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Kerala – All for one!

Kerala – All for one!

India has united like never before for Kerala. It’s time like these that gives hope in the humanity. It speaks volumes about the way people relate with the pain and suffering of their unseen and unmet brothers of India. This goes to prove how we all are connected by one thread of love and brotherhood.

Pockets like Kerala, seven northern sisters and such places of India which are lungs of India what with their vast green cover.  We owe it to them for all these benefits we have been receiving from them for all these years. And not to speak of unforgettable trip to Kerala (by those who had been there at least once in their life-time!) and the peace that this place blessed us with! We owe it to them for those memories.

Social sites and media are working creatively to stand up with Kerala in this crisis time and I don’t need to talk about ‘what to give’ and ‘send’ again. The list is already known to all!

But, I would suggest instead of randomly sending items, pool the resources of your group and get in touch with ‘the Keralite’ (one in every group will certainly have one Keralite friend) and when I say Keralite it applies to every native of Kerala – not just a Malayali – remember that. This is reaching a human as a human act ONLY! Ask him/her to check the requirements from their people and send the needed items accordingly – especially through this known contact. This way the goods get surely to the persons who need it and in the required quantity. This way you can be sure of at least one colony/area’s needs being fulfilled and trust me that is a great feeling.

Next, help doesn’t end by sending these items now. The work has to be done for at least next 3-4 months. Whatever is the skill you have, you can use it to give free services to those people by going there and working as a volunteer. Or use your skill to raise money and put it to good use.

Try to find people who have lost their livelihood – especially the daily wage labourers and give them their tools so that they can stand on their feet as soon as possible. Construction workers, tailors (sewing machines), road side tea stalls or tiffin centres – their start up requirements is usually just couple of thousands. You can reach atleast to few of them (as a group) and that way you would’ve saved a family and fed a family. Just think about it!

Instead of feeding a man with fish daily, teach him to fish and you’ve made a man out of him!

Apart from material supplies and support as Reiki channels send reiki daily for next 6mths atleast for them to get strength to face this calamity! Pray for them. Ask group who are not reiki channels to sit and pray for them. Let them chant for their well being!

Your reiki can save them from the diseases that can sicken them thanks to flood waters and all! This will help them to heal their trauma easily. They will come out as stronger persons. The help that they require will reach in time and in required amount various are the benefits of healing Kerala. Don’t lost this wonderful opportunity to open your hearts and pockets to reach out to those who are more in need of them than you and me.

United we stand and let’s show ourselves and the world that we capable of facing and overcoming such unforeseen calamities. Let’s prove to ourselves how wonderful as Indians we are!

Proud to be an Indian!

Proud to be human!

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Bhagavatam – Krishna answers King Dhritarashtra

Every day we eat, every day we clean dishes.

Every day we experience, every single day we carry some impressions and hence and thus cleaning and healing are eternal process of living. Come let’s embrace life in its completeness! Let’s not exclude healing out of it. It’s like saying; I want to eat but won’t do the dishes. Such are the people who blabber “I want to just enjoy in life. I don’t want to heal’. Know what you mean when you say something!

Here it just means “I am a person who wants rights but not responsibilities. I want to be a taker everywhere and never a contributor in any relationship or otherwise. I want to be a lazy person enjoying someone else’s hard work. I am to be waited for and not the person who would fend for self”.

No one can have rights in exclusion of responsibilities! But at the same time, no one can force you to do the healing NOW! You are welcome to walk out of that part of your life. But as Dhritarashtra, face the returns as and when it comes into effect! Choice is yours! No one can question you or force you to heal it now. It’s just that if we are given an opportunity to know the process of healing now, then why not now? Why postpone it to a later time where we can’t be sure of our capabilities and situations of life which may or may not be conducive to heal?

So, come let’s treat life as a whole! Let’s embrace completeness completely! Let’s heal as we experience our lives too!

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But if the person is one the path of self awareness, assessment and healing, he would be more grateful for all he had experienced; his healing would heal all of such attitudes which is creating painful and unpleasant situations and hence doing away with having to live those situations and gaining strength to face such of situations which haven’t been healed and have come into effect.

As he would be more mature, balanced as he is dealing with present situation, he would create no or relatively speaking a very small piece of painful or tough situation to create. This way, life lesson can be learnt in a much easier and joyful way because of acceptance and awareness instead of anger and resentment. Therefore, such anecdotes from our Epics only speak of the need of the hour – awareness, acceptance, let go and healing. All this wouldn’t be possible with faith!

So, are we to be living with shame, guilt and fear because of our karma baggage? No! Are we ashamed of the house that we live in when it gathers dust? No! We clean it regularly. The cleaning process varies periodically. Inspite of regular dusting, mopping don’t we do intense cleaning of the entire house along with painting once a year? Like-wise with this mind, ego, intellect of ours! We gather the dust of emotions, impressions that we need to clean on regular basis. And yet thorough cleaning is required once a year and there in come handy various techniques of healing.

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Bhagavatam – Krishna answers King Dhritarashtra

Though there are meditation techniques available for advanced sadhaks, it is not required to heal oneself of one’s karma.

Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita (4.17) “…. gahana karmano gatih…”, that the way in which action and reaction works is very complex. God knows best which reaction has to be given at what time in what condition.  Therefore, some reaction may come in this lifetime, some in the next and yet some in a distant future lifetime.

Healing never ends till we get back to our original state of ‘Pure consciousness’. Till then, whatever disturbs us, pains us and the fears that we have need to be healed – layer by layer. Even after years of healing, when an issue crops up, I don’t see it as a problem to be solved (though I act on that too as per the need of the hour) but is is about knowing something about myself that needs to be addressed. Every time, I think I have crossed quite a hurdle or obstacle, I find myself again in a situation of facing people which

pushes me away from my equilibrium. Then I sit to know myself more – again! I go within. I meditate to find that area of me which is causing this reality to express itself and I sit to heal that.  Trust me, the more I change, I find the people and the situation around me change (Please don’t blabber something like ‘so our problems are not healed as you haven’t healed yourself?”). Don’t understand Laws wrongly to get away from being responsible to your own karma, self and destiny.

More we change, more we find the need to change. In this path will be noble qualities that need to be learned, picked up and assimilated into our character and personality. At the same time, we need to unlearn our insecurities, fears and weaknesses. It doesn’t happen with a click of hand. It isn’t magic! And hence healing takes time, regularity, perseverance, patience and able all faith to make it happen. And the procedures though may vary from person to person; it still is achievable by one and all – provided one is willing to. And the best part is ‘Universe pushes everyone towards this learning/unlearning process’ whether they are in healing process or not. It’s just that like Dhritarashtra it would take 50 janmas for that karma to come into effect.  And that too remains since unhealed, person most of the time goes through it with remorse, anger and such feelings, thereby planting fresh seeds of karma for future. And the vicious cycle continues.

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What are we to know?

Is it only to instigate fear of ‘wrong doing’ that this and such stories are told?

The one major difference between all other religions and vedantism is ‘absence of fear’.

All religions ‘commandments are based on punishment instigating in its followers. ‘Rules’ are just ‘word’ of God to be blindly followed and if not followed or if ‘commandment’ is broken, then the person is doomed into hell to eternity.

That is not the case in vedantism. Infact, all of ‘vedas’ declare ‘fear’ to be one of the original sins and something that needs to be totally rooted out of human system. Fear stems from ‘divisiveness’ and ‘the belief that human is sinner’ but Vedas declare and state that we are not human here for spiritual experiences but are spiritual beings taking on the robe of human form for human experiences and hence being ‘atman’ which is complete, divine, pure and All that is, where is the need for one to fear?

Coming back to our story – this story clearly does away with ‘burning in the fire of hell till eternity’ need due to one’s wrong doings. On the other hand, it speaks of the Universe/Divine/Nature giving us enough time to heal our wrongs. We can always repent for our sins and get cleansed of their effects too with various healing techniques. We can also increase our ‘punya’ (good deeds) and there by minimise the effect of our karma. But, how to know what karmas we have in store that need to be healed?

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Bhagavatam – Krishna answers King Dhritarashtra

Bhagavatam – Krishna answers King Dhritarashtra

After the Kurukshetra war (the war which was fought between cousins of Kuru Dynastry – Pandavas and Kauravas, a war between ‘the right and the wrong’ at the end of Dwapara yuga) , King Dhritrarashtra, father of 100 sons called ‘kauravas’ grieved the death of his sons. When Lord Krishna went to console him, he having seen the ‘vishwaroopa’ of Lord Krishna in an earlier instance knew him to be the one who could know the past and future, the cause and the effect of events asked  Krishna, “I had hundred  sons and all of them were killed in the war. Why? You say it is one’s karma that one experiences what one does in life – both good and bad. Then tell me, what was the cause of my grief of having lost 100 sons?”

Krishna replied, “Fifty lifetimes ago, you were a hunter. While hunting, you tried to shoot a male bird, but it flew away. In anger, you ruthlessly slaughtered the hundred baby birds that were there in the nest. The father-bird had to watch in helpless agony. Because you caused that father-bird the pain of seeing the death of his hundreds sons, you too had to bear the pain of your hundred sons dying.

Dhritarastra said, "Ok, but why did I have to wait for fifty lifetimes?" 

Krishna answered, "You were accumulating punya (pious credits) during the last fifty lifetimes to get a hundred sons because that requires a lot of punya. Then you got the reaction for the papa (sin) that you have done fifty lifetimes ago."

“But this is wrong!” cried Dhritarashtra.

“No. this is justice and Law of Karma” replied Krishna.

This is a very small anecdote from Mahabharata from Mahabharata – one of the epics of Vedic Culture. Now, what does this tell us?

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On healing!

The soul knows what to heal, when to heal and how to heal. The real challenge is to silence the  the mind that hampers with this healing! 

It creates anxiety that forces us to believe that we need to control the whole process of life and its proceedings and alas it never can be - by anyone! And no one knows the outcome of any action too! All we can do is just do the best in the given circumstance and leave the rest to God! Wanting to control the circumstances and wanting to make things and people go our way is the basis of our problem, pain and suffering. Let go off that controlling nature! Let go off that desire to be fixated about the outcome....learn to relax and learn to flow with the flow - there is beauty and order in that too! It's just that we can't see it as we are too busy desiring things and people to be the way we want them to be!

On healing self!

On healing self!

All the scriptures, all the quotes, all the religions and all the healing is based on love. It asks you to serve others, to be selfless and to give yourself to others. In the urgency of healing 'self' we turn passionately, blindly and recklessly into healing and reaching out to others. It is good. It is what needs to be done finally too! But in the mean time, you need to check your own battery too. If you are drained of yourself which of you can you give to others. Where from would you give to others? You need to replenish yourself once in a while to be able to give again, to be of use to others again.

In that process, it is possible it may happen that you are forced to overlook taking care of certain people and their needs. You need to live to give! So, move away from people and get connected to yourself. Move away from 'what is expected of you' and deal with yourself and heal yourself. You may have to 'sacrifice hundred lives' in this process, but remember to save a lakh when you come back!

It's ok to protect self, to heal self, to stop being there for others for a greater cause of wanting to be available for lot more people than those who need you now! There are people around 'these people' to take care of them. They may not do that - well, that would be a different story and their lost opportunity. But you are not here to look after every person who crosses your path! 

You can sacrifice looking after few to tend to thousands! Let go off lower responsibilities if need be if you are to work on greater jobs that benefit larger group!

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This is a good story. A story of reality, possibilities and hope!

Every Saint has a past.

Every sinner has a possibility of a saint!

When this was told, a student said “and that’s why I don’t prostrate to you and we both are same!” and the Guru smiled.

But the fact remains that the Saint is greater than sinner – always. Because in sinner sainthood is just a possibility – it may or may not happen. But Saint is one who though has a past has worked through it and become “His highest Possibility” already. He’s arrived! He can’t go back now.

But sinner still has to decide, work and then…may be then….

Salutations to every Guru whose worked on his past and gone beyond the point of no-return – towards Godliness!

Which part of the story are you part of? From here, where do you plan to go and how?

Whatever be the decision, don’t justify where are, how you are with statements as lame as “I know I am Angulimaan, but where is Buddha in my life?”

“If only I had Buddha in my life, even I would’ve become Angulimaan – the Saint”

“This is Kaliyuga with only Angulimaans and no Buddha’s. So the possibility of Angulimaan the Saint looks bleak!”

Every adversity carries within it; it’s equal or greater opportunity. World may be filled with only Angulimaan’s but the question is, are you working on your Buddha hood or not?

And to sum up what all did you learn from this inspiring story?

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So in the world which is conducive enough to create and perpetuate the presence of Angulimaan's, Buddha comes as a hope and the answer for all problems. He talks of a need for ‘such Buddha's’  who are loving, balanced, forgiving and peaceful enough to look beyond the past of Angulimaan and work towards his possibility.

Every decision of ours sculpts us in being either Angulimaan the sinner or the Angulimaan the Saint. You can also choose to work towards ‘the Buddha hood’ in you. Circumstances are there for one and all! You decide how to use them to express yourself, change yourself and cut the path that determine your destination of Being. All through you are the one chiseling your destiny and before you know you've written your fate!

So what’s your ‘written word’ for yourself today!

Har raath Gabriel aake mujhse hai pooche “bol, kal ki teri razaa kya hai?’

Every night Gabriel comes and asks me “Tell me, for your tomorrow how do I write your fate?”

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Yes, Angulimaan’s over the years with increased sadhan, single minded concentration and meditation techniques facing all the hardships as the way to repent and without remorse or resentment on the people who meted it attained “Enlightenment” eventually! He became great healer and thousands of people over time started flocking around him to get healed. Just visualize the graph of his growth. He was Devil Incarnate as a high way murderer and from there he goes on to become one of the greatest healers and an Enlightened Masters as per Buddhist Sutras. People who rebuked him, insulted and stoned him fell at his feet at a later day in dozens and scores to seek his blessings, healings and knowledge.

What better way to come around than this? Yes, the path is tough, long, lonely and painful. But, just look at the fruits and benefits at the end of it. But remember, if you are in sadhan so that the people who have resentment for or who have hurt you will come and fall at your feet, then my dear, you are not going to reach that station of your expectations at all. This is the major reason why people choose spirituality, to feel respected and having people fall at their feet. Sorry, this doesn’t work. No doubt, there are less people with right knowledge and right spiritual experience to fall back on and to function as right Guru.  

Is there an easier path? Certainly so! One filled with hatred, revenge and killing or hurting the person who demeans us, hurts us or insults us. But is there growth for us or are we walking towards our downfall? Choice is yours. You are smart and intelligent enough to make ‘right choice’ for yourself. After all, you are answerable to none and you are the one facing consequences of your every choice!

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Now, if we look into Angulimaan’s life, his fellow students’ envy brought about his downfall. Such people are part of our life at every juncture of our life. The trick is to recognize them and not get played by them. Be in regular sadhan and the process itself will protect you even if you can’t see it. (Just drawing symbols for buses or saying gratitude doesn’t count as Sadhan).

So wrong company and wrong Guru can be instrumental in our downfall if we listen and trust them, their words and their suggestions. As long as you don’t try to please wrong people, chances of you going hay wire are less. Here Angulimaan decided to fulfill his Guru’s wish of getting 1000 fingers. On the face of it, he could’ve recognized as senseless and left. He didn’t. Atleast the suffering of dead could jolt him to senses. It didn’t. So, though circumstances look responsible for his downfall, it was wholly him who let them affect him in such a way. 

This is not just a story of wrong choices but also of right choices. The world is full of Angulimaan’s – people who have taken to bitterness, being hurtful, mean, manipulative, less trustful and loving, hateful in short being all but with noble qualities what with such people and circumstances in their life. If he can take to healing and mending his ways, mind and nature, overcoming his habits built over years and go on to become one of the greatest saints, then, each person has that potential in him.

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When the Guru is with you, you are pardoned even for the sins that deserve you ‘gruesome punishments’ as seen in the Angulimaan’s case. See it correctly. The major punishment – the capital punishment is done with for his acts. But he had to bear smaller ones by way of rebukes, taunts and rejection which were nothing when compared to the amount of pain induced by him. On the contrary, this pain was the necessary evil in transforming him, healing him from a heartless murderer to a selfless mendicant. Bless such Guru’s who take away the major pains in your life and give you enough to bring out the best in you.

In contrast are such Guru’s who believed few students who were jealous of Angulimaan and directed his hatred on him. What is a Guru if he can’t see through his disciples? Even if in his innocence and trust wasn’t able to, still he shouldn’t have put such a terrifying demand as to get 1000 human fingers! This one demand completely changed the course of Angulimaan’s character and life. If and only if he hadn’t taken the wrong person as his Guru!

Similar is the case with all who end up at the gates of ‘wrong Guru’. That Guru may have large number of students, ashram, name, fame and even knowledge that he flaunts. But if his intent is not good, your destiny goes for a toss following such a Guru. In today’s world Guru may not ask for ‘little fingers’ and instead can be as simple and straight as money – yet your destiny goes downhill when you are enticed by such a Guru. So beware! You don’t know the intent and the way of working of Guru’s who may even dress up as babas to fulfill their purpose. So I repeat beware! Not necessarily all wrong Guru’s get exposed. The one with whom you say ‘good vibes and energies’ can be a wrong one. Till you develop your clarity of thought, it’s difficult to distinguish the right from wrong. They all seem same; in fact the wrong looks more enticing than the right. The best way to avoid this problem is simply avoid going to all and sundry. Preferably stick with just one.

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Once, King Pasenadi of that country set out to kill Angulimaan having heard about the atrocities meted by him on his subjects. En route he stopped at Buddha's ashram to have his ‘darsham’. Whatsapp, FB and such sites and newschannel being absent news did not travel this fast as of today. So, when King expressed his motive and purpose of visit, Buddha simply took him to show Angulimaan in the robe of an ascetic sitting under a tree mediating and said “There is the Angulimaan that you wish to capture”.

King was taken aback. Later composing himself, he asked Buddha’s permission to arrest him. To which Buddha said “what actually is the reason and purpose of arresting a criminal? Is it not to stop him from committing more harm/crime in the society and transform him as a good citizen? Then, see for yourself for Angulimaan has transformed himself. Now is this not the change you wish to see in every criminal?” Hearing this, the king left satisfied.

In modern culture, Angulimaan still plays an important role. In 1985, the British-born monk Ajahn Chemadhammo founded Angulimaan, a Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy organization in the UK. It has been recognized by the British government as

the official representative of the Buddhist religion in all matters concerning the British prison system, and provides chaplains, counseling services, and instruction in Buddhism and meditation to prisoners throughout England, Wales, and Scotland. The name of the organization refers to the power of transformation illustrated by Angulimaan’s story. According to the website of the organization, "The story of Angulimaan teaches us that the possibility of Enlightenment may be awakened in the most extreme of circumstances, that people can and do change and that people are best influenced by persuasion and above all, example".

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Angulimaan was rebuked by all for his previous act and nature. He didn’t justify himself or his acts. He didn’t hold others responsible for his behaviour. He simply went on with his life.

People would abuse him when he went asking for alms (as that was one of the rules that had to be followed by the Buddhist bhikshu – monk). He did not get angry. He did not fight them. He bore those insults as a way to cleanse himself.

People whose family members were killed by him came in large numbers to kill him and Buddha gave his word to them on his behalf about his changed character. Angulimaan did not run away afraid of the harm that can befall him by those angry people. He was even ready to receive their punishment and went on with his daily routine.

His fellow students weren’t all that cordial on trusting him. Yet, he went on with his healing proceures.

He was facing insults, threats, dislike, hatred, distrust, loneliness and rebukes. He put on with them and kept up with his healing procedures, daily routine and meditation.

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Even Rama after killing Ravana had to go through cleansing process to have his sins condoned. No deity who had requested him to take a birth and kill Ravana took his sin away. His Guru either Sage Vishwamitra or Sage Vashista did not heal the sin themselves. He did it on his own.

At Buddha’s ashram Angulimaan went through the healing process sincerely and with one pointed concentration of being healed of all his sins. It wasn’t an easy task. Buddha didn’t promise him that it would be an easy one too! Guru can be with you guiding you as you go through your painful yet “must” healing process. He doesn’t judge you for your sins or he pains/ sufferings that you undergo in this process. In fact he is the ONLY ONE who understands your pain in this journey and yet stands by you encouraging you to never give up.

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Not wanting to kill his mother as he had an option now, he ran towards Buddha like a mad man. Buddha was walking at leisure pace and Angulimaaan was running and yet when he neared Buddha, he found the distance grow between them. In frustration he called to Buddha “hey you, stop!” and Buddha smiled and replied “I’ve stopped long ago but do you stop too?” Angulimaan was taken aback with this reply. He asked Buddha to explain that (remember Angulimaan was a brilliant student and was good at grasping things). Later when Buddha explained his statement, he told Buddha that he wanted to kill him, to which Buddha replied ‘Fine but first cut that branch of this tree’. Laughing haughtily Angulimaan did it with one stroke of his knife. And Buddha then said “NOW join it back on the tree”. Angulimaan was dumb folded. He couldn’t, nobody could and to that Buddha replied “when you can’t give life to one, you don’t have right to take one’s life too”. (This is the answer to all who want to kill their family, boss, colleague who had been mean to them). Angulimaan stood there perplexed, vexed and confused. Then Buddha said “If you follow me, I’ll teach you to redeem yourself of your sins. I know to attach the branch again onto the tree. I’ll teach you that too!” Having said this, he started walking and Angulimaan dropped his garland of fingers, knife and with head bent followed him silently.

Buddha brought him to his ashram and taught him techniques of meditation to cleanse him of his sins. Guru gives you the path; you’ve to walk the path. People say “Guru is one who takes ours sins”. So you are saying, you want to enjoy doing your sins and someone else should pay the price of it and you’ll be generous enough to tag him as your Guru! How wonderful of you! Wake up! This doesn’t happen in real. The true Guru would never say ‘no need to do anything and I’ll redeem your sins, just sing my name, do my pooja, do salutations to me etc’. Real Guru is one who lets you go through your cleansing process because that brings out the Real you ultimately.

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