Me, my Guru – on heaven and hell

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Me, my Guru – on  heaven and hell

When Alexander had sent soldiers Master didn’t lose his temper. He was calm and so gave reply befitting a Master. He was in heaven.

When Alexander heard Master’s reply, he was calm and he sent ministers with gifts. It was his arrogance that made him to flatter Master with gifts and praise and get him to do as he Alexander pleased. He was creating hell for himself with this strategy.

Seeing through the acts of Alexander, Master gave a befitting reply. He did not fall for Alexander’s shallow words and acts. He was Master indeed. And thus he stayed in the heaven he had created for himself.

Alexander’s ego created desperation to seek Master who was of rare kind. He hadn’t met someone not enticed by his power and riches. He did not seem bothered to irk him either! That was intriguing to Alexander. So, he set to meet the Master.

When he met the Master he expected the Master to behave in a certain fashion. Wasn’t that Master supposed to give Alexander the treatment befitting an Emperor? Master did not fulfill his expectation. Alexander lost his temper and raised his sword to kill the Master. By giving way to his anger he created his hell!

Then the Master said “And here is hell?” Lo! Alexander saw his folly caused by anger lead by his expectations and ego! He stopped. His sword did not taste the blood of the Master. With his restraint he created his heaven.

He did not become great by controlling or winning battles with brutal force and strength. He became great by winning over his own ego and anger! 

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# hell and heaven, mind, mind games, anger, expectations, conditions, clarity of thought, balance of mind, being stoic, stress, response and reactions, challenges of life

previous posts worth visiting : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=father+anger 

Questions answered : 

• Who is befitting to be a Master?
• How to become great?
• How to win every time in life?
• How does going within create heaven for me?
• What are the qualities that decide 'heaven and hell' for us?

Points to be assimilated in life:

• What happens to me is based on so many factors. I can't control them all. But how I respond to them is within my reach. And I can very well control that.
• By channelising my energies on how to respond instead of 'how things and people should be' I move from suffering state to happy state of existence.....
• I need not change the world. All I need to do is change myself and the world I reflect changes for me!
• Look at the points that helps a person create heaven and work on developing them.
• Look at the attitudes that create hell for a person and heal them, transform them and transcend them.

Life hacks :

Today, I put my favourite 'tea' in 'high flame' and lo! the vessel was burnt as I was busy posting blog for you guys.........

moral : 
1. Don't put the flame in high if you are not going to be there while cooking.
2. Don't multi-task if your awareness level is not good enough

Lessons Learnt :
1. You say "well, she doesn't follow what she preaches" and I feel "I lose so many utensils for these kids and yet my work goes unrecognised". Situation being same for both, our expectations from each other comes from where we see each other. It comes from our perspective of the issue. The perspective reflects where we stress the 'point of seeing'. 
Because of this variation in perspective and angle of observation, we miss out on learning the "actual lesson" and go on the 'judging trip'.
2. My love for tea is known to all and yet I burnt the utensil. I became unaware of it. Meaning - my love for writing is much greater than that of drinking tea. The joy I get out of writing is much much more than my joy I get out of drinking my favourite drink in the world! 
Truth -  Between our both loves/desires/joys we select or concentrate more on the one which gives us more satisfaction.
And because I wanted to go back to writing faster than needed I put tea on high flame so that I could drink it fast and go back to writing. Result, tea was burned! 
Truth -  when we hurry something it gets burnt. The job becomes more cumbersome and tedious as we have to work more to get it fulfilled. 
When we are in a hurry to have one desire fulfilled, 'our hurry energy' becomes the 'energy that creates mess' and slows down the actual process thereby causing the 'delay' of something that we so want to happen now and here!
3. Put your tea - the desire you so long and want on low flame or it will get burnt and delayed!
4. Anger is the fire that burns the vessel that makes the tea. That vessel is your body, mental makeup, aura. 

So - Cook on sim flame - be it food for body or for your soul!

Think - What  desire of yours are you cooking on 'high flame'?


Now what is the 'low flame' here that I am saying? And what will get burnt? and how does it effect my desire?

Some see this incident as 'reiki not working for me/why did my tea/utensil get burnt even after doing reiki regularly? or as things going wrong/not as expected' - reiki gave me patience and clarity of thought to see 'beyond the incident that occurred'. This is the result of 'regular healing' for me. The little bulbs of understanding that lights up under such 'painful and suffering and not accepting situations' is the few of the best 'reiki miracle' that happens on daily basis in my life!

By taking away that which is perishable, it gives me that which is permanent! What more can I ask of reiki?! If this is not a miracle, I don't know what is!

Me, my Guru – on heaven and hell

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Me, my Guru – on  heaven and hell

Others also knew they had no choice. They knew their pain and their bodies demand for rest! They knew their prayers were answered through that Master and lo! They thanked the Master. These warriors knew that to even survive in any battle both the Master and the animal – like horses and elephants should be healthy, active and energetic. It was sheer madness to fight continuously too! So resting at right time was also part of ‘waging battles and wars’. So they seized this opportunity to revive their tired bodies, mind and intellect. They did the same for the animals too!

As the end of the month came nearer the hell group of soldiers were tired, moody, angry and restless.

But the second group was totally revived, relaxed and come to love the life of forest so much that they were in heaven. They created it. They owned it!

Later when the war started the first ‘hell group’ fell ill, hurt, got wounded and many even died in the battles that they fought.

The ‘heaven group’ was so healthy and happy that they faced with war with immense strength and though were wounded got revived faster and they got to live on to see many more battles.

Each created his or her own destiny with the choice of hell and heaven at every cross road of life. With every bump in road we decide our destination – hell or heaven.

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# hell and heaven, pain and suffering, choices, realities of life, mind, mans best friend, our scariest enemy, ego, anger, expectations, conditions

also reads : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=choices

Questions answered :

• What decides our choices and what are the consequences of our choices?
• Who writes our destiny?

Points to be understood  and food for thought:

• If our choices are the basis of our destiny, then whom are we to blame for the situation that we are in?
• Where should we actually direct our anger?
• If we are in a situation that we are not comfortable in, then who actually is responsible for that?
• How do we put our power to write our destiny to good use?

Healthy tips:

If you want to eat those oily snacks favourite of every Indian - be it pakodas, samosas, bajjis etc - go ahead and eat it. Just remember to exercise before eating say for 15mts and then 15 mts later .......these two 15mts are more than the usual time of exercise that we need to do on daily basis...........

don't think it is very tedious or boring. Having healthy habits is not an option. It is a gift you give unto yourself. 

Even our "weakness" can be put to good use if only we start thinking right!

Use your desire or weakness for snacks etc to good use. Use it as an excuse to exercise more. Before long you'll possess a body you so wanted to own since long........not just a good looking body but a fit and fine one too.....this way not only can you put in all the hours needed to work to have your desires fulfilled, but you can also have strength to enjoy your life your way.......

Denial of our weakness is not the path for weak minded.......but putting or making our weakness work favourably can be done with little smart thinking.......

Think about it and work on it.........

if weakness is to watch movies -then do reiki while watching Tv. Keep a list of things which needs to be healed. While watching keep sending to the list one after the other and see your list of healing to be done completed effortlessly. During Ad breaks walk, walk and walk. Inside the house but walk . That way your walking is almost done. Next during songs (most of them are not good) then do yoga........

see think - you can do more than you can imagine if you ask yourself "how do I do it?" instead of "well, I can't do this now, right?".......

On Trust!

On Trust!

Further to the questions posed in https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=When+do+you+say+your+trust+is+broken%3F 


I'll re-frame the question for clarity sake.....

What is the meaning of expectations then?

What do we expect from our relationships?

What are the basis of our relationships?

What happens when our expectations are not met?

expectation in telugu means eduruchoodadam - ఎదురుచూడడం 
expectation in hindi means ummed -उम्मीद 

Whereas Trust is -

Trust in telugu means nammakam - నమ్మకం 

Trust in hindi means bharosa - भरोसा 

Is it easy now for you to understand the questions?

Try again with both.....use the same question for both expectations and trust and then come back with both your answers.......

Me, my Guru – on heaven and hell

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Me, my Guru – on  heaven and hell

Alexander froze in his place. He looked at the Master realized his folly fell at his feet and sought his forgiveness. His soldiers and ministers were surprised to see this. They never saw Alexander bowing down to anyone, seeking forgiveness and being ashamed of his actions. They were moved seeing tears of regret in his face.

With love in his eyes Master looked at him and said “And this is where heaven is. And this is how you travel from hell to heaven”.

Alexander understood. He fell at his feet and confessed his sin of misbehavior. Maser smiled, lifted him and let him sit beside him. They talked for quite some time. Alexander looked very peaceful and relaxed when he came back to his men. They left for their camps. 

At camp as he got down his horse he declared “We’ll stay in this forest for next one month – may be more. Untie your horses and make necessary arrangements for the stay. He entered his tent.

Some soldiers were angry, agitated, disturbed, and helpless and some even cried.

Others were relieved. They were exhausted and thanked the Master for giving them much needed rest. They celebrated among themselves. They planned a talked among themselves about their way of relaxing and resting. They wanted their horses too to be fended well during these times. They slept peacefully. And they also knew for at least next one month they could sleep peacefully – for sure! They celebrated all this and more!

Soldiers who complained were in hell. They had set their mind on the travel to go in a certain pace. When that was disturbed they became disturbed. They were in hell! 


They knew they had no powers to change the decision. That helplessness angered them. That took them to hell. 

Out of anger that felt helplessness came tears. That desire to hurt someone for having foiled “their plan” found its way in tears. They lived in hell! 

Some picked up fight with others. They thought others were irritating them and fought with them. They created their own hell!

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# hell and heaven, pain and suffering, choices, realities of life, mind, mans best friend, our scariest enemy, ego, anger, expectations, conditions 

also reads on this topic: https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=Bhagavatam

Questions answered : 

• How is our anger related to what we create in life?
• What is the need to heal anger in us?
• How healing anger takes us away from hell and towards heaven?
• How anger and clarity of thought are interrelated?

Points to be understood:

• Where anger is, clarity of thought is not!
• Where clarity of thought is, anger is not!
• The basis of our anger is expectations and conditions that we have from others and events of life.
• Our mind is our biggest enemy.
• When we win over our mind, there is no greater friend than it.
• Friend or foe - each decides how and what he wants to make of his mind.
• Mind was given to us to be used by us! Don't be a fool and get used by it!
• When we are used by our mind it is called Ignorance!
• When we used our mind we are called Master!
• Master is not one who rules or controls others. Master is one who has control over his own self.

Life tips:  

Always put gas burner in 'sim' mode while cooking. As always when I am cooking and also working on blog posts I tend to forget about cooking and get lost in the blog part. I went to kitchen today to drink water and lo! I noticed that I had put dal in sim mode and it was boiling away to glory. It was just done and I got to put it off. But imagine if I had put it in high mode!?? Moreover cooking tastes best when cooked on low heat....

and fyi this is one of the reiki miracles that I get to enjoy most of my days.....reiki sending me to place where I am supposed to be (like to kitchen here....) and saving my piece of work and other things......