9 Oct 2008 —
Question
Q87: 90th Birthday?
Question 87:
“You are celebrating your 90th Birthday and your family and friends are asking you to say a few words. What will you say?”
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I felt funny when i imagined that i am celebrating the 90th birthday. Any way somehow i reached to that state, and if i get a chance to speak two words definitely i like to say i am not celebrating my 90th birthday but the 90th death day.
First a big ‘Thank You’ to God, the creator of this wonderful gift of LIFE that he generously offered!
Now, by then (90 years) my sincere desire would be that, I would have honored this gift in the best way possible through dharmic deeds and being useful to others. My message to my friends and family is to try to live each moment, sincerely and happily according to spiritual values and principles.
I’m trying to imagine: I’m 90 years old, and at my birthday gathering of young, middle and aged people where I have been asked to say a few words – “Take refuge at Sat-Guru Amma’s feet.”
Since I met Amma 11 years ago, my life has changed. Everything good and bad that happens, I feel is a blessing because Amma is given me the understanding that they are to teach us valuable lessons of life. I have been truly happy and blessed after coming in contact with Amma. Life is precious and we must use our discrimination to make the right choice – at the Guru’s feet is the true learning ground.
I would hopefully treat it like just another day, because I’d hopefully become a swamini before then!!
AMMA, pray that you are also physically with me always, and that I leave for eternity in Blissful Self.
That’s my prayer now and at 90!
I am grateful for the gift of being able to experience this many years of life. Many thanks that I am healthy. Thank you mom and dad for bringing me into this world. Thanks to all friends and family who are here today. I would not have made it this far without your love, support and guidance.
I would rather be by Amma’s side and not miss out on my Birthday Apple 🙂
However, If I were to say a few words to my family and friends, I would ask them to live every moment of life in a way that it is never repented for, when they look back at it any day in the future…
Hmm… What kept you so long Amma that I am not with you now? How long do I have to wait to be one with you?
All that we enjoy in this beautiful world today is a creation or Gift by the people who are celebrating their 90th birthday in any “Old Age Home”.
I am thanking everyone because “you are not sending me there”,
I wish you all the same: that you can celebrate your 90th birthday with your own family & friends.
All I’d say is that I hope that I’ve done my dharma and pray that God’s will be done.
I’ll tell them that self-realization is a possible goal and they should have seen me before Amma scrubbed me at the dhobi’s ghat. I’ll generously share my knowledge on the short cuts to Self-Realization.
I will say a big Thanks to this world and all its creatures , for adjusting / adapting with me for the past 90 years . 🙂
Oh my God! did you really say 90 years?
It’s indeed a difficult question, at the age of 90 I will have a different perspective towards life, a very experienced personality, about Amma i will have more stories to share…..i may share my experiences with Amma…
I may ask them to analyze the change in me in those years and would certainly add that if i was a better person after each year,if i have made them happy through my deeds,if i had perfomed my responsibility to my family,
all that is because of the lessons which my AMMA taught me through her actions at ashram,and around the world….
And my mistakes are again lessons taught to me by my AMMA to improve upon day by day…
And certainly would be thankful to her to make me speak about her at my 90th birthday…
I try to not think about that. It’s too far. I just hope I will be by Amma’s side.
Amma is teaching us to live in the present moment.
At 90th Birthday I should be able to thank all those who adjusted with me for all these years. I should have contentment. I should thank god for giving me life. I should not hate anyone.
I have learnt to remain in present. So I am sorry I am not able to visualise my future.
very funny….first of all im not sure whether i would be able to speak out when im 90 years old…..
but by ammas grace,if i can, i would thank amma for giving me this wonderful 90 years in this world……with her….
Loka Samastha Sukhino Bhavanthu
First Thanks to amma and pray to amma to serve poor people in that age
IF my family asked me to say something when Im 90 years old…Id say just one word, “AMMA”
I hope I will have become a zero by then and can prostrate in front of them as simply as Amma does
I shall advise the younger generation to spend more time with children below six and elders above 70.
I would only say : THANK YOU, I LOVE YOU ALL
now i am 30 years old.live in the now.
if i am 90 and surrounded by friends and family i will just be very grateful to Amma for all the love and care in my life and pray that everyone is as loved and looked after as i was in my lifetime. 🙂
This is very funny. First of all i am not sure whether i would be able to hear or at laest to see Amma when i’m 90 years old….. but by ammas grace, if i can, i would thank amma for giving me this wonderful 90 years.