Overcome stress as children of bliss (2)

That is meditation. Meditation is a non-doing entity where you are simply a seer, witness, an observer of the minds happenings. To watch is our true nature. It is a natural, non-doing state. No effort is required to watch. We all have full potential to look within directly as we all are blessed with the Third Eye.

Meditation is mind-management. It is not forcing the mind to be quiet. It is to find the quiet that is there already. We are children of bliss. We suffer from stress and strain because we gave all the powers to the mind and made it our master. Not only that, we consider ourselves nothing but the mind.

Mind is matter. It has no power of its own. It is useful in the external world but in the spiritual, internal world, it has to be left far behind. Otherwise we will be the victim of mental and heart diseases. Meditation is seeing the mind as a witness, a neutral energy. It is not interfering with the intricacies and doings of mind. Let the mind go into the dead past or uncertain future in meditation. Just be a seer, be a witness. We just stay in our own source, in our true nature: All-bliss.

We are happy when the mind is cheerful. We are depressed when mind is gloomy. We are at the mercy of the mind that waxes and wanes. We consider ourselves nothing but mind. It is very unfortunate and a great blasphemy to consider ourselves as the victims of some unforeseen incident when the un-ending BLISS is flowing within all of us. Meditation is mind-management. Meditation is a homecoming. – Swami Vishvas

(Courtesy: Vishvas Foundation. Website: www.vishvas.org.)

Overcome stress as children of bliss (1)

Good morning friends. Our mind is the one who told us what to do. It’s so powerful. It can dictate us. We can’t do anything if our mind told us things to do or to think. I have a good reading on one article with regards to overcoming our stress. Let me impart it with you. The mind is compared to a monkey drunk with the wine of desire, stung by the scorpion of jealousy and possessed with the demon of pride. Lust, greed, jealousy, anger, ego, tensions, reactions, grudges, depression, stress and strain are the symptoms and not the disease.

When we are afflicted with a disease like malaria, we don’t treat each symptom like fever, pain and shivering, one by one. We just treat the disease and the symptoms automatically vanish. So deal directly with the mind and the symptoms of stress and strain will disappear. Vishvas meditation is mind management. There is no attempt, however, to control the mind; the idea is to go beyond it.

The common misconception is that meditation is concentration of mind and techniques are taught to achieve this. Meditation has got no technique. There are techniques for concentration. Concentration is a mental exercise between the mind and the object of attention. But meditation is neither a mental exercise nor a practice. Meditation is a direct and natural process beyond mind itself. Meditation is not concentration; it is the mother of concentration.

Remember, concentration is where one tries to control the thoughts. Meditation is where thoughts get dissolved naturally, enhancing your concentration power, memory power, will power, right thinking and fitness power automatically.

When thought current is interrupted which means that all the thoughts are fixed on one object, it is concentration. But when the flow is uninterrupted which means that the thought is not fixed on any one object, rather we just remain a non-doer and directly watch the thoughts as a neutral energy, without any judgment, analyses, participation, visualisation, imagination, contemplation, suppression, repression, condemnation or concentration. – Swami Vishvas

(Courtesy: Vishvas Foundation. Website: www.vishvas.org.)

Hello nature, thanks for everything (2)

You have to thank God for the langurs. I am having a tough time trying to describe them. Just saying dark grey fur, darker spectacled face, long legs, very long tail is not enough. When they move or run, they are so graceful and fluid whether on the ground or in the trees.

For the moment I become a Langur, otherwise there is no way I can experience the energy flowing in its body, which is the same energy flowing in me, and which flows through the whole Universe – a single, powerful, living energy this, which unites everything, visible or invisible to the eye. And the rider beam of this energy is Love. I am put to shame when I think of what we humans are doing in the name of progress.

Progress is good, but not when it involves annihilating the very Earth that provides for our every need. Only if one loves this Earth with unbending passion, can one release ones sadness says Don Juan, A warrior is always joyful because his love is unalterable and his beloved, the Earth, embraces him and bestows upon him inconceivable gifts. Sadness belongs only to those who hate the very thing that gives shelter to their beings.

This lovely being which is alive to its last recesses and understands every feeling, soothed me, as balm to my pains, and finally when I fully understood my love for it, it taught me freedom. Here warrior is a person treading the spiritual path to becoming an Impeccable Warrior. I am walking this path, and it has been a long walk, and yet I am far from being an Impeccable Warrior. But I have every intention of reaching that goal even if takes me another hundred or thousand lifetimes. –The times of India

Hello nature, thanks for everything (1)

Good morning friends. How I love nature. It makes me feel good and at peace whenever I’m looking to one nature. It’s one of God’s creation that I love most. God takes good care of his creation as He takes care of us.

As a driver I have this uncanny ability to look out for something that stands out from the normal.

Whether in the city, or on a road winding through a jungle, I am absorbing details which an average person would not even notice. Innumerable times the passenger in the back, would say How can you drive, and still notice something like that? When I pointed out something. Of course the jungle roads beat the city roads by a long margin you get to see something beautiful, and I would feel so peaceful, and at ease.

Nature, wildlife and the environment, have always been close to my heart, because it is here that the Divine truly manifests. The roads through Bandipur, Madhumalai and to Kabini have always given me much joy and pleasure when as a taxi-driver I took customers there. A couple of emperor mongooses, lovely dark brown, standing still at the edge of the jungle, the sun glinting on their silver shoulders, a porcupine racing across the road in front of my car, as my passengers scramble for their camera (and losing the race), as it ducks down a tunnel. A herd of elephants crossing the road ahead of us, a rare scene, as we watch the babies ambling in the middle, my excitement peaking as I slow down.

How beautiful. Once I caught sight of a male deer between clumps of scrub brush and bamboo, stocky, dark brown with medium-sized antlers. We stopped and watched, and suddenly it bounded away, using all four legs in a delicate ballet too fast for camera, again. Later when we described the buck and even pointed out a picture in the forest personnels catalogue they refused to believe us, and said we were mistaken because this particular deer hasn’t been seen here. Well I am happy I saw it. –The times of India

Find the right track to achieve bliss (2)

In other words, we have the choice. Until we try ourselves to get rid of the "shackles of misery", no divine power can come to our rescue. Our gurus can only show us the way, but the real "action" is in our hands.

Therefore, the Buddha presented the path of Sila or ethical conduct, Samadhi or meditation and Panna or wisdom as the means to purify the mind. These are quite often referred to as the threefold training or tividhasikkha system; but none of these is an end in itself. Each one is only a means to an end. And these three means go together.

Sila strengthens one's mental discipline. So does samadhi. And the two lead to panna. It is wisdom that differentiates us from other life forms. It enables us to see life as it is, arising and passing away. The materialistic world has too many temptations. Our desire for fame, name, wealth and power has led us far away from the path of deliverance. Hatred, distrust and violence is the outcome of the lack of understanding of life. Our love for the gratification of senses has led to our experiencing bankruptcy of mind.

However, a little more determination can still put us on to the right path. The Buddha's Eightfold Path can help us realise our objectives. The path to deliverance is difficult only for those who avoid it. Constant heedfulness and mindfulness can make the path easy to track. These practices are a way of life, and not just an "add-on" to life. Those who try to live life through moral, spiritual and intellectual perfection are the ones who will be the ultimate reapers of happiness and bliss. Self-discipline in body, mind and word go a long way in helping one get closer to reality of life. –The Times of India

Find the right track to achieve bliss (1)

Good morning friends. There are a lot of ways for us to be blissful. It’s not easy but when we have the will to do it, nothing is impossible. Always think positive for the good result to aim.

The core of all religious philosophies dwells on understanding the purpose and meaning of life. Understanding is at the root of development that leads one to ultimate deliverance or nirvana.

Gifted as we are with intelligence, we should try to understand everything we have to deal with in our day-to-day life. It is important because a lack of understanding is the root cause of all that dogs us today.

According to the Buddha, understanding has two layers, anubodhi and pativedha. Anubodhi is what we call 'knowledge'. It is nothing but accumulated memory, an understanding of a particular subject on the basis of data or observation. It is therefore superficial. Real understanding comes from pativedha or deep penetration into the core of a subject. It enables us to understand an object in its true nature and colour. In it, all the exterior labels like name, fame, money and power have zero value.

This kind of understanding can be developed only through rigid training of mind through meditation. One has to strive to be, first of all, free from all kinds of impurities that tend to derail us from the right path.

A person, on reaching this stage of penetrative wisdom, can see everything in the right perspective. He acquires the capability to make a distinction between what is desirable and correct and what is undesirable and incorrect. Such a person also develops the ability to acquire habits that enable his mind to see and believe nothing but the good of all.

The Buddha's philosophy of life revolves around the purification of mind and giving us deliverance from worldly attachments. The Buddha says every human being has the innate qualities and ability to come out of the world of ignorance and move towards the world of enlightenment. –The Times of India

Devotion leads to Happiness (2)

Good Morning friends, we are talking Happiness through Devotions. We talk little of this in previous post. We continue our post with the same topic.

Begin your devotional time by quieting yourself. Take a few deep breaths and become still. Some people light a candle or say a simple prayer such as, “O God, open my heart to hear your message to me in the words I read.”

Then read a short passage in the Bible and some additional reading. A resource such as Daily Bread and The Upper Room can guide you in choosing scripture passages, and its witness from other believers can help you connect the words of the Bible with concerns of everyday life.

At the end of your reading time, be silent and wait to see what words, feelings, or images rise in your heart or tug at your thoughts. Notice what situations or people come to mind.

Consider how the words or images connect with your life; then pray and ask the Holy Spirit to help you to see what God may be saying to you through what you have read, thought, and felt.