Intellectual power

Intellectual power is the valuable wealth provided by God. All types of activities are being performed by creations like worm, insect, animals, and man. But the difference is that, while the other creations eats anything and sleeps anywhere; man is always in search of a comfortable life and good rest.

If man is to be benefit to the world, they should acquire only good knowledge. The very purpose of education is to make student learn only what will be conductive to purposeful living. Thus knowledge alone will distinguish them from others. God residing within each of them will enable them to make life sublime. Every child has a segment of the almighty enshrined in it and so it has to endeavour to make a good citizen and face challenges ahead.

Parents and teacher should impress on children the vital need for a clean life. If there are more people of character and contentment society can be reformed. As said by Swami Sivananda that the mind is like a blotting paper absorbing the bad ideas easily and never throwing them out again. Thoughts of hatred passion and greed should be resisted and driven out. At the impressionable age, the significance of scriptural themes should be taught.

Soul is to be borne as a human being is the result of pious deeds carried out over a number of years. Unfortunately once he is conferred with this privilege, man usually runs after worldly affairs, money, getting fame, raising a fine family and enjoying other benefits. But in this process he fails to understand the very purpose for which God has given him this body.

The human body has been compared to a temple; God is seated in the heart the sanctum- sanctorum. Those who do not realize this fail to experience God’s presence within. The five sense faculties do not allow men to visualize God within. People’ attention is diverted towards seeing and enjoying only the worldly events. The mind of a human being is full of conflicting desires. It is chiefly responsible for de-linking the Almighty from the devotee, who is ever keen to get released from worldly bondage. If it is subdued other senses can easily be tamed. If the mind checks their activities, men can certainly feel that HE from within is constantly guiding him. 

“Is Maya ke teen Naam”

Bhagavad Gita clearly says that all material excesses are sins. now a days we read daily in newspaper some scandals.  Still many its readers who consider Bhagavad Gita as sacred as Vedas, would describe vulgar consumerism based on hoarding of tons of money with all evil practices as virtue and blessings of God. This vehement effect of Maya is now found in India in all market places, Parliament, judicial courts and many other places including temples, educational institutions etc. Because of its effect some saints describe it as “Is Maya Ke Teen Naam, Parsu, Parsa, Paras Ram." Because of Maya the same individual is known by three different names based on his economic and social status during different stages of his life.

1. He is Parsu -a lowly social individual when faces poverty and destitution.

2. The same individual is Parsa when he crosses poverty line and has some moderate social status and

3. Becomes Paras Ram- a respectable name when he acquires high social and economic status.

Superstition in the world is thinking

The greatest superstition in the world is thinking that god will become angry, god will punish, god curses, god gets pleased and gives me everything, god will give me whatever I ask, god will take my sin……….. etc. Here we attribute the human bad qualities to god and then start bribing god like we do for human beings.

Remember god is like electricity which is not light / heat / magnetism / chemical energy / kinetic energy / potential energy………… When electricity passes through respective instruments these instruments demonstrates their inherent qualities. So the awareness and consciousness present in all living and non living beings are the omnipotent omnipresent divine power which never has any of the above qualification, but that divine power is beyond all those qualities.

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About I, Me and Myself

One has read about ‘Ahm’ of Vedanta which means ‘I’ or ‘Self’. When applied to a person’s name, it means aligning oneself with the cosmos or ultimate reality. ‘I’ is, perhaps, the most used word in any language. We love to hear our name all the time. Often, love for self is so deeply ingrained in the psyche that one develops a highly exaggerated view of one’s own self.

A child is given a name almost as soon as she is born. Through constant recall the name gets rooted in her being. While the child reacts to the name cheerily, she gradually gets used to be addressed by the same phonetic rhythm which keeps getting reinforced in the formative years and results in creating a permanent impact on her cerebral and emotional being. A lot goes on later in life that forces the child to grow up with a self-fixated orientation. How does this transition happen? We may look for an empirical and a non-academic explanation.

Children are generally free from the ‘I’ syndrome but some elements might creep in early on in cases where pampering has not been tempered with disciplining. Thus, too much attention and fulfilment of every wish by doting parents might lead to an unhealthy sense of self-importance, and promote the ‘I’ cult. Schooling in an exclusive environment and continued patronage could crystallise these traits. Such children are likely to nurture a high degree of self-importance in their growing up years and carry it on to adolescence and adulthood.

The problem arises when a person takes this trait too seriously and looks upon others as lesser mortals. Such a person becomes self-centred and egotistical. He is attention-seeking and is always looking for an opportunity to upstage others. He is clearly not a team person. Such a person tends to be self-righteous and abrasive. He is sociable only to the extent that his voice commands attention, dominates, and gets preferential hearing.

Individualism is not a failing; it promotes healthy distinctiveness. It is a positive trait that provides sustenance for achieving personal excellence and in charting life on one’s own terms. But individualism should not become a ‘new form of idolatry’, and thus an end in itself. The danger is ‘egoism’ and the obsession with ‘I’. This negativity in growing up years gets hardened with time and retards the growth of a well-rounded personality.

No one likes to be in the company of a person who keeps harping about his laurels. His cognition gets corrugated by thick layers of false pride and self-importance. It leads to the making of a conceited character. Such people are not good listeners. Their attention span is short. Their restlessness to shift over to their own story being overpowering gets exposed during the course of a social conversation. It is a habit-forming attribute that can be fought back only by recognising the shortcoming and working around it consciously.

We need to realise and acknowledge that the world is not devoid of talent and that the simplest of persons also has legends to share – many hugely interesting and worth recounting. Internalising the experiences gotten from others provide good incremental learning progression, affording a healthy opportunity to absorb positive notes for building up a well-rounded personality. Personal enrichment comes from imbibing the best from others, rather than from blowing one’s own trumpet.

A little of my mind .." Aham Brahmasmi - Mai Atmaswarup Hun Isame Ekrupata Hai, Yog Hai, Ahankar Nahi ..

Supreme Consciousness is God - the highest state of awareness - absolute knowledge. Gross matter is intoxicating, knowledge redundates matter. Till then, trapped in a well of ignorance, like a leaping frog, a few leaps forward, to fall back again. The net progress is not owing to fate, but statistical probability of actions backed with higher or lower consciousness. God is not the doer. It is but absolute supreme tranquil consciousness. The knowledge is established only after consummating and not suppressing the material yearnings. It is melodramatic that the King of all the Worlds and its Powers is enthroned only after his material yearnings are satiated and any commotion of otherwise neutral still will is for the ignorant on the various stations on the path of knowledge.

There has been an ongoing inner conflict that cannot really settle this issue. Most achieves have achieved glory, fame, success, largely as a derivative of this ego, which craves for name and fame.

We're it not for the ego, what would propel individuals to strive for greatness and I the process serve mankind? And yet, ego still remains and becomes a scourge in so many people who are self centred egotists whose presence often becomes unbearable and overbearing.

Children are generally free from the ‘I’ syndrome but some elements might creep in early on in cases where pampering has not been tempered with disciplining.

The above sentence is not understood correctly by the parents who are themselves exclusive of the majority of society who cannot afford to send their children to exclusive schools. If the education system is changed to same schools for rich and poor, most of the children will get opportunity of respecting the brightness in others also, which may be coming to school on foot, instead of cars. The society may become closer to the dictates of Almighty, who blesses all humanity to love each other unconditionally.

In spiritual philosophy, if we can understand, WOH, YEH, MAIN (he the supreme, this world, and I the individual). The individual has the last identity, which is false pride, and one can see individual identity in everything in this world.

People wish to talk due to the reason that first of all they cannot sit idle even for few moments. Very difficult, further they want to show that they know better than you. Even if you are not talking, they will come and start to talk of any subject. That ‘I’ is creating lot of problems. One must learn how to remove that ‘I’ and forget the ego too. Like a child. That is why all Gurus are telling that you must be like a child to reach God the almighty.

Ego should not be confused with self-respect and confidence to handle challenging tasks. Now a day it has become a common refrain to brand any one more talented and an achiever as an EGOISTIC. But I do agree that to pull along with people of different and varying capabilities one must act as a VERB and not as a NOUN.

Be Silent: Listen to yourself

In the silence, become aware of yourself. Be aware of your body as full of health and energy. Visualise peace, tranquillity, prosperity and fulfilment. Be silent. Be aware of your breathing, the beating of your heart. Once you are aware of your body in silence, in peace and tranquillity, then you begin to notice immediately, the destructive effects of stress. You become aware of the first, imperceptible symptoms: the tightening of the jaw, the clenching of muscles in your throat and abdomen, the speeding of the heartbeat. Once you become aware, you can consciously decelerate. Be completely aware of the shift of feelings from moment to moment. Knowing exactly how you feel can help you make better emotional decisions.

The Auspicious Field

Auspiciousness or a feeling of wellbeing is created in a space or a field by treating it as sacred.

What happens to a space that is sacred is transformation.

When you consider yourself as sacred, you will treat yourself well. You will wear clean, good smelling clothes. Maybe ironed and starched, mended if torn, but clean and fresh. You will smile at yourself, encourage yourself. Just as you put on clean fresh clothes, you will also clean up the mental space or field around you. Sweep out all ill will, anger, fear and anxiety. Let there be the fragrance of incense, divinity of prayer and mantra, the smiles of loved ones, laughter and joy, the smell and taste of good plain, food. It is as important to clean the field around you as it is to have a bath. Sweep out the sad baggage of the past. Take into that field only what is bright and elevating, fine and happy.

The space around you, your house, your office needs the same kind of careful attention. When a space is sacred, it magnetizes wonderful people and attracts beautiful events into it.

All the words spoken in that space should be sweet and loving. When harsh words or events happen, do not allow them to take root like evil weeds. Sweep them away and find gentleness and kindness that grows beneath.

All religions sanctify space by holy water, prayer, dress and conduct. Hindus draw sacred symbols on the earth with rice flour or chalk (kolam) and a particular space can be set apart for the gods and prayer.

A sacred space is defined by the rules of conduct laid down for those who enter, as in a court room, a church, a temple, or the parliament. Very few misbehave in such places; they are rarely able to cast away the weight of laws and customs built up over centuries around them. Some religions lay down rules of cleanliness and dress to enter sacred places, including a purificatory bath. A person who maintains such dignity and decorum in such a place, may be totally different in a bar or when at a party.

The analogy of a television monitor would describe this phenomenon better. Depending on which button you press, you get a different image. So too depending on the place, a different person emerges. Some places access the Highest and Noblest Self while others access the Beast, the Meanest.

This is true about people in different interactions. Some people create a field, which accesses the best in us, while others access the worst. If you learn the secret of positive fields, you can improve your Happiness Quotient. You can also get the best out of others. ‘Don’t push the wrong buttons,’ we say. What we mean is, don’t access his negative field.

Love and Reverence in enhancing the positive Field

Elevate everyday experiences to the level of sacredness.

When work is done with such love, it fills the body and mind with bliss and transforms any place into a sacred space. It is to weave the cloth from the strings of your heart, as though your Beloved were to wear it.’

This reverence or Shraddha is due to all, because of the divine spark that dwells in all men—whether he is a legend or a leper. Sometimes it is obvious. The Divine spark is the silent flame of consciousness that reaches out to you from a flowering creeper or a healthy pet. Sometimes this life force has lost its vitality and is dimmed by dirt, lethargy and lack of care. Clean the glass of your lamp. Make the light shine through. Decide to approach all events, people, and things with affection, Shraddha.

The LANGAR made at GURUDWARA is so tasty; no one wastes a single grain, because it is made with Shraddha. Mother makes food for his son who has come after a long period of stay from home. The food is so tasty that he does not stop eating as he is hungry from many lives, because the food is made by mother is with shraddha that his son has come after a long period.

Tools for creating a Positive Field

An ancient Indian prayer says: ‘Let all beings be happy.’ Not just friends and family, but all men, not just men but the wider world of all beings. When the great musician Tansen sang, it is said that deer wandered into the palace to listen. Decades ago, the great scientist J C Bose wrote about the response of plants to kindness.

Learning to create a positive field is an important part of the climate of wellbeing. The positive field is created by tools and behaviours that may be verbal, tonal and non-verbal.

•   A common prayer or mantra.

• A mental process which draws a magic circle around all those who are participating.

• A common exercise, a common company song, common goals.

• A handshake, a friendly look, an encouraging word.

• Thinking, believing and acting in a positive manner.

• Laughter, commonly shared jokes.

• Meditation, practiced regularly, helps develop the capacity to be analytical, positive and disciplined, and eliminate negative fields.

• Affirmations, the most important constituent of the positive field. It is a verbal, tonal or non-verbal act of appreciation. A compliment can be a verbal hug. A verbal hug can replace a thousand words. There is a Sanskrit verse which roughly translated means: ‘Don’t say harsh or hurting words. If you have to say something unpleasant, do it as kindly as possible, while genuinely appreciating the good qualities of the person and the relationship.’ The great Tamil Poet, Thiruvalluvar has expressed it succinctly, when he says, ‘Why say harsh words, when kind words are available. Who would eat bitter, unripe fruit when sweet ripe fruits are at hand?’

However, the energy field around a person is most affected by positive, soul-level motives or ‘Sankalpa’. If the gut-level motives are positive, the mere lack of skill in verbal, tonal and non–verbal

The Secret Power of Emotional Fields

Around every person there is a field of emotional energy. Some people always look and feel radiant and everything in their life flourishes and grows. They have a positive energy field around them. Some people, on the other hand, always feel and look morose and tense, everything in their life seems to fade and die. They have a negative energy field around them.

The positive field is created by positive emotions and the negative field draws sustenance from negative emotions.

“The Ant Philosophy”

Over the years, I’ve been teaching kids about a simple but powerful concept: the Ant Philosophy. I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy.

Here is the First part: Ants never quit. That’s a good philosophy. If they’re headed somewhere and you try to stop them, they’ll look for another way. They’ll climb over. They’ll climb under. They’ll climb around. They keep looking for another way. What a neat philosophy—to never quit looking for a way to get where you’re supposed to go.

Second, ants think winter all summer. That’s an important perspective. You can’t be so naive as to think summer will last forever. So ants gather their winter food in the middle of summer.

An ancient story says, “Don’t build your house on the sand in the summer.”Why do we need that advice? Because it is important to think ahead. In the summer, you’ve got to think storm. You’ve got to think rocks as you enjoy the sand and sun.

The third part of the Ant Philosophy is that ants think summer all winter. That is so important. During the winter, ants remind themselves, “This won’t last long; we’ll soon be out of here.” And the first warm day, the ants are out. If it turns cold again, they’ll dive back down, but then they come out the first warm day. They can’t wait to get out.

And here’s the last part of the ant philosophy. How much will an ant gather during the summer to prepare for the winter? All he possibly can. What an incredible philosophy, the “all-you-possibly-can” philosophy.

Moral: Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can.

Life Has A Meaning Purpose

How can I know God is? How can I know the world makes sense? How can I know there is purpose in living? How can I know?

These are the questions of all of us. When we seek for an answer to them, where shall we look?

Look out at the vastness of things. See the stars blossoming like the unfolding petals of a rose and you sense the moving order that rules the depths of space. Look at the least blade of grass – out of sunlight and water and air, it makes new life! – and you sense the inconceivable intelligence that works in the least of things.

And more than intelligence! If we could get at the heart of things, a heart is what we would find-something much more like heart than mind, much more like love than law, much more like beauty than reason.

Take rainbows, for example. There is a reason for rain, but not for a rainbow. The universe would operate as efficiently without one, only not so beautifully, that is all. Only the spirit of divine delight could have conceived rainbows, the same Spirit that made butterflies-those flowers with wings! And indeed all the infinite, outpouring, heaped-up, overflowing variety of things bursting the seams of the world makes me know absolutely that something is at work here so alive that life is too weak a word to describe it.

The Spirit of God is not just life, not just intelligence. It is sheer exuberance, the love of joy in living! It never makes two blades of grass alike. It crowds every crack with growing things and space with universes.

Clouds form and dissolve, birds sing, insects rise, leaves tremble, and flowers unfold-all is change, activity, livingness. You may be part of this livingness. The universe is a web, beautifully woven; its threads spiraling out, linking every living thing, even every atom, so intimately so perfectly that no least thread, no least point at the perimeter, can be touched, but the whole web vibrates in harmony. You can be one with this oneness of things. You need not be little and alone, isolated and meaningless. You are part of life.

One with life, you lose your sense of separateness, your sense of self. No bird flies, but your thought takes flight; no bird sings, but a song is in your heart. You are brother to the fly and cousin to the cricket. You are as much a part of life as a cloud is part of the air. Who shall say where cloud ends and air begins? At its edges, it is some of both. At your edges, you are part of all that is, part of the livingness of life.

In the infinite flux of life, there is no separateness; there is only wholeness-only the many faces of the One. Give yourself to living, and you will find meaning, for you will be one with the one life.