Purpose of my life

Movies bring out the best potential of an actor on the screen. This is the purpose of the Director.
Souls purpose is to come down on Earth, wear a physical costume(body)in this world and give the best performance in this world.

To give best performance, I need to know my potential. Soul has to wear a physical body costume to express the potential and experience it.

We all know inside us what is right or wrong, soul will stop you from doing wrong things. Sometimes knowingly, we do wrong things. Then we react to a reaction and it goes on. This is our battle ground of resolving, creating, settling karmas. Your life is in your own hands.

life is purposeful only when we do things by

Awareness
Relationship (exchanging energy)
Creativity(thoughts, actions)

Whatever energy we give( thoughts, decision and action) we will get same energy back.

Our Body ( Part 2)

Our physical body is actually 3 bodies in one. But it has 5 layers or sheaths or 5 envelopes called KOSHAS.
1. Physical body is covered by food envelope called Anna Maya kosha, what we see in the mirror. Second sheath is called Prana Maya Kosha where prana lives and moves also called AURA.
2. Astral body( emotional) has a sheath called Mano Maya Kosha where part of mind becomes aware of emotions. Vijnana maya kosha is the next envelope where house on intelligence and wisdon ( intellect) lives.
3. Causal body ( subtle or soul) is covered by one sheath called Anand maya Kosha where energy connects you to Universe. We are all one in this Universe. Our souls are interconnected.

We have to be in great shape to get to the causal body.

Our Body ( part 1)

Our body is made up 3 parts, though in the mirror we see only 1 body.
1. Physical ( Outer) body... . It is about 30% of the whole body. It follows Yama, Niyama and asanas of the ashtang yoga.

2. Astral( Emotional) body... It is about 60% of the whole body. Breathing, pratyahar, cancentration and dhyan are followed by emotional body.Our Aura lives here. It transport the spirit.

3. Causal ( Subtle or soul) body. ... It is about 100% of the body. It surrounds the inside of the physical body. It holds the spirit and can be reached by Meditation and Samadhi

What affects our Thoughts

"You are what you eat" is a common saying. Thoughts are created by the information going in, TV, media, computers, we live in the information age. It means what we see, hear etc. It means choose your friends wisely. We eat vegetables grown by using chemicals. Whatever kind of food you eat is the kind of mind you will have is a common saying in India. Thats why student have trouble focussing. Thought is also energy, consumption of energy. Creating thoughts is also Karma, positive or negative.

To purify the mind

Eat pure food, cooked with in a good state of mind and eat food in a good, calm atmosphere. Do not eat in front of TV, do not forget you are feeding your soul.
Eat quietly. No discussions at the dinner table.

Being to Human Being

we are souls. We are just Being in God's house. Soul never dies. Soul's mind and intellect has to visit God's house to get energized. Soul cannot leave the body. When a physical body dies, soul enters ( after 3,4 months of pregnancy)another body and become Human Being.

Sometimes when you happen to go to an Indian temple , they give a pinch of ash as persad. It reminds people that we as humans beings are made up of 5 elements, we came in this world with nothing but we will go with nothing as well. So do not get attached to material stuff. We become Human Doing from human being. We came alone and we will go alone. We have a short shelf life here in this body.

Parts of a MIND

1. Conscious mind
2. Subconscious mind
3. Unconscious mind.
Slow the breadth to slow the mind and relax the body too.
Conscious mind analysis everyday. Use breathing to relax the mind and the body.
Subconscious mind is a container of our thoughts. It holds onto our fears. It cannot separate facts from fiction. If it is not clear, then it overflows into unconscious mind. It means we must clear this container on a regular basis with meditation. You can use mantras to neutralize the thoughts. Meditate, meditate everyday or have God Time everyday.
Unconscious mind is the difficult part of the mind. It is not understood yet.

Three monkeys of Mahatma Gandhi

Everyone knows about Mahatma Gandhi, got India independence by following nonviolence.

He represented his teachings with the help of three monkeys.
First monkey covers his ears........represents......Hear no evil
Second monkey covers his mouth......represents......speak no evil
Third monkey covers his eyes.........represents..... see no evil.

Meaning of all is cut out all negativity from your life. Make wise decisions by filtering your thoughts with a result your actions create positive impressions.

Somehow these lines have formed an impression on my mind from my childhood

Bura maat dekho
Bura maat suno
Bura maat bolo
Which is the same three lines in Hindi. We somehow memorized them , but we had forgotten that the purpose was to apply them.
We can try them now.

21 Day Negativity Fast

I read an article on Oprah.com written by Caroline Myss where she talked about 21 day negativity fast and she suggested

Take one day at a time
Do not advertise your fast
Do not talk about anything negative in your life.
Walk away from negativity
Do breathing and meditation.

Fits in very well with yoga philosophy to keep your mind, intellect and impressions positive. This can be achieved by being aware that you are a soul , soul will create thoughts(keep it positive), let intellect filter only positive and body takes positive action and create positive impressions or habits.

The process will turn you towards purity, renew you, clear your garbage from your subconscious mind by bringing your basic qualities of love and compassion on the surface.
Give it a try, what harm it could do.

Pleasing God

I do not need to please him. He is my father. He can never be angry. He gives unconditional love.
Sometimes people do things in fear thinking that God would get angry if I do not do this or that. He does not want any physical things. People can exploit you when you have no knowledge.
He gives you unconditional love. Have complete faith in him. All he wants you to do is to know who are you. You are a soul. You have your power to change things. He wants you to use your mind and intellect, apply spiritual intelligence.
Visit God more often and strengthen your relationship with God.
God Says " We need to talk"
God Says " I love you, you, you you......

Body Consciousness to Soul Consciousness

When I started to volunteer my time to teach yoga, I was excited that I am volunteering but then enthusiasm started to die down as I started to think that there is no gas money paid even, how would I go in snow etc etc. I was creating all these thoughts in my mind and I was in Body Consciousness(awareness) generating negative thoughts.

A gentleman came and offered me money for teaching Yoga at a different location.
Then I started to ask myself " Who am I ". Answer was that I am a soul. I am here to improve myself, pay karmic debts. I earn for myself when I go to work but why not do for others now. I started to change my thoughts and make my wise decision and started making my habit to volunteer. I became more aware that I am a peace loving soul.

Then I started going to volunteer without any doubts in my mind, no expectations, no questions, somehow, God will clear all the roads for me the day(time) I was volunteering. I switched to positive thoughts. I decided not to take that assignment for money. I switched to Soul Consciousness( awareness). I am a soul and others are souls too.
I am happily doing it and generating positive thoughts.

Job satisfaction

You know you are a soul. Your mind, intellect and personality resides in the soul. Repeat that to yourself few times a day. Meditate everyday.

Changes will start to happen.
Meditating everyday will start to make you happy from inside
not outside.
Happiness is a journey.You did have a job before but now you are doing your job happily. You are internally happy but not looking for happiness by being workoholic i.e I will be happy when I finish this job. You are happy but you will finish your job happily too. You very very happy now. You are getting job satisfaction.

How is the Karmic Debt created?

Friend A borrows $1000 from friend B and did not pay back in that lifetime.
Both are dead now.
Soul B needs his money even in the next life from soul A.
Physical body dies but soul does not.
Soul A has created a karmic debt already.
Soul B goes to soul A and asks for money back in the next life but they look different.
Friend A does not remember in this life. Friend A has a debt that he/she has to pay .

How to settle your karmic debt...

Soul A without asking why etc should give $1000 to soul B saying that she/he had to settle some account from the previous life if the person wants to settle.

Try settling it now.
But We have trouble accepting it. So we keep creating negative energy.

Empower your children

Mothers usually complain that child does not study. They yell, complain and child still does not change his habits. If mother says to the son yes, you can do it but in her mind she says that he cannot do it, then that is not going to work because you are passing negative energy of the mind to the child. This is not going to work.

So what to do?

Mother needs to change her thinking by creating positive thought in her mind that he is a soul and he can do it, then same vibrations goes to the child and he starts to get positive thoughts too. She is changing and so is he. Now mother is empowering her son.
We all want to change but do not have the strength.
Do meditation to get the strength everyday.

EMPOWER YOURSELF FIRST BEFORE YOU EMPOWER OTHERS.

Who Am I

Start questioning yourself "who am I " will change everything. You are a soul but soul expresses through a physical body.
Any actions done in body consciousness are negative actions
any actions done in soul consciousness are positive actions.
Some actions are neutral too like going for a walk.
As soon as you become aware of it, your actions start to become positive because now you know that you are a soul and so are others too. Becoming aware means that you are responsible for your actions. You probably did something in the previous life but you have to pay now by accepting your responsibility. we just do not remember that we did it.
Thats when you start bringing changes and start creating positive actions.
You start to break the cycle. You start to pay your karmic debts.

Why are we SUFFERING

We are not settling our accounts. Karmic account is heavy. We have layers and layers of it, one on top of the other. We see lot of depression, sadness, people cannot enjoy life. Children are born and they are sad. Why? We carry our accounts from one life to another. We can settle them by

suffering or by
meditation.

Take the easy route. Do meditation. It is soooooo simple.
Try doing 1 minute 3,4 times a day.

Five Impressions of your SOUL

According to Brahma Kumaris, there are 5 impressions on the soul.
1. Genetic (inherited from parents)
2. Past life
3. Environment ( from friends, school)
4. Will power ( you created them by deciding not to play 649)
5. Original ( Love, happiness, peace, will power, knowledge(who am I), purity and bliss, total 7)

We do forget our original nature. By meditating, we bring the original impressions up or in other words, we become more positive.

Grieving

When mother dies, children have very hard time accepting the fact that she is dead. Physical body has a short shelf life. Love is with the soul.
Mother was a soul but in a physical body. Physical body is dead but the soul does not die. It is energy, power. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can change from one form to another. Soul has moved into another body. Physical body has gone.

Try to send peaceful vibrations to the soul of the mother.
Child should meditate.
Empower your own soul.
Try to understand the concept by knowledge to deal with your pain.

Painful Mind

Most of the people have a habit of narrating the hurtful event to their friends. They are basically asking for some solutions from their friend. Friends are not in your shoe. . By repeating your pain, you are sending negative energy to your mind. You do not want to do that.

What to do?

When we meditate, we take our mind and intellect to the place of stillness and silence. Do that. Be silent, means do not repeat here and there, means not sending any thoughts to your mind. Means no thoughts, SILENCE. Keeping inside silent will resolve many conflicts for you. You are a pure soul. You know what is right what is wrong.

Be Silent, let silence resolve things for you.

Meditation to dissolve "ANGER"

Keep your both eyes open as they are your external eyes. Sit in a comfortable pose. You can use chair or sit crossed legged or extend your legs if you cannot fold them. Your hands are resting on your knees. Bring all your attention on yourself. Focus on the point in the middle of the eye brows like a star there. Say to yourself that you are a peace loving soul. You are the master of this body. This body is your property. You are a peaceful, happy, pure and loving soul. Waves of this nature are coming out of your body. just visualize it. Take yourself to the people that make you angry or bring them in. Let these waves or the peace loving vibrations go into their body. They are the same as before but it changes you. Do it 2..3 times and start to see the change within yourself.

Try with different people, different places.
TRY and see

Meditation

According to Brahma Kumaris, SOUL has 3 characteristics
1. Mind
2. Intellect
3. Impressions

When we meditate, it works on all 3 written above by
creating positive thoughts in the mind
making the intellect powerful
bringing good impressions up.

or it is like empty your garbage can so that clean surface emerge from the bottom.

Can I see the "SOUL"

According to Brahma Kumaris, you cannot see the soul but you can experience it.

A thought comes into your mind( soul is doing that job) that you want to play 649. Thought goes to the brain, it processes it and decides whether it is wise to do or not( soul is intellect now), well it says it is ok and no harm in that playing 649, message goes to the body to act accordingly. Body goes and plays 649 and does the same thing next time too and forms habit, impression or personality.

Hence, mind, intellect and impressions are all we experienced it in the above example.

Characteristics of a " SOUL"

I was listening to a lecture by Brahma kumaris ( Spiritual organization) and they explained the "SOUL" very well. When soul does the job of thinking, it is called
"Mind", when it does the job of making wise decision , then it is called Intellect and when it create impressions, habits or personality, then called the value system. In simple words, SOUL .......is

1. Mind
2. Intellect
3. Value system.

Soul sends the thought to the brain, information also create thoughts , it processes it by making wise decision, sends a signal to the body to act accordingly.

Wonderful explanation by Brahma kumaris

Love for frogs

I do not know why, but I do love frogs. I am going to post very different coloured
frogs that I have come across when I travelled. Every animal has soul which is energy that runs through animal's body. Soul expresses through frog's body too. Isn't it a beautiful way of expression of soul.

Mindful Eating

Any time I attended a yoga retreat, people are asked to not talk while eating. I noticed it was very hard to people not to talk because that was one time they get to make connections with other people. We do not eat mindfully, like driving and eating an apple or talking and eating in between. Sometimes we do not even know the taste of it but we keep eating. If we make an effort to sit quietly and see the colour of the fruit, smell it , admire the shades of the peel, then take one bite and stay focused while eating, enjoying the taste of it, chewing slowly and not getting distracted, probably we would eat less food and be more satisfied than eating unconsciously. we will get lot of pleasure from it. I know it will be hard to do but we can make an effort. We can start small. It is called mindful eating by being fully absorbed in the present moment. you do get peace of mind too as you are focused on the food you are eating.

Cases of Alzheimer are less in India

Memory loss is called Alzheimer.
What is it that Indians do that they have less chances of getting Alzheimer? was the question answered by Dr. Oz in his show.

Eating curry powder twice a week will lower the risk of Alzheimer.
Anything Indians cook, use curry powder anyway. Please continue using it.
Alzheimer is also known as the diabetes of the brain. Brain cells cannot store any glucose and they cannot do without complex carbohydrates for too long , lentils, coffee and brazil nuts should be used a lot.

Weight Control

As we know that meditation is about focusing on breathing, sitting still, keeping distractions away, knowing how you feel..., if we apply all that to the food we are about to eat, like being aware of shopping, chopping, cooking with good and pure thoughts, bring awareness to what you are putting in your mouth and being grateful for what mother earth has given you and appreciate the food and eat in a calm environment, that will help us keep a check on how much food to eat. We will not eat too much, will certainly help with the weight control. I call it " eating meditatively". Eating quietly will help us focus on the food and not having family discussions at that time will surely help us reduce the weight.

Students and Silence

In Meditation, we try to tune into silence, thoughtless and stillness stage.

In our daily life, try to experience silence by cutting out MP3 players, music, iphones, MSN, tv. You are close to the frequency to connect with God to get recharged or in other words, you are closer to Gods love.

If you always surrounded by noise, then you are away from silence and far away from connecting with God, you feel lonely. it is like lost in a jungle. You feel you are in a hole.

Try to practice stillness and silence few times a day for half a minute.

Half minute meditation.

As you know, mind is always racing. It is like taking a very short break between thoughts. I connect with my internal peace and come back with a different perspective on issues. I disconnect from negativity around and I have to be aware of my intrinsic qualities like peace, love etc.
Sit in a comfortable pose on the floor or can use chair. Keep your eyes open. Ignore noise. Bring your attention to your body. Focus in the middle of the forehead. Observe your thoughts. Do some breathing to slow down your thoughts. Take your attention to the seat of your soul which is in the middle of the forehead. Try to feel the middle of the forehead where soul is present.
Say it.... I run my body from here.
I am the king of my mind, intellect and soul.
Body is my dress.
I am the power.
Focus there...
Slowly end it
It should produce lightness in the body.
You can do half a minute often or 1 minute. See what works for you.

30 years old girl marries 50 years old man?

Sanjay Dutt( 50 years old) marries Manyatta who is 30 years old. They are indian film stars and someone asked Manyatta about the age difference in their relationship. She said that she is 30 but mature for her age but Sanjay is 50 but immature for his age. She is very happy with her decision. I thought that it was a beautiful answer because if you read my post on the body, it says that 60% of our body is emotional body. If 60% of two people matches then it is possible. Remember, 30% is physical body.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO it is possible. It makes sense now how big age difference marriages work.

Do I want to suffer more?

We pay our karmic debts by suffering or by meditating. I do not want to suffer any more? NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
The easy way is to meditate.

You have to go nowhere.
You can do it in your house.
Do it in the morning when the air is pure. there is no hustle, bustle of life.
Try to do at the same time.
Try for a minute everyday.
Try to visit God 3,4 times during the day.
God will heal you when you visit him.
You will notice changes in yourself when you interact with people.




See, it is very easy.

Gods House

Gods house is beyond stars, beyond time and space where there is absolute stillness and silence and no thoughts. To connect to God, we need to catch at certain frequency say Frequency "G"
Any human being when gets tired, needs to recharge its batteries, he needs to try hard to connect with the frequency "G" by tuning in.
As soon as that connection is made, battery of human body gets charged, body gets healed , there is energy flow from the power source that is God to human body and it gets healed and you are ready to play in this physical world again.

To tune to G frequency, Meditation is the way. Soul cannot leave the body. We go with your mind and intellect to get the feeling of recharged.
Practice stillness and silence because in God's house, there is absolute stillness and silence,
Try doing it everyday, at the same place, same time and try visiting God more often during the day time.