Month: July 2017

Enjoy every moment, those won’t come again

Beautiful things are happening in your life, don’t get blind sighted with daily struggle, enjoy each moment to the fullest! While a video/audio cassettes can be reversed, you cannot reverse the time in your life. If you miss those moments shrouded with negativity, you have lost those forever. Everyone has a responsibility, you do your part, Ignore bad time, we have the ability to do that.

‘If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion’ – Rajneesh

Focus on Present 2

My Lord and my Guru are my inspiration and my motivation. I am just the medium for espousing their wisdom. I propagate what they wish to say. As a humble seeker, I feel blessed since they consider offering that opportunity through me.

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Every moment, beautiful things are happening in your life. Don’t get blind sighted with daily struggle, enjoy each moment to the fullest! While a video/audio cassettes can be reversed, you cannot reverse ‘time’ in your life. Time is fleeting and you waste those moments with negatives in life, you will never realize those good moments. If you miss those moments shrouded with negativity, you have lost good moments forever.

It is upon you to get drowned with the murkiness of daily struggle or enjoy life realizing the nectar of wisdom and enjoying each and every moment from that nectar. We can change fate with efforts and being truly humble positive soul, we can make efforts with less reach towards those goals.

Deer Looking in Water

Let us realize the difference between plain efforts and let us realize efforts along with intellectual-spiritual percepts and imbibe the nectar from the wisdom. Your environment will glow with your Lord’s positivity.

Everyone has a responsibility, you do your part, leave others to leave their part. Ignore bad time, we have the ability to do that. Physical akhada is only for youngsters, intellectual-spiritual akhada has no age bar.

Lord Shiva

Listen to the video below –

 

While he is so right about the ignominy of our worries, the fluidity of our state of mind and the irony of losing present (current) time yearning a selected state of blissful pleasure, a worthless state of mind, I say, we enjoy every moment. Enjoying doesn’t mean being happy. As mentioned earlier, happiness is a selected state of mind, does not represent all the vivid and vibrant spectrum of colors.

Enjoyment means acknowledging, realizing, feeling, perceiving those multitudes of shades. Enjoying means feeling that every moment of sense and sensibility, of pain, of ardor, of fortitude of realization, of upheavals, of downbeats, of ecstacy, of sublime bliss, of pleasure. Those are the colors of life. We are not born in black dark work where only one color pervades and neither are we born in a black and white world or shades of gray. Our world is colorful and full of vibrancy and admixed with uniqueness and each color combination with its own identity. We need to enjoy, ie perceive and feel these colors. Whereas, happiness is a limited state of some blissful colors, enjoying, ie realizing, feeling and perceiving the ephemeral state of these colors is a snapshot and it is only those limited moments that we can do so and that’s the state of enjoyment.

Real life is filled with these unique color combinations and worrying about retaining or yearning for that state of mind called happiness is worthless. Let us deal enjoy those moments.

Karma and Kartavya

Karma is what you toil here in this material world for achieving your day to day living while Kartayya are your extended responsibilities while you ingress and egress this material world. To many, both these may be synonyms but in our spiritual journey, I realize, these are two different duties.

While Karma has an end to its cycle as you retire with advancing age or limitation of capabilities, kartayya has no end until your last breath. Only the nature of your responsibilities changes as you age. Please visit my blog to read further http://wp.me/p7XEWW-UW. Sharing this with selected few since only few make an effort to understand their cosmic and spiritual journey and handful have the inclination towards self-actualization.

Kartavya is endless and has several concentric circles in which you are the epicenter and those rings are woven in your ascendancy towards self-actualization. Kartavya is your engagement with your surrounding beyond your regular expected work.  While you are doing your Kartavya, you have those running parallel and not in series or sequence. At times, you are fulfilling several of those simultaneously and concurrently. Let us elaborate some with examples. As a parent or child, you have immediate responsibilities towards your family, kids, spouse and parents. Going beyond that, you have responsibility towards your extended family, friends, and community where you live. However, it does not end there. For those who are Karmavir, they ask for bigger responsibilities, towards the society, country and the world including nature, around and beyond you.

Toil & Cultivate Thoughts

Kartavya is boundless. No one can be limited within any (concentric) layers. No one can be pushed towards any layer, if they wish not to be. However, it is a journey of this soul as it is passing (transgressing) through this world, a voyage towards eternity. I don’t wish to attach kartavya with ultimate evaluation of our deeds while in this world. However, I do feel that, when bestowed with that ability to influence, if you ignore that, it is definitely willful negligence. Aspiring to gain more responsibilities and working arduously towards executing those is truly blissful, if not pious. I would refrain from calling pious since all acts have another positive and negative dimension and labeling an act as pious is a snapshot analysis, not a full spectrum analysis in continuum.

Let us visit karma. Karma is what you work in this world for a material living. For a teacher, it is delivering course. A doctor is expected to take care of her/his students. Military personnel are to take care of their military responsibilities. A whole gamut of professions is fulfilling their immediate responsibilities. However, the most challenging one, I see, are the politician’s responsibilities.

The most beautiful thing about Karma is that, it is easily guided by conscious and easily trapped and distracted by our material trappings. The more you are involved with the ‘Me’ within, the more you get buried with the material trappings that become an inhibitory force towards self-actualization. It is easy to get lost with one’s position with Karma but a constant penance and prayer would help to most, while those truly on the path to realization, may not need those prayers on a regular basis. Prayers do help in your struggle with keeping you detached from yourself and being more upwardly mobile in achieving your ultimate karmic objectives.

Path to Happiness

While Karma has an end to its cycle as you retire with advancing age or limitation of capabilities, kartavya has no end until your last breath. Only the nature of your responsibilities changes as you age.

Who Am I? – Swami Sarvapriyananda from Mandukya Upanishad

Knowing and identifying oneself amongst the ocean of humanity and understanding the journey of our soul through this material universe is always a hard struggle. We often get drowned into the deluge from our own (ego) involvement. While we are living this material life, we understand the importance of self and how best to maintain the balance between self and this eternal journey through this transient world. Swami Sarvapriyananda explains this in the accompanying youtube video. A must for all professionals who are on the rising path.

Swami Sarvapriyananda at IITK – “Who Am I?” according to Mandukya Upanishad-Part 1

Swami Sarvapriyananda-“Secret of Concentration” at IIT Kanpur

Swami Sarvapriyananda-“BHAGVAD GITA FOR STUDENTS” at IIT Kanpur

Taking Charge of Prana

Sadhguru 2017 – Repair your body from inside!

Sadhguru – 3 Things we MUST do every morning

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev shuts up Barkha Dutt

How can we erase bad memories?

Human experiences are a collation of good and bad incidences, events and experiences. Our experiences uniquely define us. It is absolutely understandable when we lose those blemishes and get that onslaught from those trepidations of life. Often, we our adverse experiences influence our current perception and create an unwanted filter that muddles our normal interaction.  Often, it leaves us in agony and that agony consumes a lot of our energies. How do we do that? Understanding, appreciating and respecting our individual experiences.

Understanding the blemishes

I often equate it with a utensil that comes out of a factory. When it is manufactured, just out in the open market, it is shining, glistening and unblemished. As this moves forward in life, it starts losing it glitter, often getting into skirmishes and sometimes indentations, small and big. Some of those completely deface the utensil but most often, we see lost glitter, some small indentations. That state defines the identity of the utensil. It is hard to bring the original shine or remove those indentations. Why?

Comparing is our two edged sword

Because we compare this state with that original just manufactured state. Comparing is our worst enemy, comparing with our original state, comparing with our peers, comparing with our siblings and comparing with our competitors. Somewhere, while comparing degrades ourselves. Ideally, comparison offers a benchmark that should provide an insight, however, we compare quantitatively and qualitatively with utter disregards to that insight.

Accepting the glory of our experiences

Let me give another example. What is so good about a soldier who never sustained any injuries? We feel proud about the injuries a soldier sustains while in the battle field. On the contrary, if a soldier protects himself from such injuries to maintain his cosmetic semblance to original handsome state, one would hardly be impressed with that.

Life’s journey is similar; we should feel proud about those moments and cherish those as our unique experiences. Those onslaughts are truly unique moments that define our life, our wisdom and our new self.

Recognizing and honoring the wisdom within

Let us imagine a life of a student graduating from college. He labored hard for the required period of time to gain that knowledge and wisdom. Those experiences have changed her/his perception and deeply defined his views. What if he comes to use his old repository of knowledge and think in the same old fashioned way? This is certainly not acceptable to anyone. Real life is similarly a school where we learn and accumulate our own set of experiences and gain knowledge that reflects, eventually as wisdom. We have to feel proud about our own experiences.

Coming back to the journey of soul through this material world, we can change our own perception of human experiences, we can stop comparing and if we try enjoying the new battle hardened state, understand that this is the true existence and appreciate the beauty, assimilate those strains of life, and cherish that as part of our cycle of karma, we should lessen or possibly remove and delete the pain from those estranged and tangled memories.

Yes, we change the perception of our battle hardened Karma.