Carrying in our hearts the sweet moments of love-filled experiences from the day after the birthday of the Lord the symbol of love and the abode of affection we open our eyes to a new morning.
Love is not merely an emotion directed toward someone.
It is the light within us that has the power to illuminate another person’s life.
Where love is expressed, fear diminishes, hatred disappears, and a human truly becomes human.
That is why love is not an action, but a state of being.
What, then, is the true sign of love?
What is the real expression of affection?
Working to stabilize our own lives, striving to strengthen the security of our families
none of these should be mistaken as selfishness.
How can one who does not love himself truly love another?
If one cannot find success in his own life, how can he lift someone else onto the steps of success?
This is where we must carefully calculate the answers to these questions.
Life is not merely a journey of earning.
It is a spiritual journey of discovering ourselves.
No matter how high a position we reach, if our heart lacks peace, that height becomes nothing more than a shadow.
True elevation is born only in the moments when our inner being expands.
What is the boundary of stability in our lives?
What is the definition of success in our life?
Wealth alone does not stabilize life.
Titles and positions alone do not make a life successful.
Wealth is necessary, titles and positions are necessary.
But even those who lack these can still attain a stable and successful life!
Because the power that grants all these lies hidden within us.
If we steady our mind and understand the self that resides within, everything becomes possible.
The strength of our inner being cannot be found outside.
It is forged in the fire of our experiences.
Every failure comes not to shatter us, but to sculpt us.
Only when we accept the pain of that sculpting does the true treasure of our inner self emerge.
If we cultivate the mindset of giving a little from what we have without assuming that everything we receive is solely for us and bring joy into another’s life, then life becomes truly sweet.
I share a small incident from the Mahabharata that I recently read.
Arjuna is one of the five brothers of Pandavas.
Krishna is the incarnation of lord Vishnu.
Arjuna and Krishna are best of friends.
In this background continue reading the following .
As Arjuna and Krishna were walking through a street, an old man approached them asking for charity.
Arjuna gave him a thousand gold coins. The old man was delighted.
“Ah! This will sustain our family for five or six years!” he thought, and set off for home.
A thief who noticed this snatched the gold coins from him.
A few days later, when Arjuna passed that way again, the old man narrated what had happened.
Arjuna then gave him a precious navaratna gem and asked him to keep it safe.
The old man carefully took it home and hid it in a pot in the cupboard, without telling even his wife or children.
Unaware of this, his wife took the same pot to the river to fetch water.
While washing the pot, the gem fell into the river.
When she returned home with the pot, the old man saw it and was shocked.
“Where is the gem?” he asked.
Not knowing anything, she panicked and searched the river for hours, but in vain.
A few days later, Krishna and Arjuna met the old man again, and he told them what had happened.
Arjuna said to Krishna, “He is truly unlucky.”
Krishna agreed and said, “This time, give him just two coins.”
Arjuna gave the two coins and they followed the old man to see what would happen.
On the way, a fisherman approached the old man and asked him to buy two live fish.
The old man thought, “These two coins won’t feed my family anyway. Let me at least do a good deed.”
So he bought the fish and released one into the river.
When he opened the mouth of the second fish, he saw something stuck inside.
To his astonishment, it was the same precious gem his wife had lost in the river.
Overjoyed, he shouted, “I found it!”
At that very moment, the thief who had robbed him earlier happened to pass by. Hearing the shout, he panicked, thinking the old man was referring to him, and tried to flee. Krishna and Arjuna caught him.
He was imprisoned, and all the stolen goods from his house were recovered and returned to the old man.
Arjuna asked Krishna, “Life is full of strange happenings, but how are such events even possible?”
Krishna smiled and said:
“When you first gave him wealth, he wanted to keep it only for himself and his family.
When you gave him the precious gem, he hid it away, neither using it himself nor letting it benefit anyone else.
So neither remained with him.
But this time, though he had very little, he thought, ‘Even if it doesn’t help me, let at least another living being survive.’
Because of that merit, he gained far more than what he had lost.
Lakshmi’s grace comes only to those who think of the welfare of others.”
My dear ones, do not assume that I know everything simply because I share the thoughts that arise in my heart.
I am merely inviting you to accompany me as companions in my journey of refining my inner self.
If even a few drops from this journey are useful to you, that alone is my success.
My beloved young generation!
You, the cherished children of Mother Tamil, are the pillars who will uphold our society.
I have faith that you can accomplish it.
With love,
Sakthi Sakthithasan
