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Once you meditate and understand this, you’ll understand the nature of desire. The Ego survives because of our desires. So it keeps generating desires one after the other. The story never ends.

But if we take a pause and meditate, we’ll see how our emotions make us run from here to there – driving us crazy.

Then in that state of understanding when we surrender our desire to Reiki or God, then, we know that “whatever happens, happens for our good”.

We’ll not use ‘our stupid logic’ and pose questions like “But this happens in everyone’s life know?”

OR

“But everyone is happy…”

“We’ll not play a ‘victim-card’ to project ourselves as ‘poor baby’.

We’ll stop all these childish games.

And in that wait which is full of faith and trust – not hope of fulfillment, a certain miracle happens. The doors of abundance opens. This necessarily doesn’t mean our desire is fulfilled though. In each one’s life, the abundance and miracle take a different hue. It all depends on his soul agenda, journey, karma, worthiness and need of the hour.

Then, the sadhak doesn’t see the storm that is in his life – he sees the “rainbow” – the miracle as promised by Reiki or God!

Surrender is a big thing! It is not a word as you say or think. It takes janmas to understand it right and apply it.

Many use it to avoid playing their part in the happenings of their life. They are weak ones. They are escapists. Surrender is not that also!

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# surrender, faith, trust, belief, doubt, suffering, waiting, attitude, calm mind, mindfulness, being still, let miracle work through you, being his vessel,

also read suggested further on this topic https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2009/05/faith.html 

read the link to understand what faith is made of.........

On belief and Trust!

 

On belief and Trust!

Belief doesn’t mean “He has to fulfill my wish!”

Belief means “Whatever happens to me, with me it is for my good ONLY. Because, in it is His wish!

If I lose, I accept! Not because I lack ability, not because, I like losing, not because I don’t like to win. No!

I love to win!

I hate to lose!

And I have ability to win too! Yet, if I am losing inspite of giving my 100%, then HE wishes I lose. And that lose is acceptable to me. Because, I believe He loves me. I believe His love wants ONLY the right thing for me.

I believe HE SEES something good in losing too!

So, I accept losing. As I see it as His Prasada!

Because, I BELIEVE in HIM!”

This is the ‘Belief’ that Arjuna had in Krishna!

Do we have this belief?

Why? 

Think about it.........

# surrender, belief, His will, my desires, 

also read suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=Let+his+will+be+mine+-+sufi+saint 

read the above link to read a simple story explaining the 'surrender'

read it to understand what it means to surrender...

Pointers in this post : 

* And I have ability to win too! - This is to stress that surrender doesn't mean we sit idle and expect someone else to do the job for us! No one is waiting on us here to do such jobs! We have to do exercise, eat right, live right, get exposed to Sun to receive vit D - inspite of doing everything if we fall sick then in that is His will!

By eating and drinking to our hearts content and at Times when even cock sleeps, if we fall sick, in that His will is not included.......it is purely our KARMA!

Don't misunderstand the 'right sentence' or interpret it with logic and think you have been cheated by God/Universe/Reiki/Guru.......

meditate on these things to get clarity of thought.....

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Our Guru smiled and shared this beautiful, small yet profound anecdote with us.

“In a certain lived two neighbours. The drainage of one house-holder was going through the compound of the other house-holder. One insisted stoppage of the drainage and the other refused to do so. An arbitration was arranged. Arbiters were appointed. It was accepted that both would abide by the judgement of the board. Both agreed.

Then one refused to close his drains or change its course. He was adamant. Now the board was confused. Were they not selected to make a decision? But still, one wasn’t ready to accept the decision.

In the same way, surrender doesn’t mean “I’ll give you power to resolve this issue but it should be resolved my way.

If you’ve surrendered your desire it doesn’t mean God or Reiki will fulfill it! (https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2015/03/let-his-will-be-mine.html)

It means you’ve a desire and you’ve given God or Reiki to decide to give it or NOT to you. Either way it works, accept it as “Mahaprasadam”.

That is surrender!

Being happy only when it works as per your taste, preference and want is not surrender. That is demanding”.

“But you say God is our father. Then why can’t I demand from HIM? asked Vaishnav being very irritated.

He often thought he was logical and right when he posed questions or argued his points. But those listening to him could clearly see flaws in his attitude, words and logic! The day we are able to do the same with our words, feelings, emotions and logic would be the day we have won ‘Olympic Gold’ in the ‘Spiritual World’. Would I see that day in this life of mine, I wondered!

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# surrender, faith, trust, belief, doubt, suffering, waiting, attitude, calm mind, mindfulness, being still, let miracle work through you, being his vessel,

also read suggested further on this topic https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2020/07/me-my-guru-on-gaining-clarity-of-thought_23.html 

Every image in every post speaks volumes........SEE, NOTICE, ABSORB, MEDITATE ON IT, WORK ON IT TILL YOU LIVE IT ALL!

Me, my Guru – On gaining clarity of thought

Me, my Guru – On gaining clarity of thought

Today, weather was good. So was our state of mind. We didn’t want answers to our petty problems of life. All along it is about spouse being not up to the mark or people giving us tough time. It was either about earning more or wanting attention, reward, affection and recognition from others. We had complains about everything and everyone and we sought answers to know why they were so. We wanted to know why they didn’t simply be the way we wanted them to. All our time spent with her summed up with only these issues. But, not today! Today, we wanted to know something that she, our Guru had been stressing a lot about – clarity of thought.

And so, our question for today was “Guruji, how to develop clarity of thought? Give us a technique that would ease our job”

She smiled and replied “Socrates said ‘Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events and weak minds discuss people’. Stop doing what weak and average minds do and do what strong minds do. Eventually you’ll develop strong mind and with that clarity of thought”

“But our question is ‘what is the technique?’ asked Vaishnav irritated. 

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# let go, fearlessness, clarity of thought, perception, doubts and suspicion, non-acceptance, weak mind 

also read : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=dog+bone+logic

Questions addressed and Points to be understood :

• A weak mind can never surrender. 
• A heart filled with anger, hatred is full of doubts, irritation and non-acceptance. And that clouds the mind from seeing the solution which is right there!
• A mind which is doubting everyone is the one which has a heart which doesn't love anyone. A selfish heart can never love someone else!
• Where there is no love how can he trust anyone for that matter?
• Fearlessness and purity of heart go hand in hand.
• Surrender doesn't mean freedom from action.
• Surrender means 'do your part and leave the result to the process'.
• Surrender means 'don't expect the results to work your way'.
• Surrender means 'healing is in my hand but how it works out is my destiny'.

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Few people in 20s and 70s have been tested positive for Covid and they took Dr.JRK's "KABASURA KUDINEER" - Sidda medicine. You can find it in "Dhanvantari Pharmacies or any Ayurveda shops".

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/siddha-research-papers-throw-light-on-efficacy-of-kabasura-kudineer-in-managing-covid-19/article31868238.ece 

I am no Sidda Doctor and so can't explain anything on the same. But the feedback from patients who have taken was very encouraging and so am posting the same here. Those who want to try can do it. 

DISCLAIMER : I DO NOT KNOW MORE THAN THIS ON THIS SUBJECT SO DON'T TRY TO CONTACT ME WITH FURTHER QUESTIONS......

Talk to Doctor available in the 'said pharmacy' and seek answers for your questions from him.......

I can however vouch for clearing of phlegm and respiratory relief when this choornam was taken.......

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He often thought he was logical and right when he posed questions or argued his points. But those listening to him could clearly see flaws in his attitude, words and logic! The day we are able to do the same with our words, feelings, emotions and logic would be the day we have won ‘Olympic Gold’ in the ‘Spiritual World’. Would I see that day in this life of mine, I wondered!

“Yes, you can. Nobody can question that. It’s just that not all demands are given in to by our Father! Isn’t it the same with our biological fathers too?

( https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2009/03/real-growth-is-in-letting-go.html )

“To ask is our right and to fulfill it is His Choice”.

To love a girl is your right. But it is the girl’s choice to accept it or not.

To apply to a Company is your right, they accepting it or not is their right! Isn’t it?

You expecting your children to take care of you in old age is your right. They doing so or not is their choice” she continued.

“Ok, ok, I get it. then why should I surrender when He may not fulfill it?” asked Vaishnav visibly irritated.

“No, you didn’t GET IT. if you had you wouldn’t have asked this question. We DEMAND that our wish be fulfilled because we become restless, disturbed, adamant and demanding because of our desires. We DON’T LIKE being in that space of disturbed state. So, we ASSUME we’ll become calm and peaceful if and when our desires are fulfilled. But it doesn’t happen so. We may become calm for very little time but the next desire comes to disturb us. This way we keep going from one desire to the other.

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# surrender, faith, trust, belief, doubt, suffering, waiting, attitude, calm mind, mindfulness, being still, let miracle work through you, being his vessel,

also read suggested further on this topic https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2020/09/on-belief-and-trust.html

Point to consider:

I take pains to search for the link that adds meaning and gives answers to your questions as you read through the present post. When I can take pains to do so, why can't you take the trouble to read the link to get your answers, is the question that bothers me since years.......

Or 

better still, I think I can stop doing this unnecessary work of giving links of the previous posts for your read.......

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If you are not happy with God’s way of running your life, don’t surrender. Go your way!

Work out your life and desires your way. No one can object to that. You have both choices. You take the one that is beneficial and up to your preference.

But if you hold others’ responsible for the results that you seek, the only think you are walking towards and creating for yourself is hell of pain and suffering!

To know, accept and outgrow that we all need to meditate – a lot and then put all the techniques that we know to apply what we know to practice.”

She left us for the day!

We didn’t leave her or the topic – for many days to come.

Later too, we just pushed this topic and related emotions into the background.

Other issues cropped up that demanded our attention – hence!

And those emotions lay there buried fuming to express themselves with a little trigger!

Would we be able to know then that these emotions had surfaced?

Only Time would tell?

For now, we thought we had left them behind us for good!

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# surrender, faith, trust, belief, doubt, suffering, waiting, attitude, calm mind, mindfulness, being still, let miracle work through you, being his vessel,

also read suggested further on this topic https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2020/05/expectations-and-conditions_20.html 

Pointers to understand the post in the next post.........Continued......

Me, My Guru – On surrender – Tale of two neighbours

 

Me, My Guru – On surrender – Tale of two neighbours

“Guruji, I surrendered and yet things didn’t go my way. And you still ask me to believe in God? How can I trust Him if HE doesn’t fulfill my wishes – MY WAY!” asked Vaishnav.

He was fuming with anger. And to him, he was justified. He was wronged by our Guru, Reiki and God. They have let him down. He had every right to be angry with them – or so he thought!

Were we all not so in similar instances that involved us?

We transferred our helplessness, frustrations, and desperation on people who had nothing to do with it – mostly and many times!

We understand where he came from. But, now being away and disassociated from (similar) situations, we could see how wrong he was.

It is so easy to know right from wrong when we are detached. Now, I understand why our Guru always asked us to practice detachment in our worldly affairs. We would be fair. We would be calm. We would act sensibly!

Our Guru smiled and shared this beautiful, small yet profound anecdote with us.

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# surrender, faith, trust, belief, doubt, suffering, waiting, attitude, calm mind, mindfulness, being still, let miracle work through you, being his vessel,

also read suggested further on this topic https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2015/03/rama-purushottam.html 

read the beautiful story of the young boy to understand what "FAITH" actually means.......

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Pointers to understand the post:

““Guruji, I surrendered and yet things didn’t go my way. And you still ask me to believe in God? How can I trust Him if HE doesn’t fulfill my wishes – MY WAY!” asked Vaishnav.” – This is the very oft repeated question/complaint/doubt. The anger that stems from it or that is behind this question/complaint/doubt is also a very common one.

There are two ways of living our lives. One is that we assume to be “normal” (quoting others in our lives) and in justifying our demands/desires and in being angry/frustrated/disappointed/depressed/hopeless and so on.

The other is more “The Right way” and hence less taken one too. It involves that we address our state of mind instead of the issue in our lives. We look at ourselves and see how and why we are feeling a certain emotion. In this path, we take responsibility for our well-being and state of mind in our hands. We stop blaming others for the mess in our lives. This path empowers us in the long run.

But then, as I already said, this is the path less taken and hence assumed to be “not for everyone”!!

“He was fuming with anger. And to him, he was justified. He was wronged by our Guru, Reiki and God. They have let him down. He had every right to be angry with them – or so he thought!” – Look at the words here. It is clearly said, “to him, he was justified for his anger”. Is it not so with each one of us in every situation in our lives when we think we are suffering our anger/hatred or any such emotion because of others? We ASSUME, I repeat, assume that we are justified in feeling so. As long as we give power to others to take away our peace of mind, we will be victims of our situations. We live in an assumption and belief that if the situation in our lives gets corrected we will be happy. It never is so! We think if people in our lives change for good we will be happy. This too is never right.

Look at the desires and emotions. Sit in meditation. Know their cause. Know their impact on you. Know their hold on you. Become free of their hold on you. That is true freedom! That is empowerment. There is no other way to happiness and freedom!"

Concluded.......

# surrender, faith, trust, belief, doubt, suffering, waiting, attitude, calm mind, mindfulness, being still, let miracle work through you, being his vessel,

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