Monday Motivation….. October 02, 2017 (348)

Monday Motivation….. October 02, 2017 (348)
Once upon a time Mahatma Gandhi was travelling in a small train uphill to Darjeeling. Darjeeling is a hill station in India, and they have a narrow gauge small train that goes there. Now what happened is that, when the train was moving up the hill, somewhere, the engine got itself disconnected from the coaches. Now the engine went ahead and the coaches started sliding backward.
Just imagine on a big hilly terrain, coaches are sliding backward, what would happen? There was huge panic, as people were between life and death. Any moment the coaches could fall off the hill, and one would not even find a trace of a bone. It was the Himalayas.
So while there was panic all around, Mahatma Gandhi was dictating letters, and he said to his disciple whom he used to call Bangalori, because he was from Bangalore; ‘Bangalori, take dictation.’
The disciple said, ‘Bapu (father, referring to Mahatma Gandhi), do you know what is happening? We may not be alive. We are in-between life and death. The coaches are moving backward with nothing to stop it, and its gaining speed.’
Do you know what Mahatma Gandhi said then? He said, ‘Suppose we get saved, we would have wasted all this time. If we die, we die. But if we are saved, we wasted so much time? So, come on, take dictation.’

Moral:
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Death is not the greatest loss in life; the greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live!
Wishing you all a very happy Mahatma Gandhi birth anniversary and have an awesome week ahead..!