PRAY FOR LIGHT - MORE LIGHT

PRAY FOR LIGHT – MORE LIGHT

 

 

Shirdi Sai Baba said, “It will be what He wills. He alone will show the path. When the time comes, without a moment’s delay, the wish will be granted” in Shri Sai Samarth Satcharitra, Ch. 19, Ove 149.

 

Professor Morse was asked in an interview, “In the course of your experiments at the university, there must have been occasions when you felt you were at a dead end, knowing not which way to turn.”

 

“Of course, yes,” he answered. “Such situations happened more than once.”

 

“Then, what was your reaction?”

 

“I pray for light, more light.”

 

“Did God give you what you asked for?”

 

“Yes, he did,” answered the Professor. “So it is that I have always felt that I never deserved the honours that came to me from Europe and America. All this is due to God’s help. I wasn’t in any way superior to other scientists. The Lord had to bestow this gift on mankind, and He had to choose someone. I am grateful that He chose to reveal it through me.”

 

We can easily understand why the inventor’s first message over the telegraph was, “What God hath wrought!”

 

Whenever we find ourselves at the end of the tether, knowing not which way to turn, let us go to God. And when the answer comes, let us not forget to praise the Lord, “Not mine, but Thine be the glory, O Lord!”

 

 

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QUENCH THE FLAMES

QUENCH THE FLAMES

 

 

Shirdi Sai Baba said, “This Maya (illusive power) of the Lord (Shri Hari) teases God Brahma and others; then what to speak of a poor Fakir like Me?” in Sri Sai Satcharitra, Ch. XIII.

 

 

Many of us think that saints are never subject to temptations like us, ordinary mortals. This is not so!

 

A young man once complained to a saint, “Master, I have struggled for eight long years, and I have not succeeded in restraining my passions.

 

“Eight years of struggle?” replied the saint. “For sixty years, I have been fighting against my passions in the desert, and so far I have not been spared a single day!”

 

St. Benedict lived a life of great austerity. He wore a rough shirt and lived for three years in a desolate cave, beyond all human reach. His Spartan food was let down to him at the end or a rope. But ever here, temptation did not spare him! He was haunted continually by the memory of a beautiful woman he had met. He was even tempted to leave his life of austerity and seclusion and follow her!

 

Near his cave was a clump of thorns and briers. Having undressed, he threw himself on the thorns and rolled around till his body bled with many wounds. This he continued to do until the fires of passion were quenched forever.

 

Yes, saints too are tempted, even as we ordinary mortals are. The difference is, we easily succumb to temptation; saints overcome temptation and grow in spiritual strength and splendour!

 

 

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THE INTERVIEW WITH GOD

THE INTERVIEW WITH GOD

 

 

I dreamed I had an interview with God.

“So you would like to interview me?” God asked.

“If you have the time” I said.

God smiled. “My time is eternity.”
“What questions do you have in mind for me?”

“What surprises you most about humankind?”

God answered... “That they get bored with childhood, they rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.”

“That they lose their health to make money... and then lose their money to restore their health.”

“That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live in neither the present nor the future.”

"That they live as if they will never die, and die as though they had never lived.”

God’s hand took mine and we were silent for a while.

And then I asked... “As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons you want your children to learn?”

“To learn they cannot make anyone love them. All they can do is let themselves be loved.”

“To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others.”

“To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.”

“To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in those they love, and it can take many years to heal them.”

“To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most, but is one who needs the least.”

“To learn that there are people who love them dearly, but simply have not yet learned how to express or show their feelings.”

“To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently.”

“To learn that it is not enough that they forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.”

"Thank you for your time," I said humbly.

"Is there anything else you would like your children to know?"

God smiled and said, “Just know that I am here... always.”

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