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......