So many roles to play (1 of 2)

Good morning friends.  Many said that there are so many roles to play.  Do you believe in that?  I do.

Among the fundamental questions we tend to ask ourselves at some point in our lives is: “Who Am I?” Ramana Maharshi asked the seeker to constantly question himself as a way of exploring deeper truths and to come to a better understanding of them.

Who are you? Jiddu Krishnamurti answered thus: “When you call yourself an Indian, a Muslim, a Christian, a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, religion, political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”

While discussing what J Krishnamurti had to say on the subject of identities, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar at a satsang held recently in Rishikesh, offered the following insight: The process of evolution is moving from somebody to nobody and from nobody to everybody, realising one’s true identity, Brahmn, the all-inclusive and all-pervasive. Masters all along, even after achieving the highest, have chosen to play limited identities well. Rama was called Maryada Purushottam, Krishna was Yogeshwar, and Dwarkadheesh , and Buddha as a bhikshu meticulously followed the sanyas dharma.

An individual cares for his immediate family and as part of society shares love and affection with neighbours. For a master, the family is the whole world. An avatar, a sadhguru, skillfully fulfills individual as well as universal roles, without any conflict. Playing a limited role is in no way in conflict with the universal role.

 

God is a great concept man has found to cope with life (1 of 6)

Good morning friends.  In this world, there is no great as God.  God is a great concept of man to cope up with life.  God handles each and everyone of us in His way.  We sometimes feel bad as we think that God is forgetting us.  It’s not true.  I just remember one quotes and I seriously believe in it … “Let not have fear to face the life, as Lord God is just around to walk with us, to guide us where we least expected.”    The article I read is a good thing to read and I would like to share it with you.

What does spirituality mean to you?

It is a deep inner quest, which somehow connects with my concerns for life, my concerns about society, the conditions in which I was born.

Also, as you can see a certain kind of ugliness around and certain imbalances, you try to find answers.

You do it without an agenda, without it being part of your job. You do it as your own inner journey. You do it to connect to human beings. You may do it on a very small local scale and then expand it to a universal one.

You may find a common thread in this quest. Underlying its whole description is love, universal love. A love that makes you want to see everything in its pure form. You want to negate all the ugliness around. That is what I feel spirituality is all about.It manifests itself in a lot of finer human expressions. Art is avery important factor in it. It can express your very base feelings and desires. It can also be the ultimate expression of spirituality through poetry, music, painting, cinema.

So it is all about finding your own way to understand spirituality, your own way to express it.

Precisely, how did you find your own way?

I don’t have any great claims of being spiritual. But I feel it is a very important factor in human life. And it should be celebrated as the one strong way to peace.

At least I can see and recognize those people who have reached it. That quality, every human being has – to recognize spirituality in its pure form. The only ones who don’t have it are those who have a very strong intellect and a very strong ego. They can’t see spirituality, they always run it down. They use their intellect to survive, to cut people down, to move forward and all sorts of other things.

It is the human race’s tragedy: this ambitious mind trying to find a place of superiority for itself. That is a real danger to the human race. But we are in it, we can’t avoid it, we have to suffer through it.

Virtue is timeless

Good morning  friends.  Virtue is timeless.  Yes I believe in that.  We should be always positive in a good quality of something.  We should have good quality of life and that should endless.  I want to share with you what I have read.  It’s good and many of you will get good idea which can apply in real life. 

They said spirituality visualize our life. 

Spirituality can exist in affluence as well as in poverty, says Milind Deora.

For me, spirituality is about finding your own God, and happiness is about being content. Spirituality and affluence are not inter-related. Spirituality can be there everywhere, both in affluence and poverty. For me, spirituality means looking for attaining bliss in knowing who you are.

Virtue is timeless. So, even in today’s time where money, gloss and glamour get a premium in everyday life and its portrayal in the media, the winner is always the person who lives by some values. Be it business, politics, sports wherever you may glance.

A person looked up as a national icon is not because he/she represents a certain lifestyle, but more because of a set of values he/she represents. So yes, honesty, integrity, loyalty, perseverance and hard work still matter and work.

Even in my personal life, I have seen its relevance, may be because we were taught the importance of ideology, compassion and empathy. At the end of the day, what matters is not how powerful you are or how much you have in your bank account. Rather, the values you live your life with.

When I look around, I see signs of awakening among the upper middle class who used to lie low earlier. It was the underprivileged section who would come out on the street rallying for a cause. But today, be it a public interest litigation or a protest movement, the upper middle class is also showing their support.

My only worry is the urban English-speaking youth. They lack the sense of empathy that they can only inculcate from their parents. The onus lies on their parents and school teachers. They must appreciate Bill Gates and Warren Buffet not because they are rich but because they are great philanthropists.  – The Times of India

Faith makes us human

Good morning friends.  Every time I heard the word faith it reminds me of something.  I know there are people whose faith were so little.  They are so materialistic.  They dong believe in God’s word and work.  But with others, faith is the best thing to do as human.  We have to have faith even not only to God.  We should have faith in all what we are going to do.  Faith really makes us human.  I read one article of which was written by one of my favorite writer. Chetan Bhagat.  It’s a good one.  I want you to know it. 

It is our belief in God that makes us human, says Chetan Bhagat. 

There are some questions that I don’t have answers to. Like, why does faith help? Or, why do we have faith? But I realize that it’s very important to strike the right balance between science and spirituality. If you become too scientific, too analytical and insist that everything has a reason, then you probably are trying to be all-knowing and all-powerful, which you as a mortal being cannot be.The Times of India

Anything can happen anytime. Life is uncertain, relationships are uncertain, success is uncertain and so is health. Our belief in God is an acknowledgement to that sense of vulnerability. It makes us more human. I would like to pray more but I don’t get the time.

Our faith should not make us dogmatic or agnostic. Instead, it should channelize positive energy so that society benefits from it. Faith should comfort people, not antagonize them. God does not decide things for us on a day-to-day basis. He has given us a mind that can reason and an ability to think for ourselves.

This is what makes us superior to other living beings. Even if there is destiny, there is also a lot of free will. God has His place, an individual his. Hence the need to strike a balance between science and spirituality is all the more important. – The Times of India

Six stages of realization enabled by Krishna (1 of 2)

Good morning friends.  Sometimes in our life, we hardly accept  reality.  We don’t want to fail.  We always expect for the best.  But life is not like that.  Everyone of us will experience failure and success in life.  All we have to do is to accept whole heartedly the reality in life. 

When Parama Purusa incarnates as Taraka Brahma, the liberating Supreme Entity, at a certain transitional period, the people of that period invariably enjoy some special privileges. As Vraja Krishna and Parthasarathi, the Lord helps people find the path of spirituality. 

When people attain progress in the realm of spiritual realization, that progress is divided into six stages. At the stage of salokya, people feel that they have come onto the earth at the same time as Parama Purusa. This brings a sense of ecstasy. This state of bliss is termed salokya. When Krishna was in Vraja, the people felt intense joy and a sense of pride that a great personality in the form of a young man had chosen to live in their midst.

Duryodhana, even though he was apparently Krishna’s enemy, was convinced that Krishna was not an ordinary person. He thought that he would be fortunate indeed if he could win Krishna’s support. So on the eve of the Kurukshetra war he went to Krishna to ask Him for help. Arjuna was there, too, for the same reason.

Duryodhana arrived at Krishna’s palace before Arjuna to find Krishna lying in bed with His eyes closed. He seemed to be fast asleep. Duryodhana sat near Krishna’s head. Arjuna came afterwards and took his seat near Krishna’s feet. Suddenly Krishna sat up. He was awake. He looked first towards Arjuna sitting near His feet and said, “Welcome Arjuna, you’ve come. It’s good to see you.” Then He caught sight of Duryodhana and said, “Welcome Duryodhana, you have come too.

 

Transform the world, start from within (2)

If you look at how full of life and joyful you were when you were five years of age and how alive and joyful you are today, has the level gone up or gone down? For most people, it has gone down. It need not be so. With age, physical agility may go down but the level of joy and sense of being alive need not go down. If your level of joy and aliveness is going down, it is as if you are committing suicide in instalments. This happens because you only focus on certain aspects of life, but without including every aspect, you cannot live a full life.The Times of India

Unfortunately, most of the time, belief systems are passing off as spirituality. The moment you believe something, if you believe “this is it”, you are bringing a certain degree of rigidity into the very life process that you are. This is not spirituality.

The spiritual process is always a quest, a seeking; that is why when you say, “I’m on a spiritual path,” you say “I’m a seeker.” When you say “I’m religious,” you say “I’m a believer.” There is a significant difference, because believing means you have assumed something that you do not know; seeking means you have realised that you do not know, which brings an enormous amount of flexibility. Whenever you say, “I do not know something,” you are flexible. Whenever you think, “I know it,” you become rigid. This rigidity is not just in attitude; it percolates into every aspect of your life. This rigidity is also the cause of an enormous amount of suffering in the world.

How human beings are, that is how the society will be. So, creating human beings who are flexible and willing to look at everything rather than being stuck in their ideas and opinions definitely makes for a different kind of society. And the very energy that such human beings carry will influence everything around them. –

Discourse: Sadhguru

Transform the world, start from within (1)

Good morning friends.  Happiness comes within.  That’s usually all the belief of many people.  I agree to that.  Try to study yourself.  When you feel happy, everything in the world will be positive.  You can thing anything in a right way.  Even if negative thoughts are coming to our mind, you can easily divert that to a positive way.  But when you are sad or gloomy, everything you want to do will just don’t have a good output even if you are doing the right things.

In every human being, there is an aspiration to become better, more loving and more concerned about one another and the planet. But people are trying to work towards it from the wrong end. People are trying to be loving, they are trying to be good.

When you look at yourself, if you are happy and joyful, naturally you are a very loving, generous, wonderful human being. This is true for everybody. On the other hand, when you are in a state of unhappiness, frustration or any other sense of unpleasantness within yourself, you may be nasty. There is no point trying to be loving, trying to be pleasant to somebody else.

When you are feeling pleasant, you are naturally pleasant to everyone around you. The fundamental thing that human beings have to work towards is to make themselves truly joyful and blissful. Trying to produce good human beings has never really worked. When people are joyful, they are all wonderful human beings. Joy is the best insurance against all evil.

People will always find ways to subvert values, morality and ethics. But when you are very joyful, when you are very pleasant within yourself, you are naturally nice to everyone around you. So, my whole work is to make human beings truly blissful.

Spirituality does not mean going away from life. Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just alive on the surface, you are alive to the core. – The Times of India

Discourse: Sadhguru

Breakthrough Thinking…..the technique that can change your life!

Have you ever felt that self-improvement programs often promise the moon, then fail to deliver?  After more than 30 years of research at Harvard Medical School, Herbert Benson finally discovered a fundamental self-transforming principle with benefits that reach well beyond the traditional notions of self-help.  It has the potential to revolutionize our entire life.  He call this simple but extremely powerful concept “the breakthrough principle.”

 

In a nutshell, the breakout principle refers to a mind-body impulse that severs prior mental patterns and –even times of great stress or emotional trauma—opens an inner door to a host of personal benefits, including ● greater mental acuity, ● enhance creativity, ● increased productivity  ● maximal athletic performance and ● spiritual development.

 

Many, if not most, of the problems we face in terms of blocked creativity and productivity, flawed health or even stunted spirituality can be traced back to unresolved destructive or negative thoughts patterns such a nagging anxieties, stress-related emotional baggage or circular, obsessive “mental tapes.”

 

With this new techniques your learn to turn on a natural inner switch to sever those past patterns and activate “breakouts” that will transform your daily life.  The “trigger” can be used to power up creativity, deep philosophical insights, stress-reduction responses and more. – Herbert Benson, M.D., and William Proctor