A beautiful black Panchamukhi Ganapathi in Mauritius Spiritual Park. I will visit Him one day soon :-)
Image courtesy : TAKA
I visited a nearby Ganesha temple and Sai baba temple on Monday and surprisingly that night Sathya Sai Baba came in my cousin’s dream and gave an instruction to me. Thanks Baba for everything.
I Read a very Nice message from Gurudeva:
Use feeling to understand
Spiritual things you must understand with your heart, with your feeling. Feeling and thinking, working together, give you that deep understanding that you need to cognize the wisdom of the spirit. All you can do in living your life every day is to make today just a little bit better than yesterday was. You will then have confidence in yourself, so that tomorrow will be all right, too, and you won't fear the tomorrows. Why? Because in striving to make today the perfect day of your lifetime, you bring through your spirit. You allow the spirit, God, to permeate through all layers of your mind.
Putting the soul in Action
When you control your emotions, you are bringing through your spiritual being. It is only your spiritual being, your soul in action, bringing through the spirit, or bringing through God, that can control the mind. When you are living in an emotional state, you are only experiencing the mind temporarily out of control. And like anything that gains its own momentum, even if you do not control it, it will subside automatically after a period of time until it builds up again. This is all caused by subtle transgressions of natural laws of the mind, in this life and in previous lives.
Giving Generously – subtle laws
There are many subtle laws. For instance, if you are planning to do something for someone and then you decide for some reason that you won't, all of the spiritual power that you had previously brought through from your spiritual being will be coagulated and blocked by your hesitation. Then tomorrow will not be as good as today was. It will be worse.
Living in Spirit is Living in the ‘Now’
To keep your spirit flowing, always allow yourself to be in the line of understanding. In other words, do not allow misunderstanding to arise in your mind. Should misunderstanding arise, sit down, be quiet and do not get up until you understand the problem. You might have to sit for an hour. Instinctively your animal nature will not allow you to do that, but if you use willpower and persist, tomorrow will be a perfect day. Now, this is easy to talk about, and also easy to understand, but it takes a very discerning mind, utilizing the power of discrimination, to master these laws of the mind.
Purifying oneself
So, you must purify yourself. You purify yourself by being kind to others, being generous until it hurts, being benevolent, being ready to serve at all times until you are strained in serving. Put a smile on the faces of other people. Gain your happiness and your positive states of mind by making other people happy. Negative people are always worried about themselves. Positive people are concerned with the happiness of others. Be strong enough to understand, and do not allow yourself to sleep at night until you have understood the problems of the day. If you go to sleep with problems on your mind, you will go into a confused state of mind, and you will toss around and later say, "That is just the dream world" or "I had a nightmare." All you did was lose your consciousness in a troubled subconscious state. But if you practice yoga, and you sit and master each problem before falling asleep, even if it takes you several hours, you will gain enough rest for the next day, for you will have made this day a perfect day.
Seize every opportunity!
Seize every spiritual opportunity you have to advance your soul, because when you do, the reaction is glorious on you. But when you resent and when you fight within yourself, the reaction is disastrous unto yourself, because you lose the battle when you begin to fight your own inner Self. You win the battle when you begin to express yourself spiritually, when you begin to live with Siva.
Source: Himalayan Academy – Living with Siva - Life is meant to be lived Joyously
One of the Yamas is Mitahara (moderate appetite and food consumption). I started following this lately by skipping my lunch despite a strong criticism from my parents and colleagues. They advocated that I would get ulcers, acidity and the list went on and on. Despite the criticism I persisted in what i believed right – and to my surprise I was feeling more energetic and active. I have been following this close to a month and I feel great. In fact I feel much better than what i used to feel earlier when I was having food even when I was not hungry.
On weekends when parents invariably force me to consume food during lunch time even when I'm not hungry – i end up feeling lazy and tired.
From this lesson and observation in life I have come to a conclusion as of now that – like how hard work never killed anybody, eating less or moderately (on a need basis – when hungry) – or to put it in my gurus words – feeding the stomach rather than the mouth is the right way for food consumption.
At a village cafe two men are eating a traditional meal on banana leaves. One follows mitahara, while the other overeats. Image web page source: @Himalayan Academy
Almost all the people who advocated the fear of getting acidity were non-vegetarian folks who were used to that food since childhood. While i respect their concern for me, end of the day i know what’s good for myself better than them.
Aum Namah Sivaya
Learnt this excellent information from my guru which is very relevant for many of us :-
The rich seeking more riches are not content. The famous seeking more fame are not content. The learned seeking more knowledge are not content. Being content with what you have does not mean you cannot discriminate and seek to progress in life. It doesn't mean you should not use your willpower and fulfill your plans.
It does mean you should not become upset while you are striving toward your goals, frustrated or unhappy if you do not get what you want. The best striving is to keep pushing along the natural unfoldment of positive trends and events in your life, your family life and your business. Contentment is working within your means with what is available to you, living within your income, being grateful for what you have, and not unhappy over what you lack.
Life is meant to be lived joyously. There is in much of the world the belief that life is a burden, a feeling of penitence, that it is good to suffer, good for the soul. In fact, spiritual life is not that way at all. The existentialist would have you believe that depression, rage, fear and anguish are the foremost qualities of the human temper and expression. The communists used to have us believe that joy and serenity as the outgrowth of religion are just an opiate of the people, a narcotic of unreality. The Semitic religions of the Near East would have us believe that suffering is good for the soul, and there is not much you can do about it. The Saivite Hindu perspective is that contentment is a reflection of centeredness, and discontentment is a reflection of externalized consciousness and ramified desire.
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I prayed Lord Ganesh a few months back to improve my willpower and in turn the Loving God answered me my giving me lots of work in life – a good chance to work hard and improve the will by using the will.
By my observation - The year started with a lot of work at office, travel to Shirdi pilgrimage, Satya Narayan Pooja, finding my better half and getting wedding dates fixed, increase of responsibilities towards my partner, increase of work and social responsibilities.
Whatever comes in front of me both good and bad is a result of my own making. With the wisdom equipped from my guru I am ready to face the snakes created by myself and make them my garland !
Aum Namah Sivaya
