Spiritually Growth

What happens when you suffer? You do not know where to turn to. You have talked to doctors but did not work. You have consulted councilors and still not helping. You go to church or temple and you get peace briefly. Sufferings takes you to spirituality. All suffering is an invitation from God to evolve spiritually. Our need is inner peace. Get into Yoga and learn to meditate.

Settling Accounts

It is possible that we did something bad in our previous life and now in this life I do not remember what bad stuff I did and here is a person who is yelling and screaming at you and you have no clue, just accept it , surrender and let him yell rather than WHAT ? WHY?. Let him do that and accept that you have some previous life account to settle. Keep in mind that we are all evolving at our own pace, one friend may be ready to sort things out and other is not even ready to talk to you. Leave her and send your good wishes to that soul. She will settle her account when she is ready. Not your problem but hers.

Protein per day

You only need around 45grams per day. If you eat more than that , your body flushes it out. Temples usually serve "Satvik food" which means more pure, high energy foods.

Karmic debts

Negativity of the past or present leads to karmic debts. It must be paid. Karmic accounts must be settled.

You can settle them by two different ways.
1. By doing yoga and meditation
2. By suffering.

Students

Students have no concentration power as their thoughts are impure. Change is only one thought away. Purify your thoughts by meditation. Healing comes to your soul from sitting still.

Law of Karma

Law of Karma says that we are responsible for
our complete life,
our situations and
our state of mind.

Thats why " Your life is in your own hands"

Intelligence and Intellect

Intelligence is how academically successful are you. You are a lawyer, doctor etc shows how intelligent are you.

Intellect is how wise are you. It is your decision making faculty, filtering what is wrong or not. It is like someone offers you a cigarette and your intellect decides to accept it or not. Parents generally say to a teenager to use your intellect when they are not around. This decision is made by your soul, your spirit and your inside knows what is right or wrong.
I am in awe when I meet people with big professional degrees with hardly any intellect.
It is hard to have respect for people like that. When I meet someone, I do not care what degree they hold or how much money they make,i like to see how they treat me. Do they appreciate who I am as a person or they are bringing condescending attitude with them. You can be a director of some organization but if you think you are the one who can manipulate others, I feel sorry for you. This person probably has no real friends.

Best thing is intelligence with intellect.

Kabhi Khushi, Kabhi Gum

Sometimes happy, sometime sad is the meaning of the title. Signals(Kabhi Gum) is a punishment from God to settle your karmic account and look inside for happiness, not outside. We have to settle our karmic account by either suffering or by doing Yoga. Develop relationship with God by meditating to be healed so you do not have to suffer. If you follow yoga philosophy, your emotions should stay very much stable in good times and bad times. Happiness is our original nature.

Recharge your batteries

When you get sick, you go and see your doctor, your family doctor may send you to a specialist because it needs further attention. Same way when your soul is tired, emotionally drained, sad, no one can help, doctors cannot help, then you have to go to the right doctor( God) to make your soul feel better. It is like your car battery is dead and it needs a boost. That's when you meditate to visit your God to get your soul well again. For some people,it could be that you connect better with nature, Ocean, gardening( mother earth) listening to nature could be your connection to the higher power. You have to visit him more often to keep yourself better.

Food

Food should be cooked with a right state of mind otherwise cooks thoughts are going to go into the cooked food and it will affect the people who are eating it. Indian temples serve " Prasad" every time they have religious event. Try eating the Prasad that is cooked in the temple and the one not cooked in the temple. Taste the difference.

Prayers

Prayers can connect you to the higher power. Prayers can purify our mind. We do become aware of God's grace. God's love is always available to us, we have to be open to accept the gift. As Sri Ramakrishna( Hindu saint) said "The breeze of His grace is always blowing You have only to raise your sails to catch it."

Your life is in your own hands.

As you sow, so shall you reap. Newton's third law of motion is " To every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction" . If you give happiness to people, you get happiness back from people. That is what Law of Karma is.

Am I there yet?

Lot of people are trying to attend a yoga class, mostly for the physical part. To look good or get rid of physical stress etc.
But yoga is much more than that. Real yoga is WORK on yourself. That is hard work. Imagine changing one of your old habit. It is so hard but we keep trying changing other peoples habit. We are always expecting others to change, trying to sort it out. May be it all works at work because you have to get things moving and it is all intelligence but at home, your intellect kicks in and things are different. A grandmother trying so hard to so the son/daughter visits her with grandchild so she could bond better but the couple is not really listening. That is very frustrating for the grandma.

Someone has to bring some change. It is the grandmother as she is the expected to be the one with intellect. Couple is young. They are not there yet to apply real yoga in their daily life. Grandma is.

Question arises, " Is grandma ready for meditation". Lot of people are reading books and they think they know. Actually they do know but knowing is not enough, willing is not enough either. Action is needed. ACT ACT ACT......
Try to work on the intellect, try to apply yoga in daily life. Learn to MEDITATE.

Mantra repetition

"Freeing your mind from constant worries" is the meaning of the word MANTRA. " OM SHANTI SHANTI OM" is a mantra. If you chant that three times, will balance body, mind and spirit. It means peace peace peace.

Happiness

I read somewhere that Happiness is not a destination , it is a method of life.

Why Meditate ?

Why Meditate? Why Breathe? Why eat? Meditation is a state of being. It is a state of awareness. Doing nothing is called Meditation. It is about experiencing emptiness. It is a way you open your inner eyes to enjoy the bliss. The peace experienced during meditation works as a cream to soothe your mind. It relieves you from the stresses of life.

Stressproof your body

According to Dr. Oz , take Multivitamin with B Complex everyday to alleviate stress and anxiety.

Do nothing for 1 hour

It is not normal these days to do nothing. Everyone is busy today. We fill up each and every hour of the day with some activity. We have to make an appointment with our self to not do anything today. Let your soul relax today by doing nothing.

Children are our great teachers

When a child is born, he/she is born with 7 original impressions like happiness, peace, knowledge, purity, bliss, will power and love. We as human being learn lot of wrong stuff as we struggle through life. If we can look at our young children, it reminds us of our original impressions that we should try to bring back in our daily life.

It is all about you (part 2)

As I said before, it is all about us. When trying to resolve a conflict with another person always use " I see" " I feel" " I think " " I want " Stop using "You" language. Other person will not feel blamed and you will get the result you want. It is all about us, nothing to do with the other person. Join yoga to get to know yourself better.

It is all about you.

If your friend says something to you and it makes you feel bad, keep in mind that it may have nothing to do with that friend. You may start not to talk to the friend or avoid that friend all together. Try to sit in stillness and silence and repeat the words that that person said, try to make a connection with your inside, may be something happened in your childhood that you could never resolve, as soon as you make that connection, you will not feel bad at all, actually you will feel relieved and you may go back and be friends with that person again. No point shooting the messenger.

Honey and lime tea

Start your day with honey and lime tea. Lime becomes alkaline inside your stomach and has more vitamin C in it. Use warm water to make the tea and DO NOT eat anything for an hour. It will work on undigested food left in your system.

Satvik Food

I see our youth going for fast food at lunch time. It could be Wendy, McDonald, Pizza french fries along with pop which is pure sugar. As we know that God lives in our heart. Your soul connects you to your heart. "WHAT ARE YOU FEEDING HIM" is a question you need to ask yourself. Feed him the pure "SATVIK" food. Satvik food is cooked by a person who has good thoughts in their mind while cooking and as much organic food as possible.