Shreeram Iyer » Philosophical http://www.shreeramiyer.com Speaking the heart is also an art Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:03:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Param-anand http://www.shreeramiyer.com/philosophical/param-anand.php http://www.shreeramiyer.com/philosophical/param-anand.php#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:06:52 +0000 Shreeram http://www.shreeramiyer.com/?p=122 Long ago there lived two devotees of lord Vishnu. They used to sit under Banyan tree and spend entire day in praying their deity. One day these devotees saw Naradji (sage very close to Lord Vishnu) passing by. Seeing him the first devotee requested Naradji,


“Oh Saint! You are so close to my lord, could you please ask Lord on my behalf that, when he would come and bestow me?”

Hearing this even the second devotee requested Naradji the same.
After reaching Vaikunth, Naradji narrated concerns of devotees to Lord Vishnu. Lord smiled and gave answers.
Later Naradji met these two devotees; both of them were very anxious and wanted to know what lord has replied.
To the first devotee Naradji replied


“God has said, the number of branches that this Banyan tree has after taking that many Janmas, you would get mukti and would be able to meet the God.”

The first devotee became furious, and replied back to Naradji


“Are you serious? I have been praying God since last so many years.
How God can be so rude me?
He does not even care about me; and wants me to be born again and that too so many times.
I would not like to pray God, who is not bothered about me and hence I am quitting, I would not pray anymore.”

In spite of hearing this conversation between the first devotee and Naradji, second devotee still had some hopes and he asked Naradji what did God reply.
Naradji then replied

“for you, my dear son, it would take more time”


How much? Second devotee asked.
You need to die and need to re-born as many times, as the number of leaves, on this Banyan tree.
Hearing this second devotee became happy; there was no limit to his happiness. He asked Naradji


“That means when you asked about me to the God; he was able to recollect, who I am? It means my God knows about me, out of billions of his devotees he could identify me; there is no news greater than this. And the happiest part is after taking so many births I would finally meet my Lord, my mukti is certain. What else one requires?”

It is said the second devotee enjoyed this news so much and became so happy that he immediately collapsed and his soul immediately met the Lord the very next moment.
Happiness is one of the biggest gifts of God, to the mankind; In Sanskrit and Hindi one of the synonym of God is Parmanand. The meaning of Paramanand is infinite happiness.
The second devotee reached to a stage of Parmanand; that is infinite happiness that could cut all the bars between him and God. This happiness made second devotee meet the God.

]]> http://www.shreeramiyer.com/philosophical/param-anand.php/feed 0 Thanks my God for giving me Bread http://www.shreeramiyer.com/philosophical/thanks-my-god-for-giving-me-bread.php http://www.shreeramiyer.com/philosophical/thanks-my-god-for-giving-me-bread.php#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:59:50 +0000 Shreeram http://www.shreeramiyer.com/?p=116 Once upon a time there was a young extremist fighting for Indian Independence, this revolutionary was in hit list of British. They had plans to arrest this man and always used to fail while implementing it. There was terror within British army and officers, as no one had guts to arrest this man, the reason of this terror was inbuilt fearlessness of this extremist. He was always ready to lose his life for mother nation’s Independence.
One fine day British army used trickery to catch this activist, and finally succeeded. In court of law run by British this extremist was given Capital punishment. It is heard even after hearing death sentence he had smile on his face thinking this as a small tribute to the nation.
On the penultimate day of punishment, this extremist was asked for his last wish; and the extremist replied that he wants to hear Bhagwat Gita. Jailor found out that father of this extremist is a priest and is known for reciting Gita, hence Jailor asked his father to come and read Gita for his extremist son.
When father met his son on the day of capital punishment, he saw that his son’s face is looking very pale. He was astonished and asked
Priest: I was not expecting this from you my Son; that fear of Death would make you pale and dull.
Extremist: it is not fear of death that made him look pale, in fact I saw a dream, which made him pale and dull.
Priest: What dream ???
Extremist: I saw a dream in which I stabbed mother to death. I am thinking how can I do such a nasty act even in my dream. You know I consider mother as deity.
Priest: What did you eat other day when you saw this dream?
Extremist: food that was provided by the jail as usual.
Hearing this; the Priest rushed to the Jailor and asked who cooked food two days back. Jailor replied the prisoner who makes it every day. Priest requested Jailor to find out exactly who cooked food.
When Jailor enquired about the same, he came to know the prisoner who cooks food everyday was not well, that is why some other prisoner cooked food other day.
Priest further asked Jailor what was the crime; that led this new cook become prisoner. Jailor replied the new cook killed his mother by stabbing a knife.
Life is all about thoughts….. When we eat food we do not know, who has made it, or from where it has come (point of origin). When we offer food to God, he takes away all bad thoughts and fills in purity to the food.
If one has good thoughts then surely he would win, good thoughts create strong will and good strong will changes lives.
Take example of any great saint or even Mahatama Gandhi, they used to offer food to God and then eat.
This is a true story and my source is lecture of Mr. Ram Phal Ram

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