Get to Know Your Soul

Our parents grant us a body when we were born, but do you know what a body is? There are many who still doesn't even know what is it made of!

This is the reason why there is still so much suffering in life. People understand the reason behind it but they don't practice it. They tend to neglect the existence of soul by paying too much attention to the physical body until the extent of realising that as the true self.

When you process thoughts through your brain, you're viewing things from man's point of view instead of seeing things through one's soul. Sickness, death, sorrow, and departure are inevitable in life, but the soul is not constrained by all these.

For this reason, the soul was given a chance to be sent to the world, to experience hardship inorder to transform its spirituality, Ever wonder why we couldn't fulfil all the words of wisdom that has been passed on to us from generation to generation, it's because we have yet to understand the relationship between the body and soul. Here's a story that is worth sharing.

Once there was a teenage boy who had an argument with his mum, he was blinded by his anger and left the house without a penny. While he was loitering around the streets, he was attracted by the aromatic smell of noodles and he couldn't take his eyes of it. A food hawker then noticed the boy's stare and asked: "Do you want to have some noodles? Come over here, boy!" The boy explained: "But I don't have any money!" The hawker chuckled and said: "It's alright. It's my treat!" When the sizzling hot noodle was served, the boy was overwhelmed with gratefulness and exclaimed: "You are such a nice person unlike my mum who doesn't know my needs and thoughts!" The hawker smiled and said: "All I did was only treating you to a bowl of noodle, your mum has done more for you! She went through labour pain to give birth to you and prepared meals for you over 10 years, you should be more grateful to her!"

At that instant, the boy was enlightened, he quickly said "thank you" and left the place ahead to home immediately. When he reached home, he saw his mum waiting anxiously at the entrance. His mum scolded him and asked him to hurry in for dinner.

All of a sudden the boy felt that his mum's nag sounds as beautiful as hymn, he came to realize that his mum is the person who loves him the most!

All these happen every single day, children take parents' sacrifice for granted and parents' take children' filial piety for granted. Husbands expect the wives to clean the house, do the laundry, prepare meals and take care of kids. wives expect the husbands to work and earn a lot.

When we tend to take everything for granted, we are drawing ourselves apart from happiness. When we're expecting things to be how it is supposed to be, happiness turns into responsibility and obligation and eventually it would become a burden.

If you take showing filial piety to your parents and taking care of your children as a responsibility and securing a marriage as an obligation, you have lost the ability of sharing love and joy with your family and your loved ones, all of these would become a burden instead of an enjoyable deed to show your love.

Don't take love for granted, try to use your soul to feel the existence of love. We're always too ignorant to realize that there are people around who care and sacrifice for us.

After marriage, why the phrase "I Love You" would become a burden instead of how it used to flutter your heart?

How come we no longer show affection to our parents like how we used to do when we were young? Why can't we seem to tell how much we love our parents?

When our children were young, we used to request kisses from them all the time, but now when they are all grown up, we can't even seem to tell them how much we love them.

Precisely! It's because we "formalized" our love, everything that is driven by love has become a burden.

Showing filial piety by taking care of your parents is a sign of love, it is not because they have sacrificed for you and hence you need to repay the debts. Never ever "formalize" your relationship with your parents.

"Love your parents, you are so busy growing up, you often forget, they are growing old. Without them, you don't exist in this beautiful world."

Love is the key to a happy marriage, love is to learn to give and tolerate. Marriage isn't going to work if you merely expect your spouse to fulfill your own requirements.

When you were young, you have always wished for a love filled family and certainly your children would also wish for the same. Since you can't go back in time to change the decision, why not embrace and love the decision that you have made?

Therefore, don't take things for granted as it would ruin your beautiful life, search for love through your soul and learn to view life through your soul. You would only realize how beautiful the world is when you have refrained from seeing things through a "layman" perspective.

"FAMILY" is the most important thing in the world.    - Princess Diana