Joke Of The Day: 4 Dec 2007

A man was walking towards a sugarcane factory. He stopped to ask a passerby the way to it. The man said that he did not know and moved on. The man however met a friend further down and stopped to ask him if he knew where the sugarcane factory was. The friend replied, “I don’t know. But wait…could he have possibly meant the confectionery factory?” The other man said, “But of course, that was what he would’ve meant.” Both of them screamed out to the man and he went up to them. “Didn’t you mean the confectionery factory?” they asked him. The man thought for a while and replied vaguely, “Well, perhaps yes. Do you know the way to the confectionery factory?” The men looked at each other and nodded their heads, “Well, we don’t know the way to that either.”

In our journey, we need to ask our questions to someone who knows the answers. Most often, we miss the Master in this and follow the mass of ignorance that takes us nowhere.

Ask The Master: 4 Dec 2007

Q. Does love mean accepting the other person as he is, with all his faults and imperfections?

The very words, ‘accepting the other person as he is, with all his faults...’ implies some kind of condemnation, doesn’t it? ‘Welcoming the other person as he is presented to you’ would be more like love! The whole of Existence is a gift to you from the divine. Accept it with grace and humility.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Uncommon Answers to Common Questions

Joke Of The Day: 3 Dec 2007

A doctor, answered the telephone in the middle of the night and woke up his wife saying, "Listen, I need to rush now! There's someone on the phone saying that he can't live without me." The wife told him, "Calm down dear, that call must have been for me."

We need to bring a little awareness or intelligence in to whatever we hear or do. This will help us respond in a balanced fashion at all times.

Ask The Master: 3 Dec 2007

Q. We normally say that the path towards the divine has to be traveled alone. But is it possible for two people to travel together, through love?

The path towards the divine is a deeply personal one. Up to a certain distance, you can travel together. It makes the path all the more beautiful when you are sharing it with your beloved! But after a while, a time will come when you understand that from this point on, each person has to take the step alone. Each individual is unique, and so is each one's path. When this realization happens, the need to travel together will drop of its own accord. The ultimate flight towards the divine is always utterly alone!

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Uncommon Answers to Common Questions