Me, my Guru – on ego!

 

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Me, my Guru – on ego!

We thanked her verbally and got away with hallow words like “…
how can we ever repay you maam?...” would we take the same way of gratitude and thanks from our family, friends and our employers? Would we still give our best to them if all they gave us was a verbal thanks and ‘you are so great’ words! We were very clear in the way we wanted to be thanked and appreciated by our family, friends and company. When were given a raise of 20% by company, we felt we were insulted and we would be angry. We would demand 40% rise. Our needs were very clear. We felt we were just in our expectations.

 But when it came to giving and appreciating our Guru, all we had were “Thankyou Gurji and you are so great!?”. Just hallow words. In this double-standards laid our ego. 

In our selfishness was our ego. Whatever we received we had complaints with it, but while giving just with ‘thanks’ we assumed we had become very good person with lots of gratitude. Gratitude is not a word. It expresses itself in action. As long as we play with words to project our inability to give others what is due to them, we have to know, our ego was at play there. Manipulation is the game of the ego!!!

Each one of us understood this story from his angle and came up with expressions of ego. When we summed it up, we were shocked at our own nature.

Contd....

# on ego, Me, My Guru, king and the guru - story, 

also read suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=The+veil+-+its+fabric

Pointers to this post :

"Each one of us understood this story from his angle and came up with expressions of ego. When we summed it up, we were shocked at our own nature." - We assume we have understood!?? We are right and wrong there. Our understanding depends solely on the level of our connection with our soul. The less we are connected to soul, more we operate from our ego. The more we operate out of our ego, more damaged is our understanding. It looks logical to our twisted mindset and there in lies our pit fall. For that level of consciousness we are right! But are we REALLY RIGHT? NO! And hence our actions, behaviour and words end up being wrong. We end up bringing in more karma into our account and then suffer its consequences. Clarity of thought is possible ONLY when we are connected to our soul. The more we heal ourselves the nearer we get to our consciousness and our clarity of thought becomes better and better. Dharma can't be followed with ego filled persona. The less ego we carry more Dharmic we become. So you see it is all inter-connected. Heal, heal and heal is the answer for everything! - Be it materialistic life, to better our relationships or to work as per Dharma! It TAKES TIME  for any healing to happen. It doesn't change or happen over night. We generate ego-centric emotions and attitudes like hatred, selfishness, being demanding and pity. The amount of energy we generate over the years is huge and the amount of time healed is very less. So the results take longer to materialise. Ofcourse, it is IMPORTANT THAT WE CHANGE OUR ATTITUDE as we heal. This is mostly overlooked by most of the sadhaks. Change of attitude is next to acceptance and hence never worked on. People want others to change but don't put effort to change themselves. No doubt, same situation keeps coming back in their life again and again......

Questions answered :

• Why is the same thing coming again and again in my life?
• When am I going to get respite from my mother-in-law/spouse/job problems/financial problems etc?
• "Maam, do some magic and make things work for me. When will you do this? "

On healing others!

 

On healing others!

There is borewell drilling going on in the neighbour's house since 2-3 days. Headache is severe for me! I was and am doing everything to beat the headache. Someone who called couldn't hear me talk and asked me to talk louder. I said I couldn't as the sound of the drilling was deafening and it was making it difficult for others to hear my voice. The other person simply said "Oh! So sad you have to deal with it till they hit water. God knows how long it will be?!"

That did it!!! 

It was then I realized that I was seeing this situation as one giving me pain and discomfort. That gave rise to anger, frustration, all questions of why it is happening to me etc etc, irritation and of course headache. No sleep in the night too! But, but if ONLY I had seen it as an opportunity to heal I would have healed for 'let them strike water at the earliest' and they would have struck water earlier and I would be saved from all this non-sense. 

When ever there is a situation that is uncomfortable, disgusting, not to our expectations and conditions etc we go on the blame game. We find reasons outside ourselves to find the cause. We ask useless, baseless and leading to no where questions like 'why did Reiki let it happen?' etc........

Instead if only we healed the situation, we would be out of our agony earlier than later. 

The common intelligent question people ask is "But why should I end up healing all and sundry? And I don't have time for the same? Why can't they just be right?"

The answer is simple "Because you are effected in this situation and you know how to heal. If you don't want to heal, good - then learn not to suffer inspite of the situation. And if you say, I don't want to learn that too - good for you too - be who you are and enjoy the pain and suffering. But remember, there is no answer for all of your questions and no solution to any of your problems!!!"

If you understand this you'll also understand 'No man is an Island'. We are connected to one another whether we like it or not and hence only when we heal what is painful for us can we as a group get healed.........

# on healing, on healing others,  no man is an island, 

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https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=we+all+are+connected 

Few FAQs with Guru

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Few FAQs with Guru

S – Ok, then what about energies?

G – When you start generating right kind of energy, you slowly get logged on to the energy source that is immense and once tapped it can be directed towards any goal of your life. Gandhi used it for social cause. Who could have thought non-violence could get us freedom – but it did! Krishna used it to bring about social order and establish Dharma.

It was the same ‘tapping’ into the ‘soul energy’ that made M.S.Subbalakshmi sing in the U.N. too! it is the same source that made Ratan Tata and JRD Tata human magnets of wealth.

It is the same source that Akshay Kumar, the film actor connects to that made him still give 100% inspite of his first 18 flops. Who gets opportunity to sign next film with even one flop? And here he was being signed inspite of 18 flops. It’s the energy he radiated. He logged on to that centre through his martial arts training. Maybe, even he doesn’t know that. But the way he conducts himself and other stars do, well it is for everyone to see the vast difference.

Where and why you use it is up to you. But once you log on to it, you are not living as a beggar begging for anyone’s blessing. You become the source of energy that attracts objects of its choice.

Contd.... 

# soul connect, knowing self, success and knowing self

also read : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=stories+and+all%21+-+The+daughter 

questions addressed and points to be understood :

• The one who is connected to his soul is more energetic, focused, successful, mature, happy and one who spreads joy to people around him.
• We can draw energies from this body which is very limited.
• We can draw energies from our intellect which is more than body but much less than our soul connect.
• We can draw energies from our emotional centre or heart or emotion called love which is much more than intellect but still less than soul connect.
• The one who gets connected to soul has immense energy at his disposal which he can direct for self and for the whole world at once and still be rich with it!!! 

Insight Tip : 

There is incessant rain pouring in Hyderabad, India since three days! Many are complaining that it is irritating and boring. Some are happy - the rain lovers and the romantics! Some are enjoying to laze around drinking cups of tea and having hot samosas with an excuse of rain.....

there are also those who are to face this rain living on roads......

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=khilonon 

We take many things for granted. We end up saying "yes, yes, I agree I have all this but...." 

by using that but we have negated all that we have. We say it is no big deal to have them. Some of us also say 'I have X, Y, Z but I don't want it. What is the use of having something that I don't want or use?'  - We take our houses - however they are - rented, broken, leaking, old, far off (I still don't understand what this far off means?!) etc, still we have a house and that's why we are enjoying our rains.......imagine the plight of those kids and people who are staying on the roads.....how can they enjoy this rain?

Work towards things that you so want and desire. But with the happiness and contentment that comes with validating all that we still have in our lives. Don't take what we have for granted! We are demeaning the 'value' of things and people we have in life by 'not being happy' for having them. 

Work towards your object of desire. Wait for your object of desire to come into your life. But don't stop being happy now. Don't insult what you have now by repeatedly saying "oh, I don't need this or what is the use of having this?"

Think about it!

A welcome miracle! Sighting a sparrow!

 

A welcome miracle! Sighting a sparrow!

Saw a sparrow yesterday near the main gate!!!

Wow! What a wonder! What a beauty! And what a sight!

For the past many years, sighting a sparrow has become a rarity. It is a very small and cute bird. It chirps its heart out. Wow, how much it talks! And at what speed?

Well, those who don’t like birds or don’t find this talk good or interesting enough – let me tell you one “important fact” that relates to your health and well-being. 

Sparrows are directly connected to air pollution!!!

Yes, many years ago, they were found in hundreds. But, for the past many years, they are not to be seen. And the levels of pollution are something that you all are aware of! All thanks to our pollution – that you and I are responsible for. Yes, we with our needs and wants have created a “demand” for things that are causing all this pollution.        

But, when a sparrow is sighted, it means the air quality has improved in that area. And that my dear is good news to you and me and also to our next generation. We always think of giving or leaving behind only money and assets to our children in the name of love. But, have you wondered what quality of the world we are leaving behind for them?

So, seeing a sparrow is a good sight in that sense – too!

Keep doing “homam” to heal air pollution and see such “nature’s barometer” showing you “good news” from time to time.

Healing the Earth will also make an impact in this area!

So, those who have understood will not stop at understanding it on paper but will put some USEFUL AND PRODUCTIVE ACTION in this area and for this end!

All the best!

********     

#   ecological balance, Earth, animal kingdom, interdependence, we all are connected, healing through healing Earth, 

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Kerala – All for one!

Kerala – All for one!

India has united like never before for Kerala. It’s time like these that gives hope in the humanity. It speaks volumes about the way people relate with the pain and suffering of their unseen and unmet brothers of India. This goes to prove how we all are connected by one thread of love and brotherhood.

Pockets like Kerala, seven northern sisters and such places of India which are lungs of India what with their vast green cover.  We owe it to them for all these benefits we have been receiving from them for all these years. And not to speak of unforgettable trip to Kerala (by those who had been there at least once in their life-time!) and the peace that this place blessed us with! We owe it to them for those memories.

Social sites and media are working creatively to stand up with Kerala in this crisis time and I don’t need to talk about ‘what to give’ and ‘send’ again. The list is already known to all!

But, I would suggest instead of randomly sending items, pool the resources of your group and get in touch with ‘the Keralite’ (one in every group will certainly have one Keralite friend) and when I say Keralite it applies to every native of Kerala – not just a Malayali – remember that. This is reaching a human as a human act ONLY! Ask him/her to check the requirements from their people and send the needed items accordingly – especially through this known contact. This way the goods get surely to the persons who need it and in the required quantity. This way you can be sure of at least one colony/area’s needs being fulfilled and trust me that is a great feeling.

Next, help doesn’t end by sending these items now. The work has to be done for at least next 3-4 months. Whatever is the skill you have, you can use it to give free services to those people by going there and working as a volunteer. Or use your skill to raise money and put it to good use.

Try to find people who have lost their livelihood – especially the daily wage labourers and give them their tools so that they can stand on their feet as soon as possible. Construction workers, tailors (sewing machines), road side tea stalls or tiffin centres – their start up requirements is usually just couple of thousands. You can reach atleast to few of them (as a group) and that way you would’ve saved a family and fed a family. Just think about it!

Instead of feeding a man with fish daily, teach him to fish and you’ve made a man out of him!

Apart from material supplies and support as Reiki channels send reiki daily for next 6mths atleast for them to get strength to face this calamity! Pray for them. Ask group who are not reiki channels to sit and pray for them. Let them chant for their well being!

Your reiki can save them from the diseases that can sicken them thanks to flood waters and all! This will help them to heal their trauma easily. They will come out as stronger persons. The help that they require will reach in time and in required amount various are the benefits of healing Kerala. Don’t lost this wonderful opportunity to open your hearts and pockets to reach out to those who are more in need of them than you and me.

United we stand and let’s show ourselves and the world that we capable of facing and overcoming such unforeseen calamities. Let’s prove to ourselves how wonderful as Indians we are!

Proud to be an Indian!

Proud to be human!

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https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=charity

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https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=you+receive+what+you+give

Garments

The basis of any good relationship should be and can be only when we agree to disagree.

The statement clearly explains that two persons are agreeing to disagree with each other’s opinion. Opinion is just not a conclusion that we arrive at based on facts & figures available to us. We add the tinge of our experiences, prejudices and also our feelings related with the related experiences to the facts and figures and view it and then stamp it as our opinion. This is not correctly arrived at as we are viewing the entire world with tainted glasses of ‘my likes and dislikes’. So our opinions change the moment we have a paradigm shift and our perspective has undergone a change. So why hold on to the shifting opinions so dearly that I am ready to let go off my near and dear ones for the sake of an opinion?

Opinion is mine, but I am not the opinion. It may change tomorrow but I still will be the same. So, I am clear that we can agree to disagree with regards to the opinion but still be loving and respecting each other for what we are.

Garments

Once upon the time, Beauty and Ugliness went for a bath in a sea. They both undressed and swam in the waters. After sometime, Ugliness came back to shore and garmented herself with the garments of Beauty and walked her way.

Sometime later Beauty came out of the sea and not finding her garment, not wanting to go naked took the garment of Ugliness, wore it and walked her way.

And to this day men and women mistake the one for the other.

Yet, for some there are who have beheld the face of Beauty and they know her notwithstanding her garments. And for some there will be who know the face of Ugliness and the cloth conceals him not from their eyes.

I have always found some statements that doesn’t make any sense like “She is good but is dark”.
“He is good but poor boy not so good looking”

Such statements talk about our confusion and conflicting stands rather than about the other person. When we say “she/he is good but not so good looking” we are actually mixing two issues which are not at all connected. What has looks got to do with the good character? But, we say “she is dark, poor girl” as if it were a sin to be dark, as if it were a negative quality. Colour of the skin doesn’t guarantee the character of a person. Krishna, Rama and all gods are considered dark. Westerners spend so much of money to get the tan which we are naturally endowed with. Dark skin has melanin more in quantity which is natural UV ray protector and insulates against all sun-burns and sun related, skin related diseases. This blessing is considered a curse. What a pity! Fair skinned flaunt their tan and the dark skinned spend millions for getting that unattainable fair skin. What a state of mind! What we have is never good. What we don’t have is the only good thing and worth having. Right? Think about it.

From today let us just say “she/he is good” and “she/he is dark skinned” as two separate statements but never in the same breathe. Likewise, when we talk of some one’s attitudes then it is only “she/he is good” – period – there will be no mention of the colour of their skin. Let us be very clear about what we say and how we think.

Why? What difference would it make if we say as we are used to saying? Well, it talks about confusion in thinking and the energy which is generated is that of confusion. Confusion energy is a negative energy which is going to reflect as confusing events /situations in life. And I am sure, no intelligent person wishes to have confusion reigning in their lives. So, if you want crystal clear way of thinking and living, then start at the point of beginning which is “thought”.

Got any more such statements which are self contradictory? Let’s discuss them if you wish.

revathi

Me, My Guru – on disturbed mind

 

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Me, My Guru – on disturbed mind

By the time she sat down most of us were all smiles. The air seemed light. I felt light. It was as if my burden had been removed.

There she – our Guru was just sitting adjusting her saree (Indian attire for women) and sipping water from her glass – and here I felt relieved!

What a shift in energies? How fast was it? And yet she hadn’t done anything for this? Can someone’s presence make such an impact?

She had been telling all along – “your presence carries your energies and that you can work miracles in silence”. And yet we…And today, we saw its meaning and impact! We felt it and it was so obvious!

Wow! Wonder what effect we had on the people we meet and live with?

“So which aspect of mind are we to reflect on today?” our Guru asked with a smile.

“My mother-in-law is so irritating. She’s driving me nuts. How to regain my composure?” asked one.

“My mind chatters non-stop. Help me to stop it. What do I do for that?” asked another.

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# Me, My Guru stories, on chattering of mind, control the mind, handling ego, energies, our presence and absence, anger, 

also read : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=maya%27s+mind+game 

Pointers in this post : 

"She had been telling all along – “your presence carries your energies and that you can work miracles in silence”. And yet we…And today, we saw its meaning and impact! We felt it and it was so obvious!" - Read the previous lines also. People are always saying "there is so much negativity in the house because of her/him. This answers all those questions. Guru comes and sits (just sits and does nothing else) and yet the tension in the air is cleared. The agitated minds become calm. People feel it all around!!! That is the effect and the possibility of our effect on 'negativity' in the house/ place of residence if we are calm and full of love/affection. Instead of concentrating on how you feel about your m-i-l/s-i-l, spouse, kid, cleanliness, employer, colleagues etc if we are connected to one whom we say we love or care about, then vibe is already good. That spreads in the place you stay. So heal yourself and be calm. So heal your anger, hatred and let that healing give out good vibes in your place of residence....

Receiving Rama in our lives!

 

Receiving Rama in our lives!

Last few days had been euphoric for the believers and followers of ‘Sanatana Dharma’. The construction of Ram Lalla Temple in Ayodhya gave ‘the pride’ in being a follower of the path that believes:

a.     There is only one God referred usually as ‘Brahman’.

b.   
  “Everything that is” is pervaded by HIM alone.

c.      The “Is ness” of every particle of this Universe is Brahman. And that “is ness” is what we worship when we choose a form to reach the “Unmanifested Brahman”.

d.     That all humans are equal.

e.     We all are connected and related – “Vasudhika kutumbakam”.

f.       The journey of every individual is eternal and is gradually pushing him towards his ‘spiritually better’ self!

g.    We are not humans having spiritual experiences. But, we are spiritual beings – an atman (loosely translated as soul) having human experiences.

h.     We are here to experience our ‘real nature’ through our human interactions.

i.      When we hurt the other, we hurt ourselves and when we lift the other we lift ourselves.

j.        Realization of our real self – called “moksha” or “Enlightenment” is the sole purpose of human life.

k.    Uphold the Dharma and it will uphold you.

 With this understanding what RAMA actually means is beautifully expressed by Saint Kabir:

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=ek+ram 

# Rama, Sanatana Dharm, Philosophy of life, Eternal Law of the Universe, Moksha, Freedom, soul and oversoul, Vedic philosophy from the Land of Sprituality - India, God, 

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