Cravings and Dispassion

Hmmm!!!
Each and every human being is craving for something or the other. There is no Human who is completely dispassionate about life (there are exceptions). The more cravings you have the less stability you have in your thoughts as the energy is segregated in all these cravings. Then slowly it eats up the mind and its sanity. And you wont even know when it is converted into an obsession. There are people who can observe their cravings but cant do anything about it. As nobody knows the way out. They try fighting out which makes it even worse. The more you resist the craving more it persist and lash back strongly.
Ever sat and wondered what is this craving all about. May it be regarding Food, Money, Fame, Power, etc, etc. But at the end of all these cravings there is nothing but a false sense of security and pleasure, Which in reality does not exists!!! For eg. In the present moment you crave to be somewhere else and do something else, but you are stuck wherever you are!!! This craving when fulfilled then there are new cravings and new bondage. the vicious circle continues...
There is one more thing I have observed that there is a lot of feverishness connected to the cravings which doesn't let you enjoy the fruits of the past cravings to its fullest. Cause there is this feverishness about it getting over soon. When you are on a Holiday you think that its only 2 days left and then back to the same old pattern of job or business or whatever!!! But at the time of the Holiday you don't seem to enjoy the trip. There is a lot of turmoil regarding what will happen when you are back in the office and the pending work and what more!!! :-) Strange!!!
When Dispassion settles in or rather first learning what is Passion!!! You will automatically know what is Dispassion!!! Living life to the moment Passionately. Doing anything you do with all the Love whether you like it or not Will bring Passion to your life. Once you start doing things passionately slowly the result of it will not matter. Just by doing it will satisfy you more than waiting for the result... It is the wait for the result which brings about the Anxiety and Fear and Feverishness in you!!! So just settle down and whatever you do do it will full passion and love... Give your 100% and see the difference in the result as well as your own state of mind!!!

Comments are always welcomed!!! Till Then ....... Adios Amigos... :-)

Perception

How amazing it is to see the most ironic thing in this entire creation... PERCEPTION!!!!

This word first of all itself is the most funny... Funny because till you don't realise the humour in it you yourself are busy indulging in it... Mind perceives through the limitations of the 5 senses... Eg. Eyes can only see what can be seen, ears can only listen to what can be heard, tongue can taste and speak only what can be tasted or spoken, Nose can only smell what can be smelled, body can touch only what can be felt... All these senses are limited to the gross... Mind is the faculty which perceives... But the hilarious part is that Mind itself cant perceive another Mind... it can predict another mind but cant perceive it fully... hehehehe... The effort of trying to understand another mind through the limited vision is the most futile... but still most of us do it...

Till a certain level of maturity haven't set in, Its impossible to evaluate the unique individual consciousness... Perception through the 5 senses will definitely lead to misjudgement... Judgement again happens according to how you perceive a person and then the intellect compares it with the database called "Memory" and then decides either "Good" or "Bad" or whatever... Again the funny part is the memory is full of impressions which are gathered by the perception based on the 5 senses!!!! One need to rise above the perception to actually see each and every individual as Vrittis and not just people... As the mind matures one starts seeing the beautiful individual consciousness... and so on the journey begins... More the maturity of the consciousness better the "perception"...

I am not saying that perception is a bad thing or you should not do it... Rather just making you aware that this is how I have observed the pattern of the Mind... Observation, Perception and Expression are the the characteristics of the Consciousness... Letting the judgement go is what seems to be beneficial... the moment you drop it you come back to the Beautiful Present Moment... Where each and every individual is New... This realisation will lead to putting a stop to judgement which are really not necessary... With that stops the accumulation of impressions (KARMA)... You can live more Vibrant, more Pleasant, more Blissfully the Life...

Pleasure

Life is pleasurable.... Life is motivated by pleasure!!!! Depending upon the level of the quality of life, the quality and the quantity of pleasure vary... Nothing can be perfectly said about this as there are millions of permutations, combinations and vary from different individual... As each and every person is unique, His/Her way of experiencing pleasure is different & unique... Broadly can be categorised in 3 types, Tamasic, Rajasic and Sattvic...
Each and every person is stuck in either of these pleasures. Till there is a craving to experience pleasure Life will go on... Opening the deeper layers on this we can see that there is actually our own past impressions which lead to the thirst of finding higher and higher pleasures... On every level there is pleasure... through the 5 senses, Mind games, Intellectual games, etc etc... Till a seeker doesn't realise that Life itself is been motivated by pleasure this thirst will not be quenched...
For an immature mind this realisation may lead to depression, Life seems meaningless to him... But same realisation for a trained and mature mind is the state of actual liberation... Rising above the level of pleasure into Bliss... Any pleasure with sacredness will lead you to experience it 100% and will free you... Contentment will settle in... the moment there is contentment you have already risen from pleasure into bliss... Then the onward journey starts into the realm of the Self....

Beauty

What do we call Beauty??? Why do we find something Beautiful??? Observing this I found out that it depends on many things... For eg... Cravings, Aversions, Centeredness, your vision, etc, etc... Beauty is such a thing that cannot hide... Each and everything in this creation is Beautiful!!! All you need is awareness... The eye to see everything beautiful... As an English proverb says "Beauty lies in the eyes of the Beholder!!!" To a certain level its true... But as you go on deeper levels, deeper aspects of Beauty... On the subtle levels the Beholder and the Beauty are one... There is Beauty in the beholder itself...
If the beholder is beautiful inside everything looks beautiful... The whole problem starts when you either limit your vision and try to put beauty into a restricted box, or try to possess the beauty... The moment you do either of this, the beauty is lost... Everything is unique & beautiful in its own way...
There are many artists who paint, draw, perform, sing, etc, etc, etc... But how many of them can actually see the beauty in their work... And out of those very few who see beauty, how many can actually without getting into arrogance can observe the Beauty as it is... " Beauty in anything is lost when it is taken for granted!!!" There is one way to maintain this beauty, keep it alive inside you... And one of the way to do it is to be in a state of Wonder!!!! Aho!!!
People do something unique and abstract to make something Beautiful... Most of the people don't even see this... Just creativity doesn't make something beautiful... Its the Creators involvement in the Creation makes it Beautiful... That's how each and everything in this entire creation is Beautiful as the Creator Himself is the Material of Creation... An Enlightened one is a true artist... Someone who can see the entire creation as Beautiful piece of ART!!!!
That is BEAUTY!!!!!!!!

Nature

Hi there...

   Well sorry for not updating the blog for a long time.... But the experiences which i had in this past 1 month were, are and will be remembered for my entire lifetime... As the wise men had been saying find out what is your nature??? 

   On some point of time till you are observing, interrogating yourself... you find out that everything is happening according to what and how it is supposed to be happening... for people who think that they are doing this and doing that... Its true... for them doing is an act by which they feel that they achieve something... the funniest part is that till they realise that everything is happening they are in misery... once you realize everything is happening then all the struggle is lost... the so called War is finished... you are centered... till the next storm of course... 

   What is the true nature of You!!! Sit with yourself and find out... The Master says that your true nature is Love... Unconditional Love... Very few fortunate ones actually know what is this unconditional love... Everything is this nature is unconditional... Everything is there just for you to enjoy... and not get stuck in it... The Nature loves you Unconditionally... that is the Nature

s nature (prakriti ka swabhav)... But what is your true nature... As you are the part of this Nature so its your nature too... 

   Now the whole thing is that all this fundas are very nice in hearing and logically understanding... But when it comes to living???? Well i dont know How many can actually live it... On an experiential level!!!!!! 

   So one way of finding out is you can sit and explore what all is not your true nature... Ultimately you should reach there... I hope so... I ll be there... Or i am there... I dont know...

   :-)

Bhakti ((Devotion)

This is another path to enlightenment... In many of the scriptures it is said to be a part of Yoga... Bhakti Yoga... Where you immerse yourself in devotion to the Divine, to the Master...

As the name suggests it is the Union with/of as by the means of Bhakti (Devotion)... Bhakti!!! What exactly is this??? There are millions of explanations given in the scriptures... According to Narad muni who has written the Bhakti Sutras there are 11 types of Bhakti...

During my observation the awareness about the Bhakti or just to put it in words exist on 3 different planes of existence... Deh Bhava, Jeev Bhava & Atma Bhava... experience of devotion when you are in any of these 3 planes... In physical body, In individual Consciousness and In the Collective Consciousness...

When in Deh Bhava "I" am your servant!!!

When in Jeev Bhava "I" am a part of YOU!!!

And when in Atma Bhava "I" am YOU!!!

Each and every one has experienced this in some or the other Lifetime... This is the ultimate sthiti of Bhakti (state of Devotion) ... This Bhakti was the extra attribute(kala) of Hanuman over Lord Ram... If you are in this stage of Devotion you will be invincible... And Immortal... The Masters grace will protect you from any given troubles... That was the mistake of Hunuman.. He is liberated yet bound to this body... hehehehehe...

That is one way of Bhakti Yoga... There are many ones... There are 7 Immortals depending upon their type of Bhakti...All of these went on to become the Pinnacle of their type of Devotion. they are :-

1) Ashvatthama - Revenge

2) Bali - Donation (giving Daan)

3) Vyas - Seeking Knowledge

4) Krupacharya - Kraurya (Hatred I think so)

5) Parshuram - Valour

6) Hanuman - Service

7) Vibhishan - Treachery

All these are the immortals cuz they went on to become the Best in some or the other form of Devotion!!!

But all the truth is there in this Beautiful "NOW" Be in Now and Be happy, Be Nothing and Be Devoted... There is always somethings more to write on this topic.... So till the next Post...

Chill Maddi... ADIOS :-)

Sleeping Beauty

Hi

   Remember when we were kids ( I still am one ) we used to listen to stories... Few from Grandmothers and few in our school text book... Few as bedtime stories... And there was a story of a beautiful princess having sleep disorder... not insomnia of course... she was laden with a curse till she find real love.... Amazing story....

   But I am not talking about that Sleeping Beauty... I will like to share my experience when i was traveling from Amravati ( Maharashtra ) to Ahmedabad in a train... It was a very nice journey... A long one cuz the train was late... 2 hrs... and reached Ahmedabad 4 n half hours late... But the whole point is not about the complains of trains getting late and the driver sleeping off... hehehehe... It was a night journey... and I was not able to sleep as i had slept during the day after the lunch at a Rajasthani family's golden jubilee anniversary of a old couple... so u can imagine how was the food...

   Well so there i was not able to sleep... So i went and opened the door of my bogey and was standing at the door feeling the beautiful wind caressing me... Out there was a sky with so so many stars... Rare sight for a city dweller... and the entire creation was.... Just Sleeping... Well whatever i was able to see was sleeping... and then i realized that how Beautiful the sleeping nature was looking... each and every tree, the ground, the grass, the stones everything was just sleeping peacefully... And I was like " Guys this is the real Sleeping Beauty!!! " 

   There were very few lights which according to me were street lights... and few of the cars and trucks light on the highway which was coming across the path of the Train... Rest everything was just simply Sleeping... Beautifully Sleeping... This according to me is the Real Sleeping Beauty!!! Isn't it???

  Try this when you are traveling in a train and couldn't sleep... Just stare out of the window (to be on a safer side) and take a look at the resting Nature... I know that the nature is alive in the night also... but forget Logic and just experience the Sleeping Beauty...