Story: My Neighbor Is A Thief
Once an old man spread rumors that his neighbor was a thief. As a result, the young man was arrested. Days later the young man was proven innocent.
After being released he sued the old man for wrongly accusing him.
In the court, the old man told the Judge: “They were just comments, didn’t harm anyone.”
The judge told the old man: “Write all the things you said about him on a piece of paper. Cut them up and on the way home, throw the pieces of paper out. Tomorrow, come back to hear the sentence.”
Next day, the judge told the old man: “Before the hearing starts, go out and gather all the pieces of paper that you threw out yesterday.”
The old man said: “I can’t do that! The wind spread them and I won’t know where to find them.”
The judge then replied: “The same way, simple comments may destroy the honor of a man to such an extent that one is not able to fix it. If you can’t speak well of someone, rather don’t say anything.”
Giving comments about others have several disadvantages:
1- we become slaves of our words what we have uttered.
2- We lose our own respect in society/colleagues because of doing consistent character assassination.
3- Most of the time, we are not sure whether we are right or wrong because being human our judgment can be wrong so we fall into the category of liars.
4- the Negative trait of our personality becomes prominent which becomes our character in the long run.
Awesome Conversation between God And a Man. Read it and don’t forget to share it with your friends.
Man: God, can I ask You a question?
God: Sure
Man: Promise You won’t get mad …
God: I promise
Man: Why did You let so much stuff happen to me today?
God: What do u mean?
Man: Well, I woke up late
God: Yes
Man: My car took forever to start
God: Okay
Man: at lunch, they made my sandwich wrong & I had to wait
God: Huummm
Man: On the way home, my phone went DEAD, just as I picked up a call
God: All right
Man: And on top of it all off, when I got home ~I just want to soak my feet in my new foot massager & relax. BUT it wouldn’t work!!! Nothing went right today! Why did You do that?
God: Let me see, the death angel was at your bed this morning & I had to send one of My Angels to battle him for your life. I let you sleep through that
Man (humbled): OH
GOD: I didn’t let your car start because there was a drunk driver on your route that would have hit you if you were on the road.
Man: (ashamed)
God: The first person who made your sandwich today was sick & I didn’t want you to catch what they have, I knew you couldn’t afford to miss work.
Man (embarrassed): Okay
God: Your phone went dead bcuz the person that was calling was going to give false witness about what you said on that call, I didn’t even let you talk to them so you would be covered.
Man (softly): I see God
God: Oh and that foot massager, it had a shortage that was going to throw out all of the power in your house tonight. I didn’t think you wanted to be in the dark.
Man: I’m Sorry God
God: Don’t be sorry, just learn to Trust Me…. in All things, the Good & the bad.
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Man: I will trust You.
God: And don’t doubt that My plan for your day is Always Better than your plan.
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Man: I want God.
Q:- What is the difference between ‘Maya’ and ‘Daya’?
Shri # Ramakrishna:- “To love these objects, regarding them as one’s own, is māyā. But to love all things is days, compassion. To love only the members of the Brahmo Samaj or of one’s own family is māyā; to love one’s own countrymen is māyā. But to love the people of all countries, to love the members of all religions, is days. Such love comes from a love of God, from data.
प्रश्न:- ‘माया’ और ‘दया’ में क्या अन्तर ह ै?
#श्रीरामकृष्ण :- “मेरी वस्तु, मेरी वस्तु कहकर, उन सब चीजों को प्यार करना ही माया है। सब को प्यार करने का नाम दया है। मैं केवल मेरे संप्रदाय के आदमियों को प्यार करता हूँ या अपने परिवार के मनुष्यों को, यह माया है। केवल देश के आदमियों को प्यार करता हूँ, यह माया है। सब देशों के मनुष्यों को प्यार करना, सब धर्मों में लोगों को प्यार करना, यह दया से होता है, भक्ति से होता है।
SRI RAMAKRISHNA TODAY 