We are what our thoughts are.
God came.
Ask me whatever you want.
Ten people asked their desires
First one
Countless money & a big business to run
2nd one
The most powerful position in the world
3rd one
I need fame & fortune like a topmost world famous actor
4th
I have to become the most beautiful person that the whole world becomes mad after me
Like this each of the nine people asked their desires which God gave them immediately.
The tenth person asked
I want the most contented , peaceful & blissful stage which a man can achieve.
The rest of the 9 looked at him laughing.
Peace of mind, contented heart.
For that only we asked whatever we wanted . When we get whatever we wanted peace & contentment will follow.
God looked at them and said I’ve given whatever you all wanted. Now you all can go.
The He turned towards the tenth person and said,
‘you wait here. I need to talk to you. I’ll come after some time. ‘ He left.
Now the rest of the 9 hesitated & stayed back so anxious to know what God is going to give him.
In spite of getting whatever they wanted they became jealous over the man who has not got anything till then.
As time passed, their anxiety grew & they forgot to enjoy what they have got. There went their peace & happiness.
The tenth man waited patiently. He became so peaceful & content that God is coming to talk with him.
Who are we.
The tenth person or
the rest .
Decide.
Our thoughts decide who we are.
Translation from a Tamil social media share by my mother Anjana.
Have shared my artwork here for I felt it was apt for the story above, in depicting the 10th man who is at bliss and peace in the merging of thoughts in divine consciousness.
Savvy Raj 
August 12, 2023 at 9:55 am
SMiLes Dear Savvy
As Always A Very Wise
Share by Your Mother of
Wisdom For What it Means
to Be LoVE iN Peace
Naked Enough
Whole Complete
Kindness to Others
Has Always Brought
This Free to me So Happy
To Start A Career After 3 College
Degrees Just Handing Rental Shoes
Out at a Military Bowling Center Sharing
SMiLes And Stories of Life So Many They Told
me There at the Counter over an Entire Generation
of 18 Years
Oh Dear Lord After
Earning 3 College Degrees
Family And FRiEnDS And Even
New Acquaintances Tried to Convince
me i Was Wasting All my Potential
Where i Should Be in Big
Business Making
Money With
All The Great Expectations
That May Come With Straight A’s
Yet i Didn’t Wanna Be a Cog in a Machine
Human With Warm Connections Enough For me
Yet Change Happens as a Federal Employee Eventually
Forced Out of that Place oF LoVE iN Peace For me in a Village
of Folks i Had Known Closely For a Generation That Way
my New Abode Behind a Screen in a Variety of Stuffy
Offices Some Without even any Windows too
‘They’ Called it 5 Promotions to Keep
A Job i Called it what is was
What i Tried to
Avoid From the
Beginning only Being
A Cog in a Machine
i’ve Also Experienced Fame
And Enough Fortune to Never Earn
Another Penny hehe and For Dancing
for a Decade People Have often asked
me Do i Know How Famous i am in the
Metro Community even Legend to them
As it’s True All i Have to Do is Walk in a Public
Store to Bring SMiLes Before i Even Start Dancing Now
Yet It is No More Special Being Called Famous and Legend
Than the Days of Sharing Smiles Handing Out Rental Shoes
to Acquaintances FRiEnDS And Total Strangers What i Learned
Most from that Job There Are no Strangers in this World Only
Potential FRiEnDS When We View Every Part of Nature As God’s Face Now
In Other Words
i Don’t Have to
Wait For God to
Give me anything at
All All i Do is Return the Gift With SMiLes
Indeed my FRiEnD There are many Kinds of ‘Rental Shoes’..:)
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August 12, 2023 at 1:21 pm
Well written…. thank you.
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August 12, 2023 at 6:03 pm
Thank you Lokeish Umak.
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