On Covid Vaccine

 

On Covid Vaccine

Given below is a good summary, it is believed that everyone will get Omicron variant sooner or later. Above is good summary of experience shared by a reputed ER doc Dr.Craig Spencer in New York...

This is not to frighten everyone. Please understand that. This is just a reminder and a wake up call to people who are 'NOT GETTING VACCINATED' 

or

'POSTPONING GETTING VACCINATED ESPECIALLY THE SECOND DOSE' 

with all lame excuses....

One medical profession just told me this "When I see people suffering with various Covid complications and dying day in and day out, I wonder what makes them choose their EGO over commonsense. I still haven't understood why people don't get vaccinated. Do these people don't have sense of self-preservation? Don't they love their near and dear ones enough to save them from this disease? How can they expose their little ones to this virus - because when they don't get vaccinated they are being irresponsible towards not only their family members but to the society at large?

What are they trying to achieve by not getting vaccinated? They have time to travel to places ( to temples in the name of love of God etc) and yet don't have time to get vaccinated?

Is fear of vaccine greater than fear of death and horrible living conditions in ICU?

How can someone be so stupid, selfish, arrogant and harmful to their family?"

The anguish I saw on the face of that Doctor is something I can not forget....and to think all these front line workers are losing their family life and life too to save stupids like us who are adamant and not wanting to get vaccinated....

what's the fun of going to temple on January 1st saying "We want to start the New year the right way?" if our actions don't support our words?

Correct the wrong. Get vaccinated. Stop giving excuses. We have lost someone or the other in the past to this 'careless' attitude. Have we not learnt anything from the past? Do we want the same history to repeat itself? Do we have to lose someone else? Are we looking trading 'pity' to safety in our life? What is the basis of our decisions in life? Do we have courage to be honest with ourselves when we take such decisions? OR are we justifying our actions behind 'baseless arguments'? Think and think right!!!!

Atleast this year let's start by correcting our little mistakes that we do because of our careless, negligence and don't care attitude. Later we won't have the need to ask "But I drew shielf maam, yet why did I lose this person in my life?"

spread this message to all in your circle....

let me know what you think of such people and these acts....do you understand from where they are coming and do you support them? explain me the same so that at least my pain and suffering can come down a bit.....

End of year 2021

 

End of year 2021

This year had odd mix of events happening in our lives....

It's time we revisit this year for all that it has given us and taken away from us...

How are we going to remember this year?

What are we going to remember this year for?

Please re-visit previous years posts to do any or all of those activities once again this year too....

those who can will find it more rewarding than assumed....

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2017/01/new-year-resolutions.html

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2017/01/on-new-year-resolutions.html

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=year+end+of+2018

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2019/12/good-bye-2019.html 

there are many more for those who wish to revisit them and relive your moments and exercises...do the same for this year too....

This year's exercise - 

There are years in ones' life that ask questions and years that answer them...which year was this 2021 for you....???

Highlight 10 of your accomplishments and best memories

Name 10 of your missed opportunities, failures and regrets

State 3 of the unexpected events that changed your life's perspective, priorities and understanding.

At least name 3 things on which you put all or most of your focus on

Does this reflection give you clarity as to how and what to look forward to in this new year?

Just a clarification!

 

Just a clarification!

Further to https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2021/09/wow-moments-on-death.html I would like to clarify the following :

On a post on death, I had recently shared that ‘I lost more than 10 people to death’. As ‘assumed’ by some of you – “NONE OF THEM DIED BECAUSE OF COVID”. So, the reasons you are discussing about and how it can or could’ve been avoided – select all and delete! None of them is anywhere near right! All of them are in late 80’s.  Earliest or youngest amoung them had been 79. Doctor had given up on them about 2-7 years ago. And yet, they survived that phase and had to leave the body now! Know how your assumptions which you call as understanding is ‘wrong’.

This is ‘maya’ at its best case! It used your ‘laziness’ against you and your mind. You chose to ‘not understand’ the post out of laziness (of mind) and so to divert you from there, you pushed yourselves into a stupid logical reasoning and went around ‘feeling sorry for the dead, me and what not’. Again, time wasted in ‘wrong area and on something non-existent! You also accumulated karma of ‘talking non-sense’ in the process!

Wake up out of this inertia – shake up that laziness. Stop using it as an excuse! It is taking you down the road to your doom! Tasmath jagraththa! So, beware and be alert!

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One more milestone crossed this year!!!

 

Contd....

One more milestone crossed this year!!!

I wouldn’t have lost much (by way of usual assessment standards of this world and you…). Since, I didn’t gain anything by way of doing this job, not losing anything also would mean nothing much here….

But then, is it always only about getting and losing – materialistically ???? NO! It is never about that. Material benefit is the ‘by product’ of our actions and choices….but the real reason behind every act and choice of ours is to build a character or break it – depending upon our choices and actions….

So, by choosing to fight a losing battle I chose to develop that spirit of giving 100% till the end. Not having end as the goal and not being bothered about the result – just keep working on ourselves and our work. The result would shape up on its own and for our good eventually….for sure for all!

Next, we can’t take away ‘competitive spirit’ from ourselves – ever! And yet, it is one quality that develops jealousy, anger, low self-esteem, inferiority complex, stress, envy, hatred and what not!!!

So, what can’t be pushed out of us should be turned into our friend – here use ‘competitive spirit’ against ourselves. Compete with your own self’s performance and play a win-win game…you either way win! So, the above said negative traits inspite of our competitive nature is not generated…

Did I explain my point right this time?

Is this really about the 'no. of posts'? If yes, does it really matter? If no, then what does this teach us?

What are we to understand from this?

Where are we to apply this understanding?

Get back with your understanding and clear my doubt…

PS : BTW I hope to cross next milestone of 303 posts too this year...fingers crossed....

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# milestones, accomplishments, goals, 

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2021/08/milestone-of-175-posts.html

One more milestone crossed this year!!!

 

One more milestone crossed this year!!!

We have crossed 297 posts of year 2017 already....yet one more milestone crossed....

At the middle of the year when the going was little shaky (reason immaterial here!!). At the end of June it was barely 85 posts…and as written then I HAD ACCEPTED THAT THIS YEAR WOULD END UP BEING NOT WORTH TALKING ABOUT/NOT THAT PRODUCTIVE YEAR by way of posts in blog….and yet here we are having crossed so many milestones en route to this end….wow to that!

It may seem very simple to you. But try to understand without judging or with emptiness.

Would it have hurt if there were only 85 posts this year as assumed by me in June? Certainly not much for me maybe…I wouldn’t respect my work less for sure….and yet I always have wanted and worked for giving more than what I can ….stretching beyond comfort zone is the thing for one and all – it is an essential quality that each one must develop in his own life.  So, seeing from that angle it would have seemed ‘not good’.

Contd....

# milestones, accomplishments, goals, setbacks and comebacks, problems and solutions...

read the link given to know about gratitude and problems in life : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=different+shades+of+gratitude 

Only Present is real!

 

Only Present is real!

“At some point, you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening”. The sooner, the better.

The day we start with this little shift, we’ll know what contentment, peace, happiness, love and abundance is!

Not a bad bargain I would say! Then why don’t we do that if it is so simple?

Your spouse and m-i-l are not the problem!!!

Your child and his habits are not the problem!!!

Your boss and your job tensions are not the problem!!!

Your home loan and present financial situations are not the problem!!!

Your savings and covid are not the problem!!!

The way you ‘desire’ and ‘demand’ them to be ‘your way’ is the problem. Take a break! Take a closer look at yourself and your relationship with your problem. You’ll find your solution….

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also read worth previous posts on similar topic : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2017/06/on-living-in-moment-me-my-guru.html 

and

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2017/07/on-living-in-moment-me-my-guru.html 

Sadhan techniques suggested to achieve this :

• Re-birth meditation
• meditation

Good Morning!

Good Morning!

We have just last few more days to go and then bam! our dear city's - Hyderabad's - winter would come to an end just like that!!!

Just for next 10 days get up early say atleast by 6 am and spend sometime outside (even sitting in your balcony is good enough)...that would be our sadhan for this week and next....

(Shamirpet lake)

those who get up much earlier than that and are in sadhan or for whatever reason - just come out and enjoy the weather - look around you and see the fog /mist covered air and view.....soak that in....be with it for atleast 5-10 mts at the least....better still do your sadhan in open air if possible (like in balcony...)

enjoy this while it lasts ....we will be gaping at our scorching sun and summer very soon...let's enjoy these lovely days while they last. People go to hill stations to enjoy this weather. We are getting them free of cost. Let's enjoy them now before they become dear (costly) to us...

(early morning view from moulali)

One of these days go to Tankbund or some higher spot like Birla Mandir or Moula-ali dargah or so and enjoy the view of Hyderabad....

(Osman sagar)

Those who don't stay at Hyderabad, do the same in your city/village/place - pick a spot preferably a high point of your city and watch the early morning sun-rise....

saturday being holiday for most of us - let's go that day to the place convenient and near to all - those who can't make it that day - go on any other day - enjoy sunrise at least one day from a lovely point....

happy viewing.......

On living life!

 

On living life!

Don't try to understand everything....sometimes, it is not MEANT to be understood - it is just about accepting it.

and...

sometimes, it is just about LIVING THAT MOMENT!!! 

By trying to understand what we are supposed to live, we miss out on moments of life that should have been lived - life passes on and we are left with empty moments, lost moments and an opportunity to have lived that 'time'.

Remember, time once gone cannot be regained - by ANY!

Don't lose it - no amount of regret at a later date is going to bring back your 'lost time'. 

Figure it out for Yourself. : - Poem by Edgard A. Guest

 

Figure it out for Yourself. :


Figure it out for yourself, my lad,
You’ve all that the greatest of men have had,
Two arms, two hands, two legs, two eyes,
And a brain to use if you would be wise.
With this equipment they all began,
So start for the top and say “I can."


Look them over, the wise and great,
They take their food from a common plate
And similar knives and forks they use,
With similar laces they tie their shoes,
The world considers them brave and smart.
But you’ve all they had when they made their start.


You can triumph and come to skill,
You can be great if only you will,
You’re well equipped for wrhat fight you choose,
You have legs and arms and a brain to use,
And the man who has risen, great deeds to do
Began his life with no more than you.


You are the handicap you must face,
You are the one who must choose your place,
You must say where you want to go.
How much you will study the truth to know,
God has equipped you for life, But He
Lets you decide what you want to be.


Courage must come from the soul within,
The man must furnish the will to win,
So figure it out for yourself, my lad,
You were born with all that the great have had,
With your equipment they all began.
Get hold of yourself, and say : “I can."


Edgard A. Guest

The above poem answers so many of our questions :

• Why can't I be successful?
• Why doesn't God give me enough to be happy and successful?
• How and why do some people become successful while I am a failure?
• What is most needed for being successful in any field?
• Many of such questions - I know "You will figure it out yourself my lads....!!!"

On Christmas!

 

On Christmas!

Revisit the link to know more about Christmas.....maybe we have missed noticing something then and we need it now???

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=christmas

On Datta Jayanthi - sadhan

On Datta Jayanthi - sadhan

Further to https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2021/12/datta-jayanthi-reminder.html?showComment=1639030045530 19th of this month - December was Datta Jayanthi and we had taken up to complete 100 malas of Guru mantra chanting.....

Many completed well in time and others on time.....good for all!

I appreciate your effort, dedication, discipline, sense of gratitude towards your Gurus, commitment and willingness to do the needful. And as a Reiki Channel, one of the favourite ways (not the only way - note that!) to show my appreciation, affection, concern, encouragement and happiness is to do reiki for the person concerned....

So, I did what I am good at doing - chanting on 18th, 19th and on 20th and sent the same to all those who have posted in comments section that they have completed 100 malas on the said mission....

I am not saying or implying anything with this act!?! I just did it as a way of appreciation - that's all!

"But maam, even then my problem did not go away....etc etc...???" - these and other questions have only one answer from my end - I didn't say they would. I did what I could and that's all! I am not saying it would act in a certain way for you. My job is just to do the same. How it reaches you and how reiki wants to make it work for you is between you and reiki....that is none of my business...

my role is over and out the moment I complete my end of duty/task/commitment/ sadhan.....to take it further is Reiki's duty not mine....and I am neither answerable nor aware of Reiki's job....

I don't know if any of you were aware of the same, saw its effects, felt the same and can connect the events of your life with these - but still.....

Some may see it as an act of blowing my own trumpet. If it seems as if I am praising myself for the same, then I am sorry about that. That certainly was not the intention though!!!

Once again, may your Guru's blessings shower forth on you and 

may you develop clarity of thought to see things right, 

may you develop patience to work through your attitudes, 

honesty to look at areas within yourself and courageous enough to accept them, 

strength enough to overcome the lower nature and 

sense enough to work out the right path and make sense out of your life's structure and situations.....

On taking decisions!

 Contd.....

On taking decisions!

The more we condition the outcome of our 'decisions' the less clarity of thought is available to us to take that 'right decision'. We want everything to go 'smooth' and trouble free and that's how we say if the decision is right or wrong. But we forget 'no decision' is completely 'problem free' - ever in life. Every decision comes with ups and downs of it's choice. We need to look into the fact 'is my decision based on my values and priorities of life or is it based on fear?'

Any decision based on values however difficulties it may end up giving us, there also comes a great strength with that decision that comes to us to face those difficulties...

Stop expecting a decision to give you 'happiness' only in life. That demand from that decision makes us assume that we could have been happier without that decision made in our life. It never is so - for any decision in life. 

The day we realize this simple Truth we would get healed of our fears and go ahead and live life to the fullest. We will have courage enough to face the challenges that our choices presents us with. Then it is all a part of game in our life. There are no regrets. There are no remorse. There is no pain and no suffering - at least with regards to our decisions made in the past. How beautiful and light would such a state of mind would be! How wonderful would that life be!

Think about it!!!

Concluded....

# on taking decisions, regret and remorse, faults of past, ghosts of the past, problems and solutions, miracles, pain and suffering, on lessons of life, success and its ingredients, clarity of thought, everything happens for a reason, life is a teacher, situations of life and their reason to be

previous posts worth visiting : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=On+desires+and+decisions+%E2%80%93+Me%2C+My+Guru+Crow%2C+Parrot+and+other+birds 

As always, read the link given in the date order to understand it better....

Healing suggested :

• Sit in meditation and find the cause of 'taking decisions'. Heal it with the required technique...
• Look at the expectations and conditions set on each decision. Take couple of them (from the past) and grow through expectations and conditions you had from each of such decisions. Know the basis of your expectations and conditions. Heal them.
• Do reiki before taking any decision. Then develop trust that whatever comes is for your good and work around that faith. 
• Stop going back to past and wanting to change that decision.
• The decision many times is not the problem. The lack of strength to face and accept the outcome of that decision is. Work on that!

What did you learn from this post?

How was it helpful?

Heal the required areas and come back after say a month and give the feedback....have a reminder to do the same....

On taking decisions!

 On taking decisions!

Successful people take decisions based on "Where they want to be".

Others take decisions based on "their current situations".

What are the factors that control or affect how and what we decide? 

a.The current situations

b.Data available

c.fear - it can be fear of failure, fear of rebuke, fear of being left alone or any other fear

d.lack of confidence on self

e.lack of courage to face the outcome of our decisions

f.fear of challenges and strength to face them

g.ego

What are the factors, attitudes that help us take 'right' decisions?

a.Fearlessness of going wrong

b.Responsibility to take ownership of our decisions

c.Fear of outcome

d.Condition that everything should be smooth and comfortable

e.Confidence on self

f.Being independent

g.Strength to go ahead with 'right' decisions even if be alone 

h.flexibility to adapt as per requirement of the hour

i.humility 

Contd.....

# on taking decisions, regret and remorse, faults of past, ghosts of the past, problems and solutions, miracles, pain and suffering, on lessons of life, success and its ingredients, clarity of thought, everything happens for a reason, life is a teacher, situations of life and their reason to be

previous posts worth visiting : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2019/01/on-moving-forward.html  

and also

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2014/11/on-taking-decisions_17.html 

read the complete post........

Datta jayanthi chanthing

 

Datta jayanthi chanthing

May Gurus blessings be ever on  you all for chanting and being and living in gratitude for all they do for us/you.

As ever I repeat and plead you all who have chanted to share your experiences and observations with all……that will encourage others who are reluctant to do these exercises to do the same….

It will also help others to see and be aware of the same in their lives too….

Many times we take many things for granted. Only when someone points it out do we realize its worth. Your comment may do that job in others life.

Many times we are so obsessed by what we want and how we want that we are blind to many more things and abundance that is happening in our lives. Your comment may do just that….

Share if you care…

And bless you for doing so….

You are not doing any one a favour when you share – understand that. You are only choosing to express that nature in you and that grows in you. Bye and by your Divine nature starts operating out of you and before long your ‘point of operation’ has shifted. And that by itself will bring abundance of various forms in your life. This is the easiest way to share. Money is so difficult for many especially with targets of ‘saving’ always in mind. Atleast start with ‘sharing’ where you don’t’ lose anything for start!

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also read suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=datta+jayanthi 

also read suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=Swamy+Datta+-+The+Ideal+student 

I haven't given the complete link of the above topic....you please go through the entire post and get back with your understanding.....

may you be blessed with your Guru's blessings if you have one and may you meet the right Guru if you don't have one yet......

On reflections – on dog

 Contd....

On reflections – on dog

Let's do a small exercise : Just for this week, let’s do a small exercise. Pick a person whom you dislike or who irritates you. Enough of saying ‘he/she did this OR didn’t do this etc etc’.

Just for this one week – daily note down 3 good or nice things ‘this special person does in your life. It can be their attitude or habit/s that you noticed – something like the way they clean, plan, arrange things etc.

It can be how they treat say a worker or someone. It can be how they wash cup/plate immediately after using it. It can be as simple as all this. 

At the end of the week, sit and go through your week.

Next, go through your state of mind the whole week.

Next, see if there is any change in your atmosphere at home/office wherever you have applied it and have you seen any changes?

Last but not the least - share it with others....

Concluded.....

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# emptiness, beingness, preferences, being detached, likes and dislikes, raag dwesha, freedom, choices, happiness, bondage, expectations, conditions, attachments, 

also read if you please : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2009/05/maya.html 

read to know what attachments means and what it does to us?

How is attachment running your life?

How is it making you suffer?

How and what are you going to do about it?

think......

On reflections – on dog

 

Contd....

On reflections – on dog

One who loses his preference from his perspective will sooner reach ‘his heaven’ – right here in this world!!!

Both reflect our ‘choice’. Both are within our reach. This is ‘in our hands’. The one who is bent on ‘waiting for the other’ to fit into his expectations will experience ‘hell’ every single moment of his life!

What are you bound to? Hell or heaven?

Are you creating hell or heaven for others in your life?  Take time to check for these answers.

Your answers and how you deal and what you do with your answer decide your ‘fate for tomorrow or future’.

Are you creating a good one or a one that is going to be painful for you?

Look within! Be aware!

Work on yourself. Have likes but don’t be their slaves.

Work towards your freedom from your likes. Work towards your abundance!

Next – the little (dog!) didn’t work to please me. It wasn’t even aware of my existence. And yet, it gave me happiness, joy and let me experience love! What a beautiful moment that was!!!

Can’t we be like that dog? Just be ‘being’ who we are, can’t we become reason for someone’s joy and happiness?

Can we relieve someone of their pain with our mere existence? Can we become reason for people to experience ‘love’ in our presence? If a small dog can, why can’t we?

The day this happens, then you’ve become ‘a miracle’ unto yourself. The day you start working towards this end as your goal, you are seeding seeds of happiness and abundance for your future. The day you see this as ‘worth striving’ for you are walking towards your heaven.

If there is any ‘but maam..’ even now, know that to be ‘an empty boat’!

Beware!

Contd....

# emptiness, beingness, preferences, being detached, likes and dislikes, raag dwesha, freedom, choices, happiness, bondage, expectations, conditions, attachments, 

also read if you please on this subject : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=Me%2C+my+Guru+%E2%80%93+On+ways+to+hurt+others%21 

for any questions unanswered check the above link....