PERSONAL PERCEPTION

Different people have different perception. One man's meat could be another man's poison.

A couple bought a donkey from the market. On the way home, a boy commented, "Very stupid. Why neither of them rides on the donkey?” Upon hearing that, the husband let the wife ride on the donkey. He walked besides them. Later, an old man saw it and commented, "The husband is the head of family. How can the wife ride on the donkey while the husband is on foot?" Hearing this, the wife quickly got down and let the husband ride on the donkey. Further on the way home, they met an old Lady. She commented, "How can the man ride on the donkey but let the wife walk. He is no gentleman." The husband thus quickly asked the wife to join him on the donkey. Then, they met a young man. He commented, "Poor donkey, how can you hold up the weight of two persons. They are cruel to you." Hearing that, the husband and wife immediately climbed down from the donkey and carried it on their shoulders.

It seems to be the only choice left. Later, on a narrow bridge, the donkey was frightened and struggled. They lost their balance and fell into the river.

You can never have everyone praise you, nor will everyone condemn you. Never in the past, not at present, and never will be in the future. Thus, do not be too bothered by others words if our conscience is clear.

We are what you think - the power of Thoughts

Thoughts affect us in a number of ways. Thoughts are a vital tool in creating the reality we experience. They create our emotional states. They affect our bodies and, therefore, our health. Thoughts influence our responses to life and our relationships. Thoughts determine our choices.

We are a living magnet; we invariably attract into our life the people, situations and circumstances that are in harmony with our dominant thoughts.

This is one of the great laws that explain much of success and failure in business and personal life. It has been written about as far back as the ancient Egyptian mystery schools, 3000 years before Christ. It is so powerful, pervasive and all encompassing that it affects everything you do or say, or even think or feel.

Creative Visualization And The Law of Attraction

Visualization is easy to use. Like all the other tools of creation, we use visualization every day to create our experience of reality. Daydreaming, fantasizing, mental rehearsals, and imagination are all examples of visualization. We have all daydreamed about an upcoming vacation or a visit with a favorite friend. Many of us have fantasized about winning the lottery or getting a better job.

The Universal Law of Allowing

Do you think that if someone with beliefs opposed to yours gets their way, you can't have your way? Or do you believe there's room for it all? Of the three Universal Laws of Attraction, the Law of Allowing may be the most difficult one to get our hearts and minds around.

Are there any laws governing the Universe?

Yes, but not in the sense that a lawmaker has devised a law. Laws exist which are natural laws, similar to the Laws of Physics that your scientists recognise. The primary law is the Law of Love; all things exist within this law and are created out of it. Love is the total and complete acceptance of what is. Love allows. Love is about allowing yourself to be who and what you are and allowing that same right to all others.
Without the Law of Love, free will could not exist, for free will is free will.

Growing Energy Balls

Most of the time, we take a longer and more involved "route" to fulfillment than we need to, because we tend to focus on working toward our goals through physical action rather than manifesting them through inner vision. When we employ the law of attraction and focus our full attention on what we desire, we fuel the creation of what we want in our lives. The more we focus on a particular goal, the stronger its potential becomes. Through repeated thought or focus, we actually create a thought form that becomes self-sustaining.

The Power of Concentration and the Law of Attraction

Everything in creation is influenced by the law of magnetism (also called Law of Attraction). The law of magnetism teaches us that whatever we concentrate upon, we draw to ourselves. If we focus on goodness, our life can be a garden of happiness; if we concentrate on wealth, we will draw wealth to ourselves.

Success in life presupposes the power of concentration. Just as a magnet draws to itself iron filings and not rice grains, so too, the quality of our focused thoughts will create a dynamic but silent power within that will find us placed in situations akin to the nature of our thoughts. If we think ' good health ' and with faith and belief embed this deeply within our minds over a sustained period of time, we will gradually create for ourselves situations and an environment, which will be conducive to good health.

The Universal Laws that Create our Future

Dr. Wernher Von Braun, whom many consider the "father" of the space program, was once quoted as saying "...I just can't envision this whole universe coming together without something like divine will. The natural laws of the universe are so precise that we have no difficulty building a spaceship to the moon and can time the flight with the precision of a fraction of a second."

The Most Powerful Law in the Universe is the Law of Attraction

Are we aware of what a powerful creator you are? Do we know that everything that is happening to us or has ever happened to us is, without exception, in full response to our thoughts - and more importantly - the emotions behind those thoughts? If we take a look at our life. There are probably some areas we're really happy with and some areas we're not so happy with. We may even believe we are a victim of our circumstances. We are not a victim! It's simply a matter of understanding how to play the Game (of Life) by understanding the rules...the Laws that define the Game.
Everyday Metaphysics

We all live metaphysical lives, whether we are aware of it or not. What we desire becomes manifest in our lives. What we fear becomes manifest in our lives. When these things happen, we are experiencing the Law of Attraction (sometimes called the Law of Resonance.) The Law of Attraction states that we create (co-create with God) in our lives that which we focus on. The vibration sent out to the Universe of what we fear or desire or believe attracts to us things that resonate with our fears, desires and beliefs. Our lives are always in sync with exactly what we believe about our lives.

THE CREATIVE PROCESS - We are Creators

We are immersed in and responsible for the creative process, which dictates the outcome of our individual and collective lives in every moment.
We talk about how the greatest secret in the world is that you and I are incredibly powerful and aware creators.
We note that we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
We talk about the Law of creation and how it works equally for everyone without judgment.
We agree that our world is exactly what we collectively design it to be -- all of the time and that our universe operates as if we knew that we were powerful creators.
We reveal that our world expects that we know that what we think and say is what we create and what we get.
We note that God has not left us, but the reality is that we have left God!
We show that the time has finally come for us to wake up!
We suggest that the prerequisite for conscious creation is that we must have a strong belief if we are to be effective creators and that this strong belief is called "Faith."

This is one of those things that just is - and whether it works for you or against you is completely up to you. "It" is the Law of Attraction, and it can be a powerful business tool. Let me explain it in this way.

First, what is the law of attraction? Well, its basis is in metaphysics, which considers every thought and emotion we experience to have energy. Positive thoughts and feelings vibrate at a certain energy level, and negative thoughts and feelings at another. So, in simple terms, the law of attraction states that like attracts like.

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 hook you. But who knows whether there is love or not? Love is just a game Real love is possible, but that happens only when you don't need anybody!

If you go to a bank and you need money, they 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 not real Why be 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 you use a person the person becomes 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 finds 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 come 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 that 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.

Story from Upanishad

There is a story from Upanishad. Sage Yagyavalkya (Son of Brahma) was in an assembly where many philosophers had gathered. He was being bombarded with questions. Among the questioners were Gargi and her 18-year-old niece, Maitreyi. As Maitreyi watched Yagyavalkya demolish every philosopher’s misconception and answer every question with erudition and wisdom, she fell in love with him. Maitreyi, who was Gargi’s brother Mitra’s daughter, was already sensitive to and interested in philosophical discourse as she grew up hearing philosophy from her aunt.

Now having heard and seen Yagyavalkya, the young girl wished to learn from him. However, there was a problem: How could she learn from a man? Would that not set tongues wagging? Worse, she found Yagyavalkya was already married and that too to a wonderful lady called Katyayani. Maitreyi confided in her aunt and her parents and eventually the celebrated aunt and father reached Yagyavalkya’s doorstep to tell him of Maitreyi’s resolve. Yagyavalkya said his body already belonged to another and he could not answer or accede to their request.

They then approached Katyayani and she consented. Maitreyi lived a happy life, learning all wisdom from her husband. Then one day Yagyavalkya decided he would renounce the world and become an ascetic. He divided his property into two parts; he was not worried about Katyayani – she would accept his decision and her share and live happily. The problem came with Maitreyi. Would she accept? As Yagyavalkya had feared, Maitreyi did not accept his decision. She asked him if his wealth would get her immortality.

No, said her husband. “Nothing can buy immortality”. In another discussion he had likened the tree to man and said while a tree regenerates even after being cut, man does not appear to do so. It is the soul, the Brahmn or Atman that is born again. This he explains with different examples to Maitreyi. “But,” asks Maitreyi, “When the visible world disappears, how does Brahmn remain?” Yagyavalkya gives the example of a grain of salt, which is the same from within and without and dissolves without any sign in water.

That he says is how the Brahmn functions. Salt has the same taste – as a solid and after it is immersed in any liquid. Such is Brahmn, the all-pervasive oneness. Yagyavalkya, however, recognises that to appreciate that everything is Brahmn, one ought to first develop detachment with the world. Or else how does one view it objectively? So he begins by saying that the love for the husband or the son or for anything for that matter is not for them but more for one’s own sake. “We are husband and wife Maitreyi; why do you love me? Do you love me for my sake? I don’t think so. Something within you draws satisfaction through your love for me. That something in you is the soul. Because your own Atman is dear to you, caused by contact with that Atman, objects considered as your own also become dear. However, the Atman itself is entirely free from all relationships.”

We love mainly for the satisfaction and comfort it gives us. We love because we want to love. To realise this truth is to realise the importance of the people around you. They give you some satisfaction; you need to love them. So one can draw comfort from the fact that even the attachment for the other is rooted in the beauty of one’s own soul…and in that beauty every soul is one.

The third eye of wisdom

Once, the Tamil saint Manikkavasagar, who was the chief minister of a Pandiyan king, was sent on a mission to buy horses for the military. On the way, he met Shiva who appeared in human form, as a guru. Shiva simply looked at Manikkavasagar and the latter got completely transformed. Manikkavasagar forgot all about his identity as chief minister, about his wife and children – all these identities vanished into thin air. He used the money that the king had given him to buy horses, to build a temple for Shiva.

After the initiation was over, Shiva disappeared Manikkavasagar recounted that during this meeting he had a trade-off with Shiva: “You give your Self to me and take my ‘self’’’. He wondered who had the better trade-off; while Shiva got nothing from him, Manikkavasagar received everything. Hence it is said that a true guru is the one who can give you liberation just by a glance.

The Shiva Sutras mention a path called ‘Shambava Upaya’, which refers to receiving the results of meditation instantaneously.

Here, you experience an immediate expansion in your awareness and acquire divine consciousness. Actually, it is not accomplished through meditation; it is done through the grace of the guru. You don’t do anything; you don’t even meditate, once you have a guru in your life. Through grace, the guru is able to transfer everything to you. You can read books and gain understanding about the process of enlightenment. However, you will still remain in the theoretical domain. The fundamental thing in enlightenment is the opening of the third eye.

The third eye will just not open by theoretical understanding and it is extremely rare to open it through one’s own practice. You need to do more than that.

When the third eye opens, you can always stay in a higher state of consciousness and are totally focused on God. Then, you are not pulled by karma, maya and ego, and do not return to the old state of consciousness. Then, you know what is going to happen in the future and what is going to happen to the world. The third eye is also the place for manifesting your thoughts and desires.

How can you open the third eye? You can do that through grace. Keep on praying for mercy. When the divine light enters the third eye, you will find that you are awakened. Who is going to do that? It is the guru. That’s why, in Indian spiritual tradition, the guru is everything. What about the traditions and religions where there is no guru? There, the Messiah and the Prophet are gurus. They are called by different names; they are representatives of God on earth in karma removal too, the guru can play a great role.

When you open your mind and spirit to the guru, it can help you to remove your ego, the part within you which holds on to karmic thoughts and actions. Why do we focus on the guru’s feet? It is to cultivate humility, to banish the ego. Keep visualising the feet of the guru; surrender to his wisdom and learn to acquire knowledge. By doing so, you can teach yourself to completely overcome suffering and doubt. The guru’s feet will help access divine energy and bring you incredible peace. You will be transformed.

Garbha Upanishad (2)

Like other sages of the Upanishads, Pippalada is systematic and rational. The physical basis of life, and the sequence following the development of the embryo, is clearly defined. He describes the basis of life mystically in categories that go, in sequence, from 2 to 7. In the body emerge 8 natures and in it arise 16 modifications that are similar to the tattvas of Sankhya.

The embryo is taken to have become Jiva (conscious soul) in the seventh month, and in the eighth month, it become complete in every sense. This gives the time the fetus becomes a person, with attendant legal rights. It is not explained how Jiva comes to be attached to the body.

Although other passages indicate that the Jiva resides in the heart’s recess, it also suffuses the entire body; further more its identity with the Purusha means that mysteriously, it is the one with the entire universe. The distinction also implies the existence of the subtle body (Lingam). In the Sarvasara Upanishad, the subtle body is defined as created out of the mind and other subtle elements that reside in the knot of the heart. The consciousness within the subtle body is called the “knower of the field” (Ksetrajna).

The body is an instrument of the heart, but for it to be able to do what it can, the Ksetrajna must be free: this is Moksha or Mukti.

If the Father’s seed is more potent, it becomes a male and if the Mother’s seed is stronger, it becomes female. If the seed of both the father and the mother are equal with no pulling force in either, it becomes a napumsaka. (Neither a male nor a female)

It is born as a blind or as a deaf or dumb or short or with other deficiency due to any mental confusion, or agitated during the time of impregnation. If the male reproductive fluid is split because of the air moving around in the body, twins are born.

Having obtained this intelligence, (When the body comprised of the five natural forces acquires intelligence by the infusion of the jivan (or the soul), it also acquires the five intellectual organs and the brain, which enables the jivan to distinguish between different forms of objects and tastes.) The jivan immediately starts contemplating on the eternal syllable “OM”. Once he digests the essence of the same, he understands the fact that the eight basic forces (five sense organs, the mind, intellect and ego) and their sixteen modifications belong to self, the soul or the jivan residing in the body.

Whatever is consumed or drunk by the mother passes through the nerves dovetailed with the child’s to the jivan, which is satisfied with such feed. It is during the ninth month that all the sense organs and intellect organs attain completeness. And during this time, the jivan is reminded of its previous birth and it realizes all the good and bad deeds it committed during such previous birth.

Thus thinks the jivan: “By me thousands of birth points (vagina) have been seen; various foods have been tasted; and innumerable time’s mother’s milk has been drunk (to convey that the jivan had various mothers during its earlier births). I have born and died again and again. All my near and dear (of earlier births) for whom I performed various actions (in earlier births), whether good or bad, have enjoyed the benefits of my actions and have left me all alone. I am left behind all alone.

When I get out of this womb, I will take refuge in Sankhya-Yoga, which destroys misery and yields liberation; when I get out of this womb, I will take refuse in Maheswara, who destroys misery and grants liberation.

Once I come out of this birth source (vagina), I am going to surrender myself to the destroyer of all sins and the Salvation provider –called as Narayana (or the Supreme Being called by various names). Who destroys misery and grant liberation? When I get out of this womb, I will meditate on the eternal Brahman.

I am going to practice the Gnaana Yoga (the pursuit of knowledge) strictly to destroy all my sins and to release myself from the bandings of all actions in this materialistic world. Once I come out of this birth source, I am going to contemplate on this Supreme Divine Brahman.” – These are the thoughts of the jivan during the time it remains in the womb.

However, when he reaches the birth source (vagina) and comes out of it with great difficulty on to the earth, he is inflicted with the illusory force (Maya) created by Vishnu and immediately forgets all the previous births and the deeds performed therein. His memory is cleansed of all the history the very moment he first inhales the air after coming to the earth.

Unless man does all he can, to attain Godhead, the main pain that he is going to encounter after death, is that he did not attain the real objective of his life, which happens to be to realize his true Spiritual Potential.

The Aitareya Upnishad speaks of four kinds of life: born alive, born from egg, born from moisture (insects), and born from germ (plants).

(These all) are born of eggs, of wombs, of moisture, and of sprouts, namely horses, cattle, men, elephants, and all creatures that there are that move or fly and those that do not move. All these are guided by consciousness and supported by consciousness; the basis is consciousness. Consciousness is Brahman. Consciousness is not taken to exist only in the human, but in all life.

The Garbha Upanishad is a treatise. It expounds the details of what human consciousness goes through, while it still resides in the womb, in the form of a fetus.

When the brain of the fetus forms, its active mind is more active than that of children and/or adults. The reason is that while in the womb, the fetus is not distracted by the senses, and its connection with the attractions and distractions of the outside world.

So now the soul, imprisoned within the mother, goes through physical and emotional turmoil.

He now realizes the fact that he is going to incarnate once again to go through trials and tribulations, whose main objective is that he learns through pain, to become, what he intrinsically is: An image of God!

The Garbha Upanishad states that, the fetus promises God, that he will not repeat his evil deeds. But alas! When the child is born, a force called the ‘Vaishnava Prana touches him, and he forgets his thoughts and prayer.

So the learning process continues!

Arjuna in the Bhagvad Geeta asked Krishna, what happens, if man dies while putting in his effort to learn about Spiritual truths in one life?

It is heartening to note, that man, take off, from where he left off, in his spiritual efforts.

Look deep within you as you read these words, do they ring a bell? Do they sound true? Ask yourself! Your SELF will reply!