Put more energy !

Read this great advise from Gurudeva today:-

Then when we are working in our daily life, involved in external things and material affairs, the point of reference is that the energy within and the core of the energy and the Self itself are real. The key is to put more energy into each activity you are engaged in. Rather than renouncing it, really work at it. Put your whole self in it. Get enthusiastic about it. Then you are flooding more life force through the body, right from the center of life itself. Having the Self as a point of reality reference and not the material things, with the life force constantly flooding through these nerve currents, you are actually seeing what you are doing as part of the cosmic dance of Siva, as the energy of Siva flows in and through you. Through this practice you can cut through many of your deep-rooted subconscious hang-ups that were provoked in past lives without having them come to the surface, simply by creating a new habit pattern of facing and looking at yourself as a divine being performing your dharma in God Siva's perfect universe. You create the new habit patterns by doing everything as best you can, with as much forethought and as much energy as you can command. This approach will bring steady progress on the path of personal spiritual realization and transformation.

MOST PEOPLE THINK OF THEMSELVES AS REMOTE FROM GOD, BUT THE HIGHEST SOULS ARE LIVING WITH HIM EVERY DAY, NO MATTER WHAT THEY ARE DOING. THEY ARE LIVING WITH GOD, WHOM WE CALL SHIVA, WHILE WORKING, WHILE DRIVING OR performing ordinary chores. Siva is, for these remarkable devotees, closer than their breath, nearer than their hands and feet. This is the true spiritual life, which recognizes that there is nothing that is not Siva. Living with Siva is Siva consciousness. The reconciled past releases consciousness into the eternal moment in which we see Siva as the life and light within everyone's eyes. Living with Siva is living with everyone -- every reptile, fish, fowl, animal and creature, to the very smallest -- in a consciousness of the one life force within all of them that sustains this perfect universe. Truly, God Siva is everywhere. He is the energy within our mind manifesting thought. He is the thought thus made manifest. He is the light within your eyes and the feel within your fingers. God Siva is the ignorance which makes the One seem as two. He is the karma, which is the law of cause and effect, and He is the Maya, which is the substance of evolution in which we become so deeply immersed that we look upon the outside world as more real than God. God Siva is all this and more. He is the Sun, the Earth and the spaces between. He is the revealed scriptures and those who have scribed the scriptures. He is all who seek the wisdom of scripture, too.

Siva dances in every atom throughout this universe. Siva dances energetically, ceaselessly, eternally. Siva is perpetual movement. His mind is all-pervasive, and thus He sees and knows everything in all spheres simultaneously and without effort. Siva is the Self, and He is the energy we put forth to know the Self. He is the mystery which makes us see Him as separate from us. He is the energy of life, the power in the wind. He is the dissolution called death, the peace of motionless air. He is the great force of the ocean and the stillness on a calm lake. Siva is All and in all.

Our great God Siva is beyond time, beyond space, beyond form and form's creation, and yet He uses time and causes form. He is in the sky, in the clouds, in the swirling galaxies. Siva's cosmic dance of creation, preservation and dissolution is happening this very moment in every atom of the cosmos. Supreme God Siva is immanent, with a beautiful human-like form which can actually be seen and has been seen by many mystics in visions. Siva is also transcendent, beyond time, cause and space. Such are the mysteries of Siva's being.

Jai Gurudeva

Aum Namah Sivaya

 

“Anbe Sivamayam Satyame Parasivam”

May the Almighty Lord Siva bless everyone to tune oneself with the River of Life (Jivana Nadi) on this holy night of Maha Siva-Ratri.

Here is a great teaching from my great guru Sri Sivaya Subramuniya Swami from “Living with Siva” which I ponder on this holy auspicious night.

“Recognizing that all experience is but a fading dream, you are closer to the permanence within you that never changes. You can sense it. It is God. It is Siva. It has never changed. It will never change. You have all felt this permanence at one time or another, but then perhaps you find that you lose this feeling, this consciousness, and you drift out into the mind and find yourself thinking again that the mind is real. But then, maybe tomorrow, you will face it again. And as soon as you have found it, you leave it again, for the mind cannot bear the intensity of God, and you forget all about it. But then, a little later, you face that permanence within you yet again. And little by little you find that you are turning inward, opening up the inner channels more and more each day, making a greater and greater contact with God by turning within, drawing yourself ever closer to the pole at the center, the core of your Being. You will go through many different tests to prove your own realization to yourself. Face each test graciously. Welcome each test, and welcome each temptation that shows you the strength of your will over the chaotic senses. You have only to quiet all things of the mind to realize your identity with the eternity of God Siva, the spirit, the Eternal Self within you.”

Its all in the Mind

 

Loved this quote which i received from a friend on SMS

If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl, but by all means keep moving.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Having this new experience quite frequently off late. After every conversation - pleasant or unpleasant, after every job that got done – ordered manner or otherwise, after every message sent / received from friends – favorable or unfavorable, after every peak emotional experience – be it bliss or agony – I am getting the strong intuitive feeling that I didn't really do anything – Its all just happening in the mind according to my own karmic patterns.

In other words I have come to get to know a feeling that one aspect of me never changes no matter what happens outside and with every day this aspect is becoming of second nature to me.

New Learning’s

 

An year has passed since I worked towards an important goal (MS) and failed. But the amount of learning's I got from that experience was so high that I felt liked I lived many experiences in a short span of time. Till date the learning’s have never been with the same intensity like how it was one year. It is consistent meditation that brings lot of experiences to be lived in a short amount of time. Gurudeva says that there are many Yogis who live many many experiences within each Minute of time. It all depends on how acute the observation power is.

Today I also understand the art of people management, how to recognize people who can get things done. How the power of observation can be employed in all aspects of life to learn about how to get things done in an efficient manner, and how to focus on the end result (Ideal Final Result) by coming up with Innovative ideas. By asking yourself the question – “what is it that i really want to do”

By the grace of Lord Siva I resolved a big family issue in a short amount of time. This could have been solved by my parents themselves, but due to the instinctive tendencies such as fear and anger they were causing the problem to blow up in proportions instead of allowing it to get solved. And this is where the Lord brought me into picture. The anger and egoism which caused the problem was indirectly solved by fear in their hearts. Not fear of me, but fear of the consequences which were showing up our life. Its really a waste of time trying to argue with people and trying to explain them when they are in the lower chakras of Fear (Atala) and Vitala (Anger)

The 4th learning I had was – when I try to make something at one place, make sure you don't break something at another place. Example: If you are being nice to your wife, make sure that it is not causing insecurity to your mother. Its so difficult to keep the people at home especially women at peace and security due to their extremely sensitive nature. Its a constant day to day job, not a one day target which can be forgotten once achieved.

Also realized how the Shakti power that comes from a wife to a husband due to Love can help him attain and conquer greater challenges in Life to enable him become successfull in the material world.

Thanks to my gurudeva Sri Bodhinatha for blessing me before I prepare myself to take the next phase of learning's from life.