Blessings in disguise

Thanks to my toothache I'm now able to get up early everyday and work on my master course lessons. I had trouble getting up every morning early despite the alarm on my HTC. Used to snooze it every time.

A wisdom teeth has started giving me problems every day early morning. Severe pain when I'm asleep but goes away once I wake up and brush my teeth. Will take it as a symbolic blessing from lord Siva to make me consistent.

Time to beat inconsistency

Was watering the plants in the garden at my home, remembered a relative of mine venky mama who has hired a Mali (gardener) to maintain the garden at his place. His garden is beautiful when compared to mine. In mine the plants are almost struggling to stay alive everyday as my watering them has become irregular :) thx to my inconsistency :(

The thing I still need to learn from ppl like v. Mama is that consistency is the key. One of the biggest reasons which differentiate a mediocre from a top talent is simple - the latter has very clear goals imprinted well in his subconscious mind and works consistently to get there whereas the former is irregular in pursuing goals sometimes working hard sometimes losing focus on the goal gaining the same on something else etc.

In the past few weeks I am not living life the way I want to live. I have violated some yamas and niyamas. My master course studies have not been regular to my satisfaction, my habits are not falling in line with the principles of Hinduism, I'm facing failure. Though I am doing well in my job, I know I'm more than what I am currently. It's time I fall in line with the yamas and niyamas now, set clear goals, prioritize the same, set consequences if I fall out of line and beat inconsistency .... and beat karma itself......

--Sent from my H TC HD2

The Xenon Arc Lamp

While watching a movie in the theatre - we go through emotions - emotions of happiness, agony, laughter, fun, feelings of love, hate, pity etc - what has happened here ? - the combination of various colors of light and sound has produced the emotions in people watching the movie.

The xenon arc lamp at the back used by the theatre operator, is animating all these various colors on the screen which combined with sound are producing images on screen.

This is very similar to how we go about our life as well. The mind produces images and thoughts of various colors and the voices of the mind produce various sounds, the combination of them causes various emotions to occur in the individual.

In a movie the film is the one which adds colors to the emanating white light from the xenon arc lamp, in the mind its the subconscious impressions of the past which is also called karma that add various colors to the emanating clear white light of the superconscious mind.

If you now ask from where is the white light of the superconscious mind emanating from .... i mean the source of it?  Now that .... that is a story yet to be told.

I had this beautiful experience one morning last week of many thoughts both good and bad appearing in the screen of the mind. attention then went to the high pitched 'eee' sound which i always hear - that is when i got the intuition of the clear white light in a flash. the same light which was animating all the colors of the thoughts previously held. this light is the same in everyone - in all living beings - just the film is different - the subconscious burdens are different - whichis totally dependent on karma and the volution of the soul. So there is oneness and diversity at the same time in every individual.

As per gurudeva - continued holding attention to the eee sound will take the yogin to the realization of the self one day - the source of the xenon arc lamp as well as the superconscious mind !

The first bubble

Often when watching the mind, there is an interesting observation. The latent tendencies are always there in seed or unmanifest states. These latencies which are waiting for the right conditions to manifest could be anything - tendency to hurt someone to gain relief from a hurt, tendency to lash the tongue and settle score, tendency to correct a person doing wrong, tendency to avoid a situation or even escape from it, tendency of getting frustrated, etc.

The observing of the seeds will not allow them to get manifest and I end up not knowing what the seed had to offer. which of my own karmic energy was it returning to me?

These seeds are like bubbles at the bottom of a pond or an aquarium. Just about to come to the surface to air which can be likened to the conscious mind and the words that come out of it.

The takeaway: a lot of unseemly karma can be avoided by looking at these bubbles before they erupt.

The second takeaway: you learn more about the real you in a dream at night. There nobody is watching you, you are free to do anything, your real integrity & values are known by what you do or not do in your dreams.

Third takeaway: we spend 24 hrs of time in the astral body and 16 hrs in physical-astral body. When in astral body we would use the astral brain, and more often the svadhishtana and manipura chakras than the muladhara (which is used more by physical body)

Happy 2011 to all .... yet another year with new set of learnings & experiences.

--Sent from my HTC HD2

Sadhana for 2011

			Sadhana			Two beliefs •        Isavasyam Idam Sarvam (All is Siva) •        Firmly believe in the law of Karma
	Meditation Goal - Meditate regularly for atleast half hour at the same time everyday preferably morning.  Read Trilogy Goal - Read Trilogy for MC everyday @ same time everyday – preferably in morning
		Yamas (restraints) Ahimsa Non injury in thought, words & actions Satya Truthful and straightforwardness Asteya Neither coveting nor stealing or entering debt Brahmacharya Controlling lust & Sexual Fantasy Kshama Overcoming intolerance and impatience with people and circumstances Dhriti Overcoming non-perseverance, indecision and changeableness Daya Showing compassion by conquering insensitive and cruel feelings Arjava Honesty, being honest under all circumstances Mitahara Moderate Appetite, controlling food intake even amongst vegetarian food Shaucha Maintaining cleanliness of body, clothing and mind

Niyamas (Observances)

Hri	Showing remorse and shame for misdeeds
Santosha	Seeking for contentment, joy and serenity in Life
Dana	Giving generously without thought of reward or anything in return
Astikya	Faith in God, Scripture and the Guru
Ishwara Pujana	Worshipping God and Guru at the home shrine through Puja/ devotional songs
Siddhanta Sravana	Scriptural Study and listening to discourses from great souls
Mati	Cognition, developing a divine will and intellect under guidance of a guru
Vrata	Taking Sacred Vows under gurus guidance and fulfilling them without fail
Japa	Chanting the names of god with concentration and meditating on sound
Tapas	Performing Hatha Yoga and Deep meditation on regular basis

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