ONE OF THE REASON WHY FEAR ARISES…. GET RID OF IT….

I don’t think there is anyone who do not want to live fearless life. Fearlessness is the basic quality if one wants to live like true hero. Despite of this, rarely there is any one who have not feared of something in his/her life. Sometime or other fear pops up in our lives and many times we are not even aware that fear is taking over us and ruining our lives.

Swami Vivekananda says

“ It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment”

“The earth is enjoyed by heroes. This is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear”. Tell this to everybody “Have no fear”.

 

Everybody wants to live like hero. When we watch movies many of us are on the side of hero only and later on copy/mimic what hero did in that movie but one thing ruins our heroism and that is fear. Why this fear haunts so much that people even forget their lives to live?

One of the main reason I have found is selfishness. It is one of the biggest reasons fear pops in people’s lives and many of the times people are not even aware that they are being selfish. When our thoughts, our lives, our motives revolve only around ourselves this thing called fear keeps chasing us!

Just do this experiment with yourselves – whenever you are fearing something, someone or some situation ,central figure about whom you are thinking is yourself. This “I” or “My” is predominant there. We are always thinking about my life, my money, my wife, my children, I may get hurt, they may kill me, I may lose, I may get beaten up etc. Our central thought revolves around only ourselves. If you ask somebody to raise his/her voice against corruption or bad elements, many will say “I have family, children and I do not want to get involved into this”. They accept this injustice out of their fear and out of selfishness their thoughts are evolving only around themselves and which is leading to fear.

If somebody has fear of water then central thought is “I may get drowned”. If somebody has fear of exams then central thought is “I may fail”. Even few students do not attend exams out of fear. Fear takes over them and then they start feigning illness or something else. Ask someone to join Army and if he is fearful then he will say “I do not want to die so early”. Again this “I” takes over. Ask someone to stand up and address audience of 1000 people and out of fear and ego he /she may not be even able to stand up properly. Hands & legs may shake. Central thought of the person could be “Will they laugh at me? Will they accept me? Will I speak properly?” etc etc. People get drowned in thoughts of future where they are the only central figure.

It is out of fear, selfishness that people do not raise their voice against bad elements, corruption and wrong in society and this is biggest reason why many countries are in bad shape.

To overcome this fear, solution is very simple. One must broaden his/her vision. Start thinking about others, have higher and broader aim/vision. If you are thinking then think big, why to think about only about our one family, think about entire society, think about entire nation ,think about entire planet. More and more vision is broader, more and more responsibility is taken then this fear will disappear. When this selfishness will disappear then this fear will also stop popping up. When we start working towards bigger goal which will benefit for entire society then many of fears will disappear. Look at all the freedom fighters, look at all the soldiers they have no fear as they lived/ are living for bigger cause.

One needs to remember that there is difference between being fearlessness and being stupid. One cannot say that I am fearless so I will go and stand infront of train or one cannot say that I will go and stand up infront of roaring tiger as I am fearless, then that person is being stupid.

Once we overcome this fear then we can move in the right path and that too with speed and right now need of the time is people overcome this fear with broader vision!

“If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. No cowardice. Do you understand? Be true unto death!” – Swami Vivekananda.

WHAT WE FOCUS ON, GROWS IN OUR BODY & LIFE

In our day to day life rarely we notice or become aware of our mind, consciousness. We keep on passing each day without noticing on which things we are focusing or our mind is getting hooked on to which things, on which things we are spending our energies, what is the effect of those and how it is affecting us.

Henceforth start observing and you will notice that things on which we are focusing are growing in our life, energies on which we focus, start growing in our body!

If one focuses only on problem then soon that problem will become so big that we will not be able to do anything about it and we get easily defeated by it. If a student focuses only on the difficulty of a subject then soon he will be bogged down by it & for sure he will do bad in exams or even flunk in it. If a student focuses on various solutions to tackle difficulty then such solutions will grow & difficulty evaporates.

If a soldier/king keeps on only focusing on the mighty size of its enemy then soon he will get bogged down by this & he/she will either surrender or run away. Mighty enemy will further appear mightier. If one focuses on various ways to tackle his enemy then soon he will find many solutions which will result in his/her victory. King Shivaji is right example who amid so many enemies, began with so little resources but built empire for his people!

When people are in love, they see only good in their partner. Their relationship blossoms and they are very happy at that time. This goodness grows tremendously as consciousness of both is hooked on good of each other. People whose relationships are in trouble, you will observe that they are focusing on negative qualities or some mistakes of other person. Once consciousness shifts focus from goodness to mistakes, negativity then it grows tremendously. People don’t feel like talking with each other, staying with each other and finally they separate. Person around whom one was roaming saying ‘Honey, honey, honey….’ soon becomes bitter and leads to divorce.

If somebody criticizes us, uses bad words then people who get hurt more are the ones whose focus is on this criticism, that bad word. Soon it becomes so big that it fills people with anger, hatred, few lose confidence and even few are unable to sleep as the thing on which they focused has grown up so big. On another hand people who ignore bad words or take good criticism in positive way and improve then it do not affect them infact they start improving themselves & always moving forward.

Few people, out of their ego & jealousy focus only on negative qualities of others. They are always pinpointing others mistakes or what they lack or what is lacking in their qualities and soon these qualities grow in them as well. Their consciousness is always focused on wrong things and soon they become like those people with same qualities. When we focus on good qualities of others, their skills, praise them, at that time focus of our consciousness is on this goodness and not only we feel good and positive, soon we also start absorbing those good qualities. This is the reason, in Maharashtra many people who are followers of saint Dnyaneshwara, call each other as ‘Mauli’ (means saintly qualities in others or only good part of others). Seeing good in others doesn’t mean when thief has entered in our house start seeing goodness in him, if we do that he will take away everything! We must catch him & handover to police.

If we focus on what we do not have, if we focus on what we lack in life then this lack increases. Many times people who keep on crying about money, health, small house etc  you will find soon they land up in further mess or they lose further whatever they have. People who are unhappy and say lines like ‘I don’t have money’ , ‘I am very small guy but you guys are really big & rich’, ‘ I am poor guy’, ‘I am not healthy like you’, ‘my job is not good’ etc then know that such people never ever progress in their life. Every time lack increases in their life along with increase in their cries. On another hand people who are content and happy in whatever they have are always growing in their life. Their focus in on whatever they have with them and if they are content with that then they get showered with further more abundance. This is the reason people who have, content will be given more and people who crib, cry & complain that they do not have then whatever they have also will be snatched away!

OUR BRAIN IS SLAVE OF REPETITION

Nature has given us this beautiful gift – our physical body. Many of us rarely know or observe its functions and how it works. I am sure if we are asked where is liver or where is kidney in our body and what are their functions then many of us will not be able to tell. We are not taught about our body during our education period and we remain unaware of what is good or what is bad for our body. I am not doctor or medical student but I thought whatever I have learned through observation, experience, I shall put it down.

It is said that one of the wonders of this nature is our brain and if we carefully observe then it is very true. One property of our brain is it becomes slave of activities that we repeat. It gets used to it and then our body functions automatically like that without any efforts.

If we remember our childhood when we were learning numbers or alphabets what our teachers/parents were getting done from us, we were asked to write number ‘1’ 10 times or 100 times or move our pencil on ‘1’ again and again. If you observe what we were doing we were repeating that activity till the time we master it and just observe today we can easily write so many things without much effort but at one point of time we were struggling so much even to write simple alphabets. Even this article I am writing so easily. Our brain has become slave of it and we can do this very quickly without realizing this phenomenon.

When we were growing up and started learning & playing new sports, remember how much we struggled to learn those, football, basketball, badminton, cricket, archery etc. We played those again & again & mastered it. What did we do? We repeated it again and again and our brain became slave of it. Have you observed so many complex moves of particular sport we can do so easily because we have enslaved our brain by repeating things again and again. What is practice? You repeat your methods of playing and master over it. What is core to it, repetition!

Do you remember how we learned to drive Car! When first time we sat on driver seat how conscious we were. We were unable to perform so many functions of pressing accelerator, releasing clutch, using brakes, changing gears (if your car is not automatic) at appropriate timing. It was so difficult. We continued learning and today we can drive car so easily. We have repeated this activity so many times that we even do not realize that we are pressing accelerator, releasing clutch, changing gears. We are singing, thinking, even few are smoking while driving Car! So many complex activities our body is doing and many times we are not even aware of those. Our brain has been enslaved to it and it gets these functions automatically done.

When we were kids we all must have enjoyed bathing the most, playing in water, enjoying shower or enjoying each mug of water on our body. Now when we have grown up, many of us are constantly engulfed in many thoughts. We are thinking even taking bath. Even though we are lost, our brain is applying soap on our body, it is washing our body. Many times afterwards we think ‘Did I have a bath?’ as our mind was lost somewhere but our brain did the job. If we observe this phenomenon it is just amazing. Our brain got enslaved because of repetition of our bathing activity.

Remember when we started using first time computer/laptop how consciously we were pressing keyboard, looking at each button and pressing it consciously. After repeatedly using it now how fast we are using it and few people sometimes even look very minimal at keyboard and get their work done.

Sometimes we hear music so much, we listen few songs repeatedly and you will observe when later on we are not listening automatically we mumble those songs. Infact sometimes we wonder why particular song is coming in mind. We have repeatedly so much that it start showing its effect.

Few people have this habit of having tea or coffee as soon as they get up in the morning. If they don’t get it then they become restless, they get headache or they don’t feel fresh. They have repeated this activity so many times that their brain is enslaved to it.

Look at the people who are addicted to alcohol, smoking etc. Their brains are enslaved to it. Infact I have heard that few people can’t do their routine work unless and until they consume this. Their brain is enslaved to this and in turn they destroy their body and life!

You look at today’s marketing tactics, advertisements and their frequency. We are continuously bombarded by advertisements on television, internet, print media, radio, hoardings on road, on bus stations, train stations, airports, even on our tickets, theatres. We are continuously bombarded with advertisement. If you look at them most of them sell crap and look at advertisements, they are so ridiculous. Look at our brain how it works. When we first time see some ridiculous advertisement on television how we react – ‘What nonsense’, then few more repetitions and we start ignoring this nonsense, few more repetitions and then we are not even aware that it is non sense, further more repetitions & subtle mind gets used to it and further more people buy those products. This is how most of the big brands are created today who are making huge money. I checked nutritional facts of one of the cola brand, it has 0% vitamins, 0% minerals, no fats etc. Even though everything is zero, people are drinking those and companies are making billions of dollars. Look at continuous bombarding of so many beauty creams, beauty products, shampoos etc. Have they really benefited or we just buy by succumbing to advertisements. They could achieve this because they enslaved people’s brains by continuous bombarding of their advertisements.

Look at with what movies, TV serials, print & electronic media are bombarding us these days. Extra marital affairs, break ups, divorces, multiple marriages, vulgarity, movies filled with violence, serials filled with conspiracies, actor/actress drinking liquor & portraying it as cool thing to do. It is getting continuously bombarded as they want us to accept it as normal thing. Just see few decades back ‘Divorce’ was such big thing, people used get shocked to hear such news. Look at today, families are breaking up for small small things. Most of the wisdom we get is from our family & once it is broken then people lose wisdom and they can be easily fooled or trapped in any propaganda. It drives consumption & related business. When people separate from each other, they need different houses, television, fridge, utensils, furniture and so on. It creates big demand and big corporate houses make big money!

If we observe ,if we repeat whatever that is good then it will uplift us and benefit us and if we go on wrong path and repeat bad things then our downfall is imminent. If one wants to stop some bad habit then one of the ways they can do is do not repeat your activity for one week. Set target of one week. Don’t decide for whole life then it becomes big burden. Once one week is over then set target of two weeks and continue. One more thing you must ensure that do not look back and count since how many days you have not smoked or had liquor etc. I am sure this will help.

In India there is saying ‘Mooh me RAM aur haath me Kaam’ means one must have & repeats lords name and must have good work in his hand and move ahead in life. You repeat divinity’s name while performing your daily activities and make your life also divine. This is how ‘Mala’ (In India) or rosary also works. You repeat god’s name!

I am sure good repetitions will uplift us, I am also walking on the path and improving myself!

 

DEMON MAHISHASURA..REAL MEANING, GODDESS DURGA (MOTHER GODDESS / MOTHER NATURE) AND ITS CURRENT RELEVANCE…FREE YOURSELF OF THIS DEMON…

As I have mentioned in my first blog, our ancestors were very wise and they knew that over the years people’s dialect, culture, languages will change. Apart from writing things in scriptures, they presented most of things through pictures and symbols as well so that future generations will be able to understand through these. One such picture & story is of Demon Mahishasura and Goddess Durga. Lets see how it is relevant in current times.

General story goes like this, once upon a time there was a demon called ‘Mahishasura’. He had done severe penance/austerities and out of that he got a boon from Lord Shiva (Shiva is called as Destructor. He is destructor of all the bad thoughts in out head Ex – Thoughts of attacking someone, stealing something etc come in our head. He resides in our body as well. He resides in head and all bad thoughts are destroyed there). Boon was- no man, animal or god will be able to kill him. After getting this boon he thought himself as invincible and started misusing it and terrified all human beings and creatures. In his arrogance he forgot that woman can kill him. All people and even Gods approached mother goddess for help. Mother goddess took form of women called Durga and killed Mahishasura and freed planet from this demon.

Lets understand this demon first and then lets see its current relevance. Asura is the person with immense power who uses his/her power for selfish/evil motives. One of the meaning of Mahisa in the Sanskrit is Buffalo. That is why in above picture demon is shown sitting on buffalo. If you observe carefully buffalo is symbol of inertia. For example suppose you come across a buffalo on a road and you push the button of your vehicle’s horn so that this animal moves out of the way, you will observe that it do not move so easily as it is filled with inertia. Most of the times you will have to wait or go sideways but it will not move. Mahishasura means demon inertia gripped humans and Asuras made this to happen deliberately for their own selfish motives. Lets see how it helps them.

Today if we closely observe many people, infact many countries are under the grip of this inertia. Mother Nature has showered everything in every part of world. I mean all types of resources are available but people do not want to do anything. You can see this across many countries. See some examples…

• • Many parts where it rains in really good amount, they do not have clean potable water or water for irrigation. People are absolutely doing nothing to create more water reservoirs etc. They are waiting for some government scheme or some officer or leader to do something for them. Just imagine even few hundreds if join hands can dig one lake for themselves.

• • Many people are homeless today. Nature has given everything, wood, stones, sand etc. Such homeless people can come together and build their own homes with whatever resources they can collect from their surroundings. Educated people can also help them but we see very less time such thing happening

• • Farmers have their good arable farm lands but rather than learning better natural way of producing multiple crops, they run behind quick money making things, sow things which require less effort (like sugarcane). I have seen many of them do not even prepare their own seeds, own plants. They buy everything from outside and keep on increasing their input costs. Just little effort and they can make huge money but very few actually do it. Infact in many parts of the world people wait for special financial packages for governments to announce and they are happy to get such benefits. Infact it is becoming yearly norm to receive such benefits. People are not realizing that they are being paralyzed. In few parts of Africa they think that it is their birth right to receive these packages. This trend is emerging in India and other parts of world as well.

• • Many people in Europe do not take jobs, they live and enjoy the benefits provided by council or governments. Once in UK, I came across this news – one couple was living in council house with 5 or 6 children and each one of them was receiving per week monetary benefits. Reason he gave was, he lost his job and his wife is suffering from chronic depression! This is not good, this way almost half of the Europe is going towards bankruptcy and people are becoming paralyzed without learning any skills and work.

• • Another tactic used by few politicians is putting in place some public welfare schemes with corruption engulfed in it such as some rural employment schemes etc. Honestly speaking such schemes do more harm than any help. For Ex – In India Govt launched a scheme called MANREGA. If you are jobless then you register your name then you will be allocated some work and you will get some daily wages. People say most of the people do not do any work, they register their names and get benefits. Huge money of country is being wasted. Another harm it is causing is to farmers. They don’t get any labor for farm work as laborers are refusing to work as they are getting free money elsewhere.

• • In many parts of the world, if you tell people to learn good skills and start their own work such as plumbing, painting, and electrical work or start their own little business, they simply refuse to do anything. In fact many of them simply say give us some safe government job where I can retire without much headache.

• • Most of the people want good vegetables, fruits, grains to eat but none of them want to grow. Can’t we grow our own organic vegetables! So much land, water is available. We can easily do it. People prefer to buy from market which may have hazardous chemicals responsible for diseases like Cancer!

• • If you ask many organization managements, they say we are in need of good employees. Mind it good employees who have real knowledge and ready to work. There are more than 6 billion people and organizations are short of skilled people! This itself speaks a lot.

• • Rather than relying on hard work for making money, out of their inertia to do hard work and urge to become rich very early, people invest in many Ponzi schemes, take route of gambling and lose all their money or greedily buy shares, properties and lose everything at the end.

• • Nature has given so many herbs which are freely available around us. We can prepare our own medicines, tooth pastes, soaps, shampoos and many more such things. People say “who the hell will do this”. Things are readily available in market and buy from there. This is how big corporate houses are becoming bigger and bigger and on top of it their products have so many hazardous chemicals as well. Can’t we learn and prepare many things on our own?

• • Buying ready to eat, ready to cook or eating in restaurants and hotels is new trend. People do not even check what quality of food they are eating and how much money they are spending on it. If you visit rural India, everything is prepared in home. Right from pickle, sweets, lunch, dinner, various delicious food verities, everything is prepared at home. Extremely hygienic, nutritious, healthy food and on top of that you save huge money! If we don’t know then can’t we learn from the people who know and make our lives better?

• • You will observe when you are involved in some creative work then you will not have any sexual thoughts and when you are engulfed with sexual thoughts you will not be able to do nay creative work. We need to be aware of this. Excess of anything is bad. People who are involved in more sex, you will see them more lethargic, dull and inertia takes over them. Surprisingly if you look around, business houses are operating on tagline’ SEX sells’. Women are being used as sex symbols in movies or to sell products. Even pornography has become industry which is destroying many people’s lives.

There could be many such examples and this list can go on. Question is from our inertia who are benefitting? Many of the above examples are self-explaining – Politicians, big corporate houses, big money lenders such as bankers etc. Few are explained in detail

• • Our inertia to work and earn on our own leads to enjoying free perks from council/Govts which in turn is leading your country to Bankruptcy. So lenders and their associated politicians will take over your country.

• • Due to our inertia many corporate houses are becoming bigger and bigger as we are not preparing on our many things and buying from them. In this process, we are losing big money and money is getting accumulated in few hands.

• • Out of our inertia we do not do hard work, our farming goes in loss and then farmers sell their land which again bought by these politicians and big corporate houses or few rich people. If you observe, thousands of people are leaving farming every day.

• • Out of our inertia, every time we demand relief packages and paralyze ourselves. It is so easy for politicians to come in power buy throwing some money in front of people.

Then how to overcome this inertia and how it has engulfed us? How mother Goddess is related to it. Mother Goddess is symbol of energy. Our motherland is giving us food, water which we consume and get energy. If we have energy in us then we can walk, work or do any activity else we will not be able to do it. IF we have good energy created in us then inertia simply vanishes.

• • First thing we need to do is to be aware of the tactics used by politicians which make us paralyzed. Once we are aware then we remain alert and do not fall in that trap.

• • Next is good sleep. Right amount of sleep gives right amount of energy. If you sleep too much or too little then it is not going to help. Have 7-8 hours of sleep.

• • Next is food. Food creates energy in us. Kind of food you eat, same kind of energy it will create. If you eat quickly digestive food items then you will have very good energy created in you and you will overcome this inertia. If you have sedentary lifestyle and you eat food which takes lot of time to digest like meat, fish, etc then most of your energy will be used to digest that food only and you will feel sluggish, lethargic and this becomes your norm and inertia takes you over. Even if you stuff yourself with too much food then also lot of your energy is wasted in digesting that food and you become lethargic.

• • Next is avoid drinking buffalo milk. Prefer cow milk and that too of natural breeds. Buffalo milk has high fat content and takes time to digest compared to cow’s milk. Once again remember that what you eat or drink you become like that. You want to be lethargic like buffalo or active like cow?

• • Next is lack of physical activity – you will observe many times if lethargic people are forced to do some physical work, initially they are slow & resist but slowly their inertia goes down and they work very well. We all need some exercise daily to overcome this inertia. Yoga, Pranayama some exercises will help in this. Pranayama gives lot of energy to body. Every breath we take energizes our body and every breath we release relaxes our body so little bit of pranayama will help, if you do not know then quickly learn it as many teachers are available.

Transformation from Inertia to blissful activeness happen in three stages. As per food we eat, physical activity we do and purity we have in our thoughts and heart, our body remains in three Gunas (Guna means quality or Type) – Sattoguna or Rajoguna or Tamoguna. Each of these three Gunas have impact on you and are as below

Tamoguna – If you have Tamoguna then body has lot of laziness, lethargy, you do not want to work, lot of inertia and this is demon Mahishasura!

Rajoguna – If you have lot of Rajoguna then you will show symptoms like – You want to work to achieve something. You are too ambitious. Plans are going on in your mind like what are you going to do one after another. Your mind is running very fast and so you are. You want to be rich, want land, want to expand your kingdom. Many a times feverishness sets in to achieve those things and many times too much ambitious people land up in depression as well.

Satoguna – If you have Satoguna then you are working but with content in your heart and mind. You are in bliss, centered in you and not running behind things. Nothing can shake you. You will keep walking in your life with smile on your face. You work in blissful lstate but without constantly wondering or focusing on end result.

Ensure that you transform yourself from Tamoguna to Rajoguna and from Rajoguna to Satoguna! Correct food, correct exercise, meditations, yoga, pranayama will for surely transform this and pray to Mother Goddess to help you defeat this demon with her energy in you! Prayers do Work!

DON’T CONVERT PEOPLE YET SPREAD YOUR RELIGION!

In today’s world, we have so many religions, cultures, languages, music, costumes, food etc. Instead of seeing the beauty in this diversity and celebrating it, people are busy in converting people into their religion (for whatever reason), environment of distrust growing and people end up seeing only bad thing in others and end up separating from each other.

Whenever we speak of religions it becomes very sensitive issue and many times people boast that only my way is the way, only my religion is true, only my religion’s followers will get heaven, my religion’s followers are highest etc. In this whole process main crux of our faith is lost, ego sets in and then whole list of issues arise including riots and terrorism.

Lets look at it in simple terms our religions and what we can take from all in simple way. I am not any religious head but fortunate enough to be born in India and have visited many religious places, I felt let me put my feelings & thoughts in simple way. There could be many more things about every religion. Lets look at few of them

HINDUISM – Oldest religion followed by many on this planet. It is so vast that you cannot confine it into fixed set of ideas, methods or procedures. If you go and try to strictly find a Hindu in India then you will be stunned to see that every 200 kilometers everything changes, language, costumes, food, style of rituals etc. Hinduism is encompassing all ways. It has freedom for all, to worship type of GOD you want, the way you want to worship. You will find people worship rivers, mountains, trees infact whole nature. Whole nature is given respect and worshipped. You can worship it in Aakar (form) or Nirakaar (formless). If you want to go to temple then fine, if you want to meditate then that is also fine. You need to travel across India to understand its vastness which fills us with wonder. I don’t think we confine this way of life even in the boundaries of religion. Because of this freedom, Hinduism has survived till far and so many other religions also flourished in India. You don’t need to convert people to make them Hindu. One who is on his path and not distracting others from their path is Hindu. One who is respecting nature, one who is respecting all creatures is Hindu. If you respect your motherland and live for it then you are Hindu. I feel this is the time when all people understand this freedom of Hinduism which is true secularism.

Look around you, in greed for money, people are destroying nature, polluting motherland (by pesticides, plastic), polluting air & water. Corruption is spreading, people are fighting over religions, wars are destroying countries. This is the time when teachings of Hinduism need to spread.

ISLAM : – Saints say real meaning of Islam is surrender and peace. Surrender to divinity and peace within yourself and surrounding. If you are not peaceful then how will you spread peace. If you yourself are agitated, irritated, unhappy then you are going to spread same thing. Today is era where people really understand its true meaning and become peaceful and happy. True surrender happens when one is helpless. When you have tried all your options, put all your efforts but nothing is working then helplessness comes. In this helplessness you pray and for prayer to emerge you need to surrender. Such prayers get answered and fulfilled. So one who is peaceful and surrendered to divinity is already Islamic. You don’t need to convert him/her; infact you need to spread peace and happiness & automatically Islam will spread.

Few years back, I visited Jerusalem first time, I was walking innocently towards Al-Aqsa mosque and but at entrance itself I was stopped and told that you cannot enter. I asked why? Got answer that you are not muslim. I got stunned and shocked. In India I had never experienced this as we can go inside mosques and offer our prayers. I prayed from outside but thought of what is Muslim or Musalmaan? I have come to conclusion that it is nothing but Musallam- Iman . Musallam meaning very strong and Iman means Character/faith/honesty -one who is faithful for his/her motherland, duties.

Look around and today we see that corruption is spreading like cancer and trying to be omnipresent. It is spreading because people are becoming characterless and they are not honest in their duties. So it is need of time that you make Iman of people Musallam and wipe out corruption from this planet and create peace & happiness. You don’t need to convert people as whoever on this planet has his/her Iman musallam, he/she is Musalmaan.

CHRISTIANITY: – If we say Jesus then you don’t need to say Love and If you say Love then you don’t need to say Jesus. Love and Jesus are so synonyms. Just see how beautiful is this. If someone tells you that ‘Jesus is only way’ then tell them ‘Yes, it is true. Jesus is love and love is the only way’. Spread this love and automatically you spread Jesus and Christianity. If you think only followers of Jesus will be in heaven then it is wrong. Whoever is filled with love and spreading love is already on his path.

Infact this is the time when you need to spread love. Look around, so many people are in sorrow. Wars, corruption, poverty, diseases, loot, fear, disbelief, illiteracy, unemployment, depression are taking over society. This is the most important time when people need touch of love and they will get healed. Without any expectation and returns from others, work towards bringing genuine smile on others faces. Spread love, serve people and no need to convert people.

SIKHISM: – Whenever we say Sikhism, image of robust, happy and always ready to serve community appears in front of us. I am lucky as I got a chance to visit few Gurudwaras and got blessings there. If you visit Gurudwara then you will realize the meaning of selfless service. Everyone is ready to help each other. Selflessly lunger is run and food is served to all. I was stunned to see same level of service maintained even in London, in such an expensive place every one is offered food.

Robustness and fearlessness of Sikhs saved India for many centuries. Each mother dedicated her elder son for country’s cause. We need to spread this robustness, fearlessness and attitude of service. I feel every town, village, city must adopt this and start lunger. Out of poverty, no one shall remain hungry and shall not sleep empty stomach on this planet. Every household must contribute towards his country, city, village, society.

One para of Guru Gobind Singhji is stunning and tells about valor and removes any fear if we have

“Chirian to mein baaz tudaun
Gidran to mein sher banaun
Sawa lakh se ek ladaun
Tabe Gobind Singh Naam kahaun”

Meaning “It is when I make sparrows beat eagle, I turn jackals into lions, when I make 1 capable of fighting with 125000 alone then I am called Gobind Singh”. One must surrender to such Guru and get this valor & serve people.

BUDDHISM: – There is no bigger manifestation of Silence & peace like Buddha. He was born in the era when there was huge prosperity in India and when there were huge number of intellectuals. He himself was born in royal family but he left everything in conquest of truth and got enlighten in deeper silence.

He showed path to many and many got liberated along with him. His message of peace got spread almost across Asia. This is the most appropriate time to spread Buddha when earth is filled with so much violence, decreasing moral values, corruption , greed & endless desires of people which are leading them nowhere. For this purpose as well we don’t need to convert people.

We can observe similar things in all other religions take it Jainism, Judaism etc. If we observe basic teachings of all religions are same and they are of Love, peace. It is we in our Ego started converting people, infact since last few decades conversions are happening for the greed of power. Particular religions people will vote only to their religions leader so convert people and capture power. Instead of choosing leaders at looking at their honesty, valor, knowledge & service oriented attitude, people choose leaders looking at their religion! This is not good, people are cheating themselves!

We need to know and see that all religions are like beautiful rivers which are finally meeting same ocean. Various saints, messengers, Avatars came on this planet, showered their knowledge, love on humanity and uplifted humanity. Converting people from one religion to other is like trying to convert water into water so pls stop this & spread love to fill this planet with happiness!

WHAT PARENTS WANT…DON’T END UP WITH YOUR HANDS FULL OF….

In last 15 years or so, I have seen many people leaving our country for higher studies, jobs. Many of them went saying they will return in couple of years but till now never returned…At one point of time I was also trying for higher studies but today when I think back I thank god that I performed average in those exams and later on decided not to pursue the same..

I personally know many of them. Infact many have such wonderful parents that whenever I visit their homes, they shower their love as if I am their son as well. If they are taking their parents where they are living then it may be fine with them else parents keep on waiting for them, persuading them to come back and many times have tears in their eyes & they keep on receiving below answers..

• For my career I need to be there. What will happen to it if I come back…
• I will return in another 2 years
• This country is in mess and nothing can happen
• Education is much better there etc
• My job there is very comfortable, I can give more time to my family
• I will not get same salary if I come back

What I have seen is many of them are thinking only about themselves. My career, My job, My comfort, My My MY… What about them who got you well educated and made you confident. Do these people think anytime about them. More than money, our parents want our time, they want to live with us. They want to live with our children, they want to play with them and see them growing up. Just sending money for them don’t fulfill our responsibility towards them.

Infact I have seen people spitting about their own country where they learned 2+2 =4. I have seen few who regret that they are born in this country. Few even do not return for years because of some Visa issues. Their lives are controlled by some Visa rules. In reality I have found below facts why they run away from their responsibilities

• Exchange rate, more money
• Part of mind says as I am staying in so and so country so I have something in me and so I am great
• Don’t want to take responsibility of their parents, country
• Think about only their own comforts – I have good paying relaxed job etc
• Many girls do not want to live with their in-laws so they find this route of moving abroad

After living abroad for a year atleast I have realized that India is HEAVEN (if one has true vision to see). Such a balanced climate, good healthcare, good schools, such variety of food, clothing or anything you take, such nice people to talk, such a fertile land, so many rivers, mountains. God has showered everything here. I am not saying that other countries are not good or not bestowed with these things (infact nature has given everything equally to all) but what’s point in leaving your parents alone and running behind money. You will be millionaire or billionaire then what? So many millionaires & billionaires are there and you will be one of them. Your parents will depart one day and so you will. All your millions & billions will remain in bank accounts and it may happen that your children may keep fighting for share of that money.

Not knowing culture of joint  family, your children will also leave you one day leaving you alone. What will you do with money.  Decade back in Europe, percentage of people who were in depression was less but today it is much higher. Why so many people are in depression? One of the simple answer is people forgot family values. Family which has elders is also bestowed with their wisdom. Any problem or difficult situation comes in life and if you feel you are unable to handle then elders will be there to support you, to advice you. They guide children and younger ones as well. If someone from family is going on wrong path then they will be first to correct them. People spend huge money for advice from Psychiatrist which elders would have given them every day and in their advice there is love & care. Infact depression is one of the bigger killers today. Can you thank them by meeting once or twice in a year? Few even see them once in two years. We all need to move back to joint families else this disease called depression will eat many more.

More than money, we need love, friends, wisdom of elders and their blessings. I am sure all such people may have bank accounts full of money but in their later part of life when they will be lonely & tired then they will realize that their hands are full of 2 things, Regret & Guilt. Regret that they could not shower their love on their parents and Guilt that they could not take care of them. Don’t end up being in this category…

CHATURVARNA…REAL MEANING…ITS MISUNDERSTANDING, MISUSE LEADING TO INJUSTICE & DIVIDE IN SOCIETY…

 

In the wake of growing divide in our society in India which is many times based on the Chaturvarna and Caste based systems, I thought of writing my understanding which I have got over the years looking around me in society and one thing for sure is this word Chaturvarna is misunderstood by many, misrepresented by many. Many youths are misguided by many literatures, NGOs and so called humanity based groups and finally politicians who gain power in this fight. Few out of their own ignorance have used it to prove their superiority, few got injustice and sometimes it lands up in few funny situations as well. Lets try to see what is it…

CHATURVARNA is Sanskrit word – Chatur means four and Varna means ‘Groups’, means four groups. There were four groups of people Brahmins (Teachers), Kshatriya (Fighters), Vaishya (Traders) and Sudra (Producers), mind it, it is Sudra and not Kshudra (meaning insignificant) or Shudra. Kshudra or Shudra is the distortion done by few people deliberately.  First lets understand each one of them and then understand how mess happened due to misunderstanding and who took advantage and creating rift among us and looting all of us.

Brahmin – Is the person who has attained/gained knowledge and most importantly he is sharing with all selflessly for enlightening of society and ensuring that all people are filled with knowledge. He is the one who is living for others, who needs nothing (that doesn’t mean he must not have any wealth), who is in bliss and sharing it with all. In a way all saints land up in this category. They pass on knowledge, unite people, propagate love & peace and society is happy.

Kshatriya – He is the person who is filled with Valor, who is fearless, who has skills of warfare and thus he has ability to take part in wars and save his land & people from enemies. They protect rest of the 3 groups and maintain the environment so that rest 3 can perform their function.

Vaishya – He is trader. Trader takes things from one person and sells it to other at higher price and they make profits. He is sharp in his analytical aptitude and good in calculations. He is quick in identifying business and money making opportunities. They are responsible for movement of goods & money. They are responsible for sharing some % of their wealth to state. Question comes why only trader shall pay? He /She is the one who is moving money and rest 3 groups are creating environment, goods so that he can trade. His responsibility is to donate for all good causes in the society. If you go to any religious place even today, you will find that many dharmshalas and Matths are created by these people.

Sudra – They are responsible for producing things. All skilled people land up in this group. If you have aptitude of creating fine painting, superior wooden craft, producing grains, creating cloth, producing beautiful pottery utensils, producing nice weapons for your Army etc then you are part of this category. Your skill is the supreme and you are basic foundation of economy of state and because of you all are getting good wealth, mind it good wealth. This is the wealth which is generated out of everybody’s efforts, skill and hard work. It is not the wealth which is created by cheating someone, robbing someone. Good wealth will bring all good and bad wealth will bring all bad on to you. That is why they are called as ‘Sudra’, Su – dra. In Sanskrit every good thing is presented & begins with letter ‘Su’ Ex- Suprabhat, Suswagatam, Sushma, Suvichar etc. Sudra also begins with Su and attached ‘dra’ with it which is one of the meaning of wealth – Dravya, Indra (wealth inside – your 5 senses) etc.

If you observe the job of all 4 groups, everything is depending on their aptitude. As per your aptitude you can move in the group which you want to join and contribute to society. Nobody can say that by birth he is Brahmin, Kshtriya, Vaishya or Sudra. Your aptitude decides your role and if you don’t do it as per aptitude, you decide it as per your birth then for sure lot of mess will happen and it happened. We need to see judiciously from when real trouble began in Indian Society, I am talking about society and not kingdoms. For many centuries kings have fought with each other but you will never hear that people in society have fought with each other and separated based on their this group or so called Caste mainly invented by Brits.

I have pasted one of the photo of Macaulay and his address to British Parliament. It is given in 1835 and see what he said “I have travelled across length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is begger, who is thief such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country……(and so on)….”. Time of this speech is very interesting..1835. Means it was after defeating, Tipu Sultan in South, Peshwas in Maharashtra , even battle of plassey happened much before”. Despite of defeating so many big empires and looting wealth from them, this is the statement he had to say. Such was this holy country called Bharat (Now India). After defeating all major kingdoms by divide & rule policy, began their oppressive rule. In the year 1857, there was extremely big revolt against them and revolt was joined and supported by all farmers, producers mainly all Sudra and it was big jolt to British. After suppressing this revolt they understood unity of common people of this country (kings fought but common people came forward during difficult times). To avoid such revolt, they permanently decided to break this society by bringing oppressive laws, rules. They knew that backbone of this society & economy is no one but Sudras. First thing they did after coming in full power is banned all Sudras from doing their traditional activities. First ban came on Ayurveda, then Vishwakarmas were banned from doing any Architectural work, all Balutedars and so on. Imagine the impact it must have caused on society. As Sudra’s were oppressed, so were income sources of all the groups of society as producer itself was unable to produce properly. Deterioration of talent and knowledge happened to great extent. Once income sources dried, all other 3 groups Kshatriya, Brahmins, Traders all of them systematically collapsed. What trader will trade? How Kshatriya will fund his Army & state and so on. With collapse of one by one group came in British Allopathy medicines, Architecture, cloths ,education system and everything.

One more biggest harm happened when British began caste & religious based census. All the 4 groups were divided into further sub groups as per their activity and this game of labelling people began in this country. People got their identities as per this Caste & their religions. In all govt departments, social places you were made to disclose your caste. This is how people isolated from each other. If want to create hatred among them it became simple, publish in society by taking name of group saying “So and So people have done so and so against other people”. This is how hatred happened and even riots. You will never hear in history that riots happened in India, kings fought with each other but not people. This all began when divide and rule policy of british came. On one end they would suppress Sudras and on another end they used to put it on Brahmins or Kshatriya. This way whoever moves away from each other they used to get sympathy of British and used to land up in their Army, Police, Administration etc. This is how they ran this country. People got deceived by these tactics, our own people brought harm to our own and till today same is continuing.

Macualay’s address clearly tells that all people were wealthy, nobody oppressed no one but if you see various propaganda run today, gaps in society are increased day by day. Somebody says, Brahmins have oppressed since many centuries, somebody says we Vaishya’s are great as we run country by paying taxes, somebody says we Kshtriya’s are most great, somebody says we Brahmins are great & purest. These foolish egos are increasing gaps & disbelief among people. Various groups including politicians are giving air to such activity. Imagine even today caste & religion based census happens and governments declares religion & caste wise population, their growths etc. For what? Are you allowing to continue same patterns which divides us. One gap existed among 4 groups is they avoided sharing their knowledge with each other and we saw degradation of knowledge, skills.

Another interesting aspect in this is to see how adoption of varna by birth has created mess and fun as well. Ex – If someone says he is Brahman because he/she is born in Brahman family then will he be one? If he has Aptitude of Kshatriya then see what happens, anger will be on his nose and on small mistakes , you can expect curse flowing immediately from his/her own mouth. Even small thing is missing in any ritual then you will have to face his wrath. If his aptitude is of Vaishya then his attention will be towards profits. He may devise various ways to make money through various unnecessary rituals. If he has aptitude of Sudra then he is doing injustice to his skills. Look at the people who are running these coaching classes these days. Many of them are charging huge money for teaching. Aren’t they doing job of Brahmana with the mindset of Vaishya?

If someone says he is Kshatriya because he/she is born in Kshatriya family then will he be one?. There are ample examples in history where sons of great kings have taken their tale deep inside on battle ground and ran away. Whole state got defeated and people suffered. You need to have valor, skills of battlefield. If his/her aptitude is in painting or teaching then will he be able to perform his job as King? This is why this method of ‘Kings son becomes King’ has failed many times.

If someone says he is Sudra because he/she is born in Sudra family then will he be one?…There are ample examples of sons of Sudras who were kings, who were great saints and in a way were true Brahmins.

If someone says he is Vaishya because he/she is born in Vaishya family then will he be one?. If real aptitude of Vaishya is of Kshatriya then will he be able to do trading or business? No, there are ample examples around us, you enter their shop and little more enquiries or small argument may result into these statements “Lena hai to le nahi to nikal”, “If you want to buy then buy else get lost”. Isn’t it funny, Kshatriya aptitude plays here and you will observe all such business people are always in loss. If your king has aptitude of greedy Vaishya then also it is big problem. He will end up doing business of each and everything. I will explain it more in detail.

If someone takes support from scriptures for their misunderstanding then also they cannot justify. In bhagwatgita it is “CHATUR VARNYAM MAYAA SRISHTAM GUNA KARMA VIBHAGASHAHA TASYA KARTARAM API MAAM VIDDHI AKARTARAM AVYAYAM”. It clearly says it is Varnam and then further says Guna Karma Vibhagashaha. Means depending on aptitude these four groups have come up and nowhere it mentioned that it is by birth etc. Even today people have formed so many different groups through various associations. Doctors association, bar council (lawyers), labor unions, bankers association, jewelers association, taxi/auto drivers association, engineers association, chartered accountants association etc…

If someone takes support of Vedas and say that it is mentioned that Brahmins are head or Kshatriyas are hands, sudras are legs and Vaishya’s are thighs etc…All are our body parts and we equally love and need them. If nay part is cut then you will not be able to do anything and mind it if somebody says that you are compared to legs that is why you are less important then tell them that even today when people meet elders or respected people then they touch their feet and not head or hand. If people try to divide or try to boast their ego on these issues then ignore them.

Coming back to greedy Vaishya, If you make greedy Vaishya (mind it greedy) as your king then what happens? Answer is today’s world. Most of the Vaishya’s are good but few greedy when come to absolute power then what happens…

• • Due to polluted water, people are forced to buy clean water…business…

• • Due to inefficient government education system, people are forced to put their children in extremely expensive private schools & colleges….business…

• • Every year people’s electricity, water, gas charges go up….business…

• • People don’t have water to drink but river of liquor flows….business…

• • At every step people are looted by doing corruption…business…

• • Look at judiciary…pay money and get bail…business…need good lawyers…pay big money…business

• • Want to cure your diseases…buy expensive medicines or expensive treatments…. Business…

• • Even humans are traded by human trafficking…business…

• • Farmers die as they don’t have good rates for their produce and common people lose money while buying same produce…who earns- middlemen…business…

• • Want to live in a home/flat…pay huge money to builders…business…

• • Want to drive on road…pay toll…business…

Look around; there could be so many more examples. This is the issue right now. Few people/politicians/businessman cannot think beyond money. They continue dividing people in same line to capture power. Infuse people with ego of their own caste and hatred for others, and then job is easy. Anybody can win election by saying or portraying as if he is messiah of their own caste or showing sympathy. He/She can use bad words for others against which hatred is their in people’s mind and then he can work as vote cutter of his own community. If you see, no religion, caste is under threat but yes 3 things are under big threat – 1 ) Your Character (systematic degradation of ethics is happening) 2) your land, this motherland 3) Your pocket

Time has come that we don’t succumb to such tactics, we all unite and say “Hum Sab Ek Hain “/”We all are one” and fight against injustice.

 

 

GOD TESTS YOU OR YOU TEST GOD…KNOW WHAT YOU PRAY…PRAYERS DO GET ANSWERED..

In our life, we all do pray to GOD/Nature or we pray to whatever we revere to. Have you observed your prayers? Have you ever noticed what are you asking? What are your demands? Do we pay attention to our words and its effects? Sometimes ‘yes’, we are aware and sometimes not.

When you just blabber something without any deep rooted intention, without any feelings then it is not prayer, it just becomes chattering of mind. Such things will never get answered. When something arises from deep within, something really you want or when you become complete helpless in your situations then finally you surrender yourself and what comes out of you becomes Prayer. It has energy behind it, it has meaning and it gets really fulfilled. If you observe, most of our prayers are answered but problem is when we are enjoying fruits of our prayers we do not remember that we had prayed for this and it has been answered.

When people land up in difficult situations, facing adverse situations they simply say to others “GOD is testing me”. Many times they forget that all are fruits of their karma (actions). They simply put it on GOD and blame him. When they face good situations, success then most of the people say, it is because of me, my hardwork. At this time handful of them say it is because of God’s blessings. Infact many of people end up testing GOD only…Simple story can explain this..

“Once upon a time there was a Village and all the people, families in that village were happy, rich and living in blissful knowledge. In that village there was a very rich man, richest among all and pious as well. One day he thought I must do good to others and prayed to GOD for blessings. He prayed ‘O GOD I want to utilize my wealth in serving all the poor people of our village. Bless me so that I can achieve this. He was very pious and he had prayed with deepest feelings. GOD started wondering as this man had put him in difficult situation. He want to serve poor people of Village but nobody in that village was poor. To fulfill his prayer, either GOD had to turn other rich people of village into poor or migrate some other poor people to this village so that this man can serve them.” See the situation in which this man had put GOD into.

See, how people put GOD into so many difficult situations. Imagine if an oncologist prays to GOD for more patients so that he can be rich and successful then what shall GOD do? Shall GOD create more Cancer patients? Imagine a lawyer prays, give me more cases. Now shall GOD create more conflicts so that people sue each other and land up in court with the help of this lawyer?

Another example – “Once upon a time, there was a very pious lady. Once she asked GOD ‘O GOD give me everything in my life’. Later on she got lot of happiness, success but she got sorrow, failures and she had to face difficult situations as well. She then went back to GOD and asked that I asked you to give me everything and see what you did and what you gave. GOD answered “You only asked, give me everything. Now happiness, sorrow, success, failures all come under everything. Word everything encompasses everything.”

This is the reason, we must be aware of our prayers, we must be aware of our words which we choose. We need to be very specific while praying and whatever we asking for.

Remember, if you pray for bad of others then know that it will begin with you first and if you pray for good of others then that also will begin with yourself! Prayers which you do for all are higher than you do for yourself. It encompasses good for all and they are above personal demands.

Good way to begin and end your prayers is with this statement “Loka Samasta Sukhino Bhawantu” means “Let all people be happy, prosperous and blissful” and then proceed with your personal demands if you have any but ensure that you are aware of your words as once GOD says “Tathastu”/”So be it” then you cannot go reverse, as your prayers will for sure manifest!

DEMON RAKTABEEJA, GODDESS KAALI (MOTHER GODDESS / MOTHER NATURE) AND ITS CURRENT RELEVANCE…

As I have mentioned in my first blog, our ancestors were very wise and they knew that over the years people’s dialect, culture, languages will change. Apart from writing things in scriptures, they presented most of things through pictures and symbols as well so that future generations will be able to understand through these. One such picture & story is of Goddess Kaali. Lets see how it is relevant in current times.

General story goes like this, once upon a time there was a demon called ‘Raktabeeja’ (Rakta means blood and Beeja means seed). He had done severe penance/austerities and out of that he got a boon from Lord Brahma (Called as Generator. He is responsible for generation of planet, universe. He resides in our body as well. He resides in stomach and everything in our body is generated there). Boon was- if his one drop of blood falls on earth then such 1000 soldiers like him will be born again. After receiving this boon he started misusing, intimidating, harassing to people, saints and GODs also got scared and could not control him. All gods ran towards mother goddess and requested for her help. She agreed to help them and she was fighting with Raktabeeja and wounded him at many places but due to his boon, thousands and thousands many more soldiers got created in battlefield and whole situation became more complicated. Mother Durga then meditated and transformed herself into goddess Kaali. Kaali is with blue body, large eyes filled with anger, her red tongue wide open and with ferocious speed advancing on opponents. Looking at this form all demons got frightened. Kaali took out her tongue and drank blood of all the soldiers of Raktabeeja and eventually all of them got killed. Raktabeeja was only one who was left on battlefield. Kaali advanced towards him, wounded him and immediately started drinking his blood and finally Raktabeeja got killed. In the whole process she drank so much blood of demon that it started affecting her and out of intensity and joy of her win she started dancing uncontrollably. Her dance was so intense that it started hurting all and earth started trembling. All people, gods ran towards lord Shiva (her companion) and requested him to calm down Kaali. Looking at destruction happening around, Lord Shiva tried to stop her but she was not listening anything. Looking at this finally lord Shiva laid his body on her path and she accidently stepped on him. Lord Shiva is nothing but infinite pure consciousness (resides in our head). As soon as her feet touched Shiva, she got her consciousness back and stopped her dance and all GODs & people got relief. As showed in above picture, you can see mother goddess is transforming herself into Kaali and Lord Shiva is below her feet.

Lets understand these symbols first. Most of the times we refer GOD as ‘he’ or ‘father’ etc. But what about mother? Is father alone or is he with companion? Answer is he is with companion and she is our mother. Here Lord Shiva symbolizes our infinite consciousness like infinite sky. Blue body presents color of sky which is transparent, hollow and empty and has no demands, wishes, regrets or guilt. Mother Goddess symbolizes pure energy with which this cosmos, this planet and our body is filled with. This consciousness & energy are both inside us. We have both father & mother inside us. If your body has consciousness and no energy then you will not be even able to do anything and even you will be unable to move. If you have only energy and no consciousness then things you will be doing will be senseless and you may end up harming yourself and others. In our body energy is created by whatever we eat, drink, physical activity, thoughts (yes thoughts affect your energy). This energy gets created in stomach, gets absorbed in blood and transferred to various body parts by heart and your head also gets this blood and then your consciousness behaves in proper way. If energy supplied to your head is good then it will destroy all the bad things arising in your head (all the bad thoughts) and you will have only good, pleasant thoughts and these thoughts again affect your energy. This is vicious cycle. Good will give birth to more good and bad will give birth to more bad. Simple example – take a look at the guy who is drunk. He loses his complete consciousness. Kind of thing he consumed created that kind of energy and affected his consciousness in that way. So we can say that energy is connector between yourself and pure consciousness. Now look at this cycle again – stomach works as Generator, Heart works as Operator and Head which is place of your consciousness works as Destructor (of bad things). Generator, Operator, Destructor, bring first 3 letters of these 3 words and you arrive at GOD and common thread between them is energy which is nothing but Mother Goddess. This way whole nature is filled with this energy. Plants, birds, animals, land everything you see has energy in it (only thing is form is different). We need to see which thing will generate pure energy inside us then consume only that, act only as per that!

Now coming back to demon Raktabeeja and let us see how it is relevant in current times. Rakta means Blood and Beeja means Seed. Is there such demon who is rising by thousands of multiplication. Answer is Yes and not one but many are there and we are responsible for it. This demon is getting bigger because of our impulsive reactions which are coming from us or going into deeper sense, from our blood (as blood has energy). Raktabeeja is game of action – reaction. One action leading to thousands of reaction. Somebody says something and receives thousands of reaction on it and that person again becomes bigger. On social media sites, news channels, print media, in group talks we start reacting to it and many times reactions are also put in bad words. Right now corrupt & bad politicians, actors, businessman and so called intellectuals are using this game of Action – Reaction and becoming bigger and bigger. See if below examples make this thing little clear and most importantly media is central among all

• • Politicians deliberately plant their own people as opposition and these planted people abuse them deliberately in indecent or bad words. Ex- Somebody calls somebody as mental etc. We suddenly start giving our reactions on it. Start our fight against it saying how can you say this, bla bla bla and we end up supporting politician to whom he said bad words. In this process politician becomes bigger and person who used bad words also becomes bigger as you gave him so much attention and kept him in news and he kept on becoming bigger. These people stand in elections and due to our reactions even win it or they work as vote cutters of their community votes. This is the most dangerous trend going on and people are falling in trap of this.

• • Politicians deliberately speak ghastly sentences, foul words for other communities as if they are messiah of their own community which is portrayed as under threat from rest of world. Ex- Somebody said in India that give me 1 hour and I will finish particular community etc. Suddenly all people started giving reactions. This guy is bad, mad bla bla and what not. Person who was unknown to millions of people suddenly came in focus and because of reaction of people he started growing bigger. Why to give importance to such people? Just ignore them and they automatically die. Recently few people from religious sphere deliberately started speaking foul words for other religion (like send them to Pakistan etc) and suddenly thousands and thousands of reaction came for it. People who were unknown to even their neighbors became bigger and bigger by using this bad way.

• • See these movie actors, producers, how they use this trick and politicians also help them in this. These days you would see almost before every movie some controversy arises. Deliberately hurting religious sentiments, some fight with some group and media covers it and we give our reactions to it. How can he hurt our religion, show things like this in movie etc. Infact recently for one movie, few MPs started disturbing parliament because of one movie poster. Even before release of movie they were giving publicity to it. I will not be surprised if it comes out that they had handshake with movie producers & actors. Due to this controversy, reaction of people is they cannot control their curiosity and they watch these movies to find out what is there in it. In today’s world of multiplexes, expensive tickets & multiple shows they earn millions and millions of dollars which is not possible for even big corporate house to earn in such a short period of time. In one more such instance, one writer accused one film’s actors & producers that they have stolen his content & made their movie. Whole electronic & print media started showing this news in big way. Result of this was movie became more and more famous and writer’s book as well. Many copies of his book got sold. This is just beginning as they have tasted the blood and more such things will happen so just ignore..

• • Now see how businessman use this. Before launching some product they create such anxiety & fanfare through promotion among people, by creating a scenario such that people react in such an impulsive way that they wait for whole nights to buy one tech gadget and ready to pay any price. People can’t hold of their impulsive reaction and just fall in the trap to buy things. Just check around how many times you have done this.

• • Some newpaper or news channel deliberately shows some news like “Hindus killed Muslims” or “Muslims killed Hindus” Or “Christians got killed” Or they publish news by deliberately putting castes in the news like “people of so and so cast did this to people of so and caste”. Suddenly our impulsive reactions begin, people come on streets and riots begin or people even kill each other and problem becomes more and more bigger.

• • Some news channels, papers start showing/printing that so and so saint is fraud. He has done so and so bad thing. Without checking the fact we start reacting. I have seen people cursing in most abusive way without even checking facts on their own. In India one Shankaracharya was arrested on day of Dipawali. Charge was put on him that he murdered one person. Media channels ran various shows covering this for almost more than 2000 hours. He was depicted as demon and suddenly people started reacting in very bad manner. Supreme court created special bench to hear this case and found out that he was not at all guilty. Total coverage given by media to his acquittal was hardly of 8 minutes.

–      See how so called intellectuals & social workers are trying to use same method. They deliberately tweet some stupid thing or use foul language and media shows it. People immediately start giving reactions to all this and that person becomes bigger & bigger.

There could be many such examples. Think now, how many times where, when we acted like this. I have seen on social media, people react in very abusive way. What is that you cannot control your reaction? It is our impulsive behavior which is arising as we are unable to handle our own energy and ultimately we are not in our full consciousness. If our energy is pure, in correct amount & channeled in right direction then we will be in our full consciousness and we will first find out facts behind things, will react judicially and these demons will die automatically. First thing is become aware of these tricks and when we become aware then we are alert & behave with full consciousness. Question may arise how do I generate pure energy. Though I am not expert on that ,few things definitely we need to do. Eat good, Sattwik food (which increases sat gun in us), do daily exercise, yoga, pranayama, avoid non vegetarian (what we eat, we become like that), avoid drinking things like alcohol etc, keep your heart and mind pure. If we are unable to do it then lets pray together to Mother Goddess to help us in blossoming in our consciousness by guiding her energy in proper way and defeating these demons.

 

TWO BIG LAWS/SECRETS OF MOTHER NATURE

Our mother nature loves us so unconditionally that despite of our religion, country, cast, language, gender etc it loves us equally and most importantly unconditionally. When our mother who conceived us in her womb at that time also whatever nutrients needed for us to survive and grow were given by Mother Nature (through food and water etc). In a way Mother Nature has first right on us.

Nature grows food in farmland, gives water and gives air to breath. Imagine what will happen if this motherland says that I will grow food this year only in the farmlands of Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhist or I will grow it only in India or In America or In South Africa. No, she does not do it that way. Unconditionally she keeps on growing for all of us. Imagine if water given by nature decides that it will quench the thirst of only Muslims today or only of Europeans or of Men or of rich. No, water given by Nature satiates thirst of all and that too unconditionally. Imagine air given by Nature decides that it will enter nostrils of only Christians today or Australians or Asians. Does it happen like that; never will it happen like that. In fact we need to remember that what we breathed out will be breathed in by somebody else and vice versa. We all are so deeply connected.

Mother Nature has given us so many types of Flowers, so many types of vegetables, so many types of trees, so many different rivers, so many different types of Mountains, So many types of stones, different types of metals, so many types of cultures, so many types of food, so many types of religions, so many types of animals, so many types of birds, different types of music, even clouds have different shape. If you see there are 7 billion people on planet but you can distinctly identify them (exceptions are of twins). Imagine if nature stops it diversity and decides to produce only eggplant, will you be able to eat eggplant for 365 days? Suppose nature decides to produce only roses for 1 year, we all will soon become sick of roses. Imagine if only 1 type of bird, suppose only Crows, how it will be seeing only crows on this planet. Imagine if we have only one size & shape of mountains, go anywhere on the planet and you will see same size, same shape of mountain everywhere. Imagine if only guitars start producing music and no other instrument is able to produce; you will soon break your head with same guitar. Same way mother has given so many cultures, costumes, languages, religions, rituals, various types of foods. In fact our survival depends on this diversity.

In this unconditional love, Nature has certain laws and its our duty to follow those. This nature has 2 big secrets. Have you ever thought what nature really wants? Below are 2 things and 2 secrets
1) Nature will give you back what you give and in fact Nature gives with interest
2) Mother Nature wants to see smile on your face.

Lets see how these 2 principals work
What you will give that will come back and with interest: – If today you are sowing one seed of corn then tomorrow nature will give you entire Corn. If today you plant one small mango plant then after few years you will have thousands of mangoes. Today if you plant Neem plant or Coconut plant then tomorrow you will have hundreds of coconuts, medicinal Neem leaves. If today you are planting more trees then tomorrow you will have more good air and more water conserved under earth which will be useful for you.

In your greed and ignorance if today you are cutting your mountains, polluting your rivers and cutting your trees then you be ready for tomorrow’s disaster. Your own home, body will be polluted in same way. If today you are polluting motherland by putting chemical pesticides and throwing plastic garbage then tomorrow same thing will pollute your body and you will have deadly diseases like cancer.

If you are ethical and honest then more and more ethical and honest people will come in your life. If you are cheating someone, looting someone then be ready to meet bigger and bigger thugs. You will be robbed of whatever you have. If you are killing animals to eat or in the name of sacrifice then such situations will arise that you will have to face disaster/persecution. If today you are destroying other culture, other’s religion then same thing will return to you as well.

Today if your country is looted and you remain silent then tomorrow you also will be robbed. Today if your neighbor is harassed and you keep mum then tomorrow same problem will knock your door. If today injustice is happening on others (farmers, women, poor) and you keep mum then same injustice will return you in very subtle way.

You may have billions of dollars but if you do not use it for needy or you earn it through unethical way then tomorrow same money will become useless for you or reason for your downfall. There are ample examples of millionaires who have lost everything with a blink of eye. If today you are earning money by doing corruption then tomorrow same money will put you in jail and destroy you.

If you are spreading love then same will come back to you in abundance. If today you are taking care of others, tomorrow you will be taken care of. If today you are helping others in their need of time then tomorrow all your needs will be fulfilled.

Mother Nature wants to see smile on your face: If we see this planet, it’s the gift to mankind from nature. All that in the nature that is there, final aim of it is to bring a smile on your face. Such a beautiful ranges of mountains, rivers, flowers, birds, animals, various foods, and various costumes everything it created so that you can smile. Mind it no other species on this planet has this gift of smile. Can animals smile? Just see around, can birds smile, can donkeys smile, can horses smile or can dogs smile? Answer is big NO. Your smile and this entire creation is gift to you.

This is very interesting! If others pain, others sorrow bring pain & sorrow to you then Nature will never make happen such things with you as it wants to make you smile. See, politicians set somebody for failure or laugh and be happy at their rival’s downfall and soon they find themselves in same situation. Look at their faces, many of them are so serious that even stones look beautiful. If somebody’s bad situation is brining smile on your face then same situation soon will appear in front of you.

However bad may be situation, whatever difficulties you face know that Nature loves you, put little effort with smile and you will be out of it. This knowledge itself will give you strength and you will be able to face any difficult situation. Now don’t say that I will create trouble to others and Nature must maintain smile on my face then answer is No, pls remember law no 1 as well ‘It will give back what you gave’.

If you have billions of dollars but you have long face and unable to smile then see, what is use of your money. If you can’t smile then you have wasted your biggest gift and wasted your life. If you have tremendous power, you are at top position of your country but if you can’t smile then are you really successful? Students are working so hard to get into IITs or premier institutes and they are under so much pressure that they are committing suicides. Is this the reason for which we want to study. Are we making really successful? There are many such examples.

Be content and smile and with whatever you have and keep walking & moving ahead. People who are content with smile, they are given more and people who always cry and feel lack, whatever they have is taken away!

I feel we all must take few moments to think what we are doing and where we are heading. Lets be ethical and celebrate diversity of our Mother Nature and take care of it, spread love and bring smile on as many faces as we can! Lets smile from bottom of our heart and enjoy this beautiful gift called Smile and Life!