on legacy!

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On legacy!

Dear ones, I’ve said million times and yet I repeat – once again – “One is not great or spiritual because he performs miracles. One performs miracles because he is great!”

There is a difference. Read it 100 times but get the meaning straight. Let me put it a bit differently. “All people who perform miracles are not great or spiritual but great people can perform miracles. I said they can perform miracles not need to perform miracles. So some great person may choose not to perform miracles too but that doesn’t mean he is not great!”

And ‘great’ one is not because of miracles but because of his character or qualities of his nature which reflect one or few of qualities of the Divine. Like say

Jesus – forgiveness and love (not because he could heal or perform miracles)

Buddha – for his love for animals, trees and being balanced

Paramacharya – for showing no leniency towards self and working towards developing qualities that are required to develop purity of character in a person – say self-restraint etc

Paramahamsa – his highest levels of concentration that was the basis of his being successful in experiencing God through every path or devotion.

Purity, honesty, being truthful, self-restraint, being above any or many vices like anger, greed, judging etc are some of the qualities that reflect the ‘divinity’ through these personalities. That is what makes them ‘great’. Not their powers or abilities to perform such acts make them great!

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https://kantipadam.blogspot.in/search?q=attitudes

On gratitude and trust!

 

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On gratitude and trust!

We talk about having trust and yet one small incident that is not pleasing to us and we are angry and shout “Why is Reiki giving me this inspite of doing sadhan?”

When there is ‘Trust’ not just in word and as word but as a state of mind, it makes miracles happen effortlessly.

Where there is ‘demand’ to have miracles happen in life, we push miracles away from us!

When we think we are ‘entitled’ to miracles and ask “If such things happen to others, why my wish can’t be fulfilled?” OR

“Nothing of this sort of miracle happened ever to me!?”

It happens to everyone and every time. But the complaining mouth and ungrateful heart only finds faults. He cannot see the miracle happening. Even when pointed, he is bound to say “Oh, those small small things happen but this desire….” He thinks he can put Reiki/Guru to work by making them feel worthless and with guilt. NO! It only reflects his attitude of ingratitude. It reflects his demanding nature. It reflects his greed. It reflects who he is and we receive everything in life based on ‘who’ we are and not on what we want! Remember that! So work on who you are instead of what you want and see your path laid up with roses. The one with faith will see roses and the one who is adamant, demanding, selfish will show thorns there!

Now, coming to our Reiki channel - She had faith. Then what did I have when I said ‘see, Reiki arranged you to have such a good senior…?’. Gratitude! Seeing the good in what is happening in our life and being grateful for that is ‘gratitude’.

One should have both gratitude and faith if you want to enjoy this path more and more. It is filled with miracles in every step of our life. But the sight is visible for only those with these attitudes. For others it is filled with questions and accusations like “yes maam, but…..” and “…but why not to me?...”

Your worthiness is based on the qualities and attitudes that you drop and develop. See what you have worth dropping and what you lack which you need to pick. Choose wisely! Develop clarity of thought to make right choices. Otherwise, whole life is lost only in pointing fingers instead of using fingers to count the blessings and miracles! 

concluded..... 

# gratitude, trust, belief, things going right, pleasant and right decisions, 

also read suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=tough+situations 

What did you understand from this post?

Which doubt /question of yours have been addressed?

The right post is one that shakes your belief system and your way of thinking. Did this post do that job? 

Points to ponder :

• Ingratitude and complaining nature has been discussed so many times and it has been told that it is the nature that needs to be left behind. Not because it is bad or sin to own it but because those are the qualities that are detrimental for our well-being - be it materialistic or for our mental peace and well-being. 
• Then what is the nature that causes this ingratitude and complaining nature. Have you thought about it?
• The one big quality is 'the way we condition how our life should be'.
• When we want to control the conditions and quality of our life we expect it to go in a 'very certain' way and any deviation puts us off and we go mad with irritation, stress, anger, disappointment and what not!

Sit in meditation on this and come back with your insights.....experiences and all........

A Wow moment – Miracle of the day nay lifetime – Sighting a brown hawk owl!

 

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A Wow moment – Miracle of the day nay lifetime – Sighting a brown hawk owl!

So, what is the moral of this story?

When we least expect “beauty or a miracle” in our life, it happens. We just can validate it, be available for it and be aware of it to enjoy it.

We can’t control such ‘miracles’ of nature to happen to us or anyone. It happens and then all we can say is “thankyou, thankyou, thankyou”.

Do your duty (here feeding birds) out of love.

Don’t expect anything to come out of it. And when you don’t expect anything, the most beautiful returns are given to you – just like that.

What did I do the entire day because of this?

How did I respond to this incident?

I thanked and felt grateful to the bird!

I was grateful and thanked Reiki for this experience!

I was grateful and thanked God for this experience!

I was grateful for my eyes.

I was grateful for my habit of going to the balcony to feed the birds.

I was grateful for my legs that took me there.

I was grateful for my awareness practice sessions.

I was grateful for my mindfulness practice sessions and meditations. was grateful for my heart for jumping with joy.

I was grateful for having all of you in my life with whom I can share these little bundles of joy in my life.

I was grateful to Mother Nature for all her Creations.

I was thankful to the internet for giving me the name of the bird that I had seen.

I was thankful for my intelligence which made me want to know what I saw.

I was thankful for the understanding that I had due to this rare sighting.

I was thankful to my heart for being filled with gratitude. It didn’t say ‘So what, just one more bird’.

I was thankful to all those who will read this and then later also will share their miracle stories in the blog.

I was thankful for many such miracles.

And being filled with gratitude and thankfulness, I knelt, cried out of happiness and later did Reiki for all the above who were part of this miracle one way or the other!

My day and later couple of days too, were filled with gratitude and happiness. 

Concluded.....

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# miracles of life, miracles, wow moments, living the moment, joys of life, little joys of life, nature, beauty of life, life, mundane routine of life, mindfulness, awareness, available to life and its abundance, 

Revisit old posts to know further on similar topic: https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2021/11/sadhan-for-this-week_01023219776.html 

Question time:

So, what is your take on this post?

Reflections – on seeing His ways!

 

Reflections – on seeing His ways!

I decided to go to a temple in our locality for no good reason. Even if I did ever, that certainly was NEVER the time I would choose to do this ritual. And yet, here I was ready and all, to this temple. 

I saw an old couple looking at the barren road and houses there. I knew immediately that they were searching for some location and I very surely knew it and that they would seek to know that from me. Smiling, I walked the lane, as I approached them, they asked me for directions – as if they knew I was waiting there to direct them. I gave them directions and continued walking toward the temple.

I wanted to share this incident with the following understanding with you:

a.Stop using google apps and ‘ask for directions’ the good old way – at least within the city. (I still do!)

b.The way people respond and reach out to you will touch you!!! The more times this happens, the more your confidence will increase and your fear will decrease. Do it just one day and study yourself on that day. Look at your energy levels.

c.We are social beings. We draw energies when we get connected with our fellow beings.

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# on God, on ways of God, miracles, help coming from various sources, being aware, validation, gratitude, 

also read suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=Me%2C+My+Guru+%E2%80%93+Stories+and+All%21+The+God%21+%2F+God+in+the+temple%21+%2F+The+temple+and+the+God%21

What does the posts in the link given above explain? 

What did you understand from it?

Questions answered: 

• What is intuition?
• Do miracles happen? Have you experienced miracles?
• Why is there an increase in the mental diseases? Why are people getting depressed more often now?
• Why are we feeling low often now-a-days in spite of increase in facilities, comforts and technology?

Points to take from this post:

• To a person who is aware, life is a string of miracles.
• When a person is grateful, aware and full of faith, he sees Reiki/He is working for him 24/7. He then celebrates that knowing. He is joyous and fearless.
• The little choices that we make ALSO MAKE  a difference in our state of mind, mental well-being and happiness. They also make a dent on our confidence and increase our fear within. In this post it is given as an eg. of using GPS....

On Wow moments!

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On Wow moments!

What does this mean? We need to be more aware of our ‘wow moments’ in life from now on! Let’s go to work out our life and its needs. But happiness is right in our back yard. Let’s not forget relishing those moments. Let’s take the energy of joy that we get from living these moments to face the world. We have many challenges day in and day out! Good for us. That gives us purpose and direction in life. Those challenges give us high like nothing when we overcome them. But we need immense strength and enthusiasm to work on these challenges of life. And the best way to build our strength is draw energies from these little ‘wow moments’ of life. 

Don’t negate them with ‘yes maam, I have these moments but….’. But buts and ifs! Just be with them. By negating them you are losing a wonderful way to draw energies from these moments for yourself. You would be much more energetic all through the day if only you were more aware of all these moments! You would be happy as you can be while you chase the things of this world. You wouldn’t feel tired and laid with burden as you fulfill your responsibilities. It may seem farfetched (unbelievable?!) but try sharing at least one wow moment for next one month to come – daily without fail and observe your state of mind during this month….

But as they say, sometimes, a solution to complex problems is actually very simple. So it is this time too!

We wait for Miracles to happen and get disappointed because we define even miracles. And lose out on miracles that happen every minute of our life......

Au revoir……all the best…..

Concluded.....

# simple joys of life, facts of life, abundance, secret of happiness, peace of mind, simplicity and abundance, miracles of life, echo of life, mindfulness, il dolce far niente, 

read previous post to understand what stops us from being happy all the time : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=Abode+of+happiness 

Was this article useful?

Was this exercise of sharing and noticing 'wow moments' useful?

Did you understand the need to make a small shift in our daily acts of observation and validation?

How do you think it will benefit you?

Are you going to put it to use?

When are you going to put it to use?

Share your experiences after few days of practice with us........

WILL YOU SHARE ATLEAST ONE WOW MOMENT FOR NEXT ONE MONTH TO COME.....LET'S MAKE AUGUST (OUR COUNTRIES INDEPENDENCE DAY AND OUR GURUJI'S BIRTHDAY MONTH) A MONTH OF WOW MONTH....NEXT MONTH IS TEACHERS DAY 6TH SEPTEMBER.....SO LET'S CONTINUE TILL SEPT 10TH THE JOURNEY OF WOW MOMENTS......???

A Wow moment – Miracle of the day nay lifetime – Sighting a brown hawk owl!

 

A Wow moment – Miracle of the day nay lifetime – Sighting a brown hawk owl!

It’s been a couple of days since I have seen “a brown hawk owl” on my balcony! And I am not over it yet!

Wow, wow, wow moment!

I put little cooked rice for birds on the balcony daily. That day too I went to do the same. And there, sitting with the most beautiful “yellow coloured” eyes it was staring right into my eyes. It was there for a couple of minutes. And for me, my world came to a standstill there. I didn’t move. I was lost to its beauty! I kept seeing it long after it was gone.

The entire day, I was giggling like a schoolgirl when that incident came to my memory. What a day!

This was the “VERY FIRST TIME” I had seen it in my lifetime.

Owls by and large are not visible during daytime. As you know, it is nocturnal i.e., goes out only at night. So, for that reason, it was a very very very rare incident. Over and above that, owls don’t come near houses or people. That was the second rare occurrence. And my sighting it – in all these years, didn’t and then now…wow!

So, what is the moral of this story?

When we least expect “beauty or a miracle” in our life, it happens. We just can validate it, be available for it and be aware of it to enjoy it.

We can’t control such ‘miracles’ of nature to happen to us or anyone. It happens and then all we can say is “thankyou, thankyou, thankyou”.

Do your duty (here feeding birds) out of love.

Don’t expect anything to come out of it. And when you don’t expect anything, the most beautiful returns are given to you – just like that.

Contd...

# miracles of life, miracles, wow moments, living the moment, joys of life, little joys of life, nature, beauty of life, life, mundane routine of life, mindfulness, awareness, available to life and its abundance, 

Revisit old posts to know further on similar topic: https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2020/07/me-my-guru-on-valuing-and-gratitude.html 

Question time:

So, what are the latest miracles of your life?

How do you relate to nature?

Have you spent time with Nature?

Me, My Guru – On death and healing

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Me, My Guru – On death and healing

                                          

Trembling with fear and almost sure of the consequence he went to the palace of King of Kashi. He chanted the name of ‘Narayana’ in the ears of just born prince of Kashi. To the surprise of everyone present there and Sage Narada, the kid sat up and started talking “Salutations of you, oh Divine Sage Narada!” Thank you for your grace and kind act of reciting Narayana mantra in my ears when I was a worm. I died and was born as butterfly. Again you recited Narayana mantra and I died again to be born as deer. Then I died as deer to be born a calf. I died as calf to be born a human prince. Did you still not understand the power of Narayana mantra? The birth as human is got after 86,000 janmas in various lower life forms. And I got it so effortlessly and so fast, all thanks to you”.

Narada was stunned beyond words. With tears rolling down his cheeks he ran towards Vaikuntam – the abode of Krishna. He fell on his feet and thanked him for the experience and for giving him a life that could recite the sweet name of Narayana so many times” she concluded with a smile.

There was silence that we wanted to drink.

“Does that mean people are dying because we are chanting?” asked Vaishnav.

We all laughed. Some people asked doubts that only reflect their stupidity. Person’s understanding capacity reflect in his questions clearly. And his perception, in his complaints! 

How stupid we all were to think we can hide our ‘real self’ for long! No! it came out in such instances. Here we could see his level of understanding or should I say misunderstanding? But then, so did others see ours which we were not aware of in such situations and questions. Isn’t it?

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# miracles, healing and its effect, prayers answered, death and healing, expectations from healing and prayers,

also read previous posts : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=seventy+feet+high 

(This is one of my personal favourites as it is simple, short and yet profound story on faith. If understood in all its layers it can be applied every where in our life and lo! our life becomes one hell of 'happening, beautiful, purposeful and joyful'. If understood is the condition though - not if argued....)

Points to be understood :

• Isn't it funny that being a speck we wish to gauge the greatness of the Ocean?
• To correct a 10th class paper don't I at least need to have passed 10th class? And logic says I should be more than a just 10th class holder to correct that paper...isn't it?
• So, by telling Universe, Reiki and God how to run my this world am I saying I know more than HIM?
• If I know more about my needs and about myself and God doesn't know anything better then why go to Him at all? 
• Not knowing that we don't know is the biggest curse of our life!

Questions answered : You tell me what questions of yours have been answered here?

Life Facts :

Yesterday, I made vadiyalu (Indian fryums) ....i was sweating thanks to the hot sun and the heat which is unbearable.........but i wasn't complaining.....today i didn't do anything and I was making comments on the heat and the unbearable aspect of 'this summer'.

It was then that someone reminded that yesterday I was under sun for so long and then in front of the gas burner making vadiyalu and i wasn't complaining. Today I was sitting under the fan and complaining non-stop. They laughed at me!

It was then it stuck me. When we are otherwise engaged in some activity which is dear to us, the facts of life don't have an effect on us (here it being sun and heat). But when we have free time, our mind goes on a 'joy trip of self-pity, fault finding, suffering and complaining'.

Situation was not the cause of my complaint or suffering. I didn't have a 'valid purpose' in my life and so i looked for it in all and sundry. And since I didn't know to love all that was in my life or all that i could do, i ended up crying about 'something' that was missing in life. 

Now I hated this summer and its heat more than ever for giving me this realization. It took away my reason to complain. 

on legacy!

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On legacy!

Then why does ‘Divinity’ only shine through them? Why they are called “Divine Incarnations” or Gods child and not us? Are we not children of the same God? Then, why this difference?

Yes, both Ravana and Gandhi are children of same God. Yet inspite of having greater abilities, knowledge, strength and achievements in life, Ravana is not called great, whereas Gandhiji is. He, Gandhi was a simple mortal living in rags but his simplicity and conviction on non-violence shook the British Empire by unifying this great nation like never before. The world just watched the power of love win over hatred and military regime. His simple smile and purity of intent was the seed of miracle that the world witnessed. He let the quality of ‘love’ and ‘non-violence’ of the Divine shine through him like no one before. So, he became Mahatma. Many countries regained their independence but no where the leader who was instrumental in gaining independence to that nation became ‘Mahatma’.

Take anybody’s character. It is the same way they let some Divine quality express through them. So, you too can develop these qualities and raise to their levels of ‘greatness’ and you too can perform the little miracles that they performed (I am calling them little because when quality of character is developed powers to perform these miracles come automatically and incidental to few of the qualities and then these miracles look very little like as kid lifting a chair is great but as an adult it is common like-wise). The necklace that I buy and the million worth slippers (I saw a business tycoon’s daughter wear a sandals worth a crore) are both mine. Yet I wouldn’t wear my slipper around my neck. Would I? (I can and then you know what to call me....) both being mine and expensive, I would treat them differently. Why? Similarly both Ravana and Rama being His, God would treat them differently for the qualities that they choose to express! So you see Divine Incarnations are not what they are because of their abilities – but they are so for the choices that they made over the time and the qualities of character that they developed over the period of time!

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https://kantipadam.blogspot.in/search?q=divinity

on legacy!

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On legacy!

Now what do you leave behind? Your ‘good deeds, noble thoughts, inspiring words, acts of empathy’ that’s touched or changed the way someone thinks, feels – well that would be the ‘real legacy’. We each may not become (we all can but choose not to) Jesus or Mother Theresa but we can certainly make few positive effects in the society in our own little ways.

Just close your eyes and go back on your lineage. You may not go behind your great grand father. But Bhishma who didn’t marry, to him every Indian gives tarpanam (an act of leaving water which is religious in nature but which symbolises our show of gratitude to that great soul who worked for the well-being of Bharatavarsha (India as it was called in Vedic times). We thank our Gurus be it Guru Nanak, Jesus, Shankaracharya who left their mortal bodies centuries ago – why? Because we owe our understanding, knowledge to these spiritual beings who kept the beckon of ‘spiritual light’ glowing in this land of ‘wisdom and spirituality’ since aeons.

Why do we chant the names of these great personalities – be it Rama, Paramahamsa, Paramacharya, Ajmer Baba and like? Because of their achievements? No! Not even because of the miracles that they performed. It is the people at lowest level who admire, fall at feet and think that people who perform “miracles are great” – NO!

These are the same people who talk highly of others as “He is great, he knows telepathy or he scanned the whereabouts of his dog” but if his own family member does any of these things and that too on daily basis, then they just brush it aside with “Oh, ok” and then very conveniently forget these incidents too so that they can go ahead and judge them their way. They are afraid that if they accept that their family member also does these ‘miracles’ then they would have to stop treating (read as ill-treating) them the present way.

All this nonsense could be put to rest if only our definition of ‘great’ person was right.

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https://kantipadam.blogspot.in/search?q=positive+effect

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’.

Contd....

# 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

on owning up!

 

The Mystic says - on owing up!

Every body seems to know how the other person is supposed to behave.

But no body has courage to own up their own nature, attitudes, actions, truths, character, reality!

And because of this every one pays the price of losing the 'right person' who wishes right for you. They hold on to wrong memory, emotion and psychic impressions in the name of painting others' character!!?? 

What an irony!

And that is the how 'karma' comes into play in their lives.........

# karma, mystic says, quotes and sayings, 

also read suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=The+stinking+frog 

Questions addressed :

• "But he is a parent/brother/guru/manager etc...how can he talk/behave like that?"
• "But is not master/parent supposed to behave like this?"

Points to be understood :

• Do a small work on yourself. Sit in meditation and ask "If I expect patience from the other person because of his station in life as parent/guru/God/brother etc, do I exhibit the same in similar situation in my life as a parent/brother/co-worker?"

Pointer to help you think :

When people come late and I look at watch or ask them "what time did I tell the class was?", the immediate reaction and statement is "I knew you would shout maam, but I had X/Y /Z reason for being late. Everyone told me previously that maam was very strict and that we should be very careful with her. I didn't believe that maam. They were true. That's why people are afraid of you maam"

Look at the response closely. Read it more than couple of times. Seems very familiar - isn't it?

Now coming to this situation. YOU CAME LATE! YOU ARE WRONG. WHEN A TIME IS GIVEN, IT IS EVERY ONE'S DUTY TO COME ON TIME. THE ONE WHO HAS COME LATE IS ACTUALLY TELLING 'MY TIME AND OTHER WORKS ARE IMPORTANT' AND YOUR TIME IS NOT. 

Isn't it? Sit in meditation and look within yourself. Look at yourself. And yet your answer projects a 'bad me'.

You use the word 'strict' as if it is a 'bad nature or word'. I am punctual and value time. It is good and right attitude. But, the accusation is on me saying you are 'strict'. Look within! Question your words, your emotions then, your anger and where it is coming from. 

You are wrong and I am blamed for being strict. That is your attitude, nature and karma. And what results you expect from such line of thought and actions? No good will come from such nature and principles. And then  you ask 'why good people suffer maam?' assuming yourself to be good here.......what an irony?

Those who understand this simple example will know the areas that needs to be addressed. It looks small but those who are going to meditate and then heal it will find results which they would term as miracles.

and others who rest on their logical mind to understand neither will sit in meditation nor will heal themselves of this twisted way of thinking. And then complain "But maam, why such miracles don't happen in my life?"

If you understand this post, major part of your healing can be addressed.

If you are open to this post, you'll find answers to so many of your issues.

If you are applying this post to yourself and work on yourself, then miracles will come your way!