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August 26th, 2010
Do you know that Obedience is the number one thing which impresses God. When we remain obedient to the Word of God and what God asks us to do we remain in the circle of His blessings; but the moment we choose to do our will and go beyond the circle of obedience we face adversities and sometimes severe adversities. There is a very prominent example that has been explained to us through Ramayan. When Laxman the younger brother of Sri Ram had drawn a circle of safety for Sita, she was safe till the time she was within it but the moment she chose to walk out of it out of fear, Ravana in disguise of a Sadhu kidnapped her and she got into severe adversity. Same way in Bible it says “If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all His commands…you will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country” (Deuteronomy 28:1-3, NIV) Now this does not mean that God is a dictator and if we do not abide by what He asks us to do He will curse us. God never curses, God only knows how to love His children.
One might wonder then how come our life becomes a curse. It’s like this when God wants us to do something it is for our good because He wants our life to grow in a certain way, the way He knows is best for us. Sri Ramakrishna Parmahansa explains this with a beautiful example, he says, when a father holds the hand of the child to cross a rivulet the child never goes astray but when the child holds the fathers hand it is possible that some distraction might make the child leave the fathers hand and the child will go astray.
Now I want to share with you an example that I experienced yesterday which would explain my point further. Yesterday after few months I met a friend who had promised to help our Foundation with the donation that we were managing to sponsor for the PID (Primary Immune Deficiency) child patient. At that time every commitment counted and I was very sure she would help our Foundation with much more than what she had promised. But suddenly she stopped taking my calls and neither did she convey that she was not interested in being a partner or donor any more. I really didn’t know what had happened all of a sudden. Yesterday I met her after more than four months and saw that there were hardly any hair left on her head and she looked tired and fagged out. When I inquired she told me that probably I had cursed her for not giving the donation and her life has been like as if she was on a roller coaster ride. On further inquiring she told me that she had been in a spin as her mother suddenly took ill and she had to take her out of the country for treatment and her father met with an accident at the same time. And since she is running her business also, her life has been like one foot here and the other somewhere else. To top it all she burnt all her hair while using hot iron at home. And she thought because she behaved with me in that manner her life had been cursed.
What had actually happened was that she had cursed her own life. When we are not obedient to God and do our will we lose our peace and life seems to be like a roller coaster and you crave for peace. This is happening with millions of people everywhere. Some are making wrong adjustments in accounts just because their customers want it but they are not at peace with it. Some are not treating their colleague’s right or someone in the family right so they are not at peace. But what we need to understand is that we are not being obedient to God by not doing things right. So if you think that there is something in your life for which you are not being obedient to God do not reason out with Him why in your opinion you are right, just obey you’ll make your life meaningful, peaceful and blessed. Be blessed-Shalini Mehta.
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July 27th, 2010
I recently visited an acquaintance’s home which was being renovated; they had called me to suggest them on using colour on their walls. After we had gone around the whole house and suggesting them various colours for each room we sat down for a cup of tea. During the conversation the lady of the house asked me if I had seen the room especially made for her and her family to worship God. I was a little confused because I had not seen any such room. She told me to have a look at it under the staircase on my way out. It took me some time to understand, but I confirmed with her the place where she told me. I was taken aback and I simply asked her a question that if her son built a house and left a room with a ventilator instead of a window and asked her and her husband to stay there and lavishly used the other part of his property to live comfortably with his wife and children, would she like it? She answered no, and I said that is how God feels in your this room.
Some of us are callous enough and use God only when we are in dire situation, some of us use God when it is convenient to us. But I encourage you to make God the centre of your life and revolve your life around Him rather than fitting Him into your life. He should be the number one in your finances, decisions, time, relationships and in your home. If you wish to have a place of worship in your home, give Him the best place not a leftover not after every member of the family have selected their rooms.
When you keep your eyes on God, God also keeps His eyes on you. He looks for His children who need Him and want Him. In Bhagvad Gita 6:30 the Lord says- He who see Me everywhere and sees all in Me, he never becomes lost to Me, nor do I become lost to him.
So I encourage you today that God is the vital ingredient of your life, do not use Him as a convenience. He loves you and wants to do some amazing things ‘in’ you and ‘through’ you, give Him His rightful place-God loves you-Shalini Mehta
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July 26th, 2010
Yesterday morning while coming back from the market along with my daughter Aanya, I saw a good built German Shepherd dog behaving very abnormally. The dog seemed lost and had no sense of what it was doing or where it was going. Sometimes it would just smell the grass, sometimes it would look around with wandering eyes. I could immediately recognize that it had lost its way. It seemed so different in its behaviour which was contrary to a German Shepherd. Immediately I got a revelation in my heart from God, as He spoke: “if you lose Me in this world, this is what becomes of you.” Just as the dog lost its owner, a person in the world loses the sense of ownership that God has on each one of us.
What makes you lost in this world – your ego, your job, your status, your money, your intellect, your talent, your busy-ness, your pity-party, your circumstances? Most of us are, in one way or the other, lost in this world because of our own making, forgetting how much God loves us, cares for us and is waiting to talk to us. Later in our lives, we regret about what we were doing.
One of my ex-colleagues was busy being the best worker. He was thus spending no time with family, parents or friends. One day he got involved in a terrible accident and was immobile for two months. Another example is of an aged lady who was fixed on the idea that God does not listen to her prayers, while she dealt with a grown-up son who was an alcoholic. This was till she got desperate in her prayers for her son to change and she had to send her son to the de-addiction centre.
All such people are actually lost one way or the other, unaware of the change God wants to bring in them. Instead of seeing God’s hand in putting them in specific circumstances, they blame the whole world and lose sight of God’s purpose behind these. When that lady or the colleague of mine realised what God wanted from them, they felt stable, confident and at peace.
In case you are feeling lost, start spending time with the Ultimate One starting today. He shall guide you, take care of you, watch your steps, order your direction in such a minute details that you shall never feel lost! That’s when you get most secure in your mind and take on this world like a winner! – God bless you – Vinay Mehta
Tags: God, lost, prayer, Ultimate
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July 26th, 2010
Last couple of months I’ve been listening to so many people using this term-‘it’s God’s will’- that it actually rung a bell in my ears. I noticed many of us use this term-God’s will- not knowing what it actually means. A job that someone accepted and then got fired after few months was construed to be God’s will. Someone else was desperately seeking to buy a bigger house and then when they got one, they termed it as ‘God’s will’.
I wondered in both the situations – was it really God’s will in the first place or was it our own will and when things didn’t work out as it expected to be or just because our wish got fulfilled, we termed it as God’s will.
What is God’s will? Simply explained God’s will is what God has ordained for us, what He wishes for us and what He knows what is best for us.
How do we know it is God’s will in our life? This happens only when we surrender our actions completely to God. For example, if I like someone and through permutation and combination get into a friendship with her and say it is God’s will – No, that’s not what would be God’s will. That’s my will that got through by my own permutations etc. But if instead I do this: when I want friends I need to ask God to send His people into my life and keep having a positive attitude towards every person I meet; instead of judging or criticising anyone, when I expectantly wait for God’s timing – that is God’s will. When it is God’s will, we have complete peace about it. Even if sometimes doubt crops in, you just need to tell God – “God, I am going ahead in faith believing it’s Your will. If it’s not, then just stop me.” And you will find that if God stops you, you will never feel disappointed or frustrated.
When we lust for something and want it at any cost, we tend to not see what God has actually reserved for us. And God has always reserved the best for us. Let us leave our escapist attitude by doing everything by our will and then putting the onus on God. Rather we should take responsibility for our own actions and wait for God to move in our life. This way we’ll get the best what God has reserved for each one of us. And let God be in the driver’s seat of our life rather than we driving it our own self- Love, Shalini Mehta
Tags: Faith, God, Life, will
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June 15th, 2010
 The Teacher a Mentor Yesterday I was invited by the Education Department of the UT Administration, Chandigarh to deliver a lecture and presentation on the above topic as a part of the training for the Community Teachers. I happened to reach before the appointed time given to me and I experienced the lovely “Saraswati vandana, a prayer to the goddess of knowledge and the National Anthem they all sung. It was a great experience telling the teachers that a Teacher is the best person who can be a Mentor to her students and also about how to mentor students through change in attitude, adolescence education, making the children aware about the child rights as prescribed by the UN, awareness and protection of the environment, awareness about the latest technology, how schooling can give them and their family a better future prospect. And the best of all was that I was able to connect with the audience especially when I spoke about encouraging their students to ‘Build relationship with One God’. The audience was all ears when I told them the ways how to do it. Another interesting part of it was that I had taken copies of NUPUR for distribution and by the end of the session not a single copy was left. The experience made me realise how most of the people are hungry for His Word, and the organizers asked me to come again to take another session, this time talking only about the God Almighty and His Word. God is great! – Shalini Mehta
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May 14th, 2010
Recently I was counselling someone on the phone. This lady is a widow and has a teenager daughter who has a disability of slow learning. Now every time this lady called me up she would complain so much about her daughter that it seemed she was actually cursing her. And at the same time she would pity her circumstances and her life and how much someone needed to applaud her for her struggles. Now for once I heard her and told her to come for counselling. But finally when I told her that all that she needed to do was to change her thought life and speech life, she promptly said that this was all bookish advice which seemed good to hear but not possible to implement in life. I then realised even though almost all of us do not like the mess in our life yet do not want to make some serious changes. We just wish that someone should give us a magic wand and suddenly the mess would disappear. No it does not happen this way. You got to work on it!
When I got over my first marriage, I had no mental support from my parents or immediate family and my two beautiful daughters were taken away from me. I did not like it because it hurt and it hurt real badly. It was very easy for me to lament over and over about my hurts. But I didn’t because very early I realised that only God can take the ashes of your life and turn them to beauty. And you can’t keep carrying the ashes of your life expecting them to turn into beauty by wallowing over it. You got to work on it, you need to take a decision that I am not staying this way and I am going to find a way out to turn my life around so much so that looking at my life people would be encouraged to have a good life.
I know there are many people who take to drinking or drugs also during their lows of life but let me tell you, life is beautiful only if you make it and life is an opportunity only if you see it. So I encourage you if you are going through something in your life, nobody is interested very long to hear about your problems, nobody can do anything about your situation – only you can, and people can advise you but only you can do it. God bless you - Shalini Mehta
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April 12th, 2010
 HT-Live Chandigarh on 12-Apr-2010 Page 3
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April 12th, 2010
The Chandigarh Edition of the Hindustan Times carried a write-up on Sandeep, the PID patient whom the Foundation is supporting for his medical treatment. We thank the Hindustan Times for supporting this noble cause.
 The Hindustan Times in HT Live dated-21-Apr-2010
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March 24th, 2010
 PID patient from Village Buan, Fatehabad, Haryana, India. Today I am proud to announce that what God had been coaxing us to do for last couple of months finally became a reality today. God was asking me to take the responsibility of a child suffering from Primary Immune Deficiency, for almost three months and I was generally delaying it. One day one of our partners said that I should utilise his donation for these children. I knew it was time I shouldn’t delay this anymore. I called up all those people I could and explained how this treatment was expensive and we wanted a lifelong commitment from them for this project. By God’s grace eighteen families agreed upon donating Rs. 500 every month for life and some of them are even donating Rs. 1000 every month. I want to thank each of our precious donor’s who so generously have come forward and showed their confidence and trust in us and our Foundation.
The child Sandeep Kumar who we are sponsoring is from a financially poor family, his parents are daily wager from the state of Haryana. And being ten and a half years old the cost of his medication has gone up tremendously. Today our Foundation paid Rs. 14,800 for his this month’s Immunoglobins. The same has to be repeated every month. But we need more donors. because if we do not help this child he will also lose his life like many other children suffering from the same disease and lost their lives because they could not incur the expenditure of the treatment.
I trust God will bring forward you precious people who are reading this and many of you will come forward and help. Because when we pay God’s bills, God make sure that we never falter on our bills. Come forward, help and make your life count- God bless you- Shalini Mehta
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February 8th, 2010
We do not realise this but God is the only indispensable One in this world. Without God we can do nothing. Living my life and making Him the centre of my life for past five years now, I’ve realised that without Him I can do nothing. And it is so much freedom to do the right thing. There are no confusions, anxiety and fear because I know the Righteous One is always with me, guiding me at every step.
And you know God wants to and does guide each one of us, but because we have not made Him the most important part of our lives, we fail to understand what He is asking us to do. We think from our heads and at every point make dumb mistakes and decisions because we construe (understand, read) our minds voice for God’s voice.
Recently I experienced something that was hilarious also and sad also. I met someone who had retired from the government service, at a senior position. We’ve met three or four times and in every meeting all that I could hear this person speak was how well connected he was in the city. In our last meeting I casually talked about shifting my daughter to a new school and he asked my preference, my daughter blurted out and he was about to call the Director of that school to reserve a seat for her when I stopped him mid-way saying let my daughter clear the entrance test on her own. If she is capable enough, she will make it.
He was helping people do all kind of activities not viable unto the law. And he believes that people respect him in spite of him being retired for past two years. I wondered in my heart do they really? If someone is using you to get wrong things right, how can they respect you?
I then realised that most of us spend all our life basking in the glory of giving importance and proving to ourselves how indispensable we are not knowing that God and only God is the indispensable one. Without God we can neither have wisdom to do things right way nor how to use that wisdom? We are just fooling ourselves by letting other people fool us.
And God, because He is the best Father for us, warns us through small not so significant incidents, but when we do not listen to Him, He touches our circumstances to get our attention. So it’s very important for each one of us that rather than basking in our own sweet-self (as whatever we are today, we are because of Him) we need to depend on God who is the most intelligent One-Shalini Mehta
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