False Alarm :)

Om Jai Sai Ram. I was about to drink tea (decaffeinated because it was night) when the fire alarm started. It alarmed me because I knew there was nothing cooking in the kitchen. Normally the Chapatti is the culprit. We tried to get rid of the smoke by the usual method. Trying to clear the smoke from near the fire alarm using a book, pillow etc. But there was no smoke to clear. And we heard people going out of neighboring apartments to outside the building. We went out as well. For more than half an hour we stood there only to find that it is a false alarm.

I kept thinking, so often in life, the fire alarm of worry and fear keeps ringing. We later find that it is only a false alarm and many a times we look back at those incidents which made us worry or fear and laugh at them. Nothing is bad as it seems. By the grace of God, any situation can be overcome. With this confidence, we must face life. When there is a real fire, God will be there as the Fire chief to rid us of it by using the extinguisher of his grace.

Shree Satchitananda Sadguru Sainath Maharaj Ki Jai!

Bow to Shree Sai! Peace be to all!

Two Room mates

I have two room mates. One is anger. The other is Bhakthi (devotion). They are weird room mates. They despise each other. When one is around, the other leaves the room.

I do not like the company of anger. Though considered a healthy emotion, when uncontrolled and un-vented it can go onto destroying one's physical constitution. I have had a personal experience in that. And yet quite recently due to some frustration, I became so angry, that I did not even speak to my parents properly. I realized then that when angry, one tends to hurt those that one loves most. More terrible than the relatively short period of anger is the guilt that follows and the consequences of our irrational actions during anger.

I was feeling so overwhelmed with guilt that I pleaded to my room mate "Anger, why dost thou worry me so much! I do not want to be your accomplice!"

By the grace of Sadguru Sainath, I hope I part ways with this room mate and see very little of him.

Bow to Shri Sai! Peace be to all!