Meena Mangalathil:

Today, I read a story about a man, who met with an accident. Before meeting with this accident, his situation was, he was angry because he had lost his promotion. He was fed up of his life. He was not able to keep up the expectation of his children or wife. But the moment, he met with an accident, he wished to live. Unfortunately, he got consciousness after 15 long years and sees, how his wife looked after him so devotedly, throughout these fifteen years and brought up his children single-handedly, married them off, etc..etc... The man try to recollect, how this all started and remembered the lost promotion and not able to be a good parent. He felt ashamed because his wife took care of everything without his promotion and with just his dead person. And they were happy to see him, conscious. They treated him so lovingly after this fifteen year toil. But there was a glitch in his consciousness, he would return back to the coma. So it was just a wish fulfilled, he had asked for. And it

I do not know why, but I can't stand people criticizing others, whether, they are family or friends. Today, I literally shouted at y son, saying, "Just shut up and do not say a word against anybody. I really hate it. Do your duty and that's that. Never, ever make the mistake to talk to me like that. You know, we all have flaws and we are living in a society and not the life of a hermit. If it was a secluded life, we just have to tolerate only ourselves. But that is not what we are doing, we are facing the whole world. If you are planning not to live your life and find the mistake of others, then someone would throttle or stab you to death. Its your choice, whether you find fault for each and everything you have to face. We are here to make our self perfect, not others. Its time, we know, that finding fault with others does not make you perfect. It would highlight your flaws more, than we had bargained for. If you are planning to get the best bargain, then better criti

I do not know, whether I should say this. But still I would like your comments on this. When we have a big fight, what is the protocol after it? Do you go and say sorry or weep your heart out or be angry with the opposite party? Well I didn't do any of the above. I do not know, how a fight ensues, but it happened and I too became a party - the center piece. Since age and experience was a plus points to my side, I tried not to bring anger after the biiiiiiiiiiig fight. There is one thing you should know, a clap could be heard only if we join two hands. A single hand cannot make a noise. So I put my mind in a blank state against the words and slanderings and decided to evaluate the reason for starting a fight. As I evaluated, I felt, I could have let a small issue pass by without getting hyped. But there are some things, which cannot be overlooked because it has been overlooked just for the cause of avoiding fights. But if we continue in that state, the other person would n

Anger is one thing, which is very difficult to control. But how does it come in the first place? Today I was so angry with my son, that I could have murdered him easily. Luckily, it didn’t happen. It was not easy. Usually, I do not get angry quickly. So when I had time to think, I asked, what made me so angry. The answer was simple, my son disobeyed me or I can put it as, he was not obeying me. Then I understood, the situation of God when He threw Adam and Eve out of Eden. How much hurt he might have felt because of this disobedience. We all are great people, as human beings, but we people feel, that we would never do wrong. That is where we do the mistake. It doesn’t end there. There is the blaming part too. When we find that we have made a mistake, we tend to blame others for our actions. Then be sure you’re doomed. We are people with limitation for sure, but disobedience can worsen our situation. Obedience can really smoothen our path. No parents want their children to fail in l

One of my friends lost her family due to certain circumstances which could be termed, thrown out of home. They burnt her certificates and no money to survive. She became literally alone in the streets. I do not know, how she survived, but after several years, I met her and she was a changed person. I was expecting a depressed person, but to the contrary. She was at peace with herself, no hatred or no hurt. When I asked, how she became such a person? She replied to my utter surprise. “I came to this world with nothing but my body and I return with nothing, not even my body. My family helped me understand it and I would be thankful to them. Why should I cry for something, which I don’t own. Why should I run in amassing money? Why should I crave for my own home? God provides me, what I need. He knows me better than I know myself. If I need a home, He will give me. If I need a dress, he would cloth me. If I feel hungry, the food would reach me. The only thing I need to do is, keep my

India celebrated 67th Independence on August 15th. You know, being free from, something which we are uncomfortable with. For India it was the British. But the situation at the time, when we were fighting for freedom, India owned the largest iron factory Asia's longest rail road A Strong and efficient administration and bureaucracy British style education system. A systematic agriculture system and United several princely states under one country - India. But now, how is India? Well biggest Democratic Nation, with every politician owning a political party. Population wise, bursting in the seams, where each religion professes to have their generation follow up. Country is being divided and divided with each state wanting their own place, people according to the lay of the land. Agriculture is becoming scarce, as information technology is the pie of the profession. The railway lines are for cities alone. Development of India takes place only if bribed. Great isn&

I do not know whether you would believe, I was thinking, I would be in my own coffin today. But when I woke up, I totally forgot about my death part and went for my ritual visiting my creator,to His place. Usually, when I am there, I am very talkative to Him, saying something rubbish in your standard, but not in my standard eh? Mark it, O.K So it was at that time, that I remembered I was supposed to be a soul. Oh you want to know, why specifically. I was not keeping well in the morning, I was feeling dizzy and I was having a splitting headache and I thought my pressure was getting low or something. So I started eating chocolates, big , small, hard, soft, but still I was not keeping well. Then I thought,my end is coming closer, good, because we all have this call at one time or the other, but my only request was, I want it to happen, when I am at home, than in a public place, where the people get confused, of what to do with my corpse and me in the mortuary, wasting my precious time

According to the traditional Hindu religion, tomorrow the living will have the cleansing dip for all the dead souls. I think you understood, all the sins will be cleansed from the dead soul. But in the real sense, whether you are dead or alive you will go through the consequences of what you have done, whether you take your holy dip in Ganga or Brahmaputra or from the river originating from heaven. It would not get cleansed. I am not being fanatical, its a fact. that is the way the nature is made, or else, there is no use doing good, if it is not returned, the strong would overcome the weak. Then we say, life is not fair to us. But don't worry,life is always fair. If you have done something good, it would cross time, tide and lives to reach you. There would never be a barrier for the good you have invested to return to you and that goes for bad too. Now I would not discourage you to take the dip. At least you will know, that mistakes are always mistakes, whether you are the son

Hii I just covered three religion because, they have more followers, bit that doesn't mean that the other religions are less prominent. Now, we go the next step. How do we get into the act of finding God. I told it is through Jesus. That is also fine, but, still, there are lots of details, which we have to cover and the first thing is you. Me? Yes you. You have to do lots of pruning to do, which means, clearing all the unwanted things of you. First and foremost, control your urges. Yes, urges, like cravings. The first urge is anger. You know, now a days all are angry. I do not know why? But that one urge should be completely out. Can you do it? I know, its not easy because I have a hard time controlling mine. But do try, it would make a lot of difference. Don't swalow anger, that's not the way to do it. Look at the source of anger in another perspective. Find out, why an act , makes you angry, if you can find its root cause, which is in you, then you are l