THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for taking us along day after day. And thank you O God for blessing us with the priceless company of our mentor philosopher guide and we do not know how years after years both difficult and enjoyable have passed and I suddenly find myself in the twilight years of my life. 

Thank you O God for choosing our family to be blessed spiritually by the invaluable guidance of top saints of those times. I feel blessed for I was  only ten years old then. Then in 1972 you O Merciful God sent another unfathomably rich soul in our lives to grace our family and I was most extremely lucky to be asked by no one else but him to be initiated in the spiritual order. I can understand now how different would have been our life without his spiritual company. 

Thank you O God for a life like the one we have. And,

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for blessing us with the invaluable presence of our mentor philosopher guide and thank you for taking us under  his protective wings so that we live safely and securely when people all over the world are living in an atmosphere of fear violence killings and (if that is not enough) natural calamities like floods storms earthquakes tsunami or drought. We pray on behalf of them for forgiveness and breathe gratitude for being so kind to us. Thank you O God for all the good you’ve done to us and pray for mercies blessings and forgiveness for the rest of our life.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for taking good care of us day in and day out, like giving us good food, clothes, and home comfort of a family, fairly good health and above all the valuable spiritual company and guidance of our mentor philosopher guide. We are grateful to him for now we take immense pleasure in giving rather than taking. We are thankful to him for now we have a heart that feels, hands that help and serve and eyes that look for such an opportunity. 

Thank you O God for such immense blessings and 

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for blessing us with the lifetime spiritual company of our mentor philosopher guide and even if I repeat this with each breath of mine for the rest of my life, that wouldn’t be enough. Life became easier with his spiritual presence and thank you O God for taking us along in life through bad times and good times and here I am sure it was only because of the spiritual presence of our mentor philosopher guide that we were able to pass on without losing our balance. During bad times he poured special shower of love on us and tricked us in such a way that we held on to hope and faith and we believed everyday that good times were just round the corner. During good times he cautioned us not to go overboard but keep thanking him every now and then.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for giving everything you have so far and continuing to give. We can never ever count all you’ve blessed us with but we certainly can pick the best and that undoubtedly is the benign company of our mentor philosopher guide who in fact has taught us how to live, how to love, how to look for opportunities to help people, animals and birds. How well he’s taught us the fact: the best way to live for yourself is to live for others!

Thank you God for all the blessings you’ve blessed us with. 

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for showing us countless miracles every moment here there and everywhere . Thanks to our mentor philosopher guide for having developed in us those finer sensibilities for we’re now able to look at the flowers and simply wonder in bewilderment to see the colours and the designs and how they’ve emerged from the secrets of the Mother Earth and how it is managed that the fragrance the colours and designs of a Rose are different from those of say a Mogra or a Chameli.

Likewise O God when we eat a mango we are amazed how one kind of mango is managed to be different in shape, colour of the flesh, its texture, its aroma and its taste from the other: say a dusseri from a langra.

Each moment thus O God is a marvellous revelation and we cannot but stand in wonder and awe to realise your magnanimity your magnificence and our minuscule existence. 

Thank you our mentor philosopher guide and thank you O God.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for blessing us with the most precious spiritual company of our mentor philosopher guide who not only opened up one more aspect to our way of life that has brought about a sea-change in our attitude and approach to life but also enriched us immensely in terms of a balanced development in personalities taking care of our soul along with mind and body. For example, before he came into our life,we used to pray lackadaisically, that is, we went through the motions and there was no pleasure! We prayed because we had to, even if we didn’t want to. Now we pray because we want to and there is immense pleasure in our prayers.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for blessing us with the exquisite combination of modernity and tradition and giving us the insight and good sense to realise that saints in any era have been the most modern persons in their times.

We are grateful to our mentor philosopher guide who has planted firmly in our mindset that we should at all times be aware of   our anchorage and we should never ever allow our basic values to diminish or go weak in the light of modern progress. Our mentor philosopher guide has seen to it that we haven’t deviated a bit from the path of equipoise between tradition and modernity.

We are grateful to you our mentor philosopher guide and thank you O God for this favour.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for taking great care of us and keeping us in good cheer day in and day out and gracing our lives with the invaluable spiritual company of our mentor philosopher guide to show us the way when we notice how chaotic is the life in general all over the world. One just needs to go and have a look at the miseries of mankind in any hospital or a court of law or an old people’s home. We pray O God for them and realise how kind and merciful you’ve been to us. We do not know O God how many things you’ve blessed us with and how many things we should thank you for. Forgive us O God our shortcomings and sins for we do not know how small and frail we are and how big and large is your magnanimity.

Thank you O God for your kindness your love and mercies.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for the countless favours and blessings you’ve bestowed on us. One such  gift is the valuable gift of getting to sleep without having to wait in restlessness.

Getting to sleep before too long has the indescribable sense of joy like that of floating on the stream of consciousness and then secretly slipping into the dark softness, ‘half in love with an easeful death’ only to be awake hopefully at 4 next morning and once again … to be half in love with the glorious birth of another day!

Thank you God and of course our mentor philosopher guide for another day!

THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for giving us all we need to pull on in life and quite comfortably, too. We thank you O God for blessing us with the invaluable guidance and spiritual company of our mentor philosopher guide, we are able to find a way to enjoy the present moment and thank you God for each breath that we take. Our mentor philosopher guide has always been a living legend and an incredible example of selfless service to mankind and how well he has initiated us all to serve people around and at the same time take care of animals and birds and the natural resources in the form of water bodies, mountains and trees. How well he’s filled our hearts with compassion and kindness so much so that our eyes do not look for faults in others but for areas where we can help them. 

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for blessing us beyond expectations in all the three dimensions, that is, the physical, the mental and the spiritual. For spiritual development you’ve been so kind to bless us with the spiritual company of our mentor philosopher guide at the right time in our life. We stand in awe and gratitude for his all time presence to guide us ahead in life with love compassion and kindness. How well he’s taught and trained us to keep thanking God all the time for we can never ever thank Him properly for all he’s given us.

I remember my mother used to thank Him rather loudly and perhaps with a sigh in difficult times and when asked why thank Him in difficult times, she’d say she thanked Him for considering her fit for those tribulations!

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for all you’ve given us and above all we can never ever thank you enough for blessing us with the awareness that our mentor philosopher guide is present within us all the time to guide us, help us and caress our being from within with utmost kindness and love so much so that we in turn look for people who need kindness and love and a helping hand. We are then doubly happy to spend time with people in need and help them out of their difficulties.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God one more time - and that’s not enough - for blessing us with the all time spiritual presence within us of our mentor philosopher guide who has virtually put our life on a different level and things go on happening as they must as if on an automatic mode and we simply stand as spectators but thanks to his training we readily accept whatever is happening. The key to forward movement, though, seems to be love compassion and kindness and we pass every day with gratitude for all our mentor philosopher guide and you O God have done for us.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for Surah Rahman in which you hint at the countless blessings He has blessed humanity with and the majority of us is just not aware of them. Taking that hint O God, we try oftentimes to count them and realise we can never ever reach the finishing point. Now we understand the remaining uncounted blessings are the ones  we imperfect human beings factually deny that you O God make a mention of in Surah Rahman.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for continuing to send us our breath to keep us alive but we know we haven’t been able to thank you for each breath that we’ve taken . Similarly O God you have sent us our daily bread along with innumerable delicacies and we know we haven’t been able to thank you for every morsel we have taken. You’ve been so kind O God to provide us with nice clothes and comfortable shelter. These are major essentials O God but we’re amazed and bewildered to realise with utmost sense of gratitude how wonderfully thoughtful you’ve been to look after our wellbeing taking good care of the minutest requirement for our existence like the countless cells, the red and white blood corpuscles in our body in the right kind of proportions. We are simply befuddled and bamboozled to just try and fail to comprehend how perfect and complete your way of doing everything is for everybody day in day out. 

We realise our smallness our imperfections and shortcomings and simply pray for forgiveness and cannot but offer our imperfect thanks.

Thank you God for another day!

THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for taking good care of us day in and day out everyday providing us with the essentials of life. Thank you O God for blessing us with the all time spiritual presence of our mentor philosopher guide who has with kindness, love and compassion very generously filled our hearts with more kindness more compassion and more love so that we feel extremely elated to find an opportunity to help or feed a person or an animal or a bird. Thank you O God for getting our attitude changed towards our environment and natural resources as our mentor philosopher guide has blessed us all with good sense to finally leave this world a better place to live for our children.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

We are extremely grateful to you O God and to you o our mentor philosopher guide for taking us through good times and bad times and making us hold almost effortlessly onto balance and equipoise for how well o you, our mentor philosopher guide,  you’ve trained us to feel blessed and happy without going overboard during good times and during bad times feel grateful and thankful to God for making us tougher and richer in experience and many valuable lessons in life to take the rough with the smooth.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God we are ever so grateful to our mentor philosopher guide for blessing us with the key to happiness peace and calm because we do not anymore judge people, instead we exercise mercy in the hope that you O God, you will show mercy instead of judging us. Likewise, we do not anymore think of revenge if someone has wronged us. In return we forgive them in the hope that you O God will forgive us our wrong doings and sins . Similarly, we’ve learnt to use grace instead of punishment and return hatred with love in the hope that we will be treated likewise by you O God.

Bless us O God with more compassion kindness and love, humility generosity and gratitude.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for granting us the quality of looking around instead of having a self-centred outlook but taking stock of people around us and the condition of life they have to cope with. It is only then that we realise O God you have given us a life that is better than the lives of many. This leads to benefit us in three ways: one, we are right away filled with immense sense of gratitude; two, we stop complaining about what we have not; and three, we begin to feel compassionate and sympathetic towards them and add them in our prayers. We are grateful to our mentor philosopher guide who has quietly led us onto this path of kindness and love. Finally we owe all this to your generosity and magnanimity in choosing such a life for us. We thank you O God for all such things and thank you yet again for another day!

THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you God for giving us the gift of eyes and eyesight. Help us now to see the beauty and the good things in otters rather than look for faults and defects. Bless us with the attitude so that instead of judging and hating we’re able to pray for them. 

Thank you God for blessing us with the faculties of speech. Let our words be polite and kind but firm in belief and spoken in respectfully low polite tone.

We thank you God for giving us the gift of good ears enriched with the patience to hear others. Give us O God the habit of saying ‘Thank you’ when we hear good words and ‘God bless’ when we hear bad words in angry tones.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Give us the capability to ‘see’ all the blessings you’ve been so kind to shower on us - some of which we know we didn’t deserve. Fill us with kindness and give us kind hearts so that in our actions we’re kind compassionate and forgiving and loving than looking at the faults and judging while we’re dealing with people with animals and birds and with the natural resources around us. Keep us awake all the time O God to notice the spiritual presence within us of our mentor philosopher guide and make us do all that would please him.

Thank you God for another day!

THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for granting us the quality of looking around instead of having a self-centred outlook but taking stock of people around us and the condition of life they have to cope with. It is only then that we realise O God you have given us a life that is better than the lives of many. This leads to benefit us in three ways: one, we are right away filled with immense sense of gratitude; two, we stop complaining about what we have not; and three, we begin to feel compassionate and sympathetic towards them and add them in our prayers. We are grateful to our mentor philosopher guide who has quietly led us onto this path of kindness and love. Finally we owe all this to your generosity and magnanimity in choosing such a life for us. We thank you O God for all such things and thank you yet again for another day!

THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you God for granting us most of what we prayed for and for that we’re ever so grateful. But some of our prayers haven’t yet been answered. Let this O God not in anyway diminish our sense of gratitude towards you. Give us the strength of patience to bear with the present and wait till they are granted. It is quite likely that some of the things we’ve asked for may not be beneficial for us. Give us the good sense to understand your designs and keep us away from getting impatient. Keep us away O God from worrying as worrying according to Rumi is insulting your wisdom.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you for making us so lucky that we were chosen and blessed by our mentor philosopher guide and all the saints along the line. Help us make the most of his spiritual presence within us to improve our spirituality as our mentor philosopher guide would like us to attain. Thank you God for looking after our mental and physical progresses and thank you God for showering mundane gifts like good food good clothing and security of a formidable roof at the top and rich company of family and friends.

Thank you God for taking us through a number of very tricky, critical and dangerous situations and protecting us.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Grant us O God the strength of patience so that we do not feel frustrated when things are not coming our way when we’re most expecting them. Give us O God the good sense to understand your designs and remain satisfied and content with what we have. Give us O God the wisdom to understand your designs - maybe what we’ve asked for is not good for us or maybe it is too early for us to handle. In the given present conditions grant us the attitude that keeps us cool and agreeable to the will of our mentor philosopher guide for it always happens to be your will the will of God.

Thank you God for another day!

THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Give us the capability to ‘see’ all the blessings you’ve been so kind to shower on us - some of which we know we didn’t deserve. Fill us with kindness and give us kind hearts so that in our actions we’re kind compassionate and forgiving and loving than looking at the faults and judging while we’re dealing with people with animals and birds and with the natural resources around us. Keep us awake all the time O God to notice the spiritual presence within us of our mentor philosopher guide and make us do all that would please him.

Thank you God for another day!

THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for continuing to send us our breath to keep us alive but we know we haven’t been able to thank you for each breath that we’ve taken . Similarly O God you have sent us our daily bread along with innumerable delicacies and we know we haven’t been able to thank you for every morsel we have taken. You’ve been so kind O God to provide us with nice clothes and comfortable shelter. These are major essentials O God but we’re amazed and bewildered to realise with utmost sense of gratitude how wonderfully thoughtful you’ve been to look after our wellbeing even spiritually and blessing us with all time presence of our mentor philosopher guide within us to nurture and develop our spirituality and at the same time taking good care of the minutest requirement for our physical existence like the countless cells, the red and white blood corpuscles in our body in the right kind of proportions. We are simply befuddled and bamboozled to just try and fail to comprehend how perfect and complete your way of doing everything is for everybody day in day out. 

We realise our smallness our imperfections and shortcomings and simply pray for forgiveness and cannot but offer our imperfect thanks.

Thank you God for another day!

THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for giving us all we need to pull on in life and quite comfortably, too. We thank you O God for blessing us with the invaluable guidance and spiritual company of our mentor philosopher guide, we are able to find a way to enjoy the present moment and thank you God for each breath that we take. Our mentor philosopher guide has always been a living legend and an incredible example of selfless service to mankind and how well he has initiated us all to serve people around and at the same time take care of animals and birds and the natural resources in the form of water bodies, mountains and trees. How well he’s filled our hearts with compassion and kindness so much so that our eyes do not look for faults in others but for areas where we can help them. 

Thank you God for blessing us with an outlook like this and we know too well that even our deepest sense of gratitude for ever falls way too short of your blessings, even so ...

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

O God we know we are full of sins but we believe in your limitless mercies and you’re always forgiving and kind, so kind as to bless us with the love of our mentor philosopher guide despite our shortcomings. We pray O God fill us with compassion kindness and love and give us the eyes to overlook the shortcomings and faults of people around and to forgive them their hostility and give us the strength and courage to convert their shortcomings into acts of kindness through our gestures of good will and love towards them. 

Keep us O God under the benign shade of love and kindness of our mentor philosopher guide so that we’re always ready to serve people animals birds and natural resources like trees, water bodies etc.

Thank you God for another day!