Inspiring

You do the best in your hands and move ahead...

Later, when you hit a saturation point, you change your direction in search of some more meaningful work. But one thing remains fixed-- you continue to put efforts. This is how I think we can define this man, Rasanath Das.

An IIT graduate and an ex-investment banker, Rasanath Das has now become a monk and has been helping the Wall Street protesters meditate. Belonging to the ISKCONites sect and having the great Radhanath Maharaj as his Guru, his life inspires awe. Following link has a brief intro about this great man.

http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2011/11/17/ex-banker-turned-hindu-monk-urges-wall-street-to-meditate/

How much to express?

In this world, everybody seems to be seeking love and attention. In case if you find someone not going through it, then it means that that person is seeking his love and attention from somewhere else.

Feelings will always come. That’s inevitable. Responding to feelings in moderation, but not beyond limits should be practiced. If you suppress the feelings completely, it makes you unhappy, frustrated and depressed. Hence, to counter this, a bit of expression is always required. But at the same time, too much expression makes you seek love from outside and shifts your centre of happiness out of you. It disturbs you, makes you impulsive and depressed again or bring in the distortions of love if you feel that you do not get that love or attention you seek for. Hence, too much of indulgence into expression and attention also has to be avoided. Balancing the expression and aloofness should be practiced again and again with awareness..

Feelings are inevitable. But, observing the feelings as they come and graduating out of them is essential for reaching the goal.

Everything has a purpose

Every event or situation in life has a purpose.

Like the famous conversation in Shawshank Redemption which Red made with the rehabilitation officer… where “rehabilitation is just a made-up word. A politician's word, so that young fellas like you can wear a suit and a tie and have a job.”

So is every situation or need in life.. just a place to get engaged and busy..

So, maybe when there is a need to suffer and serve, we have natural disasters. And when there is a need to suffer and express, we have protests and revolutions..

What do these enlightened masters exactly have that make them look so accomplished??

Good approach to living life

In the last few weeks, I have learnt a very good approach to living life. The focus of every moment of life is to only keep your self busy and work on the right things. So, completing the job commitments, some seva, some family commitments, some efforts on career, some knowledge sessions and helping whenever anybody needs help, life is busy and is going to be busy like this till you are alive. There is no choice here and there is no other possibility.

May be as years keep passing, you will grow in your career, get married, have kids responsibilities, then you will grow older, become more tired physically, marry off the kids, become retired, and leave the body some fine day. Till the time that death touches you, the only aim is to keep asking, what is to be done next? And keep putting efforts.

There need not be and should not be any strong desires that make you look for happiness in any possibility in future. Because life is to be lived only in the present moment. And how is it to be lived? By putting efforts in the right direction and then later, giving up the fruits of these efforts and being contented in the actions. Because as you have experienced, true peace lies only in the actions. Rest, whatever is to happen in life, will happen.

No peace!

Always know that there is no peace anywhere else. Hence, if you are, say, going on a trip, or to a satsang, or to listen to a teacher or to a movie, or wanting to leave office in the evening for some interesting work, know that mind may not get any gratification after reaching there. Peace should be now, here, at this moment. There may not be and need not be any extra peace or gratification at the new place. Whatever your purpose be, you should not expect anything in future time or event. Going anywhere with this understanding may probably help you keep your mind to yourself..

Life is busy...

Commitments and work never stop. It is a never-ending reality of life. And most of the times, life looks over-loaded. So, you have to make choices, mess up some things at some times to cater to other prioritized things, like job during the days of AOL course, or kriya and meditations to work on some other commitments sometimes, or some other work delay at other times, to make meditation a higher priority, or health a higher priority.

As Guruji says, life is like riding a bicycle. You need to balance all your work. The only additional thing that I realize is, this bicycle journey is not going to stop any time till you are alive. Even if you complete some work today and feel relieved and good, it will not stay for long. Because, you will have some other work for tomorrow, and some other for day-after-tomorrow and so on. And if you do not do that work at that time, you may feel imbalance, and sometimes frustration… that’s how life is.