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Our other Reality

Last updated on: January 22, 2009 at 6:35 pm   by Rev. Dr. Todd Littleton

Our other Reality 2009-01-22T18:35:50-06:00 Rev. Dr. Todd Littleton

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Guru Nanak.jpg Good Obama day! Today I had to combine fact with fiction in this post.

I expect much more fact than fiction.

In my head I still am able to listen , revived memories, like being a pleasant melody played by the harmonious voice of a wise Guru, in a past life in beautiful India.

I can’t recall his name, but I do remember some of his teachings, so what follows are his concept about the ratio, we human beings should have regarding our time spent on physical matters and spiritual ways observed during each of our life times.According to him the ideal time spent by humankind was; eighty five percent on our physical needs and obligations and only fifteen percent in our spiritual endeavors.

“My beloved and dilligent studentss, today I will make reference of following our right percentage dealing with important spiritual matters. Currently outside Asia, mainly in the western world, people spend as much as ninety-seven percent on physical tasks, and only a very por three percent on spirituality. And here in India a lot of people sprend eighty five percent on spiritual matters and only fifteen percent on basic physical needs and responasabilities. Huge mistake!”

“Please always keep in your fresh minds that it is when ouir soul personality is given the ideal percentage it will be more than enough to fulfill all our dreams, ideals, actions and missins in our lives”

“Besides it is when our physical part does its very best to help our spiritual part, when this balanced formula becomes a true blessing and our lives become very happy productive lives. I expect that these sacred teaching will find an easy response in your future lives because you may be born in thrWest.”

It was then in this life when I’ve met many people from India. These wonderful people have informed that the preference of many people to wait for another future life here on Earth that had made them very lazy. India needed active people. India has always had very creaçtive intelligent human resources, but this apathy observed in the many avoided India to become a much better country to live in.

The personal lesson learned is that, only Gurus can live a dual life on wich fifty percent is material and the rest fifty percent is spiritual. This is my humble opinion.

Azokata-nous

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