ARTICLES-SPIRITUALITY

This incident took place in Chakori a small hill station in Uttrakhand area. A retired commissioner who was from Calcutta used to watch the beautiful peaks of Nanda devi for hours. I wondered what it is that he was watching so continuously every morning for two days. Then, when I was not able to bear it any longer, I questioned him about the same. Obviously, I was watching with limited observation. He explained that you cannot consider any beautiful moment to be similar to other. Every moment is different though they appear similar.
The most wonderful thing about beautiful objects, whether living or non-living is that they do not stay the same for any moment of time. We perceive the same as stationary while beauty is an assimilation of light, object and time. All these things keep on changing every second so is that object of beauty. We do not perceive things as a system but as an individual object and this limits our perception. For instance just take a camera and take a shot of the morning sunrise or any object of your liking. Take another shot and then another and keep on doing it within a span of twenty seconds.
Now use a computer to see those digital images. You will see that all of these pics are different though they appear similar on first glance. But if you see it with clearer brain and enhanced perception you will understand what I mean to say. So is the case of our perceptions about truth of life or our ideologies. They are based on assimilations and as such they succumb to change. Friends, nothing in this world stays forever, it even does not stay for a millisecond.

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God is one cunning person out there. He gave us eyes, so that we can get trapped in this beautiful but illusive world created by him. He gave us tongue so that we can get stuck in the thousands of mouth-watering cuisines created by him. He gave us everything so that we cannot escape from the clutches of Maya. He gave us tongue so that we can speak and indulge in matters we actually cannot control. These extra organs were not required for self-realization. Actually, these organs take you away from the supreme bliss. So close your eyes, nose and do not speak for few hours every day. With this he gave you one powerful supercomputer in the head. You have to shut that down. Now imagine a complete blackout from the world for few hours. Practise this every day and you will be able to see him some fine day.

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People who often come to me, tell me that they visit temples and worship idols and nothing happens or it does not bring any changes in life. They themselves are fooled by such ideas that a stone carving can change their future or present problems. One needs to change him/her from inside to change the outer things. If you hate yourself, then you cannot love others, if you criticize yourself then you cannot praise others. If you do not respect yourself then you cannot respect others. The concept of supreme bliss starts from your home, from your thinking pattern. It never starts by visiting temples or such things. You need to change your thinking if you need to change the world around you. You need to change your deeds and exercise humble attitude in your daily activities. Most of the people who suffer never analyse themselves in true sense. They blame God and every other person for their pain. They are often so gratified, that they cannot listen to anything against them. You know even if you bargain from a poor man, then you are committing a vice in the eyes of God.
People donate millions of rupees in temples calling it a community help while in fact this is far from truth. These temples do not feed poor or serve the wretched. In fact just yesterday I saw an old man who was sitting near the stairs outside the Digambar Jain temple. He was literally chased by the guards over there. Those people who tell others that they are religious, they are basically hypocrites. If you cannot respect the human soul, you do not deserve to be called humans. What is the use of all these millions when you cannot feed a hungry child ? Community means unrestricted and public while all of them are just feeding their own personal groups.

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From last three weeks my old 5800XM cell is showing weird signs. It gets charged without plugging in , the screen gets totally unresponsive sometimes and most of the time I am only left with one option to receive the call. Any other person would have been annoyed by this unusual behaviour of an important device, but frankly I am very happy and truly feeling like been blessed with. Earlier my phone was my constant companion and I have to attend to many calls and messages regularly. Now, I am secluded from the world (in one way) and I am really enjoying it. It seems God has mysterious ways to make you understand himself. I was happy when there were no cell-phones and I can live happily without it as well. I have realized this fact and I can feel the supreme bliss of his presence. There is one more interesting thing, it just rejects calls by itself or it will not allow me to attend the call even after pressing the green key (sometimes). I have told him that it his problem not mine. I am happy without it, and if some distressed soul is seeking me, then he will connect me to same with or without his cell phone. So I have learnt another lesson, live as he (supreme soul) tells you to live. No matter what, if you enjoy his presence then you will not be lonely and depressed. Even when you are fallen in a snake pit surrounded by venomous creatures, you will never ever get stung by the fangs of Maya.

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Yesterday my elder child complained about the almost monotonous type of food been given to him for school. He was complaining that every other person brings a variety like some fast food or something. He is too young and we laughed at his notion about food (not in front of him). It was not true because my wife gets up near 4:30 in the morning just to prepare a proper lunch for my children. We were a little depressed by his ideas when a thought struck my mind. We also do the same thing when we ask too much from God. He also stays up for us 24×7, and we say anything to him. Does he also gets depressed on our notions about things? He might also feel bad as we actually do not deserve certain things but blame him for not granting us the same. God also stays awake for us, works for us and we keep on complaining about things. We sometimes take it for granted, while he is doing everything he should do for us. Whatever is not given to us, is what we do not deserve because of our past deeds. So friends, stop complaining to God. He is an adorable guardian just waiting for us to say those magical words of thankfulness. He loves you back if you really start loving him from the core of your heart. He will love you like your mother or father, even when you do not give him the credit he deserves.

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Can we touch our heart and say with confidence that we are happy?, I mean how many of us are truly or really happy. Why are we living the life of someone else?, instead of living our own true life. Why are we unhappy?, This happens because we wanted something that never happened. There is a mantra for being happy.
1. Define what you want to do in your life?. No matter how lofty it appears, it should be something that you really want to do. It is easy thing to read, but definitely most of the people do not follow it. We have our aspirations based on social pressure, emotional pressure etc. This is not our true self. True self comes out when we are not under any pressure. That goal should be real and well-grounded. I wanted to be an astrologer at an age where everybody in society considered it to be foolish and useless, but I always has faith in myself and I knew I was born for this. No amount of pressure changed my whole idea and I adhered to it.
2. Set your final level of satisfaction. The point where you will be fully satisfied. It should include everything, marriage, children and the further consequences.
3. Subtract all the unpredictable circumstances of deception, death etc etc. Just be careful and assure yourself beforehand that they might happen.
4. Put some time in real you or your real life. If you know the answers to the questions above then you are already satisfied.
5. Look at both the sides of a coin, be aware of the darkness and light. Consider it to be a part of your future. So no matter what will happen in your life, you will always be ready for it.

……I know what I wanted to do, I am doing it. I know what I wanted to have, I am working for it. I know that I will be loved and hated, I already anticipated it. So what am I left with will be an utterly satisfied soul.

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Privacy, open minded, bored, these are one of the most misused words in the modern world. Let us understand the words in the light of intellectual surgery. Youngsters often tell me that they do not have privacy in their life. What is “Privacy”? Privacy is concealment and when do one conceal or hide. This happens when we are doing something that is wrong and immoral. This happens when you have that guilt feeling that you are doing something erroneous in your life and you want to hide it from others. This is the misuse of the word. You are not some raw or CIA agent who want to secure their private life from privy eyes. So when your children talk about privacy then they are actually talking about their hidden immoral deeds. Life is an open book for a true heart, for all the rest there is something called the misused privacy.
The second most heard word is rigidity, or open minded. Yes, I understand that sometimes parents are rigid because they are born and brought up in different times but this word is misused very often. Nobody, can label their parent as rigid if they refuse to let him visit a bar in the middle of the night. But, this really happens, simple wishes of parents are ignored and they get labelled as rigid and inconsiderate. What is open minded?, something related to taboos of society. Some taboos are wrong and some are absolutely scientific. One cannot label every social norm as rigidity but this is what is happening right now. This is the peril supplied by westernization, spreading its wings in the form of digital social platforms and digital world. Social applets are misused and cyber bullying is common place because of truck load of idiotic assumptions about the society.
Third, word is bored. What is getting bored means? I am dead sure that most of the people who use this word are not even aware of its literal meaning. The meaning of the word “Bore” is “Chatter box”. The exact antonym of the meaning it is used for. When one does gets bored (considering the meaning it is used for)? One gets bored when one is restless, suffer from anxiety, and suffers from loneliness. So next time you get bored just look for the phone number of a psychiatrist in the yellow pages.

PS: Sorry for that extra dose of Sarcasm. I got pinned to it.

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If you think that minty paper from the currency houses can make you happy, then Mr.Gates should be the happiest soul on earth, but last time I checked, he is still Jogging. If you believe that fame can give you happiness, then Michael Jackson would be the happiest man on this earth. But he died a very tragic death. (I think fame killed him.)
If power and authority can give you happiness then Obama and Osama would have been the happiest soul roaming on this mortal earth. But alas! , one of them died a pathetic death and I do not want to tell you about the life of the other man. So what is this happiness thing, a myth or some avant-garde? I believe that it is not hidden in some large palatial and lost your way kind of house, it is not there in some blue-blooded influence over the society. It is there in smaller, baser things. It is there in the smiling faces of people we know and reminisces of smiling and greeting heads of those unknown faces we might have met during our evening walks. It is there in the golden vibrating silence, that you cannot express when you see your loved ones. It is well hidden in those smaller things we do for other people. You can find it.., it is there in the old rusty box which we kept hidden in some dark closet carrying our actual credentials of the toys, cards & gifts given to us when we were younger. Don’t kill your happiness with overburdened desires that can only lead you to nothingness….

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I have learnt a valuable lesson in life. I always believed that love and care can heal everybody in this world, but there people in this world who will never change. No matter how much your try to help them in their personal improvement they tend to succumb to their pathetic life. Sometimes, they love the negativity they have generated around them, their ignorance and ego becomes so powerful that even if God comes down on earth to change them, they will not listen to the same. They generate an environment with downgraded people around them that supports their negative thought process and they really love that environment. Your process of healing falls flat and you might get hurt in the process. Love is definitely for everybody and it is one of the most powerful healing source in the world, but you can only transmit it. You cannot expect that everybody will change with undeterred & unselfish love and care. You can share these things with people and leave them. Do not get involved in the process, just transmit and do not even look at the receivers, those who are fortunate will receive the same without any hesitation. Those who are born for the wrong will never listen to you, no matter whatever happens, you will have to leave them to their fate.

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I was pondering upon the idea of forgiveness yesterday and it struck my mind. Why can’t we forgive people sometimes?. After a long trail which went through several philosophical ideas I realized that we cannot forgive people because we cannot forgive ourselves. For example, your close friend or someone dear has done something which was totally against the ideas you have in your mind or say someone lied to you about something. In this case, we are expecting something from someone dear to us. We cannot forgive ourselves because we expected something from somebody which actually never took place. But in reality, we are hurting ourselves for such wrong expectation. We are not forgiving ourselves for whatever we expected and in the process of retrospection we do not forgive others. So before you want to forgive others just try to forgive yourself.

Wise men or women do not try to change the world through words or preaching, they change the world through their own actions. Mother Teresa did not preached anything, her notions were there in her actions. So is the case with Mandela, Gandhi and other people. If you study their life closely, you will realize that they never preached, they just did good things.

Here and Now, I seek forgiveness from all my friends and dear ones. If I ever hurt somebody through my words or actions or anything of the sort, then I am really sorry. I know I do not attend calls sometimes and I do not talk to people, but that is because I am self-centred idiot, I also seek forgiveness because I am not too worldly in so many senses. I really love to live alone, so if in this process if I ever hurt somebody, then please forgive me. It is a humble request

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Why do people lie ?. Think of it. We lie when we are uncomfortable with a situation in hand. We lie when we are doing something wrong and we do not want to get it revealed. We lie when we do not want to hurt somebody. We lie to make things appear more beautiful when we speak the truth, we might hurt people, but those who are hurt might not be ours, so there is no use lying to such people. Truth gives you courage, lies make you weaker and appear feeble. When you lie, then you are doing something that is wrong. If you are right then why should you fear the truth. So whenever you lie, just look at the things you are doing, they might appear right to you, but in reality your heart knows that your so called deed is unacceptable.

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You can see the new frenzy in certain urban areas of India. People are following Reiki, Buddhism, acupuncture, Tarot, coffee cup reading, past life regression, tai chi etc etc. These are been followed down after the Westerners started following them, due courtesies to the writers like Robin Sharma and Deepak Chopra. The maddening crowd does not understand that these tit-bits are nothing more than a meagre ice tip of the vedic lore which belongs to our own country. The problem is not with the following, the problem lays in following the race without proper understanding of things. The Buddhist mantras are meant for monks mostly and for those who want to have a life of an ascetic. These mantras are not meant for ordinary people to follow. Mantras are powerful vibrations that can invoke negative entities for retaliation. People, especially younger crowd does not understand this part. To see what I mean just type Buddhism on Google and you will see many “monks” (I wonder why I used this term) selling peace to people. Some of these areas are twisted by so many low-life in Delhi and other ubran areas like Chandigarh, so that these can be sold to people in different formats. Sri Gautama the advocate of Buddhism says that “By returning to one’s beginnings, one can more clearly see one’s path forward”. This is a theory that can tell you the truth of everything related to these so called twisted matters.
Just open any TV channel in the morning or evening hours, and then you can listen to the cacophonies of pompous fat belly sellers garbed in some outrageous colourful attire with porcelain faces, selling mantras, yantra which is just a mumbo-jumbo then the real vedic counterpart. Just open your eyes friends, just read the real books, you will understand the cheating part. Just return to the beginning and you will clearly see the path ahead.

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