SIRSHREE: Recent Episodes
Spiritual Master
Sirshree is the author of several spiritual books. His books have been translated in eleven languages and published by leading publishers such as Penguin and Hay House.
He is the founder of Tej Gyan Foundation, a not-for-profit organization committed to raising mass consciousness by spreading "Happy Thoughts" with branches in the United States, India, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Sirshree's retreats have transformed the lives of thousands and his teachings have inspired various social initiatives for raising global consciousness.
His works include more than 100 books. Various luminaries such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, publishers Reid Tracy and Tami Simon and yoga master Dr. B.K.S Iyengar have released Sirshree's books and lauded his work. His book 'The Magic of Awakening', published by Penguin, was featured in the Limca Book of Records for being released on the same day in 9 languages.
Listen to the method of writing the script of how you want your life in a diary. People do not give a single message to Nature. Learn to clearly write what you want in life and how to write it in your diary which will be called your Faith Fair Diary. Doing this is a guarantee of a smooth, flowing and simple life. People write a rough book and then make their notes fair when they are sure. This is the same method to be used in scripting your future in your diary. Life is bound to flow in this direction. The clearer you become, the smoother and conviction filled life.
A spiritual warrior has the power of words. If the tongue is the horse and the words its jockey, then a well-trained jockey will always be victorious. A spiritual warrior has mighty power in his words and deep devotion in his heart. He also has the ability to control how others' words affect him.
What effect do the negative words people use, have on you? Some people find it difficult to get over the things that were said to them in their childhood. If someone is called an unwanted child during their childhood, that thought becomes a conviction and works like black magic even after the person has grown up. Similarly if a girl is repeatedly told that she is ugly, she grows up believing it and eventually ends up ruining her life. We need to learn how to not let negative words affect us.
When a doctor says that a certain disease is incurable, it has an adverse effect on the patient’s mind-set. Doctors need to frame their communicate more effectively to be careful not to convey negativity and instead say that, “This disease is as yet incurable in my particular line of expertise”. The fact is that every disease on this planet is curable and the cure is present within oneself. We need to be consciously aware of the words we use, as we may even attract diseases through them.
People can be categorised into two types, those who are Spiritual warriors and those who live in illusion. The spiritual warriors have the wisdom to focus only on the intentions behind the words used, whereas the ones who live in illusion lack that wisdom and focus on the literal words. One must always focus on then intentions. Negatives words cannot affect us unless we permit them to do so.
The tongue of a spiritual warrior always speaks sweet words and is indifferent to tastes. If he hurts someone, he will also patch it up with positive words to pacify the hurt. To ensure we use the right words, we must consciously observe the words use throughout the day and contemplate upon which ones need to be corrected. In addition to this training the spiritual warrior also learns to adds discipline to his words. Finally when he is fully trained, every word he speaks becomes a prayer.
The ones who live in illusion need to understand that words are just a medium for transferring intentions and wisdom. They are like an ice-cream candy’s stick. The focus should be on the ice-cream and not the stick. Once we’re done eating ice-cream we discard the stick, not keep it as a souvenir. If we are able to balance the intention, everything else gets balanced. When we balance our intentions, the unwanted communications, gossips and cheap talks are drained out, leading us to developing a habit of not speaking ill of others. Every time we speak ill of someone, we create a karmic bondage with them. Unknowingly we go about creating such bondages with people around us and wind up get entangled in them ourselves.
We have to learn to break all karmic bondages binding us down, however small they may be.
Faith has tremendous power, the power to attain miraculous results. But its purity is adulterated by doubt. Doubt is the only obstacle. However, if cleared of all doubt, the results are amazing.
Through a delightful example Sirshree illustrates this point and illustrates what faith can do.
This extract is from a discourse of 13 intentions for the year in development of one's own qualities. This is the third intention and is meant for the month of March.
Safe Zone Meditation For meditation, where the chief goal to know oneself through experience, the experience is often clouded by the various disturbances that the senses and thoughts in the mind create. Learn what is a safe zone (internal environment) and how to gradually calm the senses to get into this zone to touch the depths of meditation.
Self-Awareness Meditation It is common to sit in meditation. However, one must learn to stand, walk and run as well in meditation. In a meditative state, all activities happen effortlessly. Call it meditation or inner silence. It is the same. When it is observed from different viewpoints,different words are used to describe it.When it is seen as a whole it is described as Meditation. When we experience its depth, it is described as Silence. When awareness becomes aware of itself the result is inner silence. When attention is on external things or in the present moment then it is awareness. When sunlight comes in light of itself, it becomes a bright light. Consciousness needs to awaken in its own light. If awareness or consciousness is not aware about itself then it is not self-meditation. It is mere witnessing of the body and mind. Those who understand will know clearly what pure consciousness feels like. Those who do not understand it yet, will certainlyexperience a eureka effect someday if they keep listening and practicing.At that point you would understand all that has been conveyed all along about inner peace and silence. For consciousness to shine in its own light, it needs help from the body-mind mechanism. Body mind mechanism is a helpful friend. However, body mind mechanism could also become a traitor, if it is not trained and continues to indulge in its patterns and tendencies such as greed, lust, anger, worry, hatred, jealousy, boredom etc. As long as the mind is engaged in these tendencies, the ultimate life purposeof stabilizing in the experience of The Self would not be possible.Not many people have their body mind mechanisms supporting them as a helpful friend?If your body-mind mechanism is not your true helpful friend at this time, you can still make it a helpful friend. No matter what the state of the body mind mechanism is at this time, it can still help you. If there is no understanding, then whatever it does could be a hindrance in knowing the Self. If there are tendencies and patterns in the body mind mechanism, if it is not disciplined, if it engages in lust and attachment, the body becomes a traitor. Give your body mind mechanism true love. The Self(Consciousness) will want to give it true love. Consciousness likes to associate with body mind mechanisms that are free from tendencies, that are filled with bright love, that have a thirst for final Truth. Consciousness likes to associate with enlightened masters, where it is easy to experience itself. If such body mind mechanisms are not available, then The Selfcreates those bodies by giving them self-experience. The role of an enlightened Master is the same - to help other body mind mechanisms become free of tendencies and full of self-awareness by walking the same path that HE walked. Even if this looks difficult, nature creates opportunities for more body mind mechanisms to become free of tendencies and stabilize in The Self. This is part of the divine play. With this understanding, continue meditating without thoughts or chasing the thoughts. Stay in the present moment. Your focus must be on Tejasthan (your heart or feeling center, not the physical heart). If you wander in your head,ask your awareness to come back to your heart center. If the mind still wanders, askthe mind, “Who is meditating?” When you ask thisquestion, all delusional thoughts- thoughts that arise from preconceived notions, false beliefs, old patterns and tendenciesbegin to vanish. Only thoughts of self-experience remain or there is only bright silence.In meditation, you are GOD. You are freedom – the one who sets oneself free. Aham Brahmasmi -Whose actions arise only from the Source, the Truth. The ‘I am’ ness where the ‘I’ or egodissolves and ‘universal I’ prevails. Before you open your eyes after meditating,remind yourself the state you experienced in meditation, the understanding you experienced while in the meditative state, so you do not get lost in the delusional world once you open your eyes. The understanding you gain in meditation does not get lost.Remain in self-awareness even while performing your daily routine. If you forget, remind yourself the Truth. Ask yourself often during the day, what role did you enter into now? Ask yourself every hour, “Who am I now?” Become aware of what happens that leads you to forget your true nature. Once this continuous self-enquiry becomes a habit, you will experience your true identify. You will remember who you are, before and after completing any activity.It will become a part of your being. You will stabilize in meditation.This is true or impersonal service.
This is a story of those times (hypothetically) or rather an analogy or example of those times when the bleating of goats sounded as "Tae Tae" instead of "Mae Mae" (the sound "Mae Mae", onomatopoeically, is considered to be the general sound of a bleating goat).So bleating goats sounded like "Tae Tae" in those times and they were very happy then. There was no need for such self realization workshops for in those times everyone was content and at peace with themselves.
And then a baby goat was born, the kid was very weak. All of you will acknowledge the fact that a weak child requires special care and attention. All the requirements of such a child are fulfilled easily, without the child having to crave for it. Sitting at home he gets all that he desires for. Same was the case with this weak kid; unlike the other kids, he got milk and grass sitting at home without having to venture out, for he was weak. Now gradually the kid starts growing up and as he grows a thought starts taking root in him, a thought which is much different from the thoughts of the other kids. All of you will know how a single thought defines a man's fate, how a single thought can either cause pain and sorrow or relieve one from his misery.
How does a thought spring in one's mind? From what understanding does it spring? Seeing what and hearing what does a thought takes root? What feeling or belief causes a thought to get incepted in the mind? What knowledge or experience causes such an inception in the mind?
The thought is a reflection of your understanding about your life's experiences and feelings. It is your inner state, that determines the creation of thoughts in your mind. And if you are not able to be happy then it must be that your perspective towards your thoughts was not correct.
You must have seen fireworks shoot up in the sky during Diwali (the Indian Festival of lights, this festival celebrates the victory of good over bad by bursting crackers and fireworks). How do you see those fireworks? You see them bursting in the sky, they burst and fuse in the sky, amalgamate with the sky without leaving any trace of their origin and leaving no identification of their own, they do not stick to you rather they blend totally in the sky. Seeing such firework gives you pleasure; leaves a pleasant impression on your mind. But if they stick to you and burst in your hands then they leave an unpleasant impression on you, it gives you pain and leaves a scar from the burn.
After your hands have been burnt if you ask 'why do I get these unpleasant feelings about fireworks?' like one always says, 'why do I get unpleasant feelings because of thoughts?' then you will be told that you have been unable to celebrate Diwali properly; you have forgotten how to burst crackers.
Now that we have grown up, we have forgotten how fireworks appear in the sky; we have forgotten how we used to enjoy seeing those fireworks in our childhood. As we don't get identified with crackers and enjoy the firework, we shall not get identified with our thoughts too.
The festival (Diwali) comes and reminds you how to live life, how to celebrate it; we must celebrate it in such a manner that every day in our lives is like Diwali (the festival of lights). Every thought of "I" is like that cracker, we could see that rise and fuse in the sky of consciousness. If we understand the true essence of the festival and learn to celebrate in the real sense then every day will become Diwali for us, i.e., every day will be as euphoric as the celebration of a festival. This is what is meant by being able to burst fireworks properly.
Coming back to the story of the weak kid; we already know that the kid started feeling special and aloof from others and started bleating as "Mae Mae". Well, "Mae "in Hindi means "I"; so this "Mae Mae" bleating of the kid has an ironic undertone of the kid developing a feeling of being special and separate from others. This feeling of being separate is the "real ego".
Everyone took great care of the kid because it was weak, but so much of extra attention made the kid feel that it is something special. The kid failed to understand that it was getting all this attention due to his shortcomings; instead it started feeling as a V.I.P. (started feeling very special).
Dear Truth Seekers,
Happy Thoughts!
Please close your eyes and be seated in the posture of meditation. Close your eyes. We have to know how to watch the mind and how to learn its behavior. As we cannot see the breeze but with the movement of the leaves we can see its presence. Similarly if you want to see the mind then look at thoughts. Thoughts give the right information about the mind, every thought has to be watched without getting identified. This is the most important stage. This is the stage where there are maximum chances of error. This cannot be understood by watching the thoughts for the first time. So you have to practice thought watching meditation. When we watch movie or a channel on the television initially we notice only a few aspect. When we see the same program for the second time we notice more details. It is same with the mind. But when we watch a movie for the first time our whole attention is focused on our favorite actor or actress. Isn’t it? When we see it for the second time then out attention may shift towards the people in the background. We see details. For thought watching also initially you will understand few things but with practice you will find a gap between two thoughts. One thought has passed, second has not come yet. The gap is there. You can be in that gap. In thoughtless state. So let us start this meditation. Dear Meditator, You have to become the complete meditator. For thought watching meditation, sit in an appropriate posture and take mudra of meditation, dhyan. Body posture should be straight but relaxed. Back bone should be straight, simultaneously you should be relaxed also. There should not be any stress on the back bone. Now relax yourself by taking one or two deep breaths and then releasing them slowly… Take a deep breath and release it slowly… Repeat it for one more time… Let your breathing continue to be as it as present now… At this moment your breathing may be shallow or deep breathing is going on… Be comfortable, natural, however it may be, let it continue the same. Do not control your breathing… Just watch as it goes on… If you control your breathing then it is not meditation, it is pranayam – that is regulation of breathing. Now this is right posture and mudra of complete meditator… Let your eyes be closed… Begin to watch your thoughts now… See, which thoughts are going on inside you… Start watching your thoughts… Keep your attention on your thoughts… Witness them… See your thoughts coming and going… Let the thoughts continue as they are in the normal natural manner. Some thoughts may be positive some may be negative… Some thoughts may be related to the work you do, while some may be of boredom… In every state keep your body steady… There is an interval or gap between the thoughts… One thought goes, another thought comes but there is a gap between these two thoughts… This interval may be the thousandth part of a second or for few second… whatever it may be… keep your attention on that interval… In this interval there is no thought… Everything has stopped or frozen… In this moment everything is silent… Decide in your mind that you will continue knowing silence between two thoughts… continue knowing the silence between two thoughts with the feeling of a witness… Passive witness… Keep inspecting your thoughts… Just as on the TV screen, you watch a program but there is an advertisement strip at the bottom of the screen which rolls horizontally… But you do not worry about those words ad, in the same manner let them roll horizontally… Horizontal thinking may continue but you keep your attention on your program that is silence, an interval, the self… The consciousness… If you miss the gap do not worry, pay attention to the next gap… Keep inspecting yourself… Through the gap between two compartments of the passing train, we can catch a glimpse of the opposite platform. In the same way we can catch a glimpse of the self witnessed through the gap between two thoughts. … … There is no need to pursue or chase the previous thought. Just watch a thought and say ‘Next’… If you get a thought, ‘No thought is coming at all.’ This is also a thought, ‘No thought is coming.’ Then you have to understand that this is also a thought… After seeing it say ‘Next’… As you go on watching thoughts you will also feel the joy of detachment… Detachment from thoughts…
This meditation is of the the primordial question, "Who are you?" or "Who am I?". See the thoughts and your body distinctly separate from you. Go onto yourself and become a self-witness.
The prime aim this meditation is to increase the conviction of your true being and your separateness from the body-mind so that in day to day activities you are able to act with this conviction.
you will know about why you should never underestimate the feeling of hope,it will work miraculously.
Dear Seekers,
Meditation means ‘Don’t fall asleep’... Awaken… The one who awakens should not sleep again. At this time, you are preparing for awakening meditation. For this close your eyes be seated in natural posture. The mudra of your hands, the posture of your body and intention of the mind is a preparation for meditation... The art of awakening by closing your eyes meditation. It is the destination of meditation... Continue awakening meditation… Let your focus be on your experience of being… the experience of being alive… Listen to sounds around you for a few moments. Only after that, go on to the next step… Continue the meditation... After attaining awakening internally, a person remains awakened in outside world too.
He is able to be in harmony with the environment and nature. This awakening helps strengthen the ‘The Inner 90’ (which means character). When this awakening broadens, we will be able to recognise the difference between truth and falsehood. We will be able to identify the falsehood and hypocrisy that's going on in the world and will be able to walk the path of Truth… Being liberated from false beliefs and ignorance, we will head toward the Supreme State… The politics of the world, sorrow, and suffering of body, taunts of people will stop bothering us… Awakening meditation is meant to instil that faith in us with which, being awake, we will be able to live with self-confidence... Being full of faith and as a citizen of the world, we will also become cause for the welfare of the world. Continuing with awakening meditation, you will yourself become an idol… Mankind has always has this question in mind - whether to perform idol worship or not... In meditation, this secret can be unveiled by becoming the… With every sitting let the torch of awakening keep burning. Let it never go off... Let the ones who increase awareness work on every meditation… Different practices, at different times. But the goal - to awaken. In preparation for meditation, sit with this intention alone. From awakening meditation alone does one attain freedom from hell and heaven... liberation from fear and greed… Continue awakening meditation… After few seconds you will open your eyes and help others open theirs… Happy Thoughts!
Editors Note: This is meditation in Hindi language is a guided meditation.
Correct hope gives a relief, not the hollow hope. When you hold the correct hope, it gives relief because faith gets associated with it. When you give words to the ‘Godly thoughts’ then these words then become ‘faith voice’. Godly thoughts also pass through our mind and the thoughts of individual ego (‘I’-ego) also pass through our mind. But to which thoughts we give our voice? When we give voice to the thoughts of ego then it is called, ‘deadly and poisonous voice’. When we give voice to the Godly thoughts, then it is called ‘faith voice’. What has God thought about human? For God, the human is his ultimate creation. God thinks this and if you give your words to this thought and said, ‘I am the ultimate creation of God.’ Then it becomes ‘faith voice’. When you say, ‘God has created me to remain healthy.’ Then it is called ‘faith voice’. This ‘faith voice’ is a medicine. You are not supposed to drink it from the mouth but create it by mouth, by using your words. A man has to give his words to the thoughts of God. That is why mankind is created, to express the qualities of God. What does God wish to see with a human? He wants humans to explore highest possibilities of Love, Peace, and Joy. But what man is saying with his voice, how he uses his words? ‘This is not going to happen’, ‘this is not possible’, ‘I have this problem.’, ‘I am not capable of this’, ‘no one cares for me.’ He keeps on saying this. If you write down all your thoughts in a day you will understand how much of it is ‘faith voice’ and how much is ‘poisonous voice’. So you are supposed to delete the poisonous voice wherever you are using it. What is the way to delete it? Just shift to the ‘faith voice’. You are not supposed to fight with negative words. But repeat the positive words. This will start with the hope. With hope, you will feel relief. Immediately you will feel that now you are connected with God. In which state God wish to see you in? A hopeless state? No, he wishes you to be full of hope. In a hopeless state, you disconnect yourself from God and God tries to tell you, why are you disconnecting yourself from me? God tries to tell you that you have seen something I never created. If you see a figure of ghost where branches of two trees merge with each other. Then God will tell you that he created only two trees, he did not create that Ghost. Similarly, God did not create ego. God created the best creation as a human but then humans started to carry ego that they are better than each other. This is something they are supposed to surrender in front of God. This is the extra thing you are carrying. You are actually supposed to work on what is created for you. Let that grow and blossom. Whenever you are in stress, whenever you face negative thoughts and emotions you are supposed to tell yourself that now you need a relief, you need a reliever. Hope is that reliever. You should always keep the lamp of hope burning. The more focus I keep on it, it’s light will increase. Hope is a starter. If you have taken it then the main course of faith comes in front of you. Then using this ‘faith voice’ you will see miracles in your life. You need to understand the power of hope. Why people said that Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Otherwise, the world which you see in news channels and read about in a newspaper, one could think that this world is not worth living in. How can we live in such a world? We are supposed to keep praising hope and faith and it’s power. We are supposed to keep our focus on hope and faith because we want this in our life.
Close your eyes and sit in a meditative posture. You are about to learn the music of meditation, which very few people know. In this, you pluck one cord and pay attention to the music /vibration it creates, experience it. Here, you play one key on the piano and take a pause before you play the next key.
Experience what happens within, the vibration created. Now the piano is in front of you and press the key. Press the key which has the words ‘who am I?’ written on it…now wait and watch the music that gets created. Around the key on which ’Who am I?’ is written, you will find the keys which says ‘I am a man’ or ‘I am a women’ etc. Press one of those and know the vibration that is created and experience the music …Now again go back and press the ‘who am I’ key…Watch and wait with wonder.
There are some other keys away from the ‘Who am I?’ key where it is written ‘I am Gujarati’, ‘I am Punjabi’, ‘I am Hindu’, ‘I am Muslim’, ‘I am a student’, ‘I am a teacher’, ‘I am a daughter-in-law’, ‘I am a mother-in-law’, ’I am a servant ’,‘I am a boss’. Press these keys … watch and wait … experience the music. Press the key which you find is most suitable for you.
There is one key with your name written on it, press that key too…Press two, three times… See what impression is created….Watch and wait with wonder. Press all keys and experience the music…
Now press a different key which says: ‘I am not the body, I am not any name’, ‘I am not any designation’, ‘I am neither a brother, sister, husband, wife, male, female, small, smart, dull, black or fair etc’… Now experience the music… Wait; watch with wonder.
After all the keys have been pressed, press the first key ‘who am I?’ once again. Ask yourself: ‘who am I?’…Now, if you lightly press the first key then the word ‘who’ would be ignored and only ‘I am’ gets pressed. You will listen to the music of ‘I am’… Listen to it.
Beyond every note played or not played ‘I am’ is there… ‘am’…know the experience that comes from the music…Wait, watch with wonder…Wait, pay attention but with wonder…you are getting the insight of the music. You are becoming a connoisseur… this will happen with practice…
After few moments open your eyes... But until then, listen to the music feel the vibration it created when you pressed the last key………..
Slowly open your eyes.
~ Sirshree (Spiritual, Enlightened Master)
Hope
What is the strength of hope. Hope is that pillar which holds up entire world. We shall contemplate how strong is this hope within us. We shall understand what exactly is hope? Hope is biggest support of time. With hope every tide becomes a shore. Let’s us understand what miracles take place when we invoke hope within us. Let’s start with an example: One day a person bought a house. There were trees in the front yard of this house. The old owner showed entire house to the new owner. In the front yard there was a half cut tree without leaves and it seemed like it was burned. The new buyer asked what is this? The old owner told him that one day this house had got on fire. At that time all trees had caught fire. Later we removed all these trees and planted new trees. This is the only one tree left of that time. When new owners started living in that house, he started to water all these trees. When he looked at that burned tree, a thought came in his mind and he started giving little water to that tree also. It started to grow and one day it once again became a huge tree. Then this new house owner gave a name to this tree – ‘Hope’. After that whenever people used to come to visit his house, he used to show them the full house and finally ask them would they like to meet ‘Hope’? How a little hope in his mind worked and the result was in front of them.
TejGyan is the existential wisdom of the ultimate Truth, which is beyond duality. In today's world, there are a lot of people who feel disharmony and are desperately trying to achieve some balance in an unpredictable life. TejGyan helps them in harmonizing with their true nature, the Self, thereby restoring balance in all aspects of their life. And then there are those who are successful but feel a sense of emptiness or void within. TejGyan provides them fulfillment and helps them to embark on a journey towards Self-Realization. There are others who feel lost and are seeking the meaning of life. TejGyan helps them to realize the true purpose of human life. All this is possible with TejGyan due to a very simple reason. The experience of the ultimate truth is always available. The direct experience of this truth or self-realization is possible provided the right method is known. TejGyan is that method, that understanding. At Tej Gyan Foundation, SirShree imparts this understanding through a System for Wisdom -- a series of retreats that guides participants step by step.
Tej Gyan Foundation (TGF) was established with the mission of Creating a Highly Evolved Society through all-round self development of every individual that transforms all the facets of his/her life. It is a non-profit organization founded on the teachings of SirShree. The foundation has received the ISO Certification (ISO 9001:2008) for its system of imparting wisdom. It has centres all across India as well as in other countries. The motto of Tej Gyan Foundation is 'Happy Thoughts'.
The "Magic of Awakening" Retreat (English) / "Maha Asmani" Shivir (Hindi) is a spiritual journey into the inner space. People travel from different parts of the world to experience the power of this wisdom, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.
This Retreat by SirShree is Self--Realization intensive. It is a unique opportunity for a transformational inquiry into the timeless questions of 'Who am I' and 'Why am I here'. In this retreat you will experience complete freedom from the interruptions of worldly obligations. It is a chance to come in congregation with other individuals with the same intention of genuine spiritual transformation, of attaining the Final Truth. The significant part of the revolutionary event is SirShree's guidance, which awakens the participants to the highest level of consciousness, a new human experience, a great perspective.
Truth Meditation
"You are not the body or mind." is a Truth that spiritual masters have been trying to get across to mankind. Yet man lives with the conviction that he is the body-mind. This meditation is intended as an exercise in experiencing the fact that you are not the body-mind. In a beautiful step-by-step process, Sirshree guides the meditator to experience this universal truth.
In this wonderful discourse on the depth of Hanuman's life. What qualities he demonstrated that we all have to learn from. Here we will look at three of his qualities - strength, intellect & devotion
Breaking the myths on what kind of an intellect we should ask for, Sirshree explains how Hanuman's intellect aided him to devotion and did not increase his ego which most intellectuals fall prey to.
Strength is not just the power of the body, but an inner strength which has to ability to give ceaslessly.
Devotion not just for display, but which is in action.
Do you ever wonder what meditation is and why you need to meditate? Usually when we think of meditation, we think of closing eyes and focusing on breath. Meditation incorrectly implies only focus and concentration on breath. But have you really thought about why you need to close your eyes? What is the point of meditation? What meditation really is?
When asked to sit still and do nothing, most people would find this ‘doing nothing’ very challenging. Everything that happens in the world cannot happen without mind’s help. The question is how aware are we when things are happening. Increasing the level of awareness, leading one all the way to source of awareness is meditation. This is where the mind is completely still. It is an experience of pure presence with no thoughts, therefore, no labels, no judgement, no anticipation, no stress, no anxiety, no fear, just pure sense of being. This is a state of self-realization, that can certainly be experienced with meditation.
During meditation, we close our physical eyes to be able to open our inner eyes. We close our eyes in sleep to refresh and recharge our body-mind-mechanism. We close our eyes in meditation to open our inner eyes and learn the art of seeing the true self. When you don’t have the right understanding about meditation, you may get lost in thoughts. You might spend several minutes meditating with closed eyes, but do not get value out of it because you don’t know what to do, what to see in meditation. Meditation is knowing the one that sees the darkness when you close your eyes. With closed eyes, you might see bright or colorful lights as well, but the one that sees all lights with closed eyes is unaffected by the colors of light. In this meditation, you will go through a profound journey of self-realization by understanding following questions and more: 1. What is true meditation? 2. Why do we really close our eyes during meditation? 3. Who we really are? Are we body, mind or something else? 4. What is our true being? 5. How you can reflect in your daily life to make sure your meditation practices are helping you beyond the time of meditation? 6. How to be mindful of your choices and understand what kind of thoughts are these choices are really coming from?
Meditation means experiencing the sense of being. Meditation is a path for self-realization and experiencing the final truth. This meditation is a tool to quieten the mind and understand the existential truth. The benefits of meditations are usually described as anxiety relief, stress reduction, calm. All these benefits can certainly be experienced, but the greater and true benefit of meditation is manifestation of our true being and expression of creativity in presence of Love, Inner silence and Happiness. When people realize the true reason, and experience the benefits of meditation, they can sit for at least 2 minutes every day and learn to reflect on their daily lives.This video helps us understand importance of meditation in experiencing the final truth. It helps us understand why it is important to drop the mind in meditation in order to achieve self-realization. In our daily lives, we forget to remember our true being. In meditation, as we drop the mind, we experience what we really are.
People take years to understand their truth and sometimes do not even hear about self-stabilization. If they don’t know the essential reason behind meditation, then other than physical benefits, there will not be much that will be attained even after years of practice.In order to experience true benefits, it is essential to learn more about self-realization and grow our readiness to acquire more experience about existential wisdom. It is essential to spend time in practicing meditation to achieve stabilization. This video explains in detail the path to self-stabilization starting from practice of meditation and beyond. In this video, the enlightened master, Sirshree further explains the difference between personal and impersonal thoughts and how to recognize if we are truly present in the moment or not. Among many, one of the key insights is when you experience your sense of presence, become aware of your awareness, you realize you are not the body or the mind. You realize the experience of the sense of presence is not on the body, nor is it in the body, but it is because of the body.
How to live a life of service and devotion. Let us focus and contemplate on the qualities of Hanuman, imbibing them in the process. Hanuman was given the title 'Messenger of Ram'. What greater post can exist!? Two kinds of qualities come through - spiritual and worldly. Among the wordly qualities that foremost was - he was a Leader-gum. Meaning, one who can glue leaders together. Ram is bound to have Leaders for company - Laxman, Sugreev, Vibheeshan who is going to the future king of Lanka. He had the knack of communicating with each as per their personality. The goal was a high one - vanquishing Ravan. A big army is needed with a several leaders and a person who could tie them to-gether. His service was invisible being 'Pavan-putra' (son of the wind). Even then, if Hanuman is removed, the army doesn't look capable of fighting the might army of Ravan. He was very flexible. To illustrate this, there are stories of how he expanded or shrunk his form - to adjust to situations. While flying over the ocean the demon Sursa said, "The gods have sent me a meal today. Come into my mouth." To which Hanuman tried to make her understand, "I am on Ram's errand. I will become your meal on my return." But she was adamant, "You have to come into my mouth atleast once." So Hanuman began to expand his form. Sursa too opened her mouth wider and wider. Hanuman suddenly shrunk to a tiny form and flew in and out of wide open mouth. So the gods too were not displeased. Hanuman was shrewd. A driver needs to be smart and shrewd. Hanuman carries both, Ram and Laxman on his shoulders. So he has to be smart to keep his riders safe. Hanuman brought Ram to meet Sugreev setting an example on protocols to be followed in getting two leaders to meet. On one side was Lord Ram whose work had to get done and on the other side was Sugreev who was the king and his ego had to be managed. He had the quality of taking responsibility and bringing it to its conclusion. Demons like Sursa will come and it is easy to give excuses. But his commitment never wavered from the desired goal. When Hanuman set out to fly accross the ocean, the ocean god brought up Mount Mainak and invited Hanuman to rest a bit as he could be tired. But Hanuman graciously declined and to respect the offer made, he just touched the mountain with reverence and carried on. On a mission as high as Lord ram's comforts and conveniences are bound to come. But we have to just touch them not being attached. Mobile phones, computers, cameras are conveniences to be used in service. But do not be attached to them. Man has a tendency to stop and enjoy comforts and conveniences. When you take big responsibilities, comprts and conveniences are given to help. But let these be a boon for you and not a curse. Then there was the demon Sinhaka, who would catch hold of the shadow of whatever was flying over the ocean and make the fyling creature immobile and fall into the ocean. She would then devour it. She did the same to Hanuman, but he was not trapped. To catch the shadow means, to appease the ego. Shadow is such a thing which actually does not exist. It is a result of light (or grace) falling on an object but not reaching the object below. It is not there, but is visible. The ego is apparent but does not exist. The feeling of individual identy is felt, but does not exist. So when people praise the ego saying, "How beautiful is your form"..., etc. such a person gets trapped. So whenever you are praised as an individual identity, understand that Sinhaka has come to catch your shadow. Do not get trapped. Hanuman vanquished this demon too and move ahead. Later in the story, rocks floated on water when the word 'Ram' was written on them. Ram too placed a rock in the water, but it sank. So Ram remarked, "Oh the rock that I wrote 'Ram' on sank. So the Ram that I thought about was someone else." To which Hanuman replied, "Oh Lord! Who ever you let go of is bound to drown." One night, Ram looked at the moon and asked everyone who had assembled what they saw in the moon. Several different answers emerged, describing the beauty of the moon, the light of it on the mountains, the waters, etc. When Hanuman was asked, he said, "I see only Ram. The moon is only a mirror to reflect the reality of Ram." Thus Hanuman demonstrated various qualities on how a devotee should be service. Let not the mind get an excuse that only great souls or incarnations can do great deeds. The possibility of lies even within us where devotion can arise and our body can become a temple like Hanuman's.
Dear Jains,
A thought may have occurred to some, "We are not Jains. We are Hindus... Buddhists... Muslims or Christians." This happens because with time, we take words at their face value. We stop looking for the intention, the meaning of the word. "Whoever brings the mind and senses under their control are called Jains. So, on this Earth all those who have their minds under their control are Jains and all those who don't are non-Jains. The right method of paying homage to Lord Mahavir, through whom the knowledge of 'Kaivalya' reached people, is to attain what he attained - Self mastery over mind and body. So whoever rises from lower to higher and brings his / her mind under control and attains 'Kaivalya' knowledge is Mahavir. About 2600 years ago, a son was born to Siddharth and his wife Trishala who went on to be called Mahavir later. When we say, Mahavir's birth day, understand that Mahavir is neither born nor dies. And remember that Mahavir is not a name, but the work or the quality that expressed through the body. Mahavir means supreme courage. People also celebrate Mahavir's birth anniversary as forgiveness day. But who is able to forgive? First things first. Attain that which Mahavir attained due to which compassion became natural to Mahavir. How did the feelings of forgiveness, friendliness, equanimity emerge from that body? What was attained there? Following just rituals with the feeling, 'I' forgave the 'other' is of no use. One never understands that "When you forgive and did a favour to yourself. You forgave the other because the other was you alone. You forgave the other because the other never made any mistake. There was no need for forgiveness." But to understand this one needs to see that there was no mistake ever committed. This is possible to one who has attained the higher understanding where one sees that some are made to commit 'mistakes' so that the game on Earth moves forward. But before this understanding has dawned, one needs to forgive. "Those who forgive others are forgiven for their mistakes." Mahavir says, "Non-violence is true religion." Even at a subtle level, when you are proving another wrong, you are committing violence. A Jain will not say the other's path is wrong. So let us contemplate on which are the areas where subtle violence takes place by us which takes us away from the path of winning over the mind. From his school days till youth, Mahavir worked on self mastery. Many do not even attain self control in their old age. They do not have control on their speech and keep muttering, traumatising everyone at home. Even wanting to stop they are unable to. One with foresight will think of it in his youth itself. "My old age should be such that people want to live with me." Youth is a opportunity before old age sets in. People will want to benefit from your knowledge of life. This is possible with many small experiments with small intentions everyday. One does not become a Mahavir in a day. Your future life will be very beautiful. You will feel your inner strength and self confidence.
The path of Mahavir was that of intentions and vows. He vowed to stay away from sinful activities and not to indulge in any such activity due to which his freedom is compromised. One who thinks himself to be the body, becomes a slave of everything that provides for his body.
The wise one will contemplate the consequences of his every action. Mahavir walked this path. Then he undertook 5 vows. First was non-violence. In depth, unconditional-love is the same as height of non-violence. What happened that non-violence, friendliness, compassion meditation, silence or dance and songs of devotion were the result... Books, scriptures like the Gita, Koran, Bible were written... Abhangs, poems were written... Song of God emerged. What understanding emerged... what feeling of submission awoke... what individual identity fell... If we attain that state, then non-violence is its result. A person who really wants to practice non-violence will concentrate on what it is that one has to learn and what it is that one has to see in the other that violence never happens through me. Only love emerges. So first things first. First bring about this understanding. Mahavir said, first work on practices and strive for understanding so that unconsciousness is broken. Then came abstinence from theft, breaking the habit of hoarding. Learn to live with as little things as possible.
Man wakes up in the morning where the world jumps on to his awareness. In deep sleep man is with his serene true nature. But re-remembering that true nature in the waking state is called meditation. The goal is for this true nature, clouded by sense perception and world induced concepts, to re-emerge and express itself.
For this to happen, one needs to practice re-remembering this pure state of being. Do this to the Re-remembrance Meditation.
When an incident happens in Life, there is a change A change in the arrangement, state of things, environment.
Change is actually beautiful. But humans do not know this. No sooner there is change, a resistance is born from within. You wonder why you are inconvenienced when change occurs. It is because the mind says "This should not happen." to whatever is happening. If there is ignorance, the mind will talk. The mind is nothing but a talking disease. It will keep pestering you... "Hey! do something. Why are still not doing anything?.. Do u not understand?..." How flustered will you be if every disease begins to speak? It is the commenting mind that is the cause of unhappiness. By itself, no incident is the cause of suffering. It is how the incident is seen, what is added to it... that is the problem. If you stop adding anything to an incident... your suffering is gone. When emotion is added to an incident, it becomes a problem. Till then there is no problem.
Accept change because change is good and beautiful. But if we are not convinced, we cannot accept it. So ask, "Can I accept this?". This can mean change in the weather, the arrangements, nature of people staying with you...
But the question remains... Is change good? A doctor said to a patient, "I will give you a medicine which will make you young again." The patient responds, "No.. no.. don't do that. It will stop my pension." See how beautiful the proposed change is. But what is man seeing.... pension. Humans have held on to something which they don't want to leave. Small conveniences which they do not want to leave. Hence there is a quote which says, "Safeguard you big dreams from your small desires." What is your big dream?... That of freedom... that of happiness... that of living in the present... to live being the one I really am according my true nature. What a wonderful dream! But what are the small desires?... your favorite program on TV. Some calls you saying, "Lets go for today's discourse on true happiness." ... "No. Today is the cricket match." So people have small desires which are more alluring. A person is stuck to Pension. But what a massive change was becoming youthful again. Being youthful means the one who is lively, awareness. Those who possess wealth are rich... those who possess compassion are benefactors... those who are alive and aware are called youth. The person was going to acquire liveliness again. But a small convenience made him reject it.
When recession sets into the market, or a person is transferred to another department, another project... complaints begin immediately. Wait! Don't conclude and label the incident as bad immediately. Because there is something new coming. Learn to welcome and recognize the new.
Within us too the 'Experience of being' is ever fresh and new. We have stopped looking at it - "Must be the same boring emptiness." But now a new training is being given. Look for the new and welcome it.
Change is good. Good is God. Change has not come to bind you. It has come to free you. The inset of a disease or even death is a change. The gross body is destroyed and the journey continues with the subtle body. But human are so grief stricken on some one's death. An infant grows into childhood. Do you lament this change? No. Then the child grows to adolescence... to youth... to middle age... old age. Now the old man has changed to a subtle body - the next phase. That person wants to tell us not to grieve for him. But he is not able to do so as his journey is on in another frequency of existence.
Nature is continuously guiding us through change. People think of retaliating to change. They look for a reason. "Who was responsible.... my neighbor.. boss... mother in law... daughter in law... colleague... etc. "That person had slapped me 10 years ago. I will retaliate." But the truth is, that person had hit your body in one moment. But you have mentally slapped yourself for 10 years thinking about it. Who is more cruel? You or him?" Man has stories about how things should be. How people should behave. He sees every incident with the specs of these stories.
But when man looks without these spectacles, for the first time he will see things as they truely are. So the way forward is to look at everything non judgingly. "Why did a person do this?... Because he did it." There is no other meaning to an incident. So stories and emotions stop colouring man's vision. Incidents stopped becoming problems and change became beautiful. Not knowing this people blame fate, God, past lives,.. It is the habit of the mind to fix blame. Don't fix a blame. Look at change with a new perspective. Your peace should remain intact with change. With every change just say, "Let things happen according to my divine plan."
Everything has been briefly explained, but it has great depth. Work on it in our worldly life. Change the thought that change should not happen. New dimensions will come into your life.
Feeling the Self, disregarding the form of the body. This meditation is a practice to know your true presence disregarding the experience of your body. It is the knack of distinguishing the experience of the body from the experience of being you.
Learn the art of knowing this even when the feeling of your body and mind are overbearing.
TejGyan is the existential wisdom of the ultimate Truth, which is beyond duality. In today's world, there are a lot of people who feel disharmony and are desperately trying to achieve some balance in an unpredictable life. TejGyan helps them in harmonizing with their true nature, the Self, thereby restoring balance in all aspects of their life. And then there are those who are successful but feel a sense of emptiness or void within. TejGyan provides them fulfillment and helps them to embark on a journey towards Self-Realization. There are others who feel lost and are seeking the meaning of life. TejGyan helps them to realize the true purpose of human life. All this is possible with TejGyan due to a very simple reason. The experience of the ultimate truth is always available. The direct experience of this truth or self-realization is possible provided the right method is known. TejGyan is that method, that understanding. At Tej Gyan Foundation, SirShree imparts this understanding through a System for Wisdom -- a series of retreats that guides participants step by step.
Tej Gyan Foundation (TGF) was established with the mission of Creating a Highly Evolved Society through all-round self development of every individual that transforms all the facets of his/her life. It is a non-profit organization founded on the teachings of SirShree. The foundation has received the ISO Certification (ISO 9001:2008) for its system of imparting wisdom. It has centres all across India as well as in other countries. The motto of Tej Gyan Foundation is 'Happy Thoughts'.
The "Magic of Awakening" Retreat (English) / "Maha Aasmani" Shivir (Hindi) is a spiritual journey into the inner space. People travel from different parts of the world to experience the power of this wisdom, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.
This Retreat by SirShree is Self--Realization intensive. It is a unique opportunity for a transformational inquiry into the timeless questions of 'Who am I' and 'Why am I here'. In this retreat you will experience complete freedom from the interruptions of worldly obligations. It is a chance to come in congregation with other individuals with the same intention of genuine spiritual transformation, of attaining the Final Truth. The significant part of the revolutionary event is SirShree's guidance, which awakens the participants to the highest level of consciousness, a new human experience, a great perspective.
This beautiful meditation combines power of prayer, intention of awakening and the breath. This synchronizes your awareness of your being with that of the breath, making you a conduit for the flow of divine energy. Keep the intention of awakening with incoming breath and the feeling of gratitude with the outgoing breath. The incoming breath serves is increasing awareness and awakening the real you. For this awakening express your gratitude with the outgoing breath. Enhance the power of prayer of living as the one you truly are. The feeling of gratitude brings completeness to the prayer.
Good Friday to some is not so good as they remember the violence meted to Christ and mourn the day. It is good for some who remember the teachings of Christ. But, beyond good and bad, very few understand this day as God Friday.
Jesus performed miracles in his life time for the sake of others by curing the ill, even in a case, restoring life to the dead. But when crucified, what miracle did Christ perform by not performing any magic. To gauge the depth of this most significant of Christ's deeds, lets understand this analogy.
There were three magicians, 'A' aged 55, 'B' aged 44 and 'C' aged 33. All the three have been sent to different places. They have been instructed to perform their magic so that the seed of 'Truth' is sown in a 100 people by each of them. After reaching the 100th person is whom the seed is sown they are to stop their magic and not use it anymore.
'A' diligently completed displaying magic till the seed of Truth was sown in a 100 people. But soon, his home caught fire while he was asleep. He woke saw no route to escape. So he performed magic and escaped. However, he could not fulfil the instruction to stop magic at 100. When father asked, "Why did you not stop?" he said, "What could I have done? There was no way out. The blaze was intense and I could not have survived it?" People normally have reasons for everything that they do not follow and all perfectly logical. But the purpose of coming to Earth remained unfulfilled. 'B' too touched a hundred people. But he faced even greater adversities. There was a flood which submerged his home and he was stuck in a thunder storm with lightning striking all around him. So he too performed magic and survived. When he returned, father asked, "Why did you not stop at 100?" He too explained in graphic detail, the reasons for his actions.
Father said "Ok." No arguments are made with people who give reasons.
Now when 'C' touched 100 people, there was an earthquake and the earth below him split. His body was wedged in the slit and rocks began to fall from above. But he performed no magic. He stopped as instructed.
'A' and 'B' had magic powers and used them to as instructed when things were smooth sailing. But when things got rough, they lacked inner strength continue following instructions. "How could we know what's in store for us on Earth? How could we know the pains in relationships? How could we know the hot sun...?"So do people complain.
But 'C' was Christ. He performed the greatest miracle when on the crucified on the cross. The miracle was that of "Inner strength" where he performed no magic. People were expecting him to perform a miracle when on the cross and come out of the torture and injustice that they saw. But they were looking for magic as a miracle. When Christ prayed to the Father, "Forgive them for they know not what they are doing." No one saw the miracle of inner strength. His prayer had two dimensions. The first indicated the foolishness of the pursuit of the torturers. How can one bury the shadow of someone? The body is not Christ. The other is, they do not know the consequence of their deeds done with a body expressing the highest consciousness. So they need to be forgiven.
Which is a greater miracle? - When God performs miracles to save man, OR When man performs an action to obey the will of God? The circumstances created for the crucification came about from Nature which can never happen without the will of God. Jesus accepted it as the will of God and said, "Oh Father! Thy will be done." Understand that there was none and is none even today who would have faulted Christ has he performed magic to save his body when being crucified. None could have found fault as it was logically perfect to do so. But when inner strength reaches heights, deeds beyond one's comprehension are done and leave a lesson for all, taking the consciousness of the world to an entirely new level. It comes in the teachings of Christ - "The seed has to die in the ground to give life to the tree." Jesus accepted death and hence became life. The body of Christ was alive with Christ consciousness again after 3 days on Easter Sunday and stayed with and guided his disciples for another 40 days.
It is a lesson for the youth of today to ready themselves with such inner strength that they are able to continue what they originally intended, whatever be the adversities on the path. Only then can they ready themselves for such deeds which can vindicate the statement, "I was able to fulfil the purpose of my human birth."
Peace here is not just the absence of conflict. It is the undisturbed source of all creation. So invite peace to bring peace in all aspects of life by saying Good Morning Peace. With regular practice of this meditation, unconditional joy will begin to express in your life.
You all are guests on the planet earth. Every person is a guest on this earth. If every person is a guest, then a question arises who is the host? We all are guests of ‘The Great’. If we could see the house of ‘The Great’ as it is then our way of living in this house will change completely. Our everyday activities will change. When we go as a guest to someone’s house then how do we live there? Do we think like this is my room and no one shall enter in my room? We never say this because we are always aware that we are the guest here. What kind of house is it? The floor of this house is with square tiles of black and white colour. The floor design reminds us of the game chess. People walk on this floor which gives them happiness and sorrow. If they have understanding why they have come on this floor then this very floor will become a reason for happiness and it will become a way of expressing their true self. But if you don’t have this understanding, you will see problems in your life. The first secret of life is related to problems. Man thinks there are many problems in his life. But in reality, there is only one problem. To perceive any incident in life as a problem is the only problem. When you say a word ‘Problem’, you actually get stuck in your own word. Whenever you try to explain your situation or feeling by using words like, I was scared, I was shocked, I felt insecure. You get stuck in your own word. Because when you use such words then because of these words you start feeling that way. So be very careful while using words for your feelings. Suppose you said, ‘I was feeling insecure’. Instead of that you could have said, ‘I was feeling that I should take precaution here.’ This makes the difference. When you give correct words to your feelings they don’t make you feel bad. When you use negative words you start feeling that way. So whenever you are trying to give a word to your feelings, stop for a moment and give correct word. If you give correct word then you will be saved from lot of sorrow. Whenever a problem comes give correct words and shift from that feeling to faith. Because all these negative feelings come just to tell you that something unusual is happening. Feeling just tells something good or bad is happening. The role of feeling is to communicate about a state or a situation. The role of faith is to control that state or that situation. Just as the thermometer communicates about the temperature but faith controls the temperature, it is a medicine which heals. Faith is temperature controller. So don’t stop to the feeling only go to the next step of faith. Man has reach only to the feelings on his body. He is not aware of the ‘Tejguru’ feeling which is beyond a body. So he gets stuck in these feelings only. So you need to take next step and use faith. Repeat the mantra with faith, ‘I can handle this problem. I already have strength and capability to handle this problem’. When you repeat this mantra you come out of that negative feeling. After that remind yourself about hidden secrets in every problem. You can remember these with five fingers of a hand. 1-Solution (baby finger) – Baby finger smallest finger and it represents correctly the fine nature of the solution which you need to search. ‘Every problem has its solution attached to it’. Nature has provided a solution to every problem in that problem itself. 2-Gift (Ring finger): The second secret is a gift. You are not supposed to come across any conclusion immediately when a problem comes in your life. After a period of time when the scene unfolds completely many could see the gift and they say whatever happened in their life it was for the good. 3-Ladder for growth (Middle finger): Problems are like ladders in your life, they are stepping stones or a springboard with the help of which you can reach the peaks of growth and success. 4-Teaching (Index finger): Every problem is a teacher. You also need to understand from problems, what lesson life is trying to teach me with this incident or problem. Everyone needs to learn their lessons on earth. Problems help you learn your lessons. 5-Challenge (Thumb): When you play a game called carom, you never say why am I suppose to play in these two lines only. This limitation or challenge is given to improve your skills. This is what makes the game interesting and brings happiness. If you could see every problem in your life in this way, then problems in your life won’t remain problems anymore.
Q: What can we do today about the negative thoughts that we have entertained in the past, the arrows that have been shot, whatever wrong orders that we have placed in the past?
Answer: For those orders you are not suppose to do anything directly. At that time right after placing such negative orders (through negative thoughts or saying negative words) you could have said, ‘cancel, cancel, cancel’ to cancel these orders. But now these orders of past are like the arrows which have been shot. But now you can start working on what you want now! At that time there was ignorance. But now, whatever solution you think is applicable for current situation, start working on that. Suppose a bottle of milk is broken, then the actionable thing is to collect and clear pieces of glass to avoid someone getting hurt. The actionable thing is to avoid further damage or repair whatever is possible. This is the actionable thing. Start working on that. Also start giving new orders in your life. If some wrong people have come in your life like, mother in law, daughter in law, husband, wife, neighbors, boss etc… These people have come because you have given orders in the past. People give such orders by watching television. Consider example of a girl watching a television show, while watching that show thoughts run in her mind, if I get such mother in law and she says something like this, I will react in this way. I will teach her a lesson. Same is the thing with a mother of a son who thinks, if I get such daughter in law, I will do this and that to teach her a lesson. They don’t realize these thoughts are the orders they are placing for their future. To watch such TV serials there shall be eligibility criteria. Everyone shall not watch these shows. Likewise there are many sick people who watch news channels. Consider a sick person lying on the bed in hospital with his one leg hung and watching the news… He needs to look at his situation, what these news channels has brought in his life. What more evidence does he wants? At least now he shall start watching something sensible. People who often fall sick or who have habit of getting in the fights shall be more careful with TV shows, what to watch and what not to watch. Because after watching these programs they just give repeat orders which will further attract sickness or situations of fights in their life. They don’t realize this. Whatever are your past orders ignore them. But now you can do something because of which when these old orders will start manifesting in your life you won’t feel their effect or it will be felt very mild. This can be done. Suppose because of your past orders you remain sick today but what is your new order now? Suppose you have poor digestive system, so your new order can be, ‘Now I want my digestive system to be very strong and healthy, now I can digest anything’. What will happen after this new order? If your old orders begins to show their effect you won’t feel it or you will feel little pain or discomfort because you have become so strong. Suppose you are sitting in the meditation and old orders began to show their effect, your body started feeling pain but all these pains reminded you of the experience of self. So what happened? All old orders came and went but you only enjoyed them because you were in meditation. You also took benefit from them. You converted these orders in the ladder of growth. So don’t just keep crying that you gave negative orders in past. If a girl is thinking that she has watched so many TV serials and unconsciously ordered so many negative things and now is worrying about her future life, how it will be after marriage. Then she is just suppose to start ordering correct things now, so even if her old orders manifest she won’t notice them. This is how you will be able to take full benefit of ‘Thought Rules’.
Close your eyes… Ask, 'What am I holding on to in my mind, that I should let them go?…, what are those desires… the time has come to let them go… Ask, 'Is it ok to let go?', 'Can I allow myself to let go of them, be they right or wrong?' See what answer emerges… 'Yes, I can allow to let go.'
After letting go of these desires, whatever is truly yours will come back to you and the things which are not yours will get dissolved smoothly, leaving behind peace. So don't hesitate to let go… There is nothing to lose. To gain, there is the whole world, the entire universe…
Ask, 'What is it that I don't want to see? A particular color, mess, crying child, fashion which I don't like, others being rewarded in front of me or any such desire which is related to watching'. Now ask yourself, can I let go of these? Can I allow people to wear clothes according to their choice, let them win in their way? The answer will be 'Yes, I can allow; I can let go.' Now tell yourself, 'Let go of these desires'. Close your fist and open it slowly saying 'Let go.., Let go.., Let go..', symbolically releasing these desires.
Ask yourself, 'What is it that I don't want to hear?' Harsh voice, someone speaking ill about me, noise, barking dogs… The desire could be very subtle, but identify it. For what does the mind say, 'I cannot listen this.'? Now ask yourself, 'Can I let go of these desires?' The answer will be, 'Yes, I can let go of these desires.' Tell yourself, 'Let go of these desires'. Close your fist and open it slowly saying 'Let go.., Let go.., Let go..'
Do the same exercise with – Tastes, Smells, Touch (I like and I dislike, can I let go of both desires?)
Do the same exercise with your desires related to work. Desires like, I should accomplish this task, I should not make any mistake, no one should put obstacles in my tasks etc… Then ask yourself, can I allow myself to let go of these desires? The control I seek over everything, the desire that everything should take place as per my planning, can I allow myself to be free from this desire? Can I let go? Remember here that, if you let go; you will be free and your self-expression in the work will improve. You will be able to work better with open mind and open heart… In the absence of inner resistance created by these desires, you will be able to think better and you can explore the best possibilities… Now tell yourself, 'Let go of these desires'. Close your fist and open it slowly saying 'Let go.., Let go.., Let go..'
Do the same with your thoughts. Desires like I should not get thoughts of depression, fear, hopelessness, etc… Can I allow myself to feel fear? Can I let go of these desires related to thoughts? Now tell yourself, 'Let go of these desires'. Close your fist and open it slowly saying 'Let go.., Let go.., Let go..'
When you let go of these desires, the mind will also let go of the diseases related to these. Because when you keep holding these desires and events take place opposite to them, resistance is felt within body which then creates diseases. Let there be no resistance in the body, let there be free flow everywhere. You need not worry if you let go of any positive desire that you will lose something important. Because, whatever is yours will come back to you multifold…
When you let go of all desires, new life will begin from a liberated state.
Continue this meditation for some time and open your eyes…
Goal for April: Special Goal: The Three Birds The goal for march is 'Special Feeling'. Understand this through an analogy. You are walking through a maze and the goal is reach the end to come out of it. On your left shoulder is seated a talkative parrot. On your head is seated a wood-pecker. The parrot is constantly chattering and misleading you. It says "Go left... Oh! why did u turn here... now lift the stone." You lift the stone and a snake comes at you. It is symbolic of your talkative mind which constantly clouds your vision with misleading talk based on wrong impressions it has gathered through the years. Then there is the woodpecker on your head which at times pecks your head. This triggers some seat of emotion or pain in your body which inconveniences you greatly. Now the goal of solving the maze is left aside and you are left fighting the trouble caused by the parrot and woodpecker. This is the story of your life. But there is also a Cuckoo seated on your right shoulder. Check whether it has stopped singing because no one is listening. Whenever the parrot chatters or the woodpecker pecks, indicate to the Cuckoo to sing in praise. This song represents Amazement, Happiness and Admiration. So look around in nature to see what is amazing in this experience in the present. Now the parrot stops chattering about the past and the future. It has nothing to say in the present. The feeling of happiness which is independent of any occurrence is always within you. Awaken it. The emotion that had arisen is also temporary and dies away as you observe it without fighting it. Nothing else remains than the admiration of how beautiful everything around is. Your feeling is not 'Ouch' but 'AHA!' (Amazement, Happiness and Admiration).
Know the feeling of your existence, the feeling of 'I am' through this Guided Meditation. Just as the eye know's its existence when it encounters sights, so also unravel what it is that reveals your existence through this meditation.
The missing link in most meditations is knowing the knower. There are several practices to know your surroundings and your body-mind through awareness. They all have their benefits. But the true purpose of meditation is to know the knower, experience the knower.
Power of Happy Thoughts - You Become What You Focus On Only humans have the capability of thinking because of their prowess in language that allows interpretation of thoughts into words and sentences. Animals don’t have that capability. Also, human beings are the only species that can control and regulate breath and thoughts. Animals or any other species cannot do that. Pranayama is used to regulate and control breath, similarly thought rules are a way to regulate and control your life and attract things in your life based on your thoughts. The value/quality of your life, your relationships, events is directly related to the quality of your thoughts. You become what you focus on. Therefore, focus on what you want in your life with a clear understanding of thought rules. The senses that you experience everyday tells you of the presence of life force. Sounds tell you about ears, sights tell you about eyes, smells tell you about nose, taste of tells you about tongue, the sense of touch tells you about body. Similarly, Thoughts tell you that you are alive. Therefore, thoughts are the most valuable gift you have received. Try looking at thoughts as an asset instead of a burden or cause of misery. If you consistently focus on all your senses and thoughts, you are bound to experience the self that is behind the body mind mechanism. The purpose of body and mind is to lead you to that experience of self-realization.
Man thinks there are many problems in his life. But in reality, there is only one problem. To perceive any incident in life as a problem is the only problem. If he solves this problem, his all problems will dissolve. There are 5 secrets hidden in every so called problem. We will remember these five secrets with the help of our five fingers of a hand. 1-Solution (baby finger) – Baby finger smallest finger and it represents correctly the fine nature of the solution which you need to search. ‘Every problem has its solution attached to it’. For example, one day a person lost his horse. He gave the advertisement that whoever finds his horse will be rewarded with 500 bucks. Many people tried but no one could find it. Finally, one boy found that horse. When he was asked, how he could find it he said, he simply thought where would he go if he was a horse. He went there and the horse was present there. See, the solution was in the problem itself. Let’s consider another example, A man with a flat tire of his car was trying to change the tire but while changing all four nuts of the wheel slipped in the gutter along the road. Now he was anxiously thinking how he can solve this problem. A boy was passing by, he stopped and asked what was the matter. That man explained him the situation. The boy said the solution is simple. Use 1 nut from all three remaining wheels and fix the fourth wheel. With 3 nuts a wheel can work, at least till the next service station. See, the car had the problem and the solution was inside the car itself. Those nuts were not brought from outside. Some fruits don’t suit well to some people. The solution to this problem is also in those fruits only. People who know this they know how to eat such fruits, they eat the fruit with peel or they chew its seeds afterward to avoid any problem. So nature has provided a solution to every problem in that problem itself. In Mahabharat, you know Bhishma Pitamaha was a great warrior. The problem in front of Pandawas was how he can be killed. Without defeating him it was not possible to win the war. So what solution did Lord Krishna provided? Lord Krishna said, ask him how he can be killed. When he was asked, he told, he cannot use a weapon against any women. Then Shikhandi was brought to kill him in the chariot of Arjuna… You know these stories. If you can go in shoes of your enemy and understand why he is behaving that way and remove hatred from his heart, he won’t be your enemy anymore. This is also a way to get rid of your enemy. So there is always a solution inside problem itself. 2-Gift (Ring finger): Second secret is a gift. There is always a gift in every problem. A problem comes in your life to deliver that gift. But in the ignorance person can remain in sorrow for a long time. You are not supposed to come across any conclusion immediately when a problem comes in your life. After a period of time when the scene unfolds completely many could see the gift and they say whatever happened in their life it was for the good. 3-Ladder for growth (Middle finger): Problems are like ladders in your life, they are stepping stones or a springboard with the help of which you can reach the peaks of growth and success. Problems compel you to contemplate on life. The problem comes to awaken you. 4-Teaching (Index finger): Every problem is a teacher. The index finger is a reminder of teaching. You also need to understand from problems, what lesson life is trying to teach me with this incident or problem. Everyone needs to learn their lessons on earth. Problems help you learn your lessons. 5-Challenge (Thumb): When you play a game called carom, you never say why am I suppose to play in these two lines only. This limitation or challenge is given to improve your skills. This is what makes the game interesting and brings happiness. Do you ever say why am I suppose to remain inside one body only? why I cannot go out of it? As you accept the limitation of two lines on carom board, you also need to accept the limitations in the form of problems in your life. Handicapped people can accept this limitation as a challenge. And those who don’t have such challenge are supposed to consider this as their responsibility. Because those who get free from their problems, they take responsibility of problems of others. If you could see every problem in your life in this way, then problems in your life won’t remain problems anymore. The one problem of your life will be solved! Thank you for giving this opportunity to serve… Happy Thoughts!
What is it to become empty - The Supreme Zero?
There are 10 priorities in the shopping list of man's life. The eleventh is to become empty. This moves up in priority when man begins to understand what it is to become empty.
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