The Wisdom Park

Yesterday night while sleeping I played on some devotional Bhajans on my mobile in a very low volume. In the early morning while I was awake, all of a sudden the music stopped playing. As you guessed it rightly - the mobile got discharged and it switched off. I was thinking that my life is like this mobile, anytime it can get fully discharged and stop functioning. After all, our body is also a mechanical material device like a mobile. That the body is going to fall dead is a given fact. What is important is what we do with our short life?  I prayed to be like this mobile spending my life constantly chanting the glories of the Lord (the real music) till the last moment of my life - till the body switches off. Then our soul will be transferred to the spiritual kingdom where the music (chanting the glories of the Lord) is always on because the bodies there never ever switch off. Achyut Gopal Das

" Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want to go? " - Radhanath Swami PURE SUFFERING As soon as one takes to the role of being a preacher, one thing that invariably happens is that people come to you explaining their woes and sorrows. Probably because they see you as someone who knows a little more and is a little more spiritual than them and because they trust you, they open up their life in front of you. And the conversation ends with they sincerely asking you to pray for them. In my little experience, I have seen so many people come to me explaining their struggles. I am always left wondering about the phenomenon of life where everyone seems to have a unique problem of their own. Someone suffers from a deadly physical disease or disability; someone suffers from a failing relationship; someone suffers due to financial constraints; someone suffers from natural calamities; someone su

" No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. " - Aristotle Consider this. Every successful person was once considered crazy by the world because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. In fact one symptom that you are going to be successful is when people start calling you crazy. Let's look at a few examples to prove the point. SUCCESS MADNESS When the Wright brothers announced to the world that they were going to make a flying machine, people called them crazy. People considered Henry Ford crazy when he proposed to the world his novel idea of horseless carriages. People took Marconi (who discovered radio and wireless communication) to a psychotherapist when he mentioned to them his plan of sending messages in air without the aid of wires.  Thomas Edison was so crazy that he kept trying to make the light bulb even after thousand of failures because he believed in his dream.  Wilma Rudolph suffere