The journey of soul after death -1

According to Shuniya vadins, our gross body is made of atoms of five mahabhuta i.e., water, air, fire, earth and ether and inner most part of all these atoms is Void or Shuniya. This void portion contains the spirit of God and acts as energy principle in all animate and inanimate life. The gross body that is also part of Vedic Maya appears real to human senses. This illusion is necessary as to achieve salvation the human soul has to get rid of gunas effect along with its past good and bad actions and this is only possible when material body is provided to the soul.

Thus mortal and immortal are associated since immemorial. Times. Those who believe that soul and spirit are the same normally consider the matter as inert and there is no life in atoms and their conglomeration or any other coherent mass of matter. Such individuals find soul/spirit in animals, birds and all animate life. Exploitation of matter, treating earth as quarry, creating all round pollution and not finding any sin or evil in this kind of activity, is mostly by such people and by those who do not believe the existence of soul or spirit at all. For them even the laws of God and Nature do not exist and they create their own laws to justify all types of exploitation. For such persons their minds become logic inventing machines.

Soul does not eat food and is silent observer of the actions of the human beings. Intake of food along with energy principle is the cause of “seeds” for reproduc¬tion in all types of animate life. Not only animals, birds and others which have mind, will and energy principle in them but even plants, trees have spirit for their growth, reproduction and the instinct of survival. Thus, soul and spirit are clearly distinguished as two separate divine entities. While soul is only in the human beings and is a particle of God, spirit is in all animate and inanimate life, which is also divine but comes through the Nature.

There is an important simile in the Vedas and Svetasvatra Upanishad, which refers to two birds sitting on a tree, one bird is enjoying its fruits and the other bird is observing silently without eating its fruit. It is the soul, which does not eat any food and is silent observer of the activities of human beings, though all the time it advises and guides the right path. With sattavic food that is pure, nutritious and simple along with ten Pranas (vital breaths), the spirit maintains its energy and provides the same to all parts of the human body. Vedas further make it clear that in the human beings spirit, mind, will, vital breath and virtually all parts and organs of the body are born of the atma (soul). Once atma leaves the gross body, all others disappear and merge in Prakrti and the universe. It is like a man and his shadow, which are inseparable. As long as the real self i.e., soul is in the gross body, mind, will, pranas etc., remain as shadow of the soul being part of the cosmic illusion - Maya.

It is like electricity, which takes the form of object it enters and communicates silently with the entire body through innumerable nerves, which are contained in the body along with heat energy. Though it is silent, it teaches limitless knowledge being a particle of the Supreme Brahma.

• According to Yajnavalkya, we are but HE when we know our real self.

• In Kena Upanishad, it is made clear that the soul is Brahma Himself.

• Brihadrnayaka Upanishad mentions “ahm Brahma asi” - I am Brahma.

• Mundaka Upanishad says, “ayam atma Brahma”- my soul is God.

Thus, Vedic metaphysics leaves no doubt that soul of an individual is part of the formless and ineffable God. Sankracharya however, makes it clear that this stage of soul being part of God is when all good and bad actions of the body on the soul disappear and we reach beyond gunas of purity, activity and passivity. This stage is reached when only transparent, truthful, selfless actions for the wel¬fare of others in the society are performed. According to Vedas, this is the only purpose of our birth. No on can acquire this stage without divine and spiritual knowledge, also known as Brahma Jnan or Vidya. We also acquire a-priori knowledge through the soul and the knower of real nature of soul gets permanent bliss (R.V.1-58-5, 6). Those who do not know its real nature hanker after transitory pleasures through matter under the influence of their senses. These transitory pleasures are the source of pain and misery to them and other members of family and society.

Since the same spirit of God pervades in all human beings whether Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Zoroastrians, Buddhists and others, the Vedic metaphysics has developed a spirituous-social concept of Univer¬sal Brotherhood (Vishwa Bandhutva). It is this spirit, which makes the entire mankind as spiritual brothers and sisters. However, the manifested soul makes us all different and dis¬tinct in personality, conduct, outlook and divinity. It is the spirit which makes a person social animal and through soul only divinity can come taking a person towards perfection. Vedic metaphysics is emphatic that owing to the prevalence of the spirit of God in all human beings, any distinction of class superiority or inferiority is negation of religion and ethics.

When soul leaves the body, you are no longer your self. Human dead body is of no use to any one. The spirit goes away and merges in the Prakrti. Thus, the spirit is the spirit of the living, while the soul is the sole balance left after death. Soul is dynamic but not moving, when manifested but moves faster than all material things when not manifested. It traverses billions of miles when it goes to Sun, Moon, Indra, Varun, Yama etc., during the 12 days journey after the death of gross body for purification, knowledge, and luster, noble and divine traits, which it lost during the stage of manifestation in the body. Thus, Jiva Atma (manifested soul) is different from Atma (soul) in attributes. Yajur Veda describes about its journey of 12 days. However, wha-tever is active both in animate and inanimate life is spirit. Though spirit is subtle, it is more energetic and powerful than any gross matter.

After its 12 days journey, it is well equipped with Vedic knowl¬edge, a-priori principles and cosmic laws of social and moral order. Thus on the birth of a child, the knowledge of four Vedas is made available through the manifested soul which is part of the inner world. Later seers and sages created mythological fables to convey Vedic meta¬physical concept in Puranas and Tantras about the children having complete knowledge of God, Nature, Soul, Spirit etc., at an early age. Prahlad, the son of a demon king, was a child devotee of Lord Vishnu and was aware of divinity in him through his soul at a very tender age. In Ramayana and Mahabharta both lord Rama and Krishna had perfect Vedic knowledge as infants. The two sons of Lord Rama, Lov and Kusha, as children of tender ages had got this knowledge partly from their preceptor Maharsi Valmiki but mostly from their inner “real selves.” Even going beyond mythology and religious fables, the greatest Indian metaphysicists Sankracharya acquired this knowledge as a child. At the tender age of 8 years, he could dis¬cuss, deliberate and even explain in details the various aspects of Vedic knowledge. He wrote his greatest commentary on Vedas in his Brahma sutras at the age of 12 years, which are now even recognized as the greatest authority on Advait Vedanta - pure Vedic monism and monotheism.

Creative Energy

Worry is a misuse of your amazing creative energy. Think of What would happen if instead of wasting it on worry; you used all that creative energy to imagine positive out comes in your life.

There is no limit to what you can imagine, and there are no Restrictions on the kinds of things you can imagine. Your Imagination is filled with precisely the things you choose to imagine.

If you have nothing better to imagine, it can be much too easy to imagine all sorts of disastrous scenarios. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

With just a little bit of initiative you can plant positive and empowering seeds in your imagination. And in the fertile Realm of your powerful imagination, those seeds will grow ever stronger in their beneficial influence.

Even a negative experience can set off a positive chain of Thoughts in your imagination, when you so choose. It's really just as easy and realistic to imagine solving a Problem as it is to worry about being overwhelmed by that Problem.

When you feel worry coming on, always remember that you have another choice. As long as you're imagining elaborate Scenarios, you might as well imagine the very best.

Spiritual gains alone, carried to next Life

People come and go, the "Atman" within casts aside old garments and exchanges them for a new ... Whence arises the question for weeping and wailing! One who weeps is far away from truth. We are merely a manifestation by the "Atman" and shall be cast aside when our use is over. "Atman" is immortal... It invokes various garments on the basis of resultant Karma of that moment. Our Karma in present Life must be such that ... We carry the seeds of our good deeds to the next Life. All materialistic achievements in this World carry no weightage and only Spiritual heritage earned by us shall be carried to the next Life. "Atman" within wants liberation. Materialistic achievements by the physical body have no value for an "Atman". Spiritual upgrading of our mental capabilities alone is recognized in the realms of the Spiritual World of "Atman". Why not all of us all the time strive for Spiritualistic achievements.

The whole World is crazy for amassing wealth which everyone consciously knows ... Whence comes the time for leaving the Earthly abode everything shall be left behind. Still, the greed persists. "We feel incapable of controlling ourselves". The control is within. It is upon us to succumb to the lust or not. As we do not have an independent mind we cannot blame the mind, as is the case with most Human Beings. Why blame anyone or anything for our follies!

Respect the "Eternal Truth". God's grace shall be bestowed on us. Can we ever hope to liberate our "Atman" from further manifestations without the grace of the Lord! Remove the veil of short sightedness from your eyes. The truth is within. Perceive it and all will become clear to you.

Never again blame your mind for the wrongs committed by you. "Atman" within only supports you if you are willing to listen. Will power can be increased by invoking positive thoughts all the time. As your confidence over your self increases, so shall your Will power.

Nature of Mind

A hard mind offers resistance to new information, and a hard mind propels one to much action even when inaction would have been better like say a Stalin or a Hitler !

What is a soft mind ------------- one which knows that it knows not !

It is said that hard mind offers resistance to new information. What I was saying is it also becomes a resistance to old information that is well within our subconscious mind. When there is an action propelled by the mind that means old information has succeeded in penetrating through the hard mind to pop to the surface to call for the action of the body.

Anything you focus well increase. When the body is focused on information propelled by the mind the body as no choice but to act - as in the case of Stalin and Hitler who were so focused on the Adharmic action.

A soft mind does not only know it knows not but is also willing to bent and blend to a source of its choice. It can either allow it self to be used by a lower dimension of body or be used by the higher dimension of our soul. This is symbolised by our sages through the breaking of a coconut.

The hard shell of the coconut symbolises our hard mind which comprises of our past solidified thoughts; the coconut water in the shell represents the spirit of our soul that is contained and compressed within the hard mind; the white flesh of the coconut symbolises our soul - pure and pristine; precious and auspicious.

When we throw with force the coconut to the ground - the shell shatters which symbolises the shattering of our past conditioned thoughts bundled as mind - when it is shattered, the water is released which symbolises the releasing of the spirit of our soul and the flesh is felt which symbolises the realisation of our soul.

Where logic ends divinity begins, when the mind becomes soft it lets go of the past and it paves way for a new horizon. The soul which is our natural divine self, the source of bliss (shambhava ) will intuit the mind to propel the body. The flow will be from the higher to the lower.

This flow with the flow to glow with the glow will be realised faster when our mind becomes equipoise and steady.

“Simple thinking leads us to Higher Living.”

"To bring a sense of purpose and better quality into our lives we must look at the nature and working of our very mind itself. The mind is meant to absorb information, transform it into knowledge and lead it into action." Since the air is simple in its characteristics we are able to breath-in and breath-out effortlessly. Imagine if the air has some complex nature and our lungs would not be able to handle it? Then every breath we take would require great effort.

"A hard mind offers immense resistance to previously absorbed information that prevents the flow of knowledge and action. We need simple steps to simplify this complex mind. Our mind must be as soft as a sponge for maximum absorption. Just as water can be easily absorbed by the sponge than oil and squeezed out, intense truth explained in a simple way are easily absorbed and assimilated faster for our own transformation. A soft mind easily absorbs information and allows free flow of knowledge into action."

you are so loaded with knowledge and information, that you are missing the wood for the trees. You are too busy crowing your intellect with high funda philosophy but have forgotten the basics. The need of the hour is to LIVE these simple truths. Stop verbalizing and start actualizing,

Our mind must be extremely pure to be able to perform the conversion from information to transformation efficiently. Whatever we read and understand from the article is information. When we absorb the importance of the message & try to implement them to reform, then it is transformation. Transformation happens only when we are humble enough to accept that I am not perfect & I want to be a better person.

We are definitely children. We should accept that as a fact, keep aside our ego, be humble, learn, reform & transform.

Ideas and inspiration flash freely in a pure mind to transform information to knowledge. Three basic steps can be followed: First, allow others the freedom to be as they are, without imposing your mindset of thoughts and ideas. Second, have faith and belief that. God is in you. Third, spend some time quietly everyday thinking about your inner. Self and chanting the name of God. This way our mind which seeks information can be changed into a mind meant for the transformation of our very life itself from human to Divine.

New information is like a new seed being planted. When planting, we look for fresh, soft soil so that the seed can be planted deep with ease and also the planted seed will receive the much needed sunlight with ease that will be absorbed with ease by a soft soil but a lot harder and longer through a hard soil. In order for the soil to be soft and subtle, we nurture it by pouring water from time to time. That way the soil will not become hard like a rock which slows down not only the sunlight reaching the base but also the shot from the seed to reach the surface.

The planted seed symbolizes absorbed information when germinated into an idea finds difficulty to shoot to the surface. This is when we use the expression “I know the answer; it is in me it just refuses to come out!” "A hard mind offers immense resistance to previously absorbed information that prevents the flow of knowledge and action" i.e. we need a soft mind that can be not only a good absorber of information but also a good radiator that creates pores for the information to radiate when we need it most.

That is why a student is requested to relax and be cool so that mind will be soft to release the right information during the given exam time.

I feel repetition is very essential, because every time we hear or read the same truth, a new meaning emerges, which had earlier eluded us.

Who was The Laughing Buddha

Every one must have seen the statue of "Laughing Buddha". He is also called as the "Happy Man".

In actuality he was named Hotei or Pu-Tai is best known as the jolly Laughing Buddha. In China, he is known as the Loving or Friendly One. He is based on an eccentric Chinese Ch'an (Zen) monk who lived over 1,000 years ago and has become a significant part of Buddhist and Shinto culture. Because of this monk's benevolent nature, he came to be regarded as an incarnation of the bodhisattva who will be Maitreya (the Future Buddha). His large protruding stomach and jolly smile have given him the common designation "Laughing Buddha.”

He was truly a great Zen master and legend has a great story which is so inspirational for all of us.

The jolly good saint that he was used to go from one place to the other. He went to the Town Square and soon people gathered around him. He was so funny looking and always smiling that people used to crowd around him.

He would then distribute sweets and small toys to all children who had gathered around him. Then keep his bag down, look to the sky and just start laughing. He used to laugh madly and he was not interested whether other laughed or not. Soon his laughter used to be contagious and all who had gathered would start to laugh.

The whole town used to laugh and laugh. After sometime he would pick the bag, which he had kept down, smile to all, and go to the next town. All his life he did only this action and it was said that many people attained Nirvana, enlightenment just through this process. Hence he was called as the laughing Buddha because Buddha is someone who is enlightened and laughter was his unique method. Never before him or never after him was such a simple aspect used to achieve what all humans strive for-moksha or enlightenment.

He would rarely speak and once when he was asked to describe his method he told, that he gave sweets to children to symbolically that the more you give, the more comes to you. Thereby he unveiled the secret of "Giving with joy". Children are said to be GOD because they represent the GOD Nature, which is always, be in Present time, smiling and joyful, ego less, and most important is without judge mental mind.

The bag represented problems that all humans encounter. We are mistaken that when we have problems, that GOD only gave you a problem and the rest are so happy. The problems appear big because we are associated with it- calling it as "My Problem”. Look at a funny phenomenon, if anyone comes to you with any problem of theirs and seek solutions or advice, what you do. You tell them so many solutions so easily as though you are an expert in all the fields in the Universe. However big the others problems are you can solve it so easily, you are a master solver of problems. But then what happens to your own problems. Hmm Hmm it is impossible to find any solution.

This happens only because of your attachment and association with the problem. So laughing Buddha said, simple keep your problem down (symbolically keeping the bag down) means "Disassociate with your Problem", "Separate form it" and yes just Laugh. What else can one do? Think and thank GOD that you only have such a small problem as compared to so many others. Whether you laugh or cry the problem is going to be there right. So why not laugh at it. Therein is the magic and mind you no small magic, it is huge, apply it to realize about the power of laughter.

On laughing your whole internal chemistry changes and thereby the body produces certain enzymes that are only released in a state of laughter. The problem now looks too tiny and as you pick it (symbolically he picks back the bag before going to the next place) the problem is solved.

Such a great zen master was Hotei or Laughing Buddha. So next time you look at the statue of "laughing Buddha" associate with that great teaching he gave all of us, the power of laughter. Each time you see the Laughing Buddha and if it reminds you to laugh, a great work has been done.

Whole life Hotei lived in Laughter. And when the time came to pass away, he knew he had to give up his life at an appropriate time. He called his disciples and said that after he passes away, they should immediately burn his body. The disciples were surprised because there was no tradition of burning in Zen. But they followed the master wishes. And as they lit fire to his body, "Fire Works and Crackers" started flying all over.

Hotei was so great that just before he died he hid a lot of crackers and rockets in his clothes. So there also he created such laughter by the suddenness of the situation. So Hotei not only lived in laughter all through his life, he also died in laughter.

Let us all learn from the great zen master that "It is our birth right to laugh" and "No matter what happens we should come back to laughter". 

“Simple thinking leads us to Higher Living.”

"To bring a sense of purpose and better quality into our lives we must look at the nature and working of our very mind itself. The mind is meant to absorb information, transform it into knowledge and lead it into action."  Since the air is simple in its characteristics we are able to breath-in and breath-out effortlessly. Imagine if the air has some complex nature and our lungs would not be able to handle it? Then every breath we take would require great effort.  

"A hard mind offers immense resistance to previously absorbed information that prevents the flow of knowledge and action. We need simple steps to simplify this complex mind. Our mind must be as soft as a sponge for maximum absorption. Just as water can be easily absorbed by the sponge than oil and squeezed out, intense truth explained in a simple way are easily absorbed and assimilated faster for our own transformation. A soft mind easily absorbs information and allows free flow of knowledge into action."

You are so loaded with knowledge and information, that you are missing the wood for the trees. You are too busy crowing your intellect with high funda philosophy but have forgotten the basics. The need of the hour is to LIVE these simple truths. Stop verbalizing and start actualizing,

Our mind must be extremely pure to be able to perform the conversion from information to transformation efficiently. Whatever we read and understand from the article is information. When we absorb the importance of the message & try to implement them to reform, then it is transformation. Transformation happens only when we are humble enough to accept that I am not perfect & I want to be a better person.

We are definitely children. We should accept that as a fact, keep aside our ego, be humble, learn, reform & transform.

Ideas and inspiration flash freely in a pure mind to transform information to knowledge. Three basic steps can be followed: First, allow others the freedom to be as they are, without imposing your mindset of thoughts and ideas. Second, have faith and belief that. God is in you. Third, spend some time quietly everyday thinking about your inner. Self and chanting the name of God. This way our mind which seeks information can be changed into a mind meant for the transformation of our very life itself from human to Divine.

I feel repetition is v essential, because every time we hear or read the same truth, a new meaning emerges, which had earlier eluded us.

To be happy we must believe the future will get better-2

By learning and applying the secrets of life, you will indeed achieve any desired goal. But more importantly, you will be joyful about your life. And you will live your life more intelligently. However this is not a complete manual for happiness. Without a relationship with God, you will always find emptiness within yourself. It seems that while there might be great variations as to what the term intelligence actually denotes, there is some common agreement on what the term does mean.

The experts agree then that intelligent behaviour reflects a capacity to adapt, by learning from experience, solving problems, and reasoning clearly. Those behaving intelligently meet challenges and achieve their goals.

If intelligence is measured by your ability to solve problems and to meet your goals than we are all intelligent. The reason people don’t solve problems easily or achieve their goals is not because they don’t have the potential to do so. In fact, we have unlimited potential, which means we are all equally intelligent.

The real question is how we as individuals utilize this potential. The difference between the various ways in which people tap into their potential has nothing to do with IQ, but instead is related to the motivation to excel. Motivation as we are learning can be controlled through independent-will; therefore by choice alone we can all literally be “super-humans” achieving any desired goal we set for ourselves. Only God knows why some individuals want to be better, while others seem to settle for less than they can be. It will always be a mystery why people don’t change for the better.

Each arena of life has either a downward spiral or an upward spiral. We can experience this in each of the key areas of our lives. Our spiritual well-being, health, relationships, personality, life events, businesses careers and finances are always experiencing highs and lows.

When we make the wrong choices over and over and over again, a karmic momentum is created. A negative accumulation of this momentum is the result of making unwholesome choices consistently over a long period of time. This is a problem. When we spiral downward that negative momentum begins working against us. This momentum eventually becomes self-destructive.

The complete state of happiness is when we achieve love in each area of our lives. However this doesn’t easily happen. Most of us are not aware that this is the only way to achieve true happiness.

In spite of the apparent contradiction, a person can sometimes experience both happiness and sadness concurrently (e.g. someone important could die yet you believe he has gone to a better place). You therefore are sad that he/she is gone but joyful because you believe that the person is in heaven. Eventually though one emotion will overpower the other. Either joy will overtake sadness or sadness will overtake joy. You cannot experience equal amounts of sadness and joy. By nature that is impossible. You are left with only two choices:

(1) Choose to empower your positive emotions.

(2) Choose to leave your emotions to chance.

Again, you need to understand that in every situation there is a choice to be made.

The Downward Spiral

Discomfort: In our sincere quest for happiness, some of us experience great amounts of discomfort trying to achieve financial growth. For example, you might have worked long hours at a job you don’t really enjoy.

But when you finally achieve the financial growth you are after you might find that this does not make you as happy as you had anticipated. When this happens you begin to fear that you will experience more pain. As a result you become more uncomfortable.

To be happy we must believe the future will get better-1

If you want to be happy today, tomorrow and for the days to come, then you have to believe tomorrow will get better. When you believe tomorrow will be better than today you create hope inside yourself. As you use the power of motivation to set goals for yourself, and you believe you will achieve them, you create an inner sensation of anticipation and excitement. This will add to the passion in your life.

For example, maybe you aren’t married yet and you wonder how much happier you’ll be when you get married. On the other hand maybe you are already married and feel dissatisfied. You long for the day when you will find fulfillment in your marriage. Either way, unless you believe your relationships will get better, you will lose hope for well-being in your life. You must believe that your relationships, finances, career, health and spiritual well-being will significantly improve as the days past by. In the absence of such hope you may join the throngs of people who exhibit the worst kinds of behaviour. Many people will resort to behaviours which will be destructive to themselves or others. For example research shows that people who don’t believe their future will get better are more apt to use drugs and alcohol.

Conversely hope is so fundamental to human happiness that even in dire circumstances some people can remain happy if they see some “light at the end of the tunnel”. Devote as much attention as you can to the subject of happiness. You will feel how important it is. The clearest and most fruitful intention we can have as human beings is to achieve happiness and spiritual well-being. If we are not crystal clear on the need for happiness in our lives we will spin our wheels without going anywhere. But the achievement of happiness cannot come without struggling throughout our lives.

In order to achieve a sense of our well-being, we must believe that everything happens for some purpose and that it serves us. The reason for choosing to believe that everything happens for a reason is because we don’t want to be victims of circumstances. The minute we believe we are victims who are out of control, we become fearful. The truth is fear and happiness simply doesn’t mix. That’s why people say: “Don’t worry be happy.”

On a deep level we all know exactly what we are doing. What does that mean? It means that people who want to be happy make choices that enable them to experience happiness. And the people who do not want to be happy deliberately make choices that ensure the continuation of their unhappiness.

“It is better to Believe than to Disbelieve,

In so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.”

Another key to happiness is the power of belief.

Belief is so fundamental to happiness because without basic belief, no progress is possible. If you want to make significant progress in being happy you must seek to achieve a feeling of certainty. This certainty is the difference between happiness and sadness. How do you move from the emotion of fear to experiencing genuine joy in your life? To do this you must resolve your internal conflicts over the emotions which cause you to feel un-resourceful.

The human emotional spectrum can be broken down into two basic elements: love and fear. - Hurt, anger, frustration, disappointment, guilt, inadequacy and depression: these are all fear-based emotions. These emotions in turn produce feelings of depletion, weakness, inability to cope and exhaustion. The highest state of being is love. It produces buoyancy, radiance, lightness and joy. If you pursue truth, then you will come to understand that love heals everything.

Unlike animals we can always choose our response to any stimulus. The God given supercomputer called the human brain is capable of reprogramming itself in a powerful fashion. Even the most unspeakable events in our lives can be instructive and can be used for good. I have seen this happen in many lives. I have experienced it in my own life.

To have true happiness, this momentum must be completely destroyed and utterly and perfectly extinguished forever. If we want to stop and intervene the negative momentum, consistency is everything. And in order to succeed, we must use the power of motivation to reverse the momentum so it can work for us, not against us.

In the same way that negative karmic momentum becomes self-generating as a result of repeated wrong choices, we can do the converse. We can intervene and stop the negative momentum by making right choices over and over again. This will lead to a slowing down of the negative momentum. Our love, joy and happiness increases as we continue to make better decisions.

As our confidence increases, as a result of consistently making right choices, the negative karma will continue to decrease until it not only ceases altogether but - and this is everything - a new momentum is born.

I am going to assert that the real reason you are reading this blog or I am writing this blog is not to make money, not to get name or fame, not to become healthier or to achieve any other kind of goal. In reality all of those goals are actually a means to an end. The end is happiness. But if we are to attain true happiness, we must make sure we know how to get it. I write this blog to educate you.

We create our life

Always wait for something good and it happens, because whatsoever happens, we create. In fact we create it; we sow the seeds. But we sow the seeds unconsciously, that's why we think that some accident has happened. Accidents never happen, nothing is ever accidental. It is a cosmos, it is not a chaos. Everything is absolutely based on a fundamental ultimate law: nothing ever goes wrong. Yes, sometimes it looks to us as if it has gone wrong, because we were expecting something else. That’s a problem --we do one thing, we sow one seed and we expect something else.

We sow the seeds of one kind of flower and we expect some other kind of flower, so when the flowers come we are frustrated. But flowers come through the seeds, not our wishes. So remember: We constantly create our world. There are people who are constantly afraid that something wrong is going to happen, and then it happens! And when it happens, they are proved right. They have made it happen. People who are afraid will always find situations in which fear grips them. People who are loving will always find situations where love blooms.

Because this existence goes on giving you that which you project. Life is our project. We are our life's creators. God has created man, but as freedom. So there is an essential freedom inside; now it is up to you to choose what you would like to happen to you in life and then you will see that it starts happening. One thing is linked with another, one thing leads to another, and slowly you have taken a certain route; then all other alternatives are dropped. When a child is born, all the alternatives are open; he is utterly free.

He can be a musician, poet, wrestler, a politician, he can be anything an Adolf Hitler, a Gautama Buddha; anything is possible But sooner or later choices start coming and he starts moving in a certain direction. Then that direction remains his world. So always remember: whatsoever has happened to you, you have been the cause of it. Sometimes it hurts that you are the cause of all the misery that has happened to you; you feel sad But there is no need to feel sad, because through it, you come to an understanding, and then things need not happen the same way again to you.

And the second thing to remember is: For every hurt or happiness always feel thankful, because sometimes pain is needed for growth and pleasure is not needed. So whatsoever happens, make it an opportunity to grow. Use that opportunity as a springboard for something higher. A friend dies, there is pain, there is anguish and misery, but use that opportunity. Meditate on death. Your friend's death has reminded you of a very significant phenomenon that death is there. Don't arrange your life without taking note of death.

Maybe existence has given you a message to get ready: the friend is gone, you will be gone one day, so prepare for death! Life is a small affair; a seventy-year affair in which one-third will be gone in sleep, another one-third will be gone in earning bread and butter, another one-third in other stupidities. Nothing much is left! It is not a big thing, it is a very small phenomenon; compared to death it is nothing Death is eternity.

Inner Transformation

The lone seed in the ground has neither sunlight nor breeze to caress it, and yet transforms itself into a little plant that one day reaches for the sky. The caterpillar, held breathless in the suffocating bosom of a dark cocoon, emerges as a colourful butterfly, flying free and proud through the flowers. A pearl in an oyster, wine in the casket, even a song or painting is first created in a solitary moment and transformed into an eternal inspiration.

We have to make a conscious choice about how we deal with our moments of ‘aloneness’. Fear, anger and frustration will make us wither away to the dust of anonymity, while turning the dungeon into a creative ‘womb’ will breathe new life. Give things time, have faith in the perfection of the plan that is to unfold.

These are the moments when we can reach out into the magnificence of our higher Self and realise our deepest thoughts, visions and talents.

Perhaps, in the crowd, we are too focused on the speedometer and forget to watch the milestones. Being alone, we can once again “just be”. By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.

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New Articles are being published every day, and millions of books are available Worldwide. Still people just love reading them. The thirst for knowledge and wisdom, fiction and fun is insatiable.

It is unfortunate that very few people are acquainted with the style of reading

“It is an extraordinary style in the sense that you can read it and miss it completely, because the meaning of the Article is not in the words of the Article. The meaning of the Article is running side by side in silence between the words, between the lines, in the gaps. If you are in a state of meditative ness if you are not only reading a fiction but you are encountering the whole experience of a great human being, absorbing it; not intellectually understanding it. The words are there but they become secondary. Something else becomes primary: the silence that those words create. The words affect your mind, and the music goes directly to your heart.”

Reading an Article/Book like the book is an art by itself. And these Articles to be read by the heart, not by the mind. These Articles not to be understood, but experienced. It is something phenomenal. Millions of people have tried to write so that they can express the inexpressible, but they have utterly failed. If you allow it, the Articles become alive and something starts happening to your being.”

I am a “normal” man who grew up in a simple family. I am much like you in most every day.

This is strange for me to refer to God in any sense, as I believed. But I will refer to a prime creator of the cosmos and the universe, along with this earth that we live on every day. I call God the Prime Creator. I will tell you in these blogs, to understand that the Articles/stories are completely unbiased and unprejudiced to any affiliation with any religion, and the God of my understanding is not only an earthly God, but a universal God. I will also refer to God as mother earth, which I came to learn through this my life journey as in everything that is in our universe, you must balance darkness with light, peace with war, and recognize the two faces of God, the female and the male. We are all pieces of this Prime Creator. We are a part of God.

It is my Joy to state that the subject covered in my writings are total knowledge to bring complete enlightenment to everyone, simply because it is the essence of our sacred Shashtras, Puranas, Vedas, and epics. The Nature secrets are unrevealed before our eyes.

Once in a while we come across such writings that transform us and change the course of our life. 

If you read and follow 1%, will help us as a race to assimilate the changes that the future will bring. It will hopefully make your life a better living and save our Earth.

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Health for happiness

Your body is a car given to you by God to go places, if you let it collapse in to a junk, then you have a problem. Most people look after their cars better than their own body. But don’t forget that just like your car, your body needs regular checkups too. Make sure all small aches and pains are taken care of. Do something to maintain your health, learn to breathe properly, exercise regularly, walking, yoga. It is important to follow a healthy schedule. Everyone should learn to meditate; it takes you to a quiet place in your mind. To build a healthy mind, it is necessary to learn to breathe properly, or some form of pranayama. Be connected to whatever is your conception of a higher power; be in touch with that everyday, it will always take care of you.

When you are tired, get some good sleep and rest. If you are feeling lonely, try to go out and meet friends who make you happy. If you are on a treadmill and tired, don’t go overboard. Take regular physical breaks through the day. Switch off for 15 minutes for 3-4 times in a day. Don’t let the body burn out. It is also very important to get at least 7-8 hrs of sleep, it can add years to your life.

As far as weight is concerned, don’t get obsessed with your weight. One should not have unrealistic expectations. At 50, you cannot expect to look like you did in your 20s. Do not get swayed by media and filmstars. Learn to accept and love yourself. Consult your doctor for your appropriate weight. Don’t starve yourself, eat a balanced diet which contains all the vitamins and minerals your body needs. We need to put high quality fuel into our body to let it function without breakdown. Avoid junk food which causes indigestion and other health related problems.

A Blue print for Joyful Life

At each stage of life, it is human nature to feel that the things would be better at the next stage. One would tend to think that he will be happy after getting a good job and a healthy pay packet. At some point the feeling of frustration creeps in and he would feel that he would be happy once he gets married and have children. This search for happiness continues as he passes through each stage. The truth is there is no better time to be happy than right now. Life is full of challenges. It is better to admit as much and decide to be happy in spite of it all. There is no road to happiness. Happiness is the road.

To quote the words of Greek Philosopher, Democritus, “Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold.” Happiness of life is made of minute fractions like a simple smile, a helping hand, a heartfelt compliment and countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling. The sad part is in our pursuit of happiness we fail to recognize this magnificent feeling that is just there right at the end of our nose.

Happiness is, in fact, living with a sense of fulfillment and peace. It is a belief in the fundamental goodness of people, in the value of compassion, a policy of kindness, and a sense of unity among all living beings.

Physical Fitness for Happy and Joyful Life

‘Physical fitness’ is of utmost importance as it is the starting point for wellness of the mind and spirit. Take care of yourself as no one else can do it for you. Sushruta Samhita, the ancient Indian work by the physician Sushruta, describes perfect health as a state where all body parts function at their optimal level and wherein the body, mind and spirit are in perfect balance and in a state of bliss. Health is not a state but a continuous adjustment to the changing demands of life and the environment. Positive health implies perfect functioning of body and mind in a given society. All the ancients believed that no attempt should be made to cure the body without treating the soul. The concept of optimum health has been termed ‘wellness’. It is a sense of all-round wellbeing. In order to treat or prevent disease, it is essential to look into our emotional, mental and psychological environment, as our thoughts and emotions directly contribute to our wellbeing or otherwise. Meditation can contribute enormously to an individual’s psychological and physiological wellbeing.

Happiness is Greatest gift to Life

Happiness is living with a sense of fulfillment and peace. It is a belief in the fundamental goodness of people, in the value of compassion, a policy of kindness, and a sense of unity among all living beings. ‘Happy’ is a word derived from ‘happ’ meaning luck or chance.

All beings seek happiness and act to avoid pain. Everyone is looking for something better. We can train the mind to be happy—it is an achievable goal. Most psychiatrists see people in distress and conclude that the most one can hope for is the transformation of despair into common unhappiness.

The Indian tradition shows us that positive radiant happiness is our birthright. Happiness quotient (HQ) is a concept that rates approximately, the measure of happiness each person has achieved in his life.

Whatever the external circumstances may be, the individual is responsible for his inner state. Events are not under our control, but our perceptions and reactions to them are. I believe that it is possible to realise one’s full potential for happiness by training the mind, body and soul to dwell in that state.

Overcome Failure with Happiness

Whatever is the failure don’t ignore self care. Take care of your mind and give yourself happiness breaks. If going to the temple gives you courage then go to the temple. Our mind is like a garden in which failure represents rocks and stones, thorns and scorpions – they represent anger, jealousy, greed or disgust. All these creep into the garden, if you allow them to. What you need to do is plant flowers of love and fountains of compassion. You can stop feeling sad by just calling up someone and telling them what you love about them, helping the needy, anything that adds to the happiness of others increases your happiness. The rainbows of courage are bound to fill you with joy. Gandhiji took ordinary people and changed them into matchless warriors to fight for the right cause. They say charity begins at home and you could start by cleaning up your street or fighting against injustice.

In the current work lifestyle, companies should have the first laugh and last laugh, so that people start their day at work on a happy note and end it on one, too. Learn basic meditation, 15-20 mints of silence and looking within will give you inner peace. Looking at the sunrise, sunset, watching the rain fall, so many cosmic wonders add happiness to your life. Whatever happens, life goes on. The cosmos unrolls its wonders. We are but atoms in the great dance of the Universe. Let us celebrate the gift of life by forgetting the miniscule self.

Make sure you give frequent affirmations to all the people you care about. Tell them what you like about them. Do not focus on the negatives. A major part of our lives is wasted in finding fault with people and finding shortcomings in them. This leads to nothing but bad relationships. Stop acting like the world’s police man. You should spend time in nurturing qualities you like about your loved ones.

As far as possible, look at all the relationships in your life in the framework of lifetime relationships by giving more affirmations. Don’t be a heat seeking missile which destroys the people around you.

You need to be aware that no one can keep you happy, only you can keep yourself happy. Everyone has a duty to keep themselves happy, which can complete your daily tasks such as taking care of your health, eating good food, reading good books and listening to music. If you are happy, your surroundings flower too with happiness. Use your five senses to make yourself happy and joyous. We usually find others telling us, ‘Marry the right man and he will make you happy’. But that’s a wrong concept. Only you can make yourself happy. Start with simple things like visiting a beauty salon, meeting a good friend, watching a happy movie, looking at the sunset….

“You cannot change your family, your work or the events of your life. You can't even change yourself too much". 'Happy' is a word derived from 'happ' meaning luck or chance. Most of us believe that happiness is a mysterious feeling that comes without reason, leaving as inexplicably as it arrived. Happiness is, in fact, living with a sense of fulfillment and peace. It is a belief in the fundamental goodness of people, in the value of compassion, a policy of kindness, and a sense of unity among all living beings. All beings seek happiness and act to avoid pain. Everyone is looking for something better. Happiness can be achieved by a proactive attitude to improving the happiness quotient. We can train the mind to be happy—it is an achievable goal. Most psychiatrists see people in distress and conclude that the most one can hope for is the transformation of despair into common unhappiness. The Indian tradition shows us that positive radiant in the happiness quotient concept happiness is our birthright. The panel discussion focused on the happiness quotient and illustrated how to achieve it.

The Happiness Quotient (HQ) is a concept that rates approximately, the measure of happiness each person has achieved in his life. This programme sought to provides a blueprint to increase one's HQ. It started by describing the creation of a positive mind space, one that nurtures the positive emotions that increases happiness. It also discussed the impact of negative fields and how to avoid them.

‘Be a loving participant in your life. Enjoy the now of it. Don’t be a dreamer or a spectator. A happy life is the result of diving deep and becoming engaged and involved.’

(Sit with eyes closed and silently affirm)

• I live by my own ethical standards.

• I do what I preach.

• I help all and harm none.

• Peace and goodwill surround me.

• I have a safe and happy home.

• I enjoy unconditional love.

• The food I eat and the water I drink here nourish me.

• God blesses us and keeps our children safe.

• This home is a sanctuary and a refuge.

• All conflicts can be solved.

Spiritual gains alone, carried to next Life

People come and go, the "Atman" within casts aside old garments and exchanges them for a new ... Whence arises the question for weeping and wailing! One who weeps is far away from truth. We are merely a manifestation by the "Atman" and shall be cast aside when our use is over. "Atman" is immortal... It invokes various garments on the basis of resultant Karma of that moment. Our Karma in present Life must be such that ... We carry the seeds of our good deeds to the next Life. All materialistic achievements in this World carry no weightage and only Spiritual heritage earned by us shall be carried to the next Life. "Atman" within wants liberation. Materialistic achievements by the physical body have no value for an "Atman". Spiritual upgrading of our mental capabilities alone is recognized in the realms of the Spiritual World of "Atman". Why not all of us all the time strive for Spiritualistic achievements.

The whole World is crazy for amassing wealth which everyone consciously knows ... Whence comes the time for leaving the Earthly abode everything shall be left behind. Still, the greed persists. "We feel incapable of controlling ourselves". The control is within. It is upon us to succumb to the lust or not. As we do not have an independent mind we cannot blame the mind, as is the case with most Human Beings. Why blame anyone or anything for our follies!

Respect the "Eternal Truth". God's grace shall be bestowed on us. Can we ever hope to liberate our "Atman" from further manifestations without the grace of the Lord! Remove the veil of short sightedness from your eyes. The truth is within. Perceive it and all will become clear to you.

Never again blame your mind for the wrongs committed by you. "Atman" within only supports you if you are willing to listen. Will power can be increased by invoking positive thoughts all the time. As your confidence over your self increases, so shall your Will power.

Meditate into Higher Consciousness

We live most of our life through three states of consciousness: waking, dreaming and sleeping. In the waking state of consciousness, we experience the world through the five senses through which we seek elevation and joy. If any one of the senses is missing, the entire dimension of that sense is lost. So, the sense is more important and much bigger than object of sense.

Nothing comes easy in life. To reach the level of consciousness, the individual should realize the importance of conditioning oneself through regular meditation and prayer. At the same time we should get rid of the notion that it is beyond the reach of ordinary human beings. No one is born great it is the individual who through his deeds makes himself great. Many great people have had very humble beginnings. We have to be mentally strong to bring the softness in us to cope with anything we may be required to face in life.

The mind is higher than senses; it is infinite, with many desires but the capacity of senses to enjoy is limited. Greed wants more and more of sensory objects. Even though you can only enjoy a limited amount during a lifetime, you want all the wealth in the world.

There are no five senses there is only one sense that is mind for example eyes sees no beauty is seen by mind through there is no sex in our penis sex is state of mind it is enjoyed through by penis we live our whole of our life in dreaming state of consciousness there is no state of waking it is only enlightenment that is called waking there is lot of talk of love but there is no love only hate because love and hate both are state of mind both are different aspects of same coin the more you love the more you hate this is all because of our mind the mind is invisible spirit that lives in our body this creates all kinds of myths beauty love sex desires hate greed thinking all are myths when we think it is not we think it is our mind that thinks no thinking means no mind where there is no mind there is truth is beyond mind those who got free of mind they got enlightened in state of enlightenment mind leaves body then there is no love no hate

Giving too much importance to sensory objects leads to greed; giving too much importance to the senses leads to lust; and giving too much importance to the mind and its desires leads to delusion.

We cling to mind concepts and want things to happen in a certain way. Thus, they impede us from perceiving infinite consciousness that is part of us. All mind senses are not bad; learn to discriminate and be aware of what is happening at all times so that there is clarity. This is the first step towards higher state of consciousness.

In the waking state, you are constantly engaged in looking, eating, working and other pursuits. Sleeping state is where you are completely cut off and dull. Dullness and heaviness linger even after waking. The more you sleep, the duller you feel since much energy is expended in sleep. In the dreaming state you are neither asleep nor awake. Here, you neither feel at rest nor are aware of your surroundings.

Higher state of consciousness is somewhere between the waking, sleeping and dreaming states. Here, we know we are but we don't know where we are. This knowledge I am, but don't know where I am or what I am, is called Shiva. This state gives the deepest possible rest that one can experience. And you can achieve this through meditation.

Meditation prevents stress from entering the system and also releases accumulated stress. With the assimilation of meditation into daily life, a higher, cosmic state of consciousness dawns within. Cosmic consciousness perceives the whole universe as part of oneself. Then love flows between us and the world, empowering us to overcome opposing forces and disturbances.

Anger and disappointments become fleeting emotions. Higher state of consciousness will not suddenly happen one fine morning. The sapling of consciousness is within you to nurture it through spiritual practices like meditation. Some coconut trees yield in three years, some in 10 years. And those that are not nurtured never yield, they simply exist. Attaining higher states of consciousness demands no complicated strategy; just learn the art of letting go. The confluence of knowledge, understanding and practice makes life complete.

Life is to experience every thing. It would happen some day lovely thought Anger and disappointments become fleeting emotions. Higher state of consciousness will not suddenly happen one fine morning. The sapling of consciousness is within you to nurture it through spiritual practices like meditation.

When you grow into higher states of consciousness, you are no longer thrown off-balance by situations and disturbances. You become strong yet soft, a delicate and beautiful individual capable of accommodating different values in life without conditions. As your consciousness opens and you get physically, mentally and spiritually elevated, life truly becomes worth living.