Sanjiv Malhotra from New Delhi wrote:
One's karma guides the path. Many come but only a few stay. On this path only service and charity will allow one to stay with an evolved soul. Our willingness to give to creation whatever we can will decide our path.
Our difficulties in the physical realm may have brought us to a Guru in search of a solution, but the answer lies in service and charity. Those who grasp it are welcomed .... others fall off the ship moving towards the final destination .... to start all over again. Those who speak ill perhaps do not realize what they have lost and when it will come back.... if it ever does.
The temporariness of the physical body and our possessions that we so dearly cling onto in life become redundant the moment we bid adieu at the cremation ground. We neither come empty handed nor do we leave empty handed. Our karmas come with us and go with us.
That is what the Guru tells us all the time....improve your karmas...rest will follow.
The Guru will guide the way.Very true.
This is how our Moola Guru Agathiyar has led us all this while, from day one. In very simple terms he told us why we took birth, and gave us a way to end this cycle of birth. As Sanjiv rightly puts it, the way out of this cycle is service and charity. This would open up one's heart. It then builds compassion towards others, while reminding us how gifted we are. With compassion comes devotion (without expecting anything in return). The gates of heaven open up and the grace of the divine comes down on us, bringing the prapanjam or the universe to work in our favor. We at AVM are beginning to see this happen.
See http://tut-temple.blogspot.my to follow the service and charity administered by Rakesh and friends in India.