Goodbye 2008

One more year goes down the memory lane. Reflecting back on it ... now it seems to be a long dream - so many events took place some good, some bad, some big, some small, some highs, some lows, some compliments, some criticisms but nothing could be held on to! Started off with some New Year resolution finally ended up with some thing else in hand. Wanted to achieve something and achieved some thing else :-)

I remember in Yoga Vaisistha, Vaisistha tells a story to Rama - There was a villager in Vindhya hills. Once he was walking in the forest he lost a copper coin (one cent). He was a miser so he began to search for it in the thick bush. All the time he was calculating "With that one cent I shall do some business, it will become four cents then eight cent and so on". For three days he searched unmindful of the taunts of the spectators. At the end of those three days he suddenly found a precious stone! (It was a philosopher's stone.) Taking with him he returned home and lived happily.

Looking back, it's the same realization! A student comes to a Guru looking for a penny goes with a 'cintamani' (wish fulfilling stone) in whose presence and grace...

Lack turns into Abundance,

Misery into Joy,

Tears into Laughter,

Anger into Awareness,

Dispassion into Liveliness,

Restlessness into Restfulness,

Seriousness into Sincerity,

Feverishness into Contentment,

Complaints into Compliments,

Ugliness into Beauty,

Hatred into Love,

Thoughts into Meditation,

Expectations into Acceptance,

Arrogance into Innocence,

Gossips into Satsang,

Ignorance into Knowledge,

Ego into Love,

Thorns into Flowers,

Duty into Seva,

Steams into Teams,

Doer into Hollow and Emptiness,

Greed into Generosity,

Jealousness into Belongingness,

Strangers into Family,

Matter into Consciousness,

Problem into Challenges,

Doubts into Faith,

Darkness into Light,

Complains into Gratitude,

‘Me’ into ‘We’,

'Why Me?' into 'Who Am I?'

Disciple into Devotee,

Bondage into Liberation,

Hell into Heaven,

Silence into Celebration.........

I am sure for all of you too, however this year has been, it will go down the memory lane in Gratitude for the Master!

Wishing you a happy and peaceful New Year!

Love,

Satyajit

Silence, prayers and gratitude to all those people to fought to prevail peace in the world…