ON THIS NEWYEAR

         One more gift for you all from god the almighty. You are given the honor to welcome yet another year. Just think for a while, that how much of kind he is. He gave you the luck to see the new year’s first moment. He let you enjoy the eve. He let you share your joy with your dear ones. He let you welcome the new smiles and wishes. He also let you live a wonderful life ahead, unlike the passed away men. Yes....you are honored with a new life. On this occasion let’s thank our father, god the almighty for his blessings on us. Let’s show our gratitude towards his mercy on us for letting us see the dawn of the new days. Now I wanna ask you something. What are you gonna give him in return for the kindness that he has shown on us? What would be your token of thanks for him, a one rupee or two rupee coin into the temple treasury? Or a vow to the chapel? But I would like to remind you that, when you offer something, have it from your heart. From the heart means, it should be genuine. It should be of 100% dedication. God accepts only those which are true, true from the depth. But offering some sort of costly materials can never be the truest.

         So this is a chance for you to think of those some things by which our lord gets satisfied... it is nothing but a good heart, a pure heart. So why can’t we take a new thought on this new year? On this new year, lets start building a new era on some people’s life, including ours. From the year ahead onwards, let’s start thinking for others also; others in the sense, those who have no one to be taken care off; those who live their life in the most pathetic way. From this year onwards, include the needy and the paining people in your prayers. Donate something from your savings, not to the treasury of the temple or the church, but to the hands that beg before you. when you spend more than what you actually need, remember for a while that someone is somewhere suffering from hunger, who could satisfy his suffering, if he had at least half of what you would have spent in excess. Keep a little love for the real needy, apart from your blood relations, who never have them at all, outside the walls surrounding you, on the streets, near to the garbage dumps, searching for their meals. Pray for them, for they too are our brothers. They too are humans, equally worth of living , but denied for some reasons unknown.

         We should never let our brothers suffer and die on the streets. We can change the world. Lets hold our hands together so that no more life is born or thrown on the path sides and garbage dumps. I would like you all to have a resolution on the new year, as a token of gratitude towards our lord for his mercy in us for our new life on the new year .lets all work together to change the lives of the suffering men. Determine that, on one day or the other we will do something for the society, either today or tomorrow, we shall put all our efforts to help the needy. One thing you should keep in mind that you are given the privilege to live, no only to live your lives, but also to love others and make them live. So let’s start the new year, with new determinations and resolutions, to enlighten many lives, and thus the whole world.

The Good Shepherd....

Have you ever felt that no one loves you? Have you felt that even god fails to love you? But, I say you, that no one loves you as god does...

     Here I have a small story for you...a small one, but has a big lesson to be known.

     Once there lived a shepherd. He had hundred sheep. Everyday he used to take his flock for grazing to a mountain valley. Sometimes he let them graze on their own wish. They go in group and finally, at the end of the day, they returned to him without any delay.  When the dawn came, he took them to the stable and closed its gate. Then he remained outside till the sun arises the next day. Though he slept in the nights, he was always vigilant at his mind. Even the howling of the foxes and jackals woke him up and assure the flock's safety again and again.

     One day as usual, he took the flock for grazing. He remained at the usual place and let the flock move for grazing. When the day was about to end up, the flock returned. But the shepherd was very much shocked to find that one of his hundred sheep was missing. He called out for the lost one. He wandered here and there to find it. But at the same time, he had to keep his eye on the left flock also, so that nothing harmed it, while going in search of the lost one. He found himself annoyed very much to return without finding his one lost sheep.

     After searching for a long time, he could hear a feeble crying sound of the sheep. He moved towards the sound. He could know that it was in some kind of danger. He made his steps faster. At last he reached the top of the mountain. The cry of the sheep was nearer, and it made him more and more eager to reach the crying, lost one. When he reached the top edge, he found that the sheep was at the edge of the chasm. One careless step of it might make it die at the deep mountain crack. It was frightened and was crying in fear of dying. It didn’t know how to get back.

     On finding the master walking towards it, it wanted to express the fear, at the same time, its gratitude towards him. It was sure that its master would never let it down. It knew that he would then save it from the fear and the danger. He extended his hands towards the sheep. The warmth of the master's care gave the sheep a new hope, a new life. The sheep was saved from the death

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      The shepherd raised the sheep with his own hands, held it close to him...and said, "Though I have ninety nine other sheep, only you can make it a hundred. You are also the one for whom I have spent my life and time. So I will not forget you."

 

      The shepherd can never forget his cattle. He lives with them. He is ready to spare his life and time for his sheep. If we are been compared to the cattle, god, the almighty is our master. Be sure, he will not forget you ever. When your friends betray you, he accompanies you. When your relations harm you, he saves you. When you are denied manly love, you deserve divine love. Never are you forgotten. Father can never forget his children. You may sometimes have to suffer a lot of pain. Sometimes you may feel alone. Sometimes you may hate yourself. but remember, even then there is an unending, incomparable, unconditional love behind you...,the purest love...the divine love... the love that cares for you, the love that pains for you, the love that sees you and follows you. Realize that divine love. It will never ask you anything in return, other than to be its dearest son or daughter.

      Give all your pains to that lord; he will bear them for you. Leave all your burdens; he will carry them for you. Only he can save you from all your pains. Only he knows you in the right way you are to be known. Only he can wipe off your tears. Only he can give you the eternal life. Believe in him. He will never leave you in vain. He says to you "fear never, I will not forget you. I have carved you on my palms"... Trust him...he is there for you...always...

SHE...,THE MOTHER ANGEL

”Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.” 
 If these words touched your heart, rather than your mind, there is a seed of real humanity inside you. And if I say that these are the words of Holy Mother Teresa, you will know how much she was close to god and the human kind. And that was why she remained as an angel sent by our LORD, and became the messenger between the Him and the human race. I wonder if any human can be so pure at one’s heart.

  A heart like hers is incomparable, adorable. Words merely cannot describe the purity and dedication of such an unconditional love. Only she could hold the ones, who were in the most disgusting living situations, close to her heart. The souls suffocating from the hold of deadly diseases were taken care of without any complaints. Those who were disregarded got enough love of god through her.

  She never hesitated to clean up the worst wounds, those wounds which always had pus flowing out, those wounds which descended them from the society and the people. The bruise on their body became scars of pain, disrespect and inattention. Their hunger for love and care grew more and more, as they were avoided by the society, more and more. No one could realize the thing that the paining hearts needed more care and attention, but only she, the angel.

  Those neglected souls were the luckiest, actually, for they were filled up with the pure unconditional love of her, and thereby, with the god’s. For her, charity was never an interest…but it was something divine. Fully dedicated, as she said once,” Each one of them is Jesus in disguise”. Only a blessed heart can see godliness in everyone. Every man who reached her seemed to her as Lord Jesus, the lord who died for the sins of human, who was crucified for the entire mankind, who carried the burden of manly sins as the cross on his shoulders, being thirsty, but given abhorrence and abnegated.

  She could find herself in the eternal joy and satisfaction, wiping each drop of tears of the crying souls. She took care of each paining heart with the purest love, as her dedication to the lord. Never was she worried for the way to proceed, for she knew that, god will show her the solution himself, for something that god called her for. And her belief led her on the path. That is why her deeds are service, rather than charity. She knew well that “The fruit of faith is love and the fruit of love is service”.

  Human kind is glorified that she was once here in this world. My intention is not to spread the religion, but to convey you, not to forget the needy before us. And the angel Mother Teresa is there in front of you as an example for you to follow. I wanted to remind you that we should never be lacking the essence of humanity and spirituality. “If you can't feed a hundred people, then fed just one” and your name will be glorified in the heaven. If you can’t feed them, just give them the most pure love, expecting nothing and your name will be glorified by LORD.

GIVE YOUR EARS...ONCE...

Not very long before, but only just a few weeks ago, I heard from my co-passenger in the bus about a newly established church, near to a place by which I have to pass daily two or more times a day. She was happy to say to her friend that her family had offered a miniature golden cross to the church. And from her words I got the real picture that it was an offering as a sort of thanks giving.

       The question which came to my mind by the next moment was and which is going through my mind even now is that 'does our god ever ask for such a costly golden gift? Is god a power who gets satisfied with what man thinks to be really of cost?'

       The case is a very general one. Though we pretend to be the most modern in thoughts and views, I must clearly say that man is in an evil darkness. He is spiritually not yet grown up....he is a kid, hearing only the words of his siblings, but not of the LORD who created him, the world and everything around him.

        Father never asks money for his child's smile. And the only thing that the father wants is, his son to be always well, in all aspects. What he wants from his child is not money or fame, but only his love for back. And for the LORD whose love is never-ending and unconditional, how can man replace it with a piece of offering?

          Never our god who created us will be happy with our silly offerings. Give your ears....he is calling you...just to say that he has been over treated with such priceless offerings. Give your ears to hear the real words of him. He might be asking you something he really wants. That might be to seat a crying kid, who needs love and care, but no one to, on your lap or it might be to love a mother who has been left by her son, or it might be to give drop of water for the thirsty or food to the hungry, or care for the neglected, or some love left for those who suffer to the most with their life. A word of comfort is enough to hold a paining heart from letting down, a caring look at the eyes of the crying can bring them new hopes.

            Every human is our sibling and none of them should be thrown beside. Like you and me everyone has the right to love and right to be loved. Extend your hands to those who really need it...with a heart of pure thoughts and wishes and ultimately with complete satisfaction and dedication...and there lies the real token of thanks giving to our father... No doubt that he would be happy to see his children living, loving each other.....

stop violence

Tears in those small eyes… They are haunting me. It is not the kiddish naughtiness on his face, but just a kind of inertness towards the world around him. He needs neither a toy car to play with nor a kite to fly, but his eyes are in search of caring arms wide open to hold him close, to protect him from the dirty world.

I dunno what his name is, but I feel he needs me. When the tankers move around him firing, I feel, he is calling my name. When the smoke arises burning everything, I feel, he is asking for a hold on his hand to pull him out of the world.

I wish, if I were a bit closer to him..., beyond these distances. but I am afraid if he ask me one question.” why is the world burning itself?"                                  

  Neither you nor I know the answer even if we pretend to know everything. What is man then at all, if he is unable to find the solution for some query that he creates? Then why does the world not changing? Isn’t it our duty to care for those budding minds? Then why aren’t we thinking of them?

  You are not well strong to face such questions ever, for those questions are gonna be much stronger hereafter... answer not to the kids, but to yourself…those tears are gonna really burn you... BEWARE!!!

            STOP VIOLENCE

why the world so!!!!!

The world crying here and there...
tears everywhere,
the weaps of hearts remain still unheard,
their pain still unseen,
and the man still afer power,
which is of vain.

why the world is so?
why cant they realise the real power?
The real power is only of that kind heart,
the heart which loves you and me.
the power which is the ultimate,
the power which is there everywhere,
in the tears of the needy,
and in the cries of the paining souls,
when is the world gonna realise it?

the power is there in the smiles of kids and in mothers' lap;
in the blowing breeze and blooming rose,
in the chilling moon and the burning sun,
in the black coal and the shining dews,
but,fate!!;the world stil acts so blind.

piercing the nature's bossom,
wounding every mother's heart,
the man fights and goes on fighting,
for a power,just to rule his siblings,
just to make their tears flow,
and finds his victory in those burning tears.

its the time for us to wake up,
lets hold our hands together
wipe the tears,
spread smiles,
lets give our hand to the fallen ones,
to pick them up to the world of love and care..
arise, awake and be late no more..

lets build a world of tommorow,
the world of smiles and peace,
lets bring the heaven down to the earth,
and let our god smile for us...

A BEGINNING....

THE blog, "NILAA_THE MOONSHINE"  is just an open book of the most sensitive feelings and expressions of ma heart...rather it is a way for me to seed some new thoughts and believes onto the mind of the dear followers. Who ever be the follower, everyone is expected toconvey me my mistakes in the presentation of the matters i deal with or with the blog itself. i also invite healthy comments from the vetterans of the blog world as am a beginner into this vast ocean...