Faith in God

Please try to feel from now on that there is somebody around you who does not want anything from you except joy. There is somebody who wants you always to swim in the sea of joy and delight. If you can remain in joy--

I don’t mean the outer joy of going here and there, mixing with people, buying material things- but if you can have real joy and inner fulfillment, and then you will automatically have faith in God.

When we are worried, or are afraid of something, we immediately try to create a kind of self-imposed faith in God. This is not true faith. When we are in danger, we say “God save me.” This is an escape. This kind of faith does not last. Everything is inside a person, both joy and fulfillments. But who is the possessor of this inner fulfilment ? It is God. We are just his devoted instruments. When we feel spontaneous inner joy as part and parcel of our life, and we feel its source, we can then have faith in God. The possessor of infinite joy. Try to feel your inner joy, and faith will come to you spontaneously. In regard to your outer frustrations, do not try to unite them with your inner joy from the outer happenings. Only then will you be able to strengthen your faith in God.

Do you love yourself ?

People feel lonely; they need somebody to fill their loneliness. They call it Love. They show Love because that is the only way to hook the other. The other also calls it love because that is the only way to you. But who knows whether there is Love or not ? Love is just a game. Real Love is possible only when you don’t need anybody.

If you go to a bank and you need money, then will not give you any. If you don’t need money, you have enough, they will come to you and they will always be ready to give you.

When you don’t need a person at all, when you are totally sufficient unto yourself, when you can be alone and tremendously happy and ecstatic, then Love is possible. But then too you can be certain about only one thing: whether your Love is real. How can you be certain about the other ? But then there is no need.

This continuous anxiety whether the other’s Love is real or not-simply shows one thing: that your Love is no real. Why we worried about it ? Enjoy it while it lasts! Be together while you can be together! It is a fiction, but you need fiction.

Behind declarations of Love there is nothing but need. You want your lover to be with you to fill your emptiness and so too is the case with her. You are both trying to use each other as a means.

That’s why lovers, so called lovers, are always in conflict-because nobody wants to be used, because when use a person the person become a thing, you have reduced him to a commodity.

One day when you are really awake you will be able to Love- but then you will be certain about your love only. But that’s enough!

Do you Love yourself ? You have not even asked the question. When you are really blissful on your own, you don’t want to use anybody. You simply want to share it. And you will feel thankful that somebody was ready to receive. That is the full point.

There is no way to be certain about the other-first be certain about you. And a person who is certain about himself is certain about the whole world. Settled, centered. Grounded in yourself, you never worry about such things. You accept.

If somebody Loves you, you accept it because you Love yourself. You are happy with yourself; somebody else is happy-good! It does not get in your head; it does not make you madly egoistic. You simply enjoy yourself; somebody else also find you enjoyable-good! While it lasts, live the fiction as beautifully as possible- it will not last forever.

When a Love is finished, you start thinking it was false-that’s why it has comes to an end. No not necessarily. It may have had some glimmer of truth in it, but you were both unable to keep and hold the truth-----you needed Love, but you were not capable of it.

When you are aware, a totally different kind of Love will arise in your heart- which is absolutely true, which is part of eternity. But that is not a need- it is a luxury. And you have so much of it that you hanker for somebody to share it with.

Shake Hands with Life

Everybody is floating in a vacuum, so to speak. Or, they’re living on a surface. We are strangers to our own self. The world around us, glorifying glamour, celebrating the superfluous and taken up with virtual images, has become so disconnected. When one reads of a celebrity or student taking her own life, it makes wonder. Why would anyone wish to end what is essentially a beautiful life.

Loss of face, depression, weakness and fear of rejection by family and society are some of the reasons for dejection. All these point to one thing: lack of faith and stunted self growth.

“Depression is not what happens to us. It is due to what happen in us”. However, it is failures and difficulties that make life so interesting. It is unrealistic to accept success and profit all the time; it is foolhardy to consider life as nothing but a series of problems. “Learn to live life as it is. Bend and you will not break!”

During a crisis we do need emotional support from family and friends; but if such support is not available for some reason, it is necessary to find it within. Inner resource will help us detach ourselves from the Maya of illusion. Remember the saying: `This too shall pass away.'

Scientist and inventor Thomas Edison once remarked, "There is great value in disaster."

It is true that disappointments, pain and suffering have made life difficult for many of us – but surviving those against all odds has also made heroes out of us. Like a tea bag, we tend to become stronger when in hot water. "For every hurt, for every plight, for every lonely pain racked night etc there is a reason. But if we trust the God, as we should, it all will work out for our good. He knows the reason."

There is a deeper meaning in life which is not seen immediately; it gets revealed slowly, later in life. But impatient as we are, we cannot wait – in our haste we forget to live and so we lose touch with our inner self that could have given us immense strength.

Insecurity grows by leaps due to lack of trust and that hinders bonding and so leads to absence of true emotional support. Add to this the excess of material values, which makes an individual self-conscious of his weaknesses. He suffers then from low self-esteem.

If only we could tap into our inner source, we would get empowered to face all odds. That is why it is so important to make the effort to shake hands with life; then it will meet us halfway.

Unfortunately, fear of failure haunts most people. We sail in the same boat. We seek support and security in a relationship, in materialistic risk coverage, in money and friends. But the basic insecurity lies within. It can be transformed only with faith; by mental and spiritual exercises.

Perhaps the educational system should incorporate a curriculum of courage-giving courses to increase an individual's spiritual quotient. Half an hour of yoga, meditation and storytelling of heroes and great souls and such inspirational talk would go a long way in making youth strong and courageous.

And to face the challenges at the ground level, let schools and colleges make it obligatory for students to do social service to the less privileged.
Let's meet life halfway at least.

The Art of giving

"Rivers do not drink their own water, nor do tree eat their own fruit, nor do rain clouds eat the grains reared by them. The wealth of the noble is used solely for the benefit of others?

Even after accepting that giving is good and that one must learn to give, several questions need to be answered.

The first question is when should one give ?

We all know the famous incident from the Mahabharata.

Yudhisthir, asks a beggar seeking alms to come the next day. On this, Bhim rejoices, that Yudhisthir his brother, has conquered death! For he is sure that he will be around tomorrow to give. Yudhisthir gets the message.

One does not know really whether one will be there tomorrow to give! The time to give therefore is now.

The next question is how much to give.

One recalls the famous incident from history. Rana Pratap was reeling after defeat from the Moghals. He had lost his army, he had lost his wealth, and most important he had lost hope, his will to fight. At that time in his darkest hour, his erstwhile minister Bhamasha came seeking him and placed his entire fortune at the disposal of Rana Pratap. With this, Rana Pratap raised an army and lived to fight another day.

The answer to this question how much to give is "Give as much as you can!

The next question is what to give. It is not only money that can be given. It could be a flower or even a smile.

It is not how much one gives but how one gives that really matters. When you give a smile to a stranger that may be the only good thing received by him in days and weeks! "You can give anything but you must give with your heart!

One also needs answer to this question whom to give.

Many times we avoid giving by finding fault with the person who is seeking. However, being judgmental and rejecting a person on the presumption that he may not be the most deserving is not justified. “Give without being judgmental!

Next we have to answer How to give.

Coming to the manner of giving, one has to ensure that the receiver does not feel humiliated, nor does the giver feel proud by giving.

In giving follow the advice, ’Let not your left hand know what your right hand gives? Charity without publicity and fanfare is the highest form of charity. 'Give quietly!

While giving let not the recipient feel small or humiliated. After all what we give never really belonged to us. We come to this world with nothing and will go with nothing. The thing gifted was only with us for a temporary period. Why then take pride in giving away something which really did not belong to us? Give with grace and with a feeling of gratitude.

When you help someone in need, give it before he asks for it; for if you place him under the necessity of stretching out his hand, you take away from him his self-respect which is worth more than the value of your alms.

What should one feel after giving?

We all know the story of Eklavya. When Dronacharya asked him for his right thumb as "Guru Dakshina", he unhesitatingly cut off the thumb and gave it to Dronacharya.

There is a little known sequel to this story. Eklavya was asked whether he ever regretted the act of giving away his thumb. He replied, and the reply has to be believed to be true, as it was asked to him when he was dying.

His reply was "Yes! I regretted this only once in my life. It was when Pandavas were coming in to kill Dronacharya who was broken hearted on the false news of death of his son Ashwathama and had stopped fighting. It was then that I regretted the loss of my thumb. If the thumb was there, no one could have dared hurt my Guru.

The message to us is clear. Give and never regret giving!

And the last question is- How much should we provide for our heirs?

Ask yourself 'are we taking away from them the gift of work'? - A source of happiness! The answer is given by Warren Buffett: "Leave your kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing!

I would conclude by saying: let us learn the Art of Giving, and quoting Saint Kabir:

"When the wealth in the house increases, when water fills a boat, Throw them out with both hands”

Eskimos..... No problem....... short story

Eskimos who live in poles always lead a life of happiness and they never say there is a problem in their life.
Feeling jealous of this, the people living in nearby towns pledged to make an Eskimo say he has a problem.
They kidnapped an Eskimo and tied his eyes with black cloth and took him to a steep hill and at the peak removed the black cloth.
When the Eskimo tried to find out where he was standing he could find a deep valley in front of him and found himself at the tip of the deadly point. People behind him then asked him if he is now in a problem but the Eskimo said no. They then told him if he is prepared to accept there is a problem they will release him failing which they will push him into the deep valley and he had no chance of survival.

The Eskimo again replied that he had no problem. When they asked how he could say this when his life is at danger, the Eskimo replied "if I am pushed into the valley I am going to die and I will have no problem. If you change your decision and leave me free, I will be back to my place and I will have no problem"
The villagers found the reality of life and let him go

I wish you an Eskimo life for you which mean a no problem life

Who is driving your bus?

If we think about our own lives as being a journey on a bus, surrounded by a great variety of people, all with particular positions on our bus that relate to where they fit into our lives. Some are right there next to us; some behind us; some in front of us... but all are important in playing some role in how we are “positioned” in their lives, and they in ours.

As I write this I am reminded of the movie “Speed” with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves — where they were all on a bus being controlled by a maniac demanding a ransom. The truth is that all too often our lives can be like that; out of control, with someone else doing the driving. A fearful situation? Of course it is!

The brutal truth is that so many people are living-out that nightmare bus-ride right now! Out of control — and don't know what they can do about it.

OK, now you've got the scene in your mind. In order to get some perspective on our own lives, we need to move to the back seat of the bus for a while, and become the observer of what is really going on.

We need to observe who the most significant people are, and how they are positioned in our lives.
Are they standing over us because they feel superior? Are they moving forward in their own lives and leaving us behind? Are they falling behind us because we've chosen to move forward?

So now we are faced with an important question, “Who's driving your bus”?

Is it someone from your past who has dominated you and what you do, even though they may not still be present in your life now? Are they taking you where you want to go? Do you feel like you would like the bus to stop and let you off? Now here comes the challenge...

From this rear seat of observation, we need to start to move closer to the driver's seat. It doesn't matter how long this takes, and it doesn't matter how much we are challenged by the people who may be trying to block our progress forward. We have to do this for ourselves... starting right now!
Our goal is to be in the driver's seat of our own lives!

It is inevitable that we are going to be challenged, and that's when we need courage!
Yes — we will all take different lengths of time to move forward... that's when we need persistence and patience with ourselves!

Most certainly we will feel daunted at times by this process... that's when we need to have determination!

We are going to have to ask people to vacate their seats (which can possibly be their dominant positions in our lives) so that we can move forward towards that front seat we wish to occupy. We are going to have to sit in the middle of the bus at times while we learn to muster more courage and determination to move forward again. This is all part of the process, so stick with it because this is all for YOU!

During this process of moving forward we must remain conscious of where the bus is now, and think about where we really want to take it once we're up front, and in control.

One very important point! At no stage in this process do we tread on someone if they get in our way (as we move forward), simply step around them and move on.

OK — you've made it! You have asked the driver to step aside and let you have your turn, and now you're in the seat. It's all up to you now!

If you're not too sure of what to do and how to do it, just stop and park for a while. It doesn't matter what you do and how long it takes, because this is your game now — so play it your way!

Get crystal clear on where you choose to take your bus now, and very clear on who you wish to accompany you on this new journey. The rest is a process of trusting your own judgement and decisions.

Good luck... and always remember — "What other people do or say is their stuff; how we react is our stuff."

Wealth of Experience

You've been building value within you all your life. It is the priceless value of experience, and every bit of it is still with you.

Today you have more than you've ever had. Think of all the Good and useful things you can do with that wealth of Experience.

From every victory, from every defeat, that experience grows Wiser and more valuable. And now, in this moment, you can utilize the value of your lifelong experience to create even more value.

Your perspective is unique, and from that perspective you can build a richness of living that is perfectly suited to you. What's more, you can share that richness with those around you to make it even more fulfilling. What a great opportunity you have. And you do indeed have it, wherever you are and whatever you've been through.

Feel, appreciate and explore your living and growing wealth of experience. You are worth far more than you can ever imagine, so imagine the very best and bring it to life.

Luxury Verses Necessity (Happiness)

Yesterday, I was driving, and the FM radio went off for few seconds. I thought, I should have an i-Pod. Then suddenly I realized that I have not used my i-Pod in last 6 months. And then more things, Handy cam in last 2 years, Digital Camera in last 2 months, DVD player in last 1 month and many more. Now I can say that I bought that Handy cam just out of impulse, I have used it twice only in last 4 years.

So, what’s wrong and where? When I look at myself or my friends I can see it everywhere. We are not happy with what we have but all are stressed and not happy for the things we don’t have. You have a Santro, but you want City You have a City, but you want Skoda. Just after buying a new phone, we need another one. Better laptop, bigger TV, faster car, bigger house, and more money. I mean, these examples are endless. The point is, does it actually worth? Do we ever think if we actually need those things before we want them?

After this, I was forced to think what I need and what I don’t. May be I didn’t need this Handy cam or that DVD player or i-Pod. When I see my father back at home. He has a simple BPL colour TV, he doesn’t need 32 Sony LCD wall mount. He has a cell phone worth Rs 2,500. Whenever I ask him to change the phone, he always says it’s a phone; I need this just for calls. And believe me; he is much happier in life than me with those limited resources and simple gadgets. The very basic reason why he is happy with so little is that he doesn’t want things in life to make it luxurious, but he wants only those things which are making his life easier. It’s a very fine line between these two, but after looking my father’s life style closely, I got the point. He needs a cell phone but not the i-Phone. He needs a TV but not the 32 plasma. He needs a car but not an expensive one.

Initially I had lot of questions.
I am earning good, still I am not happy¦...why ?
I have all luxuries, still I am stressed.... ....... why ?
I had a great weekend, still I am feeling tired...... why?

I met lot of people, I thought over it again and again, I still dont know if I got the answers, but certainly figured out few things. I realize that one thing which is keeping me stressed is the stay connected syndrome. I realized that, at home also I am logged in on messengers, checking mails, using social networks, and on the top of that, the windows mobile is not letting me disconnected. On the weekend itself, trying to avoid unwanted calls and that is keeping my mind always full of stress. I realized that I am spending far lesser money than what I earn; even then I am always worried about money and more money. I realized that I am saving enough money I would ever need, whenever needed. Still I am stressed about job and salary and spend.

May be, many people will call this approach not progressive attitude, but I want my life back. Ultimately it’s a single life, a day gone is a day gone. I believe if I am not happy tonight, I’ll never be happy tomorrow morning. I finally realized that meeting friends, spending quality time with your loved ones; spending time with yourself is the most important thing. If on Sunday you are alone and you don’t have anybody to talk with, then all that luxuries life, all that money is wasted. May be cutting down your requirements, re-calculating your future goal in the light of to day’s happiness is a worthwhile thing to do. May be selling off your Santro and buying Honda City on EMIs is not a good idea. I believe putting your happiness ahead of money is the choice we need to make.

I think, a lot can be said and done but what we need the most is re-evaluation of the value of happiness and time we are giving to our life and people associate with it.

Change does not Happen when Circumstances Improves......
Change happens when YOU Decide to Improve YOUR circumstances!!!!!!!

God’s Clinic

I went to God’s clinic to have my routine check-up and I confirmed I was ill. When God took my blood pressure, he saw I was low in tenderness. When he read my temperature, the thermometer registered 40 degree of anxiety.

He ran on electrocardiogram and found I needed several “Love by Passes” Since my arteries were blocked with loneliness and could not provide for an empty heart.

I went to orthopedics, because I could not walk by my brother’s side and could not hug my friends, since I had fractured myself when tripping with enemy. He also found I was short sighted, since I could not see beyond the short coming of my brothers and sisters, when I compared about deafness, the diagnosis was that I had stopped listening to God’s voice talking to me on a daily bases.

For all of that, God gave me a free consultation, thanks to his mercifulness. So my pledge is to, once I leave this clinic, only take the natural remedies he prescribed through his words of truth.

Prescription

• Every morning, take a full glass of gratitude.
• When getting to work, take one spoon of peace.
• Every hour, take one pill of patient, one cup of brotherhood and one glass of humanity.
• When getting home take one dose of love.
• When getting to bed, take two tablets of clear conscience.

Do not give into sadness or depression for what you are going through to-day.

God knows how you feel…..
God knows exactly and what perfection what is being allowed to happen to you in your life at this precise moment. God’s purpose for you is, simply perfect. He wants to show you things that only you can understand by living what you are living, and by being in the place you are now.

May God give you:-
For every storm-- a rainbow,
For every tear-- a Smile
For every care-- a promises and a blessing in each trial.
For every problem life sends, a faithful friend to share for every sign, a sweet song, and an answer for each prayer.

A simple but meaningful message

A wise man once sat in the audience & cracked a joke.

All laughed like crazy. After a moment he cracked the same joke again and little less people laughed this time.

He cracked the same joke again & again, when there was no laughter in the crowed, he smiled and said,

When you can’t laugh again & again, then normally why do you keep crying over the same subject/ thing over and over again”. ??

This too shall pass- Understand this Deeply

Once a King called upon all his wise men and asked them. “Is there a Mantra or suggestion which works in every situation, In every circumstances, in every place and in every time. In every Joy, every sorrow, every defeat and every victory ? One answer for all questions? Something which can help me when none of you is available to advise me? Tell me is there any mantra?”

All the wise men were puzzled by the king’s question. They thought and thought. After a lengthy discussion, an old man suggested something which appealed to all of them. They went to the King and gave him something written on paper, with a condition that the king was not to see it out of curiosity.

Only in extreme danger, when the king finds himself alone and there seems to be no way, only then he can see it. The king put the papers under his Diamond Ring.

Sometime later, the neighbors attacked the kingdom. King and his army fought bravely but lost the battle. The king had to flew on his horse. The enemies were following him. Getting closer and closer. Suddenly the king found himself standing at the end of the road-that road was not going anywhere. Underneath there was a rocky valley thousand feet deep. If he jumped into it, he would be finished……and he could not return because it was a small road…..the sound of enemy’s horses was approaching fast. The king became restless. There seemed to be no way.

Then suddenly he saw the Diamond in his ring shinning in the sun, and he remembered the message hidden in the ring. He opened the diamond and read the message. The message was- “THIS TOO SHALL PASS”

The king read it. Again read it. Suddenly something struck him- Yes ! This too will pass. Only a few days ago, I was enjoying my kingdom. I was the mightiest of the entire king’s, Yet to-day. The kingdom and all his pleasure has gone. I am here trying to escape from enemies. Like those days of luxuries have gone, this day of danger too will pass. A calm came on his face. He kept standing there. The place where he was standing was full of natural beauty. He had never known that such a beautiful place was also a part of his kingdom.

The revelation of the message had a great effect on him, he relaxed and forgot about those following him. After a few minutes he realized that the noise of the horses and the enemy coming was receding. They moved into some other part of the mountains and were nowhere near him.

The king was very brave. He reorganized his army anf fought again. He defeated the enemy and regained his empire. When he returned to his empire after victory, he was received with much fanfare. The whole capital was rejoicing in the victory.

Everyone was in a festive mood. Flowers were being showered on king from every house, from every corner. People were dancing and singing. For a moment king said to himself. :I am one of the bravest and greatest king. It is not easy to defeat me. With all the reception and celebration he saw an ego emerging in him.

Suddenly the Diamond of his ring flashed in the sunlight and reminded him of the message. He open it and read it again: “THIS TOO SHALL PASS”

He became silent. His face went through a total change- from the egoist he moved to a state of utter humbleness. If this too is going to pass, it is not yours. The defeat was not yours, the victory is not yours. You are just a watcher. Everything is passes by. We are witnesses of all this. We are the perceivers. Life comes and goes. Happiness comes and goes. Sorrow comes and goes.

Now as you have read this story, just sit silently and evaluate your own life. This too will pass. Think of the moments of joy and victory in your life. Think of the moment of sorrow and defeat. Are they permanent? They all come and pass away.

Life just passes away. There is nothing permanent in this world. Everything is changing except the law of change. Think over it from your own perspective. You have seen all the changes. You have survived all set backs, all defeats and all sorrows, all have passed away. The problem in the present, they too will pass away, because nothing remains for ever. Joy and sorrow are the two faces of the same coin, they both will pass away.

You are just a witness of change, experience it, understand it, and enjoy the present moment- THIS TOO SHALL PASS

What is Death

There is no birth or death. Everything goes on changing from in the stream of eternity. Being born with a human body in this world’s itself destiny. One who has a taste for God’s love wants to be born again and again with a human body, because the taste of His love cannot be possible other than in that human birth.

Life has no death. Life is Eternal. What we call death or end of life is actually a phase and is concerned only with the body. Body consists of matters, which dissolve in time to their original form, but self has no dissolution. We have come for a few days not forever. Why should we bother for anything?

When an individual first appears in the Womb of the mother, matters appear instantly. At that stage mind lies in a state of inertia. Mind and matter are nothing but one. With their gradual manifestation the difference in them is identified. From that state the individual is in the domain of nature and a series of phenomena determine one’s every development. Sometimes it seems mechanical.

Human birth is the rarest of all the births; we should try to live our life keeping Him in view. Human life is meant to feel His divine Play and thereby understand the nobility of the Creator. The mystery of birth will be unfolded only when the sweetness and beauty of the God’s Divine Play, which is the eternal Truth, is realized by turning the consciousness inward

Birth means a soul entering a body and death is its departure from the Body. The soul itself has neither a beginning nor an end; it is eternal or anadi and ananta. The soul entering a body on this earth or on other planets of the universe performs some actions that are karma.

Karma may enable a soul to attain the eternal bliss or Mokska. On the other hand karma causes endless continuation of the cycle of birth and death of a soul. As you sow so shall you reap. Thus, Karma plays the pivotal role in a pilgrim’s progress towards Mokska; its attainment or the lack of it. In its Karma, the atama is absolutely free and unfettered. A soul charts its own course evasion on uncharted sea. How does an atma go about it? The 14th mantra of the 23rd chapter of yajurveda gives an appropriate and crystal clear guidance:

We are here with this body. Just maintain the body, nothing else. Body is not ours. We have taken that body the temple of God as a temporary place to enjoy Him in the (God’s creative force which manifests in nature, and therefore God’s grace to us). When we have come here, we have come here with mind senses, desire and attachments. We shall have to give something to them. If we stop everything, they will revolt.

To be born with human form in this mortal world has only one happy object. That is the relish the joy of God’s Love. Only it is the tendency of human mind to run under the compulsion of innumerable allurements and attachments. But even being involved in them what a Supreme blessing is this human birth. How ineffably is this world filled with beauty and flavor! We have come to taste it! But we have become otherwise engaged. Be always with God’s name then the objective with which we have come here will be realized.

Human mind is similar to an Ocean, which are active at its surface and more and more quite (Silent) at its depth. Human being s are borne in the body with God from His blissful world to get real (Supreme Bliss) by the taste of His love in this mortal and illusory world. But superstitious human involvements and ignorant irresponsible attitude towards God do not allow us to come near to Him or to feel His love for which we get the rear human birth. We ignore God in pursuit of worldly pleasures, profits, and attachments, which please now and depress the very next moment. We waste the precious human birth given to us. We cannot give up the superstitious of our egoistic living in the world and we forget Him, the Truth.

When I die where will I go?- The substance is one and that alone is the eternal substance. There is no vanishing, no destruction of it. It is the supreme Integral Existence. We are the eternal substances of that un-fragmented Supreme Being.

We say a person dies. Where does one go? There is only one place. Still we think that at death a person has gone somewhere. One does not go anywhere. We do not understand the nature of death.

There is something called death as we call it. But it is God who leaves the body and He doesn’t go anywhere. His vibration stops in the body. But until the individual mind function is over the mind remains dissatisfied. Unless and until this mind is fully satisfied it will continue to come into this world. People who were together, come together again.

In the vacuous region of the heart, which is the Infinite, two sounds are constantly chanting. When those two sounds of God’s stop it is death. When these two sounds go off, the mind shrinks and a person dies. Then the mind shrinks and the person is merged in pervasive Existence. When the mind can resort to another body, it buds forth again.

One has no right to put a violent end to one’s own life. Live the normal term of life doing your work. Without coveting the wealth of others and enjoying Him.

Individual has no existence of their own because exit from their mortal body is inescapable. That which holds the body will return to its own abode when it leaves the body. The reality of the mortal individual is then merged in that eternal and continuous Life Force which never moves from or to any place.

When God leaves the body He does not go anywhere. And we a bunch of fools do all kinds of funeral ceremonies for His benefit! Such rites are only for mercenary interest. The deceased for whom we perform rites receive nothing. Funeral rituals are meaningless and full of superstition. It is a business or trade of the priests that takes us far from Truth. We shall keep it in mind How many days we can or do live is not important. How we lived or live is important.

We have come to another’s house we must leave it someday. He will come and take us off. For the relish of His divine Play, God has appeared as many in the mirror of the mind.