Shri Shirdi Sai speaks-18th April/Choose to live a life that matters

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What will matter !!!!!!Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were

owed.Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.Your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will all expire too. The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.It won't matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived.It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Your gender, skin color, ethnicity will be irrelevant.So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built; not what you got, but what you gave.What will matter is not your success, but your significance.What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage and sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example. What will matter is not your competence, but your character.What will matter is not your memories, but the memories of those who loved you.What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone.Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident.It's not a matter of circumstance but of

choice.Choose to live a life that matters.Remember:** Everything that has a beginning has an end.. **** The most important things in life are not "things". ** Bhagavad-Gita Saar (भगवद गीता सार) ...the ultimate essence of life. Whatever happened, it happened for

good.Whatever is happening, is happening for good.Whatever that will happen, it will be for good.What have you lost for which you cry?What did you bring with you, which you have lost?What did you produce, which has destroyed?You did not bring anything when you were born.Whatever you have, you have received from Him.Whatever you will give, you will give to Him.You came empty handed and you will go the same way.Whatever is yours today was somebody

else’s yesterday and will be somebody else’s tomorrow.Change is the law of the universe. How Wonderful Human Birth is!For each individual, a mission in life is fixed by God. Only those who have grasped their objective in life will succeed. Baba used to comment, "There is nothing wrong in failing to accomplish an objective, but having no objective is a blunder". Trees give us the comfort of cool shade, flowers and fruits,

without anticipating anything in return from us. Cows yield milk as a mark of gratitude for the fodder we feed them. Selflessly, the clouds shower rain and the rivers share their waters to irrigate the farm lands. On a deeper analysis, we could understand that every creature in this universe, by one way or other, possess the noble quality of sacrifice. It is not justified if we, the humans, blessed as we are with the power of discretion and intellect, live lazily without any sense of direction or mission in life.Baba loves us as dearly as He loves every living being in the Universe. Our inner voice of the soul would guide us on the right path to successful living once we know the truth that we should fulfil the definite mission in our lives blessed by the Divine Love and Grace of Baba. The power in our hands can carve out a statue from a stone or leave it as a boulder. So, let us not waste our precious life and keep praying to Baba to help us achieve

the definite purpose of our life. How many times should I forgive, I am tired of forgiving? – Forgive as many times as you would wish God to forgive you! ~ Dada J P Vaswani Never do anything which you would not wish to do during the last hour of your life. Dada J.P. Vaswani Helping Others Reach Heights is the Quality of True Leadership

A true leader will have two basic traits. The first one is self-growth and the second is to help his followers reach similar heights. Such a good leader will not mind criticism but follows the right principles and performs them accordingly. His mission is to accomplish the chosen task and never think of others or their remarks. He would stand firm and never shows his back, let failures come or companions desert him. No one can distract his mind from his objectives. He would not get tempted but persuades his associates to follow him. If need be, he would 'overtake' everyone and march in pursuit of success.A true leader is the one, who would take the initiative, presses forward and leads others on his chosen path. He cannot be deemed as a good leader if he lends his ears to what others comment upon his ways, swerves from his path and stoops down. A noble leader wields great impact on the society and pulls his followers from slipping into weaknesses.

In case, if a person is a God-realized Guide on the path of spirituality, he would abide by the divine commands and leads an ideal life with unstinted faith and dedication to God. Under the guidance of such a Supreme Master, we have to set right our conduct on our own. Thus, Baba, God Incarnate, served as the Sadguru.

 

 

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