THE CAREER MAKERS

Creating Deserving Corporate Professionals

How should you live with joy and exuberance? Joy should come not only from
serving society but also from enjoying the best things in life. Just live with
them, enjoy them. You do not have to possess something to enjoy it.

Look at the butterfly. Its life span is so short, yet it enjoys itself thoroughly. It
goes from flower to flower, the most beautiful creation of nature. It sucks
nectar- the sweetest thing in nature. Give it anything else to eat or drink, but it
chooses only the best, honey. Similarly, we should speak only sweetly, think
and live beautifully and enjoy life.

Sweetness is the secret of beautiful life. Once we speak sweetly the whole
world will speak sweetly to us. This should become our nature. Only Bhakti can
ensure this, because Bhakti means love.

What do we do in temples? We put a stone there and offer Archana, which

means we lavish praise on the stone for all the qualities we value. We say you
are our father our mother. We invoke Agni and offer praise, not one or two but
one crore prayers each time. By doing this we invest power in that stone.

One day a priest adept as he was in offering worship, came home and heaped
praise on his wife. You can imagine what a happy home she made for him. We
have to develop the ability to appreciate the good in everyone.

If we are happy and so are others, our speech will become sweet. Life than
become easy, weightless. Otherwise the mind is full of problems and we are
always ready to fight. If we develop Satvik qualities, wherever we go we will be
happy.

We are also quick to find out the different things that has disturbed our
equanimity. If you think deeply you will always find the fault lies with others,
never do you find yourself at fault! Actually it is the other way round.

One day a man felt he needed to see and talk to God. He went to a forest
where he saw a sage sitting in meditation. He placed his request. The sage told
him to collect rainwater in a pot and look into it till the mud settled. When you
see your face in the water, you will know you have got Gyana.
The man did as instructed. Just as the water was becoming clear and he was
beginning to see his face, the sage disturbed the pot. He did this repeatedly.
Finally the seeker got upset. “oh! I am not disturbing it. I just shook it,” said the
sage. IT is in the nature of worldly things that people keep disturbing or
interfering with our life and time. So, if u find that someone has put you in a
bad mood and so you cannot say nice words, or that when u see a person you
remember his bad qualities and find nothing to praise, you know that the
external world has disturbed the pot in your mind. Do not let it do so.

God and everything divine is within you and in everyone around you. If there is
happiness within you, you would not quarrel. And to find that happiness, you
have to find the divine in everyone.