On Knowing God!

How can one know what HE wants until one finds HIM and knows HIM?

And how to know HIM ?

mein ghar se nikla tha uske talaash mein
dhoonda use kashi kabaa mein
mujhe mila na woh kahin
phir jo dhoondhne nikala khud ko tho
mein ne khud ko bhi paa liya aur use bhi

 मैं घर से निकला  था उसके तालाश में 
ढूँढा उसे काशी क़ाबा में 
मुझे मिला ना वो कहीं 
फिर जो ढूँढने निकला  खुद को तो 
मैं ने खुद को भी पा लिया और उसे भी


From my house I went in search of HIM
I searched for HIM in Kashi and Kabaa (Sacred places of Hindus and Muslims respectively)
I found none
Then when I went in search of myself
I not only found myself but also found HIM.

sit on this thought till i get back to you in an another post.....

How to make negative people your stepping stone to success?

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Observe one thing though. You’ve changed as a person and in this journey of change you’ve outgrown your own limitations and belief-systems and principles. What you thought right you no longer think it so now. Your perception itself has changed so much (and that is in your words). Why? That’s because you went through sadhan regularly and exposed yourselves to such words that kept questioning your belief system. Did it happen overnight? No. even thoughts which you accepted you couldn’t put to practice yet. And that’s because change can be bit over whelming for most of us. And if it is to break the old way of thinking and taking to new way of thinking – it’s all the more difficult. And kudos to all of you for still keeping up this fight with yourself. Pity others who don’t even know this possibility.

Since sadhan changed you, only sadhan can change them or the people whom you say you love and want to protect against hurt and malice.

For that you can do intention reiki with all the qualities that you wish them to have or even simply state ‘they are healthy, happy and peaceful’. Because one can be happy and peaceful only when one knows to be so in all circumstances – that is when a person is balanced. Once one becomes balanced no one and no situation can hurt them. And the same ideal should be ours - to have that ‘state of mind’ where we are happy inspite of situations and not because of situations. There are miles to go before I sleep – so dear mind arise, awake and rest not till the goal is reached!

Journey will be tedious and long; yet don’t compromise on your goal. Never settle for anything less. You may be tired and fail a million times but when you get up to walk it should be to reach this goal ONLY – Always!

 (Temptations and fears enroute...)

So, everytime you get irritated at something or someone understand that your balance is disturbed and remember immediately to do sadhan to restore it. Use every slip as an excuse to do sadhan then every person and situation that is negative will become your accomplice in helping you realize your SELF – they will be steps that will lead you to self realization! If you can apply this simple technique then your prayer will become as that of  Buddha “God send more negative people in my life so that I am forced to be in sadhan 24/7 which will help me to outgrow my limitations and realize my “SELF”.

Concluded…

why we shouldn't be angry at others?

…contd….

Have you gone into ‘Hall of Mirrors’? It’s a room (usually kept in an exhibition) where varying types of mirrors are kept. When you go and stand in front of the mirrors, you look reed like in one and like cartoon characters Obelix in another. Like-wise you look odd yet different in each of the mirrors. But, at the end of it, it’s all you ONLY. So, how can you call those images ugly? You just laugh at your images knowing fully well that they are just images which are ugly and not the real YOU. The mirror makes them look like that. 

Like-wise, when we realize that we are not the body, mind or intellect, we know we are souls – Divine, complete and eternal. And it is the same soul in the other person too! Since, it’s the same one as you, you both are same. So, how can you hate him though his image was disgusting, the real one was nothing but YOU? Image here means the ‘personality that includes attitudes, character, tastes, clarity of thought, perception et like.

Just as water in the ditch which is dirty, water in a vessel, water kept in freezer which has become ice and the boiling water are the same at the end of the day – Hydrogen plus oxygen. Yet water from ditch when drunk can even kill a person if his infection is untreated, whereas ice can reduce the fever and steam from boiling water can burn us. Water being same its effects are different depending upon its state of existence. Like-wise, as soul we all are same – Divine, eternal, love, complete yet are different by way of our effect on others because of our ‘state of existence’. Like some when they enter the room they bring happiness with them and the rest, they give happiness when they leave the room. The difference is in their ‘State of existence’ and that is because we manifest differently. 

No one reached the top without having to climb the first step. The climb may be slow or fast but is always from 1 to above. So, people with limited clarity of thought just mean they are at the lower steps of their ‘soul journey’. It’s a place where I was yesterday. So, how can I get irritated at him? At most, I should sympathize with him because having gone through that stage; I should know what it’s like to be there. So, if you wish you can lend a hand and bring them up or support them by being patient and giving them clarity of thought.

If your irritation takes over your compassion, no problem just let go and move on but don’t get irritated at them. Just bless them and avoid them if you can.

…contd…..

Perception

…contd…..

As you continue your climb, you meet few youngsters climbing down and you ask them ‘how much more to go?’ (enkentha dooram?) and they reply ‘oh, its easy ahead. You can do it’.

You don’t realize till long that they didn’t tell you the time you would take to make that climb or how long it was! They just gave words of encouragement and you moved ahead enthusiastically. You ask shop-keepers, fellow-climbers, check on internet and realize they all have their own calculations and that they didn’t add up. Same hill, same journey. But, each one completed it at his pace and each had his or her own experience to fall back on.

Think about it. If a simple pilgrimage can be so varying for each one, then what about the journey of soul which is going on since aeons of time. Just as people are there at every juncture of pilgrimage and many even returning back, won’t it be same for the journey called ‘life’. When you view, from every point, the city below and the mountains and the entire nature looks different each time. As we ascend the scene keeps changing. The way we look at distances change, our state of mind changes. So it is as we descend. If the same Nature looks different to us from different altitudes, how different should it look for different people? Lost?

Well, here it is. Our most common complain, observation and cause of irritation is that others are way different from us – in ways of personal habits, priorities, belief systems and perception or clarity of thought. We get irritated, angry that others don’t get our point of view – however right we are. Give it a thought. Take a pause and please be with me. If climbing few hundred steps can set different pace for different people – boy this is ‘life’ – what with its multiple facets problems, desires, possibilities, temptations. Each one of us is exposed to all of these. So, you can imagine its effect on our ‘soul journey’. Now what’s this ‘soul journey’ that we so much talk of! It’s simple. It’s the lessons that we learn during the journey that spans through thousands of janmas. And this learning is ‘practical’ unfortunately or fortunately. Here by just with theoretical knowledge we can’t get through learning a lesson. We need to know it practically only. And what is the lesson – it’s what we are capable of! Looks simple right? But it is not so. What you are capable of means even if you take one quality like that of you being capable of forgiving well it takes janmas to just master it or experience it in all its grandeur. Because to experience my capacity to forgive would mean I reach heights of my Divinity and for that I should put myself again and again in such of situations that would force me to forgive. This doesn’t happen so easily – so I need to forgive all at various levels and at varying degrees. This takes janmas. Because, once having taken birth we associate ourselves with this body, mind and intellect and then to forgive even a small act looks impossible as seems a very big act of wrong on the part of others. So, just to forgive one person we end up taking so many janmas. Imagine how many more we need to take to forgive all – not because we are good but because each one is me and I can’t hate myself however bad the pain inflicted. It’s something like my head is angry at hand for giving ‘chat’ (spicy food) to mouth which caused acidic headache. How can one part of me be angry at other?

…contd….

Clarity of thought

Clarity of thought

I am sure as requested by me; you have seen the post dated 3/13/09 Had a hearty laugh? Good! Did you notice the fun element in that ‘act of stupidity’ and ‘argument based on sound stupidity’? good!

(you can refer to comment dt 2/15/15 for further clarification)

I presume most of you have climbed steps of ‘Tirupathi’. Those of you who haven’t imagine the scenario as best as you can or imagine some temple on a hill-top that you had climbed. For those of readers who are not Indians, imagine the ‘Route of Pilgrimage’. Assume you are climbing the steps of Tirupathi – seven hills and after climbing for an hour with your friend stop for a cup of tea. There you befriend a stranger and in course of your talk, she tells you that she has been climbing ‘these hills’ for the past 10 years atleast once a year without fail. You are really amazed and this is your first time and you are bit apprehensive as to what to expect and what not to! You ask her how long it would take to reach the top. And lo! She answers ‘just in 5-6 hours’. You are zapped out. More 5-6 hours and you are already a bit tired! You doubt your senses which took this decision and you wish you had listened to your neighbours who warned you against this! ‘God bless them, they were right! They meant good and yet I had teased them, made fun of them and not listened to them. Good for my arrogance. Now I am caught in catch 22 situation. God save me! Why did I put myself in this situation’? A look at my friend’s face and I know he’s also thinking the same.

Cutting through our thoughts her voice continued. ‘its nothing to worry. We already covered the 3 hr distance.’ You catch the phrase ‘3 hr. and you ask ‘what 3 hr distance?’ and she innocently replies – ‘why the distance that we have already travelled – well it took 3 hrs. right? So, we call it 3 hr distance’.

Map showing the foot route to Tirupathi - more than 3500 steps

You look at your friend and exchange a smile that’s both relaxing and a smile that’s laughing at your stupidity. Of course you feel, you should have first asked her how long it took her to come till here. And you were proud of being boys good at maths! How stupid! Yes, her age, profession and lifestyle was different from yours. Speed would certainly be different. What took1 hr for you to cover, she and her group took 3 hrs. wasn’t it obvious? 

...contd....

Logic!

Logic at it's best!

Please go through the post dated 3/13/09. There's a video in it. Please see it more than once and get the sequence right. You will find it easier to follow the next post.......


It proves that you can't argue with the fools!

Logic in the fools hands can become fundamentally illogical!

All that is proved need not be right!

Sometimes even when it is proven by the majority, though you know you are right and they are wrong, you just can't beat them in their logic.....

When someone has decided to see the facts their way, you can't make them see the facts for what they are!