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<blockquote data-quote="vsgrewal48895" data-source="post: 96051" data-attributes="member: 8024"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE</span></strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">ABSTRACT</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Gratitude makes us feel like we have enough and the one who knows enough is enough will always have enough. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. Gratitude is the response of the receiver of the gift and you are worthy of all you receive. Gratitude births only positive feelings- love, compassion, joy and hope melting away fear, anger and, bitterness. Attitude is a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways and affects the choice that one makes. Attitude of gratitude takes the individual one step further as one progress in spirituality under Lord’s Grace;</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਹਰਿ ਹਰਿ ਕ੍ਰਿਪਾ ਕਰੀ ਜਗਦੀਸਰਿ ਦੁਰਮਤਿ ਦੂਜਾ ਭਾਉ ਗਇਓ ਸਭ ਝਾਕ </span><span style="font-family: 'Mangal'">॥</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Har har kirpā karī jag</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ḏ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">īsar </span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ḏ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">urma</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ṯ</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ḏ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">ūjā b</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ẖ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">ā¬o ga¬i¬o sab</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ẖ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> j</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ẖ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">āk.</span></em></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The Akal Purkh Har, Har, has shown me Its Mercy, and my evil-mindedness, love of duality and sense of alienation are totally gone, thanks to the Creator of the Universe. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">-----Guru Ramdas, Raag Kanrha, AGGS, Page, 1295-10</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Attitude of gratitude creates happiness because it makes us feel full and, complete. It is the realization that we have every thing we need, at least in this moment. Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the conscience. It is the highest appreciation, which cannot be uttered in words, but to live in. God willing (</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਗੁਰਮੁਖਿ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">)</span> always show gratitude and are pleasing to the Lord unlike self willed (</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਮਨਮੁਖਿ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">) performing showy rituals as expressed by Guru Nanak in Raag Majh;</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਮਨਮੁਖ ਲੂਣ ਹਾਰਾਮ ਕਿਆ ਨ ਜਾਣਿਆ </span><span style="font-family: 'Mangal'">॥</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਬਧੇ ਕਰਨਿ ਸਲਾਮ ਖਸਮ ਨ ਭਾਣਿਆ </span><span style="font-family: 'Mangal'">॥</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'"> ਸਚੁ ਮਿਲੈ ਮੁਖਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਭਾਵਸੀ </span><span style="font-family: 'Mangal'">॥</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'"> ਕਰਸਨਿ ਤਖਤਿ ਸਲਾਮੁ ਲਿਖਿਆ ਪਾਵਸੀ </span><span style="font-family: 'Mangal'">॥</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>Manmukh Loon Haraam Kiyaa Na Jania, Badeh Karan Salam Khasam Na Bhaniya.</em> <em>Sac</em></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ẖ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> milai muk</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ẖ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> nām sāhib b</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ẖ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">āvsī.</span></em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <em>Karsan </em></span><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ṯ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">ak</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ẖ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">a</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ṯ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> salām lik</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ẖ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">i&shy;ā pāvsī.</span></em></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The Manmukh are false to them selves; they feel no gratitude for what they have been given. Those who merely perform rituals of worship are not pleasing to their God and Master. Those who attain the True Akal Purkh and chant Its Name are pleasing to the It. They worship It and bow at Its Throne. They fulfill their pre-ordained destiny. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">-----Guru Nanak, Var Majh, AGGS, Page, 143-4</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Joy is defined as an emotion evoked by well-being, success or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing whatever one desires. While gratitude is the state of being appreciative of benefits received. As we experience the mental sunshine of gratitude; we begin to glow and our lives are full of people who want to be around us because we exude peacefulness, happiness and joy.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Positive emotions like gratitude and love are beneficial to health through the release of endorphins in the blood stream. Conversely, negative emotions such as worry, anger and, hopelessness contribute to high levels of adrenaline leading to stroke and heart disease.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Gratitude brings you back at the present moment now. When we see the glass half full rather than half empty, we notice what is there rather than dwelling on what is not there. Gratitude is an inner light we can use to illuminate our conscience. When we feel the fullness of gratitude, we accept (</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਭਾਣਾ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">) life as it is. You cannot experience gratitude with a closed heart. The more you feel grateful, the stronger is the impulse toward giving. And the more you give, the more you get-love, friendship, a sense of purpose and accomplishment, even some times material wealth. Thus gratitude also gives birth to a fiercely loving environmentalism. Some people find moments of transcendence trough meditation, others in nature, still others when making love.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Life is both wonderful and dreadful and some times we have forgotten the miracle of being alive. We should learn to count on today, love and, trust of our friends. In some ways our attitude determines every thing, because they are the glasses through which we see the world. Our attitudes have the ability to enable or disable us. Gratitude is the response of the receiver of the gift and you are worthy of all you receive.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Bernard Shaw writes that people always blame their circumstances for what they are. He says further that he does not believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want and if they cannot find them, they create them.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">To stand in line and waiting used to be waste of time for unnecessary aggravation to me. Now I think it is a wonderful opportunity to slow down and appreciate the creation.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Retroactive gratitude- realizing after some thing is over or some one is gone makes me feel to really appreciate what I have, but wasn’t aware of it until it was gone. The list what we might have taken for granted is endless. Regret is a poison that keeps us in the past. Thus gratitude is a natural response to the miracle of life as we experience it from moment to moment by living in the present.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">If you haven’t got all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have and that you do not want. Counting blessings by virtue of their not having struck the more outrageous the better (accidents) is a great mood elevator. Some times we need to look at what haven’t befallen us to wake ourselves up to the joys of our ordinary life, because they are blessings by virtue of not happening.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">This is where we truly ripen as souls, for it is easy to pay the lip service to the idea of gratitude and not to take the final step of embodying it. A pessimist is some one who has exercised the muscles of negativity till it becomes habitual, while an optimist is a person who has developed thankfulness and a can-do attitude until this becomes a second nature.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">When we truly focus on what we need, as opposed to what we want or might like, life gets much simpler and it is much easier to be grateful. Nothing blocks the feelings of gratitude more than anger and resentments. At some point you realize that you are much stronger and more loving person that you might hadn’t been if you hadn’t been so hurt and you recognize the gift in your particular suffering. Forgiveness leads to gratitude, which redeems our suffering.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The truth is, of course, that happiness is an inside job and, beyond the subsistence level. Money truly has very little to do with our happiness. I use envy as a trigger to remembering that I want to do a better job of giving myself away. Service of the humanity is well above meditation. Expectations are the killers of gratitude and joy. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">We are so incredibly well trained to notice what is wrong in any given relationship, work situation or experience that it is very easy to over look what’s right because our entire education system trains us to notice flaws and mistakes-that we are living in a negative world. What if we spent as much energy in relationships noticing and appreciating the other person’s gifts, talents, beauty and strengths as we do in exposing and dealing with its flaws? There are three circles of influence for every person- you, other people and life it self. It is the contentment in all these respects, which makes us happy in the moment.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">It is not to look for as to why the discontentment or suffering came but to learn from it and what it could teach us. When we fail to use the hardships that dog us to become more loving, more patient, more present and, kinder is our fault</span></span></p><p> </p><p><em><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">“NO MATTER WHAT ACCOMPHLISHMENTS YOU ACHIEVE, SOME BODY HELPED YOU<strong>”</strong></span></span></em></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Honoring our connections to those who came before us gives us a sense of belonging and wholeness. It takes decades to acknowledge that one’s own unique self but also that you are the child of your parents and indeed whether it is good or bad, you are more like them than you ever imagined. By repeating the past we fail to grow beyond it. Why is it that we are so kind, tolerant and loving to the people we barely know and so demanding, cold and, down right mean to those who are closest to us?</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">When we become pre-occupied with the faults, Mistakes, shortcomings and lacking of our children, we become angry and shortsighted instead of thanking them for being as they are? </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Be thankful that you don't already have everything you desire, if you did, what would there be to look forward to?</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Be thankful when you don't know something, for it gives you the opportunity to learn.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Be thankful for the difficult times, during those times you grow.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Be thankful for your limitations, because they give you opportunities for improvement.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Be thankful for each new challenge, because it will build your strength and character.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Be thankful for your mistakes, they will teach you valuable lessons.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Be thankful when you're tired and weary, because it means you've made a difference.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">It is easy to be thankful for the good things; a life of rich fulfillment comes to those who are also thankful for the setbacks.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Gratitude can turn a negative into a positive. Find a way to be thankful to the Lord with an attitude of fear and love for the Lord and your troubles can become your blessings.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਖਿਮਾ ਗਹੀ ਸਚੁ ਸੰਚਿਓ ਖਾਇਓ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤੁ ਨਾਮ </span><span style="font-family: 'Mangal'">॥ </span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਖਰੀ ਕ੍ਰਿਪਾ ਠਾਕੁਰ ਭਈ ਅਨਦ ਸੂਖ ਬਿਸ੍ਰਾਮ </span><span style="font-family: 'Mangal'">॥ </span><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Khima Gahee Such Sancheo Khaaeyo Amrit Naam, Khari Kirpa Thakur Bhayee Anand Sookh Bisraam.</span></em></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Adopting an attitude of tolerance, and gathering truth, partakes of the Ambrosial Nectar of the Name. I have been blessed with the Guru’s Grace, resulting in complete peace and tranquility of mind. -----Guru Arjan, Gauri Bawan Akhree, AGGS, Page 261-8</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">We should try to awaken the joy that is available at the present moment. Live as if every day is your last. It is man’s foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner Higher Self and to know Itss real inner greatness by removing the veil of lower self (</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਹਉਮੈ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">). Once one knows his own real true worth, he can know the worth of others by judging himself rather than others as portrayed by Guru Angad in Raag Majh; </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਨਾਨਕ ਪਰਖੇ ਆਪ ਕਉ ਤਾ ਪਾਰਖੁ ਜਾਣੁ </span><span style="font-family: 'Mangal'">॥</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਰੋਗੁ ਦਾਰੂ ਦੋਵੈ ਬੁਝੈ ਤਾ ਵੈਦੁ ਸੁਜਾਣੁ </span><span style="font-family: 'Mangal'">॥</span></span></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nanak Parkhay Aap Ka-o Taa Paarakh Jaan, Rog Daaroo Dovai Bujhai Taa Vaid Sujaan.</span></span></em></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">O Nanak, if someone judges himself, only then is he known as a real judge. If someone understands both the disease and the medicine, only then is he a wise physician. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">-----Guru Angad, Raag Majh, AGGS, Page, 148-8</span></span></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Conclusion:</span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Gratitude can make a day; even change a life with willingness and to put words in action, which is all that is necessary. If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, and confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.</span></span></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">One does not become wealthy only with accumulating wealth but one can be rich by developing virtues with spiritual growth.</span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">At each level of gratitude, our soul’s capacity deepens-At first we experience contentment, then meaning that we are there for some purpose and therefore thankful for life’s lessons. </span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Thirdly we dwell in pure joy and may even experience at all levels of thankfulness and the soul-gift that each offers.</span></span></li> </ul><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਲੂਣ ਹਰਾਮੀ ਨਾਨਕੁ ਲਾਲਾ ਬਖਸਿਹਿ ਤੁਧੁ ਵਡਿਆਈ</span><span style="font-family: 'Mangal'">॥</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਆਦਿ ਜੁਗਾਦਿ ਦਇਆਪਤਿ ਦਾਤਾ ਤੁਧੁ ਵਿਣੁ ਮੁਕਤਿਨ ਪਾਈ</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">॥</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Lū</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ṇ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> harāmī Nānak lālā bak</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ẖ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">sihi </span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ṯ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">u</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ḏẖ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> vadi¬ā¬ī. Ā</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ḏ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> jugā</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ḏ</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ḏ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">a¬i¬āpa</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ṯ</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ḏ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">ā</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ṯ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">ā </span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ṯ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">u</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ḏẖ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> vi</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ṇ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> muka</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ṯ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> na pā¬ī. </span></em></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I have been untrue to myself, but Nanak is Your slave; please forgive him, by Your glorious greatness. Since the very beginning of time, and throughout the ages, You have been the merciful and generous Akal Purkh. Without You, liberation cannot be attained. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">-----Guru Nanak, Raag Maru, AGGS, Page, 991-5</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Virinder S. Grewal</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Williamston, MI</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vsgrewal48895, post: 96051, member: 8024"] [CENTER][B][FONT=Times New Roman]ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE[/FONT][/B][/CENTER] [CENTER][B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]ABSTRACT[/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/CENTER] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Gratitude makes us feel like we have enough and the one who knows enough is enough will always have enough. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. Gratitude is the response of the receiver of the gift and you are worthy of all you receive. Gratitude births only positive feelings- love, compassion, joy and hope melting away fear, anger and, bitterness. Attitude is a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways and affects the choice that one makes. Attitude of gratitude takes the individual one step further as one progress in spirituality under Lord’s Grace;[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Raavi]ਹਰਿ ਹਰਿ ਕ੍ਰਿਪਾ ਕਰੀ ਜਗਦੀਸਰਿ ਦੁਰਮਤਿ ਦੂਜਾ ਭਾਉ ਗਇਓ ਸਭ ਝਾਕ [/FONT][FONT=Mangal]॥[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][I][FONT=Times New Roman]Har har kirpā karī jag[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ḏ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]īsar [/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ḏ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]urma[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ṯ[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ḏ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]ūjā b[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ẖ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]ā¬o ga¬i¬o sab[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ẖ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] j[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ẖ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]āk.[/FONT][/I][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]The Akal Purkh Har, Har, has shown me Its Mercy, and my evil-mindedness, love of duality and sense of alienation are totally gone, thanks to the Creator of the Universe. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]-----Guru Ramdas, Raag Kanrha, AGGS, Page, 1295-10[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Attitude of gratitude creates happiness because it makes us feel full and, complete. It is the realization that we have every thing we need, at least in this moment. Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the conscience. It is the highest appreciation, which cannot be uttered in words, but to live in. God willing ([/FONT][FONT=Raavi]ਗੁਰਮੁਖਿ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=Raavi])[/FONT] always show gratitude and are pleasing to the Lord unlike self willed ([/FONT][FONT=Raavi]ਮਨਮੁਖਿ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]) performing showy rituals as expressed by Guru Nanak in Raag Majh;[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Raavi]ਮਨਮੁਖ ਲੂਣ ਹਾਰਾਮ ਕਿਆ ਨ ਜਾਣਿਆ [/FONT][FONT=Mangal]॥[/FONT][FONT=Raavi]ਬਧੇ ਕਰਨਿ ਸਲਾਮ ਖਸਮ ਨ ਭਾਣਿਆ [/FONT][FONT=Mangal]॥[/FONT][FONT=Raavi] ਸਚੁ ਮਿਲੈ ਮੁਖਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਭਾਵਸੀ [/FONT][FONT=Mangal]॥[/FONT][FONT=Raavi] ਕਰਸਨਿ ਤਖਤਿ ਸਲਾਮੁ ਲਿਖਿਆ ਪਾਵਸੀ [/FONT][FONT=Mangal]॥[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][I]Manmukh Loon Haraam Kiyaa Na Jania, Badeh Karan Salam Khasam Na Bhaniya.[/I] [I]Sac[/I][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=3][I][FONT=Tahoma]ẖ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] milai muk[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ẖ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] nām sāhib b[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ẖ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]āvsī.[/FONT][/I][FONT=Times New Roman] [I]Karsan [/I][/FONT][I][FONT=Tahoma]ṯ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]ak[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ẖ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]a[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ṯ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] salām lik[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ẖ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]i­ā pāvsī.[/FONT][/I][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]The Manmukh are false to them selves; they feel no gratitude for what they have been given. Those who merely perform rituals of worship are not pleasing to their God and Master. Those who attain the True Akal Purkh and chant Its Name are pleasing to the It. They worship It and bow at Its Throne. They fulfill their pre-ordained destiny. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]-----Guru Nanak, Var Majh, AGGS, Page, 143-4[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Joy is defined as an emotion evoked by well-being, success or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing whatever one desires. While gratitude is the state of being appreciative of benefits received. As we experience the mental sunshine of gratitude; we begin to glow and our lives are full of people who want to be around us because we exude peacefulness, happiness and joy.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Positive emotions like gratitude and love are beneficial to health through the release of endorphins in the blood stream. Conversely, negative emotions such as worry, anger and, hopelessness contribute to high levels of adrenaline leading to stroke and heart disease.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Gratitude brings you back at the present moment now. When we see the glass half full rather than half empty, we notice what is there rather than dwelling on what is not there. Gratitude is an inner light we can use to illuminate our conscience. When we feel the fullness of gratitude, we accept ([/FONT][FONT=Raavi]ਭਾਣਾ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]) life as it is. You cannot experience gratitude with a closed heart. The more you feel grateful, the stronger is the impulse toward giving. And the more you give, the more you get-love, friendship, a sense of purpose and accomplishment, even some times material wealth. Thus gratitude also gives birth to a fiercely loving environmentalism. Some people find moments of transcendence trough meditation, others in nature, still others when making love.[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Life is both wonderful and dreadful and some times we have forgotten the miracle of being alive. We should learn to count on today, love and, trust of our friends. In some ways our attitude determines every thing, because they are the glasses through which we see the world. Our attitudes have the ability to enable or disable us. Gratitude is the response of the receiver of the gift and you are worthy of all you receive.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Bernard Shaw writes that people always blame their circumstances for what they are. He says further that he does not believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want and if they cannot find them, they create them.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]To stand in line and waiting used to be waste of time for unnecessary aggravation to me. Now I think it is a wonderful opportunity to slow down and appreciate the creation.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Retroactive gratitude- realizing after some thing is over or some one is gone makes me feel to really appreciate what I have, but wasn’t aware of it until it was gone. The list what we might have taken for granted is endless. Regret is a poison that keeps us in the past. Thus gratitude is a natural response to the miracle of life as we experience it from moment to moment by living in the present.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]If you haven’t got all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have and that you do not want. Counting blessings by virtue of their not having struck the more outrageous the better (accidents) is a great mood elevator. Some times we need to look at what haven’t befallen us to wake ourselves up to the joys of our ordinary life, because they are blessings by virtue of not happening.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]This is where we truly ripen as souls, for it is easy to pay the lip service to the idea of gratitude and not to take the final step of embodying it. A pessimist is some one who has exercised the muscles of negativity till it becomes habitual, while an optimist is a person who has developed thankfulness and a can-do attitude until this becomes a second nature.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]When we truly focus on what we need, as opposed to what we want or might like, life gets much simpler and it is much easier to be grateful. Nothing blocks the feelings of gratitude more than anger and resentments. At some point you realize that you are much stronger and more loving person that you might hadn’t been if you hadn’t been so hurt and you recognize the gift in your particular suffering. Forgiveness leads to gratitude, which redeems our suffering.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]The truth is, of course, that happiness is an inside job and, beyond the subsistence level. Money truly has very little to do with our happiness. I use envy as a trigger to remembering that I want to do a better job of giving myself away. Service of the humanity is well above meditation. Expectations are the killers of gratitude and joy. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]We are so incredibly well trained to notice what is wrong in any given relationship, work situation or experience that it is very easy to over look what’s right because our entire education system trains us to notice flaws and mistakes-that we are living in a negative world. What if we spent as much energy in relationships noticing and appreciating the other person’s gifts, talents, beauty and strengths as we do in exposing and dealing with its flaws? There are three circles of influence for every person- you, other people and life it self. It is the contentment in all these respects, which makes us happy in the moment.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]It is not to look for as to why the discontentment or suffering came but to learn from it and what it could teach us. When we fail to use the hardships that dog us to become more loving, more patient, more present and, kinder is our fault[/SIZE][/FONT] [I][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]“NO MATTER WHAT ACCOMPHLISHMENTS YOU ACHIEVE, SOME BODY HELPED YOU[B]”[/B][/FONT][/SIZE][/I] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Honoring our connections to those who came before us gives us a sense of belonging and wholeness. It takes decades to acknowledge that one’s own unique self but also that you are the child of your parents and indeed whether it is good or bad, you are more like them than you ever imagined. By repeating the past we fail to grow beyond it. Why is it that we are so kind, tolerant and loving to the people we barely know and so demanding, cold and, down right mean to those who are closest to us?[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]When we become pre-occupied with the faults, Mistakes, shortcomings and lacking of our children, we become angry and shortsighted instead of thanking them for being as they are? [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Be thankful that you don't already have everything you desire, if you did, what would there be to look forward to?[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Be thankful when you don't know something, for it gives you the opportunity to learn.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Be thankful for the difficult times, during those times you grow.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Be thankful for your limitations, because they give you opportunities for improvement.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Be thankful for each new challenge, because it will build your strength and character.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Be thankful for your mistakes, they will teach you valuable lessons.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Be thankful when you're tired and weary, because it means you've made a difference.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]It is easy to be thankful for the good things; a life of rich fulfillment comes to those who are also thankful for the setbacks.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Gratitude can turn a negative into a positive. Find a way to be thankful to the Lord with an attitude of fear and love for the Lord and your troubles can become your blessings.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Raavi]ਖਿਮਾ ਗਹੀ ਸਚੁ ਸੰਚਿਓ ਖਾਇਓ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤੁ ਨਾਮ [/FONT][FONT=Mangal]॥ [/FONT][FONT=Raavi]ਖਰੀ ਕ੍ਰਿਪਾ ਠਾਕੁਰ ਭਈ ਅਨਦ ਸੂਖ ਬਿਸ੍ਰਾਮ [/FONT][FONT=Mangal]॥ [/FONT][I][FONT=Times New Roman]Khima Gahee Such Sancheo Khaaeyo Amrit Naam, Khari Kirpa Thakur Bhayee Anand Sookh Bisraam.[/FONT][/I][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Adopting an attitude of tolerance, and gathering truth, partakes of the Ambrosial Nectar of the Name. I have been blessed with the Guru’s Grace, resulting in complete peace and tranquility of mind. -----Guru Arjan, Gauri Bawan Akhree, AGGS, Page 261-8[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]We should try to awaken the joy that is available at the present moment. Live as if every day is your last. It is man’s foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner Higher Self and to know Itss real inner greatness by removing the veil of lower self ([/FONT][FONT=Raavi]ਹਉਮੈ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]). Once one knows his own real true worth, he can know the worth of others by judging himself rather than others as portrayed by Guru Angad in Raag Majh; [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Raavi]ਨਾਨਕ ਪਰਖੇ ਆਪ ਕਉ ਤਾ ਪਾਰਖੁ ਜਾਣੁ [/FONT][FONT=Mangal]॥[/FONT][FONT=Raavi]ਰੋਗੁ ਦਾਰੂ ਦੋਵੈ ਬੁਝੈ ਤਾ ਵੈਦੁ ਸੁਜਾਣੁ [/FONT][FONT=Mangal]॥[/FONT][/SIZE] [I][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Nanak Parkhay Aap Ka-o Taa Paarakh Jaan, Rog Daaroo Dovai Bujhai Taa Vaid Sujaan.[/FONT][/SIZE][/I] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]O Nanak, if someone judges himself, only then is he known as a real judge. If someone understands both the disease and the medicine, only then is he a wise physician. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]-----Guru Angad, Raag Majh, AGGS, Page, 148-8[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Conclusion:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Gratitude can make a day; even change a life with willingness and to put words in action, which is all that is necessary. If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, and confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.[/SIZE][/FONT] [LIST] [*][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]One does not become wealthy only with accumulating wealth but one can be rich by developing virtues with spiritual growth.[/SIZE][/FONT] [*][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]At each level of gratitude, our soul’s capacity deepens-At first we experience contentment, then meaning that we are there for some purpose and therefore thankful for life’s lessons. [/FONT][/SIZE] [*][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Thirdly we dwell in pure joy and may even experience at all levels of thankfulness and the soul-gift that each offers.[/SIZE][/FONT] [/LIST] [SIZE=3][FONT=Raavi]ਲੂਣ ਹਰਾਮੀ ਨਾਨਕੁ ਲਾਲਾ ਬਖਸਿਹਿ ਤੁਧੁ ਵਡਿਆਈ[/FONT][FONT=Mangal]॥[/FONT][FONT=Raavi]ਆਦਿ ਜੁਗਾਦਿ ਦਇਆਪਤਿ ਦਾਤਾ ਤੁਧੁ ਵਿਣੁ ਮੁਕਤਿਨ ਪਾਈ[/FONT][FONT=Raavi]॥[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][I][FONT=Times New Roman]Lū[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ṇ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] harāmī Nānak lālā bak[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ẖ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]sihi [/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ṯ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]u[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ḏẖ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] vadi¬ā¬ī. Ā[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ḏ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] jugā[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ḏ[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ḏ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]a¬i¬āpa[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ṯ[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ḏ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]ā[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ṯ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]ā [/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ṯ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]u[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ḏẖ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] vi[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ṇ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] muka[/FONT][/I][I][FONT=Tahoma]ṯ[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] na pā¬ī. [/FONT][/I][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]I have been untrue to myself, but Nanak is Your slave; please forgive him, by Your glorious greatness. Since the very beginning of time, and throughout the ages, You have been the merciful and generous Akal Purkh. Without You, liberation cannot be attained. [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]-----Guru Nanak, Raag Maru, AGGS, Page, 991-5[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Virinder S. Grewal[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Williamston, MI[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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