he would be cheating customers by selling them froth on the cost of milk. So he was settling the froth in milk to be fair in his business.

Rob concluded that this is how he knows about Nirankaris.

Discourses concluded as scheduled but kept me thinking of this One Nirankari, who was so conscious of Almighty's presence that he didn't want to do something unfair which has now become sort of normal practice.

I personally don't know this One Nirankari Milkman but have come across many Nirankaris in my life. Wish I too someday become a True Nirankari....who lives in constant realization of the Nirankar, whose acts are fair as per Nirankar.

Are you religious?

Yesterday he was after me - Aapne bhagwaan ko dekha hai? I tried my best to ignore the question but he seemed rigid too - Aapne bhagwaan ko dekha hai? Quite surprisingly, I took few more minutes before we started talking of God Realisation.
I just look back and see those years of Bangalore, where I wanted to fly high and share this with everyone around. Nothing much has changed and yet everything seems changed. A small incident as from yesterday, when some one was asking about God Realisation and I felt like better not to answer.
Recently I read this on one of the banners from Samagam, and also received this as text, "Dharam ki sabse badi shiksha hai sehansheelta". "The greatest teaching of religion is tolerance", everyday there are numerous incidents where I see that the tolerance is no where around. Ofcourse, the answer is 'NO', if asked a question "Are you religious?". If religion teaches tolerance, there has to be tolerance in my life if I am religious. It has always been easy to talk of religion, God realisation, God knowledge but been tough to act religiously.
Perhaps it was the same thought yesterday when I didnt want to talk of God Realisation. Didnt want him to carry an impression of God Realised soul, if I still havent managed to live fully in God's realisation.
Having said that, there's more to ask from you - I do wish to fly again but this time with both the wings - realisation and practical living.

Onions

Just 4 days ago my roommate returned to India. These days it’s just me who has to cook for dinner and eat. With him I had to eat onions daily which I disliked. But he was fond of onions; in all dishes he would put onions. I don’t hate onions it’s just that for these 27-28 years I haven’t been able to appreciate onions. Today when I went downstairs for cooking, I was happy. After 4-5 months I would eat dinner cooked without onions. I had to prepare dinner just for self & now no one who would ask me to cut onions and use those chopped onions for dal/sabzi/rajma etc. I was happy. I couldn’t believe that the first thing I put in Paneer Sabzi was onions. All the taste developed in onion-less years changed in just 4 months. I felt that the dish won’t be as delicious if cooked without onion. My thought is not of onion but of my roommate. Rightly was & is said, company matters a lot. For these 4 months I kept company of someone who liked onion and I started liking onion despite the fact that I disliked them since birth.
I believe that’s what spiritual texts say when those mention, if you want to know about God, ask from the one who knows god. He would help you realize this Almighty which is hidden since these many years or even janams. It doesn’t matter how long one has lived without realization of God, but one touch from such God Realised soul makes you fall in love with God, with 24*7 hours contact. This Almighty has always been here and infront, whom to search then ? Search for the one who can help you realize this one.
Rightly said by the prophet, ‘Kismat’ means “Kis ki mat lete ho”. Company shapes your destiny. A perfume cannot give a smell of poison, so does the opposite. I now am able to appreciate my parents for their teachings, “choose your friends wisely”. All my friends have shaped my life till date, be it good habits or bad ones, I have picked all from the ones who were around me. For all those people who believed that earth was flat, earth was flat, but that didn’t change the shape of earth. Only once they made a company of person who said earth is round, did the reality come into existence.
I never knew what depth does word “love you” carried until I actually came in contact with someone who taught me what love means though I had heard about Love and often denied its existence. From this small life till date I have just understood all technological fundamentals I have learnt have come from the texts,teachers of that subject. However I should also add the practical experiments stood far ahead of what all I read in textual books. Only once I did experiments in practical , I understood what those texts were saying.
Well I remember solving questions in Mathematics. After struggling for hours, someone would share with me a simplified method of doing it. And thank God, I would then shift to the easier method. I think advisable is to do things in simplified manner. The longer method may be able to lead to same answer but chances of getting struck in middle are too many. Like the Nirma ad we saw in childhood days, “jab wahi mehnge daamo waali safaai kamm daamo mein mile, to koi woh kyun le, yeh na le ?”.