Start living today

Start living today……..

“I have to stop living in the dream world….”

How many times a day I need to say this to myself? How much time and energy I invest in getting irritated, angry, disappointed, frustrated, cheated and what not because I am not having things that makes my life, dream good?

I am always running away from fixing things of the present.

I am not living with or utilizing things that I already have in life.  If I don’t live NOW with things and people I already have in life, how can I live with people/things I will get in future?

I am taking people/things that are there with me now for granted.

And hence their ‘value’ is not appreciated, validated and I am not grateful for them.

I am always chasing things/people that I ‘still’ need to fill my life with!

I consider myself ‘empty’ now and strongly believe it would be so without my present list of things/people that I want!

It had been so as a kid/ as a teenager/ adult/ 10 years ago and now! I’ve always wanted to have things/people that I’ve been chasing.

And when and if I got them (wish/desire being fulfilled) I did not want them as

·        I said/felt I got much later in life

·        I’ve outgrown that phase/toy in life

·      Things/people didn’t behave the way I desired. Example: Job had colleagues/ commuting/ profile/ boss/ less salary problems and what not. I always suffered the job that I so desired! 


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# living in the moment, mindfulness, life, living, happiness, pain and suffering, anger, desires, owing and enjoying, 

Posts old also on this topic : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=living+in+the+moment 

Food for thought : 

Good to work for achieving in life. 

Better it is that we have desires to amass wealth and all that it buys. 

But is all our work and energy for only buying and amassing? What do we plan to do with all that we purchased and have if not to use them or enjoy them? Are we planning to use them or postponing using them?

Do we take time to enjoy the little joys of life?

Are we living life, experiencing it or only taking it as 'to do list' that needs to be ticked at all costs?

Some work: 

If you had to describe yourself in a word or a sentence what would it be? (It can be in any language that you are comfortable in...)

Be careful about losing weight. Don't lose too much in short time too....it can be unhealthy.....check it and be safe.....

mothers-to be and new moms don't take this challenge........just do exercise - the safe ones and get healthy......

what you chose decides where you go!

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I’ve given couple of personal examples and you could learn from Swami’s speech how he had been cheated, insulted, called names, tortured (by people known by him too!) and what not!

Did it stop him from going ahead and completing the task for which he had set forth? No doubt, he had few well-wishers too. But people who gave him trouble were no less either. And all to a Great Soul who went on to spread the Universal Truths of our Land in the world and who was doing it in exchange for nothing. He was not a ‘personality development Guru’ or a ‘marketeer’ of some institution. He was a simple monk who went to give out precious gems to one and all in exchange for ‘nothing for him’. It was his immense Love that made such huge sacrifices and yet what was it that he received?

I can quote from scriptures but you would say “oh, Krishna/Rama was God, so they could withstand that…” and blah, blah, blah. Be it my personal experiences, Swamiji’s or Rama or Krishna. Moral is same. For every person there will be 10 telling he is bad or wrong. There will be people who’ll not return love in exchange for love. Nay, on the contrary they hate to the extent of working towards his downfall. There will be people who’ll always put hurdles in your way and use every means to stop you from reaching your goal or realizing your dream. That is the fact of life. Such things and people will exist and operate as long as this world exists. We should learn to accept and live with it. Now the big question is how? How do we live with such people and situations? By breaking down, stop doing what is right (like talking about our Guru or chasing our dream or going for what we want) or stooping down to their level and give out anger, hatred et such emotions in return to their negative attitude and behavior? You and only you can decide how to react in such situations. Crying, being depressed, getting angry, going into shell, living in fear etc are the ways you have said you are behaving and living. I am not here to support you here nor am I to condemn such of your actions. I am here to show you a better possibility of action and I’ve given few examples to illustrate that too!

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Sadhan on sunsets

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Sadhan on sunsets

What was this exercise about?

It was not about the benefits as ‘assumed’ by some of you.

But can there be any exercise without any benefit in it? Certainly not!

So, this exercise was not just about watching sunset. It was being available to Sun set during sunset. Sun rises and Sun sets – daily. But the big question is ‘are we available to that?’ We have various reasons to miss it. But Sun doesn’t stop or delay setting because of our ‘absence’ during its setting. Isn’t it? It happens come what may. Many times, like this past one week, it being cloudy, we couldn’t even see the Sun. And yet – it did set at the appointed time. It plays its part as per ‘His order’ – no excuses whatsoever!

Every natural event happens similarly. They follow ‘His order’ and just keep moving as per their schedule. Look at all the stars, celestial bodies. Look at elements on Earth. They don’t forgo their nature. Everything moves and happens on ‘His command’.

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# sunsets and sunrises, on little joys of life, miracles of life, wow moments, everything happens for good, abundance, life as it is, awareness, mindfulness, being available to the miracles of life, happiness, state of mind, 

also read previous post : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=i+have+to+stop+living+in+a+dream+world 

Pointers to this post :

Watching sun set would have surely benefited but not able to also has its own fulfillment to those who were available to this exercise....read the given link to understand how we get something better when we heal but we term it as 'bad' because of our 'not being able to understand beyond time and space'. Because we can't see beyond time, we label something 'good' also as 'bad' in our ignorance and suffer what actually is good for us! what a pity!

read related previous post to understand how healing or any exercise of healing works miracles  : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=me%2C+my+guru+-+on+death+and+healing