Sages go out into lonely, isolated and quiet place, away from the world to know themselves. They control their senses, allowing themselves to then control their thoughts. The generation of thoughts is what makes us us – the personality, the ego is nothing but a collection of thoughts that have ‘solidified’ into habits and which gives us our character.
This so called ‘basis’ of our character then chooses to make decisions for us: what we like, what we dislike, what reactions to have to these likes and dislikes.
The best ideas have sprung from people who gave themselves time to be alone with themselves, to think out things, to not allow the world to own you.
See this as NOT an incarceration, but an opportunity to spend time with yourself. Your real self.
Fight those moments of loneliness, self-pity and morbidity.
An exercise to know yourself
Go through the following: note down your responses or thoughts.
Some are questions that you need to answer honestly without resorting to clichés or other people’s opinions. Others are thought provokers which can be turned into questions or bring to mind what needs to be known. Others still will set you on the path to ask for more information (hopefully).
Who you are
What you are
What you want to do
What can you do
What can’t you do
Why you should change
What is stopping you from changing
What action you need to take
Why should you take it
What options are open to you
Can someone help
Should you ask for help
Why can’t you ask for help
What is stopping you from asking
The outside world and what it does
The world inside you
Your thoughts
Your emotions
Your needs
Your wants
Control
Control what
What is control
Tools of control
Why they work
What needs to be done
Falling back into ….depression, morbidity, anger, pain, humiliation
Anger
The greatest enemy
How it brews
What sparks it
What can be done
Desire
The need to take stock
The advertising phenomenon
Seeing is wanting
Controlling the want
Self discipline
The need to answer to yourself
No outside authority
Nothing can stop you, except yourself
Nothing can motivate you, except yourself
Taking control of yourself
Your self
Who is yourself
What is mine
Who is this owner that says ‘mine’
Being the owner
Identifying with the self
Who are you
Your name is a tag
Your body is a vehicle
Your thoughts are sense-related
Your emotions are desire-related
Your feelings are frothy
Who are you
Where do you come from
Your childhood
Blaming them
Remain unshaken
What shakes you
Everything is based on anger
Where does anger come from
Where can you keep it
Looking after anger
Making it do what you want
The good side of anger
Your temper
Losing it
Finding it
Making it your friend
Why is the world so cruel
What is wrong with the world
What is wrong with your world
What is wrong with his world
What is wrong with their world
Going to hell in a basket
The one-way ticket to hell
The arrival
What happens in hell
Sight-seeing hell
Taking yourself away from the pain
Going back
Fighting back
Revenge – the cold dish warmed up time and again
Getting back at ‘them’
Who is to blame
The loneliness
Why need constant communications
Why do we need to know
Getting to know yourself
Getting to like yourself
You are your best friend
What is a friend
The role of a friend
Coming home to yourself
Once you are home, where else do you need to be
Taking your home with you
Beauty
The world is beautiful
Getting to know this beautiful world
Taking it with you
Spreading the beauty around
Who do you need
Are you enough for yourself
Do you need others
Enjoying with others
Who are these others
Why you need them
Why they don’t need you
Why do they need you
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
He is Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram
He is Everyman.
And thing and thought.
Every action is His,
History is HIS STORY,
His is the making, the breaking and the mending,
His is the thinking, the thought and the imagining.
He is Everyman
And will and wont.
Every decisions is His,
Resolution is HIS SOLUTION
His is the assessing, the selecting and the judging
His is the custom, the tendency and the disposition.
He is Everyman
And passion and poise.
Every enjoyment is His,
Transport is HIS SPORT
His is the joy, the bliss and the rapture
His is the pride, the nobility and the aplomb
He is Everyman
And valour and veracity.
Every authority is His,
Rectitude is HIS ATTITUDE
His is the courage, the determination and the morality
His is the reality, the truth and the certainty
He is Everyman
And mercy and might.
Every outcome is His,
Efficacy is HIS ECSTASY
His is the compassion, the magnanimity and the deliverance
His is the power, the potency and the fulfilment
He is Everyman
And perfect and pure.
Every virtue is His,
Decency is HIS POTENCY
His is the ideal, the excellence and the magnificence
His is the innocence, the simplicity and the incorruptible
He is Everyman
And one and all
He is everything
Diverse is HIS UNIVERSE
His is the singularity, the particular, and the specific
His is the entirety, the inclusive and the whole
And thing and thought.
Every action is His,
History is HIS STORY,
His is the making, the breaking and the mending,
His is the thinking, the thought and the imagining.
He is Everyman
And will and wont.
Every decisions is His,
Resolution is HIS SOLUTION
His is the assessing, the selecting and the judging
His is the custom, the tendency and the disposition.
He is Everyman
And passion and poise.
Every enjoyment is His,
Transport is HIS SPORT
His is the joy, the bliss and the rapture
His is the pride, the nobility and the aplomb
He is Everyman
And valour and veracity.
Every authority is His,
Rectitude is HIS ATTITUDE
His is the courage, the determination and the morality
His is the reality, the truth and the certainty
He is Everyman
And mercy and might.
Every outcome is His,
Efficacy is HIS ECSTASY
His is the compassion, the magnanimity and the deliverance
His is the power, the potency and the fulfilment
He is Everyman
And perfect and pure.
Every virtue is His,
Decency is HIS POTENCY
His is the ideal, the excellence and the magnificence
His is the innocence, the simplicity and the incorruptible
He is Everyman
And one and all
He is everything
Diverse is HIS UNIVERSE
His is the singularity, the particular, and the specific
His is the entirety, the inclusive and the whole
CIA – Constant Integrated Awareness
I move within, tethered to everything,
everything responding to me.
The flow is constant, un-abating.
Shockingly understandable, manageable.
Everything I know, is known to me,
The beginning and the end are only
words, drenched in meaning if we only
allow it to be.
Constant is the knowledge of IS, being and becoming, constantly.
Unvarying is the tempo, the movement of the knowledge,
Neither fast nor slow, just a flow
And I flow with it.
The message is integrated, related, included,
Nothing amiss, nothing missing
Melding into a oneness of knowing.
Who speaks, who hears, who says, who listens?
I do and I do and I do and I do.
What is said anew, a fresh – nothing.
Yet, I listen to it afresh, and then I listen again.
Each time in bliss, revelling in its novelty.
All in one and one in all, who to tell the message to?
Yet, the message is relayed, integrated into everything
Flowing, not flowing, there, and everywhere.
From every point, every dimension the message reverberates,
I AM, being, becoming, beckoning,
calling to all and calling to itself only.
What call is it?
The call to be LOVE,
to be all in LOVE,
to become LOVE,
to become all in LOVE.
everything responding to me.
The flow is constant, un-abating.
Shockingly understandable, manageable.
Everything I know, is known to me,
The beginning and the end are only
words, drenched in meaning if we only
allow it to be.
Constant is the knowledge of IS, being and becoming, constantly.
Unvarying is the tempo, the movement of the knowledge,
Neither fast nor slow, just a flow
And I flow with it.
The message is integrated, related, included,
Nothing amiss, nothing missing
Melding into a oneness of knowing.
Who speaks, who hears, who says, who listens?
I do and I do and I do and I do.
What is said anew, a fresh – nothing.
Yet, I listen to it afresh, and then I listen again.
Each time in bliss, revelling in its novelty.
All in one and one in all, who to tell the message to?
Yet, the message is relayed, integrated into everything
Flowing, not flowing, there, and everywhere.
From every point, every dimension the message reverberates,
I AM, being, becoming, beckoning,
calling to all and calling to itself only.
What call is it?
The call to be LOVE,
to be all in LOVE,
to become LOVE,
to become all in LOVE.
The Universe
I expand, evolving into
the Universe,
Changing into IT, the divine.
My mind teeters, tottering in
the vastness, into the miniscule,
unable to comprehend,
constitute itself.
There is no anchor: freewheeling,
flying, the mind tries to grab
the debris of its existence.
A last dab at its being, its frothy
life of vicissitudes and vanity
just flimsy elements of film
that it cannot hold on to.
Brightness incomprehensible, beyond
anything the senses can grasp
has the mind reeling in a vortex.
Yet, something holds its all together.
What is it that gives me the firma
on which to see all these?
To see it in its oneness, in its
completeness, in its entirety.
What am I? to be able to experience
the interaction, the woven play,
the mesh of life and energy that is.
The I is not me, yet me, and all of me.
The I is everything, everyone, every and all.
What is is, what was is no longer
And what will be doesn’t exist.
Everything is now, the point, the dot,
the bindu sanyuktam, the origin.
Are we made anew every moment?
What is a moment in the place of no time,
in the space of a blink of an eye?
Expanding, the universe marks its own time,
its own rhythm. How miniscule our frames
of time and space, of past and future.
The mind, beset with its own parameters
cannot bring to bear the vastness into any confine.
Nor can it adjust to the minuteness of everything in it,
every tiny detail perfect in its place, deliberated to finest particularity
every facet sought out to its own brilliance.
Each fitting flawlessly into a lattice of life.
Beyond alpha and omega, beyond the finest calculation,
the universe expands in dimensions unknown,
writing its story, relaying its message, listening to it itself.
the Universe,
Changing into IT, the divine.
My mind teeters, tottering in
the vastness, into the miniscule,
unable to comprehend,
constitute itself.
There is no anchor: freewheeling,
flying, the mind tries to grab
the debris of its existence.
A last dab at its being, its frothy
life of vicissitudes and vanity
just flimsy elements of film
that it cannot hold on to.
Brightness incomprehensible, beyond
anything the senses can grasp
has the mind reeling in a vortex.
Yet, something holds its all together.
What is it that gives me the firma
on which to see all these?
To see it in its oneness, in its
completeness, in its entirety.
What am I? to be able to experience
the interaction, the woven play,
the mesh of life and energy that is.
The I is not me, yet me, and all of me.
The I is everything, everyone, every and all.
What is is, what was is no longer
And what will be doesn’t exist.
Everything is now, the point, the dot,
the bindu sanyuktam, the origin.
Are we made anew every moment?
What is a moment in the place of no time,
in the space of a blink of an eye?
Expanding, the universe marks its own time,
its own rhythm. How miniscule our frames
of time and space, of past and future.
The mind, beset with its own parameters
cannot bring to bear the vastness into any confine.
Nor can it adjust to the minuteness of everything in it,
every tiny detail perfect in its place, deliberated to finest particularity
every facet sought out to its own brilliance.
Each fitting flawlessly into a lattice of life.
Beyond alpha and omega, beyond the finest calculation,
the universe expands in dimensions unknown,
writing its story, relaying its message, listening to it itself.
Delusion … how we cheat ourselves
Just had a talk with a Sri Lankan friend of mine: he mentioned his uncle, a Theosophist and one whom he considered to be delusional. My reply was that each one of us, in some manner or other, is delusional.
It brought to the forefront the idea that we all really are delusional, each living in his or hers own made-up world of reality, each probing the world with a set of standards that give rise to judgements like “he is delusional”. The delusion of the person judged is as real to him as our ‘reality’ is to us.
My delusion is that there is a God. That a power greater than our mind or abilities is guiding the universe through its pace. For want of a better word, God is what all of us call him/her, it. and then we choose to put onto this great power a tag of our own making based on what we know of him/her/it. It could Allah, Jesus, Yahweh, Krishna, Buddha…the list is endless.
My Lord and Lady, Sai Baba says there is only one God and the wise know Him by many names. To add to that I would like to say the foolish know Him by just the one name and believe it is the only right one.
Now the various religions give their own ‘delusional’ interpretation of what God is.
What is God?
My take on this delusion
I settle for the “Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent” with the additional rider “The Great Director of Life”.
Just being omniscient (all knowing) means God knows all
Just being Omnipresent mean God is everywhere
Just being Omnipotent means God is all powerful
This would make God the basis of everything. The operating system of the universe if you will have it.
Yet there is definite design to what is happening around us. It was Albert Einstein who said that God does not play dice with the universe, and He doesn’t (pardon me for using the He epithet – it is easier than typing out all of them). He lovingly decides the path for each of us, and for all of us. For clans, for tribes, for nations, for civilisations. Not a leaf moves in the wind without His knowledge or permission.
When we take the sometimes conflicting and contradictory aspects of God in the various religions and try to make sense of them all, it is little wonder that a large chuck of humanity would prefer not to know Him.
God is the function inside of us that determines our actions through the conscience. He is the doer. We believe it to be ourselves doing the action but that is not so. Think of three separate entities: the body, the mind and soul.
The body is the equipment, the mind the information gathering/analytical function and the soul (that untarnished pervading thing that makes up the stuff of the universe) the actual thing that decides what we do, say, think, etc.
Thus He is Omnipresent, in all living beings and even in the inanimate, expressing Himself at different levels of consciousness. Each form that we see is impelled by the will of God, to the extent whatever we have compiled as our experiences is just a diary of events of God’s action.
At the lowest understanding we are drones that God uses to enjoy His own creation. By giving leeway to the mind, we develop a personality and an ego. That is our collective delusion.
Now we can group ourselves in what I would call delusional cluster or belief/creed factions. Then we decide our factional delusions is the right one and the rest of them are wrong. This is called religion but are nothing more than sects ort cults.
There is only one true religion, the religion of the heart. When one sees another, and all others, as an aspect of himself, and as an aspect of God, he can’t help being good to all. For being anything else would mean you are treating yourself as you have treated the ‘other’. There is no other.
God is the Primal Cause and the Primal Substance of the Universe. The cause we can understand but it is a little harder to understand the substance.
When God created, what did he create the universe out of. Himself/herself/itself. All of the Universe is but God. Than everything we see, hear, touch, etc is but God. How can it be otherwise?
At a higher understanding, we are God impersonating as humans. My Lord and Lady Sai Baba says he is God and so is every one else. The only difference is that He knows he is God and we don’t.
That’s it. We don’t know we are God. All we have to do is to know we are God.
To know is to accept as the truth, the reality. Once we ‘know’ in it fullest sense, we will be God.
More later
It brought to the forefront the idea that we all really are delusional, each living in his or hers own made-up world of reality, each probing the world with a set of standards that give rise to judgements like “he is delusional”. The delusion of the person judged is as real to him as our ‘reality’ is to us.
My delusion is that there is a God. That a power greater than our mind or abilities is guiding the universe through its pace. For want of a better word, God is what all of us call him/her, it. and then we choose to put onto this great power a tag of our own making based on what we know of him/her/it. It could Allah, Jesus, Yahweh, Krishna, Buddha…the list is endless.
My Lord and Lady, Sai Baba says there is only one God and the wise know Him by many names. To add to that I would like to say the foolish know Him by just the one name and believe it is the only right one.
Now the various religions give their own ‘delusional’ interpretation of what God is.
What is God?
My take on this delusion
I settle for the “Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent” with the additional rider “The Great Director of Life”.
Just being omniscient (all knowing) means God knows all
Just being Omnipresent mean God is everywhere
Just being Omnipotent means God is all powerful
This would make God the basis of everything. The operating system of the universe if you will have it.
Yet there is definite design to what is happening around us. It was Albert Einstein who said that God does not play dice with the universe, and He doesn’t (pardon me for using the He epithet – it is easier than typing out all of them). He lovingly decides the path for each of us, and for all of us. For clans, for tribes, for nations, for civilisations. Not a leaf moves in the wind without His knowledge or permission.
When we take the sometimes conflicting and contradictory aspects of God in the various religions and try to make sense of them all, it is little wonder that a large chuck of humanity would prefer not to know Him.
God is the function inside of us that determines our actions through the conscience. He is the doer. We believe it to be ourselves doing the action but that is not so. Think of three separate entities: the body, the mind and soul.
The body is the equipment, the mind the information gathering/analytical function and the soul (that untarnished pervading thing that makes up the stuff of the universe) the actual thing that decides what we do, say, think, etc.
Thus He is Omnipresent, in all living beings and even in the inanimate, expressing Himself at different levels of consciousness. Each form that we see is impelled by the will of God, to the extent whatever we have compiled as our experiences is just a diary of events of God’s action.
At the lowest understanding we are drones that God uses to enjoy His own creation. By giving leeway to the mind, we develop a personality and an ego. That is our collective delusion.
Now we can group ourselves in what I would call delusional cluster or belief/creed factions. Then we decide our factional delusions is the right one and the rest of them are wrong. This is called religion but are nothing more than sects ort cults.
There is only one true religion, the religion of the heart. When one sees another, and all others, as an aspect of himself, and as an aspect of God, he can’t help being good to all. For being anything else would mean you are treating yourself as you have treated the ‘other’. There is no other.
God is the Primal Cause and the Primal Substance of the Universe. The cause we can understand but it is a little harder to understand the substance.
When God created, what did he create the universe out of. Himself/herself/itself. All of the Universe is but God. Than everything we see, hear, touch, etc is but God. How can it be otherwise?
At a higher understanding, we are God impersonating as humans. My Lord and Lady Sai Baba says he is God and so is every one else. The only difference is that He knows he is God and we don’t.
That’s it. We don’t know we are God. All we have to do is to know we are God.
To know is to accept as the truth, the reality. Once we ‘know’ in it fullest sense, we will be God.
More later
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
With such beginnings......
I started this blog as part of my social media workshop. I hope to continue this and also hope there will be people out there who may follow it.
In the grand scope of things this is a miniscule projection of information into the media called the Internet.
There are many thing we could think about but the end of times is as good a start as anything.
The last few years has seen an increase in the awareness of what we are doing to the planet. Gaia, our mother, is in a sore disposition over our reckless use of her. Can't blame her.
For Gaia we are but one of the millions species that she propagates and sustains. Granted that as a specie, we are rather advanced and that we do know or are aware at a more advanced level than other species. Nevertheless we are but one.
Let’s see it from her point of view. You do know that Gaia is a living entity with a high level of awareness, maybe more than the combined awareness of all humans, don’t you?
Over 6 billion of one of the most destructive of species is running rampant on the planet. Other species are endangered, some have become extinct and this trend is escalating. The waterways are poisoned, the land is poisoned, the air is posoned, the level of ‘use’ of other resources has risen to an unprecedented level.
Over a billion of that particular species are at the tail-end of the resource chain, eking a living out of ruined land or from scavenging. A child dies of hunger every five minutes.
If you were a mother to the entire human population (as well as the other living entities), what would you do?
You would scream for help.
That is what Mother Gaia is presently doing – just screaming. God forbid that she starts to hit out in a temper if we continue our rampaging pillage of the earth.
More next time
In the grand scope of things this is a miniscule projection of information into the media called the Internet.
There are many thing we could think about but the end of times is as good a start as anything.
The last few years has seen an increase in the awareness of what we are doing to the planet. Gaia, our mother, is in a sore disposition over our reckless use of her. Can't blame her.
For Gaia we are but one of the millions species that she propagates and sustains. Granted that as a specie, we are rather advanced and that we do know or are aware at a more advanced level than other species. Nevertheless we are but one.
Let’s see it from her point of view. You do know that Gaia is a living entity with a high level of awareness, maybe more than the combined awareness of all humans, don’t you?
Over 6 billion of one of the most destructive of species is running rampant on the planet. Other species are endangered, some have become extinct and this trend is escalating. The waterways are poisoned, the land is poisoned, the air is posoned, the level of ‘use’ of other resources has risen to an unprecedented level.
Over a billion of that particular species are at the tail-end of the resource chain, eking a living out of ruined land or from scavenging. A child dies of hunger every five minutes.
If you were a mother to the entire human population (as well as the other living entities), what would you do?
You would scream for help.
That is what Mother Gaia is presently doing – just screaming. God forbid that she starts to hit out in a temper if we continue our rampaging pillage of the earth.
More next time
Monday, November 30, 2009
Running out of time
The Mayan calendar puts its end date at 23 December, 2012. What is less known is the Puranic compilations also has an end date of 2012 for this present cycle within the Kali Yug.
The Hopi Indians and several other cultures also talk of end times.
What is interesting is that the coincidence of timing among these diverse peoples at a time when there are signs of destruction in all parts of the globe.
It is time for reverence, and a bit of awe.
Go to http://www.sathyasai.org/
for info on what you can do to survive this end of times
The Hopi Indians and several other cultures also talk of end times.
What is interesting is that the coincidence of timing among these diverse peoples at a time when there are signs of destruction in all parts of the globe.
It is time for reverence, and a bit of awe.
Go to http://www.sathyasai.org/
for info on what you can do to survive this end of times
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