Friday, January 11, 2008

Learn the 5 lessons from the 5 elements, earth, water, fire, air and sky..

Let us learn fine lessons
from the five elements:

Earth:
Patience and forebearance
are the virtues taught by earth.
Whatever sacrilage man commits,
earth remain mute and never reciprocates.

Water:
Water finds its level.
It always seeks to flow through
the ground and finally it remains
either as a lake or joins in a river
and seeks its source, the ocean.
We must learn to remain humble
and always try to reach the source, i.e., God.

Fire:
All impurities are burnt by the fire.
It raises high. It gives heat and light.
It converts everything into "Ash".
We should also emulate the fire in
scorching the bad traits in us and
reach a desireless stage which is represented by 'ash'.
If you further burn the ash, it remains still as 'ash' only.

Air.
Air never distinguishes between good or bad.
It blows equally to all. It gives
the life sustaining breath to all bereft
of which everything will be dead.

We should never discriminate
between good and evil and never
hate any being based on their form or traits.
All are embodiments of God.

Sky:
This is a greatest teacher.
No reactions, no scars.
Let any number of jets pass through the sky.
In a few moments, even the white exhaust vanishes.

Our mind should resemble a sky.
Sky is blemishless. It never keeps anything.
Everymoment it maintains in vacuam for ever.
We should remain burdenless,
without any reactions to the world
and our own thoughts.

Be just a witness of everything.
A mute witness like a sky.

divinely sent

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