THE BIG SECRET OF LIFE

A group of friends decided to meet their old University Professor during the weekend.

Their conversation soon turned to complaints about 'STRESS' in life.

The Professor offered them coffee and returned from the kitchen with a tray containing coffee, milk, and sugar. 

He then brought another separate tray containing in different kinds of cups like glass cups, crystal cups, shining ones, some plain looking, some ordinary and some expensive ones. 

The Professor asked his students to help themselves with the hot coffee.

When all of them had a cup in hand, the professor said:

"If you noticed, all the nice looking and expensive cups are taken up, leaving-behind the ordinary ones. 

Every one of you wanted the best CUPS, and that is the source of your STRESS & TENSION.

What you really wanted was "Coffee", not the "Cup", but all your attention and interest was on the Best Cup. 

Life is akin to Coffee, but jobs, money, status, girlfriends, love etc are the Cups.

"CUPS are only just TOOLS to hold and contain LIFE".

It is foolish to only look at the CUPS and get driven by what you see,

 because it is the WISE who will Enjoy the COFFEE.

To get further clarity on what that means here is a story.

Someone went to a Wise man and asked, why so many people think you are an enlightened one and what do you do all the day?

The Wise man replied, 'I sleep, I get up, I take a shower, I eat and then I work'.

The bewildered person said, 'that is nothing different, I also do the same'.

The Wise man replied when I sleep, I REALLY sleep and when I wake up I am REALLY awake. When I bathe, I bathe, when I eat, I eat and when I work, I work'.

The one listening to the Wise man protested, 'but I do all this as well'.

But we all need to realize the truth that we dream NOT ONLY when we sleep but many of us also dream when we are awake which means we are still in the sleep mode because of we all daydream'.

'All of us have the habit of thinking about many other things when we eat or when driving or even when praying. Our mind is always somewhere else and we are unable to concentrate on what we are doing'.

"Generally the MIND is miles away from where YOU are".

It is very important in life to learn and practice to enjoy every moment that we live and take the experience with us even in case there is a difficult situation which may not make a person rejoice such moments. 

Therefore a wise-man may look the same outwardly as all others but his mental state is quite different.  

"ALWAYS REMEMBER TRUE ENJOYMENT IS NOT IN MATERIAL THAT WE ACQUIRE OR INHERIT BUT IT IS THE MOMENT THAT WHICH GIVES YOU THE TIME & THE POWER TO THINK, FOCUS, INTROSPECT & REALISE WHAT IS THE REAL PURPOSE OF LIFE".

"True enjoyment of life TAKES PLACE only when one is able to perform all the 'DUTIES' with a state of mind that is in equilibrium and 'EMBRACE' what comes without making an unwanted judgment.  It is a matter of time the 'ALMIGHTY' will show you the way and also the real purpose of your existence and the path one needs to undertake".



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