Life always offers more, even more than we can enjoy.

At the moment when you are reading this, you have access to internet and you might have a smartphone or else you might be reading this on your PC or laptop.

It is also possible that you may be sitting at your office or at home but, for sure you are able to recognize the alphabets and read.

To cut a long story short, you are among the blessed ones to have education and internet access, infact me too.

But this blessing isn’t something we really cherish, we all have it so it not makes a big difference for us.

Settle down for a moment, see the image above, it says something, well, there is a blank space after, I am grateful for…..

Now, try to write a word of your choice in that space.

Is it tough, may be or may not be?

Now let me share something with which will be further helpful to fill the blank space in case if you haven’t already done so.

Have we ever thought, that this life has given us so much, eventually, this life gives us something every moment, still, we have a long list of complaints from life.

We always want what we have not, we desire for which, is not with us. In this race of life and desires, we almost forget that what we have, is still a dream for millions of human beings.

Each day most of us (including me) start our life in usual mechanical way and forget to say a magical word to the Existence, Yes to Existence ( I do not believe God lives somewhere up in the sky or in religious places) you can say me non-religious and I’ll be happy to labelled as non-religious, for me, this entire universe is a splendid creation and each sentient being is divine, this entire creation is divine.

Well, I was about saying the magical word, it is very simple, even more than one can think, because divinity is simple, in fact, it is not complex at all. just like truth, divinity is simple, the truth has no twists, it is straight. so, the divinity is.

So, the magical word is “Life”. When we are grateful for what we have, we are doing a great job, when we say THANKS with a sense of humbleness for the life this existence has given to us. IT BECOMES GRATITUDE.

“GRATITUDE IS ACCEPTANCE AND THANKFULNESS FOR WHAT WE HAVE.”

Now, allow me to share a beautiful story, it is a Zen story which I read in the book- ZEN THE PATH OF PARADOX which is a collection of discourses given by the beloved “Osho“. My humble salutations to him.The Story Goes as under:-

The Story Goes as under:-

There was the old woman, her name was Rengetsu, once she was on a pilgrimage, and she came to a village at sunset and begged for lodging for the night, but the villagers slammed their doors on her face. It was a cold night, and the old woman has not any lodging by then and she was hungry too. but without any complain, she selected a cherry tree in the fields as her shelter for that night.

It was a cold night and was dangerous too — wild animals and all that.

At midnight, she woke up because of too much cold, she saw as it were, in that chilly night sky, the fully opened cherry blossoms were laughing to the misty moon and the myriad stars. amazed with this beauty, she got up and bowed in the direction of the village.

She felt grateful. With great gratitude she thanked those people who refused her lodging, otherwise, she would be sleeping under an ordinary roof, and she would have missed this blessing — these cherry blossoms, and their whispering with the misty moon and stars, silence of the night, in utter silence of the night, the blossom seemed to have chat with the moon and stars without utterence. Silence is vocal, only the blessed ones can listen.

The Story may be small but it has a deep meaning, if you ponder upon, then its hidden beauty will come forth.

Life becomes beautiful with gratefulness and gratitude. A smile and thanks makes the difference.

But how many of us have ever done this? How many of us have this kind of contentment in our life? if you start each day with gratitude you’ll find one fine day that you won’t need anything more than you actually require and your life will contend and more blissful than ever.

Each day is a basket full of blessings and divine love, the warmth of which can be felt in each moment, always thank the universe for giving us such a beautiful life which is blessed with enormous grace.

Now, You are free to fill the blank space mentioning for which you are grateful.

The choice is yours.

Keep loving yourself and this splendid life.

Yours

Aatish.