Champions Day Talk

Champions Day Talk

Valuable Teachings of Sri Amma Bhagavan

Consciousness is the playground where the higher and lower conscious are at play. Your choice aligns you to the higher or the lower consciousness. Intent + Effort + Grace = Success. When you are focussed all things fall into place. Prayer is like an itch you send up the body of God. The best form of prayer is gratitude. Yad bhavam, tad bhavati - as you feel so shall it be. Prosperity and poverty begins with thought. All resistance to truth is because of failure of intelligence. Life is what you make of it - a school, a battlefield or a playground. A happy person creates a happy world while an unhappy person createsan unhappy world. Life is primarily governed by two needs - the need to love and the need to be loved. Life is relationships. The destructive tendencies of the lower conscious are silenced throughthe blessings of your parents. Judgement and evaluatory processes cause suffering in relationships. Your children inherit not only what you earn but also what you are. Trying to pin point blame is like peeling an onion; you land up nowhere. Love thyself to love thy neighbour. Genuine affection is to be affected A family that plays together, prays together and dines together stays together will obtain full grace. You reap what you sow but many times over. Fear is only in the anticipation, never in the actual. A breakdown state creates a breakdown reality while a breakthroughstate creates a breakthrough reality Do not let the situation determine your state let your state determinethe situation. A life without vision is like a journey without destination. You Co-create your destiny with God.

Coffee!

This is a really nice one! You will never look at a cup of coffee the same way again

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose. Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil; without saying a word. In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me what you see." "Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied. Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked, "What does it mean, Mother?" Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water. "Which are you?" she asked her daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

Think of this:

Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?

Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart? Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you. When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

Knowledge of efforts

Effort is very important in life - be in your personal area or professional area, without it one cannot attain his/her goal. Ever heard the story of the giant ship engine that failed? The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine. Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a youngster. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom. Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed! A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars. "What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He hardly did anything!" So they wrote the old man a note saying, "Please send us an itemized bill." The man sent a bill that read: Tapping with a hammer ........................ $ 2.00 Knowing where to tap ............................ $ 9998.00 Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort in your life makes all the difference.

SELF CREATED SUFFERING

It was lunch time at the factory and a workman opened his lunch box dolefully. "Oh! No", he said aloud, "Brinjals and Dal again!"

This happened a second, third and fourth day. Then a co-worker who had heard the mutterings of the man said, "If you hate Brinjals and Dal so much, why don't you get your wife to make some other types?"

"Because I am not married. I make the Dal and Brinjals my self."

Does the word "Self-created-miseries" ring a bell?

Sri Bhagavan says, "Most of human suffering is only self-created miseries. Life is naturally occurring but you make even a simple incident complex. Once an image forms in your mind that my wife doesn't love me, even an eye movement is enough to drive you into frenzy. Consider the case of a young man who was sacked from his job. He thought of living with his friend whom he had helped out once before. He was happy with these thoughts until he was assailed by another thought that said, "What makes you so sure that he will have you with him?"

"Why wouldn't he", said he heatedly to the thought, "after all it was I who advanced him the money to pay his rent for the first six months, surely the least he could do is put me up for a week." That settled the matter until after dinner, the thought again peeped, "If suppose he refuses..."

"Refuse?" said the young man. "Why in God's name would he refuse? The man owes me everything he has. It is I who got him his job; who introduced him to that lovely wife of his, who has borne him three sons he glories in. Will he grudge me a room for a week? Impossible!"

That settled the matter until he got to bed and found he couldn't sleep. The thought continued to stay, "How the hell could he refuse? If he is alive today it is because of me. I have saved him from drowning when he was a kid. He wouldn't be ungrateful."

But the thought was persistent "Just suppose..." Poor man struggled with in as long as he could. Finally he got out of the bed around two in the morning went over to where his friend lived and kept his finger pressed against the door bell button till the friend, half asleep, opened the door and said in astonishment, "What is it! What brings you here in the middle of the night?" The young man was so angry by now he couldn't stop himself from yelling, "I'll tell you what brings me here at this hour of the night! If you think I am going to ask you to put me up even for a single day, you are mistaken. I don't want to have anything to do with you. To hell with you." With that he turned to his heel and turned away.

See this event in your relationships? Maybe in varying degrees? As long as the mind is alive you cannot but relate to your own mind and its images and hence create suffering for your self.

Sri Bhagavan says, "To be Enlightened is to relate to reality and not to your interpretation of reality."

Unless you are rod of your mind, your life would be repetition of the above-mentioned incident.

Through the ‘Deekshas' of Sri Bhagavan, for the first time, you relate to life or reality as it is.