శారదామాయి సందేశం

On Mindful Work

After someone finished her sweeping and threw the broom into a corner, Mother said, "How strange, my dear! The work is finished, and you throw it away carelessly. It takes almost the same time to put it away slowly and carefully as to throw it away. Should you despise a thing just because it is insignificant? 'Him that you save, saves you in turn.' Won't you need it again? Besides, this thing too forms a part of our household. From that point of view also it deserves some consideration. You must give each one his due share of honour. Even a broom must be shown some honor. The smallest work must be done with reverence."

"I want people here who are careful in work. There are those who perform great deeds on the spur of the moment. But one can be really known by the attention given to the details of each duty."

(From The Teachings of Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother, published by Sri Ramakrishna Math, Madras, 1983.)

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పై సందేశానికి నాదైన వివరణ:

ఆంగ్ల భాష చదవటానికి ఇబ్బంది పడే వారికి , అర్థం చేసుకొనేంత తీరిక లెని వారికోసం తియ్యటి తెలుగులో:

ఒకరోజు శారదా మాయి  ఒక వ్యక్తి ప్రాంగణం అంతా శుభ్రపరచి , చీపురును ఓ మూల కి విసిరివేయడాన్ని గమనించారు.ఆ వ్యక్తి ని పిలచి,

ప్రాంగణమంతా శుభ్రపరచి, ఆ పనికి నీకు సహకరించిన చీపురును ఎంతో నిర్లక్ష్యంగా ఓ మూలకి విసిరావు. దానిని యథాస్థానంలో ఉంచడానికి  నువ్వు పనిచెయ్యడానికి పట్టినంత సమయం కూడా పట్టదు కదా!

నువ్వు ఎవరినైతే కాపాడతావో వారే ఏదో సమయంలో నిన్ను కాపాడతారని గ్రహించు.

వస్తువుకి ప్రాచుర్యం లేదని , విలువ లేదని చిన్న చూపు చూడడం సరిఅవుతుందా?

మనం హీనంగా చూసిన ఎన్నో వస్తువులు మనకి ఎన్నో విధాల సేవలందిస్తున్నాయి

అవి లేకపోతే మన జీవనం గడవదు.

ఈ విషయాన్ని గుర్తుంచుకుని ప్రతి వస్తువుకీ విలువనివ్వడం, గౌరవించటం నేర్చుకుందాం.

 

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a small story…. from uttishta mail

There was a once a man who lived in a forest, it so happened that a tiger stumbled upon his dwelling & seeing the man in panic, went after him. The terrified man started running for his life, there were thorns & stones on the way, but somehow he kept running, right then a flash fire started in the forest, the man had to run through the fire because even his feet burned he knew that stopping would mean definite death. Suddenly the path man was running along reached its end, a cliff edge, the man fell, he was hurtling towards the river below when somehow he managed to break the fall by grabbing the root of a tree, the man looked down & saw a crocodile waiting in the waters below. The tiger meanwhile was also waiting at the edge of the cliff, the man was just holding on to the root for dear life, but the root was being bitten away on either side by a black & a white rat. Above the man was a bee hive from which honey was overflowing & the honey was falling into his mouth, drop by drop. If the man's desperate predicament rings a bell, you should know you r leading a life like his & ur situation is no better.

The crocodile with its mouth open is death, the tiger is life, the black & white rats r night & day. As the rats keep bitting away the roots get closer to being snapped & u get closer to plunging into the river with the deadly crocodile in it, the ocassional drop of honey falling into ur mouth makes u happy & in this happiness u forget death. The honey's sweetness gives u the illusion that everything is fine though it is not, the running is always there, ur legs cannot escape the heat of fire. It is also when u realise u r struck in a web of stupidity that doors of spirituality begin to open, spirituality will then automatically come ur way.

Each individual has his own understanding about life, for some life is all about good food & wine, others see meaning in emotional & material prosperity, yet despite achieving a lot people still find themselves looking for happiness. Life may give them all that they expected, but still they remain dissatisfied. Energy is immortal, it has no begining & it has no end, the decision to be with the perishable material world or immortal world is urs to make.

If ur experience of life is beyond that of the materialistic world, then u have understood spirituality, it is only then that u begin to live .......

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MEDITATION TODAY:

Say ?So?ham, So?ham? whatever comes. Tell yourself this even in eating, walking, suffering. Tell the mind this incessantly? that what we see never existed, that there is only ?I?. Flash?the dream will break! Think day and night, this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.