One Goal

One Goal: Perfection.
One Way: Remembrance.

A purpose

Absorbing the 'Truth' so much that it fills my being in entirety and provides maturity and wisdom that lasts through the cycle.

If there is one thing i want - it is to have high quality thoughts and feelings throughout the cycle. Everything else is optional.

And yes, now is the time to absorb the 'Truth' fully.
The rest will happen.

A vision

To be constantly uplifting and empowering...
Powered by loving remembrance...

Being true

Being true to myself... sharing from the heart... no "trying" of any kind.

Expressing my own true original qualities. That's what i want to do.

About everyone

Everyone is important
Everyone has a role to play
Each role is important
Each person has a need to be appreciated
Everyone is at the centre of their own life

Help by reaffirming and truly serving that importance. Talking about oneself is so lame.

Listen. To the feelings... the needs...

Making every thing count

Self worth means to be deliberate in thoughts, words and deeds. It is to value everything.

Notes to self

• Unconditional priority: Peace and happiness
  
• Love and regard for all
• Only appreciation. No other feedback until i learn how to give an injection without hurting.
• Advice only when asked for (and then too only if its clear the other one can take it)

Its fixed

I am eternal. I just do the rounds.

Everything is fixed. If its broke, it will get fixed too. For everything is always fixed.

Liberation

Liberate everyone! Set them free from your expectations...

You will feel liberated.

The Journey

We are in it together... on a journey across forever.

Childlike?

The life of a child... delighted with a little... fickle in its appreciation... completely ungrateful and forgetful once satisfied for the moment... and then restless for more...

How like me!

Opportunity in disguise

Spirituality seems to help me continually discover that what i thought i had understood well some time back, i have now evolved to not understanding it at all.

Each murli point seems to be staggering in terms of the wealth hidden within.

i feel like a clueless kid drawing a pattern on the beachsand and clapping with joy as the waves wash it away... and let me draw a fresh one. Maybe that's a clue too.

Self Discovery

Exploration... an entire world... amazing roles... sanskars... thoughts... emotions...feelings... serene and tranquil... placid lakes and majestic mountains... rushing rapids and royal stately rivers... meeting the ocean...

It is an entire world...

i don't want to be clever

i don't want to be clever. i don't want to second guess, assume, outsmart, be politically savvy, manipulative, cunning...

i just want to stay simple and straightforward, sensible and honest throughout the cycle of time.

This is the time to build sanskars to a level that they last throughout the cycle.

Loving, respectful, compassionate, appreciative, honest, sincere, diligent, truthful, dignified, optimistic, clear, simple, positive, obedient, humble, sweet, common sensical, creative, generous, constantly learning...

Feedback

Feedback is valuable. Sometimes it takes a long time to realize the value. If maturity is lacking or there is attachment to the role; feedback is not well received.

Advice... someone has considered things and given advice. i need to understand and grow to use it. Especially when that someone is God.

Talk is not really required until its necessary... or to bestow blessings.

Time. Its a crucial resource in the confluence age.

A new star is born...

i am a child of God. Fundamentally, intrinsically powerful - knowledgeful and wise, loveful, peaceful, joyful, playful... i am a master almighty authority...

i am that... i don't need to do anything to 'get there'!

Royalty. Its a life of freedom and choice... i have no needs. i am a master bestower.

There are no dependencies. I am free.

A personal life - Tyag, Tapasya and Seva... on Shrimat.

i have everything... i don't need anything. i am a child of God. God is my teacher. God is my Guide.

My focus is clear. To be enjoying this Godly student life. Savouring every moment... It is a privilege...

Living the truth... in the company of the Truth. True Life.

Absolute Truth. Mixtures have no value.

i am a diamond. He found me in a mine. Only he could recognize me inspite of all the layers of filth...

i have all the time in the world.
i am eternal.
i am a master.
The puppeteer. i play the role. The body dances in response.

There is nothing more to learn. Just be.
Be a bestower. Shower on others... on all...
Its natural...spontaneous... continuous...

Light spreads in all directions... effortlessly...

Chronic illness...and what to do...

Souls are all suffering from chronic illnesses. There is no magic split second cure.

• Yoga provides the balm so that life is pleasant as long as it is applied
• Dharana prevents severe relapses
• Knowledge gives the sense of what to do and why so there is maturity while taking decisions
• Service works best through compassion. Let no one suffer... serving also makes the soul stay aware of the restriction - the maryadas so that things are under control

Need a solution?

Just talk to Baba.

Its just common sense. Don't give excuses.

Royal Life

What am i creating?

A palace for comfortable living.
My stage is my palace.
Purity is the fortress around the palace.
My mind is the main gate of the fortress.
My intellect guards the gate.

i have many treasures in my palace.
Happiness... comfort... love... bliss... knowledge... wisdom...
contentment... self-respect...

When my stage is well protected, i enjoy myself and enjoy all my treasures. Its a royal life.

My palace is under threat when my guard is sleeping... and the gate is open to external influences...my treasures are looted away...

i need to protect my stage no matter what. i need to lock my gates with soul consciousness. And i need to discipline my guard...motivate him with love so that he serves me well.

Priorities

At any moment, i can prioritize.

What is the best use of my time?
Right now?
In the grand scheme of things?

Appreciation

If something is optional...
it is worth noticing if and only if...
it is something i can appreciate.

There is no point in doing an insightful analysis into what is wrong with a situation.
The world is not at its best today. There are plenty of things that are wrong.
Analysis is not needed for optional things.

Drama & Plans

Having a sense of purpose... and wanting to align life according to it... its laudable.

But the drama of life works in a different way.
Nevertheless, what turns out is better than what was planned.

However, if there is no plan, nothing works out.

Interesting... maybe someone upstairs has something to do with it...

Amazing

It is a lottery to watch the power of principles in action...

You see a face lined with worry... with sorrow...
You see principles being conveyed as appropriate...
You see the face light up with joy... with hope... with a fresh outlook...

Wow.

The changes are temporary... and sustaining them needs practice... but...

Wow.

Straight Talk

Being matter of fact is the way to keep life simple.

No assumptions.
No pretensions.
No hidden agenda.

Just plain facts.

Why

Exploratory why.

To do

Experience. Just do it.

Stop. Check. Change. Fly.

Pleasure and Pain

Pleasures if i reach my destination

• Deep satisfaction of being a worthy child
• Pride of being a good student of God
• Joy of being useful to others
• Freedom and independence
• Openness
• At ease everywhere, all the time
• Enjoying everything
• Self Mastery...
• Loved by all, love for all
• Appreciating everything
• Full of all arts-easy competence
• Belonging to all...
• Being always in the present
• Richness... of spirit, wealth, space, health, relationships, friends...
• Experiencing bliss all the time
• The joy of discovering
• Authoring scriptures, studying and discovering spirituality/philosophy
• Inventions, learning
• Heartfelt prayer and worship
• Meeting God and listening to the wonderful murli
• The bliss of knowing it all
• The cycle will repeat, we will do it each time!
  

Pain if i miss my destination

• Oh how stupid! To miss out this outstanding opportunity...
• Self respect destroyed. Self pity instead
• Can't face Baba or family
• Repentance
  

Goal

1. Staying beyond while fully active
2. Every activity - focused, time bound, purposeful
3. Essenceful

His Personality

Unconditional Love

Choices

• Use of the intellect. 'Coz it makes sense
• Don't have to do it, yet do it
• Can do it, yet don't

Purusharthi Goals

• Soul consciousness
• Non-stop relaxation
• Deep yoga
• Non-stop enjoyment
• Metamorphosis

Wonderful question

'Do you understand?'

Carelessness

• Unncessary eating, talking, doing, thinking, reading, analyzing, research
• Doing what has always been done without a fresh relook
• Ordinariness
• Curiosity
• Lack of depth
• No remembrance/ Low remembrance
• Distraction during free time

His Personality

Baba's Personality

• Simple clarifications
• Tireless repetitions
• Matter of fact
• Thought for contemplation
• History
• Self Respect
• Analytical skills
• Story telling
• Religion establisher
• Motivaton
• Loveful interaction
• Totally positive

To be with you

Alone. No obligations... this is just a game. i just stay with you...

Stop that mental chatter

Silence Please! Its Once in a cycle knowledge.

Key Questions

How can i add value substantially? Sustainably?

It repeats

It just repeats.

What a game!

What a game! What a task Baba! What a task!

5 points

5 points to remember and bring into day to day life.

1. Keep my goal in the mind
2. Maintain respect for my own good qualities
3. Develop concentration in any area by looking at good points and creating interest
4. Maintain a learner's attitude
5. Playing is the best way to learn

High aim

High aim- big picture view- full knowledge - unlimited dispassion - No need to know
High aim - key performance metrics. Meaningful life, Common sense.

Its a drama to be enacted live. Otherwise it would be artificial.

Getting things done

Everything i do... i get it done by you...

Focus: i am the creator of my destiny. But i'd like you to shape it and perfect it.

Explaining concepts

How can i explain to myself first...
Explaining to others follow naturally.

Sometimes though... when i explain to others, i understand better. Hmmm.

Learning and Teaching. They are wonderful together.

Communication

As i speak or think, the other receives...

When thoughts are elevated, they reach out to Others

Signs to check

Proving => Lack of faith
Seeking => Lack of attainment
Laziness and carelessness => Lack of self esteem => Lack of Faith

'Awakened mind' excerpts

"A Yogi is aware of all things being OK at all levels" - BK Jayanti

"Hathayoga vs Rajayoga -> Soul consciousness brings in calm breathing...relaxed body

-Beta (mundane)
-Alpha(opens door to spiritual reality)
-Theta(personal insights, creativity, realization)
-Delta(experience, empathy, connectedness)

There is lots of research on these topics but people don't know how to get there.

Baba shows us how to get there - Soul consciousness and create positive thoughts of truth and reality. Creative solutions come in the quiet state of the mind. Baba's answer - its all going to be all right.

If i have done something wrong-let me sort it out. If its others, let me let go and forgive. Lack of forgiveness is my problem. Healing of things that i don't understand happens through God's love and silence.

The awakened mind - ability to go through all levels at will. Freedom - flexible, not rigid, aware of many levels of all the stages and see from all the perspectives... all aspects of time.

Main message - slow down the thoughts. When the mind is quiet, Baba's love reaches us."

Renunciation

Renunciation - use of words as the primary means to inspire, encourage and motivate.

The need behind pretense

The need behind pretense is a longing for respect. Self respect fulfills that need.

Positivity is natural

The absence of vices and weaknesses is not passive. Positivity is the natural nature. When negativity subsides, positivity naturally reigns. Suppression of negativity does not help.

Why should i not be completely happy - when God is teaching me?!!!

Goal - Tortoise

Silence - Non justification - Humility - No feedback

Hmmm. The stage should reveal the truth.

Signs of 'i and mine'

• Trying to prove using words and knowledge... exertion
• Struggling with body consciousness from time to time.
• Inventing new tricks for purusharth instead of following the basic directions in the murli.

Allowing things to happen

I don't have to make things happen or force them. Just do the needful and stay quiet. Let the stage do the work.

Patience. Dignity. Maturity.

Royal offer

"We treat all as kings. We are real and royal."

Souls are kings, not cattle. Offer an insightful example. If the sample is good and offered with respect, it will be accepted.

Owner vs Tenant

Only the owner of the house can demolish and reconstruct it. Tenants can only repair it!

God is so different from the Religious Establishers!

Mindfulness

Learning more has its limitations. Mastery of the essence is all that is needed...

In that context, came across the interesting quote from urbandharma at 43 folders post on mindfulness:

Don’t ponder: You don’t need to figure everything out. Discursive thinking
won’t free you from the trap. In meditation, the mind is purified naturally by
mindfulness, by wordless bare attention. Habitual deliberation is not necessary
to eliminate those things that are keeping you in bondage. All that is necessary
is a clear, non-conceptual perception of what they are and how they work. That
alone is sufficient to dissolve them. Concepts and reasoning just get in the way. Don’t think. See.

Never Battle

Something really worth thinking about... from relax7

Never Battle Never fight. Nothing is worth fighting for. Wisdom never
fights, it waits patiently, speaks positively, releases easily, sees benefit in
everything and envisions a future of abundance...knowing that all needs will be
met at the right moment, in the right way. If you think life is a struggle you
will always be struggling, If you think life is a breeze, your attitudes and
actions will convey lightness and easiness. And that's what attracts everything
you need, and much more. Make today a breeze not a battle.

Pretense

Memo to the Self

DO NOT PRETEND.

It is obvious to one and all... Truth does not stay hidden... and why bother hiding it?

Toning down the bads, bumping up the goods, highlighting the nice aspects, justifying the mistakes, impressing others, exaggerations and understatements... uhhh.

Pretense is so dangerous... to the self really, more than to anyone else. It is so utterly foolish... and so subtle.

It stems from a desire to be appreciated... from a lack of self respect.

What a sorry state of being.

Trusteeship

Trustee is usually considered to be one who holds others' money/possessions with oneself... in trust, without misusing it.

But there is a nice positive, insightful definition...

"Trustee is one who hands over all belongings to God"

And since God doesn't really take away anything, it remains with the same person... in trust... in a real lasting way. And can one ever misuse a resource that belongs to God?

Actually such misuse does happen... and its probably a sign of how dull the intellect is... and how poor the recognition of God...