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My Dear  Friends…..  In order to bring in a sense of purpose and quality into our lives, we need to look at the nature and working of our very mind.

The mind is meant to absorb information, transform it into knowledge and lead it into action. Action and speech determine the quality of our life and these come from the mind.

How can we understand the nature of absorption of the mind ? Wise men who have dwelt on the truth of this, have said that most people’s minds are as hard as rock. Just as the rock is impervious to water, information that falls on a hard mind bounces off without a trace.

A hard mind offers immense resistance ; it is full of previously absorbed information that prevents the flow of new knowledge and action. Our mind must be soft as sponge for maximum absorption. Just as water can be easily absorbed by a sponge and squeezed out, a soft mind easily absorbs information and allows free flow of knowledge to enable suitable action. The two processes are reversible — a soft or open mind can be easily hardened and a hard or closed mind can be easily softened. We only need to be aware and exercise caution.

What makes our mind hard and closed ? Sages have said that this is an automatic, front-line defence mechanism for the protection of our belief systems based on our state of ego. If we encounter an idea or a situation that is not in line with our thinking, we immediately close our mind ; we put up a block against it ; this is what we call mindset. Ego creates mindset. Mindset is a protective mechanism of self-defence because we are scared of what others think about our notions and beliefs. Mindset is self-destructive and we have quite often experienced this. For example, a simple discussion develops into an argument and leads to a verbal fight, and can get more intense because of mindset.

Therefore, mere gathering of information by our mind is useless. We must transform this to knowledge. Our mind must be pure to be able to perform this conversion efficiently. The work of an impure mind will rebound while the work of a pure mind will reach out to the world for its welfare.

(How to purify and soften our mind?…  continued… (part -2)

When everything is taken away from us, we become grounded in reality very quickly. A sage was once asked why he was so happy, he responded,”I have nothing left to lose !”. Being grounded in reality happens in that split second when we know all is lost ; a moment before the car crash, a moment after the diagnosis.

The reality we then face is quite different from the day dreams of our everyday illusions. There is something we can learn here, because many times, the result of a traumatic experience is that we come out of it a changed person, and the changes are usually for the better. New vistas open up for us and we findourselves and our interests somehow strangely altered. We actually become happier. There are times in our lives when we do things and don’t know why, and although these things may appear foolish to our friends, we feel compelled to do them nonetheless. Sometimes these things involve letting go of something very dear to us, and we can hardly believe what we are doing. This can be a crushing experience, yet we do it. Just when things are going swimmingly, there is sometimes an underlying urge to cancel everything out.

In the East, a tradition exists where people pile all their belongings into a boat, sail out to sea, and dump them every seven years. If one followed this tradition, think of how careful one might be in what one purchased !

In addition, how aggressive would we be in making money ? Maybe we would forget about money and do what we love for a change. That would certainly produce some happiness. If our karma is good,howver, so good that we are protected from disasters, we might need to become proactive in causing our own disasters — to help things along.

Great men in the past have done just that; Christ lived as a homeless wanderer ; the Buddha left royalty behind to live in rags in the forest for six years, seeking and finding enlightenment. Foolishness ? Perhaps, but who has affected the history of the world more than these two men have?

In essence, what the Buddha and Christ were saying is that until the bottom drops out of your life, you will continue to love your life.

True happiness is that Reality we touch when all is lost. Money, love, family; these are all caught within the web of existence ; and existence is nothing but stress compared to this Reality.

Existence has three characteristics, three laws of universe, and they are that  1) everything changes. 2) life is stress. 3) no “self” stands behind life.  Reality, on the other hand, has never been born, will never die, does not come from a previous condition, and has the characteristics of eternity and unchangingness. The three characteristics of existence are unassailable, and while we remain caught in them, we can never be truly happy although we try to convince ourselves otherwise.

Everything that we think will make us happy, all that they tell us to acomplish, to be ambitious about, and to compete for, never does so for long. If none of this makes any sense to you, then you must continue seeking happiness in the things of the world.

If for some reason seeking happiness in the world does not work for you, in the long run, then there are things that you can do to ease yourself into a Reality where happiness is assured.

By easing yourself into this Reality, you are not required to give things up in a violent fashion ; they fall away by themselves. If you ever become serious about real happiness, weary of temporary happiness slipping through your fingers time and again, then go after the missing element.

The missing element is emptiness, and there is a good way, a gradual way, and a certain way to bring this element into your life. Emptiness is the doorway to a new life, and the doorway to emptiness is MEDITATION.

                    Looking  for  Brahmn  In a Haystack

The effect of maya is powerful. With so many versions of spirituality, however, looking for Brahmn, the Supreme Consciousness, is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

The present age, kaliyug, was predicted to witness the downfall of dharma. To some, spirituality is a means to attract maya instead of a way to remove bondage. Then there are others who consider art superior to penance and bhakti.

Yoga does not distinguish between different paths to achieve the Divine. So there is no question od debating over which path is superior. Patanjali has given forms, all culminating in yoga or union with the real self, none superior to the other. However, thevarious limbs or asoects are being picked up in isolation by some practitioners and propagated as the only means to achieve the Divine. We need to be aware of this and take care.

All Gods or devas are forms of energies. They each go through a phase of transition and play their role in governing some aspect of Creation. They operate beyond our senses : hence the question of pleasing them with dance or drama or any physical exercise does not arise. For a Yogi, entire Creation unfolds as drama.

The ultimate purpose is to realise the drama and not get affected by scences and acts. The need is to rise above karma. That’s what Krishna emphasised through his leela, not getting affected or attached with the play. This is called nishkama karma or karma free of attachment, that is, free of pain and pleasure. This is the underlying message of Gita.

Evolution in human being is a process of constant ascent through various chakras or aspects of life, from basic needs and desires of the physical body to the highest aspect of physical cration, the arts, and finally over the self. Yoga describes chakras clairvoyantly seen as energy centres strung along the sushumna nadi which runs along the spine, in the energy body. There are seven major chakras in the body, governing all aspects of  Creation for that being.

                                  L E A D E R S H I P

Management  is doing  things  right ; Leadership  is  doing the  right  things.

Spiritual leadership is the opposite of what most people think.  Spiritual leadership is servant leadership.

Jesus Christ Himself  taught us , ” Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many ” (Mathew 20 : 28)

Spiritual leadership insists on humility. Humility is the attitude that puts others ahead of you, that considers others more important than yourself. Further, Spiritual leadership demands honesty. People are repulsed by a person they cannot trust to tell the truth.

The Rose Within

A certain man planted a rose and watered it faithfully and before it blossomed, he examined it.


He saw the bud that would soon blossom, but noticed thorns upon the
stem and he thought, “How can any beautiful flower come from a plant
burdened with so many sharp thorns? Saddened by this thought, he
neglected to water the rose, and just before it was ready to bloom…
it died.



So it is with many people. Within every soul there is a rose. The
God-like qualities planted in us at birth, grow amid the thorns of our
faults. Many of us look at ourselves and see only the thorns, the
defects.



We despair, thinking that nothing good can possibly come from us. We
neglect to water the good within us, and eventually it dies. We never
realize our potential.



Some people do not see the rose within themselves; someone else must
show it to them. One of the greatest gifts a person can possess is to
be able to reach past the thorns of another, and find the rose within
them.



This is one of the characteristic of love… to look at a person, know
their true faults and accepting that person into your life… all the
while recognizing the nobility in their soul. Help others to realize
they can overcome their faults. If we show them the “rose” within
themselves, they will conquer their thorns. Only then will they blossom
many times over.

* Coming together is a beginning.  Keeping together is progress. working together is success. Whether you think that you CAN , or that you CAN’T, you are usually right.

* There are two ways of meeting difficulties : you alter the difficulties or you alter your-self to meet them.

* There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.

* The mind obtains bliss and eternal peace, meeting with the Deep and Profound Lord.

* There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.

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(Part - 2)

Training your inner life into different habits requires learning skills of thinking, feeling, and managing your beliefs and desires. These are very like the virtues manu religions and philosophies advocate, but if you think of them as skills rather than virtues, you benefit from an important and liberating shift. Instead of ” I must become a better person” you can think ” I would live more happily if I worked on my skills”. So the change in attitude becomes a choice,not a duty. And to these remedial skills I’ve added an extra set of enjoyment skills, otherwise getting happier could turn out a very depressing affair.

This process is not something you can do overnight. It’s a whole new way of life, but the reward is what we all want most —  happiness . There are five main skills you need to cultivate.

Mindfulness : Borrowed from Buddhism, this involves developing your ability to focus your thoughts in the present. The problem most of us have with thought is having too much of it — the worrying and non-stop mental chattering our minds are prone to. Mindfulness is a key inner skill because, as it gets stronger, it lets you focus on your own inner life and catch your habits in the act. Once you can see how you are ruled by them, the change you are seeking often happens of its own accord.

Compassion : Most religions rightly stress compassion. As well as being a virtue in its own right it is a practical skill that counteracts negative emotions like anger and hatred, which are terrible wreckers of happiness. Try it the next time someone annoys you; put yourself in their place and ask yourself what they might be thinking or feeling to behave like that. Even bad people,let alone people who just mildly annoy you,often have a wraped or mistaken view of the world which makes them do what they do. Wars are started and atrocities committed,for example,because someone decides that this is what their God wants. It dosen’t mean they should get away with their actions, in fact it may be necessary to take strong action to defend yourself.

Story Skills : These are very useful for problems with your inner belief system, as they let you stand back and explore alternative versions of reality. Beliefs have great power over your life because a belief is something you take as fact. Start to think of your beliefs as stories, and it is easier to accept that other things might be true as well or even instead. Even true stories only select the little bit of reality we are focusing  on at the moment: no one story is the whole truth about any situation. From a different point of view we would see a different story, sometimes a whole different world. This is not about make believe, it’s about reframing situations to look at them from a different perspective.

Letting-go techniques : These are particularly helpful when we are unhappy not getting what we want. Generally, we are encouraged to keep wanting and to think that more will make us happier, whether it’s clothes or cars or even love. But wanting  is a treadmill; as long as you have unsatisfied wants and desires you won’t be at peace, so to be happy you either have to satisfy all your desires, or let go of some of them. Letting-go skills also include forgiveness, which helps hugely if one of the things you think you want to revenge.

Enjoyment  Skills : This last group includes skills such as patience, humour and ,especially,gratitude. You don’t have tobe greateful to someone, it’s enough to cultivate gratitude for things. Our minds naturally scan the environment for dangers and resources, a useful mechanism when we were hunter - gatherers. But it can make us unnecessarily pesimistic — focusing on the 10% we lack rather than the 90% we have. Cultivating enjoyment skills  will help redress the balance.

Acquiring all these skills takes time and effort. The important thing is to practise them until they operate without you thinking about them. Your  practice routine  will be very individual, because  everyone needs  to prioritise different skills  depending on the specific issues that are holding them back from being happy, but keep the skills in mind and you will constantly find new ways to try them out. 

BEING  HAPPY   DEPENDS ON NOT SO MUCH ON EXTERNAL CIRCUMSTANCES AS ON YOUR INNER LIFE.

Are You the happiest person you know ? Not necessarily the luckiest, richest, or most successful, just the happiest ?

If not, why not ? Most people will reel off their current worries —  the job, the kids, the car, the price of fish. I don’t mean to sweep these aside; problems need to be solved, if you can or waited out untill they disappear. But as far as living happily is concerned you have to face a crucial fact. If you can only live happily after all your problems are solved, you are never going to live happily, because when today’s problems are gone and forgotten, others will take their place. So either living happily is just impossible, or you have to do it in spite of your problems.

Being happy depends not so much on external circumstances as on your inner life. This means all your thoughts, perceptions, beliefs, emotions , desires, dreams — your entire mental and emotional scene. Happiness is about how you react inwardly to events, what you think and believe, how you feel, how problems affect you. It may sound obvious, but like many obvious things it’s something that is often forgotten when it matters most. We focus almost exclusively on our external lives, on getting  and spending and having fun, and then wonder why we are not happy. But it’s when our inner lives are tranquil that we are happiest and we call this inner peace.

So, how is inner peace to be achieved ? Is it a question of religion, perhaps, or yoga ? These can certainly help but only if they have a positive  effect on your inner life. The difficulty is that inner life is based on patterns and habits — some of you were born with, most of you have acquired. You don’t choose, occasion by occasion, how you respond inside when something happens. This happens you feel angry, that happens you feel sad ; you pass the patiswala and you feel hungry ; you hear a tune or smell a certain scent and it reminds you of a particular time or person ? Things produce a response without you thinking about it or choosing how you feel, and they  don’t necessarily leave you with inner peace. So the trick is to break the pattern. You can’t completely avoid problems, but you can change how you react to them by acquiring new habits that provoke peaceful inner responses.

(How to do it ? –  await the next part.) 

#  Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

#  Till you change how you are, you will have what you’ve got.

#  Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

#  Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

#  Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

#  Flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.

#Always look at what you have left, never look at what you have lost..