LIFE IS A GIFT : Stop Worrying , Start Living

Why do we worry for the tomorrow?

God who have taken care of us through all the days of our life, will he not take care of us tomorrow?

It's been 2 years since I moved to Pune (India) for my Post Graduation and I have completed my degree last month. Pune is a beautiful place in its own way: a home for people after retirement, a place for education exposure for the seekers, a gateway for Information Technology and Automobile industries, Southern Command of Indian Army and off course a largest city within the Western Ghats Mountains. Pune has a beautifully laid out home for paraplegics called Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre. It is laid out in green, serene surroundings of the Army Cantonment. Many soldiers who have been injured in the war, leading to spine injury and partial paralysis live here. They are taught to use their feet and mouth to paint beautiful pictures. These paraplegics are taught to use the able parts of their body for various vocational skills. Many of them paint with their mouth or foot and produce excellent greeting cards, decorative murals, panels and landscapes. They all are activey participate in sports events and many of them also represented India in Olympics for disables. When you will interact with these army persons, you will see their positive attitude towards life and how they refused to give up over their problems.  Instead of lamenting over mishaps, we should also find the solution to overcome obstacles on our path like these army persons. Whenever we are faced with difficulties, look very deep into it and learn from it and be like a person who create beauty out of it.

Dada Vaswani, born Jashan Pahlajrai Vaswani, is a spiritual leader and head of the Sadhu Vaswani Mission rightly quoted "Worry paralyses the will and makes us unfit for action. It clouds our vision and distracts the thinking process. Worrying cannot improve matters. Then, why worry? "

Dada Vaswani gave six mantras (statement or slogan) to overcome every possible difficulties of our life. By practicing these mantras in our daily life every obstacles can be conquered.

1st mantra   : I will turn all stopping stones into stepping stones.

2nd mantra : Stop worrying. Shut the doors on worries.

3rd mantra : Be positive.

4th mantra : Everything is in its proper place in God's universe and nothing can go wrong.

5th mantra : Have faith in God in all circumstances and in all adverse conditions.

6th mantra : Offer gratitude to God.

If we make these six mantras of our lives, we need not fear anything, ever in our lives. Repeat to our self again and again and we can overcome every problem. We will find that fear will not touch us because we are not alone God is with us. Mental sunshine is equally powerful. When we have the will to be free of fear, the sunshine of our faith and confidence will melt the ice of insecurity and dread. But it is not easy to still the mind. A mind that is wandering and restless is like a disturbed lake, waves are constantly rising on its surface and it cannot reflect the stillness of the sky. But we can control our mind through practice of meditation and chanting. When we control our thoughts, we still the mind and it becomes capable of beautiful, elevating reflections, reflection of divine light within us. Everything happens at the right place and the right time, but as a human being it's our basic nature to worry about things. Worry is a sign of negative mind. We should always be positive. If we are positive good things will surely happen in our life. The reverse is equally true, if we are negative our negative thoughts will actualize. This is simply a law of attraction, what you feel now is what you are going to attract.

Find a solution. Do not succumb to your worries. Worries have a habit of multiplying. Worries are like worms and they tend to gnaw your brains and weaken our mind.  

The sea is vast, my skiff is small. I trust in Thee, who guard's all. @Sadhu Vaswani 

Stop worrying, have faith in him and start thanking.

God is watching over us.

GOD : What is it ?

We are considering the question: Does God exist?

If he does, how may we know him and name him?

Some persistent questions haunt some of us: 

Who is God? 

Where does he dwell? 

How can we prove that he is?

It is not just deniers and atheists who have raised these questions. Philosophers and saintly souls and wise men who realized God in their lifetime have also been troubled by these persistent doubts. People who go through mental turmoil and suffering, also find it difficult to believe in the existence of God.

The omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient God is not confined by the definitions, nomenclature or religious dogma. No religion has the right to deny others' concept of God and proclaim their own version of the truth as God.

I have heard an amusing story from Jewish scripture. It concerns the Emperor who said to Priest, "You talk of God, but where is he? If he exists, can you show him to me?"

"That is impossible," answered the Priest.

The Emperor insisted, "How can I believe in God when I cannot see him?"

The Priest took the Emperor outside. It was a hot summer day. The Priest said, "Look at the sun."

"I cannot," answered the Emperor.

And the Priest said, "If you cannot even look at the sun, which is but a servant of God, how can you look at God himself?"

Yes, God can be seen and heard. He is more real than all the things that we perceive with our outer senses. To be able to see God, we have to put in efforts. This effort is cultivating deep longing for the Lord, deep yearning for the First and only Fair. As Sri Ramakrishna said, "Long for the Lord even as a lover yearn for his beloved, as a miser yearns for gold, as a child yearns for his mother." Yearn for the Lord. Say to him with tear-touched eyes, "I need you Lord! I need nothing else- neither pleasures, nor possessions, nor power! I need you alone!" When god gets the assurance that you truly need him and nothing besides, he will reveal himself to you.

Think of God in any form that draws you. He is the formless one, but for the sake of his devotees, he has worn many forms and visited the earth-plane again and again. Call him by any name that appeals to you. He is the nameless one, though the sages have called him by many names. Do not quarrel over forms or names. You must stick to the one that draws you and let others stick to the one that draws them. All forms and names ultimately leads to the one, who is beyond the form and the formlessness. "On whatever path men approach me, on that I go to meet them - for all the paths are mine, verily mine!" says the Lord in the Gita.

As Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev expalined that our idea of God is just an exaggerated version of ourself. See, we are still not able to define ourself. Whatever definition we put on ourself is not correct. When this small piece of creation is like this, the source of creation, how are we going to put a definition on it? We cannot define it, we cannot understand it, we can only dissolve into it. We can experience it, we can never know it. We cannot make knowledge out of it. Whatever knowledge we have about God is just pure nonsense, cultural nonsense. Depending upon which kind of culture we are in, that kind of God we have. It can only be experienced. Experience does not mean we can eat it or we can grasp it. No, we can experience only by dissolving in it, there is no other way. So, we are just looking for methods of dissolution, sothat we can experience something far bigger than ourselves

It is time to stop asking questions on whether God exists, it is time to make God real in our lives!

IT'S OK BUDDY… .LIFE IS ROUGH

We've all been there. That place that feels like the end of the road. That point in life where you feel as if you simply don't have the strength to go on. I am appreciative for my struggle in light of the fact that without it I wouldn't have discovered my strength. Sometimes you simply need to remind yourself that it will all be OK, maybe not now, maybe not tomorrow, but one day. Let's assume it enough that one day you will really believe it. In life we do things. Some we wish we had never done. Some we wish we could replay million times in our heads, however they all make us who we are. If we somehow happened to turn around any of them we wouldn't be the person we are. So simply live, make mistakes, have great memories, but never at any point second think about who you are, where you have been and above all where it is you are going. What's more, most essential, your heart is free have the courage to follow it. I think our heart some way or another definitely know what we truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.