From: Dr Satish Gosain
From: Radha Krishna
Are we thankful to God for all His blessings to us ?
One day, I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels. My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said, ' This is the Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received.
I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all over the world.
Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section.
The angel then said to me, "This is the Packaging and Delivery Section. Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for them." I noticed again how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard at that station, since so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for delivery to Earth.
Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station. To my great surprise, only one angel was seated there, idly doing nothing. "This is the Acknowledgment Section, my angel friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed. " How is it that there is no work going on here? ' I asked.
"So sad," the angel sighed. "After people receive the blessings that they asked for, only very few send back acknowledgments."
"How does one acknowledge God's blessings?" I asked?
"Simple," the angel answered. Just say, "Thank you, Lord."
"What blessings should they acknowledge? " I asked.
"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy. "
"And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity. "
"If you woke up this morning with more health than illness... You are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day. "
"If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ... You are ahead of 700 million people in the world..."
"If you can attend a temple without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in the world."
"If your parents are still alive and still married...you are very rare."
"If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you're unique to all those in doubt and despair..."
Ok, what now? How can I start?
If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.
Have a good day, count your blessings, and if you care to, pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are.
ATTN: Acknowledge Dept.
"Thank you Lord, for giving me the ability to share this message and for giving me so many wonderful people with whom to share it."
If you have read this far, and are thankful for all that you have been blessed with, how can you not send it on???? I thank God for everything, especially all my family and friends.
What is the moral of this ?
1) We are always ready to ask for blessings, but very rarely do we acknowledge and express our gratitude to God when we receive them.
2) Most of the time we treat the all-loving and all-powerful God as our mere order-supplier and we take Him for granted. We need to essentially avoid this catastrophic attitude.
3)Although the blessings of the Lord are there right before us and they are as clear as the broad day light, we fail even to recognize them.
4) Imagine how God must be feeling pained with our attitude of lack of gratitude. When we give someone a cup of tea, we generally expect a 'thank-you' and we feel bad if he does not tell us. When that is the case in the matter of an ordinary cup of tea, how much more should we be careful with the Lord for what all the precious gifts that we have been receiving from Him since time immemorial and we continue to receive in future, even without our asking for them.
5)Sastras categorically say that blessings do not stay in an ungrateful heart – just as water does not stay in a pot which has plenty of holes.
How to apply it in our own lives ?
01) We need to cultivate the habit of seeing, on day-to-
day basis, the countless blessings the all-loving Lord has given us out of His causeless mercy, in our life.
02) Having seen thus, we need to express our deep
gratitude to Him on day-today basis, with full
sincerity, from the core of our hearts , for all the
blessings –- blessings of the past, present and also of the future.
03) Whenever we pray to God for something, immediately after our petitioning, we must also express our deep gratitude, in advance itself, and also after the blessings of the Lord manifested in our life.
04) The expression of gratitude should come out of our
deep love to God and it must gush out very
naturally and very spontaneously, and from the very depths of our heart.
Our gratitude to : Our dear Darshak Prabhu and Hiranya Pandit Prabhu for making this story available to us for all of our benefit.
Are we thankful to God for all His blessings to us ?
One day, I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels. My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said, ' This is the Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received.
I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all over the world.
Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section.
The angel then said to me, "This is the Packaging and Delivery Section. Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for them." I noticed again how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard at that station, since so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for delivery to Earth.
Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station. To my great surprise, only one angel was seated there, idly doing nothing. "This is the Acknowledgment Section, my angel friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed. " How is it that there is no work going on here? ' I asked.
"So sad," the angel sighed. "After people receive the blessings that they asked for, only very few send back acknowledgments."
"How does one acknowledge God's blessings?" I asked?
"Simple," the angel answered. Just say, "Thank you, Lord."
"What blessings should they acknowledge? " I asked.
"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy. "
"And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity. "
"If you woke up this morning with more health than illness... You are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day. "
"If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ... You are ahead of 700 million people in the world..."
"If you can attend a temple without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in the world."
"If your parents are still alive and still married...you are very rare."
"If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you're unique to all those in doubt and despair..."
Ok, what now? How can I start?
If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.
Have a good day, count your blessings, and if you care to, pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are.
ATTN: Acknowledge Dept.
"Thank you Lord, for giving me the ability to share this message and for giving me so many wonderful people with whom to share it."
If you have read this far, and are thankful for all that you have been blessed with, how can you not send it on???? I thank God for everything, especially all my family and friends.
What is the moral of this ?
1) We are always ready to ask for blessings, but very rarely do we acknowledge and express our gratitude to God when we receive them.
2) Most of the time we treat the all-loving and all-powerful God as our mere order-supplier and we take Him for granted. We need to essentially avoid this catastrophic attitude.
3) Although the blessings of the Lord are there right before us and they are as clear as the broad day light, we fail even to recognize them.
4) Imagine how God must be feeling pained with our attitude of lack of gratitude. When we give someone a cup of tea, we generally expect a 'thank-you' and we feel bad if he does not tell us. When that is the case in the matter of an ordinary cup of tea, how much more should we be careful with the Lord for what all the precious gifts that we have been receiving from Him since time immemorial and we continue to receive in future, even without our asking for them.
5) Sastras categorically say that blessings do not stay in an ungrateful heart – just as water does not stay in a pot which has plenty of holes.
How to apply it in our own lives ?
01) We need to cultivate the habit of seeing, on day-to-
day basis, the countless blessings the all-loving Lord has given us out of His causeless mercy, in our life.
02) Having seen thus, we need to express our deep
gratitude to Him on day-today basis, with full
sincerity, from the core of our hearts , for all the
blessings –- blessings of the past, present and also of the future.
03) Whenever we pray to God for something, immediately after our petitioning, we must also express our deep gratitude, in advance itself, and also after the blessings of the Lord manifested in our life.
04) The expression of gratitude should come out of our
deep love to God and it must gush out very
naturally and very spontaneously, and from the very depths of our heart.
Our gratitude to : Our dear Darshak Prabhu and Hiranya Pandit Prabhu for making this story available to us for all of our benefit.
Are we thankful to God for all His blessings to us ?
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Transcribed by Madhumati Devi Dasi
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