Thinking your way to perfection

Fascinating comment in the murli today...

You think your way to perfection... just sitting, thinking and transforming. Wah! Isn't it amazing!
No heavy work needed. Its all about the intellect. It needs to be so broad...

And frankly, it is so dull today... just doesn't budge.

'Poor Baba, He has to deal with such dull headed souls whenever He comes...'

Impactful presentation

We have seminars and conferences... and yet, its more talk than visual and experience.

Need to consider what makes an overall powerful experience.

It is so easy to forget...

Real eyes ation

To Realize something is quite an effort. Sometimes of course, it is without effort but is a result of an experience... but when it is pro-active, there is value.

It takes time, attention, dedication, deep pondering...and then more time for it to settle...

Real eyes... i have to keep these open to see the Truth. Only then can the Truth take me beyond with a glance.

Level changes in efforts

Each level change in purusharth needs a paradigm shift in consciousness.

A new target: service through own purusharth.

What does it mean?

What does it mean -

• to be married to God?
• to have God as a child?
• 'complete purity'?
• remember me through all relationships?
• destroying your sins through the fire of yoga?
• to imbibe the complete knowledge?
• spinning the discus will make you an emperor?
• that i am going to die?
• that the cycle is coming to an end?
• to be the emperor of the world?
• make me the only heir?
• to surrender fully?
• faithful intellects are always victorious?
• in the furnace, there should be remembrance of none but one?

Mediocrity and the wonder of life...

The masses are so mediocre. Few ever think.

If i look at my life, i wonder again and again. How could i be so short sighted! If i weren't so short sighted, i would not have believed this to be possible! It is so silly.

This world - how funny it is! Imagine - you sow a seed and put some water and some cowdung or whatever fertilizer... and with time it actually yields some fruits...or vegetables...or cereals! And then, we cook 'em and eat 'em...a seed, some water, some cowdung... and sunlight. And we say, yummm! What a wonder this world is... a ceaseless wonder.

Who would believe it if it were not actually true! And everything is fleeting. No wonder the monists went away declaring it all to be an illusion.

Truth has so many perspectives... and yet there are no seers really. A game with no spectators... a drama with no audience.... for the audience is formed from the actors...

An interesting offer

I've got an offer that none can refuse and yet few will ever accept:

"Sweet Child, if you consider yourself to be a soul and remember me, I guarantee that I will destroy all your sins!"

Amazing, but true! Now i need to figure what is my next step. And He is watching me closely too... Interesting game, this.

Flexibility

Adjusting with everyone is a great art... and yet the core is simple... appreciate the goodness in the other, and then try to enable their growth... and adjustment is natural.

Wah my fortune! To be associated with so many sterling jewels... the stars on Earth...this is such a privilege...

Honesty defined

An honest flower is one who is never influenced by Maya. - Dad.

Wah! What a definition!

The Master

The master does not plan. He waits in the awareness that drama will unfold for the best. 'He' sits waiting, watching and leveraging every event for the best...

Every ball a sixer!

Success is guaranteed for the calm, conditioned and carefree mind.

Pleasantness is a great trait. Self-righteousness is a great bane.

Back from sweet hOMe

Whirlwind tour at sweet Madhuban... and as always tons of direct and indirect learnings...

Decisions, decisions, decisions...all personal decisions. Nothing else matters really. Interesting role changes... purusharth is truly the lever to change 'my' world.

What i do in terms of service doesn't truly matter... (maybe it does, but this is a different point) Baba is using me in so many different ways... qualities are emerging with time... the details, the successes, victories... these are not important. Nothing is important actually... these are just passing phases... but it is interesting to observe how the law of Karma comes into action with such elegance...

All service activities are just lessons in dharana. Interaction with other souls is also just an ongoing lesson in dharana.

Growing fast in service maybe harmful... as the capacity to sustain may not be there... but growing fast in knowledge, yoga and service is always good.

Service is Baba's responsibility. i just need to be a good example.

Silence and introspective detachment are necessary tools in service and interaction.

Genuineness and excellence command respect. Humility and respectfulness too...

Who am i... or how do i appear to be?

How many unnecessary thoughts come in the mind... most of them stem from the desire to be perceived as good... Love (in the guise of respect) is truly a great motivator...

Responsibility

Just because a soul is given a role... it does not start playing it. Acceptance of the role is necessary. The responsibility must be accepted as an instrument. The rest just happens...

The Stinker

The mind has thoughts...
The Sanskaras are like an old open sewer... a river that turned into a drainage...
The intellect is the covering lid the keeps the stench away...

Once in a while when there is carelessness, the intellect slips and the sanskaras are exposed.
Oh what a stinker is raised! Enough to kill.

Soon the intellect is back in action hiding these sanskaras while the internal cleansing continues...

Its quite a journey before the drain turns into pure drinkable water from the flowing river again

An Open Secret...

An open yet profound secret...

• You are what you think...
• You are what you believe...
• You are what you choose...

Listen

Listen to the murli afresh each day. Live it.

Hmmm... the main enemy - this time its different

The main enemy is... actually the main area of improvement is determination...

But this is different from the understanding i had earlier about laziness... that is true... but this is a different determination than brute force determination that i had rejected earlier...

The wise and the ignorant behave alike... but their understanding is way different... i sure am still very ignorant in terms of understanding what Baba wants me to understand...

The words are there... but the import is yet to be fully grasped. Interesting...

Thirty years and three more

Thirty years and three more...

A third went into childhood and playing
A third went into youth and learning
And a third went to God and being...

What a life!

Teacher's Day

Thank God... the Supreme Teacher!

Knowledge and service are two subjects where the focus goes automatically...
Yoga and inculcation needs to be focused upon now...

How can i become the greatest yogi once again?
Aha... my beloved has arrived...my life is made.

There is nothing as enjoyable as enjoying oneself in service...being immersed...it is exhilarating!

Much ado about nothing

In this amazing game, i often get caught up in the details... but hey... it just doesn't matter. Well, actually it does, but like they say, after the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box...

Responsibility brings about a HUGE difference in perspective.

Rest or Restless

(Any point has multiple perspectives... when we listen to the murlis, we see different facets of His personality, each of it is useful to us... this sharing is with that in mind...)

Restlessness is a sign of impending progress. We move to seek comfort.

In this life, each second should be better than the previous one. Even if you are doing service very well, the question is, what is new? Have you changed within? Has the world changed? Are they writing their opinion - yes, the Brahma Kumaris are revealing the Truth - God is not omnipresent, the Ganges is not the purifier, the Purifier is God alone; the Lord of the Gita is not Krishna, but incorporeal God, the Supreme Soul...

Until the confluence age is over, you cannot really rest. Your heart should be "jumping" to do more service. The history-geography of the world, the knowledge should be dancing in your intellect...

As your vision, so is the world. Life offers test papers in accordance to your stage. You need the hammering... to become an idol...The storms are your gifts for progress. Your job is to pass them. If you fail... stop, introspect and then move on faster with this new learning. The experienced one does not get deceived.

Your stage may be good, but the efforts may be low... On the other hand your stage may not be good but your efforts may be outstanding. Then, its a matter of time before your stage also becomes good. The main point is consistency of effort making. The good is often the enemy of the best (Being good may often deter you from progressing further... complacency may set in and you may feel you know it well...). Consistent effort making will help you become the best. As Baba says, it is "number wise, ***according to effort***"

If the situation goes out of control, give the control to Baba. Actually, if the control was with Baba in the first place, things would have worked out well... don't carry the burden... give the responsibility to Baba...and yet be a worthy instrument.

Each Vice is a power. Know how to leverage it by changing it into positive. (there is a murli on this) Lust should be transformed into good wishes and pure feelings... Anger into determination and so on... (Its also the way it is done in judo... the opponents' force is leveraged to conquer them).

Learn from the situations how to grow and transcend them. There is the story of hanuman... when the opponent was big, he would become small... when the opponent was small, he would become big... be creative... and learn to handle each situation as appropriate...

Watch your heart dance

Watch your heart dance... your heart, the one in the soul...

"The dance is the dance of knowledge... the dance of the unlimited history and geography!"

Wah, what a dance!

"The seed is so small... its a wonder that it bears so many fruits!"

Such amazing points of knowledge... sometimes i really wish that the confluence age should never end... and i should forever have such a lovely lovely teacher...

What If...

Oh what if... the family adopts blogging at large... it would be a lovely blogosphere in itself!

Leap of faith

This is the confluence age... the leap age... you must take the jump from the old to the new...

Wah Baba! You are the eternal poet!

The great deception

Someone is asking for the way... if i don't know the way, i should not point someone to a wrong direction...

The wonder of drama is that everyone points the way to God without knowing anything...

God says, i come to destroy unrighteousness and establish righteousness... i come to uplift the sadhus too...

What a deception it is... the darkness of ignorance becomes total when souls start telling others of the way to light... without knowing what it is...

The true guru... the satguru is only one.... no one calls themselves the satguru... because they cannot... they are not...