Humility

Humility is a sign of spiritual progress. Pride is a sign of ego.

Ego driven/Intelligent people are able to glibly rattle off verses from Holy Scriptures and assume that they are in a position to guide others on the spiritual path but they forget that they cannot share what they have never experienced.

Hence look for humility, silence in Guru’s. Such Guru’s(Ramana Maharshi, Buddha, Nisargadatta Maharaj…)would encourage you to practice silence, being in the moment as a witness and find out for yourself. If you can’t find one then it’s better to walk the path alone….

Your direction is more important than your speed. Look inwards in silence

Yoga

Most people think that Yoga is performing some body twisting exercises to improve flexibility.

Yoga is not only about flexibility(Asana), else every Gymnast would have been a Yogi.

Yoga is not only about breath control(Pranayama), else every endurance athlete would have been a Yogi.

Yoga is not only about maintaining a code of conduct(Yama/Niyama) nor only about withdrawing your attention(Pratyahara) nor only about sitting in meditation for long periods of time(Dharana/Dhyana)

Yoga is all of the above till you realise that life is not about seeking/doing but about accepting/being…(Samadhi)

Yoga Chitta Vritti Nirodha

MAGA+MIGA=MEGA

MAGA+MIGA = MEGA, both depend on how you define “Great”. Is GDP the measure of “Great” or is Technological/ Military Superiority? Complete disregard to environmental sustainability / human values in the pursuit of economic, technological, military superiority, surely cannot be termed as “Great”. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s happening.

We live in a world with 8 Billion Human Population & God knows how many other sentient beings spread across different geographies that have been defined by drawing imaginary borders/lines to divide not only land/water/sky but also everything that comes within those boundaries. A handful of chosen or self appointed megalomaniac leaders of the 8 Billion control the fates of others and they seem to be hell bent on defining “Great” as economic prosperity coupled with technological and military superiority…

We have to first redefine “Great” to have a foundation of humanity and environmental sustainability and then make all efforts to get somewhere from there. If we don’t, we may not need any meteors for the extinction of the human race, we will self destruct ourselves….

All is One, One is All

All humans need the same things and yet we have managed complicating our lifestyles so much. When we live in an ashram with the same dress code, dietary restrictions and a bed/mattress to sleep on, we realise that we can live simply but we choose not to, for our own complicated reasons.

We fill our homes with more things than we can use in lifetimes, we chase tasty food, drink, bodily comfort and sensual pleasures and begin to tell ourselves this is life, which is far from truth.

This is all due to the misconception that you are different from others and you spend a lifetime trying to enhance the difference instead of dissolving it. Life actually begins when you accept and realise that we are all the same…

All is One, One is All…

Love – as an emotion or state?

Love is just a word, the meaning you assign to it is up to you. Love, as commonly understood in today’s age, is an emotion that is used for interpersonal relations – it is an emotion. It changes from time to time, person to person, place to place, thing to thing. Many “I love you” end up in marriages and very soon in divorces…

The emotion of “love” that you give/receive to/from a parent, sibling, friend, spouse, children, etc is different and changes from time to time; parents (especially mothers) love is perhaps the only love that more or less remains constant for their child/ren over their lifetime since the child/ren are just an extension of “I/Me/Mine” for the parents…

Generally, the more you care about the feelings of others(being sensitive), the more loving you are considered and vice-versa, but ultimately it’s emotional and transactional…

Then there is another kind of love that is experienced by Self Realised souls wherein when your individuality/ego has dissolved and you are in a state of love, you love everything and everyone. This is a state of love that emerges when “I/Me/Mine” has dissolved.

Whether you want to continue experiencing love as an ever changing emotion or take up the opportunity to experience it as a permanent state of being by dissolving “I/Me/Mine”, well that is up to you.