TOUCH

Men are touch starved,

The problem is that our society has identified touching with sexuality.

Teachers are afraid to hug their students,even in a supportive sense. It is tragic.

Being touched is a fundamental need.

How long  has it been since you held your wife's hand?

When was the last time  you hugged your child?

Do it now and feel how relaxing it can be.

Feel nature beneath your bare feet

Get back in touch with nature, Get back in touch with human nature.

Power of Love

1.The love Shah Jahan had for his wife drove him to spend his life and his fortune building the Taj Mahal in her memory

2.Poet Elizabeth Barrett, best known for " How Do I Love Thee" was an invalid because of a childhood accident and was  confined to the house of a domineering father. When She found love in the person of the poet Robert Browning, he rescued her from an atmosphere of parental control and took her from England to Italy. There her health improved so much that she gave birth to a son.

3. There was a man who defied the statistics for high stress. That man had a rough employment history. In 1962, he lost his job when Studebacker corporation  went out of business.  A decade later a truck manufacturer folded, and he lost his job again. In 1980s, when Chrysler went through cutbacks, the man again lost his job.

Yet, he was one of the best - adjusted fellows.

When asked his secret, the man said, " I have got a loving wife"


                                            LOVE HAS TREMENDOUS POTENTIAL

PRASHANT

You think about other people and put their needs in front of your own.
I know this because I have been one of the hundreds of such recipients.
                                      Merry Christmas !
                                      May God bless you !

Forgiveness

Learn to forgive.
Pray for your enemies.
As you learn to forgive those who have hurt you (intentionally or inadvertently), you learn the freedom this gives and the ensuing peace of mind.

Forgiving and not-holding grudges can release you from stress.

Love also implies forgiving.

Retirement from service, Dad's write up

22-04-09
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Time hangs heavy on those, who are retired Public Servants. In service, they were always up and doing and had no time to think as to how to pass the day but after retirement they get pension amount which is sufficient to make both ends meet and therefore time hangs heavy on the head.
So far as  I am concerned, this is not applicable to me. I always follow a routine, in which there is prayer, puja, then rest and after words collect thinking and if necessary writing notes.
I do not know, whether these notes are of  any avail, but I think these are  definitely interesting and capable of giving good direction of thinking to readers.
As a matter of fact, I get inspiration from my Guru, Baba, that is Data Kambal Shah whom his Guru, Nurul Hasan Saheb used to call Chhedi Shah,
                                                            Jai Baba, Jai Guru.
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Vivo- A page from Dad's Diary

!2-04-2009
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Vivo who had been with us at Godda for a few days left for Jamshedpur today after offering Puja at Yogini Asthan yesterday.

I was quite happy being among him and his children who had also come with him. With their departure I feel completely  alone and helpless. But soon I got strength and it appeared that Baba was before me and was comforting me.
 Now after a few hours I am feeling composed and now I am devoting my time in solving other problems

Fire

The dargah  of the Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalander, 'The Red Royal Falcon' of Sehwan Sharif needs no introduction. Here,sixty years after Partition, one of the sajjada nasheens is still a Hindu,and it is he who performs the opening ritual at the annual 'URS'.The Hidus were said to regard Lal Shahbaz Qalander as a reincarnation of the sensual Sanskrit poet turned Shaivite ascetic, Bhartrihari,who renounced the pleasure of the court of Ujjain and moved to Sehwan, where he lived as an ash-smeared sadhu, and was later cremated on the site of the present shrine. The Hindus also know Lal Shahbaz by a third name: Jhule Lal. He is said to have punished himself with great feats of self-mortification,testing his self-discipline by engaging in the Hindu ascetic practice of tapasya,sitting in a cauldron over a fire, so turning his skin red. It was also here,that the saint transformed himself into a falcon-the other legend which gave the saint his name. On one occasion he flew to  Mecca to perform evening prayers at the  Ka'ba; another time he flew off to the aid of his friend Shekh Bahauddin Zakariya, who was in mortal danger from the King of Multan.

There is a short story. 'One day Lal Shahbaz was wandering in the desert with his friend Zakariya. It was winter, and evening time, so they began to build a fire to keep warm. They found some wood, but then they realized they had no fire. So Zakariya suggested that Lal Shahbaz turn himself into a falcon and get fire from hell. Off he flew, but an hour later he came empty handed. " There is no fire in hell", he reported. 

" Every one who goes there brings their own fire, and their own pain, from this world."

What a striking similarity!  Data Kambal Shah , also known as CHHEDI SHAH or Vakil Saheb or Rajendra Prasad whose Majar is in Goshala Road , Muzaffarpur  was a born Hindu and Kayastha by caste, r enunciated and renounced the pleasure of court of Monghyr where he was a practicing lawyer of splendid repute and moved to Muzaffarpur to  where he had lived as an ash smeared Kambal carrying faqueer upto 1957.Once he told in ecstasy and trans "Wanha ki Aag se yanha ki Aag  behtar hai"( As told to my father  Sri P K Dubey who happens to be  the closest desciple of Baba)

Here also all the essential rituals are performed by Hindus. It is believed that  Baba was incarnation of Ram Krishna Paramhans.