Factors that Bring Us Closer To Failure 

Given below are ‘some’ factors that bring us closer to failure: 

• Dejection and Disillusion. 
• Fear. 
• Ignorance. 
• Confusion. 
• Influences. 
• Mental weakness. 
• Insecurity. 
• Inexperience. 
• Ego, arrogance. 
• Mistrust. 
• Attachment, dependencies. 
• Excuses, laziness, putting off. 
• Excess of acceptance with submission. 
• Fear of being yourself. 
• Making judgements without an objective vision. 
• Nervousness. 
• Not taking on limits. 
• Low self-esteem. 
• Blockages. Not going forward. 
• Intolerance. 
• Rigidity – inability to adapt to different situations. 

Simple Exercise To Identify Your Hidden Fears 

If you want to overcome and overpower fears that exist inside you, you have to first take a look at your feelings and hidden emotions. After realizing your feelings and emotions, you have to know how to manage them and finally correct or overcome them. Given below is a simple exercise that will help you to achieve that. This exercise will help you identify the conscious and sometimes sub-conscious (very subtle) fears that lie inside you. 
Choose an area of your life that you feel is negative and needs some improvement. Now, ask yourself these three questions: 

1. What do I really want, what is my aim and objective? 
2. What obstacle/obstacles are stopping me from achieving my objectives? 
3. What prevents me from dealing with or overcoming that obstacle? 

For each fear that comes to you in response to the question no. 3, ask yourself the following questions: 
A. What is the worst that can happen, if what I fear occurs? 
B. What is the best possible result for me and for others, if I do it even though I feel afraid of doing it? 
C. Keeping in front of you the answer to question B and comparing it with the answer to question A will inspire you to overcome the fears that lie inside you. 

MAKE YOUR OFFERING SAID THE MASTER AS YOU MAKE IT BE PLEASED IN MIND . MAKE YOUR MIND COMPLETELY CALM ANS CONTENTED. FOCUS AND FILL THE OFFERING-MIND WITH THE GIVING. FROM THIS SECURE POSITION YOU CAN BE FREE FROM ILL WILL.  

Message for the day 


The fire of anger can be cooled with


the sprinkling of the cool water of virtues. 

Message for the day 14-01-2013


Determination enables us to overcome 


our weaknesses. 

message for the day

Learn to make the whole world  your own . No one is a stranger , my child ; this whole world is your own.

Message for the day 11-01-2013
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Our words are effective only when we combine them with pure thoughts and inspirational actions. 

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message for the day

an obedient person is one who remain free from dictates of the self and others and who constantly follows godly directions.

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Under the influence of false ego one thinks himself to be the doer of activities, while in reality all the activities are carried out by nature as natural process.

The moment we put the ego aside, the curtain disappears. God is not hidden, only our eyes are closed. Open your eyes.

Hatha yoga is a preparatory process of yoga. The word “ha” means sun, “tha” means moon. “Hatha” means the yoga to bring balance between the sun and the moon in you, or the Pingala and Ida in you. You can explore Hatha yoga in ways that take you beyond certain limitations, but fundamentally, it is a physical preparation – preparing the body for a higher possibility. If we want to do kriya yoga, we always prepare people with Hatha yoga because without the body being prepared, it will not be able to take higher dimensions of energy. It will break. It is just like if your pipe is not ready and you pump in too much force, something is bound to burst. So Hatha yoga, so to speak, could be taken to be preparation of the pipe.

There are other dimensions to this, but to put it simply, just by observing the way somebody is sitting, you almost know what is happening with them. If you know yourself, if you have observed yourself, if you are angry, you will sit one way; if you are happy, you sit another way; if you are depressed, you sit yet another way. For every different level of consciousness or mental and emotional situation that you go through, your body naturally tends to take certain postures. The converse of this is the science of asanas. If you consciously get your body into different postures, you can also elevate your consciousness.

The practice as you see it currently – the mechanics of it – is simply of the body. You have to breathe life into Hatha Yoga, otherwise it will not become alive. This is why, traditionally, there has been so much stress on a live Guru – to make it come alive.

After twenty years of yoga entering the West and becoming popular, despite it being taught sometimes in ways that leave much to be desired, still, the health benefits of it are undeniable, wherever you live and whatever you do. Right now the number of people practicing yoga is growing in a big way. This could be  simply because the scientific community is slowly beginning to recognise the depth and dimension of what Hatha Yoga is. But if improper, distorted kind of yoga spreads, in fifteen years’ time, scientific studies will clearly come out and tell you in how many ways it is harmful to human beings, and that will be the downfall.

Therefore it is important that we bring back classical yoga as it was. If Hatha Yoga is taught in a proper atmosphere with a certain sense of humility and inclusiveness about the whole process, it is a really fantastic process of shaping your system into a fantastic vessel, a fabulous device to receive the Divine. There are certain dimensions of Hatha yoga which are almost absent in the world today. It is there in some places, but generally in the known places, it is absent. I would like to bring back those dimensions. It is a very powerful way of living. Power, not over somebody else; it’s all about power to access life.

Altering Your Karmic Cycle

"People often expect different results from doing the same actions" – Alcoholics Anonymous

We are slaves of habit. Besides well-ingrained physical habits, we also have deep-rooted mental ones – our attitudes, perceptions and beliefs that involuntarily guide our unique behavior. Our conditioned mental patterns are like our subconscious blueprint and manifest in our life repeatedly. As a result, we are prone to, and despite efforts usually find it hard to shake off, anger, fear, aggression, anxiety, envy or low self-esteem.

The notion of our deep-seated mental beliefs can be better understood by becoming familiar with the concept of karma. It is invaluable to grasp this concept to understand the inner mechanics of our thoughts and actions. Only by choosing to deal with our individualkarma, can we work on creating a new reality for ourselves.

Karma is the notion of a cyclical process where our every action or intention leads to lasting impressions on our psyche, and these impressions in turn impact our future behavior -- comprising fresh intentions and actions -- leading to new lasting impressions being formed. Our actions are called karma and the latent impressions they create are termed samskaras.

According to the law of karma, all our experiences in the present are dictated by our cumulative stored samskaras of past actions and reactions. This cyclical process ofkarma explains why we repeatedly attract similar situations that create conditions for the stored samskaras to manifest, leading to similar karma being created.

Anger leads to creation of unhappiness, frustration and anger in our emotional psyche. These stored unresolved emotions, our samskaras, eventually lead to generation of anger at the slightest provocation in the future. And, the cycle continues.

Unless we consciously choose to deal with our individual karma, it recurs in our life with great alacrity, and unless resolved, restricts us from experiencing real freedom and happiness.

The question is what good is our material progress if we remain ill equipped to reforming our inner being; what’s the merit in our climbing the social, career or financial ladder if we cannot overcome our mental fragility? In the midst of our reckless pursuit of modern life, what’s our real purpose?

The purpose of human life is to work through our personal karma and experience innate happiness, peace and joy in our state of being. The gifted ability to make that conscious choice is what makes the human life so precious compared to other life forms. The only way to create a new reality, of loving relationships, mental peace, inner happiness, deeper fulfillment, and abundance, in your life is to alter this karmic cycle. That’s the path to experience a new reality.

This journey entails learning to be a witness to our own mental and emotional patterns –our dominant beliefs and our recurring and conditioned responses. What makes you angry or fearful or anxious and how often? What beliefs do you have that make you feel that way?

Further, it requires taking personal responsibility of your situation – rather than blame your circumstances, partner or colleague, this is about focusing your attention towards your own conditioned thoughts, beliefs and actions.

Learning to live in the present, where we can consciously bring our subconscious patterns into our active awareness and make fresh choices in how we deal with a given situation helps us move forward. As we make new positive choices, we start to neutralise the hold the old samskaras have on our psyche. The more we stay in the present, the more we can redirect the future and the more empowered we become to experience inner peace and joy.

Home Remedy For Peace By: Aruna Jethwani

You are the cloud, you are the rain,/ You are the healer! You are the pain!

This Vedanta wisdom can apply to our daily life. Most of the physical pain and illness is self-injected. Naturally, the healing has to come from within, from one’s own self. We hurt and harm ourselves with negative thoughts and energy. The cure has to come from within. It has to come from heart and  mind.

Like the garbage at home, the mind, too, accumulates garbage – both kinds,  the stinking wet garbage and the dead, dry garbage. The wet garbage is hate, envy, prejudice and ill feelings. The dry garbage is regrets, hurt, pain and mistakes committed in the past.

The past is dust, for how long will you gather it? The pain may become sores and numb nerves, and for how long will you nurse it? Somewhere you have to de-link yourself from the past, and come back to the present. This you have to do for two reasons: One reason is so that you remain healthy, physically. Writes Hay, a life coach, "All disease comes from the mind. Whenever we are ill, we should check with ourselves who is it that we need to forgive.” And the second reason to get rid of internal garbage is to live in peace mentally. All that grudge, hurt, and pain cause turbulence in the mind leading to anger and frustration. We have to be free from both in order to be in harmony with our surroundings. You may call this goal as happiness.

The easiest way to reach there is to dispose of your mental garbage.

How should I get rid of all the garbage I have accumulated, you may ask. The simplest way to carry out this operation is through practice of forgiveness. It is a tradition among some communities to write every year what they call a Kshama Patra. The Hindi film ‘Dor’ was based on this theme. The written ritual of ‘kshma patra’ is one way of disconnecting ourselves from the past. It purifies the mind, creating space for peace and harmony in the present, while writing the script for the future.

The other way is to sit in silence before a lit lamp and forgive those who have insulted, humiliated, harmed and hurt you. Actually there are three stages in forgiveness. The first is to forgive verbally in a prayer. The second is to think positively about them. Thirdly you should do something that is good for them. Send a gift, or take them out for coffee or simply acknowledge them. Yes, do not forget to forgive yourself. Also you have to seek forgiveness of all the animals, trees, and birds you have harmed or intend to harm.

Forgiveness lifts the burden of the mind and creates space within. It is said that if you want to create your own destiny then you must create space for it by throwing away the emotional garbage in you that leaves little space for anything else. Forgiveness is a way of disposal of unwanted hurts and humiliations. By forgiving one can destroy past evil karmas, and create a clean space to write one’s future destiny.

“How many times should you forgive?” asked Dada J PVaswani, messenger of love, peace and compassion. “Seven times,” I replied confidently.

“No. Not seven times; you should forgive everyone and everything at least 700 times!” he smiled radiantly, echoing the words of Jesus Christ.

We Need To Practise Compassion By: Arup Mitra

Every faith promotes compassion, for once the majority is compassionate, Earth would turn into Heaven indeed. Since today, most societies are dominated by selfish individuals, it is natural for one to dismiss the path of compassion as foolhardiness.

In this situation Swami Vivekananda’s argument appears very convincing. Serving others, if taken by an individual as an opportunity to refine oneself and go a step closer to God, would ensure that one is not bothered by consequences even if he ends up being exploited by others. That is, one begins to feel grateful for having the opportunity to serve another. It would be churlish on my part to think that I am doing good to the poor.  Rather I should be grateful to the poor that their suffering has actually brought me an opportunity to improve myself and thus progress further in the pursuit of higher goals in life.

There are several instances when the benefactor gets hurt by the beneficiary. In fact, that is human natur: once you get served by someone you enjoy the benefit and forget the benefactor and his act of compassion. It hurts your ego to remember that you have taken a favour from someone. So by pretending to be superior or by trying to demean the benefactor we nurture our ego and convince ourselves that we haven’t really been helped by anyone. However, heart of hearts we know that it is not true but by repeating it to ourselves we try to get convinced by what we want to be true.

In such a situation remember the tree. The tree does not judge anyone: its nature is to give and it goes on doing what it is does best -- nurturing.  Even if someone hurts the tree after enjoying the shadow it offers and flowers and fruits, it remains indifferent. It continues its karma of giving always. It does not matter even if an undeserving person has taken full advantage of you and at the end pushed you down. What matters is your state of mind. Who you give to is unimportant; the fact that you could give without any expectation is something that is desirable. Rather, one should be prepared for negative outcomes while serving others. Ishwar Chandra, the educationist from Bengal was once informed by a colleague that someone was abusing him. He quickly asked, “Why so? I don’t remember having done any good to him!”  We often are worried about harm caused or caused to us by others. But if we introspect, then we will find that what can be harmed is temporary and what we belong to is permanent, which cannot be harmed in any manner.

Ramakrishna says, who are you to show mercy to others? The all-merciful has been rather generous to you to give you the ability and a full-fledged opportunity to utilise it selflessly. Hence, it is compassion for others, not mercy that we should be striving to practice. If we start thinking in this manner then the selfish attitude of the rest of society cannot disturb us or de-motivate us from pursuing what we believe in.

Another way of avoiding frustration is to forget completely if we ever did any good to others but remember always what we took from others and try to reciprocate in whatever way we can. Forgetfulness in certain contexts can indeed be bliss.