Luck seeking one out, or misfortune missed are events in everyone's life.
- One who could not digest anything other than rice and buttermilk easily until his 35th year, suddenly found that he could eat and digest anything on joining M.A. Literature. Only that he had not noticed it.
- One who had fits once in a few months stopped having that visitation on his forging a new friendship. He too missed taking it into his observation.
- People who could not borrow a few rupees were, by a public scheme, offered thousands of rupees credit at their doorsteps. A journalist who went there to study their prosperity heard all the eventful stages of their progress but not how it was initiated. When that was pointed out, everyone acknowledged it went out of their memory.
To review one's past and locate one such event is a good beginning for one who wishes to know this phenomenon and is enamoured of making it a permanent feature of his own life where the Spirit plays no inconsiderable role. It is Spiritual GRATITUDE.
The capacity to generously recognise and recall instances in which the Spirit in life has brought us an undeserved boon or enabled us to avoid an inevitable misfortune is Spiritual Gratitude. Gratitude is an attitude of the Spirit. It opens us to endless opportunities - spiritual, mental, social and material.
The surest expression of this gratitude is a joyous feeling welling up from deep inside. As the common man is unconscious of all the benefits he receives from the government and society, we are also equally unaware of the gratitude we owe to the Spirit for all that it brings to us unasked.