What is Easy? What is Difficult?

It is easier to follow the crowd they say. But, is that true?
Doing what everyone else is doing, not even realising what you enjoy doing.
Leaving ourselves doing the same mundane things everyday. That drains all the energy in us and dulls the mind, don’t you think?

On the other hand, being different might save more energy. At least you are at peace with yourself. And when you reach your goal, after all the effort, there is an inner bliss. It surely isn’t easy, but surely it is not hard, it just makes us strong and believe in our innerself more.

Sometimes it gets lonely, because people won’t understand what you are doing. Maybe, there is a lesson in that too. Hope is the closest friend we could have. At the end of the day, things do turn out for the best, losing hope, that is what makes it difficult.

The loneliness might not be so bad, you get time to connect to your innerself, become aware of your thought patterns, your habits. You get time to work on yourself, open yourself to new things, find your true self.

Easy is difficult and difficult is easy it seems!

Love and Light

Candle Lit Evenings

“Child you must meditate more. Your gaze is not yet faultless. You could not see me hiding behind the sunlight.” With these words resonating in my mind, we stood in the garden chanting and celebrating the day Maha avtar Babaji appeared to our guru, Paramhansa Yogananda.

As the vibrations of Om Namoh Vasudeva filled the universe inside us, up above the skies decided to sing our tune. Black clouds covering our heads lighting striking, our eyes full of tears with devotion; the thunder accompanied us. It waited till the procession ended to start pouring. Drops from heaven wiping our tears away, blessed our open hearts.

An evening full of blessings with in and without is always special.

Love and light.

Tune It Up

Tuning the radio in the car, trying to find a frequency to listen to something I want to. Not realising that the antenna is not out me but inside. We are always in tune with something or the other, that is what determines our thoughts. So, the thoughts we like and even the ones we don’t like are because we have tuned into them. But, thoughts are what comes to OUR mind we might think. They are our thoughts our ideas. What if, that is not true? What if that is just a way for the ego to fool us?

Thoughts are universally rooted. That is how we get along along with people, oh he thinks like me, oh she thinks like me. Is it even possible? Well, you know how now! You are just tuned into the same frequency!

Now, it is up to us to choose which frequency to tune into, what we want to think about, what we want to surround our-self with and what we want the world around us to look like. 

Funny isn’t it! Giving credit to ourselves for the things we thought all these years, to suddenly realise that they aren’t ours at all!

Must leave you with this beautiful thought on a beautiful day!
Love and Light!

Lost and Found

It is a blessing to be born in a religion but a curse to die in one –  Swami Vivekananda

While reading the 40 rules of love, A few things dawned on me today.
The passage went as follows:

The flood of noah lasted forty days, and while the waters destroyed life, they washed all impurity away and enabled human beings to make a fresh new start. In Islamic mysticism there are forty degrees between man and god. Likewise, there are four basic stages of consciousness and ten degrees in each, making forty degrees in total. Jesus went into wilderness for forty days and nights. Muhammad was forty years old when he received the call to become a prophet. Buddha meditated under a linden tree for forty days. Not to mention the forty rules of Shams.

The four stages of consciousness is what caught my attention.
These stages of consciousness is what determined the cast system, before it became so rigid.
If you were born with a high consciousness and wanted to find God, they called you a Brahmin.
If the fire in your was very strong, they called you a kshatriya.
If you had a slightly more materialistic consciousness and managed to materially manifest your thoughts and products, they called you a vaishya.
Lastly, if you were good at service, they called you a shudra.

None of these were higher or lower than the rest. All are equally need for the functioning of the world. If everyone sat in meditation all day long and merged back with the universe, how would the world function? We are all born with different roles, each life has different tasks, at the end the soul does merge back, but after how many lives? Well it’s different for each one, we are all on a different journey. We shouldn’t be too proud of the path we are on today, who knows, we could have been a murderer in one of our lives.
It was only in Kali Yuga when people lost their connection with the higher self and the caste system became what is wasn’t supposed to be.

The other thing that intrigued me in the book was when Shams talks about how different muslims and sufis are. He says, scholars who focus on sharia know the outer meanings. Sufis know the inner meaning. Saints know the inner of the inner. And as for the fourth level, that is only by prophets and those close to God.

This is true for every religion to think of it. They have the sufis, Hindus have the yogis and Christians have the Molokons. Then ofcourse there are Buddhists. They are all looking for the same thing in their own ways. How boring would it be to have everyone do the same thing?

To end this post I just want to add another quote from this book.
No matter who we are or where we live. deep inside we all feel incomplete. It’s like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what something is most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.

Love and Light.

Ego and Soul

The last time I spoke about the the 7 levels of existence and the mind.

Since then, so much has happened which got me closer to my self. All that that made me realise that this is where I wanted to be, I have reached the stage where I am happy with myself and everything else just nothing but an addition.

I sat down and went through my entire life and got the the process of how I got there.

It is said, that the purest souls go though a lot pain.
Why?
Because pain breaks the ego. Human soul suffering is not a sign of god’s anger with mankind, it is man’s ignorance to the divine law.
What is Ego?
It is the resister. It will separate you from everything and everyone around you and even from yourself.
Blame is the result of ego.
You will notice that when you are irritated with yourself, everyone around you will irritate you. But, we will never look into ourselves, the ego won’t let us. It will BLAME everyone else around you. It will prevent you from introspecting, learning and growing.
Blame is also a funny thing, if you blame someone you take away their bad karma, if someone blames you, they take away your bad karma (so you should totally be thrilled about being blamed), if you blame yourself, well that is the worst, you end up adding a ton of bad karma to yourself.

Coming back to the ego, once the ego is shattered, it leads us to universal love and compassion. Pain and suffering are the only ways to break this shell of ego. This is why Buddha and Christ went through so much suffering in life. Reaching here is what is called enlightenment.
Love and compassion are the secret ingredient of ether (the fifth element, also known as the universe and popularly as God).

Compassion is what connects the web of the universe and love is what flows though  as our prayers. The stronger the feeling of love and gratitude the stronger the prayers are.

Mind, Memory and Intellect

There are seven levels to our existence:

1. Body
2. Breath
3. Mind
4. Intellect
5. Memory
6. Ego
7. Soul

In school we are taught a lot about the body, nothing about the mind.

The mind is conditioned to think a certain way since we were children. It keeps fluctuating between the past and the future. The memory, it only stores the bad memories. The intellect, it will only question and doubt the positive and pushes everything good away. That is how we attract murphy’s law to our lives (Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong).

But, this is not difficult to change. It is just a matter of being aware of your thoughts and being in the present.
Awareness of thought can be brought about the conversations we have with ourselves, It’s the conversations that define our experiences. It’s what we decide to say about a certain person or object that would make the experience pleasant or unpleasant. Even if it’s about a rubber band. This should be a very important part of introspection.
Anything unpleasant through this process can easily be dropped.

Being in the present in by far one of the most difficult tasks for the human mind. It is a combination of breathing, knowledge and meditation. The breath is the only truth that is in the present moment, focusing on it is what gets us centred.
Knowledge about how to use the past and future smartly. Being in the past will only make you sad and full of regrets, being in the future will only lead to anxiety. So how do we balance? It’s not so difficult. It is just like driving a car. Our past is the rear view mirror, only look back for lessons. Our future is like the side view mirror, just set your goals. Then look forward through the windshield into the present one step at a time.
Meditation, this helps us replace all the brain cells that have been cut through the negativity and that store all me bad memories keeping the good ones fresh. This also helps you change your perspective in many ways.

After a lot of research, practice and experience I decided to pen this down and share. Have a beautiful day all you beautiful people!