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Photo Credit: Dadabhagwan.org Inner Blissfulness If we think our work is important, the first thing we should do is work upon our own self, so that internally we are a stable being, no matter what the situation is externally. When we are running a large business or enterprise, it's not just about us. Often, there are another thousand people involved with us. So, how we handle a situation not only impacts our life, but another thousand lives. Once we grow, the challenges also naturally grow; there is no question about it. But if we want to get into a jockey's place where we want to handle the horse, if we want to handle a situation, no matter how large, the first thing we must do, is equip yourself. There is a way with which we can create a stable and blissful chemistry within our own selves, our ability to deal with all the variety of ups and downs in life can be greatly enhanced. How? With yoga and meditation. Yoga-meditation gives us this possibility that if we simply sit...

  Photo Credit: Pinterest Life is Uncertain Nothing in the outside world is certain, that's a fact. It’s uncertain and that’s what makes it challenging. Uncertainty means things are changing; in other words, there is no limbo. If you are walking fast, every step is new terrain. This new terrain is what you are calling ‘uncertainty’ right now. For those of us who are seeking opportunities, uncertainty is the best time. Those who have a vision will make it a possibility; those who don't, will look at it as a problem. But, because we are in a constant state of compulsive reaction in our mind, we are seeking certainty. Certainty is a state of limbo. If there is certainty there is status quo. Status quo in a business, political or social situation means nothing changes; nothing evolves. By seeking certainty, ultimately, we are pitching for stagnation. If things are stagnant, we will get bored. If things are happening rapidly, then we don't have the balance to h...

  Photo Credit: Minimalist Quotes Love and Lust The whole world is going through a unique kind of neurosis, which was not there in the past. This is simply because modern man has stopped using his body to a large extent. In the past, when we intensely involved ourselves in physical activity, a lot of our neurosis was worked out. Our nervous energy got spent. There are several people, especially young people, who have psychological problems, simply because they cannot expend their nervous energy due to lack of physical activity. In the past such people would just start swimming or playing some sport daily and then everything became okay. Because of enough activity, the energy was expended. Today, people have become physically inactive like never before. They could not afford to be so physically inactive earlier, as they had to do so many things physically, just to survive. They have become more neurotic than in the past. As a general phenomenon, there were neurotic people then a...

  Photo Credit: Pinterest Liberation – Ultimate Freedom - 2 Concluding post. Imagination is a renewed past. We are twisting the past into various shapes and get excited about it. Nothing completely new can ever happen in our imagination – it is permutations and combinations of the past – so many that every time, it looks new and exciting to us. When we were children, we made our own kaleidoscope with three pieces of mirror and bits of broken bangles in different colours. We can spend days looking at it. Every time, there is a new design and a new possibility, but it is the same old pieces of bangles, rearranging themselves in many ways to excite our childish mind. The same thing is happening with life – it’s a kaleidoscope. We are always building our own kaleidoscopes. This is okay for our entertainment, not for finding the ultimate nature of life. Non-existence means to become that which is neither this nor that. This is how far language can go. Since language is a product o...

  Photo Credit: Pinterest Liberation – Ultimate Freedom - 1 This post is in two parts. Swamiji has introduced us to the concept of moksha or liberation. Birth and death are two phases of life. There are various dimensions between birth and death – infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age. A dimension has proportions, something that can be defined, described, grasped, and understood. What we are referring to as moksha is dimensionless – it cannot be defined, described, or grasped. “Will I attain moksha?” Never! Nobody will. When we cease to be any dimension – not physical, not metaphysical, not this, not that, nothing – when we become dimensionless, that’s moksha. Dimension means there is a boundary. Moksha means there is no boundary, no bondage. This is all negative terminology, but it is a very positive possibility. Moksha is non-existence. Shiva means non-existence – that which is not. Moksha means to become like that. It is wrong to even refer to Shiva as “h...

  Photo Credit: Salon.com Memory – a Doorway Human memory is a fabulous thing; it's because of this ability to remember we have science, we have technology, we have a civilization, we have information technology; it's all about memory, isn't it? But at the same time, it's human memory which is the source of all bondage. What we call as karma is just memory on different levels of life. Memory is like a doorway; a doorway can open but also it can close. In our life if doors are opening for us wherever we go, we see door as a very wonderful thing but if it's always slamming in our face, door becomes a horrible thing. Memory is just like this. Memory is what has given us the ability to be informed; it is because we are capable of making ourselves informed about various things, many beautiful things have happened in our lives. The very basis of civilization is memory. Today what goes as learning is simply memory. Memory transmitted from generation to generation; th...

  Photo Credit: Daily Quotes Bank Fear of Falling Sick Everybody wants to be healthy. At the same time, we must understand that once we assume a body, illness, old age, and death are natural processes of life. Taking good care of the body is definitely our business, but once we have a physical body, we know that illness may happen at any moment. However, if we are paranoid about ill health or death, we will not take good care of the body. The very anxiety of what may happen will destroy the body. If we become excessively concerned about illness or health, that itself becomes an illness. An illness is something that restricts our life. That is why we don't like it. But just the fear of illness also restricts our life. There are so many people whose fear of illness becomes very strong once they cross forty or forty-five years of age. When they were young, they didn't have this fear because they thought they were immortal! It is only as we grow older that the fact that we are ...