How to be happy even you are gloomy?

Who does not want to be happy? If you are able to identify even a poor fellow who does not have any shelter, clothes and no provision of two times of food, he too has a tremendous hunch or desire to become happy. There are people  who are poor, stay in a one room house, somehow manage to earn a few thousands and discharge their worldly responsibilities and feel happy whatever minimum they have. They don’t grumble, don’t mutter about their poor conditions and they always laugh. They believe in a theory, “If you cannot cure, you endure.”  Psychologically, all of us want more and more comforts in our lives. We always search for various avenues that will make us jubilant.  Most of the people spend a considerable time on mental masturbation how to be happy perpetually. Despite their longings, they are always drenched in one or the other kind of sufferings. If somehow they receive the blessings of happiness by God grace, it does not make them happy as they want the same perpetually. No one likes to face sufferings, it comes as an inevitable outcome of very many circumstances in which neither you have any control nor you can impose any restriction.

 

Most of us seek happiness through the fulfillment of various wishes, but such inclination is not always guaranteed.  When you chase your desires to become happy, you may not get it all the time, as metaphorically the bright sun is  also eclipsed by dark clouds many times.  During this intermittent stage, you feel anxious, perturbed and sad which deprives you from happiness.  All the sufferings are the derivatives of your non-fulfillment.  When you have multifarious desires, you seek the pleasure of the world with abundance.  This enthusiasm to receive happiness only brings sufferings. Human beings are subject to change in conditions.  The impulsive behavior arises when you do not have any control on your mood.  At some point, you feel happy and at some other times, you feel gloomy and become sadist and downhearted.  These mood swings favorably, if desires are fructified and if not, then it brings sufferings. When you are satisfied, it gives a momentary happiness, but it is not a long lasting.  Immediately after that, you may be engulfed with anxieties. Your mood can swing your behavior. If you want to be happy all the time, you must learn the techniques to ascertain nihilism in everything. If you don’t have any longing to receive any extraordinary materialistic comforts, say you are not crazy to stay in a palatial house, you have no greed for costly wardrobe, gadgets or you don’t have desire for gold and silver jewelry and also you don’t have any greed to dine in swanky eateries, then you are not bothered about your sensual comforts.  So, why you will be afflicted with painstaking situations? When there are no painful situations, there are no sufferings.  And in the absence of sufferings, you are always happy. In reality, of course, it does not happen.  Desire is a wicked friend of yours.  It leads you to illusion.  Under this illusory influence, you get addicted for greed inviting pains. On the contrary, less desire or no desire makes you like a rock.  You are then neither moved by pleasure nor by sorrows. You are not upset by the onslaught of the opposites.  If you become steadfast and continue to sail your boat in the stream of no avarice, you will be able to get true happiness.    

 

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On the basis of the strength of your character, if you can say no to all the materialistic comforts, costly gadgets, expensive clothing, posh houses and wealthy living, you will tap the unfailing inner source of eternal and never ending blissful status. Believe it or not, the above phenomenon is not based on the glamorous objects of the world, but is completely based on your distinct spiritual knowledge of self-realization. But when  your no desire syndrome becomes  a mere showmanship, then you will not be able to accrue the benefit of perpetual happiness. The reason is that you apparently show no desire, but in reality, you crave to obtain the comforts and want to be happy.  So, this is a dual game played by you, which may make you happy for the time being, but not for long. True happiness starts when you learn the art of right adjustment to other persons and their needs. This right adjustment depends on your tenacity to forget your own identity. This value system of yours increases when you show genuine love for others.  When you reach this stage in your life, you learn the importance and influence of spirituality and convert a life of limited self into a life of love.  When you show a life of love, you reach the stage of God-realization, which provides you unlimited mental happiness and bliss. The happiness of God-realization must be the goal of all creations. You cannot visualize and understand the feeling of this stage unless you experience Godhood. Through this route, when happiness arrives in your life, you will not curb  to face any types of physical and mental sufferings of this world.  In the midst of sufferings, under the experience of Godhood, you will feel, as if there are no sufferings at all. It may not be possible for all of us to be God-realized, but still, you can focus to control your mind through yoga practice and meditation. Slowly you will reach a stage, where you will be able to allow your all pains to pain you without making you unhappy. When one becomes God-realized and attain the stage of Godhood, everything will become insignificant to him.  The happiness on the stage of God-realized is self-sustained, ethical, pure, fresh, boundless and indescribable. You will be perpetually happy, if you show your non-attachment to all the possible attachments and desire to attain God-realized state in your life.

 

Be conscious of God to lead an ideal life

People who are obsessed with awareness of conscious life, can easily interpret the objectivity of this line of religiosity. Human beings are drenched with emotional constraints and when one desire is fulfilled, they harp for another. A luscious food in an eatery with pompous grandeur satiates the need of a particular moment, only to allure us for a similar type of  desire in the near future. A small house does not serve the purpose of enough space, forcing us to become an emancipator of a bigger materialistic comfort. These endless sensual requirements throng us with thorns, and make us unhappy, gloom and despair. Why it is so? The reason is that we forget to lead a conscious life and don’t remember God in all our endeavors, particularly in the joyous moments. Mostly, we cling to an idealism of materialism rather than spiritualism. Even after your attachment with worldlings, you can very well take God in your stride focusing on the prayer, ‘’If God is with me, who can beat me and I can do all things through God which strengthens me,’’ with this focus, you will be slowing moving to lead a conscious life. It will  enlighten your soul.

Science has advanced at a horse’s pace, but is it possible to research the thoughts pattern evolved from a person’s mind. Can science conclude why a person’s mind is polluted with negative thoughts? Students are supposed to concentrate their attention on studies during school and college days, but some are busy with other state of affairs. Can science identify the realities behind these processes of activities? The strange part of science is its failure to objectify the consciousness in a satisfactory manner. If you delve deeply into the Eastern world’s philosophy, you will find that consciousness is a spiritual subject. Your chanting of religious lines everyday will definitely reduce your thoughts of greediness of materialism and ensure your affiliation for conscious living and to the spirits of  true awakening, and finally to spiritualism.

We are aware that we are in a state of bliss while  we sleep, unless we retire with the immediate past anxieties. Have you thought anytime why it is not so in our daily lives, when we awake? The mind is guided by the brain and the same is divided into two hemispheres, left and right. One provides us emotional power and the other one directs us to logical reasoning. The balance of the two makes us to lead a conscious life. Our mind is like a gold mine. It is to be dug, purified and polished and get it entangled with various positive perceptions to overcome many  sensual gratifications as  far as practical. The manifestations of your mind are actuated by your self-consciousness. Each of us has our own pattern of thoughts emitting from  our mind and the same is controlled by “I.” Remove this I from self-consciousness, you will enjoy serenity, tranquility like a wave less river.

We must differentiate the illusions from the dualities to transcend the barriers of lust, jealousy, hypocrisy and greed. Unless we are coming out from these negativities, it is difficult to lead a conscious life. The mind is restless and it always needs to be occupied with a thought, which is either related to past or future, ignoring the precious present. This past and future syndrome dominate so much that human being’s mind is almost ignorant about the present depriving them to savor the sweet fragrance of the current scenarios. Apart from this, being engaged in mundane issues and rituals every day, the mind swings constantly like a pendulum from past to future, turning into emotions. But if you control your mind and always delve deeply in the present, the power of creativity, intuitiveness and imagination are evolved which are the sources of conscious life.

In spiritualism there is no separate God, the Creator is the creation himself. God is that pure conscious or complete awareness, the supreme energy where thoughts have no role to play and where body, mind and spirit become one. The materialism says,” I am what I think” whereas spiritualism says,”I am therefore I think.” Thoughts make you egoistic and then you start to  identify most of the things as I, which brings the hindrance of growth of positivity. Contrarily, your perceptivity for higher awareness in consciousness will lead you to learn the power of creative intelligence. This cognitive power controls your thoughts and then during the flow of consciousness teaches you to identify, which one is spurious and detrimental to your growth and preventing you to embark upon the path of spiritualism. So, the mind needs to be aware to become conscious from which a battery of idea evolves and creative intelligence segregates these ideas so as to filter the positive one and you can  mull over the same. The flow of positive energy emanating from this cognitive power makes you intend what you manifest thereon, whether it is regarding your health, wealth or self.

To prevail upon a conscious life, be conscious to God and practice to remember Him all the time.

The art of planning

The art of planning is a scientifically proven concept for getting success. It is to plan and get results utilizing the resources available to you. But if the sources itself are in scarcity and you are forced to plan to achieve your goals based on your road map, then to do this planning  becomes tedious. Here you have to learn the techniques by which you can plan successfully, even with the limited resources  and accrue the benefits out of the same. To make a  proper planning as desired during that time, you have to inculcate a habit to think more with the logical power of rational thinking. You must devise the tools to plan based on the resources available to you.  This type of planning is termed by me as “Periphery Planning” after roaming on the available resources. You should not take this  periphery means visiting your resourced crunch on the surface of it. You need to introspect in depth to find out the real causes of the crunch, which prohibits you from doing the proper planning.  For example, you need to appear for an examination and you do not have the resources to purchase all the books. So, you have to borrow some books, purchase a few books and take notes from the books available with some of your friends.  In this way, you have to strike a balance and clear your examination. 

 

Now, most of us chalk out strategic planning, considering the concept of totality.  That means, unless you get all the resources in total quantities and either you are guided by someone  or self decides for proper direction, you are not planning, and ultimately you are losing the vital time and perhaps the opportunities. This is a wrong type of thinking on the part of many people. Basically, these types of  people are reluctant and mentally not comfortable to start any activity with partial resources or minimum resources. This type of thinking is against the law of nature, where every aspect of any resources is inelastic in demand. You cannot expect to create sufficient resources to fulfill your plan of actions. In fact, no one can. The reality must be that if entire resources are not available, you must reshuffle your thinking to accept the part and to start planning to achieve your desired goals. If you observe the practical aspect of many countries who hunch for total resources and then  start planning, fail miserably in their ambitions.  There is an adage, “One, who runs over the whole, leaving behind the part, loses both the part and the whole.”  Contrarily, the nations who plan on the basis of achieving partially, get maximum success.  This can be well defined from the success rate of Japan and Germany.  Whatever assets or resources these two countries were able to accumulate lost in the world war-II and  after losing, they did not decide to build the whole country again.  They focused their planning to develop first the portion, which they lost. The result was miraculous. The promising and dynamic, the then chancellor Konrad of Germany emerged as one of the promising leaders of Europe. Based on his planning acumen, he not only set right the economy of his country, but also helped his neighboring countries.  Similarly, Japan was ably guided by the Emperor Hirohito and was recognized as the super power in the economic front in Asia.  This achievement was possible because both the leaders recognized the principle and the concept of planning covering the part of the whole. 

 

If you want to achieve a fast rate of success in life, you must discard the thought what you have lost.  You must always plan and then perform the action oriented goals based on what is still remaining.  The example of Singapore is also a classic one in this regard.  Earlier, they were a part of Malaysia. In the year of 1965, Singapore was identified as an independent state. Under the stewardship of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore adopted the policy of planning based on remnants.  Though Malaysia is 400 times bigger than Singapore in the area, it is far behind in respect of economic development growth. 

 

Most of us whether individual or countries, as a whole has definite plans to grow in all aspects. But most of the time we are unable to start the planning to get the effect of the same. We always say that time has not yet come, opportunities are not plenty, market condition is bad at present and we have to mobilize more resources to do a concrete planning so that it becomes proven and achieving the results become easier and we go on giving theses types of excuses. Make a note that you will be always in the slough of these types of constraints and  if you cannot overcome, learning the art of planning will be difficult. So, it is better to start with the partial resources and  considering  all the adverse conditions, if you are able to make a planning based on practical possibilities and then conceptualize the theory of  periphery planning, you will always achieve success.

 

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The wise planning to fulfill the charismatic growth requires a close knitted action, which must encapsulate two broader aspects, namely personal ambition and available resources.  These two things when integrate with dedication and perseverance, the success is bound to come.  No one can dominate the external force.  No one is master of nature.  So, to achieve a success, we must learn the real art of planning, which is based on the available resources and how best to utilize the same.   

 

 

Grace of God is the greatest wealth in our life

Awaken your inner Guru

Just by planning, you cannot expect any benefit. You have to nurture, give continuous efforts, love to enjoy your efforts with all your sincerity and then you can accrue benefits. Remember also that the benefit what has been accrued is to be also passed on to  others.  Then only, a total cycle of competing satisfaction will be evolved. It is said that the seed is Brahma and the supreme power. The tree is recognized as Brahma.  But you cannot expect any tangible benefits from seed.  But trees can give you the benefits of shade and fruits.  To provide these benefits, the tree has to go below the ground, break out of its shell, sprout and then grow as a tree.  The tree has no ego.  It never refuses to use its existence to the earth.  If it ever thinks in that manner and feels that everything starts and ends with its own existence, the seed will not become a tree.  It will be probably trampled by the pressure of human beings feet or will be eaten by rats.  Similarly, out of our arrogance and hubris, if we always think and brag our existence, we will collapse or we will live halfheartedly.  Some people have a knack to think, “Every thing is in me.”  “Why should I be dominated by others?”  In that stage of living, we will never realize God.  We will be in the shackles of the dark alleys of worldly affairs.  Let us take a case of sapling.  When you plant a sapling, you have to nurture it regularly. You have to provide water, fertilizer and medicine.  You have to ensure and save it from the scorching sun and heavy rain.  When you take care of the sapling, it will give you fruit. Before you get a sapling, you have to ensure the seed sprouts and grows.  You need to fence the area, so that the animals are not in a position to destroy these saplings.  Once it becomes a tree after taking all care, you need not to bother much. The tree then continues to give you its fruits. Similarly, our life, till the time we attain our goals, the fence of yamas and niyams and the teachings of a guru and his influence are very much needed. Once we understand the true meaning of life and its surroundings, we will think always good for others and we will only do well, which benefits the world.  In this life, nothing is really binding us.  We will reach and touch the supreme power, once we shed all our egoist approach and we get rid of thinking in terms of “I”.  This thinking of “I” only causes harm to all our senses and we are not able to progress. So, we need to break out from the shell of “I” which only causes our downfall and invites all our miseries. Our presence in this world is like a holistic journey.  As you see a map for the purpose of navigation, the life map shows you the journey of your life from where to start, but it depends on you how ably you start, you manage your state of affair and you like to end your journey. The life map also helps us to decide to take a  route to reach a particular point. Mostly, we don’t have practical knowledge of these fundamental things, we have no practical experience and we do not have enough zeal to reach the particular point.  The reason behind this, we lack knowledge of ground realities. We may encounter many impediments and unwanted incidents in our journey.  

 

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As said above, since, we don’t have the inklings of the conditions of the journey of our lives, we always live in doubts. Whether the journey is conducive to travel or not, we have no ideas. There might be ferocious animals or robbers on the way.  The roads might not be smooth. So, if someone who has undertaken this type of journey, accompanies us, we may take his support and guidance without showing any ego. But we must trust him.  If we cast a doubt of his authenticity, then we will not have peace of mind. We must have total faith in the person who accompanies us. You have to treat and respect him like a guru and follow his commands to fulfill your mission.

 

We must focus our attention to implement the truth, what we have learned from him. We must open our heart to the guru.  Then only, we can fill our heart.  For that we must shed our ego and learn to inculcate an attitude to surrender.  For example, moisture is the reason for a seed to sprout; the same way a mother hen causes an egg to hatch. If you want to realize the “self”, you have to come out from the shell of ego.  For this purpose, not only the presence of the guru, but also his grace  is a must and your discipline to get this grace is inevitable. The true guru, the inner one is available within us, but we are not able to find because of our ego. This ego only pushes us in the dark, alley of ignorance and makes us spiritually blind.  In reality, the outer guru, is awakening the inner guru. Until our inner guru awakens, we are not able to understand the real meaning of our life and self.  In that case, we are not able to nurture the thing, we plant.  No sooner, the inner guru, is awakened, whatever we plant, nurture, and  love, it will grow to the benefits of you and the whole mankind.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Live a life wisely

God is a Creator, not a Fulfiller

Everybody is aware that God is our Creator.  He creates, sustains and also destroys.  All the actions, which take place in this universe is because of His wishes. If you contradict this thinking it will be mostly termed as cognitive dissonance.   We often take the credit of many good things happened, but in the philosophical mode of thinking, the human beings cannot do anything without the Creator’s wish and dictum.  The Creator, God is not the personal God, which human beings worship either as an idol or an image.  This theory of a personal God is our own creation.  But to understand God as a phenomenon, we must take our thoughts beyond the perceptible creation.  To understand this concept in details, we have to know some spiritual  tenets. For your understanding,God is a macro manger, God is not our wish fulfilling agent, God does not favor the creation of miracle makers and  God does not believe in this type of power shown by some self-proclaimed godmen.  Let us analyze each of these tenets one by one.

 

God is a macro manager means He is not obliged to fulfill all your desires  unless you really struggle.The phenomenon related to God does not work in micro level for most of us because that depends on your own power.  What is your desire?  What are you doing to accomplish the same?  Whether your efforts are in the right direction?  Are you really very serious to achieve your goals?  Are you not procrastinating?  Simply by putting your hands and praying to God, you cannot achieve your objectives.  Or let us take that you are a true devotee of God, still it will be impossible to achieve your goal.  All of us pray and we pray mostly to get the things done with the help of God’s charismatic power.  All people believe that if they pray, God will hear and fulfill their wishes.  People flock to the temples, take bath in the nearby Ganges or rivers, wear new clothes, stand hours together in queues and finally perform pujas or touch the idols to get the blessings with a hope that their inner desires will be fulfilled.  With hundred percent guarantee, I can say that these types of prayers are mostly unheard or in this way, it is not at all possible to get success.

 

To understand the second tenet that God is not our wish fulfilling agent, we have to introspect in depth.  It is true that by God’s blessings, some people become rich, wealthy, healthy and even famous.  Even for you, some wishes may be fulfilled, but not all.  We may pray very sincerely, but that does not mean that it will be granted. More so, if your desire is not matched to your capabilities, skills and performance records, no amount of prayers will be in a position to make you to reach the level anticipated by you.

 

For example, like you, many others approach God to get blessings and perform pujas, so that their wishes are also needed to be fulfilled.  For logical argument, let us take the case of any war or game.  One team or a party will win and the other will get defeated.  In the case of God’s also, fulfilling wishes of all, it is simply not possible.  One may get His blessings out of so many worshippers or disciples.  In another way, a person who believes in rational thinking and logical approach will believe the theory of God phenomenon and ask God to give him the best wishes only. He will not ask for any favor..  He will visit temples to see the idols, pay homage and respect and that’s it.

 

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If you analyze the third tenet of not creating any miracle by God, there are end numbers of stories showing the emergence of saints and sages. It is said that some of them earn some miraculous powers because of their excruciating lives and always become busy in religious activities and serving mankind, they  listen to the prayers of their devotees and solve the same. Most of the time, these sages prove their super power to help their disciples to get relieved from their sufferings and term the same as a miracle of divinity. However, these types of super powers are performed in certain areas and for a certain time period as these super powers cannot be taken as granted for doing the welfare of the human beings as a whole. People who are able to achieve this super power, are rare and they generally do not exercise or show such power, it only spreads across. Other than these few, mostly  the sages and saints, perhaps exploit the psychology of their devotees just to raise a faith in their mind.

 

God is the final power to guide us to the path of success.  You have to work relentlessly and engage in prayers without  any focus to receive the worldly fruits.  There are people who only pray for the purpose of spiritual objectives to get liberation. Generally speaking, if you discuss this theory with your family members, friends and relatives, they will frown at you.  Because the meaning of prayer is nothing but to get something from God by His blessings. The prayers, which you perform standing in front of the idol of your God has no meaning to get your desires fulfilled. It never works. If at all you want to pray, do so in your mind or in writing, but with a peaceful mind and closing all the doors and the windows of your mind, so that no thoughts can enter in you.  Such prayers will be heard by your sedate mind and  then God and it will bring a change in your attitude, in your behavior and in your views of worldly life.  Finally, you will be able to get liberation from your greed.  It is imperative not to pray just for your desire fulfillment.  Life must be accepted as it is, but you must perform good work.  Pray for the strength when you get pain and sufferings, so that you can overcome.  Pray for the wellness of others who help you in life.  Pray to God to show a way how you can be detached in the attached environment of desires? Once you learn  this type of prayer, you will take God as a creator, but not as a Fulfiller.