GRACE...!

Well, the title is taken from the the words of St Thomas Aquinas the doctor of the catholic Church. He is a great theologian and a philosopher who gave the philosophical reasons to prove how the life/existence is precious on the face of the earth. Indeed it is very true and in agree to his valuable words. The very fact that we are existing is the fact that we have defeated the nonexistence by which there is the victory of life over non-life. Besides this Thomas Aquinas tells us that human mind or the intellect is ever great on this face of the earth if compared to any existing being. 

"no man can live as an island" goes an old adage. it indeed true to hundred percentage. for, we all try to live on our own yet we depend upon the others for we cannot but do. 

On 23rd March as I was working in our lotus pond (lawn) something captured my mind. I was assigned there to keep the place clean. Since the summer is setting in the trees began to shed the leaves and as we know the place under the trees filled with dry leaves, dry branches and flowers. As I was sweeping the lawn there were many thoughts that were going on in the mind. Something that creped in my mind was a saying that I heard in my school days, “god gives and so the nature gives, God forgives but nature will never forgive.” I hope the message is clear especially as we are the witnesses of the global warming. Besides this, as I was cleaning or sweeping and collecting the Asoka leaves, I suddenly remembered the saying “every dog has it’s day” of course it is in the wrong context but all the same if it cab be applied here each leaf has been the part of the tree but now such leaves are down dried having no sap. I noticed as the wind is strong the leaves rhythmically following down. Such ...

Today the youth think that they know everything. But they realize later that they knew so little and to be known is vast. Why am I saying this? It is because, very often the youth seemingly speak rash and harsh. They speak like that just because the other is taking their precious time and energy by asking for a favor or begging for little help. They have no time to render their help to the the other but they spend hours and hours spending time at their P.C, Video games or watching television. As Heraclitus rightly said that the world is in a state of flux. Yes the world is in a state of flux not exactly as he meant physically but today it is very true if we notice our behavior, attitude, culture, habits, food and what not.  Dear friends I myself am not clear about the change and the state of life that we are living today. When God created the the earth and heaven he said that it was all good to his sight. But are we sure that the same God, to say the same thing today while looking...

MARY, A NEW ISRAEL              I am glad to share with you some of the reflections on the theme “Mary a new Israel. ” Before I begin, allow me to acknowledge Fulton J. Sheen whose reflection I am going to share from the theological point of view.             Dear friends, not one of us has the power to make our own mothers as we wish. If we had this power, I am sure that we would make our mothers most beautiful and most perfect. I made this statement, because Jesus preexisted Mary and so He could make  mother perfect and pure. Thus, the concept of the Immaculate Conception pre-exist in the mind of God. He thought of her before she was born.             When the first Paradise was lost by the sin of our first parents God thought that He would remake paradise which was defiled but not destroyed. So, in ...

SUFFERING IS A MYSTERY                         Today in the class I am captured by the word pain and suffering. Suffering has been playing a drastic role in the human lives at different levels at different times of one’s life. Therefore, I feel enthused to ponder on this issue which is ever relevant in human existence as a whole. Suffering empirically speaking, it has immediate unpleasant implications on a situation of a person. But if I see at it critically basing on the lives of Don Bosco and Victor Frankl who have gone beyond suffering and endured it gracefully and even became radical producers of positive affirmation in life.             Down through the ages the human species have been battling with the question which has been a thorn in the flesh. Now what it is that thorn in the flesh? Well, it is the complexity ...

            I am deeply captured by the common phenomena of our life namely ‘Fear’. Well, to begin with what exactly is fear? Many of us think that fear has always a negative connotation but, if we are sharp enough and examine this phenomena, has very positive outlook as well. You might wonder what I am talking all about. According to French political philosopher there are two principles which govern the human life namely LOVE and FEAR. Of the two, Fear is more pervasive factor in human life. Now my premise is to tap this factor like sap in the sandal wood tree. Because, fear is often taken for granted from our comfort zones and not looking the other factors which are involved with it. I am sure down the centuries neither prophet nor sage gave a solution to do away with fear. Even Buddha and Christ the greatest teachers that the world has ever encounter have given any medicine to elude this from life.     ...