Till the time I am dependent on OTHERS for fulfillment of MY emotions,
I will continue to be dissatisfied.
True happiness is called Joy.
“Let your soul flower in Joy”
Joy is independent of any person or any situation in one’s life. It is a spiritual quality. Joy erupts from your soul.
Whereas,
Happiness is variable, depending on the people and situations in your life.
Happiness will be dependent on the people and situations in your life; your control is people and situation defendant.
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Its a sad state of affairs in our so called society and world
Jai Shreeji!!
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Sometimes the majority only means all the fools are on one side
I had read this line somewhere and it stuck in my thoughts as being so true in the area of religion and spirituality also.
The ‘majority’ here would stand for the mass of human seekers, as they do not even know what they do receive in all their various sadhanas.
It’s like ‘The blind following the blind’; ‘Let’s run, lets do whatever all the other 1000’s are doing’.
To actually find that peace, satisfaction, enlightenment which all seek is not easy, nor can be reached without sacrifices or choices.
You cannot continue to be totally involved in the mayic world; in its activities of accumulating more wealth and seeking higher pleasures; yet claim to be religious or spiritual!
‘Actions performed without the right understanding will give no positive results’- Gurushree.
This firm stability is necessary when you set out to move deeper within, with continued progress in every hour spent for this pursuit.
If time is first spent in analyzing and understanding, actions will be performed with awareness and the positive results received will give rise to faith, also known as complete shraddha –
Here the right understanding gives courage to follow that which gives positive results, despite moving in the opposite direction of the majority.
Right understanding gives courage to walk your own path no matter what the majority may say;
It gives courage to stay firm when the majority try to pull you back to the accepted followed way of religion..
All wish to be ‘safe’, all wish to receive something with the least effort in the least of time.In these moments of spending their precious time on various religious practices, rituals and activities; none spend some time in trying to at least analyse how much benefit they receive;
As the majority of humans do practice religion to some extent, if what the majority did was the right and only way, we would not see the frustrations and unrest all around; our world would experience the peace, shanti, and satisfaction we so desperately need. If all was ok with what all were practicing how come all have not reached?
Why is satsang important?
Why do we need to be in awareness of our thoughts?
Importance of self control in our lives;
Many moments a guru is required to help us stay on the right track;
Some understanding and answers are provided by Seema Burman here in her article:
This has been scanned from the Times Of India; 23rd July 2009.
Below is an article taken from the Sunday Times Of India;of the 5th July 2009. The author Mohini Kent has very perfectly described how money power rules the human world. I agree with her thoughts as something very similar I have written in my book Zero2Dot; details of which can be read on website: www.zero2dot.org
I call it the “Money Sanskar”; it being so powerful that all other humanitarian values take a back seat, when one is confronted with money power. It controls all our senses and decision making.
Though this article may seem long at first glance, the author Mohini Kent has written a very interesting view point and is an eye opener. Please take the effort to read till the very end.
* SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA, MUMBAI; JULY 5 2009
WHAT’S YOUR MONEY’S WORTH?
A day before the government presents the budget and Indians get to know whether they are richer or poorer, Mohini Kent finds out the true value of wealth
“If a man is wealthy, (it means) he is handsome and wise and he can sing well too”. That’s a Yiddish proverb but it could be applied anywhere in the world, with wealthy people expressing ‘strong’ opinions on every thing under the sun – be it the money markets, food or fashion. Money seems to confer the highest caste on people; they become the new ‘brahmins’ and are seen to hold the key to wisdom. We listen to them attentively, hoping some of the magic will rub off on us.
Money has become as vital to us as the air we breathe. It became indispensable to us the day we stopped barter. No doubt, it has been instrumental in improving our lives and made the world far more democratic because anyone can buy anything today in exchange for a piece of paper.
Today the poor can afford what even the rich found difficult in the past – foreign travel, for instance.
It is one of the major energies of the world, along with sex; although in many cases, the two go together. Even remote tribals who still live in a “moneyless world” feel the force of money when outsiders use paper currency to buy their land and are granted the right to fell their forests.
So, what do we do? Make money, spend it and enjoy it. In the meantime, it is vital to recognize our relationship with money and how it colours our relationship with others, including those most dear to us. Money is not just a piece of printed paper or a round, stamped metal disc; it has acquired enormous emotional connotations and psychological hues. A poor boy, who has had a deprived childhood, can never fill the hole in his belly even if he makes millions later in life. A wealthy child who lost all his money in childhood, will hoard every penny as an adult.
Money spells power, control, comfort and security. Wealth has become the yardstick of success. Exclusive homes, private jets and yachts, seven-star holidays, designer labels and pricey hand bags give us a sense of superiority. Fawning friends and the envy of peers makes having money even more satisfying. It gives control in the boardroom and at times, it gives the power to enslave others.
In India, money is inseperable from political power. Some people derive power from hoarding money like Silas Marner, who counted his gold coins alone on dark nights.
Sometimes, money is equated with love. People use it to control their families, spouse and children. For favoured family members, the sky is the limit, but money is withheld from the one’s who need to be subjugated. Cruel husbands use it to penalize their wives; domineering parents use it to control their children.
Micheal Jackson had little control over his money. He earned more than one-billion dollars but died with a debt of at least $400 million. It was an unedifying spectacle to see his family, just hours after his tragic death, searching for the cash stashed in his house. In her moving tribute to the pop idol, Germaine Greer wrote: “Another beautiful boy is gone, wiped out in an instant. Micheal Jackson, unable to cross the threshold into manhood, has died at 50, still a boy, coquettish, fantasy-ridden, horribly vulnerable, unable to take control of his life.”
Sometimes it seems as if a man’s most enduring love affair is with money, his own money and that of others. It’s an obsession, almost an occult possession by another entity. In its pursuit, men and women can become ruthless, even evil. The latest banking crisis in the US was driven by greed. Nothing justifies the million-dollar bonuses that bankers paid themselves even though the bank was not making money. Now Brian Madoff has been sentenced to 150 years in prison. It is estimated that about $50 billion went astray during his career. It’s almost as much a the GDP of a small country. Madoff’s jail term won’t bring back to life the people who committed suicide after they found out that he had swindled them. The prison sentence won’t change reality for the New York woman who lost all her savings and is now reduced to rummaging in garbage cans for food.
Rich men use money to cheat death by trying to buy ‘immortality’. Some of the foundations they run have less to do with compassion and more to do with their personal wish to perpetuate their names. It’s extremely rare for anyone to voluntarily give up money and power. Andrew Carnegie was that rare individual. He wondered “what to do with the enormous wealth we have” and wrote that surplus wealth could be disposed off in three ways:
* left to family
* bequeathed for a public purpose
* administered in one’s lifetime
Traditionally, people opt for one of the first two but Carnegie concluded that an individual should “set an example of unostentatious living; provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependant on him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds” to be used for the good of the community. The man of wealth then becomes a trustee and agent for his poor fellow men.
Carneigie knew all about poverty. He was born in a one room cottage in Scotland. His family immigrated to America, where he took up his first job at 13 years in a cotton mill. In a classic rags-to-riches story, he built a profitable empire of steel (which later became US Steel) and became the world’s second richest man, after Rockefeller. After sometime, Carnegie sold his company and devoted the resr of his life to philanthropy, building more than 3,000 libraries, schools and universities in America. He wrote: “The man who dies rich dies disgraced”. By the time he died in 1919, he had given away the bulk of his vast fortune. In India, JRD Tata did something similar.
Money can bring us joy; it can bring us misery; it can buy us attention, isolate us; binds families or split them. Though it is merely a piece of paper or a metal coin, it is the most powerful and emotive thing in the world. Whether you earn Rs 3,000 or Rs 3 crore a month, you still have to understand money, build a healthy relationship with it, realize its true value and purpose.
Why as the great, progressive, loving, compassionate humans
that we like to call ourselves do we make weapons?
To spread love? To spread humanity?
Obviously no :
We try to make ourselves believe wrongly that we are spreading a lot of love and are capable of receiving as much; and are progressing as a human race.
BUT:
Can destroying nations, people, and nature be called love or humanity in any possible way?
Destruction is not positive progress.
All talk about Love. All want love.
All have a need to belong.
Weapons are made only to create fear; to bring destruction
Can jealousy be a part of love? Can there be expectation in love?
All try to make a show of being compassionate.
Can creating fear in any way be associated with love?
“You have no right to give death penalty to these beautiful flowers”, says Gurushree Sudhir Bhai
“Flowers, in a natural way give fragrance; you cannot give untimely death to them”.
“I do not accept flowers from last nearly 8-10 years as my understanding says we should not pluck flowers for our pleasure. Living flowers are the fragrance of God, Presence of God”. “Giving a bouquet of flowers as wishes to someone is not right, as you had no right to pluck the flowers in the first place for your senses; they can be plucked when there is some correct purpose to it only”.
“But even after all the understanding that I try to give people around me, if some flowers come to me as a gift I look after them tenderly; and when all their fragrance and beauty is over I give them a proper funeral by putting them in water. I do not just throw them in the dustbin”.
“Flowers, nature, must be respected, their beauty and fragrance is to be enjoyed when they are alive in their natural surroundings. If you yet wish to gift flowers, then gift them live in a pot, or gift a garden to me, I will take full care and look after them. In this way I receive your wishes also and can enjoy the living beauty and fragrance of the plants and flowers” says Gurushree.
These are the sentiments of Gurushree and if one thinks deeply show us how we could learn enjoyment without being selfish.
I would also accept Nature as a gift from God which is complete with all colours and fragrances. It could also be called the canvas of God where He delights our senses with His creations. All this He provides to us free and there is no restriction placed on who can enjoy the beauty.
His painting is visible in the uncountable varieties of colour and designs and fragrance in nature.
Respect for all life in nature is very deeply connected with spirituality.
There are a few individuals running the mass intelligence – Marketing is the game of today.
In the whole of history there always have been a few influencing the whole. The course of humanity depends on who these ‘Few’ are- what is their quality!
If these few; themselves are not peaceful or content; and are so shallow, so hungry – what can they give humanity? An illusion is created making us believe we are receiving a lot, we are progressing – yes progressing I would agree in a limited way – but towards what? –
Losing one’s humanness? Falling in the trap of greediness?
We have forgotten to even respect nature – the bounties of which we are totally dependent on.
In this time period whole of humanity is being taken to the summit of materialistic and luxury living –100% sense pleasures – drown yourselves in them – go deeper in it.
What happens? What do we experience?……
Taken from the book “Zero2Dot”.
For details about the book please visit the website www.zero2dot.org
A strong powerful mind and emotions are some characteristics which distinguish humans from the animal kingdom.Maximum humans live on their instincts.
This powerful mind which God has blessed us with also gives us the capacity to discriminate between right or wrong. Why turn backwards in human mind evolution and begin to live on instincts; in mankind it is termed as selfishness.
Joy, Anand, Bliss are experiences in Self Awareness, but available only for humans who have maintained their humanity.
Only fending for your self; ‘eat, drink, sleep, accumulate, procreate’;
this is how an animal is born to function;
Make your life joyous by going beyond what all do; bring out your own discriminative power; live your life on them. You will always find God’s blessings with you.
Remember happiness is not ‘out there’; it is in within you;
which you will automatically experience as soon as you begin to spread it to others.
Whatever you give out you will receive for yourselves.
I very strongly believe in the karmic theory:
All situations are the outcome of our own actions; what you did yesterday you experience the outcome today; what you do today you will experience in your life tomorrow. Is it not important then to know exactly what actions performed today will give us that we need to be happy tomorrow?
Abha Shahra Shyama 