Journey to Enlightenment Part 02

Author(s): Chitrabhanu, Nirmala Hanke
Publisher: Create Space

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Only one life. It is very valuable. If you miss it, it is gone. You can't buy this life again for a million dollars. How we are wasting it. How we live exchanging each day of our own life. One has to know the value of the day. My day is valuable. You cannot buy it.
Recently, one of my friends at the age of 65 was sick and he was home. He was meditating. He knew his time had come. Two or three doctors came and said "Now we will take you to the hospital”. He responded “No doctor is going to give me life. You can make a person breathe with a machine, but you can't make the life. Not even my wealth can give me one extra minute. Let me breathe and experience life at home. Let me go at home". The gift we have my friend, cannot be bought with a million dollars.
The President of the Blind Association in India, Dr. Rajendra Vyas was blind himself. When he got a son, everyone said “You have a very handsome son!” At that time he said, and the word he uttered I still remember and can't forget "I can give a million dollars to a doctor who can give me eyes to just glimpse my son and wife's face". We take our eyes for granted. We are blessed with our ears, eyes and hands. We have freedom of movement. We are not counting our blessings. We are counting money, positions and degrees.
The Lighthouse Center becomes a center of the light to connect with light. See the light in everyone. Practicing meditation I have not got anything. Then why meditate? By meditating I have lost so many things. Meditation is to lose. I have lost, not gained anything. I lost my anger which was a long time with me, I lost my ego, I am Jain, I am guru. I lost all these things. One, by one, they fell away. Now, I found my Atma, soul.
Tension brings disease. Look to see why I am tense? Use your inside doctor. Continuously meditate on commitment to self. I will not hurt myself. I will be my own best friend; your own buddy wherever you go. The whole world will then be your friend.
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