Thursday, October 28, 2010

Spread the goodness of the FIRE in you

As rightly said by H.H. SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR (MY GURUJI) – “ Learn to distinguish the different fires. If your senses are engaged in goodness, you will create light and fragrance. If engaged in impurity, you produce smoke and darkness. It is samyama that transforms the quality of fire in you.”
Now here is a story on this:
Once there was this old farmer in a village where the main occupation of the people was farming. Everyone used to work hard on their fields but the yields were not up to the mark every year.
So this one farmer got some high quality seeds from somewhere and grew the crops and that year, his yields were the best. Every single family in the village was getting jealous of this farmer. The day that farmer harvested his high quality crops. 50% of the crops he sold to the processing factories, the next 30% he kept for his family and the remaining 20% he had saved.
So, his family members asked that why has he kept that 20% of the high quality crops aside. He said, “ I am going to distribute this to all the other farmers in the village.” Listening to this the members of the family became very angry and started to blabber “ we got the most profits this year, if you give this high quality seeds to others, our profits will be reduced.”
This farmer smiled and said, “ if we keep these high quality seeds to ourselves and grow them every year, a time will come when our high quality seeds will be affected by the other low quality seeds being sown all around our fields. So the best way to keep the high quality seeds and get this high yield every time is: we should give these seeds to others as well. So that every crop grown around us is a high quality crop and this gradually will increase the high yield every where in the surroundings.”
So, what is the catch of this story?
Give and share the good you have to the people around you. Never hesitate to share the knowledge, rather you should be proud that you have a kind of knowledge, that will benefit others in a way you never know.
For people who have done “The ART of LIVING” workshop. Bringing people to the path, telling them about the course is the best way to spread the goodness of the fire in you. So, bring the people around you to the path and we can obviously change the surroundings.
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“You are a burning candle, with the goodness of your flame light the other candles around you and see the difference.”
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Jai GuruDev!
Luv
Rohit

9 comments:

  1. Explained the idea of sharing with a very wonderful example.

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  2. jgd :) very good article.... but isn't it very time consuming to talk to strangers to come for intro talks??
    also which approach do you think is best to spread awareness among strangers? mass media methods like through fliers or by word of mouth.. specially keepin in mind the time factor :) :)

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  3. Fliers is a good option but the world we are living in I think that wasting so much paper is not at all good where forests are vanishing day by day.
    Word of mouth is the best option, intro talks we just give in huge masses or in classes, to strangers we can give HITS ( home introductory talks) i.e. a max 10min talk.
    Basically you just have to share your experience, how you were before the course and what changes have come after the course you have to be 100% authentic.
    JGD :)

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  4. Beautiful.....
    Im so happy that i was always there with u during this time....
    Love u Rohit...
    - Mehul

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  5. love is about contributing....ul recieve the product...happiness n contentment :)
    very well written wid a beautiful example..jai guru dev :)

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  6. what a good idea sir ji.....
    this thinking will rock. JGD.

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