SPIRITUAL QUOTIENT – 29
JOURNEY TO THE HEAVENS!!!
I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels.
My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said, "This is the 'Receiving Section'. Here, all petitions and letters to God said in prayer are received."
I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps of paper from people all over the world!
Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section. The angel then said to me, "This is the 'Packaging and Delivery Section". Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for them."
I noticed again how busy the angels were there. There were many angels working hard at that station, since so many blessings had been requested for and were being packaged for delivery to Earth!
Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station. To my great surprise, only one angel was seated there practically idle. "This is the 'Acknowledgment Section'," my angel friend quietly admitted to me.
"How is it that there's no work going on here?" I asked.
"So sad," the angel sighed. "After people receive the blessings that they asked for, very few send back acknowledgments."
"How does one acknowledge God's blessings and what blessings should we acknowledge?" I asked.
The angel gave an emphatic reply. "If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your body, a roof overhead and a place to sleep ... You are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthy. And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity."
"If you woke up this morning with more health than illness ...... You are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day. If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation... You are ahead of more than 700 million people in the world."
"If you can attend a place of worship without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death ... You are envied by, and more blessed than 3 billion!"
"If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all. So count your blessings every day & simply thank God for everything! This is the least expected from a spiritual person." said the angel.
"But why everyone is not doing that knowing fully well that God is all powerful & present everywhere?" I asked.
The angel gave a beautiful example: "When a tree bears fruit, not all the fruits in a bunch ripen at the same time. Similarly, when a plant bears flowers, not all the flowers blossom at the same time. Some are in the process of blossoming, others are fully blossomed, yet a few remain as buds. Only the fully blossomed flower spreads its fragrance. Similarly, people too are in different stages of evolution ---some are at a blossoming stage and some others are like the fully blossomed flower, spreading their fragrance. We have to wait patiently they reach the 'fragrance stage'!!!"
PS: The message is more important than the statistics given here!!!
A few responses received…
- Sir,
Spirituality, as conveyed by you, always inspires. (SQ – 27) Thank you.
PARAMESH KRISHNAIER
- Dear Sir,
Whenever and wherever we excel in any activity, we must pray our sincere tributes to almighty as with out his wish, nothing can be achieved. One who see god in every thing, ultimately he can also realize god lives in his or her soul. Material benefits, ego, arrogance, power, positions are the purity killers. One has to seek a right balance in all these to realize who is god. Your messages are in a class of its' own & the examples are very appropriate.
Sai Baba has given us the definition of life and we who actually determine whether we reach divine or come back in human form to this filthy earth depending upon our present karma.
SURESH S
- Sir
Relevant question in modern times and wonderfully answered with the help of a story. (SQ – 28)
The best thing is we can relate to the story and make an attempt to change our perception about people around and situations happening around us, rather than complaining and blaming our fate.
Thank you for this article.
Regards
REVATHI VENKATARAMAN
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