People talk about love in different ways.. Different situations. There are so many movies about Love. Everyone needs love. But can you tell me where is this "True Love" ? or "Unconditional Love" ?
Love another soul for nothing! Not even love in return!
Lets talk about the Mother's love.
When a lady is pregnant, she makes a lot of sacrifices for the unborn kid. When the child comes out to see the world, the mother takes care of each and everything for the child from the time it takes it first breath! Once she is a mother, all her fuss about even feces is gone and she cleans up the kid. All her focus is now just the KID. She actually does not expect anything from the kid now. She just has a feeling that the kid should grow well. It should be healthy. It should be happy... She sacrifices - in fact forgets her happiness. There is no happiness for her on her own. The child's happiness is her happiness. She starts living through the child. Its a wonderful thing to experience for any woman.
There is no doubt that mothers love is TRUE UNCONDITIONAL love.
Its all great! Now, how long does this continue? What happens when the child grows and say, around 20yrs or so.. Does the mom's love still remains the same?
Actually, it depends on how the kid is. Now, its not just one side anymore. A mother is also a normal human being. Living with normal emotions, expectations, desires, anger and so on..
If the child is no longer caring for the mom. If it just thinks about its own self and goes around for its happiness, do you think the mom will still love the kid the same way as she loved 19 years back?
Definitely not. And dont be surprised that its my Mom who told me this! (I feel that she is an enlightened soul!)
As and when the child grows, the mom does not live through the child. A line of separation starts to appear. Because, the child has its own identity. Its different from its mom. Its unique. But still of course the love is there. But the 'unconditional' may not exist!
So, if the child loves the mom - if its understands the mom and respects her and gives her what she needs, at least recognizes and thanks the mom for what it gets from her it will all be good. Else, even this mom-child relation becomes a normal one-one relation. No special meaning. But of course, what ever happened 20 yrs back is still true. There was unconditional love. But just that, its not there anymore.
When the separate identity starts to appear, the universal rule comes into play - give and take! Only when the child loves the mom, the mom is going to love it back. And even if you are going to say that "No she loves the kid all the time", it can be because, "Its her child. Her product!".
This is some kind of bitter reality! Not many will agree with me. I know one person who will agree for sure - Its my Mom!! Who explained me this fact!
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Monday, January 7, 2008
God talks to you!
Can God come into someone and give blessings to everyone? And talk to everyone? And predict future? or Do something unnatural and extra-ordinary?
I am not a disbeliever of God. I do believe in God's existence. But what I disagree is God coming into someone (especially who does lots of Pooja) and God speaking through that someone to others, blessing others through that someone, etc., etc.,.
At times, I feel like laughing at them. Some of these people are actually innocent and some, are really dangerous!! Some do it believing that the God actually comes into them.. Some do it to make others believe, that they are God.
But what ever it i
s, it is not a thing to be encouraged.
Think about it.. God is Omni-present! He is everywhere. You can feel him through the smile of an innocent child.. through the touch of the flowers.. through the sight of a pure due drop.. You can feel him through the kindness and love of another fellow being. Its so simple! He is everywhere around us.. Then why would he go to someone in particular????
Nobody is special to God! Everyone is equal to God. In fact many say we are all kids to God. Then why favoritism? Why would God choose only few of his children to communicate to the others??
I feel there should be something else going on behind this!
Observe carefully when these people are saying that they are possessed by God. When they are helpless? extremely angry? extremely sorrow? some kind of extreme emotions?
Or, after doing some Pooja? After performing some meditation?
I think it happens like this - when some form of energy flows through them, which is enormous to handle for an ordinary being, they go to some state of mind in which they do not feel themselves. For some people, after performing pooja, such energy flow comes. For some, they experience it when they have strong emotions.
Because, performing rituals or reciting slokas increases the positive energy vibrations around you. All slokas in our religion, are all having only positive words and meanings. There is not a single cry or negative word/emotion in it. So if a person recites some sloka with full concentration and dedication, he can definitely feel that positive energy around him. Even others can feel it..
The other case - During extreme emotions, may be because of some bodily reactions, they have such a different feeling that they go to some other excited state of mind. For some people, they go beyond the normal state, out of control and they do not realize who they are at that time.
In technical terms, they call it Multiple-personality disorder.
You can read here for more details on this:
What Wikipedia says about this disorder
The Skeptics Dictionary
Soo.. In such situations, what happens is they start calling themselves as God. Since such a kind of power or energy flow is accepted as unnatural, it becomes easy for them to make others believe that they are different and that God has come into them!
The thing is some people do not realize that they are doing like this. They also start believing that actually God is coming into them. Its just some energy flow. If you know how to handle such an enormous flow of energy that comes to you, you can be perfectly normal even when such a thing happens..
Many do not want to do it. Because, now others do not see it as a disease but as a blessing! So, they want to keep it with themselves. So that they can convey the message they want through a stronger means!! They can utilize the situation. They can command others! This is a kind of disease which people would not want to go..
And.. Some people, knowing what it is, fully aware of what it is, are trying to fool other people and make business out of it! They want to use the belief, people have in God. They try to use the ignorance of people and shatter their confidence on themselves. They are just cheaters and want to use the fear and other weaker emotions of people and extract wealth from them.
Basically, we all should realize that all of us are capable of realizing the God - The supreme power - The Nature - The ultimate truth - The ultimate bliss - what ever you call that as.. We all can feel God. God never shows favoritism. God never speaks through someone to us. He speaks to us directly - Through Intuition.
We all have intuitions and thoughts coming to us. But the problem is, we do not give importance to it.
What is this Intuition?
Intuition is some thought coming to us which cannot be reasoned out. It may not have some logical background.
Of course intuition comes to everyone. But.. only when it is not adulterated with our own desires, wishes, ambitions it is called intuition. Otherwise, it is just your own thought, some kind of fascination. Thats all. True intuition comes to us only when we are leading a conscious life. Only when we are in sync with Nature. Even great scientists have said that, it is the intuition which has led them to discoveries or inventions many times.
Again, the most important thing is you should not land up in cheating yourself in the name of intuitions..
Because we do not trust ourselves, we do not have the confidence on our relationship with God, we do not trust our own intuitions, we want solutions to our problems from somewhere external - from someone who calls himself as God - from someone who seems to be more confident than us - from someone who seems to be stronger.. We just want 'someone' to give us happiness.. we want someone to boost our confidence level.. we want someone to give solutions to our problems..
This is the problem! Only when we start realizing that we have the solutions for our own problems, only when we start realizing that we can feel God, only when we give proper importance to our intuitions, only when we live in sync with Nature, we can be happy..
Its all in our own hands - our own minds. We ARE absolute happiness!!
I am not a disbeliever of God. I do believe in God's existence. But what I disagree is God coming into someone (especially who does lots of Pooja) and God speaking through that someone to others, blessing others through that someone, etc., etc.,.
At times, I feel like laughing at them. Some of these people are actually innocent and some, are really dangerous!! Some do it believing that the God actually comes into them.. Some do it to make others believe, that they are God.
But what ever it i
s, it is not a thing to be encouraged.Think about it.. God is Omni-present! He is everywhere. You can feel him through the smile of an innocent child.. through the touch of the flowers.. through the sight of a pure due drop.. You can feel him through the kindness and love of another fellow being. Its so simple! He is everywhere around us.. Then why would he go to someone in particular????
Nobody is special to God! Everyone is equal to God. In fact many say we are all kids to God. Then why favoritism? Why would God choose only few of his children to communicate to the others??
I feel there should be something else going on behind this!
Observe carefully when these people are saying that they are possessed by God. When they are helpless? extremely angry? extremely sorrow? some kind of extreme emotions?
Or, after doing some Pooja? After performing some meditation?
I think it happens like this - when some form of energy flows through them, which is enormous to handle for an ordinary being, they go to some state of mind in which they do not feel themselves. For some people, after performing pooja, such energy flow comes. For some, they experience it when they have strong emotions.
Because, performing rituals or reciting slokas increases the positive energy vibrations around you. All slokas in our religion, are all having only positive words and meanings. There is not a single cry or negative word/emotion in it. So if a person recites some sloka with full concentration and dedication, he can definitely feel that positive energy around him. Even others can feel it..
The other case - During extreme emotions, may be because of some bodily reactions, they have such a different feeling that they go to some other excited state of mind. For some people, they go beyond the normal state, out of control and they do not realize who they are at that time.
In technical terms, they call it Multiple-personality disorder.
You can read here for more details on this:
What Wikipedia says about this disorder
The Skeptics Dictionary
Soo.. In such situations, what happens is they start calling themselves as God. Since such a kind of power or energy flow is accepted as unnatural, it becomes easy for them to make others believe that they are different and that God has come into them!
The thing is some people do not realize that they are doing like this. They also start believing that actually God is coming into them. Its just some energy flow. If you know how to handle such an enormous flow of energy that comes to you, you can be perfectly normal even when such a thing happens..
Many do not want to do it. Because, now others do not see it as a disease but as a blessing! So, they want to keep it with themselves. So that they can convey the message they want through a stronger means!! They can utilize the situation. They can command others! This is a kind of disease which people would not want to go..
And.. Some people, knowing what it is, fully aware of what it is, are trying to fool other people and make business out of it! They want to use the belief, people have in God. They try to use the ignorance of people and shatter their confidence on themselves. They are just cheaters and want to use the fear and other weaker emotions of people and extract wealth from them.
Basically, we all should realize that all of us are capable of realizing the God - The supreme power - The Nature - The ultimate truth - The ultimate bliss - what ever you call that as.. We all can feel God. God never shows favoritism. God never speaks through someone to us. He speaks to us directly - Through Intuition.
We all have intuitions and thoughts coming to us. But the problem is, we do not give importance to it.
What is this Intuition?
Intuition is some thought coming to us which cannot be reasoned out. It may not have some logical background.
Of course intuition comes to everyone. But.. only when it is not adulterated with our own desires, wishes, ambitions it is called intuition. Otherwise, it is just your own thought, some kind of fascination. Thats all. True intuition comes to us only when we are leading a conscious life. Only when we are in sync with Nature. Even great scientists have said that, it is the intuition which has led them to discoveries or inventions many times.
Again, the most important thing is you should not land up in cheating yourself in the name of intuitions..
Because we do not trust ourselves, we do not have the confidence on our relationship with God, we do not trust our own intuitions, we want solutions to our problems from somewhere external - from someone who calls himself as God - from someone who seems to be more confident than us - from someone who seems to be stronger.. We just want 'someone' to give us happiness.. we want someone to boost our confidence level.. we want someone to give solutions to our problems..
This is the problem! Only when we start realizing that we have the solutions for our own problems, only when we start realizing that we can feel God, only when we give proper importance to our intuitions, only when we live in sync with Nature, we can be happy..
Its all in our own hands - our own minds. We ARE absolute happiness!!
Friday, January 4, 2008
Making Business out of Everything!
Why do people do this?
Make Business out of everything?
Terrorism - If somebody is killed, news papers gives a lot of different stories about that.. The best thrilling story - whether true or not! makes more money! People have started using even 'Death' as a reason to make out money!
Disasters - If some place is hit by Tsunami, even for that, people will start creating stupid stories around it and then invite everyone for anti-tsunami prayers, fund raising, etc. etc. How many of these fund raising actually is used for the mentioned purpose?
These are done just to escape tax??
God - I think this is the most misused 'subject' for earning money! People are constructing temples, ashrams, homes, etc in the name of God just for the sake of earning money! Just of the sake acquiring fame and power!
This will ultimately reflect in the core principles of human kind!The belief that people have on their lives, the belief with which they live - everything will be shattered! Its like killing Human kind! Burying the core values and principles of human kind!
Yoga classes - I really dont like some of these modern day yoga classes. Which tells you how to be "Good". How to do good to others. You cannot cultivate "goodness" in someone by telling them how good people react to situations. You cannot become good by imitating someone. You cannot become good because someone else wants you to be good! Basically, they are teaching you how to "act" like good people by clearly explaining what are the traits of good people, how they react to situations, how they smile, how they walk, how they talk, etc.,
Goodness should come from within. You should feel it within you. Then only can you express it - bring it to the outside world. Others can feel it. Here again may be not everyone can feel it!
Yoga - union with supreme bliss. You achieve that by doing various exercises which brings discipline in your body. Controlling your prana, emotions, etc. You purify your body at the subconscious level by controlling your prana.. and there are many more in this which are beyond my knowledge now. So basically yoga helps you to purify your mind, body and soul and you automatically become good. I mean, you dont even focus on being good. It just happens..
But these modern day yoga teachers, they teach you few exercises (These few exercises also, they do not know whether you are doing it the right way! They have so many students and they cannot concentrate on you!!) and they lecture about how you should "act" like good people. Its like as thought they can bring something divine from somewhere and externally fix it on your face!! The worst part is people start believing that they have become good because they are doing good as their masters have said! But, just acting on the superficial layer is not going to be of any help! Trying to cheat one's self in order to attract more business!!
I can only laugh at these who try to fool themselves..
Not only these.. The list goes on.. Politics, Sports, Arts, Disease, Religion, etc, etc,. Its Endless!! Anything that comes on the way.. People can use it for making money.
Should I say people are very intelligent these days?
Or people are going mad to believe everything without thinking rationally?
Make Business out of everything?
Terrorism - If somebody is killed, news papers gives a lot of different stories about that.. The best thrilling story - whether true or not! makes more money! People have started using even 'Death' as a reason to make out money!
Disasters - If some place is hit by Tsunami, even for that, people will start creating stupid stories around it and then invite everyone for anti-tsunami prayers, fund raising, etc. etc. How many of these fund raising actually is used for the mentioned purpose?
These are done just to escape tax??
God - I think this is the most misused 'subject' for earning money! People are constructing temples, ashrams, homes, etc in the name of God just for the sake of earning money! Just of the sake acquiring fame and power!
This will ultimately reflect in the core principles of human kind!The belief that people have on their lives, the belief with which they live - everything will be shattered! Its like killing Human kind! Burying the core values and principles of human kind!
Yoga classes - I really dont like some of these modern day yoga classes. Which tells you how to be "Good". How to do good to others. You cannot cultivate "goodness" in someone by telling them how good people react to situations. You cannot become good by imitating someone. You cannot become good because someone else wants you to be good! Basically, they are teaching you how to "act" like good people by clearly explaining what are the traits of good people, how they react to situations, how they smile, how they walk, how they talk, etc.,
Goodness should come from within. You should feel it within you. Then only can you express it - bring it to the outside world. Others can feel it. Here again may be not everyone can feel it!
Yoga - union with supreme bliss. You achieve that by doing various exercises which brings discipline in your body. Controlling your prana, emotions, etc. You purify your body at the subconscious level by controlling your prana.. and there are many more in this which are beyond my knowledge now. So basically yoga helps you to purify your mind, body and soul and you automatically become good. I mean, you dont even focus on being good. It just happens..
But these modern day yoga teachers, they teach you few exercises (These few exercises also, they do not know whether you are doing it the right way! They have so many students and they cannot concentrate on you!!) and they lecture about how you should "act" like good people. Its like as thought they can bring something divine from somewhere and externally fix it on your face!! The worst part is people start believing that they have become good because they are doing good as their masters have said! But, just acting on the superficial layer is not going to be of any help! Trying to cheat one's self in order to attract more business!!
I can only laugh at these who try to fool themselves..
Not only these.. The list goes on.. Politics, Sports, Arts, Disease, Religion, etc, etc,. Its Endless!! Anything that comes on the way.. People can use it for making money.
Should I say people are very intelligent these days?
Or people are going mad to believe everything without thinking rationally?
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