Only two actions and one Path for happiness and bliss

 Had this realization today morning. Was not sure if I wanted to share it. Then decided yes. May be I should create a YouTube channel and share it on that platform. I do not have answers yet.

The only path to happiness and bliss is to know yourself. The two actions are:

1. Choose your experiences which will make you look inward and know yourself.

If that is not possible, then

2. In every experience you get, choose to know yourself.

There is no other way/action to be in happiness and bliss.

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Going a little deeper, science is beautiful. Things have been made so easy for us to be in bliss and happiness. 

Once we start looking inwards, in about 1-3 months, we start realizing that it only takes about 3-5 hours a day to sustain our body. For example- to drink water- we just need to open the tap. This is because of science. By just working for 2-3 hours, we can get food for a day. Thanks to the system of money and economics.

Rest of the time we can choose our experiences which will make us look inwards.

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The question we may get is, if everybody starts doing this, then how will we get our water in tap and things like that on the material plane?

What I have understood is that it requires enormous energy to go inward. Only souls which are evolved, choose the kind of body, which has this energy.

And believe me, we need more energy to look inward than to go after material things. It does not mean, that it is tiring or it is not interesting.

It just means that everybody cannot take this path. So do not worry about getting water in your tap.

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It has helped me. Hope it helps you too.

 

Aham Brahmasmi...

Last month I had a dream, in which I saw Budha in Meditation and he opened his eyes to see me..

On 12.02.2016, I visited the Kanheri caves in Sanjay Gandhi national park in Mumbai, wherein I saw hundreds of Budhas.

On 15.02.2016, I had a wonderful dream in which I saw the words Aham Brahmasami, inscribed in golden letters on my yoga guru's legs. I had this dream while I was in Mumbai.
This was about 04.15 in the morning and I woke up feeling blissful. I suddenly recollected the earlier dream and also the visit to the Kanheri caves.
Did one Budha there amongst those hundreds, open his eyes to look at me....
It dawned on me if all the three were related. No clue... Time will answer...

From then on, am continuing to feel blissful and there is a sense of peace inside, which I have not experienced before..

I am realising that I cannot be destroyed. It is just not about reading it somewhere but I feel that I am indestructible...

Is this identification with the soul?

Does this bring fearlessness of death?

Today I received a message on whatsapp...It goes like this..

Budha was asked, "What have you gained from meditation?"

He replied "Nothing! However let me tell you what I have lost:

Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Insecurity. Fear of old age and death."

Is this also a coincidence. 

Have to wait for the answers....

Continue to bless me in this unique journey

Effortless freedom

The child does not make any effort. It just does things. Sleeps wherever it wants to. Eat what it wants to eat. The child keeps in its mouth, which as adults we would never even dream of keeping.

The child is not imprisoned in its thought, in its actions. It is natural. It does not remember and recall what has passed. A child is effortless to the core.

In seeking higher love, effort is the major stumbling block. The moment I make an effort, I am strengthening my ego. Love is never an effort. I cannot make an effort to love. I have to allow it to happen.

Discipline is the essence of growing up. Do not do this. Do not do that. Do this, Do that. We hear this all through our life since childhood.

This discipline itself becomes bondage. We are imprisoned in our circumstances, in our situations. The world gives us a character and we move with this character tab.  We move with a fixed attitude.
The child has no character, no attitude. It is just happy.

So what is the difference between our response and a child’s response. For a child the response comes out of the situation. For us- we are conditioned.

I am hungry and to eat food, I have to set the table, use the cutlery, should not spill……..

For the child, takes the food and eats it… no conditioning. The situation creates the response. Hunger + Food= Response-

So awareness is the key. Awareness of the situation is the key

So How do I move freely?

How do I remain natural and free?

How do I become free?

(Writing needs a lot of effort- I am lazy. I promised my friend that I will start writing again. It has taken nearly a month to start writing again)

Experience and Borrowed Knowledge

Last week I had gone to the hospital to see a friend of mine, who was confined. She was expecting in the next few days.
There was a doctor who came to attend to her and she was narrating her problems. A thought occurred to me...
Today, I am in a pensive mood and thinking if that doctor could really understand the problem of a pregnant lady.
He must have read various books, seen various cases, but is that real understanding. No male, I think can exactly understand what a woman goes through during her pregnancy and child birth, how much ever he reads and learns.
What the women goes through is her experience. It is real and genuine for her. For the others who read it from books and who have learnt it through listening, it is borrowed knowledge.
Expanding this further, we read many works of saints and philosophical teachers on love, cosmos, god and life after death.
These are works which have been produced based on their experience. For us it is just borrowed knowledge.
Whatever they have experienced can never be expressed in words.
After reading such works, we assume that we know it and that is dangerous. Borrowed knowledge is useful only in cases where it can reproduced, tested emperically.
For the rest of the stuff, we have to experience it to understand it....

Love and Trust

While traveling this week, I met a a person on the bus. He was narrating his experiences. Getting down, I was not sure if it had happened in reality. A sense of doubt was cast inside. To overcome this doubt, I had to cultivate belief...
Then I realized that Belief and Doubt where the same energy. If I focused on doubt, my belief gets reduced and if I focused on belief my doubt gets reduced. They are two ends of the same line.
In someway by giving attention to this energy, we are feeding the energy of doubt and belief.
This is a vicious circle, I realized and how does one come out of it....
The only outlet is Trust and love.. This energy has the capacity to pull me out of the vicious circle of doubt and belief.
How do I trust- Do I trust little by little? Do I love little by little? Or should it be unconditional trust and love...?
Unconditional trust and love towards people, objects and nature surrounding me is the only solution, I concluded.
Another question struck me, In today's world of skewed distribution of resources, will I get my minimal share to sustain my life and body?
Is not saving my life and my body my duty?
With these thoughts, I read a few books to see if there are any answers:
Trust and faith is not half. It is total.
Trust is not rationalization. One should not rationalize and then trust. Then it is nothing but belief, which is just a positive attitude towards anything. The opposite is the negative attitude towards anything, which is doubt.
By just being indifferent to belief and doubt, it is possible to develop trust and love...
If you love, you just exist in a loving way. Your being becomes a love phenomenon.
Having read this, I ask myself, is this possible.... I look at my neighbor's child... the child is full of love and trust. She unsuspectingly opening her mouth for whatever is fed. She has no idea if it is poison or food.
There is complete trust.
Which means, as a child I must have been the same way. As a child I must have had all this inside me. I was created with the right material to trust and to love unconditionally.
Somewhere during the process of my growing up, people around me, have given me knowledge and many lessons which has taken the innocence out of me. These lessons have given me a job, some skills to earn a living and money to fend for myself...
But these skills have taken away my innocence, my power to love unconditionally and trust....

Everything has a purpose

I live in a place called Pondicherry in India. Today I went to the bus terminus to reserve my tickets. Near the bus terminus, at the parking lot, there were autos ( an auto is a three wheeler used in India- its akin to the taxi)
I saw a few of them parked in the two wheeler parking lot and was wondering who will talk sense into them as they were occupying space beyond what was permitted for them. Sometimes spaces are allocated to them elsewhere but they occupy different spaces. I guess taxi drivers do this in all countries.
I booked my tickets and was coming out. Just when I passed them, I took something from my pocket and my bike keys fell into the drain through a small hole in the pavement.

There was no way it could have gone into the gap, but it went though. Then I had the surprise of the day. The drivers in the autos, came forward to help me. They located a lever sort of thing but could not lift the slab up, and then they got a stick and used it with a lot of manipulation to take the keys out. They cleaned it up with water and gave the keys back to me.....
I was wondering, at my thoughts when I entered the bus terminus if I had erred.
God has everybody at some place or the other and does everything for a purpose. Most of the time, just because it is inconvenient to us, we do not approve of it. But for somebody else, it could be life saving and we are not that enlightened a soul to realize it....
The same with the events that happen around us...Everything has a purpose

Rituals... are they important

Me	Why is that the rituals should be followed?
Master	It creates bond between the humans (followers).
Me	Why is this bond/togetherness important?
Master	Man by nature cannot handle the nature’s fury alone, he has to handle it with the help of others. Other animal can live in nature on their own. They do not build shelters, they do not need weapons. Whatever god has provided them is sufficient for them.
Me	But all these the man created from spear to the latest weapon.
Master	Yes, in the process of evolution, the higher you are, your power in the lower part of the body is reduced and the capacity of the brain is increased.
Me	What does this imply?
Master	It means, to sustain you have to protect yourself because your body is weak and the brain is powerful;
Me	Does the same logic apply amongst humans too, like when he is trying to grow in terms of consciousness?
Master	The same logic applies to the human race too. When a man is trying to transform himself, he is wanting to give more strength to his higher faculties. The overall energy is the same and is constant. It cannot be created afresh. You need to take something from some place and use it somewhere else. In this case he tries to use the energy at the lower level which are used to for his physical needs to feed his intellectual and spiritual needs. There by his physical energy becomes weaker if he does not do anything to replenish it.
Me	Is that the reason why yoga and exercises are important?
Master	Yes
Me	But continuing to do these rituals has itself become a costly affair and time consuming
Master	It could be costly in terms of availability, that is because of the greed and shortage of supply. The time it took to do the rituals were the same, it never increased or decreased. It is your time, which you have allotted to it has decreased because you want to do too many things. Again greed.
Me	You told me that I will be able to see the charkas and energy flow in action and you asked me not to ask you “when”. Can I ask you how?
Master	By training
Me	How do I train?
Master	With the material you already searched and kept. That material is more than enough. It was me who directed you to get that material.
Me	But how does one do it? How does one feel about it?
Master	That should be your experience and it is unique. What I tell applies to me and hence it is not necessary for me to tell you. One thing I can assure is, the material you already have collected is more than enough for the things you want to achieve.