Human Birth and its utility
It is hard to obtain a human birth, harder to live like a human being and harder still to understand the Dharma and walk on it!
Friday, October 30, 2020
Thursday, October 29, 2020
On choices and consequences.....
On choices and consequences.....
We justified our ‘choices’ by citing various ‘logical incidents’ and gave in to asuric conduct. But, when the time came to face the consequences of our actions and reactions, we said ‘but I am afraid of facing them’ or ended up blaming reiki/Universe/God/Guru or any other person who was our ‘punch bag’ to vent our anger on. We FELT they let us down.
We wanted to behave as we wished. But we didn’t want to face the consequences.
Guru was supposed to take the consequences and heal them – when he didn’t do it, he became someone who has failed us!
How twisted was our logic and we relied on this ‘logic and mind’ to lead us and our life?!
No doubt - both our
life and we were a mess!!!
Some food for thinking?!
# choices, consequences of our choices, fate and destiny, karma, actions,
also read : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=winds+of+fate
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
On this rainy day!
On this rainy day!
No power since yesterday.....
enjoying the darkness and all the perks that come with it......
just before power cut, i was going through comments to publish them and couple of your comments got deleted in the dark......
whoever had written, do write again, will post it when power comes......
always keep a copy of your comment posted for such emergencies.....
sorry about the trouble........
enjoy this storm in the inside of your safe homes..
have bajjis, pakodas and hot hot teas.......
relax and enjoy these days.......
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
On being materialistic and spiritual….
Contd....
On being materialistic and spiritual….
To realize all this and
wanting to become free from our ‘mindless mind’ we need to meditate. We need to
go within to reclaim our control over our mind. We are the master and it is the
servant and that’s how things are to be. if it is so, then things and life runs
right for one and all!
Once we gain even a
little mastery over our mind, the way we address life, face the challenges of
life and come out of it is really amazing.
By being spiritual, we
retire inside in order to leap forward!
Just as a tiger goes a
few steps backwards in order to get a momentum to run and leap forward, when we
meditate we go deep into our consciousness to get the power to leap into life
to tackle problems and solve them successfully.
Even to enjoy this
world, we need the power of our spirit.
How can one who is
afraid of this world enjoy it?
How can one who doesn’t
know the ‘Laws of Universe’ live a life playfully?
Life is a game, play
it! If it be true, are we not to know the rules of this game to be able to even
just play it – leave alone winning it?
Some food for thought…. Think about it! Meditate on it….
Sometimes, all it takes to gain something in life is stop running behind it........
sometimes, all it takes to have something is not wanting it anymore.......and yet.....
Concluded......
# materialistic, spiritual, meditation, desires, effects of desires, emotions, mind games, benefits of meditation,
also reads : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=il+dolce+far+niente
Monday, October 12, 2020
On being materialistic and spiritual….
On being materialistic
and spiritual….
People usually treat materialistic and spiritual life as separate. I often hear one say “I want to taste spiritual life too and want to pursue that but after I retire. But for now I want to lead materialistic life and hence don’t ask me to heal…I just want to enjoy…?!” (Whatever that means)
As long as we hold view
which stems from lack of clarity in this subject, we are bound to suffer. We are
bound to not follow anything correctly and whole-heartedly.
In spirituality and in
meditation, we don’t leave the world far behind. We so desire the world and the
things of this world that it is difficult nay impossible even to think of ‘a
desire to leave them behind’. But spirituality doesn’t mean any of these
things. We don’t have to go to some forest to do some intense penance. Though,
that too holds its lure!
Being spiritual means
we become aware of our thoughts and emotions. We don’t let them play havoc with
our state of mind. We can chose which ever emotion we fancy but at our pace and
convenience. We are riding the emotion.
But, as a materialistic person, the emotions run amok. They drive us crazy. One desire is enough to make us desperate and reckless in our thoughts, words and actions. We lose integrity of character and we don’t even regret that with our reasoning that supports us with logic and reasons to do so! Our mind runs us and our life.
Contd....
# materialistic, spiritual, meditation, desires, effects of desires, emotions, mind games, benefits of meditation,
also read suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=I+sat+on+my+favourite+spot
https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=unka+woh+jaane
Can you share what you understood from these stories given in this link above ....
Sunday, October 11, 2020
On sharing your experiences
On sharing your experiences.....
When ever you have a good experience after any healing, share it with others and in blog.....
this is my oft repeated request and by now you must have got bored of it too.......i have explained its benefits too and yet for various reasons, it seems to be a hard task for many........
no need to write in paras, just simple words like 'did XYZ healing and had wonderful experience" also would do for start......
just validate your experience, accept that a certain healing benefitted you and share it with others......as i have repeatedly told you, it is not for my benefit.....i know what a healing does.....i know so i ask you to undertake certain healing at appointed time.......i know the benefits, experiences and its effects too.....
it is for fellow sadhaks you need to be encouraged that you need to share...
when you were low and you read some one's feedback, remember how it boasted you and you were on the track? Now that other person is low and you are high and your sharing of your experience would pep him up.....it is simple logic and fact.....
when you are low, someone is high and his energy and experience is your beacon of light and hope......
similarly, when you are high you share your experiences with others and someone who is low will be inspired.....
this is how a 'group dynamics' work and is beneficial if used right.......only if the other person who is low gets up can he again be high and may be you'll need that 'high' energy and booster from him to raise you up?
Think about it!
share, give each other hand to get up and walk again....
this journey is not an easy one......we'll falter many times. We'll fail more than once. We'll be depressed and low more often than not. The only thing that can help us to get up is others who are high cheering you up and talking about what's keeping them going.....
so i repeat, keep sharing, keep going, keep smiling, keep walking, fall ten times but get up 11 times........you are not sinners or sheeps.......you are souls divine and lions of Vedic land......
saathi haath badhana ek akela thak jayega milkar bhoj udhana -
hey partner give me a hand, we would fall back, feel tired if alone, let's carry this burden together.....hey partner give me a hand......
and Bless the soul that knows to share even without having to remind every single time.....
Thursday, October 8, 2020
On playing a game
Continued......
On playing a game
This doesn’t validate
any type of compulsion or addiction. Weakness is weakness! However harmless it
seems, weakness is not to be worn for long!
No amount of
justification can validate my addiction. But yet, something good can come out
of our bad too if we are available to ‘seeing’ it! At the same time, using this
as an excuse to have an addiction is both stupid and unwelcome.
The answer I received
was “Don’t hurry the things. When it is not yet the time, no amount of going
for it will give the desired results. We can hurry mentally, we can go around
complaining to one and all, we can seek favours from one and all, dump our
anger on soft targets in our life (Whom we presume responsible to fulfill our
desires!?) – we can do all this and more and yet – no a leaf would move…But
when the time comes, things fall in place effortlessly even without our
thought. We just have to be part of the process, wait when the winds are not
favourable and reap the benefits of patience when winds turn favourable!”
This lifted my burden
so effortlessly. Sometimes, all it takes to lift the burden off the chest is
the simple understanding that match stick drives away the dark gloomy darkness……
Maybe, your song is right in front of you – are you looking? Maybe, you are looking at it right now and yet not realizing that ‘this is it!"
Concluded...
also read : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=The+tree+could+trust
Suggested song to hear for those who listen to English songs : watch golden buzzer fight song by Calysta Bevier
What are the points that were striking for you?
What did you pick from this?
What hit you?
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
On playing a game
On playing a game
Earlier today, someone
told me that they go to bed at 10pm come what may and so they get good sleep
and also are able to get up early! They said many other things but their
‘discipline’ to be in bed at 10om stuck with me.
I ‘receive’ messages
from and through everyone and everything!
That message kept
flashing in my brain!
I decided to leave – but one last game! It went of smoothly in less than a minute, won the game and got up!
It may seem not so great to all! It wasn’t!
I was playing with
myself….There was no one to keep score. Losing or winning the game hardly
mattered! And yet while I got up, I thanked Reiki with a smile!
I and II game ‘I’ was
playing and was getting tensed and irritated when losing. But as decided, 3rd
game was going be, the last – either way and ‘I’ had not played. I was just
with the flow and it was smooth and I won! When ‘I’ did not get involved while
playing I won! So simple was the ‘Truth’ that Reiki gave me and in such simple ways!
This understanding made me glad! (I received answer for the question I had
sought answer to!) I asked a question earlier today and I received answer
through this game. ‘He’ talked and replied. It was only when I was ‘available’ that I could hear
his voice! S, I thanked for His grace! For his love! For
His company!
This doesn’t validate any type of compulsion or addiction. Weakness is weakness! However harmless it seems, weakness is not to be worn for long!
Continued......
# playing a game, seeking answers,
also read : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=singapore
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
On playing a game
On playing a game
Most part of my work
involves writing and the other big part of my work involves ‘blogging’. I need
to sit for hours on computers and I get rebuked often for a job that doesn’t
pay a penny. I end up undergoing immense physical discomfort, strain and
suffering. So at the end of the day, I give myself a treat – a game of solitaire
I play just before shutting down the computer. Someday, the game doesn’t end well–
meaning I lose!
Many times, I just play couple of times more, lose that many times and then call it a day! But there are few days, this addiction get the better of me! I lose ‘awareness’ of playing and get lost in playing and end up even playing for an hour or so! When I look at time, I shut down reluctantly as I hadn’t won that day! Addiction of any kind makes us lose our cool sooner or later!
Today was one such day.
I lost. I couldn’t get myself to get up and go! So, I continued with second
game. I lost again! I waited…should I leave or continue?
The time said “Go to
bed!” but…..
Earlier today, someone told me that they go to bed at 10 PM come what may and so they get good sleep and also are able to get up early! They said many other things but their ‘discipline’ to be in bed at 10 PM stuck with me.
I ‘receive’ messages from and through everyone and everything!
Contd.....
# discipline, messages, addiction, playing a game, learning from a game,
also read : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=lose%2C+feedback
Pointers :
For a change you tell me "The Pointers" in this post.......
Covid Challenge :
Are you still with covid challenge?
Once you pick up a good and right habit though under wrong circumstances, don't let go of it!
Right way of living once caught has to be lived effortlessly and without a thought of doing it daily.
Right eating, sleeping and working out should be a part of life....not a favour we are doing on Universe to seek benefits from it....
When we have right way of living it just means, we are doing our part of the job right. Period! Nothing more! It is not a coupon to demand some fulfillment of our desire at later day.
When we drive a vehicle we keep it serviced and see that the brakes function right. That doesn't mean we will not meet with an accident. We still could and may! If one says "What is the use of keeping the vehicle as I any how met with an accident and had a fracture? I as well may drive a vehicle which is not properly maintained...
What would YOU call a person who puts forth such an argument? What do you call such a logic?
When we say we don't have time to exercise, do yoga, do pranayamam our excuses sound just the same to those who are hearing it.......listen to what you say before saying it aloud!
Monday, October 5, 2020
Strange are the ways of our desires!
Strange are the ways of our desires!
We seem to have a
strange request by way of our desires. We want our spouse to be intelligent
enough for us to flaunt them and their success and achievements!
We want them smart
enough to do all the sundry jobs to ease our lives.
And yet, we want them
to be stupid enough to dance to our tunes!?! We want them stupid enough to ‘listen’
to all our demands without even blinking forget about thinking!?
We want them to think a
world of us when we see how ‘stupid’ they are!
What a joke!
No doubt, we suffer
through every relationship where our dynamics is so!
***
Pointers to understand :
Apply this character expectation from every person in our life...be it boss, colleague, relatives or friends......we want them intelligent enough to be of use to us and yet stupid enough to take us for great people.....otherwise, we get angry.....are we angry at their stupidity or that they don't listen to our expectations?
Or are we angry that they are smart enough to not look at our 'greatness'?
Think about it!
Maybe, in the answer to these questions lie the solution to all our problems in our relationship?
Saturday, October 3, 2020
Chappan Bhog - Way to say Thankyou
Chappan Bhog - Way to say Thankyou
Chappan Bhog - prasad (offerings) of 56 varieties were offered by way of 'thanksgiving' after pooja......
neither this pooja or the offering was 'in anticipation of the desires to be fulfilled or conditions to be made conducive' in life........
this was done purely to say and by way of thanks for all that is offered already in life.......
the previous few weeks that you all did 'thanks through sadhan' - this was one more angle to it.......
when heart is filled with 'gratitude or thanks' and mind is free from logical reasoning and calculations, a person finds umpteen ways of thanking and expressing gratitude and thanks for all received......
one who wants to give by way of appreciation, affection, love and thanks giving is never short of ways of giving to the person to whom he wants to show his appreciation.....
As per mythology Lord Krishna lifted Govardhan mountain to protect the villagers of Gokul against the onslaught of rain. He stood without food for 7 whole days and protected the villagers from the wrath of Lord Indra. It is said Lord Krishna would eat 8 times a day. So on the 8th day, when the rain finally stopped, the villagers prepared 7X8 varieties i.e., 56 varieties of food as thanksgiving to him and fed him with lots of love, gratitude and affection.
(some items offered are not to be seen in this picture - my photographic skills?!? - for those intelligent ones who are counting to find some fault in this.....)
read previous post once again to understand this giving : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=nirmaldas
Thursday, October 1, 2020
On choosing an enemy!
On choosing an enemy!
Each of us has an
option of choosing an enemy. We can choose ‘external enemy’ to fight. They are
people in our life and situations of our life. By choosing to fight them we
lose either way!
You can chose to fight internal enemy and win – always!
# enemy, win win situation, perspective, on choices, fights of life, life and its opportunities
On this post : Happy 304th post - The highest in the year till date in our blog....
The number of posts written and posted every year since year 2009 has been varied and interesting going from as low as 59 in 2012 to 303 in 2016. As rightly pointed out by you today we have created new high (in terms of number of posts per year) is 304. Yes, today's post would be the 304th.
As I have said many times, every milestone can be celebrated and cheered by us. We can look back at the milestones with happiness, sense of joy and achievement. We can take pride in our work and the amount of work too! Not because we have outlived, out done someone else. No! That path of comparison would take us towards our hell and all our work is to be aware of all the paths that take us down that road and avoid it by all costs!
Is this my achievement? Yes and no! Yes, because I worked on it and no because it wouldn't have been possible if you didn't read it all along. So, this milestone had been created because of you and me - both doing our part of job joyously and regularly.
Your part was to be participative as a reader - by way of asking questions, sharing opinions, comments and experiences. That was the impetus that drove me to write more. More you said, more I saw where I had to explain better. I used various methods of explaining - some story way, some as examples, some by way of taunt, some even pointing out words and actions that were holding us back - stopping us from making the journey forwards towards our 'own heavens' instead of hell..........
Our fight is not with each other - it is with the Vedic philosophy of the Greatness of Atman versus the 'attitudes' and our mind which are playing their games to the best of their abilities. My job is simply to tell, point and remind you of the way our mind is holding us prisoners of our 'karma' and limiting us to suffering and the life of low lives....
I sit and walk all through the day thinking of ways to present 'The Truth' so that it can be seen, understood, assimilated and then become part of your lives effortlessly......
felt glad when it went down well with you and worked again when it was not received - once more........
Participation from your end doesn't mean 'praises' only - it is sharing your observations, doubts, experiences, understandings, insights, applications of the techniques, perspectives and way of living and thinking and how they effected you and your lives......these and more are the participation that i look forward to and they keep me motivated and drive me to work more....
may your journey within be as beautiful, joyful, interesting, unburdening, beneficial, heartening and fulfilling as it is for me in writing for that journey ........
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