Mystic Mantra

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Mystic Mantra

Power of meditation

A normal person uses only five per cent of his/her potential power, while some extraordinarily successful people use around 10 per cent of it. The rest of everyone’s potential goes waste.

Follow thy heart

An old man was trudging towards the Himalayan heights when a rainstorm forced him to rest awhile. “How will you reach the peak with this weather?” asked a native. The old man replied cheerfully: “My heart got there first, so the rest of me will easily follow.”

A Sufiyana night

Tonight is Shab-e-Miraj, the ascension of Prophet Muhammad to the Heavens. The event falls on the 27th night of Rajab, the seventh month of the Islamic calendar, and is one of the most celebrated events in Muslim communities around the world. The night journey is a tale of love between Allah and Muhammad, his beloved.

Love... in spite of

Someone remarked that everyone wants to know the secret of a successful marriage but no one knows it. I believe that it is quite well known, but not so well practised. The secret to a successful marriage is “to discover new love and respect for each other and let it grow each day”.

I, the root of all misery

A soul is bodyless, timeless and dimensionless. All souls are part of the Divine and shine in His light and glory. Without the Divine, a soul is incapable of enjoying even a sip of water.

The dance of push & pull

The marketing world is widely acquainted with the push-pull strategy. In fact, that is the essence of advertisement.

Don’t be a garbage bin

Everybody in this world is carrying loads and loads of garbage in their heads and looking for opportunity to dump it on others. The garbage is of disappointments, irritation, failures, frustration, miseries, ego etc.

The world is not enough

Robert and Edward Skidelsky, in their book, How Much is Enough? hold the view that wealth is not an end in itself but a means to the achievement and maintenance of a “good life”.

Misery loves company

We live in a miserable world because we are miserable. We are the world and misery is our own fiction, our own creation. Of course, there are facts of misery — natural disasters, widespread poverty, disease etc. But there is always something to do about it. But there’s another misery, deeper misery, which is purely psychological.

We all are God’s family

A widow once gave a hungry beggar boy a good meal and then arranged to adopt him.

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