Divine Qualities & Clifton Strengths

Not looking for similarities and yet I am.

The Gita says each person has these 26 qualities - however quantum, frequency, intensity & dominance is different. Practice with mindfulness and your divine qualities become natural to you. 

Similarly as per Clifton all people have these 34 tendencies and being aware of them and using them well , with practice they become our strengths. 

Each person has the 26 Divine Qualities and the 34 natural tendencies . Some are evident and some are not explored. Being aware and then consciously practicing them improves us as helps to develop ourselves. 

 

Mudras & Gunas

 

In Gyan Mudra - Self in touch with God  

Some one liners

1. Ahem ne vahem pal rakha ... ki sara karwan mene sambhal rakha hai

2. Guru, Govind aur Granth - help manifest our divinity

3. Gratitude leads to Guidance 

4. When you have Guru, Govind & Granth; And Gratitude leading to Guidance; You are growing with Grace towards your Goal of greeting God 

5. Jivan Muktas : When divine tendencies >>>>> far exceed the Human tendencies 

6. TMI - Too Much Information causes clutter ....even in the spiritual arena if lack clarity 

One leads to another

Most of you would have seen the clip on how one person is kind, the receiver of the kindness feels good, happy & pays it forwards and it starts a chain of kindness spreading joy & hope etc.

Then I remember once reading a poem about smiles...a man gets a smile from someone, he tries to smile back at another to payoff, and he gets another & he keeps trying to return the smile and he just keeps getting more smiles and cannot quite return it.

And then in Gita it has a mention of divine qualities. And its said you practice one and the others will automatically grow in you.

Then there is a book THE ONE THING - have not read it but heard about it. It talks about how focussing on ONE THING at a time with will simply and make it all efficient. And if we can identify the ONE THING that will impact every area of our existence etc.

And then we all have heard or read about how when we start to follow a certain discipline, other things fall in line. Start eating well and soon exercise and sleep patterns improve.  Star watching your words and your tone and articulation improves.

All this is true for good things and the inverse is also true.

You get away with lies/cheating & you will do it again!
You eat junk & you want more!!
Greed feeds greed!!!

So what makes this happen???

Why we do like this???

Is there an explanation........

Is it just a domino effect ...change in motion / inertia causing it all

Or it is psychological in some way ??? The neutrons creating synapses and strengthening them helps build more similar ones

Or energy fields & aura are at play??? You focus or put your thoughts and the cosmos supports you...

Or is it laws of nature...like water cycle and life cycle of frog or seed...

Or Karmic laws..what goes around comes around...

Maybe all the above....

I don't know...just wants to share my thoughts.

Slave of your word...

Once upon a time an old man spread rumors that his neighbor was a thief. 
As a result, the young man was arrested. Days later the young man was 
proven innocent. After been released he sued the old man for wrongly 
accusing him.

In court the old man told the Judge: 'They were just comments, didn't 
harm anyone..'

The judge, before passing sentence on the case, told the old man: 'Write 
all the things you said about him on a piece of paper. Cut them up and 
on the way home, throw the pieces of paper out. Tomorrow, come back to 
hear the sentence.'

The next day, the judge told the old man: 'Before receiving the 
sentence, you will have to go out and gather all the pieces of paper 
that you threw out yesterday.'

The old man said: 'I can't do that! The wind spread them and I won't 
know where to find them.'

The judge then replied: 'The same way, simple comments may destroy the
honor of a man to such an extent that one is not able to fix it.

"If you can't speak well of someone, rather don't say anything"

'Let's all be masters of our mouths, so that we won't be slaves of our 
words.'😊😀

Story of a man

Once there was a man who did not make it to university. So, his mother got him a wife. After the marriage, he worked as a teacher in a primary school.  Due to the lack of experience, he was squashed by the students in less than a week. 

When he returned home,  his wife dried his tears. She comforted him with these words. 'When one is too full, he could either pour it out what's in him or he just could not pour it out at all. You should not be too sad about it. Probably there is a more suitable job waiting for you out there.'

Later on, he found another job and not for so long, he was fired due to his slowness. This time, the wife commented. 'There are always people who are skilful and non skilful. Some have experience from their years of work. As for you,  you were in school all this while. So, how could you acquire these needed skills?'

He went for a number of jobs but never stayed long in those jobs. Each time,  he would return home with a dejected spirit. His wife would always comfort him and never for once, she was disappointed or resentful.

He was in his thirties when he aquired a flair in languages.  He became a counselor in a school for the deaf and mute. Later on,  he opened a school for the disabled. A few years later, he set up chain stores in different cities and provinces selling apparatus & equipment for the disabled. He became a multi-millionaire. 

One day he asked his wife. 'When I was looking bleak at my own future, what's the reason that you have so much faith in me?' 

His wife gave him a very simple reply.  She said, 'When a piece of land is not suitable for planting wheat, we could try planting beans. If the beans are not growing well,  we could try planting fruits or gourds. If the vegetation is not economical,  we can instead scatter buckwheat seeds. These seeds will one day bloom into flowers. On this land itself, there will be one seed that will germinate and grow.' 

After having listened to the wife's explanation, he cried.  His wife's faith, love, patience, and persistence in him is liken to the one seed in the land. This is the seed that persists and creates the miracle on this piece of land. 

"In this world,  there's no one person who is useless. It is just that they have not positioned themselves firmly in right place"

Having read this story, pls do not ignore it. Share it and you will find yourself very happy and be blessed. 

8 advices to share herein.

1. When we do not value things, a mountain of gold will not bring us happiness

2.  When we are not tolerant, no matter how many friends we have,  they will soon leave us.

3.  When we have no gratitude, no matter how excellent we are, we would always have difficulties & discontentment in success. 

4.  When we don't put ourselves into actions,  no matter how smart we are,  we will never realize our dreams. 

5.  When we don't cooperate with others, no matter how hard we've worked, we couldn't make it big on our own

6.  When we don't know about savings, no matter how rich we strike, we couldn't be wealthy. 

7. When we don't know how to be contented, even how wealthy we are, we are still not blissful. 

8.  When we don't understand wellness, any advanced medical treatment will not bring longevity. 

A very inspiring article to share with everyone. 

Hopefully the above had brought true meaning to your mind and soul 

Happiness Quotient

Gita talks about desires

We have read that desires causes the mahabharat

Buddhism talks about " Desire is the cause of all suffering"

And I recently heard about the Happiness Quotient (HQ)

Number of desires fulfilled divided by number of desires.

Simple Math if denominator keeps reducing, even if numerator is constant, the HQ keeps increasing

And if denominator becomes 1, i.e. only 1 desire to reach God , and numerator keeps growing as one is grateful for all that is happening, teh HQ grows exponentially and always....

Think about it.