Me, my Guru – on heaven and hell

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Me, my Guru – on  heaven and hell

Heaven or hell – we have a choice at every single point of time in our life. But it is not a place where you go once, simply sit, relax and see Apsaras (heavenly damsels) perform for you. No; in life come situations one after the other. They are physical challenges like some ailment or so, financial challenges of life and some come as events of life. Every time you falter, worry, anger, remember you are creating and living in hell. The moment you realize, accept it, sit and heal it, you turn that hell into heaven. So simple! Create multiple heavens each day of your life and lo! Before long your life is a journey from one heaven to the other.

Let’s suppose we have created 890 hells and 1000 heavens. The overall effect in our life and of our life is 1000-890=110 heavens. So satisfied, happy and successful life! That’s simple maths for you. If life be compared to an ocean, bountiful are the treasures of this ocean. Do you dare to take a dive into it? Bountiful are the beauties of this ocean. Care to play in this ocean? Heaven and hell are not destinations to be reached. They are our every day choices. You decide your choice. You decide your experience of heaven or hell. Nevertheless, keep healing; the process though doubtful, boring, uneventful at the start or at any point of time, will finally lead to the end of the tunnel. And yes there is light at the end of the tunnel!”

Our Guruji finished her explanation. She usually gave a gap in between her explanation but it came in one go today. Was it the topic? Was it her mood? Or maybe something else. We each stuck to our assumptions. 

“Then what does Guru do in all this?” asked Vaishnav.

“If a person is one of the few who has one then, Guru shows and points him the choices he takes that would lead him to hell. Guru would suggest and explain why choices of heaven are the better ones. Guru would show him the reasons of his choices of hell and heaven. Guru can make one aware of the past errors and mistakes repeatedly so that he doesn’t make a similar one in the future. Every time a sadhak falters, Guru can tell the exact reason for his slip. Guru can see that getting up from his fall is easier and worthwhile. Guru can teach him techniques to stay on the path. He can keep questioning him on his choices in various tones to push him towards his own self good! Sadhak in his ignorance is naturally inclined towards his “hell” of choices. Guru can give techniques and prick him in right places so that he develops clarity of thought. Guru can stand by him till ‘making choices’ that create heaven for sadhak becomes his nature. 

                                               

Guru can do just all of this. All other parts sadhak has to do! Guru can show the choices and their consequences. To choose them and walk on them, well that totally depends on the sadhak or a Shishya here. No Guru can force a student to walk ‘the right path’. That is against the universal rule of ‘freewill’. Guru would stand by him patiently as he falls and get up umpteen number of times, cheering him, cajoling him, taunting him but all in the hope that he gets the will to get up from the quicksand of ‘wrong association of mind’ or ‘wrong identification of his ego’. This is where Guru’s job ends!” Our Guruji completed before retiring into her inner chambers.

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# choices, destiny, hell and heaven, clarity of thought, mind and its games, Guru, right choices, right and wrong

previous posts on this topic : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=two+frogs+in+the+pond 

What do the two frogs in the pond represent?
What is the pond?
What is the man suffering from?
Why is the man not able to sleep peacefully?
What does sleep of the man point to?

Note : Do not give link of any article. Instead give its gist (in your comments section). I'll publish it with the revised version as the comment was very good.

Questions addressed : 

• Why am I not happy?
• When will my suffering come to an end?

Points to be understood :

• My pain and suffering in life is NOT BECAUSE OF HOW PEOPLE BEHAVE IN MY LIFE! 
• My pain in life is because of who I am.
• My expectations from the people in my life is the CAUSE OF MY SUFFERING.
• No one - not even GOD can save you there! No body can save your suffering that comes from your expectations from people and life! You need to address that sooner or later - that choice is yours to make!
• As long as you postpone making the choice to heal that expectation of yours you'll wallow in self pity, crying, panting, feeling low, sorry for yourself, going on the guilt ride, anger, hatred, jealousy and what not!

Reiki Miracle :

Someone was describing scenes from "Mahabharat" and at one point I felt "I wish I had seen this scene". Couple of minutes later I was to have my meal and so I put on TV. The scene that I wanted to see was playing there. Not even a scene before that. Just that exact scene. I finished my meal and so was the scene complete. I got up and put off the TV.

This is the everyday 'miracle' of reiki that I experience! I am put at place where I am needed or supposed to be at that point of time. There is nothing as 'coincidence' in a sadhak's life! 

The man and the frogs

Read the story to understand the explanation given below: https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=stories+and+all+-+man+and+the+frog

Further to explanation given by Sridhar and Srinivas https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2014/01/just-thought.html , https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2014/01/just-thought_18.html, https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2014/01/just-thought_19.html . 

The man and the frogs 

The man in the story represents ‘us’; each one of us! The house he buys represents the ‘body’ we house in! We take to this body – our residence in search and with desire to experience happiness and joys of the materialistic kind.

But are we happy as we ‘reside’ in this body of ours? Everyone’s search is towards and for happiness, peace and contentment only. Each of us defines and assumes his peace, happiness and contentment in the various things of the world. Whatever we do or don’t is to be happy, content or peaceful. Whether it is eating right, living right, earning, marriage, children, education, achievements, charity, good deeds – in short everything – is towards this end only.

Cause of suffering

Why! A person who lies, steals, cheats, hurts others etc. also does it for his happiness and satisfaction! He thinks his acts will give him all this! And yet, in spite of running in all directions, he is sad, restless and agitated! Why? Because he is searching for the ‘right things’ in the ‘wrong places’. Happiness, peace and satisfaction are internal possessions. They can’t be found in external world. And yet we go around doing this, janma after janma. The reason – the two frogs in the pond!

The pond represents our ‘manas’ (seat of emotions and attitudes). One frog called ‘fear’ and another called ‘ignorance’ create all the sound during the night. The night here is symbolic of our state of mind, namely, darkness and lack of light (knowledge).

Fear and ignorance are the only ‘two sins’ – the original sins or flaws of human birth. These two give rise to all the negativities of the world, namely, jealousy, anger, pain, suffering, competition, envy, selfishness, greed, stupidity and what not!

Out of ‘fear’ for our near and dear, we condition them to certain behaviour, way of living and life choices. When they don’t adhere to our expressions of the so-called love in the form of conditions and expectations, we get depressed, sad, angry, worried, tensed and what not! And we think ‘our loved ones’ are responsible for our pain and suffering. 

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Related post : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=ignorance 

Questions addressed : 

• What is the basis of our pain and suffering?
• How to be happy all the time?
• What is it removing which we can be happy and blissful all the time?
• Removing what can be have energies to experience life to the fullest?

Points to be understood :

• Instead of dealing with problems and addressing them one after the other, remove the cause of the problem itself.
• When we try to work on making things and situations right in life, we are only dealing with it topically. We are doing plastic surgery to the problem. We are not addressing the issue the right way.
• Remove the cause of pain and suffering in our life and the situations and events wouldn't bother us so much. The life becomes a play. In play we lose some and win some.
• Same way we'll experience life too! We realize we face some situations and people we win over and are happy about and some we lose to and they cause harm or trouble in our lives. But either way since we are playing we enjoy the game anyhow.

Health tip : Keep yourself hydrated enough to fight the tiredness caused by  erratic climatic change and effect. Dehydration causes body pains, tiredness, breathlessness too in severe cases, irritation, cramps, headaches ............in case all symptoms exist just drink electrolyte for one day and notice the difference.......next time onwards work on keeping yourself hydrated as and when even one of the symptoms show up

Blog tip : After completion of each topic read all the posts of that topic again in one go...... your understanding will be easier, complete and effortless.....

After completion of each topic and reading all the posts sit in meditation on that post for atleast 15 minutes.....it is the best way to increase your clarity of thought, understanding and perception.

# fear, ignorance, attachments, purpose of life, life choices, master and discipleship, attitudes, happiness, we are what we see, look within, inner world and outer world, anger, pain and suffering

stories and all! - The man and the frogs

The man and the frogs

After retirement, a man decided to spend his life peacefully and so bought himself a house in the countryside. Atlast, he could lead a peaceful life – he thought!

That night he couldn’t sleep a wink. He was totally disturbed by the croaking of frogs. Morning he went around his property to see where the sound came from. He found a small pond just beside his land. He knew that the frogs made that pond their home. The thought since he was not used to this silence, the sound of frogs disturbed him yester night. But today he would know where the wound came from and hence would be able to sleep peacefully. But it was not so. Even today the sounds drove him crazy. Day after day he suffered sleepless night. One day he decided it was enough and so sent a word in the village that he would pay Rs.50/- for every frog that anyone caught from that pond. Next day many lads from the village turned up. One body dived into the pond, caught two frogs and came out. Later, all boys tried their luck but none found any frog in the pond. The old man couldn’t believe that there were only two frogs in that pond that made so much of noise. That night he went to sleep peacefully – finally! He got it for just Rs.100/-. He was happy, content and peaceful. 

related posts : https://kantipadam.blogspot.in/search?q=cause+of+suffering

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

Frogs

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Stories and all - Man and the frogs

Sometimes it doesn’t happen as we plan! Then? Then it is very good as His will is there in it. This also you’ve experienced (refer to the comments section for when you did Reiki and they didn’t get fulfilled). They turned out even better! So why worry in such cases!

Both ways, only what is ‘right and good’ for you, happens. Learn from your past experiences. Build your trust on them, work on that frog called ‘fear’ and remove it. Also remove the ‘frog’ of ‘ignorance’. Your ‘mind pond’ is silent. You experience happiness, peace and satisfaction!

Ignorance

The seed of every fear of yours is ‘ignorance’. So, remove ignorance. Develop clarity of thought. Shift the way you ask questions and apply those answers. To remove them is very easy. Just remove. But when you see them for ‘only two’, you think it is ok. You let them stay. After all, they are just two cute frogs. And then, suddenly, their sounds become deafening!

What's in for us in holding on to ignorance?

Who helps the man in removing those two frogs? 

ONLY ONE LAD! - The man goes to all and sundry seeking guidance and redemption from his pain and suffering. He goes from one master to another seeking happiness, peace and contentment. And all it takes is ONLY ONE MASTER who removes both his frogs from his self. And it is symbolically told or shown as ONE LAD here in this story. 

Master is one who is telling you that all the problem is caused by only these two frogs within - fear and ignorance. He KNOWS  it and is showing you various ways to free yourself of it and yet.......

So beware and be alert of these ‘two frogs’ – fear and ignorance!

The same explanation should be applied for health issues, financial, social and global issues too! Our hell and heaven are created by these two frogs only! Remove them. 

Our choices are made because of and by these two frogs only! Remove them and your perception changes! Your clarity of thought develops! 

These two frogs are also the basis of our ‘dharma’ and principles. Do away with them! 

The activity of these two frogs results in the generation of our desires. Throw them away! Then the desires lose their power to hurt you. Then like Krishna, Gandhi, Ratan Tata, your desire will set you free, not bind you! Remove these two frogs and like Rama you can have your intention manifest with a single thought! 

Think about it!

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(For all your future reference :I am encapsulating the same again in one go.........also read the other stories this way. You'll see the depth of the same story differently. Every character, scene can be deciphered. It's like you are pealing layer after layer to get the meaning out of it.......and I haven't completely explained this story.......there is more to it......keep peeling it and savouring the taste of understanding layer by layer......)

# trust, ego, pain and suffering, attachments, we are what we read, ignorance, fear, divisiveness, upanishads, oneness, whole, abundance, happiness, divinity, selfishness, cause of pain and suffering,  

also reads suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=greatness

Homework : Now take one story from the previous posts and understand it this way! And come back with your understanding. Let's pool our understanding to get a larger understanding. Lets move from lower understanding to higher understanding together......

Questions addressed : 

• Why after doing reiki for so long also I am not happy?
• How long should I heal myself?
• "I didn't understand this story. Please explain" 

Points stressed :

• "I am fed up of healing. I want to stop healing" - good know the reason and do so!
• Heal now or later. Choice is yours. No questions asked. No punishment given. Never judged by anyone. 
• The punishment given is by self to self by our acts and choices. You take decisions and you alone bear the consequences of your decisions.
• Good or bad - we are reapers of our choices and destiny. Our karma is ours to bear!
• God, Master, Universe, Life can only give you opportunities and techniques to better your perceptions and ability to deal with life. They can't do it for you!