Tag: yoga

Mana sajjana

Bhishmaraj Purushottam Bam – 1st October 1938 to 12th May 2017

After all what is life but a conversation with your own mind and convincing it to align with noble thoughts, words, deeds. “Manache Shlok” by Ramdas Swami inspires us to do so.

Being inspired is one thing and actually walking the path is another. Here’s to the one who actually walked the path of “Mana Sajjana” and inspired all of us to do so.

We are lucky to have walked a few steps with you. Gratitude and love for you will remain in our hearts forever, in that you will always be immortal…❤️

Non Biological Existence

If you observe, the biological needs(eat/drink, sleep/rest, reproduce, defecate, exercise) may take up 12 hrs of your day and the rest of the 12 hours are devoted to non biological pursuits.

So 50% of  “I” is mostly common for all humans across the globe – in that they have to attend to their biological needs, which is not really the problem unless those are not fulfilled. It is the remaining “Non biological” 50% “I” that harbors delusions of grandeur, especially in “Non Biological” entities/leaders and their followers across the world preferring wars, blatant profiteering, etc over peaceful, harmonious co-existence. If there is anyone deserving of a Nobel Prize then it is the one who brings about this peaceful co existence…

This is a personal choice which is surprisingly not preferred by most people across the world and consequently 100% of humanity has to suffer…

Om Shanti Shanti Shanti

You can only be truly at complete peace when you are yourself at peace, living in a peaceful community/country and the world is also at peace. The latter 2 are beyond your control & can only be a good wish but the first one is very much in your control. If you observe closely, there are 3 causes for our suffering and they are brought upon by our own memory(past), imagination(future) and judgement(present), all 3 need to be silenced for you to experience peace.

Hence Dhyana wherein you are at Source and the mind is silent, this is the best gift you can give yourself and to the world.

Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti 

In-dependence

Freedom is independence but so long as there exists dependence on almost all aspects of life, we would never know what is freedom….

Biological, Financial, Emotional, Intellectual – we are entangled in a web of dependencies, a sum total of which is the dependence on “I/Me/Mine” which is a combination of how you define yourself biologically(Body), financially(status), emotionally(relations), intellectually(titles & roles you play), wherein you believe that you exist independent of everything around you, which is Maya.

How you disentangle yourself from this illusion of separate existence is the spiritual journey of peeling off the layers till nothing remains and you realise that you are nothing and yet everything, which are but two sides of the same coin….

Kindness

During travel you come across people from various countries, cultures, backgrounds, dressing, languages, etc. You realise that however different you are, your needs to survive are the same though the imputed needs for comfort and luxury differ radically.

In such situations, how do you communicate with each other? Best communication is that of kindness and that doesn’t apply only to when you are travelling but starts at home, society, work place, etc. Kindness is what is missing and that is why the world is what it is, choosing war mongering leaders and suffering the consequences…

Never too late to up your kindness quotient. The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step…

Ceasefire

Finally a ceasefire, so business as usual? Does this wipe out the pain and suffering caused to the world? But who cares? So long as the objectives of Power/Wealth/Fame are met – wars will be fought, people will suffer and that, is reality.

Will there ever be a world without wars? At least history doesn’t say so. Like change, even wars are a constant and that is because humans have never been collectively able to wipe out greed, lust, jealousy, … from themselves. That, I thought, was the purpose of every religion but even though everyone professes to follow some religion, they interpret it in a manner that justifies their greed, jealousy, lust, etc. And so the circus continues.

To stay at peace within yourself and with others around you is the greatest religion that one can follow, all the rest is just noise….

Chaos

On a flight I took recently, a drunk man was allowed to board despite everyone (including the airline staff) noticing his state and his unruly behaviour soon upon boarding. Everyone hoped that the man would settle down but he did not. He created such a ruckus throughout the flight abusing the stewardesses, captain, fellow passengers(some of who were helping in managing the drunk, some were eager to knock him out and some were just wishing that peace prevailed)…

Eventually, after 3 hrs of not being served any food/drink, the flight landed but time had already passed and none of us were able to notice the beauty of flying over some of the highest mountains in the world…

And then it struck me that the same thing is happening in the world, some madmen creating ruckus, some trying to manage them, some hoping for peace, with no clarity as to when this flight will land, only to board another similar flight…

So finding peace in the midst of chaos is an essential life skill…

Better version

Just because the Sun is called different things in different cultures/languages does not make the Sun any different or any more personal to anyone.

And so it is with the concept of God – whether you believe or not or by what name you refer to God, doesn’t really matter.

The only thing that matters is whether such a belief/name inspires you to be a better version of yourself in thoughts, words and deeds…