GOD at the center of everything.

                      As everyone knows and listens everyday that everyone of us has to die some day. Thus it is but obvious that life originates in something and again dissolves into something. So life comes from 'something'. Thus there must be something which is bigger than life. This 'something' is beyond life.
                       Thus original source of life must be beyond life. It just comes out of it and just goes back, just as the wave raises itself and then falls down into the ocean. Here also ocean remains beyond the waves. Wave is the momentary disturbance. It comes and dies. But the ocean remains unaffected.
                         Same is for the life. Life is just a wave. Existence is beyond life. Existence is always there, very steady, calm, unaffected. It gives rise to many lives but itself always remains the same, constant. So the one who begins to too involved, attached with life, looses existential source of life. Life is just a periphery. existence is the center.
                           We have called this existence GOD. Saying that GOD exists is wrong. In fact GOD is existence. Man exists, trees exist or may not. But GOD cannot be conceived as not existing.  GOD is existence, GOD is 'IS-NESS". GOD means "IS"! That IS-NESS is beyond the life.
                           Life is just the wave on this ocean of IS-NESS. Waves are different outside the ocean. Some are higher, taller while some are not. Some die earlier while few lasts longer. But IN the ocean they are same..just water.
                           Same is here. All we are simply same with centers of ours coinciding at the one and only EXISTENCE i.e. GOD!
                            So this oneness between all is to be understood though it is very delicate to understand!

Pleasure and Pain !

                        Pleasure and pain, these two things have completely surrounded the human life. Everyone experiences both of these things. Pleasure, happiness is what everyone needs. One always runs behind happiness.

                       But is it possible to eliminate the pains from pleasure? Is such isolation possible? Unfortunate for many, but the answer is firm no. These two are the poles of same phenomenon. It is just like positive and negative poles of electricity. North and south pole of a magnet cannot be isolated. This is same game. You cannot run away from pains, sufferings. No, you have to accept them!

                        In fact, being happy or sad for anything, is whole about your mind. It is just the projection of the mind. One can be happy in certain situation while, at the same time, other may not. So what is this miracle, magic? This is the magic of mind.

                        Such feelings are not the qualities of a person, situation. If they were, then everyone would have same feelings for the same. So here comes the role of mind. All these feelings, happiness or sorrow, are just the projection of one's mind towards the particular situation or person.

                         A person falls in love. Is it because the face, he is loving is beautiful? In fact it is because, the mind of person projects, pours the beauty to the face. So same person can be both, soothing or annoying to different people. This projection changes from time to time. The person to whom you say"I cannot live without you", may become the obstruction in your life after some incident. So that person is same, just your projection, interpretation varies.

                          So you are the master. You can handle the situation. If you decide to be happy in very difficult situation, you can be. This complete game is controlled by you then. Just projection is to be changed. For this, transcend the things which is possible only after becoming one , after completely dissolving in the situation. So become one with everything and simultaneously don't get attached to anything!      

Being Oneself.

To be oneself is the greatest achievement that can ever a human being have.Somewhere there lies some basic mistake in our total approach towards life where achieving something is promoted as the goal of life.I wonder why there should be some achievement or some goal in our life?Cannot we remain happy as we are?

There was a man, who took retirement at the age of 80, from the politics. He struggled a lot but couldn't be any minister. He had two son, of which one was in politics and very clever while other was not that much. The former one became minister at very early age of his life. The man was very proud of his minister son and he was not that much caring for his other son. 

To be very frank, the man was looking at his son as the extension of his own will. So he was loving the minister in the son and not him. This is very fatal. Society loves someone of you, within you, from you but very few love 'you'! So this approach of all make everyone very competitive, always aiming for something, always want something. No one is happy with whatever he has, whatever he is.   

Trees are happy the way they are.I am not saying that we must stop our progress or leave everything and just sit.We also should try to do something….to raise our awareness, consciousness.To be totally in tune with life is I think the greatest achievement.

Have we ever thought that in the process of running behind achievement or some goal we are losing the very totality of life?For me, rather than running behind any future achievement,to be able to enjoy present without any worry is the real achievement. Because today we are never in one situation at a time. We think of tomorrow's worries while enjoying todays joy.

So it should be very clear that just becoming is not a big deal. One should enjoy the real bliss of life. If one just go on fetching the water by the container with hole, then at the top the container will be empty totally. So in this rat race of life, the real bliss is lost. Have the feel of it, enjoy it. It is the only authentic achievement.

Be conscious.

                            Many of the philosophers and masters used to talk about the consciousness of human mind! Consciousness in itself is nothing. One is conscious "about" something; so this about is important. Such consciousness is objective. We are conscious of something and if there is nothing then we are in sleep,coma. So this so called consciousness is nothing but the disturbance, tension! Something comes in front of you and you just awake due to that wave of disturbance. Once that wave goes away, again we are in sleep. 
                            Such object-oriented consciousness is lame. It will make you dumb in the absence of "anything". Gurdjieff used to say that man has no soul. He used to say that you have got no self, because self means self consciousness; otherwise, how can you be said to have a self? He says " try to remember yourself without any object, without any relation. Remember yourself as yourself, directly, simply!" 
                             Is that possible for us to remember ourselves without any relation with anyone, without any identity, without any name,address? Can we simply feel ourselves? Can you remember yourself? 
                             Is that possible? Really difficult! This clearly proves that ours kind of consciousness is lame. So one should become aware of oneself without being related to anything,anyone, without any identity! Try to feel directly yourself without any intermediate!!! That demands a lot of honest "Sadhana" and once it is possible, you are have known "yourself", the ultimate truth!

Being nothing!

                       Everyone says 'I' want freedom, 'I' want to break all the bonds. But this is not possible as the very 'I' remains there. One cannot be 'bond-free' unless he/she becomes free from this 'I'!
                       We are always being taught that becoming free from everything is enlightenment. But this concept being 'free' is very wrongly perceived many times. Running away from this life, living in jungles, Himalayas is considered as the 'free' state. But unfortunately it is not!
                        We know that the petals of a lotus never become wet, even if they are in continuous contact with water. This is the same case! You have to be just like those petals. This is like 'inside everything but being nothing'!! That is the real way to be followed. Just leaving the lively life is not at all the way and if that were, why God would have given us such a wonderful life?  Running from the things is the indicative of  coward person.
                          A rainbow, with all the seven colours in it, is anytime more beautiful than any single colour! Same is the life! You cannot, rather should not escape from any aspect of life. Just go with the life and you will find the truth, that is just 'flow with the flow'!
                       
                       

Silence.

                  Just some days ago I was in Mumbai for some college reasons. There, I visited a church in Mahim. It was near about 5.30 in  morning when I went inside. It was a big church. First time in life I visited a church! It was really a pleasant experience.
                  The main hall was completely filled with crowd. Even after so much of the people there was an unexpected 'silence'- my most 'favorite' state. Everyone was sitting quietly in very simple, normal manner. There were no folded hands, bowing heads. Everyone was 'within himself'. Everyone was searching something inside. Many people were coming and departing but no one was caring because everyone was within!
                  That silence made me to think. Never before I had witnessed that level of silence. I think, that's the real way to follow. Silence is unreasonably needed for meditation. But it is not that one cannot be silent in the noise. Afterall silence comes from within! But to reach that stage, one has to meditate a lot which generally demands physical and outside silence! What impressed me about the church, is the simplicity followed by the people there. And I think simplicity is initial stage of silence! Silence is the fruit of simplicity. Simplicity should be properly nurtured so that it will lead to silence.
                  Every person is born in silence but he decides his death- to be or not to be in silence. So life is journey from silence to silence! The ultimatum of life is nothing but the silence. Thus to reach it, we have to just maintain silence throughout our journey so that we hardly deviate from the ultimatum! 
                  Yes, this path of silence is very hard to follow. But a will, real spark will make it!!! 

philosophy and morality

                            If we look at philosophy and morality then both the things look very much similar. But there is a fundamental difference between these two concepts. Particular philosophy may or may not be moral enough, but being moral is a kind of philosophy.
                            For the smooth functioning of society, certain guidelines are created and those are generally termed as moral things. And as everyone knows that philosophy is simply your way, view towards life. So your view i.e. philosophy may or may not be moral form others point of view, but your philosophy should be non-harmful to others which is also another philosophy.
                            There was a mystic master who used to fly away with one of  chappals from a pair. So, many times he was caught by the police.Do you think he was being greedy? Not actually, but he was doing it with the intension of giving knowledge to the people inside the jail. What can be another intension in stealing only one chappal! So his way was immoral, but not the intensions!
                             So this is the basic difference between philosophy and morality. Infact to be a moral philosopher is the golden mid-way!!

WITNESS IT

                            Whenever we come across anything new it is our natural tendency thatwe start thinking about it. The thought immediately strikes to our mind ' what may be this new thing?', ' how does it works?', ' what's its material?', ' what is it's use?' and the list is endless. Rather than observing it nicely we go on thinking about it. This makes ourselves less conscious.
                             I am not intending to say that don't think at all. But if you just think at the moment you see the things you cannot get the real sense about the particular thing. Ashtavakra is a well known saint of ancient times. In his 'mahageeta' he says " look, look and look.... just witness the things".  What he meant is to be just a witness of anything. If you observe the things very keenly then you can surely know each and everything about that and you can easily reproduce it.
                             Most of the animals just eat up the things without processing them. Afterwards they process the food eaten by them. That's the way to earn the knowledge. Just witness something..don't try to process the information immediately. Once you witnessed something perfectly, you would then surely have complete information of that. Then you can process it and convert it into the real knowledge. So just witness anything at the first moment! That's the real way to gain knowledge!

silence!

                    I am a good listener of Indian classical music. Though I am a very beginner about it's knowledge, most important is the pleasure and refreshment I get from that music! Because music is not the thing to know, rather it is to be experienced. Anubhuti of music is the main thing!
                     Yesterday I was listening to Hariharan, one of my favorite vocalist in this field. Between the song he mentioned the importance of silence for music. How true! In fact music and silence are complementary. There cannot be music without silence or the reverse. It is very important for the listener and the singer also to maitain that eternal silence. 
                       Silence is the real voice of soul. Many saints in past used to remain silent for long period and they really experienced the power of that. There is silence therapy developing recently. Fortunately India is already endowed with all this knowledge from very past. 
                        Today what we really miss is the silence. Nobody should be around is not the only requirement of being silent. It comes from within. One can really be silent at any place, any time.It is just like to be dry in full of water everywhere. The nature is silent at its own. So maintain the resonance between 
yourself and nature that's the way to experience 'that' divine silence!!

philosophy!!

         We in our engineering college have a club of some interested people named 'PHILOMYSTIC CLUB'. We meet each week and discuss our views. It is really a great experience to be part of it. Many of my friends used to ask me many questions like "what do you discuss there?", "what is philosophy exactly?" and the list is endless.
          What is philosophy? Is that something tangential? Is it something beyond understanding? The answer is firm "no". Till the date we had been told that philosophy is something for only saints or aged people. But it is really not that.
           Philosophy is nothing but your view towards anything!!! So it need not to be moral. Morality, spirituality and philosophy are completely different things.  Everyone of us is philosopher. Our view is our philosophy. Only difference between the we people and enlightened persons is that we are unaware of ourselves.
            What we want to do is simply to amplify our circles. We have to just enlarge our own views. That is we have to just become aware of ourselves! I always say that the new born babies are enlightened!!! But their    innocence, enlightenment comes from unawareness!! We wish it to be stemmed from awareness!!
            So this is what philosophy is ...so simple and so mystic too...just awareness is needed... 

IN SEARCH OF JOY.... ??

         I asked a simple question to a kid "What do you want in the life?"

        He answered very quickly " I WANT THE TOTAL JOY IN LIFE."

                    Does the kid's answer is all of ours also? Throughout the life we are running behind this joy ... but the effort is in vain...In fact everybody wants joy in his life. But running behind it is not the way.In reality there is nothing called joy.Because the thing which is joy giving to one can be totally boring to others. Thus joy is the relative thing . You can say a particular thing as joy but I will not. So there is conflict between these terms like joy, happiness and all those.

                      My question is "why we are so eager to have such short-lasting things?" What is ultimate feeling is "SATISFACTION". I am not at all willing to say that don't enjoy small moments like parties, b'days etc. 

                       What I want to convey is that have the everlasting feelings of anything that is have the complete Satisfaction. Your joy should not end up with its reasons. Don't be that much relative. Everybody is fully filled with lot of pleasure, satisfaction& joy also!! 

                       But everytime we require reason to bring this joy outside. So we are leading relative life. "The everlasting joy is satisfaction", this may be the partial definition of satisfaction.

                        I will say " ANYTHING BEYOND EVERY THING IS SATISFACTION". It simply means that satisfaction comes out of nothing. It is the natural response of the soul to the nature-existence.

                        So don't find the reasons for celebrations. The life itself is a great celebration! Enjoy it... drink it totally... accept everything, accept the totality of the life...

                        Travel beyond... FROM NOWHERE TO NOWHERE...