Life is a game of probabilities and possibilities with uncertain outcomes. Learning to embrace uncertainty and impermanence and yet be joyful is perhaps the most important life skill that you have to teach yourself.
Sooner the better for you and others😊
People are chasing myriad ways to lengthen their lifespan, without finding peace in the present moment. Then what’s the point?
The principles of finding peace are simple 1. To know that everything is impermanent – which can be simply observed and 2. To develop an attitude of compassion in everything you do. Knowing this is easy, living it is difficult. Hence the people able to do the latter are called Saints, who are far and few.
If your spiritual path is not making you a humble, compassionate person, rexamine it and make a course correction.
How many friends would you accept on social media to know that just one good friend is enough?
How many places will you travel to, till you say you’ve seen the world?
How much money would you like to have, to you say it’s enough?
How many desires will you fulfil to know it was never about fulfilling desires?
The answer my friend is blowin in the wind, the answer is blowin in the wind….
Dussehra is when you polish and worship your weapons to enable Good to triumph over Evil but the dividing lines between the two have blurred so much that it’s difficult to distinguish…
There is evil in all of us in the form of kama, krodh, moha, mada, matsar, which is metaphorically referred to as Mahishasur or Ravan, but there is also good which is the faculty of conscience that is Ma Durga or Lord Ram that guides us to steer away from these demons that reside within us and to uphold good in the world.
Pray that you are granted the courage to uphold your conscience in every situation. That is the best offering you could give to Ma Durga/ Lord Ram
Happy Dusshera
Despite knowing hate begets hate, people across the world fight with each other for different reasons – religion, colour, caste, beliefs, geography, money, etc. The choice to stop fighting and perpetuating hatred to the latter generations is upto us.
May Ganesha – the Lord of Wisdom bestow us with the understanding and adherence to the path of love.
Ganapati Bappa Morya ❤️
Independence day reminds us that there is no freedom without struggle. Attachment/Bondage and freedom are in & of your mind. When will you struggle to free your mind? This one is a personal battle.
May you find the strength to walk the path till you free your mind of attachments, that is true freedom🌻
Do you know what you want from this life? If yes, are you spending 8 most energetic hours a day chasing it? It’s your life after all, don’t you think it’s good to know and make course corrections instead of being comfortable in your routine(comfort zone)
Most people don’t know what they want from life so the ones that are hyperactive by nature try to cram in more activities under the name of “time management” but actually it is FOMO “Fear of missing out” and create a busy routine/comfort zone. The Lazy ones simply don’t venture into the dangerous area of finding purpose lest they have to work and life goes on…A few blessed ones know where they’re headed and devote their energies to their purpose. You can be blessed as well…
Do a purpose and energy audit of your own lives. What do you seek from life(purpose) and where are you expending your energies. Keep a journal to note where you are expending energy and review it weekly to know whether it is aligned with your purpose or not, after all you are the Architect of your life…
They say what you don’t know doesn’t hurt you but in fact what you don’t know could be hurting you most…
Does God exist? Depends on what you refer to as God.
Is it a power/person sitting up in the sky controlling everything and keeping tabs on good/bad deeds?
Or is this God/ power within you?
Or there is no God/power and everything is simply happening…
You are free to choose your option but it may or may not be true, so what is true? That, my friend, has to be found out by yourself should you be interested in doing so…
We are born in a world of conclusions expressed by religions, enlightened beings or prophets. Due to the inherent limitations of words to convey exact meaning, there could be a variation in what is intended to be conveyed and what is actually conveyed/understood. To accept what is expressed in words at face value is just the beginning of the spiritual journey, to experience it directly is the purpose of the journey…
There’s an interesting story of a “Duck or Eagle – you decide” floating on Whatsapp wherein a cab driver chooses to focus on rendering a great service to each of his clients instead of sitting and complaining about everything that’s bad with the world around(which is plenty ;-)). The story uses the analogy of ducks and eagles – ducks just make noise and complain whilst eagles soar high. So be an eagle not a duck….
I realise that most people have made it a habit to complain about almost everything that touches their lives and in effect make lives miserable for not only themselves but also everyone around them by focussing on what’s wrong.Now there is another way that could be chosen and that is to find what is right about everything and what is good in everyone – it may not change the factual situation but it puts your mind into a positive frame to find a solution and hopefully does that for others around you as well.
My fathers advice to most sportsmen who he trained as a sports psychologist was “Choice of Focus”. You can and you must choose what you focus on. The mind usually brings up memories of failure that deject you and reinforce the same behaviour repeating the same cycle of failure. Instead you could choose to remember the successes or even imagine you being successful in whatever field you choose and lo! it happens. Try it, it certainly doesn’t harm but puts you in a positive frame of mind.
So the next time you open your mouth to complain about something, know that you could use the same energy to praise something that’s good or better still, start working on correcting whatever wrong you notice, instead of just complaining about it.
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
Bodhisattva 