Oneness Celebrates Gratitude

Notes from Tejasa at Oneness University about November being the month to celebrate gratitude. What follows is Bhagavan on video talking about how gratitude actually works. Notes included below.

Oneness celebrates November as a month of Gratitude.

We have now entered into the month of Gratitude, which opens up new possibilities for us to more conscientiously contemplate on the real meaning of Gratitude.

Let us take this opportunity to take at least 10 minutes every morning and every evening to contemplate on each person who have come into our lives and make the list of help we received from each one of them. (We can think about 1 or 2 person each day).

November 14th is considered to be the Oneness Gratitude Day.

On this occasion let us express our Gratitude to the Divine and to each and every person who have came into our lives. You could choose the way to contact them, by mail, by sms, by snail mail, by post card, by a phone call or by meeting them personally. This will culminate in huge breakthroughs in all your relationships making them better than you ever imagined they could be. At the same time this will fuel your awakening process.

Have an amazing journey!

Note: You could begin the practice from the moment you read this and you could practice this till the end of this month

We also take this opportunity to thank you for staying and supporting the Vision of Sri Amma Bhagavan.

With Love and Regards,

Ever in the Service of Sri Amma Bhagavan
Tejasa

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Video Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-CovNi0YZ0

Bhagavan, would you please tell us the importance of showing gratitude?

See, the universe is so structured that if somebody has helped you in some way and you express gratitude, that means the heart is functioning. If the heart is functioning, you will naturally express gratitude. If there is no gratitude, it means something is wrong with the heart.  So first thing is if there is no gratitude, you must see what is wrong with your heart. 

So, When gratitude comes, the heart sends out a signal which is received by the person who has helped you.  And when that person has received that signal, what happens is much more blessings come to you from that person.

Suppose let us say you want somebody to bless you . . . let's say your mother, father, or grandfather. You may go and tell, I am going to the exam and please bless me and they will bless.  But Suppose you fall at their feet. There are some nadis in the feet. As you fall, you press the feet. And these nadis are coming into their heart. And from their heart, the blessing comes out. That's why [?sanskrit phrase].

Similarly when you express gratitude, it goes straight into the heart of the person who has helped you and you will get much more blessings from that person. That is the advantage you have.

From a functional level, you  know that the heart is okay, which means it is also healthy.  If the heart is expressing gratitude, as an organ it is healthy. Otherwise, something is wrong with the heart.

The other thing is you immensely gain from more blessings. The more and more blessings you gain from people, it is entered into your bank account. Just like you have your bank account, there is good karma account and bad karma account. And this is noted into the good karma account.

Tomorrow when there is a problem and you pray,  what I will do is I will take from the good karma account and solve your problem. If let us say, there is no good karma, then I take from your father's account, your mother's account or some other account. If nobody has got, then I take it from the cosmic account. So it has to be taken from some account. Otherwise we cannot do a miracle, we cannot really help you. So by expressing gratitude, your own account is getting big. So it will help me to help you in the future.