In a Zen monastery, a Zen master wakes up in the morning. While he is still sitting by his bed, he sees one of his disciples passing by. He calls the disciple in and mentions that he had just seen a complicated dream. Then he asks the disciple to help him interpret the dream. The disciple, without hearing what the dream was, asks the master to wait for a moment and goes out. Soon he returns with a bowl of water and suggests the master washes his face and says, “This will freshen you up”.
There are three major gunas or tendencies that govern the moods and thoughts of the body-mind-intellect mechanism. These are known as Rajas (over-activity), Tamas (inactivity) and Satva (neutral activity). In this blog we will explore the tendency or gunn of Rajas (over-activity). We think that what “we think” is our choice; we think that we decide based on logic, our decisions are correct & well thought, but it’s not so. Have you observed that even in similar situations our behavior could vary? Why does this happen? This is because the gunas that we have in our body-mind mechanism infl[...]
Stay as Consciousness and you will see that actions are happening by themselves anyway. There's energy and the energy has to flow in a particular direction. The direction is also set, that's why they say it's all predestined. Destiny is already created. We're not creating anything new.
Mind and thoughts are slightly subtler than physical reality, but still noticeable. So keeping reminded that I'm not the thoughts and not the body, is one of the ways. Keep saying, no, and rejecting anything that arises, anything that can be noticed, to be eternal.
Let’s understand the Satva gunn. It is said to be the purest gunn, it is expressed as Noble activities. Symptoms of Satva Gunn( Subtlest form of the ego) Under the influence of Satva gunn, we are quite peaceful, light and happy; we tend to spread this happiness, as sharing with others, gives us joy. In the moment of dominance of Satva, we speak very softly, we are not very easily offended. Our perspective of the world is that, everybody is good, every human being is nice, now this sounds really good. But is it true? It needs to be remembered that in the dominance of a particular gunn – b[...]
Tamas guna, almost synonymous to lethargy or inactivity, when dominant results in excessive eating and sleeping, replaces ambition with self-doubt. Honest observation and guidance helps us overcome Tamas Gunn. There are three major gunas or tendencies that govern the moods and thoughts of the body-mind-intellect mechanism. These are known as Rajas (over-activity), Tamas (inactivity) and Satva (neutral activity). In this blog we will explore the tendency or guna of Tamas (inactivity). If you haven’t read the blog on Maya, that explains the way these teachings are brought to life in our bein[...]
Existence of these gunas is not in our control, these Tendencies exist in Prakurti – as a part of nature. Nature rules them. The one thing we do with them, is to engage in them. The moment we engage in any gunn, we create something of our own. We then need to take it to fruition as our effort gets involved. We get impacted by it.Existence can be accepted – “Okay, this thing exists in nature, I accept it. However I don’t get entangled or engaged in it”. The moment we get engaged in it, or call the action that is happening through a gunn as “My action”, we are engaged in it.
In order to bring things into physical reality, as human beings, we use is language. When we want to share something with others, we use language, we use words. If we have an idea, and want to transmit it to someone, we use words & language – unless some of us are started using telepathy! So far, others have been carrying a certain perspective of us, for example, XYZ has a certain definition about us. What we have started doing is, we have started transforming ourselves, having more clarity around actions – what actions am I supposed to take? What is my life all about? What is my natural d[...]
The Universe operates based on laws. These laws can be discovered using observation, if not intuition. One of such laws is the 'Law of Inclusion'. The Universe that we experience it, has variety/multiplicity as one of its key characteristics. None of these varieties of aspects are in conflict with each other. Every part forms a piece in the variety to form the whole. The pieces that seem to be opposites to us, most likely support one another by creating a contrast. This way seemingly opposite pieces are actually in a hidden harmony with each other. A black board forms a background for a white[...]
We keep talking about and express love. However,itis nothing more than ‘possession’, wanting them to be in our favor. We want to possess their thoughts and opinions.
A well known athlete who did the impossible possible in the Olympics was once interviewed. In his final race, the situation was such that he was in 10th position when they began the race and he won a gold medal for the match. The interviewer wanted to know the thoughts that were going on in his mind, he asked, “The body being capable, would not be enough to achieve this kind of result; When you started running from the last rank, what was going on in your mind? How did you get from the last position to the first position during the race?” And his response was astonishing, he said, “At an[...]
We start with a story; once upon a time, in Ireland, there was a funfair and the people who would run this fair would migrate from one place to another, based on where they need to go next, for the annual funfair for a particular Village. One of the play’s in this funfair was a maze. So people would pay and go into the Maze and they will find their way out. The peculiarity about the maze was that it was full of mirrors. Looking at the images would confuse the people, as to where the next exit was. It was a challenge. One fine day, when the dates for the next village had not come up yet, [...]
Maya/Illusion clouds our understanding by keeping us under the influence of different tendencies namely Rajas, Tamas & Satva .Operating through these tendencies makes the outside physical reality unclear. Long time ago, say, before industrialization, a farmer used to be dependent on climatic conditions. They would do their job, sow the seeds and then wait for the rains to come. If the rain is delayed or if the rain is too much or if it is too less, the crop would get affected. Part of this problem was solved when farmers started using technology.As technology grew, dams were built and the far[...]
“The power of your commitment decides the power of your words”. Be the commitment for something, a stand for it and your words have the power of a seer.“The power of your commitment will decide how much power your words have”. The more lamely we start using our words, the less power our words have. When people say, there was a Rishi (a seer) and he cursed some person which came true,that's the power in words. If he or she literally uses certain words against someone,that person's life gets impacted to the extent that he/she can fall ill or can die. That's the Power of Words.
Arjuna from Bhagavad Gita and Shakespeare’s Hamlet are faced with the same existential crisis with the underlying question ‘whether to take arms against troubles presented by life or give in?’ Civilisations have born and collapsed. Humanity has gone through innumerable phases of change… and yet some questions of humanity can be seen popping up in minds across time and space. These are fundamental questions as against some personal problems or questions that we deal with. One of such pertinent question appears in Shakespeares’ work and strikes great resemblance with a central quest[...]