ज्ञानं भारः क्रियां विना - knowledge is a burden without action

 ज्ञानं भारः क्रियां विना

dnyanam bharah kriyam vina 

                                               - knowledge is a burden without action

Since the day we are born on this earth and come into existence, we are curious to know everything.   It is the curiosity in us which makes us to know about new subjects and things.  Whatever you gain by understanding and come to know about anything unless it is shared it will be of no use that is the first thing about knowledge.  Knowledge becomes a burden if it is not integrated into our life.  Gaining knowledge and storing it in our brain can only help in boosting our ego of knowing something.  Just by gaining knowledge is one part that is 1%, experiencing it, integrating into your life is the main part that is 100%.  Knowledge which is not put into use is of no use. 

As we clean our house everyday and throw out things which are not of any use to us likewise we need to clean our brain everyday of its unwanted knowledge which has become a garbage in your brain.  It is always better to clean our brain of unwanted and unused knowledge to make it lighter to make the space available for new knowledge which can be useful in our life.  Just because you have lot of space in your brain it does not mean that you store everything you come across in your lifetime.  Do not treat your brain as dustbin, throwing everything into it, it will get burdened with unnecessary and unused things and gives you a headache.  Store only things which enhances your life and makes a difference in your life to make it better.  It is always better to have empty space rather than store unnecessary things and make it full.   Fullness will only makes you egoistic that you know something and everything.

It is the experience that you gain by putting your knowledge into action that matters a lot in your life.  Any experience whether it is good or bad enhances your life and makes you a wiser being.  Being wise is more better than being knowledgeable.  The more you experience different aspects of your life, the more you become wiser being.  Becoming wiser makes your journey of life an effortless and pleasurable experience.  It is the wiseness in you which makes you take the appropriate decisions in any kind of situations in life.   It is like, studying to get a degree in a particular field is knowledge, getting a job in that field and experience it on a day to day basis will make you more confident in life.  Certificates gives you eligibility but experience gives you self confidence.  Unless you are confident in your self you cannot achieve anything in life.

It is the feeling you get that you are capable of doing it on your own gives you confidence in life and life becomes a challenge for rest of the lifetime.  Anything that becomes a burden restricts your progress in life. Off loading your burden will make life easy and the journey will be effortless.  Unless you make your journey of life effortless by becoming wise through experience, it will be boring and a regretful experience.  Life will be a joyful experience for the one who is wiser.

Spirituality helps you know your true self by realization in life.  It was already there all the time, it is just that you have not realized it.  You were focused so externally in your life that you do not know your true self.  You did not put any effort to know your true self.  Spirituality helps you to realize the essence of your being.  Unless you know who you are you will not be able to get clarity on anything in life.  It is out of understanding you evolve.  Evolution is a process of getting out of the present state.  If you come out of your present state then you have evolved yourselves.  Spirituality helps you to evolve to be a better human being who is natural to the core.  Being natural should be your motto, nothing else will do.  Spirituality makes you realize and helps you to regain and retain your naturality.

Embrace Spirituality

Become wise 

Celebrate your existence

Interdependence - significant other

Interdependence - significant other

We are born as an individual but our journey needs companionship.  Without the other you are worthless. It is a combination factor.  When two things come together there will be communion. Being together is the only way out and is the only possibility. Life cannot be led independently, impossible.  Life is interdependent. You are important and the other is also equally important. Without the other you cannot survive and without you the other cannot survive.

Life does not make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, it is better for all of us.  It suggests that we cannot survive and thrive in isolation, and we need to recognize and appreciate the role of others in our lives.  By recognizing and appreciating the role of others in lives, we an create a more harmonious and supportive society. All living things depend on their environment to supply them with what they need including food, water, and shelter.  

The pattern of life reflects synchronous living. It cannot be otherwise.  Nothing is independent everything is interdependent. When people work together for the good of others, they feel more connected to both themselves and others.

Every creation of nature is related to you and has a role to play in all other creations.  When you were born you were in a helpless state. You are born in the protection of your parents.  They took care of you in all aspects till you were able to manage on your own without their intervention or help. This process sets an obligation on your part to take care of the helpless, when your parents become old, weak, diseased, and above all when they are not able to manage their life due to old age related issues.

You are responsible for well being of your fellow human beings as well as safeguarding the nature. The healthy has to take care of the unhealthy and that is how it is.  The strong has obligation towards the weak, not domination or suppression.  Caring and sharing is the mantra of harmonious living.  Life becomes a symphony when we coexist amicably. It is not just existence, it is coexistence.

Realize your true self through Spiritual path.  Give importance to others in your life as they are also equal stake holders in this existence. 

Know your true self

Celebrate life collectively

Self Awareness - looking inwards

Self Awareness - looking inwards

Since the day you are born you try to gain knowledge by trying to understand the life outside of your self.  Throughout your life you try to acquire knowledge and wanting to gain knowledge by gathering information and store it in your brain which you might or might not use in your lifetime.  We hardly use 1% of what we had gathered and stored in our brain throughout our lifetime.  We have knowledge but not experienced it and we lack experience.  Being knowledgeable feeds your ego to feel good.  

You know everything else other than yourself.  You hardly know about your true self. Self awareness is the capacity to look inward and understand our own feelings, emotions, stressors and personality. 

To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.

Life is a subjective experience.  We are subjects of life. Life is subjective. It revolves around you and me and nothing else.  If you understand yourselves, you understood life.  Life is simple and needs a simplest approach to understand it.  The whole which is outside is also inside you.  If you know the inside, you will know both the inside-outside of life.  The inside is no different from outside.  Everything is the same in different proportions. The essence is the same, only quantity differs.  Clarity in vision, thoughts, and perception will make your life easier. Life is simple, we make it complicated by not understanding its nature and not aligning with nature.

If you want to be life positive, you should align with nature and flow with it. Once your body and mind aligns with the rhythm of nature, your journey of life will be effortless.  It is just a cake walk.  It is as if sliding on a butter.  You do nothing, it takes care and it takes care of everything.  It brought you in the first place, it takes care, and finally it takes you back into its fold.

You and me have to do nothing, but just, allow it to happen and enjoy life.

If you think journey of life is effort based, then you have a long way to go to understand what is life.  Life is a play, you are a character, so you play your part/slot that is it.  When every creation of nature is playing its role perfectly well then why not you.  Only man has not aligned with nature.  He has deviated to such an extent that he has lost his way in the journey of life.  He is at loss. He is in a jam.  He is in a maze without a way out.  He has encountered a wall, a obstruction.  He is not finding a way out.  To be out of the jam, he needs a door to exit from the current situation, which he is not able to find because of his own doings.

Conscious living is the way out of your traffic jams in life.  Living consciously will make you come out of any situation in life with ease, effortlessly.  

Spirituality is a path for self awareness.  It will lead you into the path to know your true self.  It is an internal and intrinsic journey to understand the true essence of our being.  Once you know who you truly are and what you are and accept yourself fully, then rest of the life's journey will be an easy affair. Self awareness leads to know our true self and respect life.  It starts with you and your inner self and it will be easy to understand every thing else in life later on.  Once you accept your true self, you start accepting everything in life in a let go fashion without any form of expectation.

Accept Spirituality

Become aware of your self

Accept Self and Celebrate Life

भयमेवास्ति शत्रुः - fear is the only enemy

भयमेवास्ति शत्रुः  - fear is the only enemy

Bhayamevasti Shatruh

The Sanskrit phrase "भयमेवस्ति शत्रु" translates into "Fear is the only enemy" in English. Fear is the unpleasant feeling you have when you think that you are in danger.    It is an unpleasant emotional feeling you have, caused by impending danger, evil or pain which can be imagined or real.  It is feeling of being afraid of something.  It is the uneasy feeling you get when you are not sure what is going to happen or what is the outcome of something in the near future.  Fear itself can often be the biggest obstacle that one faces in life. It can inhibit progress, cloud judgment, and prevent individuals from achieving their goals. By recognizing and overcoming one's fears, one can effectively conquer their most significant challenges and obstacles in their life.  Fear is the biggest enemy in your life which is staggering your progress.

Our whole religion is based on fear factor.  It is the fear which prevents you from doing evil things in life.  We have been taught and programed that if we do good we will go to heaven and if we do bad we will be thrown into the hell.  All the worlds religions are constructed based on fear factor.  May be to bring orderliness in our society these religions were established for overall good of human beings when the society was evolving from it chaotic state.  The feeling of fear hovers over your head even more when you have no self confidence.  You are your own enemy if you fear about uncertainty in life.  Everything you want in your life is on the other side of fear.

Fear causes psychological changes that may produce behavioral reactions. Your behavior changes when you always fear for your life. Many people have fear of unknown and when there is uncertainty about something, it instills fear in you.  The more you try to avoid fear the more you become fearful in your life.  Fear comes from the mind.  It is hard to find happiness when you are living with fear in your life.  Fear will lead you to be in an anxiety and anxious state.  Fear is like a mold, it grows in the dark.  Most of the fear we can overcome by going deep into your fear causing factor and understanding the reason for your being fearful.  Out of understanding you can overcome fear.  Over thinking leads to fear in life.  Living in the present in a conscious way will make you overcome your fear and live life fearlessly and effortlessly.  Awareness will help you to overcome fear and anxiety out of your life.

Fear is formed when the mind focuses on the uncertainty of future outcomes.  Confidence comes from awareness of all the facts thereby helps in overcoming your fear factors in your life.

Spirituality helps you to overcome fear and instill confidence in your being.  It is only when you believe in your self you will be able to live life confidently without any element of fear.  Spirituality helps you to realize your true self and make you more self confident in life.  It will make you come out of your fear factors and live life boldly and effortlessly having Enlighted all the aspects of life and living. Your journey of life becomes joyful and wonderous once you adopt Spirituality as your path for enlightenment in life.  Transform yourself into a bold individual by become Spiritual by knowing your true self and ultimately become an Enlightened Being.

Adopt Spirituality 

Overcome fear and live life boldly

Celebrate your existence

मम नियतिम् नियछ्मि - I control my destiny

मम नियतिम् नियछ्मि

Mum Niyatim Niychami - I control my destiny

The power that determines the course of future events.  Destiny is the force that some people think controls what happens in the future, and which cannot be influenced by people.

The nature is the deciding factor of your beginning and ending on this earth.  We are born here and destined to be here because of nature. In fact, almost 99% of our existence is being influenced by nature.    Birth, growth, survival and death is all controlled by nature.  We have no option left to control our existence other then to act as facilitator to our body by obeying its commands and fulfilling our obligations towards it externally.  Body on its own can look after itself in all aspect like breathing, growth factor, digestion, assimilation, evacuation etc.  Obtaining food on its own is the only function the body cannot do itself and for which it entirely depends on you for external functions.  It controls all the functions of body internally and it only expects you to coordinate in getting right kind of food for it to generate energy to sustain your body.

Taking care of your body should be your ultimate aim in your life.  Body should be your top priority.  If you have a healthy body and mind then it will be easy to pursue your external goals in life.  Internally body controls everything and externally you need to take control of your destiny. Destiny is an external factor of your life.   Your destiny is in your hands.  It is not written on the lines of your palm.  You need to take responsibility to take care of your bodies external needs and your desire of achieving something in life.  You control your destiny and nobody else.  You are responsible for yourselves for all external aspects of your life.  

You have to evolve out of your experience to guide your life to make the journey of life a pleasant experience.  The journey part of your external life is in your hands, you can shape it and mold it according to your experience.   Your experience determines your destiny.  The destiny of your life has to be decided by you and you alone. यत भावो-तत भवति - you become as you think and what you think depends upon what you believe.  Living consciously will make you control your destiny.

Spirituality is a path to make you realize and guide you to become your true self.  It will make you have belief in your being.  Once you realize your true self and believe in your self then you gain self confidence and become life positive.  Upon realization, you align with your body internally and you will be able to guide your destiny externally effortlessly.  Now you become the master of yourself.  The internal peace what you have achieved through realization will help you to get peace in your external life.  Your external life is a reflection of your internal being.  Once you have peace within, you will be destined to have peace in all aspect of your life.  Since you have become life positive, this positiveness radiates all through your life.

Embrace Spirituality

Become Life Positive

आध्यात्मिक जागरण - spiritual awakening

आध्यात्मिक जागरण

Adhyatmik Jagran - spiritual awakening

आध्यात्मिक जागरण - spiritual awakening is coming out from thought process of your mind.  It is about making oneself aware of who we are, what we are and what we have always been.  It is about understanding the true spirit inside of each and every individual and become aware of it and be so.  Spiritual awakening is attained by an individual self by undergoing the journey deep inside of ones being and realizing there true self.

In the beginning of our life we are more concerned about our basic needs and as we grow out of our adolescence and become fully mature, we start desiring for materialistic things which gives us fleeting happiness and in fact we are more concentrated on getting happy for the moment and for the time being not aspiring for lasting happiness.  We will be chasing objects of desire which makes us happy by possessing them or owning them.  We also pursue things which makes us happy for the time being and there after your happiness wears out and you will be in sad state once again and this cycle of being happy and sad keeps happening throughout our lives and nothing lasts forever.

We will be sad most part of our lives with occasional feeling of happiness happening infrequently throughout our lives. The sad part is larger than the happy part in our lives and it alternates regularly like day and night.  Sadness is there most part of our lives occasionally getting a glimpse of happiness.  Once you understand this pattern of sadness and happiness happening in our entire life there arises a moment when you feel like opting out of this pattern in your life.  You start thinking and wondering about what is the thing that gives you permanent happiness and you try to search and go in that direction.  We pursue for happiness feeling externally throughout our life.  We think objects of desire makes us happy, but happiness is subjective feeling deep inside oneself.  Feelings are subjective and not objective.

Unless you question yourself you will not get answers for your questions.  Any feeling of happiness or sadness is deep inside of your being.  You get the different feelings depending on the way you condition your internal being.  Unless you know your self you will not be able to know your feelings.  You awaken your being from the fleeting feeling based on external factors in your life and you become more aware of what is going on outside and inside of yourselves that is influencing your life and feelings inside you.  Once you are aware of what is going on you will realize that everything is related to conditioning of your internal being.

Awakening from sleep every day in the morning is the routine awakening.  Spiritual awakening means awakening in life once for all permanently and live life consciously rest of your life.  It is a life transformative experience wherein you view life in a completely different perspective in its truest form.

The real journey of your life starts when you start exploring about your own self.  Spirituality is a path wherein you undertake a intrinsic and internal journey deep inside of your being.  It is a journey to understand our true self of what we are made up of and what we truly are.  It will make you realize the essence of your being.  It will make you spiritually aware of your being.  You will experience Spiritual Awakening of being one with the whole existence.  It will transform you into an Enlightened Being.  You will feel blessed and blissful once you have experienced Spiritual Awakening,  It is the ultimate moment in your life where in you start experience pure consciousness.

experience spiritual awakening

Celebrate your existence   

सशक्तिकरणम् - the power within

सशक्तिकरणम् 

Sashaktikaran - empowerment, the power within

We are creations of nature and we have an inbuilt set program and defined role for all the body parts to follow and work in tandem without involvement of our mind.  The nature has also empowered us with all the necessary input and body mechanics to function optimally to go about our daily life. Through constant practice and usage our body parts starts performing its functions subconsciously and effortlessly.  We are just an external facilitator for our internal body.

Since we have been given eyes to see, we think and start focusing on external aspect of our lives and not acknowledging the internal aspect of our body which is the main reason we are alive on this earth.  Our whole existence is based on our internal body parts working diligently, efficiently and constantly without a break and without any form of hinderance in its working.   Unless we accept ourselves and our body wholly our performance in external life will become chaotic and will be in disarray.

First and foremost thing once you attain your senses fully is to understand your body parts and its function and give utmost importance to your internal voice from your body parts and execute its command promptly without using your mind.  Throughout our lives we keep getting subtle messages and commands from our internal body which we often ignore as we are more involved and interested in our external lives.  We give a lot of importance to our external life like education, career, profession and possession of materialistic objects of desires and fully neglecting our body as if it has no importance and no role to play.  If your body lets you down with some illness or disease then your whole external life will collapse like a pack of cards.  Your whole external empire will collapse in front of your eyes and you will feel helpless about it.

Any amount of possessions you achieve in your external life will be of no use and utter waste if you neglect to take care of your body and its subtle messages.  Whatever you want to do or doing in your external life has to be put into pause mode and attend to your bodily needs and body commands on a priority basis.  Unless you have a healthy body your external empire is of no use.  Your whole focus in your life should be to take care of your body and bodily needs on top priority basis.  

Nothing is more important in life then your body and mental health.  Health is wealth and nothing can replace it.  If you are healthy you can pursue your goals in external life and it will be of use in your life as you have not neglected your body in trying to pursue that.  If you have made a lot of wealth neglecting your body requirements and when you encounter serious illness in your life, all your wealth will be of no use to save yourselves from the illness and your entire life efforts of achieving fame and wealth will down the drain.

Spirituality helps you in realizing and understanding your true potential and how much you are already empowered with.  It will make you understand your empowerment capacity you were born with and utilize it to the maximum benefit of your life.  Spirituality is a path to realize your true self and the potential within oneself.  It will make you be yourself and will make you live life effortlessly.  It will ultimately transform you into an Enlightened Being.

Embrace Spirituality, it helps you to realize and understand that you are already empowered by nature in all aspects for the journey of life.

Accept Spirituality

enlighten yourself

celebrate life

अनुगच्छतु प्रवाहं - go with the flow

अनुगच्छतु प्रवाहं  

Anuugachtu Pravaha - go with the flow

Nature is always in present continuous tense, ever changing.  Change is the essence of nature.  Evolution means change from the present state.  Nothing in nature remains in constant state, it evolves out of it selves all the time.  

River represents life, ever flowing.   Life keeps on flowing like a river and going downstream towards the vastness of ocean to join it and become one with ocean.  Since we are a product of nature we have to be natural and flow with the nature, aligning with it all the time.  Those who follow natural course encounter least resistance in their life.  There journey of life will be a effortless and smooth affair being along with nature.  You can avoid conflicting situations in life by flowing with nature trusting it 100% without any element of doubt.  Nature does not deviate from its natural course and you can be certain of that and always be with it.

अनुगच्छतु प्रवाहं  - go with the flow means embrace or accept life as it comes never expect or desire for anything at all.  We have come without our expectation or desire to be born here, so we need to accept life with full gratitude and go with the flow of nature, that is the true course of our life.  Going against the flow of nature needs a lot of effort and you will face all sorts of obstacles and hardships in life.  Anything you do against nature is unnatural and be ready to face the consequences thereof.

Being natural should be your ultimate aim in life.  There is a pattern in nature which we should try to decipher and adopt it in our life so that we can be in the right path in our journey of life.  Being natural is what you are supposed to be because you cannot be otherwise.  Every creation of nature has an inbuilt program and a pattern for it to follow, it is as simple as that.  You are born as a question and the answer to it lies within your self.  If every creation of nature follows its natural course, life will be a one great symphony and conflicting situations will never arise.  If someone does not follow the natural course he will the cause for the chaos and confusion for everybody else.

Spirituality is a path which will lead you into the natural course in the journey of life.  It will make you realize your true nature and stick to it until you exist on this earth.  It will enlighten your life by giving insight into each and every aspect of life and living.  Life will be a beautiful experience once you adopt spiritual path.  Everyday will be wonderful and exciting experience once you follow the path of spirituality.  It will make you realize and understand the spirit inside of oneself and make you be in alignment with it throughout your lifetime.   Spirituality makes you be your true self and lead a contended life.

Accepting the path of Spirituality will transform you into your true self and makes you go with the flow and celebrate life

Embrace Spirituality

Transform into your true self

सर्ववस्तूनि कारणोद्भवानि - everything happens for a reason

 

सर्ववस्तूनि कारणोद्भवानि

Sarvavastuni Karanodbhavani 

                                                       -  everything happens for a reason

सर्ववस्तूनि कारणोद्भवानि - everything happens for a reason and there cannot be anything without a reason and if we cannot make it out then it does not mean it has no reason, it means we do not have or built capacity to know the reason.

We have come into existence without our knowledge and intention.  It is only after we attain our full senses that we realized that we are existing on this earth in flesh and blood.  We can only realize anything after it has already happened.  An event takes place and we come to know of it and then we need to know of it completely through reasoning to get a feeling in ourselves that we know it fully inside out and we feel satisfied with that feeling.  Only through awareness that you come to know of anything only after it has happened and you want to know why and what of it.   

The whole existence is evolving continuously eternally.  We being a limited being we cannot know the limitlessness of the whole existence and the Cosmos.   The infiniteness of the whole existence can be know only when we come out of our limited being and we come out of our mind based analysis.  Mind can only comprehend finite things and defined things and also defines things and puts them into a slot.  Mind cannot comprehend infinite things which cannot be slotted at all.  The mind is too small and limited in its capacities to decipher infinite or limitless things.  It can only construct a theory about it, that is all.  How can a frog in the well comprehend about the vastness of the sea or universe outside of its well, it always thinks the well is the whole universe.  

It is very easy to decipher things with boundaries around it, but it is near to impossible to know about things which have no boundaries.  We have to understand the limitations of the mind and we need to go beyond the mind to understand things which are boundary less.  We should realize that we need a different approach to grasp and understand about the vastness of this universe.  It needs a full body approach rather than just one part of the body, that is mind, trying to decipher it.  You can know about it partly if your approach is through one part.  You need to have a holistic approach to understand the wholeness of it.  

Spirituality is the way forward.  It is a way to understand your true self wholly and thoroughly.  It is an internal and intrinsic journey within oneself to realize our true being.  Once you come to know about your own self then their arises a possibility of knowing the world outside of your self.  It begins within you and then gets outside of your self.  First try to know yourselves thoroughly and then you build a capacity to understand the whole outside world in which you are a part of.  If a part wants to know the whole, it has to outgrow its part and then there arises a possibility, otherwise not.  Once you dissolve your self then you merge with the whole becoming the whole itself.

Uni means one, single, universe means a single entity or existence.  When universe is one verse, a compose, coming together, and you are a part of it then you become part of the oneness, the Universe.  You though you were different, apart, once you realize, you come to an understanding that you are part of the whole and you come out of your part and dissolve yourselves in the whole, wholeness is oneness.  Losing your individual identity will give your global identity, a universal identity.

Embrace Spirituality to know your real identity and celebrate your existence

परिमित तथा अनन्त - finite and infinite

परिमित तथा अनन्त 

Parimit thata Ananta - finite and infinite

We are Parimit or finite part of the Ananta or infinite world.  Your whole life is to try to understand your finiteness and how to come out of this cage of finiteness and understand the infinite whole and merge with the ultimate reality.  A part becoming the whole.  You are a part of the whole who got disintegrated and now you have to reintegrate with the whole and do not wish to remain as a finite part. 

We come into existence in this world as finite being with definite form, shape, program, and with all sorts of limitedness.  We are provided with a set limit in every aspect of our life and living since we are limited being.  We are born as finite being in this infinite world for a reason.  First try to understand the limitations of being a finite creation and once you realize your capacities and reach to the brim then step into the infinite world to try to understand it.  You are born as a part of the whole creation and to understand the whole first you need to understand your part thoroughly then their arises a possibility of knowing the whole.  A finite thing cannot understand infinite thing unless it comes out of its finiteness.  Once you come out of your limited being and become free from your limitations you will have access to know the unlimited or infinite existence.

We being limited being by birth, our limitations are there in all our doings.  Limited beings can know about limited and finite things and cannot know about unlimited and infinite things in life.  First try to know your limitations and be within it and stick to the program and do not try to deviate from it or try to become something else other than what you already are and made for and to be.  First try to understand your capacities and utilize them to full extent and contain yourselves within your limited program.  Once you know inside-out of your limitations then you start wondering about infinite things in this world.  It is only when you question your being you will search for answers for them.  Unless you question about your limitedness you will not be able to come out of it. You have to come out of the cocoon of limitedness and fly out like a butterfly freeing yourselves from your shell into the free infinite world.

Your life journey starts from zero to zero that is your lifespan, from one end to the other which appears to be different but your starting and ending point is zero, one and the same.  You start from one point at birth and culminate at the same point at death after going around the circle or cycle of life.  Your journey is in a lifecycle starting as finite and merging with the infinite existence.  You and I are brought in by existence and will ultimately taken back into its fold once you have completed your lifecycle in this world.  Your span of life is from zero to zero.  You feel as if you are going or growing but ultimately you are outgrowing yourselves to exit from this existence.  Finite things come and go and infinite things remain for ever.

Spirituality is a path from finite being to infinite being.  It is a path of liberation from your finiteness or limitedness.  It transforms you from being objective to subjective by realizing your true self.  It will help you dissolve your self into the ocean of existence.  Limited becoming the unlimited.  River joining the sea and becoming the sea itself.  It is a path to lose your individual identity and merge with the universal identity.  Part becoming the whole.  It will transform you from a ordinary being to universal being.  Spirituality is a path of transformation.  It will help you to transform from a caterpillar to butterfly freeing your self from the cocoon and take flight as a butterfly into the free world.

Become conscious and adopt Spirituality and

free yourselves from your finite being and celebrate life

सच्चिदानन्द - truth-consciousness-eternal bliss

सच्चिदानन्द 

 Sat-Chit-Ananda - truth-consciousness-eternal bliss

It is only through truth, consciousness, and eternal bliss, the sequencing pattern in which a person grows up in the spiritual world.  The ultimate reality is realized through sat-chit-ananda.

The first and foremost thing is to realize what is truth, it is not a discovery something we need to discover.  We have to realize and come to terms that we are a new entity who have come into existence which has been existing time immemorable.  If you realize that you are alive and existing on this planet and like you, all others creations of nature is coexisting in this place like a fabric interdependent for everyone's survival.  The environment was already existing before our entry into this world.  You would not have been born if conducive environment was not there for your survival.

Truth is realized only when you empty out your mind of all its accumulated and preexisting content.  When there is emptiness in your mind you can see, feel and realize the reality.  You were not able to all this time as you had a clouded and crowded mind which was preventing you to know the truth.  To experience the truth you need clarity in your mind and your vision and purity of your body.  Any preexisting baggage in your mind will prevent you to know the truth as is. Truth can be known with no mind approach.  Acceptance of the reality without thought process of your mind will make you understand about the truth of the matter.

We usually live a superficial life, a life full of hypothesis, body present mind absent.  Body is always in the present from the day one but only one body part, your mind, has drifted away from your body and causing all the trouble.  It cannot be still.  Its nature is to wander somewhere in the past or future getting away from the present.  Mind cannot be in the present. Mind always projects things which is not there in the present.  It either wants you to be in the past or future but never in the present.  Consciousness is being in the present. Consciousness is no mind state.  Mind has no role to play in conscious state.  The whole body is present in that state not just one body part.  You are conscious only when all your body parts are in union or in alignment and are in present state.  In conscious state your thought process stops and the mind goes blank.

Ananda or eternal bliss is a feeling you get when you have known the truth and are in conscious state by being in the present.  It is a feeling you get once you know your inner self and when you are in alignment with nature.  Only when you are in a let go state where in you do not hold on to anything in life and trust and believe nature and you are not the decider in your life and allow yourself to be led by nature for every thing in life, you reach the ultimate state of Ananda or Eternal Bliss.  It is the state where in you are happy of what you are, how you are, and accepted your being fully and you start being your self fully and naturally.  It is a feeling you get when you have accepted your true self as you are and continue your life trusting the nature all through your life.  It is a no desire state where in you have dissolved your individual self into the universal self and merged with the whole existence.  The river reaching the sea and becoming the sea.  It is a state where you lose your individual identity.

Once you reach the Sat-chit-ananda state you go with the flow of the river effortlessly and you are on the way to merge with the ultimate, the Universal Soul, the Paramatma or Parabrahman or Supreme Being.

Spirituality is a path to discover your true self.  It is a path inside your being to know your true nature of your being.  It is a solo journey to be undertaken by each and every individual on their own free will and with a clear intention of knowing the true essence of your being.  Once you realize who you really are then it is easy to understand the world outside of your self.  Once you get clarity in your vision you will have perception to see things in its true form since all your senses will be in the present state.  It is a journey to get clarity of every aspect of life and living on the whole. Now you embarked on the ultimate journey of your life reaching the Sat-chit-ananda state and you are on the way to merge with the existence as a whole by losing your individual identity.

Embrace Spirituality to know your true self

Celebrate life by being in the present    

अपेक्षा वा स्वीकरण - expectation or acceptance

अपेक्षा वा स्वीकरण 

Apeksha Va Sweekaran - expectation or acceptance

The day we develop our sensory organs, we start to have expectation in each and every thing or in every aspect of our life.  First of all we were not expected at all on this earth, we are born out of grace of nature.  When you are born out of nature, you need to be natural and accept nature and accept your self and live cordially with all other creations of nature.  Your shape, size, and your program is decided and you need to accept your inbuilt program and live according to that by allowing nature to implement its program.  You do not have any say regarding your being born here, related to your body's growth and it function, and all other natural process involved like breathing, digestion, growth factor, etc of your body.  You are just a facilitator for your body to help out with external aspects like having food when it feels hungry, water when thirsty, sleep when it is tired and coordinate externally with your body's requirements without minding about anything else.

You are not supposed to expect anything at all.  In fact, you have to accept gracefully with full gratitude of your being born on this earth without your desire.  Expectations leads to desiring materialistic things in life which always gives you a fleeting happiness but never long lasting happiness or contentment. The feeling of contentment will come from within when you realize what you already have with you and within yourselves.   Contentment is not related to external factors, it is a internal feeling of fullness.  The ultimate feeling of wanting no more of anything and being content with what you already have.

Expectation is childishness, Acceptance is maturity.  Only a person who has realized out of understanding starts to accept life as is without expectations at all because he has realized he has everything within him self that is more than enough to continue his journey of life. He never desires for any thing consciously or subconsciously not even in his dreams.

Accepting what you already are is the first and foremost step in the direction of becoming an Enlightened Being.

If you do not accept your being, your sex, your face, your color and everything else what makes of you, you remain unsatiated state throughout your life and die without realization of the fact that you are no less than your god him selves since you are his creation so you are a part of him.

God is widespread, his reach is all over, thus he is omnipresent.  He is present everywhere and it is his place.  All the place belongs to him.  All belong to him.  Nobody can own anything. You belong to him. You are a part of his belongings. You cannot become ownership of anything on this earth.  You cannot own your self.  Everything is already owned.  There is nothing for sale, it is already sold-out. You are born in a preowned place.  Anything you think you own is just superficial, you just leave everything and exit from this world.  You get a feeling, as if, you are a trespasser, but you have nowhere else to go, so please accept and start your journey of life and start living.  Enjoy the journey of no destination.  You are destined to be here.  Your destiny is here now.

Spirituality will lead you into the path of liberation from your mind oriented world and will make you realize your true inner self and makes your life more conscious and make you live in the present by accepting the reality rather than living in a hypothetical world.  It will enlighten you about each and every aspect of life and living in clear true terms.  You cannot be anywhere else other than where you are at the present, so accept the present and start living really and enjoy the show of life.

Embrace Spirituality

 and accept life as is

 and celebrate life

ॐ असतो मा सद्गमय - lead me from the unreal to the real

ॐ असतो मा सद्गमय

Om Asato Ma Sadgamaya 

                                                - lead me from the unreal to the real

This Mantra is from the Upanishads, it also means lead me from darkness to light.

We are born on this planet Earth without our knowing or intention.  We have come into being just like that and the only thing we have to do now is to realize the fact that we have come into existence and we need to live till our designated life span and complete our lifecycle in existence.  We are part of cyclic creations of nature where everything created and recreated again and again time immemorial.  Generation, degeneration, and regeneration is the game plan of nature.  We are just a player who is supposed to playout the game of life and unless we know the rules of the game, we cannot play it well.  Any game has a set of rules on which it is constructed upon.  Even life has a game plan which we need to decipher and adhere to it to the core without any form of deviation.

We have to realize that we cannot become anything else other than what we already are and we are 100% okay and a completely created organism. Once you realize and understand your position, the only thing left for you and need for you to do is accept the reality and live with it.  We need to find our default state and stick to it till we exist on this earth. Leading from darkness to light means from innocence to wiseness through knowing and experience.  It is important for us to know inside out of the process of nature both inside and outside of us.  

We, as a product of nature, can be and should be natural and you cannot deviate from the set and said path, the path is already laid out in front of you, you just need to follow the path, that is it.  You need to see the light in the darkness and go towards that and that is the way out of darkness. This is the only thing you and I can do, that is the whole game plan of life, to see the light of the day.   Realize that you are existing because of nature and being natural, you need to follow the natures course to salvation.

Accepting reality and knowing the real from unreal is what is all about.  You can realize the reality once you can distinguish between unreal and real.  Once you come into consciousness you will be about to make out reality very easily.  Unless you know the difference you will not be able to know the reality and you will be groping in the dark aimlessly trying to find a way out of it.  

Ultimately it is your own consciousness which will lead you from the unreal to the real or from darkness to light.

Spirituality is a path which will make you realize the reality from the unrealistic encounters you had along your life up till now.  It will put a light on every aspect of life and living dispelling all the darkness in your life.  Spirituality will make you realize your true self first and then enlightens you about all else in life.  It will transform you into an conscious or Enlightened being from all falsehood and brightening your life from darkness forever.

Come out of your false assumptions and accept the reality by being Spiritual and accepting life wholly and undoubtedly.

Embrace Spirituality

Celebrate Life

साधना - spiritual practice

साधना

Sadhana - spiritual practice

The method one adopts in order to obtain one’s specific goal is called Sadhana.  It is also an ego-transcending practice.  It is a disciplined surrendering of the ego in your Spiritual journey.  It also means a vehicle or a way towards movement or growth.

For achieving any kind of goal in your life you need to have a dedicated methodology to pursue that goal.  It is only through constant effort and concentration in the direction of goal relentlessly you will be able to achieve what you intended to in your life.  Only practice makes a man perfect and nothing else.  Coming to know through reading or hearing about particular thing or concept is knowledge and experiencing it through constant practice in your day to day life is knowing.  You will only become a professional when you have had a practical experience and exposure in that particular concept.  It is only after getting in depth information and knowing inside out of the whole thing practically you will get confidence in your self in that concept or system.

In life, everything is evolved through a process and you need to have patience for the process to get evolved and understand its methodology and try to implement the same concept to understand anything in life.  Nature is the best teacher and none can become better than that.  For a person who is eager, everyday is an opportunity to know and learn as long as he is alive on this earth.  Natures schooling does not end with your adolescence it continues till your demise.  Nature continues to exist eternally but natures creations enters and exits cyclically.  Nature is a life long schooling process and never ending.  There is so much to learn that one life is not enough to know everything.  What we come to know throughout our life is just a glimpse of what we can know about nature.  Our life span is limited so we come to know only a limited things and it is always in abundance which is unknown.  

We are born as innocent or an empty slate, unknown in unknown place. The process of knowing starts once our sensory organs evolve to its optimum level as per their design and program.  First we use our eyes to observe and absorb everything around us and we store everything throughout our life everything we had seen through our eyes, heard through our ears, smelled through our nose, felt through touch in our data server the mind first.  Later on we try to dissect that and try to know and understand what we had stored in our mind.  Conceptualization starts in the mind.  The mind processes the information and comes up with clear and concise definitions regarding those data stored in your brain.  The abstract idea or concept about something is conceptualization.  It is interpreting about the information of something or phenomenon stored in our brain and forming an opinion about it.

Spirituality is a path or a Sadhana, a spiritual practice where in you try to undertake a journey in life to understand about your own self of what you are, why you are, and what is your purpose. It is a path towards introspection, to examine ones own thoughts and feelings.  It is a process to look inwards inside of you to know your true self.  It is a self examination of our inner essence of what we really are.  It is a process to know your subjectivity thoroughly.

The process of knowing about life starts from us, knowing about ourselves first.  We are all made of elements of the world outside of us which is present everywhere around us.  We are combination effect or output of natures creation.  Unless you know your own self it is impossible to know the world outside of your self.  You are a reflection of the world outside of your self or vice versa.  It is much easier to know micro thing, that is you, than the macro thing, the world outside of you.  You are part of the whole ecosystem, so understanding about your self first will form a base from which you can know all else.  You need a blank approach, that is you have to keep aside whatever you had learnt up until know because that will be an obstacle and cause hinderance to know the concept of life and living.  You need to have a "I do not know" approach to understand about your self and life as a whole.

Do Sadhana and embrace Spirituality 

and know your true self and all else thereon

and celebrate your existence

परमानन्द - eternal happiness

परमानन्द  Paramananda

Supreme Blissfulness - eternal happiness

Every human being born on this earth wants to be in happy state and they strive for it their whole life.  There are basically two essential needs for every human beings.  One is body fulfillment and the other is mind fulfillment.  Physical needs and emotional needs are the two basic needs which everybody feels they are entitled to as living beings.  Getting clean good air to breathe, having a hearty meal, relieving your body when nature calls, and sufficient overnight sleep for replenishing your energy are the basic needs of all human beings.  Irrespective of your age and gender, whether you are unemployed or employed with standard education, having a good job with fat paycheck or not you need the earlier mentioned basic needs in your life.

Most of the time since man can see through his eyes, he starts desiring for his things of his liking, which he feels will make him happy.  Most of his desires are physical and material possessions which he would like to acquire at any cost thinking that he can lead a happy life thereafter.  If you are following the mind's instruction you will always be in dissatisfied state as it projects new things or objects of desire which are not in your possessions all through your life.  It is an endless game played by mind on you all your life.  The mind sees to it that you always remain in dissatisfied state so that it can make you run throughout your life.  Objects of desires are always tempting and falling for temptations in life will make you a person who is possessed with never ending desires.  Nothing can stop you unless you stop yourselves out of realization.  You need to put a firm stop to this never ending game played by your mind.

Man has become more objective than subjective and he thinks objects of desire will give him happiness.  All external objects of desire will give you momentary happiness and not everlasting happiness.   The everlasting happiness or blissfulness or Paramananda is a subjective feeling deep inside of your being and not external objects oriented.  All happiness from external objects of desires are a glimpse of what everlasting happiness or blissfulness will be.  Blissfulness is internal state of being and it has nothing to do with the external world.  Irrespective of having something in your possession or not you feel happy.  Your happiness is not attached to any external objects so it does not matter if you have anything or not externally, internally you are in blissful state all your life.

Happiness obtain through objects of desire fade away as soon as you possess them or lose them.  Materialistic life will never give you lasting happiness in your life.  Happiness is an emotional feeling deep inside your being.  Blissfulness is a no desire state.  It is not mind oriented, it is a whole internal body experience.  It is not one part experience, it is a feeling of all body parts in union.  It is a collective feeling given out by all body parts of human body.  

Blissfulness is feeling achieved when your ever racy mind is put to rest and is in calm state.  It is a no mind zone.  When there is no involvement of mind you can reach this particular state of feeling in your life.  It is a tranquil feeling where there is stillness in the air and in your being.  It is a feeling you get when you reach a balanced state in your life, the zero point.  Constant thirst or wanting will lead to chaos and constant stillness will lead to tranquil state or peaceful state.  It is a state of nothingness because it is not a state of having achieved something.  If nothing can make you be at peace then no one can alter your blissful state as they cannot take anything from you.

Spirituality will lead you in the path of blissfulness or eternal happiness.  It is a path of realization of your true self.  It is an intrinsic internal journey to know your true internal essence.  It is a path that will make you realize and understand your default program you are born with.  It will make you adhere to your set program rest of your life.  It will make you life positive and flow with life effortlessly without any form of resistance.  It will make you let go of all your materialistic desires.  It will make you more subjective than objective.  It will make you come back to the source, your default state.  It will enlighten you on each and every aspect of life and living and ultimately transforms you  into an Enlightened Being.

Embrace Spirituality for everlasting happiness and celebrate your existence

बुद्धिः तथा प्रबुद्धः - Intellect and Enlightened

बुद्धिः तथा प्रबुद्धः - Intellect and Enlightened

Only intelligent persons can become an intellect.  Intellectuals are people who have lot of information stored in their brain. Buddhijivi is an intellectual or an intelligent person, a knowledgeable person but not an Enlightened Being.  A person who has used his mind throughout his life.  A mindy person.  A knowledgeable person. He is a person who has accumulated a lot of degrees to his credit.  He is person who has a lot of suffix to his name, a lot of credentials attached to his name.  He can become a teacher, professor, or any other positions in life where he shares his stored knowledge from his brain.  He need not be an experienced person, he is just a person with theories, which may or may not be practical.  It is like this, he might have read about or gathered information on every thing about swimming or cycling, he might have written a thesis on it, but neither he knows swimming or cycling as he has not had firsthand experience about both of these.  He is not an involved person, he is just superficial.

Buddhijivi or an intellectual person is an information store house or library who can share all the information he has stored in his data bank or his mind.  What he has gathered throughout his life may not be his personal experience, he has just collected everything and is carrying it with him.  An intellect always wants to know something more than the others and he wants to be the first one who has to know about it.  

Becoming an intellect gives you a feeling that you know something which others do not.  You start getting a feeling that you are the most knowledgeable person in this world having used much of your space in your brain.  It can only make you egoistic in life.  You have lost the ability to connect with everybody or ordinary people because you start feeling that you are way superior and over literate, oozing with knowledge so you cannot align with less knowledgeable persons or illiterates.  When you think that you know everything then you close your doors, you will know nothing.   Unknown is always more than the known.  We come as unknown and we depart as unknown having had just a glimpse of what we come to know throughout our life.

A wise person does not think of anything about himself, he is a man of feeling.  Thinking is from one body part, the mind, whereas feeling is from the whole body.  His wisdom shows in his being and in his quality of life.  His character and behavior shows off his wiseness.  He never says or claims that he knows everything.  He will always say that he is in conscious state being present all that time and ready to know as life unfolds day in and day out throughout his life.  He will speak out of his experience not through his knowledge bank, mind.  Whatever he utters are his personal experience not from any book or borrowed thing.  He only talks of his experiences in his life both good and bad part of it.  A wise man is a man of feeling and whatever he utters it comes out with a touch of feeling and will have a effect and consequences.

An Enlightened Being may not have any degree at all.  Unless an intellect dilutes his academic qualifications he cannot become a wise or Enlightened Being at all in his life.  Life is an experience and unless you are alive and be in the present you will not get enlightened about anything in life.  You do not need a degree from any university or school to become Enlightened.  The whole universe is your university and the word university is derived from universe.  Universe is bigger than any universities in this world.  You get Enlightened by living in the present and being in conscious state all the time.  You become a witness to all the happening in the world around you, which you observe and absorb in your being and which becomes a part of your whole body including each and every cell in your body.  Any experience is a whole body experience, not just mind experience.  Mind can only visualize, all other body parts can experience it and become a pro in it out of experience.  

Living is an experience and this experience will transform you into an Enlightened Being.  An Enlightened Being is rich in experience.  He shares his experience not his knowledge in his life.

Spirituality is a path to understand our true nature and know ourselves inside out fully.  It is a path of realization of what we already are and making you realize that you need not become anything else or anybody else other than what you true nature is and you are 100% okay.  Spirituality is a path of realization.

Embrace Spirituality and transform your self into an Enlightened Being

ज्ञानम्‌ वा ज्ञात्वा - knowledge and knowing

ज्ञानम्‌ वा ज्ञात्वा

Jnyanan va Jnatva - knowledge and knowing

There is a vast difference between knowledge and knowing.

Knowledge means you have come to know through someone, some book, some site through computer about something which you store it in your body part called mind/brain. It is just like reading newspaper, viewing television getting updated about current trends of information. Knowledge denotes getting to know about some thing and storing it in your system for future use.  Knowledge is not an experience. 

Knowledge is just gathering all information whatever you get and allocate space in your mind to sit there for further reference.  Your mind acts like a library and you are a librarian.  When somebody comes and asks for a particular book on a particular topic or subject you refer your index and get him/her her required book from your shelves behind you.  Knowledge, it sees, hears, grasps, accumulates vast amount of data and stores it in the mind for further reference.  It is just information data store house. Knowledge is just 1% of knowing.  Knowledge is theory yet to be put into practice. A sort of unused or unpracticed information data collected and stored in the brain.  Knowledge is like you have come to know about somebody, his name, his profession, his status in the society but he does not know you and you have not met him in person at all in your life.

Knowing means experiencing.  When the knowledge is put into use it becomes knowing.  Knowing is a self experience.   Knowing is practical.  Experiencing the knowledge is knowing.  You have come to understanding about both theory and the practical part of that particular topic or theme.  Knowing is 100%.  Now you know inside out through experience.  Knowing about cycle and cycling is knowledge.  Having ridden a bicycle is knowing,  Knowledge put into practice is knowing.  Knowing is the expansion of knowledge. Knowing is an experience.  Experiencing knowledge leads to knowing.

Knowledge can be acquired from reading, taking a class, or practical lessons at work. It is external. Knowing, on the other hand, is a certainty that comes from experience, contemplation, and reflection. Knowledge is factual while knowing is experiential.

A knowledgeable person cannot become wise, only a person of knowing and experience can become a wise being, full of wisdom.

Hence a knowledgeable person is in the first step where as the person of knowing is in the last step having covered all the steps in the process of knowing. A knowledgeable person can become a teacher, but a person of knowing can become a master or guru. A knowledgeable person speaks out of his data bank. A person of knowing does not just speak but shares his experience through his voice with a feeling and an effect.  Both knowledgeable person and person of knowing make use of the same set of words and sentence forms but person of knowledge can convey just the information about it whereas person of knowing conveys the cause and effect of the information in its truest form out of his experience and words and sentences are delivered effectively with feeling and effect.

Knowledgeable persons just conveys his topic through words just with meaning, just a glimse.  A person of knowing expresses himself through words and sentences in such a way that he goes beyond words and sentence to convey his experience in a completely wholesome way. Your whole body knows what it is and had experienced it and it is there in each and every cell of the your body rather than just in one body part the brain/mind.  Only knowledgeable person can be absent minded.

A man of knowing does not use his mind, his whole body acts collectively in union in a synchronous way, so the probability of things going wrong is remote. A man of knowing is always in the present so mind has no role to play.

The expression 'presence of mind' has to be actually 'absence of mind'  When you do not mind things will be alright. Being in present or presence is a no mind zone.  A man of knowing acts spontaneously without giving a thought.

Spirituality helps a person to realize and understand his true self.  It makes a person wise by making him aware of all the intricacies of life and living. It transforms him into an Enlightened Being.  An Enlightened being is a person of knowing not a person of knowledge.

Become a person of knowing and celebrate your existence

अनुशासन - self-discipline

अनुशासन 

Anushaasan - self-discipline

If at all you want to achieve anything in life you need to cultivate a discipline which you need to adhere to.  Starting with a daily routine of getting up at a particular time in the morning and going about with your daily routines. A disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to a lot of suffering in life.  If you have a self discipline you follow through on your commitments, forming new habits, having a daily routine, setting up of goals, and executing on ideas.  It takes self disciple to plan, stay consistent and runs towards your ideals and aspirations.  It is the ability to control one's feelings and overcome one's weaknesses. 

Self-discipline is ability to control and regulate oneself in order to achieve goals or maintain a desired lifestyle. It requires consistent practice, determination, and willingness to resist temptations and overcome obstacles along the way.  It is the habit of being persistent until you reach your goals.

Self-discipline is the ability to push yourself forward, stay motivated, and take action regardless of how you are feeling physically or emotionally.  Self-discipline can boost your well being and outcomes in many different areas of life. People with self-discipline often engage in healthy habits and resist unhealthy ones in their life.  It is only through constant practice you will become more disciplined person in your life.

Learning to effectively lead yourselves in any situations in life is possible if you are a disciplined person. Self-discipline is the bridge between goals defined and goals accomplished in life.  It is only through self awareness and self control you will have a disciplined life.  It is the ability to control and motivate oneself through willpower.  Self-discipline is a daily skill that must be consistently practiced in order to achieve success.  It is pure power of your will to do things in the right way.  Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

Spirituality helps you to understand your true self through realization and understanding of the self.  It will make your life disciplined by enlightening about all the aspect of life and living.  It will give you self confidence and makes you self disciplined in life.  It will make you come out of your split personality and be yourselves.  It makes you aware of your nature and be so throughout your life.  It ultimately transforms you into an Enlightened Being.

Embrace Spirituality know your true self

realize and understand life and celebrate your existence