Whether we are eligible?

A lesson from Mahatma's Life...

Once a mother bring his 5 year old son to Babuji. She said to him that her son is eating lot of sweets. Because of that, stomach worm is formed and he is frequently getting sick and becomes lean. So, she asked Babuji to advice him not to eat sweets. Our mahatma waited for few minutes and then he asked her to bring his son after 15 days to him.

After 15 days, the mother visited Babuji's home along with his son. Now Babuji see the son and said to him not to eat sweets since it cause disease. The mother get confused because of this. She started thinking like, Why, Babuji didn't say this thing to him before 15 days itself and he waited until this much days to say this. She even asked directly to Babuji about her confusion.

For that, our Mahatma told her that, he too used to eat lot of sweets while she came and say about her son. Before he advised her son he should leave that habit. So he asked her to come after 15 days. Now he is not having that habit and hence he can give advice to her son. Upon hearing this words from Babuji, she was admired about his principle and she left that place happily with her son.

So, the moral we can learn from this incident is that, we should think ourselves before giving advice to others that whether we are eligible for that.

Regrets?

A letter by the wife to her husband who was aware that she was dying...

Regrets? I have a few.
Too much worrying.
I worried about finding the right husband and having children, being on time, being late and so on.
It didn't matter.
It all works out and it would have worked out without the worries and the tears.

If I would have only known then what I know now.
But, I did and so do you.
We're all going to die.
Stop worrying and start loving and living.

The Power of Discipline

An excerpt from The Power of Discipline
by Brian Tracy

Your ability and willingness to discipline yourself to accept personal responsibility for your life is essential to happiness, health, success, achievement and personal leadership. Accepting responsibility is one of the hardest of all disciplines, but without it, success is impossible.

The failure to accept responsibility and the attempt to foist responsibility onto others has dire consequences. It completely distorts cause and effect, undermines our character, weakens our resolve, and diminishes our humanity.

When I was twenty-one, I was living in a tiny apartment and working as a construction laborer. I had to get up at 5 a.m. so I could take three buses to work to be there on time. I didn't get home until 7 p.m., usually exhausted. I was making just enough money to get by, with no car, almost no savings, and just enough clothing for my needs. I had no radio or television. In the evenings, if I had enough energy, I would sit in my small apartment at my little table in my kitchen nook and read.

It was the middle of a cold winter, with the temperature at 35 degrees below Fahrenheit.

One evening, sitting there by myself at the table, it suddenly dawned on me that, "This is my life."

It was like a flashbulb going off in front of my face. I looked at myself and my small apartment, and considered the fact that I had not graduated from high school. The only work I was qualified to do was menial jobs. I earned enough money to pay my basic expenses, but little more. I had very little left over at the end of the month.

It suddenly dawned on me that unless I changed, nothing else was going to change. No one else was going to do it for me. In reality, no one cared.

I realized at that moment I was completely responsible for my life, and for everything that happened to me, from that day forward. I was responsible.

I could no longer blame my situation on my difficult childhood, or mistakes that I had made in the past. I was in charge. I was in the driver's seat. This was my life, and if I didn't do something to change it, it would go on like this indefinitely, by the simple process of inertia.

This revelation changed my life. I was never the same again. From that moment forward, I accepted more and more responsibility for everything...