NAMASTE 🙏
Your spirit is the same as mine, and therefore, there is no difference between you and me.
I welcome the place where you and I meet. My energy salutes the energy within you.
I recognise the divine power that dwells in your heart.
Win Hearts
Win Hearts
Whether to choose heartful or powerful
You have often faced the dilemma of choosing between a heartfelt person (embodying intellect, compassion, creativity, and maturity) and a powerful one (possessing money, power, personality, and social status). Arjuna faced this very choice during the preparations for the war of Mahabharata.
When given the option, Duryodhana chose the Narayani Sena, the army of well-equipped warriors trained under Lord Krishna’s leadership, valuing their worldly power. Arjuna, on the other hand, chose the unarmed Lord Krishna, valuing his divine wisdom and guidance.
The heart of a person who seeks God’s strength is truly strong because divine strength is real. Conversely, the heart of a person who seeks worldly power is weak because worldly strength is ultimately an illusion.
So, whom will you choose?
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The relationship with you that God wants to extend to you
He wants you to think of him as your father, mother, brother and a friend.
He wants to be the voice that steers through every situation,
The peace that sets your heart rest in trouble and the power that holds you up in the storm.
He is closer than your dearest friend and more faithful than any other person you’ve ever known.
Just instill your mind in him and weave maintain that connection with him.
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Encourage someone
That you can be an encouragement.
Everyone needs encouragement, but it’s so easy to forget to take the time to give it.
Think how you begin feeling happy when someone encourages you or someone made you smile.
Today, think of someone at your workplace or in life and appreciate him for something that he helped you with or simply reach out to someone and try to make him smile. Even if the person is a stranger, take a moment to let the person know that you noticed his efforts.
तश्मै श्री गुरूवे नमः
बंदउ गुरु पद कंज कृपा सिंधु नररूप हरि । महामोह तम पुंज जासु बचन रबि कर निकर ॥५॥
बंदउ गुरु पद पदुम परागा । सुरुचि सुबास सरस अनुरागा ॥
अमिय मूरिमय चूरन चारू । समन सकल भव रुज परिवारू ॥
सुकृति संभु तन बिमल बिभूती । मंजुल मंगल मोद प्रसूती ॥
जन मन मंजु मुकुर मल हरनी । किएँ तिलक गुन गन बस करनी ॥
श्रीगुर पद नख मनि गन जोती । सुमिरत दिब्य दृष्टि हियँ होती ॥
दलन मोह तम सो सप्रकासू । बड़े भाग उर आवइ जासू ॥
उघरहिं बिमल बिलोचन ही के । मिटहिं दोष दुख भव रजनी के ॥
सूझहिं राम चरित मनि मानिक । गुपुत प्रगट जहँ जो जेहि खानिक ॥
गुरु चरण वंदनीय हैं क्योंकि उनके वचन सुरुचिपूर्ण, सुगंध तथा अनुराग रास से पूर्ण हैं। गुरु सञ्जीवनी बूटी हैं जो सारे भवरोगों के परिवार का नाश करते हैं। गुरु वंदनीय हैं क्योंकि मुश्किल की घडी में जब कोई उपाय नहीं सूझ रहा हो तो उनके स्मरण मात्र से हृदय में दिव्य दृष्टी उत्पन्न हो जाती है जिससे अज्ञानरूपी अंधकार का नाश हो जाता है।
गुरु वंदनीय हैं क्योंकि संसार में जो दुःख दोष रूपी रात्रि है उसमें उनके ज्ञान के प्रभाव से नेत्र खुल जाते हैं जिससे मार्ग प्रशस्त दिखने लगते हैं।
गुरु वंदनीय हैं क्योंकि उनके चरण धूल उस अंजन के तरह है जिसे लगाने से पर्वतों, वनों, और पृथ्वी के गुह्य से भी गुह्य रहश्य अपने आप प्रकट होने लगते हैं।
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What I have learned about the job, friends, walking, traveling, yoga and art
– Every job is a self portrait of the person who does it, autograph your job with excellence
– F.R.I.E.N.D.S Fight for you. Respect you. Include you. Encourage you. Need you. Deserve you. Stand by you.
– For one minute, walk outside, stand there, in silence, look up at the sky, and contemplate how amazing life is
– Travel doesn’t become an adventure until you leave yourself behind
– Yoga is not about touching your toes, it’s what you learn on the way down
– Art is you being free from all the worlds heaviness
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May you live soulful
When two souls fall in love, there is nothing else but the yearning to be close to the other. The presence that is felt through holding hand, whispering sound, smile, or through a hug.
Souls do not have calendars, or clocks, nor do they understand the notion of time or distance. They only know it feels right to be with one another.
This is the reason why you miss someone so much when they are not around you. Even if that person is in another room, you miss. Its probably like this because soul only feels absense not separation.
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United to God you become immortal
You’d have seen dewdrops on the grass leaf. As soon as it faces the morning sunlight, it evaporates, and its existence gets lost. But, when the same dewdrop falls into the sea and merges there with the sea, it retains its state.
There is a significant similarity between the dewdrops relationship with the sea and ours with God. To forget God is to miss the whole purpose of your existence. One who’s ever experienced a tiny moment of godliness will give away all the material pleasures of the world.
The great sages are not the fool that they chose to give up the material world to live in the supreme existence of God. And then the matter of material disturbances are just the matter – the profit or loss, life or death, appreciation or blemish – they may just make you feel helpless momentarily but, you will always live protected under God’s heavenly security.
You attain a happy state of mind, a state that is untouched by the events of daily life.
That joy will be so permanent that even the fear of death won’t shake you. How could Jesus say, in the face of crucifixion, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”
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May the force be with you
There are times when you feel like you are all alone in this world, there is a question spinning in your head that why are you pitted against the world.
Faced with such difficulties, obstacles and roadblocks the wise discovers the truth. They know that the universe is supporting them in their endeavors.
They look for orchestrating the universal energy to lift them up, to make their burdens lighter, they tap into their wisdom and the strength of the universe to sail through these testing times.
Such orchestration of spiritual and universal energies signified as self-control, self-determination, and self-esteem.
When it all boils down to it, our motivation to persevere must be intrinsic. It can’t come from anything outside of us; it must come from within.
When we make this happen, we recognize it as our strengths, and we recognize it as our potential.
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Be a man of peace
Be a man of peace observing nothing else but a pool of silence.
Every moment pulsate a new kind of energy into the world, sing a new song, and live in a totally new way.
Your very way of life is that of grace, that of prayer, that of compassion.
Whosoever you touch, you create more love-energy. Whichever place you visit, you spread love-scent.
Be the man of creation of peace. Not against anything, because to be against anything is to be at war. You are not here to live like every moment in a war-like situation, you simply understand why you exist, and out of that understanding you become peaceful.
Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, the world will be a more beautiful voyage, more flowers will bloom.
Om peace…
My Take on Patanjali Yoga Sutra
I am glad that tomorrow is International Yoga Day and I am also grad that this most ancient and scientific approach towards living a holistic life is gaining the momentum. I thought of throwing some lights on the Patanjali yoga. It aims to delve one into the path of uniting the self with the supreme one.
Patanjali’s narratives in Yoga Sutras are fantastically arranged and brilliantly captured tools for us to attain consciousness through the unison of mind, body and soul. Consciousness is the state in which on does not get agitated facing the misery, free from material attachment, affection, fear and anger. Such person is also called as a “Sage of Steady Wisdom”
Sutra literally means a thread — or like a formula. To simplify, though you may possess beautiful flowers and desire to wear a garland, but you cannot make a garland without a thread. Also you cannot wear a thread alone and claim of wearing a garland. Our body is like flower and our mind is like thread. We need to unite it together to make our soul become like a beautiful garland.
The thread is instilled in us and we are given complete freedom to make our own garland. You can put flowers, or beads, or pearls, or diamonds. The goal of human life is to creating the bonding between thread and flowers to attain conscious.
The Yoga Sutras is not tied to any concept. It is open to the pursuers to read it, understand it and adopt it the way one finds it suitable. Only certain governing principles have been provided. The principles of Yoga Sutra have no meaning to the reader unless one practices it and experiences the benefits.
The first aphorism “Atha Yoganushasanam” means Yoga of Discipline. The right kind of discipline, schooling is required for us to develop unwavering mind control.
“Yoges chitta vritti nirodhah.” One needs to control totally the mind from thoughts, feelings, and emotions. These emotions creates the disturbances and these disturbances destabilises us every moment. Both body and mind are prone to these disturbances. Yoga Sutra provides the method of physical exercises for conditioning the body for unison and control techniques like Pranayama and Meditation for mind.
This is the broader understanding that I have gained reading, learning, and practicing it for over 3 decades. Let me know what you feel.
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बूँद जो मोती बने
बारिस की एक बूँद समुद्र में गिर जाने के कारण रोने लगी। समुद्र ने मुस्कुराते हुए कहा: “यहाँ तुम अपने भाई बहनों के साथ हो।
एक विशाल परिवार का हिस्सा। अलग होने के लिए एक छलांग लगाने की देरी है उड़ तो जाओगे लेकिन भांप बनकर बिखड़ भी।
आना तो तुझे फिर भी है :- “किसी किसान के खेत में, या किसी नाले में, या किसी तालाब में या की गंगा में गंगाजल बनकर या फिर किसी प्यासे के लिए वरदान बनकर उसके लोटे में।”
You complete me
I find it quite a cheesy to say or hear “You complete me or I complete you.” I feel everyone is a kind of perfectly fine on their own.
But, one thing that I completely believe that the people who come up in your life are like god send to fill in some empty spaces. Those empty spaces always exist in our life for reason, season or lifetime. And, I am deeply grateful for everyone who’s filled that empty spaces in and of my life.
सुन रहा है ना तू रो रहा हूँ मैं
सामान्यतः हमें दो राह दिखते हैं – एक जिसमें हम क्षणिक भोग विलास के वस्तुओं के उपलब्धता को श्रेस्ठ लक्ष्य समझते हैं और दूसरी जिसमें हमारी ज़िंदगी एक समग्र लक्ष्य की प्राप्ति के ऊपर केन्द्रित रहती है।
क्योंकि हम मार्केटिंग ड्रिवेन वातावरण में जीते है तो भोग विलास के वस्तुओं पर हमारी लालसा ज़्यादा रहती है और अक्सर हम सभी इसके चार दुस्परिणामों से ग्रसित रहते हैं।
१) अभाव – हमारे आस पास एक अभाव की भावना फैली हुई है। धन न होने का अभाव, अच्छी शिक्षा न होने का अभाव, भाग्यवान न होने का अभाव, सामाजिक और सांसारिक वातावरण के अनुकूल न होने का अभाव, आदि आदि।
२) ठहराव – हम भाग तो रहे है लेकिन एक तरह से ठहर से गए हुए हैं। हमें लगने लगा है की कुछ भी होने वाला नहीं है। संसार में सबकुछ गड़बड़ और हमारे विपरीत हो गया है।
३) पथराव – अभाव और ठहराव से ग्रसित हमारी मानसिकता पथराव के ऊपर झुकने लगी है। हम कीचड़ उछालने में ज़्यादा समय व्यतीत करने लगे हैं।आज आप सोशल मीडिया देखिए हरेक आदमी बुराई, दुर्वयबहार और अश्लील भाषा में बातें करने लगे है। सदाचार काम और दुराचार का बोलबाला सब ओर फैल रहा है।
४) प्रभाव – हम अपने आपको गाहे बेगाहे प्रभावित करने की होड़ में शामिल कर लिए है। हरेक मौक़े पर अपनी बड़प्पन और अपने औक़ात की तरफ़ करने लगते हैं। अंदर से एकदम से ख़ाली पर बाहर से ज़ोर का ढिंढोरा जैसे की “सुन रहा है ना तू रो रहा हूँ मैं ।“
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Tips for designing a better life
You can design a better life, if you only remember these few things…
Remember that you are a designer of your life.
To be a designer of your life, you must think about your life plan as a designer – what is your desirability to reap tangible and strategic outcomes.
Listen to you, people and the environment to find the inspirations that will be like a dewdrop to invoke your own intuition, creativity and confidence.
Remember that Not knowing is just fine
Awaken your genius within to learn, experiment, risk and have the attitude to feel “alright” even when you fail. Trust that one day you’ll be a perfect, fine and profoundly expert in your act.
Remember that being optimistic is like being alive
Whatever is not in your reach today is your opportunity to get tomorrow.
When you self-doubt, it’s better to start with “What if?” instead of wondering about “What’s wrong?” Believe and burst yourself for a better future
Remember that you can beat by going out and getting done.
Don’t ponder over things. Don’t procrastinate. Pull yourself out of your comfort zone. Go out of the building and learn from the world.
Everywhere around the wisdom is awaiting for you to come and learn.
Welcome the new, always.
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