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Be that Beauty

In a place called brahmapuri, there lived a man named Ananda. Ananda was a spiritual, extremely devotional and good hearted person. Since his childhood, he was a devotee of Goddess Laxmi and used to visit Goddess laxmi temple everyday. In India, Laxmi is considered as Goddess of health, wealth and everything in life.   Though the Goddess is one, she is worshipped with different names in different forms. Like, Goddess of health as Aarogya laxmi, Goddess of wealth as Aishwarya Laxmi, Goddess of Food as Annapurna laxmi and so on.   Every day, one or the other laxmi used to come in his Anandas dream and teach him all about life and beyond. One day, extremely happy Ananda invited all the Goddess to his house for lunch followed by bajans. All the Goddess out of extreme affection towards Ananda visited him the next day. Ananda arranged sumptuous lunch for all the Goddess and started performing bhajans and was praising one Goddess after the other, thanking them for all the things that...

A paradigm shift!

One day, I went to a Chapel nearby and was reciting my favourite chapter in the Bible. At that moment, a well dressed lady entered the Chapel with her two children.   All of a sudden, the silence that I was anticipating there is all gone. The children were so loud and they instantly changed the climate. They even started disturbing the people in the chapel. That lady sat in the last row of the chapel and started looking into her phone.   She didn’t do anything to stop the children. It was obvious to see everyone in the Chapel irritated and It was even more difficult for me to not get irritated. I became furious and went to that lady and yelled at her saying, “Ma’am, could you try controlling your children once. They are disturbing a lot of people here." That lady with a jerk came out from her phone and said softly, “Pardon me for the disturbance they are causing Ma'am. Actually, we just came from the hospital where their father died. I don’t know what to think and I think they...