Identify

Aum Sairam

Sri Sai Baba said, the function of the mind is to think, it cannot remain without thinking for a minute. If you give it a sense object, it will think about it if you give it Guru, it will think about Guru in Sri Sai Satcharitra Ch.X.

An expert in time management was speaking to a group of business students and to drive home a point, used an illustration those students will never forget. As he stood in front of the group of high powered overachievers, he said, Okay, time for quiz, and he pulled out a one gallon mason jar and set it on the table in front of him. He also produced about a dozen fist sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, into the jar. When the
Jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, is this jar full? Every one in the class yelled, yes. The expert replied, really? He reached under the table and pulled out a bucket of gravel. He dumped some gravel in and shook the jar causing pieces of gravel to work themselves down into the spaces between the big rocks. He then asked the group once more, is the jar full? By this time the class was cautious. Probably not, one of them answered. Good, he replied. He reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand. He started dumping the sand in the jar and it went into all the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel. Once more he asked the question, is the jar full? No, the class responded. Once again he said, well. The he grabbed a pitcher of water and began to pour it until the jar was filled to the brim. Then, he looked at the class and asked, what is the lesson of this illustration? One eager beaver raised his hand and said, the point is, no matter how full your schedule is, if you try really hard you can always fit some more things in it. No, the speaker replied, that’s not the point. The truth of this illustration teaches us is: If you don’t put the big rocks first, you will never get them in at all.

It is important for us to identify the Big Rocks in our lives [that is surrendering our mind to the Lotus Feet of Lord Sainath is the primary task than anything else.]

Allah Malik