Contentment..........

An ancient Sufi story:

A man was very much burdened by his suffering. He used to pray every day to God, "Why me? Everybody seems to be so happy, why am only I in such suffering?" One day, out of great desperation, he prayed to God, "You can give me anybody else's suffering and I am ready to accept it. But take mine, I cannot bear it any more."

That night he had a beautiful dream -- beautiful and very revealing. He had a dream that night that God appeared in the sky and he said to everybody, "Bring all your sufferings into the temple." Everybody was tired of his suffering -- in fact everybody has prayed some time or other, "I am ready to accept anybody else's suffering, but take mine away; this is too much, it is unbearable."

So everybody gathered his own sufferings into bags, and they reached the temple, and they were looking very happy; the day has come, their prayer has been heard. And this man also rushed to the temple.

And then God said, "Put your bags by the walls." All the bags were put by the walls, and then God declared: "Now you can choose. Anybody can take any bag."
And the most surprising thing was this: that this man who had been praying always, rushed towards his bag before anybody else could choose it! But he was in for a surprise, because everybody rushed to his own bag, and everybody was happy to choose it again. What was the matter? For the first time, everybody had seen others' miseries, others' sufferings -- their bags were as big, or even bigger!

And the second problem was, one had become accustomed to one's own sufferings. Now to choose somebody else's -- who knows what kind of sufferings will be inside the bag? Why bother? At least you are familiar with your own sufferings, and you have become accustomed to them, and they are tolerable. For so many years you have tolerated them -- why choose the unknown?

And everybody went home happy. Nothing had changed, they were bringing the same suffering back, but everybody was happy and smiling and joyous that he could get his own bag back.

In the morning he prayed to God and he said, "Thank you for the dream; I will never ask again. Whatsoever you have given me is good for me, must be good for me; that's why you have given it to me."

@b !tna to b@nta hai...lolzzz!!!

Seated in restaurant ,a priest is scrutinizing the beauty of a young lady escorted ny her male companion.A layman kids him about his female interest .
"just becoz...m on a perpetual diet does not mean i cant study the menu once in while..!!'''says the priest.

"Do we create relationship because we miss love??"

Relationship means something complete,finished,closed.Love is never relationship;love is relating.It is always a river flowing unending.Love knows no full stop.It is not like a novel that starts at a certain point and ends at a point.It is an ongoing phenomenon.Lovers end love continues.It is a continnum.It is a verb not noun..
Why do we reduce the beauty of relating to relationship??Why are we in such a hurry??...
.......well because to relate is insecure,,and relationship has security,,relationship has certainty..
You are in love with a man or a woman and immediately you start thinking of getting married.You make a legal contract.Why??How does the law comes into love??The law comes into love because love is not there.It is only a fantasy and you know the fantasy will disappear.Besides it disappear settle down.Before it disappears do something so it becomes impossible to separate...
In a better world, with more meditative people ,with a little more enlightenment spread over the earth,people will love immensely,,but there love will remain a relating not a relationship.I am not saying that there love will be only momentaryThere is every possibilty there love may go deeper than your love.may have a higher quality of intimacy,may have something more than poetry more than divine in it.And there is every possibility that there love may lasts longer than your so called relationship ever lasts. But it will not be guaranteed,by the law,by the court,by the police man,the guarantee will b inner .