Spritually Alive !

It was another chain mail lying in my inbox. Being an active member of the “No, I don't care If I die at 12 AM, I refuse to pass on your Chain Letter " group, the norms of the group dictates you to delete any chain mail within the vicinity of your inbox. But the following words caught my attention.

“If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this!
If you're spiritually dead, you won't want to read it.
If you're spiritually curious, there is still hope! “.

I decided to read the mail further and given below is the summary of the mail.

A 'devotee' wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to the Temple.
“I’ve gone for 30 years now, he wrote, and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 mantras. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the Gurus are wasting theirs by giving services at all “.

This started a real controversy in the 'Letters to the Editor' column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:
“I’ve been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this... They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to the Temple for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today! “.

The mail did make sense. I truly agree to the adage that when you are down to nothing.... God is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible!

Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment! Especially for people like me who live by the motto “When Satan is knocking at your door, simply say, God, could you get that for me?!! “.