A Mantra that Cheers (1 of 2)

Good morning friends. I was reading one of our newspaper here and I just came across with the article about happiness. When I see such article about happiness I didn’t let the day pass that I’m not reading it. Cause one of my goal is to be happy and make others happy. I want to share you the article I have read and I wish you can get some good things there.

Is there anyone among us who does not wish to be happy? All of us wanted to be happy all the time and wishing that we will have no big problems that we can’t solve That’s unlikely. Happiness and sorrow do not drop from the skies. Your thoughts are the cause of happiness and sorrow. Even if you are in a happy state, and a sad thought enters your mind, you suddenly feel unhappy, isn’t it?
If you want to be ever cheerful, remember the following mantra: “Even this shall pass.” Let this be decorated permanently in your heart. With the practice of this mantra you can remain alert in the event of both pleasure and pain and stop yourself from getting engrossed in them and you can establish yourself in the highest bliss of calmness.

Pairs of opposites such as pleasure and pain, honor and insult, joy and sorrow affect the body. They will come and go in greater or lesser degree so long as the body exists. Do not be overwhelmed by them. You are the absolute Self, imperishable Atman while pleasures and pains are fleeting. How can they ever affect you? They have no existence of their own. In fact, they appear on the ground of your existence. You are distinct from them. Hence witness them, withstand them, and let them pass away. Be ever blissful and peaceful.

There is no object that brings pleasure or pain. They are creations of your mind, your thoughts and feelings. With the help of these thoughts be absorbed in your own eternal Being, the Truth absolute and be always peaceful. – The Times of India

See you on the part two of my article ...

Peace and harmony in daily living (1 of 2)

Good morning friends. We must always have peace and harmony in daily living. It has a big role in our life. Without this our life will not be a good one as we expected even if we tried a lot. Seems all our problem can’t be solve even if it is just an easy one.

There have been moments in almost everyone’s day-to-day living when one has experienced the true joy of living, with calm, peace and tranquility. What has usually disturbed these moments are memories of guilt and shame, carried by the ego and which resurfaces every now and then, causing discomfort. These feelings could be because of one’s own (mis) deeds or another’s.

What if you can be totally convinced that no action is anyone’s doing, that all action was merely a happening that simply had to happen?

This is what spiritual seeking is all about. Masters may talk about enlightenment or Self-realization, but what it means is to be able to experience the peace and tranquility that the sage enjoys in his day-to-day life.

A sage is considered a sage because he seems to be anchored in peace and tranquility while facing the pains and pleasures of day-to-day living in his chosen field of activity, like any other ordinary person.

'Self-realization’, to the sage, simply means the realization – the absolute, total conviction – that ‘events happen, deeds are done, but there is no individual doer thereof,” as Buddha put it. Both the sage and the ordinary person respond to their respective names being called. In both cases, therefore, there is identification with body and name as an individual entity separate from all others. The difference is that whereas the sage knows that “events happen, deeds are done, but there is no individual doer thereof,” the ordinary person has the conviction that each individual performs his action and is responsible for it.