A message from HH Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamy

[Guest guest]

Priya Sriman Bhagavad Bandhus!

Jai Srimannarayana!

 

Our Mangalasasanams to you all on

the eve of Dhanur Masam and Goda

Kalyanam on Bho:gi day. And also

for the English New Year 2002.

 

We are sure all of you might have

finished the sacred " GI:THAMRUTHA DI:KSHA "

for world peace and individual

strength and prosperity in general.

Prayers always have power to prove.

Your prayers are at work. God is kind

enough to us and keep us in peace.

Whatever we have experienced and

are experiencing now, is only a tiny

fraction of what we would have gone

through, if it were not for your

prayers. Let these prayers continue,

as a part of your daily schedule.

 

Here is a beautiful message for you

all, sent to us by a beloved friend.

We are sure that you get the essence

of it and put it in practice.

 

=chinnajeeyar=

THE GENTLE ART OF BLESSING

 

On awaking, bless this day, for it is already

full of unseen good which your blessings will

call forth; for to bless is to acknowledge the

unlimited good that is embedded in the very

texture of the universe and awaiting each and

all.

 

 

On passing people in the street, on the bus,

in places of work and play, bless them. The

peace of your blessing will companion them on

their way, and the aura of its gentle

fragrance will be a light on their path.

 

 

 

On meeting people and talking to them, bless

them in their health, their work, their joy,

their relationship to the universe, themselves

and others. Bless them in their abundance

and their finances…bless them in every

conceivable way, for such blessings not only

sow seeds of healing but one day will spring

forth as flowers in the waste places of your

own life.

 

 

 

As you walk, bless the city in which you live,

its government and teachers, its nurses and

street sweepers, its children and bankers,

its priests and down trodden. The minute anyone

expresses the least aggression or unkindness

to you, respond with a blessing: bless them

totally, sincerely, joyfully, for such blessings

are a shield which protects you from the

ignorance of their misdeed, and deflects the

arrow that was aimed at you.

 

 

 

To bless means to wish, unconditionally, total

unrestricted good for others and events from the

deepest chamber of your heart : it means to

hallow, to hold in reverence, to behold with

utter awe that which is always a gift from the

Creator. He who is hallowed by your blessing

is set aside, consecrated, holy, whole. To bless

is yet to invoke divine care upon, to speak or

think gratefully for , to confer happiness upon

– although we ourselves are never the bestower,

but simply the joyful witness of Life‘s abundance.

 

 

 

To bless all without discrimination of any sort

is the ultimate form of giving, because those

you bless will newer know from whence came the

sudden ray that burst trough the clouds of their

skies, and you will rarely be a witness to the

sunlight in their lives.

 

 

 

When something goes completely askew in your day,

some unexpected event knocks down your plans and

you too also, burst into blessing : for life is

teaching you a lesson, and the very event you

believe to be unwanted, you yourself called forth,

so as to learn the lesson you might balk gainst

were you not to bless it. Trials are blessings

in disguise, and hosts of angels follow in their

path.

 

 

 

To bless is to acknowledge the omnipresent,

universal beauty hidden from material eyes: it

is to activate that law of attraction which, from

the furthest reaches of the universe, will

bring into your life exactly what you need

to experience and enjoy.

 

 

 

When you pass a prison, mentally bless its inmates

in their innocence and freedom, their gentleness,

pure essence and unconditional forgiveness; for

one can only be a prisoner of one‘self-image, and

a free man can walk unshackled in the courtyard

of a jail, just as citizens of countries where

freedom reigns may be prisoners when fear lurks

within their thoughts.

 

 

 

When you pass a hospital, bless its patients in

their present wholeness, for even in their suffering,

their wholeness awaits in them to be discovered.

When your eyes behold a man in tears, or seemingly

broken by life, bless him in his vitality and joy :

for the material senses present but the inverted

image of the ultimate splendor and perfection

which only the inner eye beholds.

 

 

It is impossible to bless and judge at the same

time. So hold constantly as a deep, hallowed,

intoned thought the desire to bless, for truly

then shall you become a peacemaker, and one day

you shall behold, everywhere, the very face of God.

 

 

PS

And of course, above all, do not forget to bless

the utterly beautiful person YOU are.

 

 

Jai SrimanNarayana