Skip to main content
Karmayogi

Main navigation

  • Home
User account menu
  • Log in

Breadcrumb

  1. Home
  2. Spirituality and Prosperity IV

324. Significance of a Word

The whole creation is from one word OM. Each word we speak has that significance in its own world. Each important event of our life is a world of its own. In each such world, there is a WORD that determines its course.  Man, out of ignorance, unconsciousness, selfishness, and secretiveness neglects that word. It leads to other results. The other man's point of view, a spiritual view of life or wisdom enables one to know such a word. It avoids a tragic course or opens up a possibility.

"American Rhapsody" is a film about fugitives from Hungary during the Russian occupation. An aristocratic family escaped from Hungary, crossing the border with their six year old daughter, leaving behind a baby girl. The family landed in the USA, the father secured a job and settled down. The baby girl, left in the care of peasants back in Hungary, grew to the age of six. The relentless efforts of her mother at last bore fruit. The Red Cross arranged for the girl to leave Hungary and travel to the USA. Her foster parents were very attached to the child and she was devoted to them. Landing in the USA, her real parents passionately received her and brought her up affectionately. But the one thing the child wanted was to return to her foster parents.  She constantly ran away from home. Once her father found her in a park and offered her a deal. "When you grow up, if you still want to return to Hungary, I shall buy you a ticket." At the age of 16, the girl fell in love and the mother, being a European, could not stand the American ways and locked her daughter in her room. The unhappy girl reminded the father of his deal and finally was allowed to travel back to Hungary.

At Budapest, the girl learned more of the circumstances surrounding her parents' escape from Hungary. Her real mother had left Hungary because her own father had been shot dead by a Russian soldier in a restaurant, when the father was trying to protect his wife from the soldier. When the girl heard this story about her mother, she said, "My mother never told me this. I want to return to her in the USA." From that moment, the child understood what her mother had suffered and why she had run away from her native land. The mother rose in the child's affectionate esteem. What the mother had hidden from the child was important to her. The daughter who had cried to her mother, "I hate you" and run away, now turned around when that one incident was known to her. Our affection sometimes becomes affectionate folly. We never know what is important for another, be it a child. What we do not know, our Spirit knows. When the Spirit is on the surface, the word that matters catches its ears.

Book traversal links for 324. Significance of a Word

  • 323. Self-Awareness is Soul-Awareness
  • Up
  • 325. The Aristocracy of India

Book navigation

  • Acknowledgement by the Author
  • Introduction
  • 301. One Week's Work in One Day
  • 302. The Solution Lies in the Problem
  • 303. Oblivious Selfishness
  • 304. A More than Human Effort
  • 305. The Successive Coils of Personality
  • 306. The Twelve Crores
  • 307. The Act Repeats
  • 308. The Native Generosity of the Human Heart
  • 309. The Honesty of Servants
  • 310. Receptivity - Initial and Long Lasting
  • 311. Spiritual Experience
  • 312. A Movement for Indian Prosperity
  • 313. Self-Respect
  • 314. Academic Excellence
  • 315. Stiff Thumb
  • 316. Affluent House; Affectionate Home
  • 317. The Legend of Brahman
  • 318. Complete Folly
  • 319. The Power of Low Consciousness
  • 320. I Can Accept what I Understand
  • 321. Success is Determined, Organised Effort
  • 322. Half an Hour with The Mother
  • 323. Self-Awareness is Soul-Awareness
  • 324. Significance of a Word
  • 325. The Aristocracy of India
  • 326. The Mystery of Accomplishment
  • 327. Maximum Effort
  • 328. Human Helplessness
  • 329. How Men Sometimes Receive Grace
  • 330. Business Week on India
  • 331. Social Consciousness
  • 332. The Handicapped Wife
  • 333. Housemaid’s Assertion
  • 334. Generosity and Vanity
  • 335. Feb. 29th, 1956 – The Day of the Lord
  • 336. Loss of Speech
  • 337. The Smile on the Face
  • 338. Consciousness Responsibility
  • 339. Unself-consciousness
  • 340. Hasten Slowly
  • 341. Observer, Thinker, Censor
  • 342. Goodness
  • 343. Ardent Devotees
  • 344. Kalyana Sraddha
  • 345. Brahma Jananam
  • 346. Sri Ramalinga Swamigal
  • 347. Ego, Purusha, Psychic Being
  • 348. Comprehensiveness of Accomplishment
  • 349. Linguistic Capacity of Memory
  • 350. Levels of Reading
  • 351. Body is a Rock of Offence
  • 352. How Man Adores the Woman
  • 353. Understanding Our Own Personality
  • 354. Acquiring Humility
  • 355. Life of Organised Luck
  • 356. Mental Nature
  • 357. The French Revolution
  • 358. Concentration and Distraction
  • 359. Mathematical Precision in Life
  • 360. Egoistic Assertion
  • 361. Every Truth has its Opposite Truth
  • 362. Obesity is Poverty Consciousness
  • 363. Integrity
  • 364. Lawrence of Arabia
  • 365. Minor Injustices of Life
  • 366. 'I Cannot Accept What I Have Not Earned'
  • 367. "I am Lost in the Work"
  • 368. What is Life?
  • 369. Undeserved Luck
  • 370. Attention Matures into Affection
  • 371. Spirituality is Equality
  • 372. The Rewards of Life
  • 373. Best School
  • 374. Water Supply
  • 375. Yoga of Self-Giving
  • 376. What is Education?
  • 377. Levels of Faith
  • 378. Sarva arambha Parithyagi
  • 379. Revolution of Rising Expectations
  • 380. Consecration in the Subtle Plane
  • 381. The Westernised Indian
  • 382. The GOOD Man
  • 383. The Words that Ring True
  • 384. Moral Attitude to Work
  • 385. The Power of Co-ordination
  • 386. How Consecration Accomplishes Itself
  • 387. Flourishing Evil in the Country
  • 388. Insight and Intuition
  • 389. The Wisdom of Superstition
  • 390. Flawless Perfection - 1
  • 391. Flawless Perfection - 2
  • 392. Good Will vs. Ill Will
  • 393. Innate Goodness and its Limits
  • 394. Duty is More Powerful than Grace
  • 395. Youth versus Age
  • 396. The Power of Will
  • 397. Simplicity, Austerity and Luxury
  • 398. "Count Your Chickens Before They are Hatched"
  • 399. 800 Years of Slavery
  • 400. Who is the Creator?
  • Appendix 1: How to Invoke the Spirit
  • Appendix 2: Invocation of the Spirit
RSS feed
Powered by Drupal