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!

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

Thank you God for another day!

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.

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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!

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 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!

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.

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 ...

Thank you God for another day!

THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for innumerable blessings and mercies many of which we know we didn’t deserve. Thank you O God for generosity. We’ve always believed in your benevolence and we remain grateful forever. Your extremely extraordinary benevolent act has been to bless us with the spiritual company of our mentor philosopher guide to take us through the path of spirituality which we’ve realised now to be the path of love where our assets are acts of kindness compassion generosity forgiveness and humility dedicated to the service and good use of living beings - men and women, animals and birds and Nature - water bodies, rivers, plants and trees, fruits and flowers, air and atmosphere.

Fill us O God with strength and courage to cope with the challenges of the present day world and keep on blessing us through our mentor philosopher guide without which we know it is impossible to take on the present day world of violence, hatred and intolerance.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for taking us along in the leadership of our mentor philosopher guide on the path of tolerance kindness compassion and love while in the whole world we notice intolerance  cruelty jealousy hatred and violence. Man kills man there but here man  helps man and perchance feeds him and above all loves him. In our own little world birds and animals are taken care of for water and food.

Like an oasis in a vast desert ours is a beautiful little world of compassion and love within the much bigger world of hatred and violence. While they live dangerously in fear our heads are held high in confidence and pride of our mentor philosopher guide and we continue to live in harmony and peace. We are overwhelmed with your mercies and kindness.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thanks to our mentor philosopher guide O God and we are grateful to you as well because his spiritual presence in our life is indeed a divine gift, we have learnt to live life bit by bit, moment by moment in the present moment and neither bother about our past nor worry about future. That keeps us busy in trying to find out ways and means to keep us going like looking out for the difficulties of people around and then trying to solve their problems or getting them resolved through our relatives and friends. This we’ve realised is a positive way of getting our time spent with satisfaction and sometimes getting ultimate happiness if we succeed in getting them results to their satisfaction.

Living moment by moment is like playing ball by ball and trying to take at least a single every ball. If we can hit a four or a six, we need to thank God. If are beaten or our catch is dropped, again we need to thank God and move on without bothering too much. Similarly, in life. If we get an opportunity to serve others in a big way, we need to be thankful to God. Otherwise we should look for small ways of making others feel good by perhaps giving them a smile. If we’ve hurt someone even unintentionally, we need to say sorry to them and pray for forgiveness. This gives us contentment and at times spiritual happiness.

We are ever so grateful to our mentor philosopher guide who has directly and/or indirectly given us the key to live life fruitfully with satisfaction. 

Thank you God for innumerable mercies that you’ve thus showered on us.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day

Thank you O God for sending countless breaths, for letting us breathe fairly good air, for giving us good food and for keeping us in good health to eat that food and digest it, for providing clean healthy water to drink, for giving us good clothes to wear, for giving us a house with fairly good facilities to live a comfortable life.

Your blessings thus are endless and we can never ever thank you enough for all you’ve given us and keep giving. Your greatest gift undoubtedly is the spiritual company of our mentor philosopher guide. Can we ever thank you enough for this? But we know you’re magnanimously forgiving and merciful. We believe in your forgiveness. 

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thanks to our mentor philosopher guide who has taught us to thank God every minute because He sends his blessings for us without stopping. 

We used to ‘look before and after and pine for what is not’. This kept us all the time worried and often we felt frustrated. Depression often used to pull our spirits down and we used to suffer from anxiety. We often felt our patience was stretched to the limit. And often we were pushed to where we seemed to lose hope and faith. 

Our mentor philosopher guide then gave us a solution. He asked us to look at the things God has given us and start thanking God for the things He has given and keeps giving...

How cleverly our mentor philosopher guide has lifted our existence from the marshy land of negativity and fixed it solidly on positive grounds. And he has given us an unending task! Can we finish counting his blessings? And can we ever thank Him enough? Thank you our mentor philosopher guide and thank you God.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Our mentor philosopher guide has shown us a beautiful way we can exercise patience without even getting to know that we are observing patience. The secret is to go on counting our blessings and go on expressing our gratitude to God. Thus a fine balance between gratitude (Shukr) and patience (sabr) is automatically struck and attained. Thank you our mentor philosopher guide. Forever we remain grateful to you.

And thank you O God for all you’ve given us and ...

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for taking us along through the tangible company of our mentor philosopher guide who has guided us through difficult times and taught us and developed our understanding of life and religion through normal times. We have understood the true values of life and religion and come to realise that feeding the hungry and helping the poor are better ways of pleasing God than praying and fasting. Compassion kindness and love must reflect in our speech and actions and our life must be devoted to the service of Man animals and birds and trees flowers and fruits. We must be careful while we’re using natural resources like air and water and see to it that balance is maintained in the ecological system. 

For blessing us with these finer sensibilities we thank you O God and we remain ever so grateful to our mentor philosopher guide and O merciful God to you as well.

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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 spiritual company and guidance in our life of our mentor philosopher guide. And how well he has shown us small things like using the right foot to enter pious places like a mosque or a Durgah and exit these by left foot and use left foot to enter places like the toilet and exit by the right foot . After a period of good ten years or so, we’ve realised that by practising a small thing like this we were made to do a tremendous exercise in alertness of the mind. Now we know our limbs and mind work together and our actions are monitored by presence of mind. Our sense of gratitude is doubly enhanced and we feel many times humbled . 

We’re thankful to you O God and we’re ever so grateful to our mentor philosopher guide.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Our mentor philosopher guide - we are ever so grateful to him - has asked us to first make simple acts a part of our life-style and leave bigger complex acts for later times. For example, he asked us to make it a habit to first sit down, calm down and then begin to drink water slowly and finish the glass in three breaths without ever hurrying through it. Later on we came know that this was how our prophet used to drink water. We also came to know the health benefits of this simple but valuable practice. Then he asked us to put some water in the bowl (from which we have taken milk or milk products like ice-cream or any other dessert done in milk), wash the insides of the bowl, drink it and do it three times. This again, we knew later,  was our prophet’s practice. 

This way every time we drank water or milk or eaten ice-cream or kheer, our thoughts automatically went to our prophet and we thanked our mentor philosopher guide, our prophet and of course you O merciful God. 

How cleverly our mentor philosopher guide has transformed the simple acts into subtle but sublime prayers!

We can never ever thank and thank properly our mentor philosopher guide, our most venerable prophet and our kind and merciful God.

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Grant us O God good health and fitness and a positive state of mind so that we’re able to look for opportunities to serve O God your creation in the form of humanity, animal world and plant life. Give all of us O God the good sense to use Natural resources in a manner that ecological balance is retained. Fill our hearts with compassion kindness gratitude and love and fill our heads with humility. Give us O God the courage to apologise and magnanimity to forgive. Let our actions remind us and other people the exemplary behaviour of our mentor philosopher guide and make us do all we can to please him. 

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THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank you God for another day!

Thank you O God for giving us a heart that has compassion not indifference, kindness not rudeness, love not hatred and benignity not cruelty. But sometimes O God head overtakes the heart and we are indifferent, rude, hateful and cruel. Later on, our mentor philosopher guide quietly makes us realise our going astray and we repent and pray for forgiveness. Protect us O God from such weaker moments and bless us with all time alertness so that we make the right choices like mercy instead of judgment, forgiveness instead of revenge, grace instead of punishment and love instead of hate.

We are grateful to our mentor philosopher guide and most extremely thankful to you O God for taking us along.

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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 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.

Thank you God for such invaluable 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 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. 

Thank you God for blessing us with an outlook like this and ...

Thank you God for another day!