Showing posts with label spirituality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spirituality. Show all posts

Friday, September 11, 2009

8 lie from Mother

This story begins when I was a child: 

I was born poor. Often we hadn't enough to eat. Whenever we had some food, Mother often gave me her portion of rice. While she was transferring her rice into my bowl, she would say "Eat this rice, son! I'm not hungry." 

This was Mother's First Lie. 

 As I grew, Mother gave up her spare time to fish in a river near our house; she hoped that from the fish she caught, she could give me a little bit more nutritious food for my growth. Once she had caught just two fish, she would make fish soup. While I was eating the soup, mother would sit beside me and eat the what was still left on the bone of the fish I had eaten, My heart was touched when I saw it. Once I gave the other fish to her on my chopstick but she immediately refused it and said, "Eat this fish, son! I don't really like fish." 
This was Mother's Second Lie.

 Then, in order to fund my education, Mother went to a Match Factory to bring home some used matchboxes, which she filled with fresh matchsticks. This helped her get some money to cover our needs. One wintry night I awoke to find Mother filling the matchboxes by candlelight. So I said, "Mother, go to sleep; it's late: you can continue working tomorrow morning." Mother smiled and said "Go to sleep, son! I'm not tired." 
This was Mother's Third Lie. 

 When I had to sit my Final Examination, Mother accompanied me. After dawn, Mother waited for me for hours in the heat of the sun. When the bell rang, I ran to meet her.. Mother embraced me and poured me a glass of tea that she had prepared in a thermos. The tea was not as strong as my Mother's love, Seeing Mother covered with perspiration, I at once gave her my glass and asked her to drink too. Mother said "Drink, son! I'm not thirsty!". 
This was Mother's Fourth Lie. 

 After Father's death, Mother had to play the role of a single parent. She held on to her former job; she had to fund our needs alone. Our family's life was more complicated. We suffered from starvation. Seeing our family's condition worsening, my kind Uncle who lived near my house came to help us solve our problems big and small. Our other neighbors saw that we were poverty stricken so they often advised my mother to marry again. But Mother refused to remarry saying "I don't need love." 
This was Mother's Fifth Lie. 

 After I had finished my studies and gotten a job, it was time for my old Mother to retire but she carried on going to the market every morning just to sell a few vegetables. I kept sending her money but she was steadfast and even sent the money back to me. She said, "I have enough money." 
That was Mother's Sixth Lie. 

 I continued my part-time studies for my Master's Degree. Funded by the American Corporation for which I worked, I succeeded in my studies. With a big jump in my salary, I decided to bring Mother to enjoy life in America but Mother didn't want to bother her son; she said to me "I'm not used to high living." 
That was Mother's Seventh Lie. 

 In her dotage, Mother was attacked by cancer and had to be hospitalized. Now living far across the ocean, I went home to visit Mother who was bedridden after an operation. Mother tried to smile but I was heartbroken because she was so thin and feeble but Mother said, "Don't cry, son! I'm not in pain." 
That was Mother's Eighth Lie.


Indeed God can not be everywhere so he created mother. 

Friday, September 4, 2009

Obligation – ‘help to others’ improves internal power

I am seeing Goddess in Mother Teresa.

Obligation or helping hands to others is not proprietary of any person or religion. When Obligations are done without any receiving back attitude, it improves power to face obstacles. There is one incident of mother Teresa. She wants to built ‘Nirmal Day ’ bhavan (hall) near kalighat, kolkatta to help enables, poor and aged people. They were inaugurating the construction with their supporters at that time the persons who opposes her gathers there and started shouting against them. Mother Teresa weren’t afraid even a bit and stood there without any hesitation.

With great bravery she told the mass that kill me if you want. My death is not issue on way of Ishu masih, but stop this and let enable and poop people leave with peace. Issue goes to police commissioner, and he told that he will go to the place himself and then will take the decision that nirmal daya bhavan will be constructed or not. When commissioner reached to the place, then he was amazed by seeing mother Teresa and her followers deeds, all were serving poor and enable peoples.

As fast as commissioner reached there, opposite groups people became happy. The commissioner asked that I will asked Mother Teresa to leave from here on one condition, you and your family need to start serving those poor peoples. I am seeing godess on mother Teresa. Obstructer group was stunned, and commissioner gave permission to build bhavan. Lesson of the story is only that, Obligation or helping hands to others is not proprietary of any person or religion. When Obligations are done without any receiving back attitude, it improves power to face obstacles.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Swat Valley from Pakistan: Anciant times One of the Biggest Buddhism center

                   We know history about the 2 thousand Kilometers long sindhu river. Currently pakistan army is fighting with talibans in swat valley. But many people will get amazed by knowing the fact that from AD 300 before to AD 800, around 1100 years, swat valley was overruled by Buddhism or we can say it was influanced by buddhism. Many buddhist peoples lives near ghazni in afghnistan around AD 0994. When father of Muhommad Ghazani, Sabuktigin Bamiyan became governor in AD 0994, there were many collonies of Buddhist at that place. When in 1021, Muhammad Ghazani enters to swat valley, that was very bad time for buddhism, and he saw buddh temples in very bad condition. The main reason for that was, in india all kings were supporting hinduism under the trumendis influence of Shankracharya. Every one knows that just before some time violant talibanis distroy boddh idols carved into Bamiyan Hills.

                      Swat valley is very beautiful region. It is consider as switzerland of Pakistan. Swat's capital is Migora, and it is fulled with Islamic Madresas ( teching institutes). This madresas teaches Kuran, and its very conservative. They thought that watching television and hearing radio is bad for Madresa's students and pakistani muslims. Its sin to hear anytype of music. Some of the Muslims from swat valley, supports taliban governmet. They dont like pakistan government to have good relation with US government.

                   Swat valley is situated on route famous as silk route between south asia and chine. This silk route is very long, hindus coundt reach there, but buddhist did. Gautam Budhha died around 5th century, and though buddha's birth place was Nepal, but after buddha took Nirwan (Miksha), Buddh monks reache to swat and founded huge center for buddhism. India's Famouns Teching institute named 'Takshashila' was also founded in very near by place to swat. Currently takshashila place is in Pakistan.