Insights from Europe

Im currently enjoying my stay in Peaceful Florence, Italy in Europe.

"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."
-- Tyron Edwards


Many time I observe the things happening to me. I have no choice but agree the laws of karma are very very strong, deliberate, intense and loving. Their job is simple - return to you what you set forth. Its a flow of pranic energy basically which makes up karma. The odic energy (intense feelings and hurt emotions) get back to u in a super overdose had u been trying to escape from it from a long time. Similarly the good things in the form of actinic energies also come along which give you respect, charisma, timing and delivery in work and career. Sometimes i see things taking care of themselves without any effort which i initially was so tensed of. Its like thinking about going to doctor and pain disappearing.

When i'm in a situation - lets say bad situation - i throw my awareness for a moment to the great people in Europe who are leading wonderful, affluent, happy lifestyles. They have everything - education, money, career, intellect and the calm spiritual side which you can ever dream of. May be this entire life and future life times u have wished to live the life they are living NOW. But before you start getting agitated and depressed that you are not so - also remember that a fruit cannot mature and fall before its time. This is the truth and only truth - All of us have come from Siva, live in Siva and unknowingly or knowingly going back to Siva. So live life with Lot of Love to fellow men seeing Him in all. Thats the purpose of life. Everything becomes pale in the light of love.

"Anbee Sivamayam Satyame Parasivam"

Translation : Siva is immanent love and absolute reality

Learnings from Kung Fu Panda - awesome movie :)

Master Oogway

• One often finds his destiny in the path he takes to avoid it.
• There are no accidents.
• Quit. Don't quit. Noodles. Don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift that is why it is called the "present".

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Shifu: I... I... have... It's a... It's a very bad news.
Oogway: Aah, Shifu. There's just news.There's no good or bad.
Shifu: Master, your vision... Your vision was right. Tai Lung has broken out of prison. He's on his way.
Oogway: That is bad news... if you do not believe that the Dragon Warrior can stop him
Shifu: Panda? Master, that Panda is not the Dragon Warrior. He wasn't even meant to be here. It was an accident.
Oogway: There are no accidents.
Shifu: Yes, I know. You said that already...twice.
Oogway: Well, that's not an accident either.
Shifu: Thrice.
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Oogway: My friend, the panda will never fulfill his destiny, nor you yours until you let go of the illusion of control.
Shifu: Illusion?
Oogway: Yes.
[points at peach tree]
Oogway: Look at this tree, Shifu: I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time.
Shifu: But there are things we *can* control: I can control when the fruit will fall, I can control where to plant the seed: that is no illusion, Master!
Oogway: Ah, yes. But no matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
Shifu: But a peach cannot defeat Tai Lung!
Oogway: Maybe it can, if you are willing to guide, to nurture it, to believe in it.
Shifu: But how? How? I need your help, master.
Oogway: No, you just need to believe. Promise me, Shifu, promise me you will believe.

Experience Karma by Observation

 

My Gurudeva often says than much Karma can be gone through without actually going through a physical experience. One of the way to experience the Karmic learning’s is to go through it in meditation. Using the Ajna chakra or the third eye one can see ones own karma of past live or of future happenings and, single out the seed for it, and ‘throw it’ – in gurudeva’s words !

We ourselves are the creators of karma in the lower states and we ourselves have the capability to destroy it in the higher states of consciousness.

I recently experience this phenomenon during my stay at Germany, was observing how i was able to either pick up ‘new’ or ‘existing’ karmas or drop them off through observation and focus of awareness over it.

I plan to implement this aspect of focussed observation of my own karmas, most importantly the ones which make me react. I will observe them, I will find out the root cause of them (i already know theoretically that I myself have sent out this karmic energy in this or a prior life time), And I'm going to bury them forever by Sivas Grace.

I already have a list of things which make me react in office and at home when im alone with myself. I'm going to give myself to Servicing to myself in my meditation :-)

Love you Gurudeva

Movies with a message

As life and religion become more experiential everyday than theoretical I begin to see learning's & only learning's everywhere.

Saw 3 idiots & shawshawnk redemption movies again for the second time recently. Loved the messages it had.

3 idiots: don't strive for success or money, strive for excellence. Do what u are passionate about. Make ur hobby ur work. Then there won't be difference between work and joy or play.

Shawshank redemption: get busy living or get busy dying.

This movie shows the power of so many things such as hope, persistence, steadiness, patience, commitment, friendships, timing, practice, etc

Dufrense crawled in many yards of stinking gutter and are out clean on the other side.

Give and you shall be given. There is something in you that can never be taken no matter how much ever anyone tries. that's the power of will.

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Posted from my HTC Leo

Impossible is nothing

 

Germany trip

This trip gave me lot of important learnings. Basically learned the power of love and how it relates to happiness of one and all.

Martin just said "i like to spend a lot of time with family and kids" ... It kind of summarized the whole thing for me. This experience triggered a change in me with respect to how I deal with circumstances @ family or at work.

Love is Siva, Siva Is love. This is what all the nayanars stressed. This is wat is stressed repeatedly in all scriptures. Simply love one and all, whether its your family it your customer and understand what makes them happy and simply provide their needs. Your problems will then take care of themselves. And like charity loving and caring begins @ home.

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