JAI SAI RAM!!!
Deva means divine, manglam means blessing... and that's how I look at life -- it is a divine blessing. Many people think so negatively about life that it almost looks like a curse. And there are philosophies that think that life is an accident... meaningless. If one starts looking that way, life becomes that way, because your outlook is going to become your reality. Whatsoever you think is going to become your being.
And then it is a vicious circle. When you think life is a curse and you create things which -- because of your thinking -- make life appear like a curse, then you say, 'Of course, I was right -- life is a curse!' Then you go on feeding the same vicious circle again and again. It becomes more and more of a misery. And the more miserable it is, the more your basic misconception is felt... becomes stronger.
Somewhere one has to break this circle, this vicious circle. And I would like that by changing your name, you get out of that vicious circle. Start looking positively, start looking meaningfully. Once you think life is a blessing, god's blessing, you start preparing... and it starts changing immediately. It is your outlook, it is your eyes -- how you look at things.
I have heard about two prisoners who were confined in the same cell. They were standing near the bars, and one looked at the sky -- it was a full moon night... the other looked at a dirty pond just in front of the cell -- mosquitoes and smell and dirt.
They were both standing at the same door, and one became so full of happiness -- looking at the full moon and the white cloud -- and felt so happy that he forgot completely that he was a prisoner. In that moment, at least, his soul became free. The other did not look at the sky. He looked at the dirty pond, the smell, and started complaining.
We can live the same life and can look at it differently. So by changing your name, I would like to change your attitude. Try this -- start looking at life as a blessing. There are moments when it is very difficult to think of life as a blessing. Those are the moments which test you; those are the moments which function as a touchstone. And if you can remember -- even in those moments when it is very easy to be tempted by the negative, if you can remember the positive, and still remain in the positive moment, soon you will see that all negative moments have started disappearing from your life.
Yes, there is a possibility that the whole life can become a bed of roses.
OM SAI RAM!!!
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