Positive Mental Attitude is the root cause for Happiness!

February 9, 2006

Namaste:

The enclosed message was passed on to me from my friend through an

email. All of us have the capacity to develop the mental attitude of

this 92 year old man of wisdom and sail through our life with full

of `happiness.' The episode below ends with five golden rules to be

happy!

Harih Om!

Ram Chandran

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A 92-year -old, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each

morning by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably coifed and shave

perfectly applied, even though he is legally blind, moved to a

nursing home today. His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making

the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the

lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when he was told that

his room was ready.

As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, the maid provided a

visual description of his tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that

had been hung on his window. I love it," he stated with the

enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new

puppy.

Mr. Jones, you haven't seen the room; just wait." "That doesn't

have anything to do with it," he replied.

"Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like

my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is

arranged....it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love

it. "It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a

choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have

with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and

be thankful for the ones that do.

Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I'll focus on the

new day and all the happy memories I've stored away. Just for this

time in my life. Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw from

what you've put in. So, my advice to you would be to deposit a

lot of happiness in the bank account of memories! Thank you for your

part in filling my Memory bank. I am still depositing. Remember the

five simple rules to be happy:

1. Free your heart from hatred.

2. Free your mind from worries.

3. Live simply.

4. Give more.

5. Expect less.

February 9, 2006

Namasate Ram,

That was a wonderful article. Just loved it.

Ths issue is how do we achieve the 5 things that is said as the key for

happiness. Give more and expect less- the most difficult for me...for that

matter i think for most.

Running behind a endless happiness and more money, dont you think the world

would the ideal place all of us were like the old man in the story......

Anyone having achiveved this is definitely great and i would like to hear from

people who have changed to live like this ...

Let there be peace...

regards

Subbu

Ram Chandran <ramvchandran wrote: Namaste:

The enclosed message was passed on to me from my friend through an

email. All of us have the capacity to develop the mental attitude of

this 92 year old man of wisdom and sail through our life with full

of `happiness.' The episode below ends with five golden rules to be

happy!

Harih Om!

Ram Chandran

--------------------------------

A 92-year -old, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each

morning by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably coifed and shave

perfectly applied, even though he is legally blind, moved to a

nursing home today. His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making

the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the

lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when he was told that

his room was ready.

As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, the maid provided a

visual description of his tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that

had been hung on his window. I love it," he stated with the

enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new

puppy.

Mr. Jones, you haven't seen the room; just wait." "That doesn't

have anything to do with it," he replied.

"Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like

my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is

arranged....it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love

it. "It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a

choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have

with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and

be thankful for the ones that do.

Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I'll focus on the

new day and all the happy memories I've stored away. Just for this

time in my life. Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw from

what you've put in. So, my advice to you would be to deposit a

lot of happiness in the bank account of memories! Thank you for your

part in filling my Memory bank. I am still depositing. Remember the

five simple rules to be happy:

1. Free your heart from hatred.

2. Free your mind from worries.

3. Live simply.

4. Give more.

5. Expect less.

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February 10, 2006

Namaste Sri Subbu:

The message of the episode is very subtle! The story illustrates our

misperceptions about 'give' and 'take.' We incorrectly perceive that

we deserve 'more' than others and this illusive perception entertains

the thought that we do `more' and get in return `less'! The fact is

that we came to this universe literally with 'nothing' and we bound

to leave this world with 'nothing!' It is up to us to develop the

attitude of expecting `less' while living! Living in this world is a

privilege and Natures provides us everything (giving always more than

we deserve) and expects nothing back from us! All that we need to do

is to follow this golden law of nature as specified by the rules 4

and 5.

Rule # 1 is quite simple and its primary purpose is to reduce

unnecessary sufferings – the person to whom we express our hate in

most of the time is unaware that he/she is the cause of our misery! A

Tamil poem defines `good-person' and `bad-person' by the following:

The good-person forgets and forgives all the unkind actions

instantaneously but always remembers and cherishes the kindness of a

fellow being. In contrast, the bad-person forgets thousands of kind

actions of a fellow being instantaneously and hates him/her for the

one and only unkind word ever uttered! The moral of the story of the

episode of the old man is a reminder to all of us why we need to

recognize and remember the `good' and forget and erase the `bad' from

our memory!

Harih Om!

Ram Chandran

advaitin, Subramaniam Nagarajan <nsubbu1

wrote:

>

> Namasate Ram,

>

> That was a wonderful article. Just loved it.

>

> Ths issue is how do we achieve the 5 things that is said as the

key for happiness. Give more and expect less- the most difficult for

me...for that matter i think for most.

>

> Running behind a endless happiness and more money, dont you think

the world would the ideal place all of us were like the old man in

the story......

February 10, 2006

Namaste Sri Subbu

i am sorry i do not post much....but some times poeple feel bad and

think they are bad...when they are spritally confussed...which makes me

want t o ask..can this happin to every one at least one time in

life...where they are in state of confusion..dose the confussion result

from bad karma.?some times it can feel like menal illness.....

? can this be mistaken for a mental ill ness....but do good poeple ever

get confussed asout their faith and dose it bother them?

thank you

jennifer

Ram Chandran <ramvchandran wrote: