Karmic Playground

 

Met some new Anava margis who happen to stumble upon your path in life ? I'm not sure if the experience was pleasant for you, its definitely not for me.

One thing to understand from these I, Me and myself types is that there is no way to convince or make them understand because selfishness rules first in them. They are going through their evolutionary patterns creating new karmas as a result.

My complete surrender to the law of karma has produced some miracles off late in my life. The way I escaped from losing the appointment at Chennai consulate. The way i beat the odds in coming out with a solution at work for the Waveform Gap issue, The way I again beat the odds by getting the Difficult 3G pre to post conversion with International Roaming in a day beating all the process overheads – all prove the same thing – If it were not your karma you wouldn't be in that situation in the first place.

Next week I'm in Germany – meeting many new souls having different evolutionary processes but those who spend mostly time in the intellect. Let me see how it goes and what karma has in store for me – I'm still clueless where ill stay when i land in Freiburg on Saturday night as my bookings are done only from Sunday. Its this uncertainty that makes life exciting and I'm all IN for it !

Update: On the last day another miracle, I got a flight rescheduled at the last moment with no extra cost ! And thereby spend Sunday night comfortably at Hotel. Yes now I truly believe that i love uncertainty and karma. Welcome guys, I'm game !

Nice learning today !

 

Learnt quite a bit from my neighbor uncle Mr.. Ram about planning in life. At the moment my life is proceeding in an undisciplined manner like a drunk monkey out at large in a neighborhood.

His thoughts which struck me were – about how his brothers love and respect for his parents led him to live a fulfilling life. The insignificance of money when compared to relationships and its temporary nature. The power to understand the other people and do the right thing at difficult circumstances when the feeling is uncomfortable. ABOUT HOW EVERYTHING IN LIFE CAN BE PLANNED STARTING FROM SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS GIVING TIME TO PEOPLE OR SOMETHING AS BIG AS MAKING FAMILY MEMBERS HAPPY and DRAWING A BALANCE BETWEEN WORK LIFE AND PERSONAL LIFE.

The last part had to be underlined because that’s where I’m not faring well. Its high time I plan the way I live my life starting from morning to night and weekends and long term and short term plans. 

Also understood how the intellect can be used to avoid many situations and can be used to steer the mind in the right direction. Off late I'm living my life by analyzing everything that happens as a result of karma. I’ve been out and through dangerous situations in this life time and i attribute the escapades to karma as well. Time to strengthen the will and do some serious planning now. Then comes execution. Coz a Goal without a plan IS JUST A WISH.

The Flow of Karmic Energies

Thoughts are quicker than words. But the mind likes to verbalise the thoughts in order to get a sense of satisfaction.

Off late, I'm beginning to observe the flow of karmic energies between myself and people around me. I observe that many a times, the karmic reaction that a person has to receive ends up happening through me. And sometimes the karmic reaction that I need to receive happens through them.

I'm beginning to understand how it can be very important at times to stay aloof and unattached to people, places, things and circumstances.

Also have begun to realise that if I'm surrounded by negative people who are pessimistic and complaining all the time, their attitudes are not to be blamed for this, they're going through their evolutionary cycle.

And somehow knowingly or unknowingly I myself have invited the circumstances and association with such people. Dealing with them and going through the experiences they offer is a part of my karma. Hence it has to be faced positively.

Reacting to them will only cause more karma to get accumulated in the sanchita karma bucket. This in turn will cause more associations with such people in a future life as well.

Face all karma cheerfully and at the same time be unattached to people place circumstances gadgets career intellect, material possessions etc.

Do not unnecessarily get into conversations , no matter how tempting it is with known or unknown people unless required. This will open up less possibilities for karma to use you to deliver its energies. Affectionate detachment is the key word that gurudeva uses to explain the attitude to be sought.

Chennai Visit

It was a wonderful meeting with Bodhinatha gurudeva at Chennai at the GRT Grand Hotel. Some of the key takeaways from that appointment are

• See and Love Siva in everyone, remember that each has that potential of Sivaness yet to be realized.
• Pay full attention without any internal chanting when in a conversation, this will make sure others don't feel that you are pre-occupied.
• Pay attention to the few crucial problems / complaints from the many if they are thrown at you.
• Perfection in Willpower automatically leads to direct cognition. And willpower cultivation means – finishing what you start and making sure you do things to the best of your abilities, putting more effort in every step possible. It doesn't matter if the work being done is trivial like washing a vessel, cutting a vegetable or advanced as developing software or designing a complex algorithm. Willpower can be applied equally in both.

I am also reading a book called “Effortless Meditation”. The wonderful thing I realized about it is that if a thought is coming spontaneously in your mind and if you perceive it that it came (without getting into the thinking aspects of it) then you are in stillness and in effortless meditation. The idea is to be in Effortless meditation all of the time.

Life with Shum is good!

It takes a while to understand that the past or the future really doesn't exist. I was working on solving a complex problem today and at the same time practising Shum in my mind. I observe that the awareness moves into the various strata of mind such as vumtyeudi and there is a lot of intellectual aggression towards solving the problem. Then awareness briefly moved into la and lam states. Then into the uuu state and a lot of thoughts and concepts are interrelated. I wasn't able to solve the problem. Then it was lunchtime, and consciously took awareness into the laf state while gobbling rotis. Then all of a sudden out of nowhere, I intuitively found a solution for the problem which had kept my mind boggling for hours. When we are involved with the world and its ramifications it's easy to forget simple solutions to complex problems and there is a tendency to get carried away. Consciously bringing mind into focus into the laf state is the key to get solutions for those problems.

The more I practice Shum language the more I understand the importance of practising it. When things don't work your way awareness quickly switches to the future, which can be quickly detected through Shum.