Mastering the Nature!

 

Mastering the Nature!

The ultimate dream of everyone is to be “ALL POWERFUL”.

And today, let’s see the path that takes us towards being “all powerful” one day!

Being ‘all powerful’ means being the Masters of the phenomena of Nature.

Everything in the World has to feel puny in front of the fury of the Nature.

Imagine, we can master such “A Nature”??!!

Wow – that is everything and be all!

And Swami Vivekananda says “The whole universe is a mass of change. But there is One who never changes, and that is God; and the nearer we get to Him, the less will be the change for us, the less will nature be able to work on us; and when we reach Him and stand with Him, we shall conquer nature, we shall be masters of these phenomena of nature, and they will have no effect on us”

If you can’t believe then look at Jesus Christ – he woke up from death! That is having control over the nature.

Many such are examples that our various Gurus have shown us. Share if you know any of such examples.

But, above all, every healing that you do to overcome your weakness, exhibit your divine nature, connect with your soul takes you nearer to Him and in that lies your secret to overcome your fate slowly and steadily – bye and by.

So stop not till you reach your desired goal!

Keep working on yourself!

Keep doing sadhan!

Develop clarity of thought, patience, trust and faith with healing!

Grow fearless day by day!

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# freedom, awareness, beingness, nirvana, mindfulness, know self, enlightenment, buddhahood, godhood, consciousness, 

also revisit old post on the same https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2017/02/indian-mythology-advaitha-on.html    

Sadhan for this week

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Sadhan for this week

Once you decide to do something you develop qualities to channelize your energies and intelligence in making your wish into reality. You develop discipline, will-power, commitment and strength.

Every time we miss out on fulfilling a commitment, we fall in our own eyes. Our self-worth falls down. We become lazy, manipulative, expert with and in giving excuses and lies. In short, we move away from our ‘Essence’.

Every situation in life is there ONLY to let us strengthen our inner nature. If we give in to laziness, carelessness or whatever, we develop and strengthen our ‘tamasic’ nature. That in turn develops our ‘asuric self’.

If we decide to just follow orders we develop ‘daivic qualities’ (divine qualities) like discipline, being active, cheerfulness, enthusiasm, self-satisfaction and self-worth/esteem.

We write our fate with our every single choice. Every time, you take it casually to make or develop your ‘divine nature’, you are giving energy to your asuric nature. And that over time becomes your nature. That nature reflects in your attitude. Attitude decides our character. And that character is the basis of our fate.

One who is alert every single minute is the one who develops essential divine qualities like commitment, sacrifice, obedience, will-power, purity, steadfastness, courage and self-control.

Sadhan such as these apart from having their own value and benefit also effects all on all these ways....

know this and choose wisely.....whatever be your choice know and accept the repercussions of your choice to be your own doing....

may your Guru guide you right in choosing right over pleasant....

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# sadhan and its effect, regularity of sadhan, divine and asuric qualities, character and destiny, destiny, attitudes, choices and their effect, 

 

Me, My Guru – Virochana and Indra

 

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Me, My Guru – Virochana and Indra

Similarly, people who want instant gratification and instant results are strengthening their asuric nature. By developing these qualities in us we develop ‘asura’ within us. We strengthen the ‘asura’ within us.

Look at Indra. He doesn’t stop at answers that ‘pleases’ him and questions his understanding. Indra knew that any answer that indicates or facilitates only comfort wouldn’t be the ‘right answer’. He searched for the ‘right answer’.  He is ever ready to look within. He doesn’t want to compromise till he has found the complete ‘Truth’. He is not ready to go easy in learning and stop learning, questioning in between.

He is ready to sacrifice ’32 years’ to know further. Patience is a ‘daivic nature’. Any ‘real learning’ needs time. Instant learning, easy learning, or quick learning reflects ‘no learning’.

At every stage, when Indra is asked to stay back for 32 more years, he agrees without batting his eyes. He doesn’t demand an explanation from his Guru in the guise of asking for clarification as “Why didn’t you tell at the beginning itself that there were stages and each would take 32 years to finish? At least in the future tell other students so that they are not kept in dark”.

He didn’t think he was entitled to the Knowledge that his Guru had. He didn’t assume he had the right to take all as and when and how he pleased.

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# me, my guru stories, Indra and Virochana, asura and deva, asuric nature, daivic nature, karma, illusion, ego, body consciousness and soul consciousness, reality, The Truth, maya, meditation, knowing self, Self, Ultimate knowledge, awareness, mindfulness, 

read related posts https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=The+mystic+says+%E2%80%93+On+waiting%21  

Pointers to understand this post:

" Similarly, people who want instant gratification and instant results are strengthening their asuric nature. " - Being impatient is an asuric nature. Look at yourself as you go through your day. If this quality is found, take time to sit and understand the root of this impatience. Work on it. Counter it with patience.

" At every stage, when Indra is asked to stay back for 32 more years, he agrees without batting his eyes. " Patience is a Godly virtue. Have patience to do sadhan. Have patience to wait for results. Lord Indra is ready to stay 32 years every single time his Guru asks him to. And people are ever asking for NEW TECHNIQUES  to come for class! What a pity!! No one till date have I seen who has understood any single technique through practice and experience. 

Don't keep going from one master to the other!

Don't keep going from one class to the other!

Don't keep jumping from modality of healing to the other!

Pick up one. Stick with one and then give your all to it - then see how it transforms you and your life!

" He didn’t think he was entitled to the Knowledge that his Guru had. " - Guru's knowledge is for one and all! And yet, no one receives it by DEMANDING IT! Unfortunately, now due to 'shopkeeping of classes' everyone assumes, he can get 'all knowledge' in a limited time. Know-how can be learned for some money. But Knowledge should be EARNED! Develop eligibility for that! Don't assume you deserve it! 

When one is angry when he is not given some knowledge that is the sign that he does not deserve it and yet assumes he has right!

" He didn’t assume he had the right to take all as and when and how he pleased. " - People who THINK AND ASSUME they can come and learn at their convenience are walking the wrong path. 

Very important quality that is needed for growth in spiritual line is "wait to be called by the Guru". 

One who leaves everything and rushes to attend that call already has the most important ingredient for growth - the right attitude and that by itself becomes his "Rama raksha". It becomes his key to abundance - both in receiving grace and in speeding his growth! 

Affection and courage!

 

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Affection and courage!

Then what stops us from being courageous and affectionate?

Our demonic nature!

And what is the basis of that demonic nature?

Our Ego and arrogance!

How to know we are operating out of our demonic nature? How to know we are not ‘humane’ enough?

Look at/for these qualities and know you are operating from demonic nature –

·       When you see you hardly have friends 

·       Fault finding in others instead of finding good in them

·       When you find it difficult to make friends

·       Wherever you go you feel marginalized

·       Feelings of self-pity, jealousy and anger seem to express more in you than feelings of gratitude, affection and happiness!

·       When you are counting all that’s wrong or lacking in your life rather than what is great about it.

·       When good news in others life brings pain within

·       When you are not happy when you listen about good happening in others’ life

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# affection and courage, on relationships, hatred, gratitude, purity, on valuing others and their deeds, love, 

also read suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2009/04/and-first-flip-happened.html 

Both the divine and the demon are within me. My every choice strengthens either the divine or the demon in me depending on the 'attitude' that I strengthen!

Using 'mind' or 'intelligence' (vivek) to make choices that push us towards our hell reflect our demonic nature. This reflects our ego. At this phase our ego controls us and it is becoming stronger day by day in us through us!

But when we use the same mind and vivek to make choices that brings out our 'Greatness' we shine forth with our 'Divine nature'. That is when we feel 'good' and 'pure'. Here we are using our ego to identify with the soul and thereby experience what is called 'blissful' and fearless existence. 

And all these are explained in the link given above....

Me, my Guru – on Valuing and gratitude

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Me, my Guru – on Valuing and gratitude

But, most of us held to our nature with die-hard fervor. We paid price of our adamant nature. That way we became curse unto ourselves. And the day we were open to express our higher nature, we became blessing unto ourselves. Our limited understanding was our curse and yet we held on to it saying and giving all sorts of illogical statements.

No doubt, Rahul, Aziz and their types benefited as they did and we still lived with our pain and suffering. And we thought it was because she wasn’t treating us in a special way and giving us as she was giving them!?

It took these many years of suffering on my part to understand this. And yet, I stuck to my ‘twisted logic’ that justified my ‘nature and attitude’ which was stopping abundance from coming into my life.

“If and when you understand this story completely and correctly you’ll be relieved of your fear. The day you apply your understanding in life, you’ll attract all sort of abundance that you seek in your life. So listen carefully and with an open mind!” Our Gurus these words woke us all from our slumber and we sat up attentively. We always desired things of this world and that was the only reason. We came here since years. We would use ‘special words’ like ‘moksha, enlightenment’ etc to flatter her, but our agenda was simple and straight. Things of this world served to us on a platter – the way we wanted and on the time we wanted it!

“In a certain place a Master had an ashram filled with his students staying with him there since years. Master would ‘talk’ on certain days of the week from 10am to 1pm and then on other days from 2pm to 5pm. Not only his students but the villagers too were allowed to attend these sessions.

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(TIP TO UNDERSTAND THIS STORY : Even names in this (like all stories i write) have a meaning and purpose. Even they say something important. )

Every post of this story (and every other story or post) has something to take home and apply....the question is are you only looking at the complete picture and missing out scores of pointers at what to be healed, why to be healed, how certain attitudes/nature stop abundance in our life.......

# gratitude, on value, validating, clarity of thought, purity, manipulation

also read : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=swami+gnanatheerth + 

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-real-student_11.html 

read the given link to understand the real nature of 'validating what one has received'

Today's miracle : Seeing lots of butterflies of late. They are of various colours and sizes. Orange, black, white, blue wow! For the past decade or more they had become sort of redundant. Did you know that butterflies are essential for the existence of human beings and if they don't exist then our life is at stake?

The lifespan of most of the butterflies is very short - as short as just a day. And yet how beautiful and colourful are they? How they make themselves useful for the world they inhabit just for a day? 

Question for the day : When an insect can be leading such a useful and purposeful life though it be for a day, can every man say the same of himself and his life which spans over decades?

Me, my Guru On Buddha and sweets

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Me, my Guru On Buddha and sweets

She came after 7 days. She bowed to ‘The Great One’ and pleaded again “Great One, please ask my son to stop eating sweets”. 

Buddha looked lovingly at the boy and said “Don’t eat so much of sweets. They are no good. Listen to your mother”.

The boy looked at Buddha, bowed to him and replied “So be it Master”.

The mother was overjoyed, hugged her son, bowed thanking the Great one and left relieved.

Ananda, Buddha’s student found this odd! He asked “Master, you could’ve said those lines the first time that mother had come. Why did you make her come 2 more times?”

Buddha replied with a smile “Because, when she had come the first time, I myself was addicted to sweets. How could I, lover of sweets ask the young lad to not eat them? I thought I could outgrow my love for sweets in one week. So, I asked her to come after a week. In this one week I didn’t eat sweets, but the thought of sweets still lingered in my mind. So, I didn’t and couldn’t ask that boy not to eat sweets when my mind was set on it! This week I worked on my mind. Now, I don’t have even a thought or desire for sweet in me. So, I told that boy not to eat sweet”.

Ananda was both pleased and surprised with his Master’s honesty.

So you see for that honesty to shine forth through one’s character, one has to know one’s inner most desires, thoughts and feelings at every point of time.

And to be honest, one should stop justifying one’s emotions. Only then can we see ‘who we truly are!’ Anybody can parrot ‘words’ heard couple of times, but it is the centre from which it is said that gives ‘energy’ to those words” our Guruji concluded.

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# on giving and receiving advice, honesty, character, integrity of character, imitation and real, levels of honesty

also read to understand what defines our perception and our desire   :  https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=hence+Ravana+saw+%E2%80%98object+of+desire%E2%80%99+

Points to consider : 

• Person who is honest with himself doesn't hide his true nature with himself. He doesn't justify his nature with reasoning. In fact he uses reasoning to address his nature, desire, attitudes and then heals them. He uses reasoning to transform himself.
• Any reasoning used to 'be stuck with our personality' is the breeding ground of our 'demonic character'.
• Demonic character is the cause of pain and suffering in our life.
• Demonic character is not our 'Real Nature'. It is acquired and desired by us for its utility. We find 'demonic pleasure' worth pursuing and hence log on to it.
• Every one's real nature is always 'DIVINE'. 

Question to be addressed : 

• Why did boy listen to what Buddha said him to do?
• Does the centre from which one gives advice make a difference in the impact it has on the receiver?
• How can we use every situation to outgrow our weakness every time we come face to face with it?

Me, My Guru – Virochana and Indra

 

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Me, My Guru – Virochana and Indra

He respected his Guru’s discretion in teaching. He didn’t see it as wrong and called it as his Guru trying to withhold Knowledge at every step. He didn’t blame his Guru as being egoistic, manipulative and demanding with his students. His humility (real one, not the pretended humility as many) was the essential quality that made him eligible to come for the next level of learning.

Indra had gratitude. Respect is imperative in gratitude. Loose talking and then covering it with statements like “Oh, did I say so, I don’t remember” or “I didn’t mean to insult you but, maybe because I don’t know how to express right or I am not as good as you in giving justifications, maybe it came out wrong. But, I know I was not wrong, but still forgive me if you think I am wrong because I don’t want your anger to stop me from having my desire fulfilled”.

Such talks and mentality reveal the person’s level of consciousness – that of body conscious and so asuric in nature. It reflects Virochana’s belief that things in this world mean everything. Such people want instant gratification of their desires. And when there is a delay, it is expressed as anger. They feel entitled to receive the fulfillment of their desires.

Indra worked to know the “self”. He was ready to wait ‘to learn about Self” which was desire. To work for, to wait for the fulfillment of one’s desire, to sacrifice, time, joys and pleasures of one’s life is an essential quality of Daivic nature.

In contrast, Virochana was not only pleased with the answer but also went to taint others with his limited and crooked understanding. The entire tribe lived with that ‘limited understanding’ and suffered the pangs of greed, selfishness, jealousy, lust, impatience and arrogance. People who want to become masters at the earliest leading others with ignorance come under this category.

Like a fly that gets attracted to the lamp to meet its end, students whose karma is destined towards their annihilation get attracted towards such masters. https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2019/01/on-dependence.html

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# me, my guru stories, Indra and Virochana, asura and deva, asuric nature, daivic nature, karma, illusion, ego, body consciousness and soul consciousness, reality, The Truth, maya, meditation, knowing self, Self, Ultimate knowledge, awareness, mindfulness, 

read related posts https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2022/11/me-my-guru-on-including-sadhan-in-daily.html 

Pointers to understand this post:

" He didn’t blame his Guru as being egoistic, manipulative and demanding with his students. His humility (real one, not the pretended humility as many) was the essential quality that made him eligible to come for the next level of learning. " - How can you learn right and in full if you have complaints and anger for the person from whom you need to learn?

If you think any person is jealous of you and is stopping your growth, trust me, leave that person!

If you are right, he is not someone who can benefit you!

If it is your assumption based on your jealousy and anger, then you will not be able to learn anything from him!

Either way, you will not learn from him! 

Go elsewhere to learn!!!

The essential quality to learn and grow spiritually is trust in your master/Guru and belief he has your best interest in mind!

" Indra had gratitude. Respect is imperative in gratitude. Loose talking and then covering it with statements like ..." - RESPECT is the basis of gratitude. Talking loosely about the other's intention both in person or behind him states that we don't have belief in him and we don't respect him. There gratitude is just a word!

" Indra worked to know the “self”. He was ready to wait ‘to learn about Self” which was desire. To work for, to wait for the fulfillment of one’s desire, to sacrifice, time, joys and pleasures of one’s life is an essential quality of Daivic nature. " -  Guru knows more than you!

If the Guru thinks you don't deserve something NOW, then you need to accept that!

Wait and be in sadhan!

If and when you become eligible, your Guru will give what you deserve, not when you demand it!

" In contrast, Virochana was not only pleased with the answer but also went to taint others with his limited and crooked understanding. The entire tribe lived with that ‘limited understanding’ and suffered the pangs of greed, selfishness, jealousy, lust, impatience and arrogance. " - Spirituality has become the most 'becoming commodity' in this yuga!

Thanks to Kali, every person charades as a Guru!

Everyone wants to be a Guru!

Everyone wants respect that comes with being Guru!

And therein lies the cause of their 'soul's downfall'. Don't fall for it! Beware of it!

Guru or master is one who bears the fruits (in exponential way) of the wrongs committed by his students too, not to talk about his own flaws and wrongs!

Any wrong that he teaches falls into his 'karma account'. Be aware of that!

This is no jaywalk!

This is not the path for everyone!

Work on self only till the right time comes!

Don't burden yourself with extra baggage of this karma too!

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! 

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# 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........