A Wake Up Call From God! Sant Rajinder Singh!!

Sometimes we wonder why God does not grant us a life of ease, free of burdens.

Life is filled with many problems. Why do we struggle with health problems, financial, relationship and emotional problems?

Here's an example from nature. The eagle finds the tallest tree or highest mountain ledge to build its nest.

The eagle lays the first layer of the nest with sharp objects such as thorns and stones. Next, the eagle covers the layer of sharp objects with soft material, such as wood, feathers, and animal fur. As the baby birds hatch, the soft layer of the nest surrounds them.

After they grow a bit, the mother eagle takes the nest material and mixes it up. The jumbled mass becomes a mixture of sharp objects and soft ones. Some of the sharp edges even cut the baby birds' skin. Soon, the mother stops putting food from her mouth into the babies' mouths.Suddenly , their comfortable world has become painful. They are hungry and in pain from the sharp edges cutting into their bodies. The discomfort becomes so great that the babies begin to fly away to get out of the nest.

This beautiful analogy from nature explains the value of suffering in our lives. If people were too happy and comfortable in their physical existence, they would never seek God. Most people turn to God only in times of trouble.

When they are faced with intolerable pain, an incurable illness, a devastating loss, or a financial disaster, they find that life is not as great as they thought it was. Suddenly , life becomes difficult. It is during those times of pain and crises that we begin to question if there is a God, and ask, what is the purpose of this life?

Suffering has the value of turning our attention to the Lord. Without it most people would not give God a second thought.They would live and die without even thinking about God. Suffering makes us pray to God to help us.

When we are rich and living in the lap of luxury , we do not think about God. But when we suddenly lose all that we own, our stocks drop, or we lose our home, we begin to seek God. Misfortunes make us turn to a higher power for help.

Sometimes when we become too complacent, God may shake things up a bit to make us do our spiritual work.

God wants all of the baby eagles to soar. God wants us to soar from this physical region to the astral, from the astral to the causal region, from the causal to the supra-causal region, and from there to return to the highest spiritual realms. God may do whatever it takes to help all the eagles fly and return home through meditation. It is a wake-up call to teach us that we should not be too comfortable in the physical world.

We can wake up to the sharpness of life so that we can rise from this physical world and soar into spiritual realms within. At times, God removes the soft coverings so we can be reminded that this life is painful and full of suffering.

This realization will drive us to put in greater effort to meditate more and to soar to our home of true peace, the lap of God.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's maiden Independence Day speech from the ram parts of Red Fort was a departure from earlier speeches by earlier prime ministers on many counts. However, from a philosophical viewpoint, him saying, “Mein pradhan mantri nahin, pradhan sevak hoon“ ­ “I am not prime minister; I am first servant“ could restore to public memory , the true place of elected representatives, as servants of the people who have chosen them to act on their behalf. Gandhiji was the one who first said, “President means Chief Servant.“ And in the 1970s, Robert Greenleaf, with his book on servant leadership, brought the issue of good leadership back into public discourse.

Clearly, those in governance are not meant to ride roughshod over people and exploit them for their own personal beliefs and ends or exult in the power that such positions bring, or see it as one more ac complishment to include in a CV , memoir or biography . Leaders are meant to take their responsibilities seriously , whether the position has come through popular mandate or nomination. In a democracy , the keyword is `service' just as seva or service is an integral part of any spiritual seeker's path to salvation.

“I'm not here to rule; I'm here to serve,“ said Modi, implying that he is different. If you have doubts, he would articulate that fact, to convince you. “I came here all prepared to crit icise Modi's speech,“ confessed M K Gandhi's grandson Tushar Gandhi to the moderator on a TV show that was analysing the I-Day speech. “But i can't find fault with the speech!“ Most Modi bashers ­ and those who Modi re fers to the as the `elite who hate me' ­ might be upset that Modi's speech presented him as a Mr Goody Two-Shoes, with a fabulous Humility Quotient full of good intentions.

Sages have advised seekers that when you lack a certain virtue, try , try and succeed.

In the beginning, if you don't feel humble but wish to become humble, then try faking humility . Sri Sri Ravi Shankar says, “If you can't make it, fake it!“ The idea is that with re peated auto-suggestion, you begin to acquire the virtue over time, and lo and behold, one day you are that humble person you have been trying to be. Humility is perhaps among the most difficult virtues to cultivate or acquire at a time when everything is so focused on satiation of the individual's wants or wishes. And hence the aggressive attitude we see all around us.

If you think it is aggression at work, relationships and markets, that makes things work, it is a skewed view. You could be soft-spoken and open and yet achieve results with out getting trodden all over, if only you allow the spirit of service to stay topmost in whatever you do. As Krishna points out in the Gita, Do your duty without an eye on the fruits of your action. Good thoughts and work are bound to produce good results.

Even business models are now being constructed with humility included as a parameter for good leadership; it is no longer considered a sign of low self-esteem or poor confidence.

Dada J P Vaswani points out that humility is an attitude which allows for others' greatness, and thus helps the manager create the right perspective which enables him ­ not just to manage, direct and order people ­ but to help them discover their best potential, by helping them to transform themselves.

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