Atmānanda- Laharī

What can I bring?  This is one of the common question we ask during any potluck gatherings and Thanksgiving meal. Beyond bringing an appetizer, main course, a side or dessert, what offering would we like to make on a day set aside for thanksgiving?  The answer is to bring our true self. Make a beautiful meal for this Thanksgiving!   Peel off the divisions of comparison, condemnation and judgement.  Prepare the base with inner silence, add a bountiful layer of gratitude, fill with toppings of love, peace and Joy.  Arrive with a heart of Thanksgiving, and share it with all. Think of the story from Mahabharata, Draupadi holding the almost empty vessel with one rice flake left, offering with a sense of gratitude and love, made it enough to feed the multitudes. The true self is full of existence, knowingness and limitless joy.   Let us bring our true self out!  Let the abundance of gratitude feed the hungry heart and free the soul f...

Accepting With Gratitude Body mind complex may have a name Doctor, Teacher, Mentor bringing lot of fame Ambition, Career, Academics, all a game Ego swells up needing some tame CV is highlighted in freestyle   LinkedIn is updated as a great profile Meetings, panel interviews, job offers Title, bonus, benefits, Dollars Accept the results with gratitude  Attitude determines one's altitude All is well always, that is quietude Prime Mover has a great magnitude Surrender to the supreme power Understand the flow of the overpower Things align spontaneously  Events, results ensue harmoniously Everything is given  Ability to think is given Ability to express is given Ability to work is given Work is by all for all Action is by one for one  Let us work, just like the nature Work for all without a nomenclature Wind blows for all Water flows for all Sun shines for all Let us work for all