Life is a Gift

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Sunday talk Given By Prof Anil Kumar...Life is a gift .

 

Life is a gift. We have no choice about our gifts. We can,t have

any preference regarding our gifts. Gifts are just given. They are

unsolicited and unasked for, and very often they are undesired. Even

so this human life has been gifted to us, though most of us are

undeserving.

 

Why are we undeserving? W have made life routine, mechanical and

boring. We are responsible for the misuse of this most valuable and

precious gift of human life. Not only do we misuse this life, but we

also have a number of complains about. We say " I am not earning the

salary that I deserve. " We say " My house is smaller that the one I

really wanted to have. " We have so many complains about life. We

always focus on inconveniences, discomforts and grievances.

 

We have lost sight of the very beauty of life. We have forgotten

the grandeur and dignity of life.We have forgotten the preciousness

of life because we calculate life in terms of coins, in terms of

cash, in terms of trash and dust and mean, low aims and objectives.

 

Life is much more! The sense of touch, the sense of sight, the

sense of hearing—these are not ordinary things. God has given us the

ability to see rainbows, beautiful flowers and butterflies. God has

given us the gift of sight to see mountain ranges like Himalayas,

and rivers that flow incessantly. God has given us vision to see the

beauty of nature. Alas, however, we have lost sight of our sight. We

are totally blind to the beauty of nature, and therefore our lives

becomes burdensome. Our lives have become painful because our sight

is not properly used.

 

Life is precious. We are also gifted with the auditory cabality to

hear the beautiful sounds of music and melody of life, but we have

denied ourselves the beautiful gift of the sense of touch. Therefore

we find life boring, painful and strenuous.

 

Life becomes routine because we have not realized the value of

life. We have realized the value of people and things, but we have

not realized the value of this precious life. Therefore my friends,

the first objective of life is study of life, so we may live life in

a proper manner. Then life will be joyful.

 

Life will be a blessings and a benediction. We should rejoice at

life, but we don't . Why not? Our interest are quite different from

the very objective of life. When the plantain tree wants to offer us

the plantain fruit, we want to be satisfied with the plantain leaves

and peelings of the fruit, but not the fruit itself. When the

coconut tree is there offering us coconut water, we are satisfied

with the Shell and fiber of coconut, but lost the very charm of the

water within.

 

Creator and creation are one and the same. But if we ignore the

Creator and focus on the creation it only means we want the mirror

image and not object. If we think of the Creator and neglect the

Creation then it means we have missed the very _ex-pression, the

manifestation of Creator.

 

(Sharing With Sai Love) Ram.Chugani

 

Ram Chugani

Kobe, Japan

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