On earth to realize the self

The only reason to be here on earth is to realize the SELF. My gurudeva keeps stressing this again and again to drive the point strongly.

Not here to earn money, to clothe myself, to even have family or to eat. Only here to realize the SELF, to have that one dramatic experience where everything you thought is turned upside down.

It is what is always been known to the knower. That is the goal, direct your energies towards it. Yet it is even wrong to call it a goal. Self realization is an experience only after it has been experienced, yet it is wrong to even call it an experience, but the only possible non-experience.

When karma is controlled through yoga and dharma well performed, then the description of Truth mentioned by the yogis and rishis of yore becomes obvious.

After SELF realization you see the mind for what it is - a self created principle. That is the mind - always creating, preserving and destroying concepts and beliefs. What gives the mind that power? What's the use of asking this question and how does it matter when the SELF exists by itself.

When the instinctive mind and the intellectual mind have been conquered and when the energies are transmuted to their ultimate state, the subtle hidden truth behind obvious . One day you will realize the SELF.

Poise

"The struggle with the mind is an easy struggle if you are constantly vigilant, all of the time, doing always what you know you should do, not allowing the mind to become instinctive, not excusing the mind when it does become instinctive, not allowing the mind to justify, rationalize, excuse, become combative, but making the mind always remain poised, like a hummingbird over a flower, so that you begin to live in the eternal now, constantly, permanently. And then the within becomes natural to you, not something you hear about, study about, talk about, sing about, for you become open, awakened within."

Excerpt from the "power of Awareness"

The world moves with motiveless necessity. By this IS meant that it has no motive of its own , but is under the necessity of manifesting your concept,the arrangement of your mind, and your mind is always arranged in the image of all you believe and consent to as true. The rich man , poor man, beg-gar man or thief are not different minds, but different arrangements of the same mind,

Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself [and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true.] What you consent to can only be discovered by an Uncritical observation of your reactions to life.

Man's CHIEF delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness . All that befalls a man -all that is done by him - all that comes from him - hap-pens as a result of his state of consciousness . A man's consciousness is all that he thinks and desires and loves, all that he believes is true and consents
to . That is why a change of consciousness is necessary before you can change your outer world.

You know a thing mentally by looking at it from the outside, by comparing it with other things , by analyzing it and defining it;[by thinking of it:] whereas you can know a thing spiritually only by becoming it,. [only by thinking from it]. You must be the thing Itself and not merely talk about it or look at it.

New discoveries

Excerpt from Tibetan book of Great Liberation:

All appearances are verily one's own concepts, self-conceived in the mind, like reflections seen in a mirror. To know whether this be so or not, look within thine own mind.

Divine Wisdom is undoubtedly indestructible, unbreakable, like the ever flowing current of a river. To know whether this be so or not look within thine own mind.

Being merely a flux of instability like the air of the firmament, objective appearances are without power to fascinate and fetter. To know whether this be so or not, look within thine own mind.

There being not two such things as meditation and object of meditation, there is no need to fall under the sway of deeply obscuring Ignorance; for, as the result of meditation upon the unmodified quiescence of mind, the non-created Wisdom instantaneously shines forth clearly.

Gratitude

I'm grateful to God and life for providing me the following

# for providing me such loving parents who selflessly cook, daily help and care for myself, wife and their grand kid

# for giving me a very sweet loving wife who understands, takes extreme care of my son and helps in innumerable ways, and who gave me the privilege of becoming a father

# for giving me a loving little son who has kept everyone happy and busy at home and for promoting me to a role of a father, who is my stress reliever every day when I see him hug me

# for giving me great colleagues at work who are passionate about making a difference in the life of our customers / patients, some who are very technically inclined and talented, some who are extremely good in planning and strategy

# for giving me loving friends both local and international (my loving friend from Italy and a few more in the US) who enlighten me of things which I'm ignorant about, with whom I can talk anything under the sun comfortably, and enjoy couple drinks and feel great

# my employer for giving me the sustenance and money for keeping us going and also for providing me a playground for exhibiting and improving my skills and talents and things which I love doing. Its such a beautiful campus with so much nature and greenery around.

# The great mature souls in this world whom I have met or read about them in their books namely : Satguru Sivaya Subramuniya Swamy: the ultimate guru of mine who taught me everything including this gratitude which is pouring from my heart, my current guru Sri Bodhinatha Swami who made my Sadhana steady and made me understand the subtle aspects which I had always overseen during worship of God, Swami Ramakrishnananda who made me understand the true meaning of meditation, Srila Prabhupada who taught me how to love Krishna and introduced me to bhakti yoga, Baba Ram Dass who introduced me to the world of psychedelics, loving unconditionally, his great experiences with his guru Maharaj in India during the 1960s and how different paths converge to spirituality.

# for giving me wonderful and loving siblings and cousins who are extremely talented and persistent in life in whatever they do.

Yes, I'm extremely grateful to all these blessed mature souls who have taught me how to live and love and also to those not so mature souls who have also by their example taught me what not to do and how not to live. Yes all are our teachers, some teach us what to do, some teach us what not to do.

Finally my sincere thanks to Lord Siva, the life within my life, who created this beautiful world of experiential learning's, for creating the law of cause and effect - karma, for helping souls advance in their own way by making mistakes, repeating mistakes, learning that they have been repeating mistakes and thereby come out wise.

Last but not the least thanks to the loving Lord Ganesha who guides me everyday by sitting within the muladhara chakra.

Aum Namah Sivaya