The very purpose/essence of this invaluable human birth is to find one's true self, the eternal lifeforce within to become soul conscious. And to experience the perinial spring of kindness, love, peace, purity,power and all that is holy n worthwhile.Otherwise it is a waste of the lifetime n energy by loosing the golden opportunity.Meditate by the Kabir's Surat-Shabad Yoga helps.
Nafs(Self) an Arabic word in Quran.
I practice Ramana Maharishi's preaching"Who Am I? I,the biggest stumbling block in spiritual progress relates to the worldly-physical-mortal body.Whearas the eternal Soul inside is only pure consciousness the all pervading Omni present life force.Brahmo Hum Brahmo Hum Brahm Swaroopohum.Nityo hum-Shudho Hum-Budho Hum-Mukto hum.Soul overcoming self is a continuous spiritual quest.Kabir said the path is so narrow that the two cannot reside together. Either it is HE or I. May be I am at a stage dispelling I and adopting HE? In the process the gradual slow Opening of The Third Eye-Tenth Door helps to understand the report card.
Wonder is Divine.All marvels,miracles and mysteries of the Nature/Universe are great Creations to understand the Divine in all its ramifications.Listen to the Kabir song by Shubha Mudgal "Is Ghat Anter Baugh Bagiche"This is a wonderful personal experience.(Unable to paste the song Utube link ?) . Go within connecting with your InnerNet to find the vast potential wonders inside.
Charity begins @home.The world was-is-will be good always.Thus it is surviving. No need to criticize, find fault and be unhappy.Just look within to connect with your peaceful, most powerful and pure soul. Doors to the untapped abundant perennial & potential source of energy-the life force will be slowly opened."Shivohum Shivohum Shiva Swaroopaha hum".This applies to every soul uniformly connecting everybody with anybody. I am in you and you are in me. This Deep meditation helps to realize how positive energetic you are.Then there is simply harmony,reconciliations and togetherness with the common love-affection, sympathy-empathy,gratitude-generosity in all relationships and interactions.
Impermanence is the only permanence.Every body-cell and every moment is constantly changing.What is today is not tomorrow.Love yourself intimately in the present first to love the other future you including all third party others.
Charity begins at home.Deep meditation and conscious self inquiry is the best example of a personal story. As you find yourself and become peaceful,purer,powerful...... U R equanimous full of love/affection,sympathy/empathy, generosity/gratitude not only for your own-self but also for the world/universe.Nicest thing to do is to connect with your inner-net everyday & moment for mutual happiness and harmony.
Death is not born and Life never dies.It is always the manifestation of the same eternal life consciousness in all the creations-human,environmental and all other nature.THe same soul permeates all over the inclusive universe..This is experienced when you search & find " Who Am I"? Finding ones true nature is all that is required to understand the reality of the present oneness without past or future.
"Death has not taken birth and Life never dies".Such total eternality of self consciousness (Atman) is in fact that Temple & God really we are longing for and nothing else. I have found this earnest search is the key to the practical spirituality.You are in everybody and everybody is in you made possible by an undivided expanded heart.This is only and simply the love,compassion, sympathy & empathy connecting all in a single worldwide web.
By Nature innately & inner-netly from origin each human soul is a bundle of divine positivity without exception.This is exactly the eternal search & spirituality we all practice. One who realizes it is the Master/Messiah. Everybody of us is thus a potential Master with such a firm belief-faith.The moment this happens the world becomes full of life,worship,love, grace,passion, devotion,alive & vibrant. The very outlook & perception changes to Change everybody-everything-everywhere for a fulfilling life. We get connected in a single worldwide web with compassion,sympathy & empathy. Still as an ardent student, I see Sant Kabir had that profoundness in the most down to earth style.Belief-Behaviour-Business can help deliver the promised land.
I relate Sun to the human Soul as Sunny. It is the eternal Light and the mystic Sound of our being.Our being is inside,innate & an inner-net. Its a natural agent ever shining illumination and glowing brightness.It energizes and stimulates the real sight of "Who Am I" enlightening the whole thing clear and visible to the third eye effortlessly. Personally I surrender, submerge into this original source eliminating the duality. The reality dawns. "Shivohum Shivohum ShivSwaroopohum.Nityohum-Shudhohum-Budhohum-Muktohum. ChidAnand roopah". Its neutral joy-Love- affection-compassion, sympathy & empathy for every one-every time-every where-everything.
Our roots is the soul,the eternal life force full of peace,purity,power ,love & harmony. Just go internal to realize all this and get it hearing the melodious music inside. This is beautifully permanent while enjoying the transitory external world.For me this is like finding the meaning,truth and purpose of the invaluable human life without loosing anything at all but only gaining- benefiting fully from the Nature.
I relate: Adopt thoughtlessness & practice mindfulness. Impermanence is the only permeance. Thoughts are bodily-connected with self while consciousness is just soul without any self.Kabir said the path to God(soul) is so narrow that only one can exist either I or HE.Meditation on such mindset and "AMAR ATMA HAI MARANSHEEL KAYA, SABHI PRANIYO KE HAI BHITAR JO SAMAYA" helps indeed.
"If you wish to find yourself (God) lose yourself in the service of humanity" said MKGandhi.When you serve with head-heart-hands you get more than what you give.Human life is an opportunity to be full of gratitude,generosity, sympathy & empathy. These are the natural innate attributes of our eternal SOUL.Achievement of this is my Vision,Mission, purpose, story and meaning of life.
Soul the life force/inner self is permanent.Eveything else external is impermanent.Learning to Attach with the soul detaching from the body,its manifestations & all things external is my goal.False feeling of deficiency is the source of attachment while soul itself is all powerful and self sufficient."Shivohum Shivohum ShivaSwaroopum.Nityohum,Budhohum, Shudhohum,Muktohum"is the meditation supported by breath to slowly become/remain soul conscious always.
No advice but only sympathy and empathy with head,heart and soul.
WHO AM I ? Body-physical, external & mortal or the life force Soul-latent, inner and eternal ?Thus Substitute is for the body. Not for 'I'- Shivoham, Shivohum-Shivaswarupoham.Nityoham,Shuddhoham,Buddhoham. Advaita Ananda Rupam, Arupam.Brahmoham,Brahmoham,BrahmaSwarupoham.Chidoham,Chidoham, ChidanandRupaha.Google search for the meaning. Either decide just to meditate on 'I' or get into the debate of body substitute at all ? Cheers with love.....
Beyond my understanding,creating more confusion than resolving it. Let us demystify the mysticism of spirituality. Let us not complicate it further & further.Let us help ourselves the common beings you and me with simple ,straight easy to follow guidance from the enlightened. Love
DIL SE. DILWALE. DILARAM (Dil+AaRam ) When we connect soul to soul ,it is relaxation,Its Ram, All souls being full of love,peace,power & purity without any artificiality. I find genuine hugging(human touch) is always from heart.
Mind fullness makes you aware of your strength as well as weaknesses. Cheers,
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Solitude is good for me as it is a 'Dil Ki Baat', Dil Ka Dil Se and Dilaram ( Dil + Ram + Aaram).It connects head,heart and hands with the soul.This brings out a natural smile of happiness and peace while connecting with anybody to create a mutual bond.Every soul is just abundance of purity,power,joy and love.Meditating on the innate,ever present qualities of the soul- the very life force may prove quite helpful to develop our own inner self on a solid sound footing.
Anger,Hatred,Greed all are connected with our EGO.Ego is preventive to the desired emotional & soul quotients. But when I observed LOVE for all from beginning to full blown internally the experience is just delightful.Offer of selfless service out of gratitude may be the way forward generating love and affection.
The innate,intuitive and instinctive feeling of oneness with all living beings is demanding love.Its simply the manifestation of the existing nature of our very life force.The original quality of soul.Rarely when I happen to be one with my own self,I experience this love. As Kabir said " Hum sab mai,sab Hai Hum mai" is the test.No anger-hate-violence-ego.Every arising thought is Maitri Bhava.
Desert ,close to nature is sublime.Connected to the life force without hindrance. But life is holistic with many other aspects also.And these are all interconnected to be complete.Let us not isolate to be incomplete but take a 360 degree facts based life view to be immersed in ourselves.Cheers
Time is also the Age. Every age is a different season in itself. Child- Youth- Adult- Old age. Each stage in the life has its own flavors - happy appointments - sad disappointments but the life force(soul) remaining the same in each time. The point of time during this journey when one understands this truth,is the time(age) of reckoning- revelation. Different for different persons.Fortunate/Divine are those to have this as early as possible. Then one can strive to be timeless/agenda less. Follow Kabir who said"Lere Nam Lere Nam,Nam Se tire Re Bhai. Minakh Janam Fir Na Mile". " Yugan Yugan Hum Yogi, Awadhoota(wanderer)". "Apni Madhi Me,Khelu Sahaj Swa-ichha". "Hum Hi Sidha Samadhi Hum hai".
My strategy is to cultivate the root(soul)for the blossoming tree. The faith & the firm conviction is in the fact that all human souls are divine, full of Love,power,compassion,joy, friendship & harmony without any exception. Very careful to anything contrary happening/arising ,go back to the above Universal Truth and control the mind. Yes difficult but not impossible if one is serious.Pesistance and perseverance pays.Meditate with open eyes on the visualization of this reality. Lastly surrender to HIM i.e. your own true self earnestly.
Kabir said"Hum Sab Mai,Sab Hai Hum Mai" When the life force is one,there is no question of any right/wrong.
Galib said" Duniya Me Hun,Magar Duniya Ka Talabdar Nahi Hun.
Bazar Se Gujra Hun,Magar Kharidar Nahi Hun
Jinda Hun Magar Jis ki lazzat Nahi Baki
Har Chand Hosho Me Hun, Magar Hoshiyar Nahi Hun"
In this condition where is the scope for any judgement on wrong/right.
Love is not an abstract term. But a concrete one.When it flows meaning when you practice it with full life force ( heart & soul) it becomes tangible. You can indeed experience it like water.
It is either I or the Whole. The multiple I has to merge with the whole to become one.This removes the chaos,corruption(wishes,desires,anger.................) and complexity within and facilitates the manifestation of the soul, the real I full of peace, love & strength. When this becomes natural & normal one finds oneself correcting the most important mistake.
Where there is I,he is not there and where is he I am not there.Its a narrow passage only for the one out of the two but the container is big.I can do all my daily routine resting the soul always on him. The soul manifestation is now happening steadily while doing an e-welfare platform for the bottom of the pyramid. Experiencing the reclaiming of my human by the welfare of the underserved for my container to be really & progressively large. But be aware it's a very slippery and consciously cautious path balancing the act to make a bigger container.
Soul consciousness is fearlessness.Human soul is full of love,peace,strength & power which catalyzes fearlessness. Manifesting these latent qualities of soul thru meditation and practice in our daily lives is the key. Setting up schools for the children of migrant workers in the pathetic labour camps against all odds was my personal experience.This love for every child is empowering me to develop a digital gap minder platform for all the K-12 schools in the country. If we can really connect with our souls, we are out of the fear prison. Fear is lack of love and that is the awareness .
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To me Eulogy and Resume is a question of what you do between the short gap of life & death.Its all about soul connections made during this gap.Personally I can tell you this happens only when you manifest the latent harmony,friendship, forgiveness & the eternal love..................bypassing everything else, all the negativity.What ultimately matters is human relationships and not right or wrong. Cultivating this habit as our culture , daily routine with mindfulness consciously is indeed experiencing the beauty, fulfillment and amazement of life.
The complete cycle of creation & destruction ,birth & death is radical amazement.What we do between this gap of life & death is human.Relaxing in the garden sit out witnessing the plants flowering right from the exotic heliconias, orchids to simple bougainvillea & so on........Same with fruit trees-- sweet guavas,juicy mangoes........so on is demystifying the divine. The rimzim rains,the sun and then the colourful rainbow is understanding the heavens.Livng positively in the present to manifest the qualities of the soul- love,compassion,friendship,forgiveness......helps remain alive to the wonder.
Complete belief/conviction with constant awareness that love,compassion,friendship, forgiveness is the only way forward for a meaningful life is kindness at the deepest level of heart.All problems ,issues, happiness or sadness merge/dissolve automatically is my practical experience. This Meditation with closed eyes is common but with open eyes without supressing any thought,desire ,like or dislike is a wonderful practice for best results.
Circle of Trust is harmony of mind, body & soul. All three must have 100% trust in each other. When Thought, Intuition and Action are in the same wave length we are in the circle of trust. So also like minded souls can form a circle of trust.
Silence to me is complete soul consciousness.The physical body is all noise & perishable.But must maintain it for the silence to capture us between the gap of life & death. The soul is the almighty authority, pure peace & power full of love,compassion,friendship, forgiveness and sublime joy............. I was captured by Kabir- the mystic poet when he said "Without churning milk there is no butter and no wood fire without ignition. Why wander? HE is inside constant, calm & quiet.Practice & Discover". This is meditation & spirituality. Making heartfelt efforts to manifest this silence of the soul by hugging & facilitating education of every child without any social divide. An unique digital platform based on OPEN DATA of everything & everybody concerning holistic child welfare is under development to connect all the problems with solutions collaboratively.
On Apr 20, 2023 Sunil wrote on The Extraordinary In The Ordinary, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee: