Girish's Blog

  The Message and the Messenger We are all aware that Swamiji came to spread the message of one world, one family through meditation. A beginning has been made on that count. But with the passage of time there were other dimensions of his work which were revealed by him – teaching Jain Gurus, instilling values in newly-weds so that they could be potential parents for those Gurus who want to take birth to continue their work. The establishment of Mangal Murtis with life-force energy so that this holy work could go on uninterrupted for the next 800 years! Swamiji has lived his life too with complete devotion to family – both his immediate and his extended family of millions of souls to whom he has become a medium for awakening their soul! Swamiji instils the divine seed within you even without your knowing it, it is only after you start meditating regularly that the seed begins to take root and grow into a tree. Swamiji is himself the message of self-realisation and vasudhaiv ...

  Photo Credit: Public Domain Pictures Path Through Darkness One needs to have faith that the divine is always with you – both faith and belief are fundamental in helping you find the path through darkness into light. It is in your hands what you want to be – a torchbearer or a person lost in the wilderness of material life. Accept and know that you are as good as the best, as powerful as the strongest – you are a soul conscious individual on the way to merge with universal consciousness. Faith means having the conviction and knowledge that we are made in the omnipotent, all-knowing, all-seeing image of Paramatma. One needs to awaken, nurture and bring into full and complete manifestation our faith through deep meditation practice, which brings us in conscious contact with our soul and through our soul – Paramatma. Hope and faith reveal a path through the darkness of any trial or test in our life. Faith otherwise understood as the intuitive experience of the truth is a native...

  Photo Credit: spiritualleague.com Understanding - Student, Disciple and Devotee A student of spirituality is not aware that he has hit the path by accident, he is curious, his curiosity has been aroused. His search has not yet begun because deep down in his heart he knows that he is not prepared for this long pilgrimage. A disciple is a totally different phenomena – he knows that he is a disciple. The first rays of understanding, awareness have penetrated his being – he definitely knows that he is not a student or devotee. He feels deep in his heart a miracle has happened, that his Guru has touched his soul – he has been awakened, that he is a disciple! He feels the dedication, the love, the commitment – he knows he is on the right path and he will remain focused however many births it takes to reach his goal – liberation! For a disciple it is not an intellectual understanding, it is intuitive like love. To find your Satguru, your Master is a great affair because there is n...

  Photo Credit: The Conversation Freedom from Beliefs Being brought up in a deeply religious family I was asked to believe lots of things which defied rationality. Whenever we questioned our mother she would say, you people are educated – we never had the guts to question our parents, we just did as we were asked to! Many of our ancient traditions are based on logic and science and their explanation can be found in the Upanishads, but as our mother did not have the answer to our questions we were spun off with her standard response! This blind belief is probably the most dangerous thing that our mind does to us. It defeats the very purpose of rational thinking – blind faith and belief have probably conned the maximum number of people in the world out of their wealth as well as happiness! Only the gullible fall for this blind belief and believe me there are a lot of gullible people out there in the world. One thing we have to definitely understand is that to believe, to believe blin...

  Photo Credit: Zen Thinking Illusion of Knowledge Most of us have minds which is like a disturbed bee hive – buzzing with bees all the time! Man lives in tension, anxiety and worries with all these buzzing thoughts! To recognise and know life our mind needs to become like a calm and silent ripple-less lake. When the mind is unhealthy or sick that is when consciousness disappears and only the buzzing of thoughts remains, from morning till evening we live in a crowd of thoughts. The trick is not to keep collecting bouquets of thoughts in the first place – if you go on collecting bouquets there is no scope for the mind to become quiet! In nature when we don’t want leaves to grow on a tree, we stop watering the roots, once we do that, after a few days we notice that the leaves dry and fall off the tree. Similarly, if we understand how we water the roots of our thoughts, we will be able to stop it. So, how do we water out thoughts? Thoughts are nothing but a collection of other people’...

  Photo Credit:Exploring Spirituality Beyond Religion Managing the Mind The human mind is filled with unwanted clutter gathered from all over the place – print, visual, social media, TV serials, movies, etc – and most of it is absolutely useless information – an overdose of nonsense! Because of this quite a few minds have become ‘sick’, the brains have become unhealthy. Whenever any part of our body becomes sick our entire attention turns towards it – that’s why our minds are overactive as our entire attention is on it. We are not aware of other body parts, that awareness comes only when we hurt our hands or legs – that’s when we realise that we have hands and legs! The healthier a body the less it is felt – one feels only that part which has become unhealthy. With a tense and very restless mind one cannot move towards the center of life. You can test yourself by sitting quietly for ten minutes and writing down your thoughts honestly on a piece of paper – you will be surprised ...

  Photo Credit: Alamy Importance of Diet, Exercise & Rest A person can become centered in his being through right exercise, diet and sleep. A person who does not get the right exercise, right kind of food and adequate sleep cannot become centered in the navel. It is only man whose diet is unpredictable, all other species on earth have predictable diets. Other creatures eat as much as they need – it is only man who can actually manage to make a pig of himself! What should a man eat and drink and what should he avoid? The whole body is made up of chemical elements. If alcohol is put into a man, then his body will be affected by the chemical - it will become intoxicated, unconscious. Howsoever healthy, howsoever peaceful the man may be, the chemistry of the intoxication will affect his body. Howsoever saintly a man may be, if he is given poison then he will die. Any food that leads man into any kind of unconsciousness, excitement, any kind of extremity – that causes the ultima...