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Radio Ruhaniyat: August 26, 2017

Little Girl On The Window Sill! Rely On God!!



Hello everyone and thanks for tuning into our Spiritual world on Radio Ruhaniyat.

I’m your host, Preet Sahi. I often wonder how people survive without faith in God. Life: which is full of challenges, is difficult to those who are completely submerged in the materialistic world and it’s full of contentment and Peace, for those who live in divinity.

A one-year-old little girl lived in Germany and her father was in the Army. Her mom had a dream one night that she was in the kitchen cooking breakfast. She opened the window to let the sausage smell air-out, and went to call her husband to eat. Upon returning to the kitchen, the little girl was in the windowsill. It scared her because there were no screens on the windows and she screamed. When she did, it scared the child and she fell out the window....they lived on the 4th floor. Instantly, the baby was killed. But this…was just the mom’s dream. The next morning, she was cooking breakfast, and opened the window. She called her husband, and then noticed the baby in the windowsill. She knew from her dream not to scream and as her husband came in the kitchen, he came up behind the child and grabbed her.

God works in amazing ways. He is always there for us and is constantly looking out for us. HE is always with us, but it is WE who are not with Him.

G-O-D: G for GENERATOR, O for OPERATOR AND D for DESTROYER. He is the one who brings us into this world, He is the one who Operates us and helps us function and eventually we perish into the jaws of death. In the Hindu scriptures, this is the same role played by God as Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh. If we look into the world, we see that God is operating every single human being to the max.

Did you know that Barack Obama had suffered a crushing defeat in a congressional primary just 8 years before being elected president? Or that Albert Einstein couldn’t find a teaching job? Or that Tina Turner thought she could never be successful without her abusive husband? Or the billionaire Ross Perot got his start by borrowing $1,000 from his wife? These are just a few examples of the many humble beginnings that eventually led to stunning success.

According to Rabindranath Tagore: When we watch a child trying to walk, we see its countless failures; its successes are few. If we had to limit our observation within a narrow space of time, the sight would be cruel. But we find that in spite of its repeated failures there is an impetus of joy in the child, which sustains it in its seemingly impossible task. The child does not think of its falls so much as of its power to keep its balance even if it’s just for a moment.

Like these accidents in a child's attempt to walk, we meet with sufferings in various forms in our life every day. We show the imperfections in our knowledge and our available power, and in the application of our will. But if these revealed all our weakness to us, we would die of utter depression. When we select a limited area of our activities for observation, our individual failures and miseries loom large in our minds; but our life leads us instinctively to take a wider view. It gives us an ideal of perfection, which carries us beyond our present limitations. Within us we have a hope, which always walks in front of our present narrow experience. The connection with the Almighty is an absolute MUST in our daily lives. Provide yourself with an environment in which the blissful facts of life come alive before you. The blessings you find entering your life, will be amazing. Just how parents are always looking out for the best interest of their children, The Almighty is constantly providing a much needed environment to enhance our existence: just like the child in the window sill.

Since childhood, Lord Ganesha was known for his wisdom and the art of surrendering to the Almighty. His devotion has set Him apart and we all learn from how He lived His life. As a child he and his brother: Kartikya, once got into an argument about who was the older one of the two. They approached their father, Lord Shiva for the answer and He asked them to go around the whole world and come back and the one who reaches back first, would be considered the older one. Kartikya boarded his peacock immediately, and flew away on his journey around the world so that he could come back before Ganesha. But Ganesha on the other hand, started going around his parents and then asked to be awarded. When Lord Shiva questioned him that he was supposed to go around the world, Ganesha explained that his parents were his world and they represent the entire manifested universe. Lord Shiva and mother Parvati were very happy to see Lord Ganesha’s wisdom and devotion and hence acknowledged him to be the older of the two brothers.

From all of us here at Radio Ruhaniyat, we wish you all, a very auspicious Ganesh Chaturthi!

-Until next time, this is Preet Sahi reminding you to Stay Spiritual!

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