Seeking God

Seeking God

 

Of course I am a theist. I do believe in God

but it doesn't mean that I believe each and everything in the name of God. No never! Being a self-believer, I am dead against blind-belief.

 

God is the power or energy. In our surrounding we can see so many illustrations, we have so many examples that shows there is some force that makes the trees grow, the water flow, the sun and the moon and the whole universal phenomenon exist.

 

Learned people say that God is Omni-potent (servashakt). He is the Supreme Power. God is Omni-present(servavyapi). God is everywhere. God is Omniscient ( servaballida ) God is all-knowing.

 

 No doubt, His description is beyond words or imagination. He is known by His attributions-merciful, generous, maintainer, sustainer and the like. He is not confined by any one religion or belief.

 

Does God exist?  Most of them say, 'Yes certainly'. A few of them say, 'No not at all'. A very few of them say, 'God's promise, there is no God'. In order to say God does not exist, they swear in the name of God only. Such answer seems funny.

 

Where is God?  All that exist is a sign of God. God is in the smile of a child, hug of a mother. the buzz of a bee, the silence of a tree, in the stillness of a log, the color of a flower, singing of birds and so on.

 

 Recently, I have read a nice  story. 

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God got very tired after creating and was resting. Adam came to him and said, 'Eve is a big problem. She complains all the time. I was better off alone by my self. Please take her away.' So God said, 'Okay.

 He called Eve and said, 'Leave him, come and be in the heaven.'

 Adam came  back home but he felt lonely without her. He had so much work to do that he felt stressed.

 He said, 'What am I living here for?' Life is so boring.' So he went back to God and said, 'I made a mistake, please send her back.' So god sent her back.

 

The first day was very good, the second there was nagging, third day she was frowning and pouncing like tigress.

Fourth day he went back to God and the same story repeated three times.

 

The fourth time God said, 'Look, no more! You have to manage.' Since that day, man and woman are managing with each other.

 

But God was scared that soon either Eve or Adam will come back again, now with a big force, with all their kids.

He said, 'There is no escape, where should I go?'

 

There was a wise Yogi who was approaching, God said," Man is complaining all the time, or keeps requesting for things and asks me a million questions."

 

The yogi told him, 'There is one place where man never goes- his own heart. You go and get into his heart. He never enters there. The moment he enters, there will be no complaints or demands."

 

God liked the idea and He did the same. Since that day He is hiding in the heart of human beings. 

 

God is not in temples or in  mutts or in any other holy place. God is in the heart of every human being.  So through meditation we can turn inwards, and seek him there. In every human being there is love, and that love is God.

 

                              Indu Naik

 

Be Blessed

Be Blessed

 

As you count the blessings God has given you, think of those whom you can share it with.

 

My husband often says this and he does accordingly.

 

 

Once a poor boy who loved ice-creams walked into a cafeteria. The waiter placed a glass of water on the table and asked him what he wanted to order.

 

The boy asked, "how much is an ice-cream?"

He answered 'forty rupees'. The boy removed all the coins from his pocket and began to count them. The waiter got impatient. After the counting, the boy then asked, "What is the price of a sandwich?"

 

With anger and impatience, the waiter replied 'thirty rupees'. He placed the order. The boy had his sandwich paid the bill and left the cafeteria.

 

Minutes later when the waiter was cleaning his table, tears rolled down on his cheeks as he saw a ten rupees tip on the table.

 

It requires love and a spirit of sacrifice to look to the needs of others.

 

 

No doubt, God promises blessings upon the charitable.

 

Give whole-heartedly and it will be given to you surprisingly. Certainly you will be blessed.

 

                                                                 Indu Naik

 

.Have you ever heard it?

Have you ever heard it?

 

Eyes 

Eyes said, "I can see the far mountain
 ranges beyond the pond. It is looking beautiful covered by the frost"


Ear said, "Where are mountains? I can't listen its breath"

Hand said, "I too can't touch any mountains"

Nose said, "I cannot smell the perfume of mountains. It's a lie. Mountains are not here"

Eyes kept silent and turned other side.
 Other organs started talking themselves "this eyes might have gone mad. It speaks about have-nots"

Poverty in Plenty

Poverty in Plenty

 

  In our surroundings we see people who have more of everything than anyone else has it. They have bungalows, cars, jewels, furniture, gold-ornaments, property, money and more and more such things. Along with that they have more books in book-shelf on 'how to be happy'. Though they are not contented. Happiness can never subsist in material things.

   Rabindranath Tagore says in a poem, a little child, sitting in the dust, playing with a broken-twig is extremely happy and contented than anybody else.

   In this context, I could recall the story which I had taught once to my students in Second P U class while teaching exercises in English Work Book.

  There was a very wealthy man. His little son enjoyed the comforts of their lovely mansion. The wealthy man took his son through a very poor village to spend a day to give him a feeling of what poverty is.

 When they returned, father asked his son what he saw.

  The boy said, " Dad, I see, we eat packaged food and canned stuff, they grow their own vegetables and eat fresh, we have chandeliers for light and decoration but they sleep under the starlit skies, we have two highbred dogs, they have dogs all over the village barking at us strangers, we have a swimming-pool and they have an ever-flowing river, we have computer games and they have children who spring about and play around with each other, we hardly know anybody in the neighbor but they seem to know the names of everybody in the village, we have no time to talk to each other but those parents spend so much time with their children. I realized indeed, how poor we are dad very poor when we are compared to them"  The wealthy man hugged his little son as his heart struck a chord.

 

 There are people who have possessions but are not happy and there are those people who hardly have much but are happy and content in life.

 Sometimes we too experience poverty in the midst of plenty.

  Hence it's better to be happy with what we have not craving for the things what we don't have.

                                                                               
                                                                                  Indu Naik                 .



ಬದಲಾವಣೆಯ ಕಾಲ ಸನ್ನಿಹಿತವಾಗಿದೆ

ಬದಲಾವಣೆಯ ಕಾಲ ಸನ್ನಿಹಿತವಾಗಿದೆ

 

                           ಹಾರುವೆನು ನಾನು ದಿಗಂತದೆತ್ತರಕೆ 

              ಸುತ್ತ-ಮುತ್ತಲಿನ ಮೌಡ್ಯದ ಸಂಕೋಲೆಯನು ಕಳಚಿ

                      ವಿನೂತನ ರೀತಿಯಲಿ, ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರವಾಗಿ

                              ಗುರಿ ಮುಟ್ಟುವ ದಿಶೆಯಲಿ

                            ಹಾರುವೆನು ನಾನು ದಿಗಂತದೆತ್ತರಕೆ

 

                                   ಹೆಣ್ಣಿರಲಿ, ಗಂಡಿರಲಿ

                           ಇಬ್ಬರಲ್ಲೂ ಸುಳಿವ ಆತ್ಮ ಒಂದೇ

                                       ಎಂತಿರುವಾಗ

          ಹೆಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಮಾತ್ರ ಯಾಕೆ ಈ ಅನಿಷ್ಟ ಕಟ್ಟು-ಪಾಡುಗಳ ಕರ್ಮ? 

           

                      ದಿನ-ನಿತ್ಯ ಟಿ. ವಿ.ಯಲಿ ಕೇಳಿ ಬರುತಿದೆ

                                   ಜಗಜ್ಜಾಹೀರವಾಗಿ

                    ಹೆಣ್ಣಿನ ಮೇಲಿನ ಅತ್ಯಾಚಾರ, ಅನಾಚಾರ

                                        ದೌರ್ಜನ್ಯ

                              ಪಾಪಿಗಳ ಸ್ವೇಚ್ಚಾಚ್ಛಾರ

                               ಅಸಾಹಯಕರ ಆಕ್ರಂದನ

                                 ಏನೀದರ ಮರ್ಮ?

 

                                ಯಾಕೀ ವೈಪರಿತ್ಯ?

                            ಭೂ-ತಾಯಿ ನಲುಗಿಹಳು.

                   ಸಹನೆಯ ಕಟ್ಟೆಯೊಡೆದು ಸಹಿಸದಾದಾಗ

                                  ಸಾರುತಿಹುದು

                  ಕಾಲದ ಇನ್ನೊಂದು ತಿರುವು 'ಬದಲಾವಣೆ '

                                ಅವಶ್ಯ-ಅನಿವಾರ್ಯ

 

                             ಸರಕಾರದ ಹೊಸ ಹೆಜ್ಜೆ ,

                        ಜನತೆಯ ಒಗ್ಗಟ್ಟು ಸೂಚಿಸುವ -

                              ಮಾನವ-ಸರಪಳಿ

                      ಎಲ್ಲವೂ ಒಟ್ಟಾಗಿ ಅಡಗಿಸದಿಹರೇ

                        ಪಾಪಿಗಳ ಪೈಶಾಚಿಕ ಕ್ರೌರ್ಯ ?

 

                           ಭವಿಷ್ಯದ ಬದುಕಿನ ಭರವಸೆ

         ಯುವ ಪೀಳಿಗೆಯ ಹೆಣ್ಣು-ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ನೀಡುತಿದೆ ಆಸರೆ

                 ಮೂರರಿಂದ ಎಪ್ಪತ್ತು ವಯಸ್ಸಿನ ವರೆಗೂ

          ಹೆಣ್ಣು ಪಡೆಯುತ್ತಿರುವ ಹೊಸ-ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ 'ಸ್ವ-ರಕ್ಷಣೆ '

 

                      ಗಂಡು ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ದುಃಖವಾದಾಗ -

               ಹತ್ತಿಕ್ಕದೇ ಕಣ್ಣೀರಿನ ಮೂಲಕ  ಹೊರಹಾಕುವದು

               ತಾಯಿ ಕಲಿಸಬೇಕಾದ  ಇನ್ನೊಂದು ಹೊಸ-ಪಾಟ

                       ಈ ಎಲ್ಲ ಮಾರ್ಪಾಡು ಸಾರಿದೆ

                            ಬದಲಾವಣೆಯ ಕಾಲ ಸನ್ನಿಹಿತವಾಗಿದೆ

 

                ತಾಯ್ತಂದೆಯರ ಪ್ರೀತಿಯ ಆರೈಕೆಯಲಿ

                         ಸಹೋದರರ ಸಮನಾಗಿ

              ಅನಿಷ್ಟ ಅಂಧಾಚರಣೆಗಳ ಸರಣಿಯಿಂದಾಚೆಗೆ 

                                    ಹಾರ  ಬಯಸುವೆ ನಾನು

                     ಕೀಳರಿಮೆ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಪಕ್ಷಿಯ ತೆರದಿ ಉತ್ತುಂಗಕೆ

                                ...  ಸಾರುತ್ತಾ.....

                         ಪರಿವರ್ತನೆ ಜಗದ ನಿಯಮ.

                                                             

                                                               Indu Naik

 

 

 



Mod Doggie

Mod Doggie

 

 

               Motu went to a Mall for shopping. At the entrance he saw a dog standing in the queue with other people. Motu was surprised. The owner of the dog was not there. The dog had a paper in its mouth and a bag on its shoulder. OK. After security-pass, the dog went inside. Eagerly Motu followed the dog.

  The dog straightaway went inside the lift.  OK. The dog lifted one of its leg and pressed 3rd floor button. It went outside at the 3rd floor-stop. Motu followed.
 The dog went to Pizza shop and gave the paper which was in its mouth. Pizza-order was written in that paper. The shop keeper packed Pizza and gave it. The dog took out debit card and gave him. Shop keeper rubbed the debit card and asked pin number. The dog turned its snout towards the paper. OK.  The shop keeper entered the number which was written on the paper and then returned the card with receipt. The dog took the Pizza and came out of the Mall by the same way.

 

                     OK.  There was heavy traffic on the main road. The dog stood in the place of signal waiting for the red signal. when the signal light turned to green, it crossed the road. Afterwards started walking on some other route. Motu followed.

       OK. Later the dog went inside a big bungalow. Near the door, it kept the bag down and climbed the wall by the side of it with difficult and pressed the calling bell by lifting its leg. The man who opened the door was the owner Jai. He started scolding the dog without any stop.

   Motu was again surprised. Such a smart dog it is and this man is scolding it!

   "What is this? You have such a nice dog. I have been following this dog. Why are you scolding it?" asked Motu.

 

 For that Jai said angrily, "I don't know, what smart is it?

 This is the second time the dog has forgotten to carry the key with it. When it comes, I have to come to open the door."

 

   " No matter how much you work, whoever praise you  but no one can please your boss." With these thoughts in his mind, Motu saluted the dog with smile and went away.

 

                                                                                             Indu Naik