Think Positive?

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In this topic, I am not going to give you any positive thinking quotes or any philosophical lecture. I am just trying to make you understand why we should think positive and how it can help us.

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Ever thought of answering above mentioned question from your heart, 100% true? I get a big smile often when I get chance to ask this question to someone randomly. If you want to feel the same let’s try it now. Imagine that we (you and me) just started a chat online or in person, (You)Hi – (Me)Hey, how are you? – (You)If it’s a rule to give 100% true answer, what will be your answer?

Now a days, it is fact that we often try to hide our true feelings thinking that others will not like it. We always forget an old saying – “Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow”. In our full life time why we cannot spend a day or a week or a month full of fun and happiness, why we cannot give true reply. I always believe that all these problem arise because of ourselves only. We have lost our capacity to manage things, we are not interested to sort it out. I am sure you all get advice for any problems you have in a positive way, people around you will always ask you to think positive but what if they are on our place? Time by time all these things appears too big to handle and a person will get ready for the last two options – Sort it out or die.

While talking to many of the religious people who has thousands of fans and devotees, I fall in a mess with them often. They always say that everything is decided by the almighty lord, we are just the players. I guess you all believe in karma/deed and its effects. My point of argument is – “If everything is decided, who are we to bother, why to waste our precious life in tension of money, people, life, comforts, etc.”, on any kind of failures we hear people saying that, maybe I was not destined for it or it was not in my destiny. This means that if you get succeed, it’s your hard work & skills – if you fail, it’s your karma/deed or destiny, I really don’t think it’s fair, what you say?

I am not asking you to stop your mind and start living like a primitive man but treat yourself. Thinking positive is not a solution for all your problems but it will at least make you feel relaxed. You cannot apply magnet rule, here it is reverse – “Positive attracts positive and negative attracts negative”. If you ever feel like testing it, I would say… mmmmm… yes go for it and see what happens sooner or later.

Thinking positive is a good way to make your tomorrow better than today, I know it’s not so easy to think positive when you get your cheque bounced or you are in some serious problem but what if I can try to give you a way out. Let us go through a situation with a question, if you get a favorable answer, you win and if you don’t, my way will surely guide you to stay relaxed. Suppose, you are facing a financial problem, you have already tried your best but there is no result. After certain time you will start thinking negative, nothing is good in my life, I always have this kind of problems, this & that. Now in this situation, try to answer my question – “Can you change your condition by increasing your tension, thinking negative, live with a dull sad face 24×7? If your answer is “Yes” then you are the winner and you have some god gifted magical powers. If your answer is “No” then why you are wasting your time with that, keep on trying to sort it out with good mood and with your normal life.

When ever you fall in such situations, just try to ask yourself a serious question – “What can I do in this situation?” If you get a proper way out, go for it and finish the problem OR enjoy your life with regular efforts to come out of the problem.

Just a day before when I was writing this, I was at a hospital and I saw something was written on a paper behind a door, that was very similar to what I am trying to make you understand here. It says – For every questions you have in your life, God have only 3 answers; (1)Yes – (2)No – (3)I have planned something else for you.

I never say that one should not think negative because I totally believe that if there were no negative thoughts, parachutes have never been invented.

Enjoy life and always remember that problem is a part of every living being. Even our God faced so many problems during their human incarnation. Without a problem or tension your life will be like a journey without a destination.

Have fun! God always have a better plan for you. God bless you all for all your good wishes.

Angels on Earth

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Some of my blog readers wanted me to post some pictures and explanation on how angels work, how they might be seen on earth (only highly clairvoyant people can see all these things) and many other similar questions of curiosity.

Angels like us are on the job of almighty lord working for us but they never take holiday. They can be found anywhere on earth in any gesture, it’s like you are sitting somewhere with some problem and you realize that an angel is sitting next to you listening you waiting for you to finish your prayer and feel relaxed. Some angels are like our police man who will be sitting in the middle of city to take care of people and record anything bad someone is doing to others. Angels appear anywhere according to their need at places, it can be for healing, protection, prosperity, power, good work, etc.

Check out the pictures and you will completely understand their role.

Tithing

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When I was a kid (3-4 years), I often noticed that my family members, relatives and even some strangers give food, money, clothes or other necessary things to people they never know, never seen before. I never questioned them because just by seeing that process I felt someting good, though at that time I never know what is going on but something good. I was growing up and along with my age, my noticing was also increasing. Time by time I started feeling like even I should try this and I saw beggar asking for some money or food, I was seeing him and there were many questions in my mind like “How much money should I give?”, “Is he lying?”, “Is he really a beggar or just cheating people?”, “If I give him money, what will I do without money?” and many other. He was very poor and weak so I asked him, “What will you have – money or food? He replied, anything you want to give but please help me, I am hungry. I started doing some calculation for the money I have and money I will spend for him (even I was living upon my pocket money from my dad). After few seconds of calculation I decided to bought him a packet of biscuits which can help him satisfy his hunger upto certain level. I bought it and handed over to that beggar, he was like bit happy and blessed me and went away, for the first time I realized what happens to someone while helping other.

After a couple of days, I was sitting with my mom & dad at home. I was left with very less money after that help to begger, so I tried to talk to dad and ask for some money (obviously mom will start a rapid fire round of questions, where did you spend?, why?, what you did? etc…), dad just said that he is not going to give a single penny more untill next week (yes, my pocket money was on weekly basis). I tried to explain why I want some money before next week, so I started to tell them about that beggar whom I bought a packet of biscuits and I ran out of money now. I even tried to know if I was right doing it or I did any mistake, mom gave a nice smile looking at dad and said that, you helped him to satisfy his hunger, that is really good. Dad was like, he liked it too but will not give an extra penny as he wanted me to learn a lesson. His thinking was bit different, always help if someone is really in need but it should not make you ask for help from others. I understood what he wanted me to learn. My dad also said that never give money to beggars, you never know what they will do with that money (money can be used for any addictions, gambling, etc.), so give them food as much as you can afford and never think or calculate, just do it. I know that my dad was saying two different things to follow at a time which was next to impossible but the moral of his words was like – “Never think while helping hungry people” and “Always calculate before doing any financial help”.

Time by time, I started learning about helping people and from varied sources I came across many different words to define that help. Different people speak different words like donation, tithing, help, support etc. Just like what I said in previous post “Blessing Power” (https://doyoureckon.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/blessing-power/), “As you SOW so shall you REAP: Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later much more than we sow.”, this happens in tithing also.

I tried to study many ways to do tithing from different cultures and found that it should be done according to your need. If you never want to stay hungry, donate food to hungry, clothes for clothes, money for money and like wise (not like the theory of a warrior – “Eye for an eye”, we are here for a good cause). I even heard many stories to explain what a tithing is and how it can help oneself. Let me tell you one of those stories and it is even one of my favorite stories (myth or truth, never known but a good story with a good lesson). Once upon a time there was a very poor lady living with her only son (his age was around 5-6 years), mother was working as a maid and earn her living leaving her son at home alone. They often faced days with no money and no food. One day mother woke up and realized that it was her son’s birth-day, she searched all the vessels for some raw material from which she can prepare a small cup of sweet dish for her son. Some how she managed to prepare it and before leaving to work she asked her son to eat it as a lunch and blessed him. He was waiting for the lunch time to enjoy that sweet dish, mean while a sage came to son begging for some food (in many cultures and places, sages have to beg for food and cloths). Little boy was confused, he started thinking that he has a small cup of food (his favorite sweet dish) for his lunch, what will he eat if he gives away that food to the sage. He knows that the sage was busy with is meditation and didn’t ate anything for a week. He decided to offer that small cup of food to the sage and stay hungry thinking that her mother can give him some food next day. The sage finished the food and blessed that little boy. At that moment, it was just a blessing from sage but the sage knew that all the powers and blessings he got during that meditation was transfered to the little boy in return of the food. The sage went away to unknown place and since then that boy started getting huge offerings everyday ever after. Everyday, he was offered to wear brand new clothes and jewelleries while donating his stuff of previous day. -Moral of the story is, you will receive according to your donation.

Note: Your past karma(s)/deed(s) are always counted along with your tithing, therefore people always get different results.

Different teachings tell us different ways but the moral of the story is almost same everytime. In general, definition of tithing is very simple i.e. tenth part of one’s income. Various studies gives random results so we will try to follow the definition with some custom variation.

Let’s understand the procedure with a very simple example. Suppose your profit is 10,000 (whatever the currency is) per month. Tenth part of your profit will be 1000. Now the question is how to spend this 1000?

We will equally divide that 10% to donate i.e. 20% x 5 (places).

• 20% to your parents
• 20% to your teacher (one who made you achieve something in your life, one you respect the most)
• 20% to the place where you worship and ask for blessings (temple, mosque, church, etc.)
• 20% to the people working for you on regular basis (not just employees, it can be any person working for you regularly)
• 20% to any charitable work/foundation

In most cases, people do tithing for business purpose and due to their greed they don’t find any good results. Tithing has to be done with good heart without any expectations, let our supreme god decide what will be result of your tithing.

Start practicing this basic formula and enjoy the fruits. There is also another way to do it which I will try to show you later on in a new post.

Always remember, “More you give, more you receive”