MY FATHER DOES ME HONOR

HH Shri Bhola Nathji ( 1902-1992) who was the Founder of the World Prayer Day for Peace and who was my Father did me the honor of placing me on his seat on my Birthday in 1975.

I have not forgotten that event, nor this picture that was taken on that day. He got up and stood beside me while giving me his chair, or shall I say his throne.

He would say in later days: " Priya Nath Jee is the door through which people can come to me!"

He was referring to me as "Priya Nath Jee" as a gesture of his Love and the honor He gave me, the suffix "jee" being added to the name of the person being addressed as a measure of respect for the person. I dont believe that any father in the world would address his son with a "jee" added as a suffix to his name.

But that was his Love, his humility and kindness and generosity because he addressed everyone he met in life, from the youngest of children to the oldest of people adding the suffix of "jee" to their names to give them respect.

Many persons claim that they experience His Divine Presence in me, and if that is so, that too is His own Greatness and Love as exemplified in this picture.

"O COME TO ME!"

This picture shows The Love of my Father, HH Shri Bhola Nathji (1902-1992) the Founder of the World Prayer Day for Peace.

Whenever anyone would come before HH Shri Bhola Nathji his face would light up with a joy and a radiance which can only be described as divine, and he would say with joy like meeting a long lost loved one : "O COME TO ME!" and then he would embrace the person.

There was such a powerful aura of Love around him that even total strangers would burst out into tears when they came before him for the first time!

It was as if he GENUINELY loved everyone as his nearest and dearest loved one, whether he was an acquaintance, a friend, a total stranger or even a foe ( of which there were practically none).

It was a common sight to see people depart from him in tears as if their very hearts were breaking at this separation even though they had met him for the first time in their lives.

And often his parting words were:

"Now that you are before me, I can catch you by your hand,
When you go to the end of the room, I can see you with my eyes,
When you are outside the door, my voice can reach you,
But when you are far away in your homes, where my hands cannot reach you, nor my eyes see you, nor my voice reach your ears --Then you will become closer to me,
For then I shall see you in my heart!"

Once the uncle of the then Maharaja of Nepal said to my father while parting from him and standing at his door:

"I leave behind my offering to you at your doorstep - these tears that flow from my eyes!"

And HH Shri Bhola Nathji said: "There are not tears, these are pearls full of Love Divine!"

ENTER THOU WITHIN THESE DOORS

HH Shri Bhola Nathji, (1902-1992) my Father,
was the Founder of the World Prayer Day for Peace.

He lived only for the sake of others, for the sake of the humanity around him, and had no purpose of his own in life. He was like a candle that burnt in fire only to give light to others.

He was ready to meet anyone at any time of the day or night. He kept an open house. There were no appointment hours. He would leave everything he was doing, even give up his food or daily ablutions, to meet anyone who came to see him at any time. Though people saw the Glory of God in him, he called himself:

"The Servant of the Earth" - "Slave of all of Humanity."

He gave peace and happiness to countless people relieving them of their sorrows and sufferings and blessing them from the depths of his heart.

And this was the Verse he often quoted in Persian:

"Be-hijaabaanaa daraa az dare Kaashaanaya maa
Ke kase nest vajuz darde to dar Khaanaye maa"

which when translated into English means:

"ENTER THOU WITHIN THESE DOORS WITHOUT THE LEAST BIT OF HESITATION,
FOR HERE THERE IS A PAIN IN MY HEART ONLY FOR YOU!"

The people knew that when all other doors of the world were closed here was a door that was always open to them. That even if the whole world forsook them, here was someone they could call their own.

IT IS YOU IN WHOM THIS MUSIC LIES

Thoughts of HH Shri Bhola Nathji (1902-1992) Founder of the
World Prayer Day for Peace.

"The notes of music lie asleep within the
strings of a sitar.

The strings, that stretch from one end of the
board to the other, have within them a sweet,
sonorous melody that lies unawakened.
The strings are silent, and they wait in the
hope of hearing the song that will once again
set them vibrating with joy. They look to
someone else for music, though they have
within them what they seek!

Their yearning, expressed in their silence,
bursts forth into an intense desire that
beckons a musician.

He comes.

He lifts the sitar, picks up the ‘mizraab’, to
pluck the strings with, and, then, placing his
fingers on the strings, sets the air ringing
with the strings of a beautiful, haunting
refrain.

The strings feel again the joy of their souls
but do not know from whence the melody
comes.

The musician lifts up his fingers. The song
is at an end. The notes die out in the
emptiness of air and the musician’s voice is
heard.

'It is you in whom this wondrous music lies.
Someone was needed to bring to an end your
silence, and to bring out from within you
that music which lay concealed; and to
recreate it before you, even as the wind
reveals to the ocean its own form as the
waves, and the reflection of a mirror reveals
to the viewer his own face.' "

MY MOTHER Mateshwari Savitri Devi (1916-1967)

MY MOTHER
Mateshwari Savitri Devi
(1916-1967)

Today is a sad day for me. On The 5th of August 1967, my Dear Mother left her physical frame and went to the heavenly realm from where she had come.

The days of my childhood which I spent with my parents bring back the recollection that I was the darling of my mother, even though my mother loved my elder brother equally. I was brought up and reared in an atmosphere of love. My father was an Ocean of Love who never even once said a harsh word to his two sons, and in fact spoke respectfully to us!! Which was why we found the outside world so harsh in contrast.

But we as children took the liberty of quarrelling with our mother out of love. I recall the time when she would sings sad songs on the harmonium and tears would come into her eyes, then I would, as a toddler, rush into her room and force the harmonium shut!!

There was always a latent fear in my mind since childhood, it was an intuition that I would lose my mother one day. It was a feeling that was very real and very strong.

I never forgot a film I saw in which a girl who had grown up into a woman, sang before the portrait of her mother:

"Maa, pyaari maa
Bhoole na jhoole ke din"

"O Mother, Dearest Mother,
How Can I forget the days
When thou rocked my cradle"

I would cry silently every time I recalled that song, and was convinced I was going to lose my mother one day.

We lived in a large house in the hills, and I would follow my mother around from room to room, afraid that I was going to lose her in the maze of rooms.

When we were first put into convent schools, I was so scared of the nuns and their hoods that I would take my mother into the classroom and make her sit with me for a few days, with the permission of the teacher. Separation from my parents and especially my mother made the hours seem like years in school.

My mother had also once requested our class teacher Mother Peter Simon to give the children less homework as they were so loaded with books that it was becoming hard on their eyes studying late in the nights.

Mother Peter Simon, far from being sympathetic, would always mock me and taunt me with those words in front of the class: ''Now, Priya's mother will say I am giving too much homework!"

I grew up hating studying and examinations, and yet I was doing well in them out of the scare generated by the nuns who taught us, who would not hesitate to put dunce caps on the heads of students who performed badly.

Time came when I went to study Nuclear Physics at Harvard. When the airplane took off in the skies and I saw my parents standing at the airport I felt as if I was leaving everything and going to nothing.

My parents were staying in London with my brother for about four years while I was studying at Harvard and I would visit them every summer during the holidays. My parents were so good that they would never narrate anything worrisome to me lest it disturb my studies.

One day I received an ominous phone call from a London Hospital. It was a nurse on the phone. " Mr. Mehta, your mother is critically ill! Her days are numbered, you better come!"

I felt as if the ground had moved from underneath my feet.

I left everything that I had gathered at Harvard, my studies, my books, tape recorders, my car, my rented flat -- everything seemed meaningless. It appeared to me as if I would never be returning.

My professor Dr. Albert V Baez, the father of Joan Baez, was very good. He said to me: " Leave immediately, Priya, dont worry about the unfinished answer books. I will correct them myself. I know how you must be feeling. I felt the same way when my mother was ill."

When I reached New York Airport for the flight to London there was a very long queue of people ahead of me. I would never make it. I spoke to the man ahead of me that my mother was ill. And very soon the words "his mother is ill! his mother is ill" were going down the queue of people. They all moved aside and let me get the first ticket. I shall never forget this act of goodness of the American people for the rest of my life.

I reached London. My mother had been brought home as they could not do anything more at the hospital. I was shocked to see her so ill. She had applied powder and a little lipstick on a face as she knew that I loved to see it on her since childhood.

She could barely speak and said in a weak voice:

"Priya, you have come! This happiness will remain with me forever!"

And then she closed her eyes. It was as if she was waiting for me.

The funeral was a grand but sad one. A Rolls Royce car took my mother's body to the cremation hall.

I recalled on the spur of the moment how my mother would jokingly say to my father: " Nathji! When are you going to give me a ride in a Rolls Royce!"

At the cremation hall a miracle occurred. The skies were overcast and it appeared the sky was full of thick dark clouds which would never lift.

My mother's face was still uncovered in the coffin.

Suddenly the skylight on the roof was flooded with light and rays of the sun came downwards and fell on the face of my mother. Her countenance was lit up for a while and it appeared as if she was alive.

Mr. Leverton the funeral director, said to my father:

"This was not ordinary light. It was Heavenly Light!"

Yes, it was a signal from her spiritual realm that she was being welcomed there.

But I shall always miss her. After all she was my mother.

I close this article with tears in my eyes as my offerings to the Divine Mother.

IN THE ASSEMBLIES OF SOME

HH Shri Bhola Nathji (1902-1992) the Founder of the World Prayer Day wrote about 30,000 lyrics in Urdu (Ghazals) only some of which were put to music by me as his son even though my subject was never music and I was a nuclear physicist most of my life.

.He wrote these 30,000 poems of seven verses each when he was between 80 and 90 years of age and beset upon by grave and serious illnesses.Most of his ghazals portray divine love and divine bliss at its highest.

The pristine and pure divine personality of HH Shri Bhola Nathji who gave his entire life to alleviating the ills and sorrows of mankind, never asked for anything from anyone, and instead passed through many physical travails in his lifetime. 

While people making a pretense to spirituality were living in luxury and enjoying themselves at the cost of the public, here was One who lived and died for humanity calling himself in all humility "The Servant of the Earth", even though people experienced God in Him.

This mystic poem depicts how all good people, saviours and messiahs, come into this world and endure sufferings and privations while pretenders roll in wealth and luxury.

Yet, the godliness in these pure and pristine souls like that of HH Shri Bhola Nathji shines out in its brilliance the greater the sufferings that come their way.

I have tried to do justice to the lyrics by composing music to them and singing them myself, but I am sure they fall far below the sublime levels that the lyrics portrayed. I hope you will bear with me.

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI (1902-1992) FOUNDER OF THE WORLD PRAYER DAY FOR PEACE OF MIND

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI (1902-1992) FOUNDER OF THE WORLD PRAYER DAY
FOR PEACE OF MIND

It is not for you to be discouraged; no matter
what time may bring, it is for you to pass
through it with a smile.

For the very thorns
that do trouble you today, herald the
approach of flowers; the dark night is a
forerunner of the coming moon.

The trials and tribulations with which you
are possessed are for your own betterment.
The unfulfilled desires that do haunt you are
a prelude to the coming of something far
better than you desired.

The seed that is sown, cannot, in an instant,
spring forth as a flower. It needs must go
through all the stages Nature has set for it
before it can emerge as a flower beautified
by the presence of leaves.

MAMAMATESHWARI'S BIRTHDAY AT TEKADE HOUSE, NAGPUR AUG 15, 2013

On the 15th of August was the Birthday of Smt. Savitri Devi ( 1916-1967) who came to be known as Mahamateshwari after her marriage to HH Shri Bhola Nathji (1902-1992) the Founder of the World Prayer Day.

She would not permit birthday celebrations during the time that she was in her physical frame. However after her going, devotees carry out small birthday ceremonies in their own homes on the day.

One such special home is the Tekade Family Home in Nagpur, where the entire family is dedicated and devoted to Mahamateshwari and have made their house into a small temple by installing a beautifully made statue or idol of Mahamateshwari.

In this video the young and the old of the family have gotten together to sing hymns which are basically prayers to the Divine Mother Mahamateshwari and HH Shri Bhola Nathji to shower their Mercy and Grace upon their children in the world and in fact on all the people of the world so that peace and love may prevail everywhere and all the miseries and sorrows of the world come to an end.

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI FOR PEACE OF MIND

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI
FOR PEACE OF MIND

Millions have come into this world and
millions have gone, yet you desire to cling
to life.

Perhaps this is proof of your own infinitude.
By wishing to live why must you prove that
you are going to die? The fear of Death is
Death itself. Up to the moment you are alive
Death has not haunted you.

When you see Death before you and feel it,
“you” are still there for otherwise you would
not have felt the presence of Death.

Since you feel the presence of Death, your
own presence is thereby confirmed, even at
the moment of death. Therefore, your
presence and the presence of Death are apart
from one another.

Had you passed away, there would have
been no such thing as “Death’ since it is you
who feel this “Death”. Your absence would
confirm the absence of Death.

“Death” is the name of fear, of ignorance, of
a pain in the heart.

Laugh and recognize
your own infinitude.

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI (1902-1992) FOR PEACE OF MIND

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI (1902-1992)
FOR PEACE OF MIND

Faith is the greatest treasure of life. There is
a garden ahead that is full of beautiful
flowers, fresh and fragrant, red with the
colour of Spring.

Drops of dew fallen from
overhanging branches of trees, sparkle on
the petals of flowers like diamonds. The rays
of the Sun are captured in these gems. The
branches and leaves sway with the gaiety of
Spring. And people wander in the garden,
partaking of its freshness and beauty.

And yet, how do you know all this is true?
Perhaps you have faith in your eyes which
behold this scene.

If you doubted even for a
moment the reality of the scene before you,
you would dread advancing even a step
further.

You would then be like the traveler
who trembles every foot of his way,
hesitating and uncertain because he is not
sure of his destination, because he knows
not whether the route leads to a void or to
his home. He is afraid of his uncertainty.

Look towards the Creator and think of Him.
Connect your heart with Him and then move
forward with the light of this Faith, towards
happiness.

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI (1902-1992)

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI (1902-1992)

The darkness of night has come. The rays of
the sun have been drowned in this sea of
darkness. The Sun is now a captive.

You are aware of the coming of this
darkness and are frightened, but its coming
is a perfectly natural phenomenon even as
the lighting of your candle, which keeps the
darkness a few feet away from you.

Know then, this, that darkness is not without
meaning. It is from the depths of it that the
first rays of the sun will emerge at dawn.

Darkness has come to relieve you of the
trials and tribulations of the day; to take you
into an entirely different world, with a Sun
of its own and a light of its own, which may
be beheld only at night in slumber.

When you awaken in the morning, the world
of your dreams vanishes and you see another
familiar one. Then, it is, that you refer to the
world of your dreams as an “illusion,” – the
very world, which was the only truth a
moment before.

In a like manner, this world that you see
around you will cease to exist one day for
you, and then you will think of it even as
you thought of the world of dreams – an
illusion.

Realize this awakening now in this sleep.

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJJI ( 1902-1992) FOR PEACE OF MIND

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJJI ( 1902-1992)
FOR PEACE OF MIND

Akbar the Great who ruled India during 1542-1505 AD, once wished to test the Ministers of his famous Court.

He drew a line with a chalk on a blackboard and then he said:

"Is there anyone here who can make this line longer or shorter without touching it?"

All were puzzled and gave up. But his clever Prime Minister, Birbal,
got up and said:

"Yes, Sire! I can do it!"

"Show me!" said Akbar.

And Birbal got up and drew a shorter line beneath the original line.

"Now, relative to the shorter line, the original line has become longer!"

Then he drew a longer line above the original line, and said:

"Now, relative to the longer line above it the original line has become shorter!"

Akbar asked: "So what is the original line in itself? Is it long or short?"

"Neither!" said Birbal, "in itself the original line can neither be called long nor short. It is only relative to other lines, that it becomes longer or shorter in comparison!"

HH Shri Bhola Nathji concluded his parable and said:

"No state in life is high and no state in life is low! It is only when you start comparing it with the states of others that your own state appears to be high or low.

"If you think of people living in great luxury while you are leading an ordinary life and consider your state to be low, then think of the millions living in hovels and huts who have not even electricity and water in their homes!

"If you constantly complain about your work or your business, then think of those millions who are in hospital with various diseases and can think of nothing else but how to be cured!"

"Do not complain of your own misery, because there is greater misery in the world around you!

"Do not become proud and egoistic with a little success or wealth because there is greater success and wealth in the world around you!"

"The key to happiness is to be as content as you can, with whatever you possess or have been given by God.

"When God sees your state of contentment even in diverse circumstances, He Himself will give you much more than you ever dreamed of!

"However if He sees you complaining all the time with whatever He has provided you with, He may take away what He has given so that you may appreciate it all the more when it is returned to you again!"

"Look at the ocean. It sits calm and content with the water it possesses. And all the rivers and streams flow down into it and fill it with more!

"Contentment does not halt progress. When you are content your mind is at peace and when your mind is at peace you can do double the amount of work with ease. And progress and promotion follow naturally!"

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI (1902-1992) for peace of mind

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI (1902-1992)
for peace of mind

I passed through a big city in a car, and I
saw on both sides of the road buildings that
soared up to the skies.

It struck me then that how useless were such
magnificent constructions when the dwellers
within had small hearts.

A person that dwells in a hut, but has his
heart free and big is far better off than one
residing in a mansion with no thought of
happiness.

In one thought alone a person can attain
greater happiness than in all the wealth in
the world. The outside world can only give
joy when the senses of man communicate
with his heart.

One can only enjoy the beauty of the flowers
and the dew when he enters the garden with
a healthy and peaceful mind.

It is, in reality, your own happiness that you
see in the objects of this world.

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI FOR PEACE OF MIND

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI
FOR PEACE OF MIND


O, Man! When thou dost do something in
secrecy thou thinkest that no one watches
thee! But it is not so.

Where thou art, there exists Someone in the
innermost recesses of thy Soul, who is
watching thee each second of the day and
everywhere.

He knows of each and every atom of thy
body and he observes all thy actions and
thoughts.

The four directions observe thee; the walls
observe thee; the windows observe thee; the
doors observe thee; the trees in the forest
observe thee; the sun, moon, and stars
observe thee.

And He who is hidden in
everything, He, the Everlasting Existence
which manifests Itself in every atom, has
His eyes on thee!

Thou canst never see Him, but He sees thee
all the time. Where is thy secrecy, therefore?

O, Man! If only thou wouldst realize this
truth, that He is always watching thee, thou
wouldst free thyself of all sin and would be
released from fear.

It is the Reflection of the Divine Being
which exists in thee and asserts: “I am
looking upon the entire Universe.”

His Voice speaks to thee and tells thee that
what thou doest is wrong or right.

Learn, therefore, to exist in the innermost
recesses of thy soul with thoughts abounding
in Love and Beauty, and thus seek the great
road to Salvation.

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI (1902-11992) FOR PEACE OF MIND

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI (1902-11992)
FOR PEACE OF MIND

There are tears in your eyes.
Your heart palpitates. Your hands do
tremble. Why?

Is it because you are faced with a difficulty
you cannot remove?

Since it is at the ‘present’ that you face the
calamity, it is but obvious that it did not
exist in what is the ‘past’.
I
t is the ever-flowing stream of time that has
brought it, and it is that very stream which
will not linger in the present but will flow on
to the past.

Therefore, whatever has come, has come to
go.

By worrying over it, you do tend to arrest its
movement. Let it drift into the past. And if it
is tomorrow you are afraid of, then laugh
today. Make yourself strong today so that
when the calamity comes you may be able to
push it aside and backwards into the past,
where all the joys and sorrows do linger on
in sleep.

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI (1902-1992) FOR PEACE OF MIND What is sorrow?

What is sorrow?

Whenever anything goes contrary to our
wishes there is sorrow.

Whenever we do not get what we want,
there is sorrow.

Whenever we get what we do not want there
is sorrow.

On one side of desire there is happiness, on
the other side, sorrow.

This is so, even as sunlight is surrounded by shadows – your
own shadow included.

Desire gives birth to happiness and sorrow.

And both vanish when you come to accept
everything as a measure of His Will.

Then, there is neither happiness nor sorrow
– only peace, everlasting Peace.

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI ( 1902-1992) FOUNDER OF THE WORLD PRAYER DAY FOR PEACE Peace or Prosperity?

Peace or Prosperity?

Prosperity is like a well decorated palace in which beautiful furniture and ornamentations have been placed by you.

And Peace is like the Light that lights up the Palace.

If the lights go off, you will find yourself stumbling against the very furniture you placed there and falling over its ornamentations.
Your own furniture and ornamentations will cause you hurt.
Your prosperity will become a painful experience.

But if there is Light in the Palace everything appears beautiful and you dont stumble and fall. It is only then that you can enjoy the Prosperity.

So, it is with Peace and Prosperity. Peace is like the Light that Lights up your Prosperity, and Prosperity is like the Palace which is lighted up by Peace.

Therefore you need both - Peace as well as Prosperity!

Then again you cannot enjoy a palace of gold if its foundation is shaken by an earthquake.

In a like manner you cannot enjoy prosperity if your mind is shaken by an earthquake of unrest and lacks peace.

You cannot enjoy the best of meals by the best of chefs in the best restaurants of the world if your stomach is upset and you feel like vomiting. In order to enjoy the food the stomach must be at rest.

Therefore in all conditions we find that we cannot enjoy the world or its prosperity if there is no peace within.

The first requirement to enjoy prosperity is to have peace within the heart.

I repeat: Man needs peace as well as prosperity in order to enjoy the world.

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI (1902-1992) FOUNDER OF THE WORLD PRAYER FOR PEACE The Tailor and the Cloth

The Tailor and the Cloth

Shri Nathji explained:

"Sorrow and suffering is a blessing in
disguise for it comes to increase the strength
of the soul and to purify it from sins. It is
like bitter quinine that breaks the fever, or
like the friendly knife of the surgeon who
heals you, and for which you are willing to
pay him."

"Suppose for a moment that you have
purchased a very expensive piece of cloth from
abroad and you take it to a tailor because you want a
suit to be made out of it. You have never
seen a tailor actually make a suit. You tell
the tailor that you want to see him make the
suit before your eyes.

“As you stand before him you discover to
your great horror that the tailor begins to cut
your expensive cloth into pieces. You watch in horror
and are about to protest, when you see him stitching
together the various pieces in such an artistic
manner that a beautiful suit is created from
the cloth. The realisation dawns upon you
that the tailor had cut the cloth, not to
destroy it, but rather to make a beautiful suit
out of it.

"A dhobi-washerman thrashes the clothes on
a rock not because he has any hostility
towards the clothes, but rather because he
wishes to remove the dirt from them."

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI (1902-1002) REVEALING THE MYSTERIES OF LIFE

REVEALING THE MYSTERIES OF LIFE

The World Beyond

We have to see which of these two categories we belong to.

There was a frog in a well who had been born and bred in the well and thought of the well as the whole world. The little water there, the brick wall, the little round opening at the top from where the sky was visible. This was his entire world.

Then One day a frog from the outside world somehow fell into the well. The frog inside the well was surprised and asked many questions of the frog from outside.

The frog from outside spoke of a vast ocean, of an infinite sky above, of endless tracts of land, of grass and buildings and trees and the humans who lived there.

The frog inside the well refused to believe that all his beliefs about his well being the whole world could be wrong. He refused to accept an infinite world and universe outside. His mind was closed to everything except what he was accustomed to inside the well.

Then one day there was a terrible storm and it rained and rained and rained. The water inside the well began to rise until it had come right on top of the mouth of the well. From there both the frogs were swept over into the outside world.

The frog inside the well realised then that the frog from the outside world was telling the truth. That there was a world different from the closed world of the inside of the well, and it was vast and infinite and varied. The first frog had no alternative but to believe in the frog from outside now and was ashamed of his early ignorance and bigotry of the past.

In a like manner there are people like the frog inside the well who have closed their minds to everything else except a narrow world of their own, their money, their families, their religion, and for them this is the world and nothing else matters.

But there are others who are connected to the whole world whose minds are open to new ideas, who are filled with tolerance and love for everyone and who see the majesty and beauty of the grand creation of the creator and who see everything as part of the unified scheme of God and everyone and everything as part of His Creation.

These are the enlightened souls who come with a message of Love and peace that takes people to a new world, makes them shed their bigotry, hatred and violence and selfishness of their lives like frogs living in a narrow world of their own.

So we have to decide whether we are to be like the frogs in a well or like the frog that comes from the outside world and enlightens us that there is a world beyond the small world in which we live out our selfish lives.

It is written in the Hindu Upanishads that the world
shall look upon one who is perfect as
imperfect, and shall look upon the imperfect
as perfect.

This is so because the world itself
is imperfect and cannot understand the
perfect. In order to understand a person with
a Ph.D one has to be a Ph.D himself

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI (1902-1992) - "THE PAST RETURNS"

"THE PAST RETURNS"

It is said that you can change everything but you cannot change the past! It is the one irrefutable truth in the world, indelible and permanent.

You can change the present, just go from one place to another. You can change the future, just alter your plans. But you cannot go back into the past to change anything in the past.

So remember, the past is very precious. Each and every action of yours, each and every thought is flowing down from the present to the past and becoming permanent.

If your actions and thoughts are evil then they will remain as evil in the past, if your actions and thoughts are good these will remain as good in the past. Therefore think twice before you do anything, say anything or think of anything -- they will all flow down into the past and become permanent.

It is also said that the past never returns. BUT IT DOES!

The past returns in two ways:

(i) The past returns whenever you think of it. It returns in your mind and memory and your heart and either causes you joy or brings you pain.

(ii) It returns in the form of its effect. If the past was the cause, you can feel its effects later in the present and the future.
The past is like a seed that you have sown. It returns as a tree. If you have sown a seed of thorns then you shall reap a harvest of thorns. If you have sown a seed of flowers then you shall reap a harvest of flowers.

Remember treat this moment before you very cautiously because it will flow down into the past and become permanent. Treat each and every fleeting moment of the present as your past, and remember that it shall return.