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Dedicated to Baba Hari Dass Ji
Sri Ram Ashram
Village Shyampur Kangri,
Hardwar, India
Index
How to say it ?
Triple O
An astute businessman
Do not tidy up the dark room
Google & iGoogle
The source
Desire is born out of pain
What matters is attitude
Passionately dispassionate
Dying & reincarnating in the same body many times
Forget world to know thyself
What to do with a Master
The Contact
The range of your field of attention
Jokes apart, you must take it seriously
God helps those…..
Science in the inner world
Healthy wealthy
Simple karma
When I do not exist
To live or to die
Secrets you should never know.
Where do you go, when you sleep?
God as I know him
Mum is the word
The blue eyed saint
Drink & be intoxicated
The gift
Answer it at your leisure
Answer it now
It’s a question of a question
Not becoming another brick in the wall
New version of God
Simple complexities
The being
Direct to home
Your processes and you
Nature of liberation
Knowing your boundaries
The Jar, the pot & the fish
Monkey Mind
Within without
Radiant me, silent me
I am blessed
SMS from great masters
God & the spider
Bugs in the software
Connecting to the web
God must be crazy
Jagat & Sansar
No dreams are real
I want to break free
Let it be
The exit
Neti, Neti
The most essential life skills
Top view
Wealth, Love, Sex and God
Escaping from reality
Creating your own reality
You are the ocean, you are the shore
These 30 minutes
Living at the source
Aspire and grow more
After attaining yourself
Kama Sutra
Mind tree
Light of understanding
Death & Sleep
Dreams & reality
Where do you come from?, where are you? & where will you go?
It is all about money, honey !
The origin
The enigma that you are
Another day in paradise
Peace in pieces
Return to innocence
I still haven’t found what I am looking for
Top of the world
With you or without you
Time pass
www of consciousness
God’s Mobile
Car that never stops
PC of God
God’s software
Free download
I draw from you alone
Simplify & simply fly
Enjoy what you do
You can live both sides
Zero & the infinite
Faith & patience
Astrologic
Scientific consciousness
Orange from the spectrum
The loop
Gigantic calculations
Full & empty
Arise & Wake up kid
Centre and the periphery
Take it to the limit one more time
No, No, No
Seek & Add
Art of living
Nano is a big word
Yoga
Digesting your world
How to say it?
This is the biggest challenge.
I know that I have been given best of experiences & insights so that I could express the essence, yet I find it impossible.
Dearest Triple O, please enable me to say it in the simplest language.
Let it flow.
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Triple O
Omnipresent, Omniscient & Omnipotent (Triple O) - who else but God, pure consciousness permeating you, me and all.
The creator, sustainer & destroyer of all illusions.
I bow to thee dearest triple O.
How do I know you?
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An astute businessman
Every one has been given the illusion of doer & owner and a carrot in the future. Many lives are exhausted trying to get this carrot.
The carrot may denote money, love, name, fame, education, business, kids, success, peace, no. 1 position etc.
Whatever may be the incentive, we work only for him for free, earning only fleeting sense of happiness here & there.
Thy knower’s earn peace, Thy lovers get bliss & eternal life but rest chasing carrots get only inflated egos, momentary sensory pleasures, stress, tensions, diseases, more carrots & finally frustration & death.
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Do not tidy up the dark room
With the darkness of death, disease, old age, terrorism, crime, corruption, pollution, natural calamities, prejudices & sensual drives engulfing your mind most of the time, how can you tidy up your mind & life?
First open the window, let there be some light & fresh air.
Opening the window requires spending some time alone, gaining some knowledge about your true essence, reflecting about your life in the light of the eternal knowledge of soul and choosing between world and your self.
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The play of I
He is like simple Google tool bar. Feed any keyword and it returns many related websites whereas igoogle is a customized page appearing with all your previously selected favorite web pages.
He is pure consciousness fulfilling all desires and this pure consciousness when customized with the sense of me and mine becomes individual like you & me with a personality & set of desires.
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The source
Sun is the source of all life on earth.
It does not seem to control yet controls everything on earth.
Sun just shines in its own glory and animates life on earth yet remains unaffected by activities on earth.
Same is true of God or soul or pure consciousness.
Soul enlivens the mind, body & ego to act.
It does not seem to control yet controls all.
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Desire is born out of pain
Desiring is an effort to get out of the perceived or actual pain.
This pain is felt as shortage of wealth, health, love, knowledge, respect, fame, power, status, resources, variety etc.
This shortage is always perceived in comparison to those having more and never with those having less.
So no comparison means no pain.
Comparison with those having less brings thankfulness & gratitude for what you have been given.
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What matters is attitude
Events unfold & inevitable happens.
What you say to yourself internally in relation to the events; is your attitude.
Examples:
God’s will, what can I do? Or
Destiny or fate? Or
I can do it Or
I am the best? Or
It is all useless, no one cares? Or
This shall also pass Or
I am a loser Or
I am special Or
I am a winner Or
Nothing really matters Or
So what? Or
I don’t care Or
God help us Or
God save us Or
It is Government’s problem
All are careless
……………………………………….
What is your attitude?
What is the best attitude?
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Passionately dispassionate
To know your true self the attention has to be brought to the inner world but the passion for the objects of the world take the mind outside.
As passion for success or perfection is the key to success in the external world, passion for dispassion towards worldly objects is the key to God.
The dispassionate mind can concentrate on the source within.
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Dying & reincarnating in the same body many times
Sincere lovers know it when the heart breaks.
Parents know it when their young child dies.
Businessmen know it after suffering a great loss.
Divorcee knows it after the separation.
But what really dies with some loss & what builds up with some gain?
Ego i.e. Identification with the object and your expectations from the object.
After each setback, with time your ego rebuilds itself again with worldly objects.
A setback brings an opportunity to break the cycle and identify with the self and rebuild the identification with God alone.
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Forget world to know thy self
To know the world you forget yourself, to know the self you have to forget the world.
Your world is nothing but a collection of data about people, material objects, tasks, targets, desires, experiences, concepts etc.
All your actions are centered around I, me & mine yet in deep sleep you forget the sense of I, me, mine & the world and feel rested.
Now all you have to do is to enter state of deep sleep to know yourself as soul.
Meditation leading to Samadhi is the process for doing this.
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Simple tips: What to do with a good Master
Empty thyself.
Do not flaunt the information you have gathered from different sources.
Listen keenly what he/she /book says.
Do not argue.
Do not think about your next plan of action while you are with him/her. Just be there & soak every thing.
FEEL.
Just try what he instructs for a pilot period of say three months & focus on feeling/sensing.
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The contact
You are the pure consciousness. Pure consciousness is the soul, the self.
Pure consciousness is all, the God; omnipresent, omniscient & omnipotent (Triple O).
It is the contact of pure consciousness with the body & mind which animates everything.
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The range of your field of attention
Objects, their forms, names, nature (External data)
↓
Your Body (its organs of perception & action)
↓
Breath (Inhalation, Retention, Exhalation)
↓
Thoughts, Feelings, Cravings, Habits (Contents of inner world & their interaction with objects of external world)
↓
Ego (Identification with the contents & expectations from them & you as the center)
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Body Sensations (Interaction between physical body & the energy body and you as experiencer)
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Awake Sleep (You as an observer and body- mind in restful sleep)
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Only self i.e. pure formless Spirit, the cause of all causes. Kaivalya.
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Jokes apart, you must take it seriously
Not joking but it seems funny that after working so hard for family, education, house, car, bank balance, position , fame , love, status, honor, health, peace etc ; you die taking nothing along & no one is able to save you from the clutches of death.
Some do not question; some search for meaning in life, life before death, life after death, who am I etc ; some try to put the jigsaw puzzle together; some just do their duty ; some live with their egos; some play the game of life; some grudgingly get pushed to run along; some follow gurus or their religious rituals.
Whether you are a sinner or saint; educated or uneducated; religious or non religious, vegetarian or non vegetarian, sexed or celibate; it does not matter – you die; naturally or accidently, timely or untimely.
It is so frustrating & depressing.
So what if everyone dies. So what if the end comes earlier. So what if the old age is full of suffering, rejection & pain. So what if you do not find love or success.
What does the death do? One becomes non – existent or reincarnates but who remembers the previous life?
And besides law, who is stopping you to become dead today?
Even if you do not feel like living, your lungs will continue to pump air without your permission.
Besides what stops you from being dead are your mental drives for sense pleasures, mating, owning, hoarding & controlling. These drives not only drive you crazy but others as well. So everyone seeks ways to relax and find peace.
Observing the world around, finding suffering, pain, crime & exploitation has motivated many to come up with many solutions creating different groups, sects & religions thereby producing more differences & disharmony in the world.
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God helps those……
God helps all whether able or unable to help themselves.
God can’t help not helping.
Find out when you are helpless.
This moment of helplessness is the right time to pray for help.
Great are thy ways. The help may come in any form.
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Science in the inner world
E = mc2
Where E = energy, m = mass in kgs,
c= speed of light 3, 00,000 km/sec
If my mass is 60 kgs then the energy consumed in creating this mass is tremendous i.e.
E = 60 X 3,00,000 X 3,00,000 = 54,00000,00,00,00,00 kg-m2/sec2
Where did this energy come from? What is the technology that converts energy to matter? (We know only how to convert mass to energy)
Can’t be from the food I ate so far.
We are usually busy converting matter to energy and the energy sources are not only polluting but depleting very fast also.
Is there some other inner source of energy?
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Healthy wealthy
If you are working like mad to earn money, remember that one day the same money will be spent to find a cure for the diseases that you will invite in the money making process.
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Simple Karma
What you are earning today is the result of your past efforts.
Some of your income is spent and rest saved. Your earning will grow, if your efforts are intelligent
Your savings will grow & make you self dependent in future, provided they are invested safely & intelligently and not gambled away.
You will reap in future what you are sowing today.
Mentally offer all that you own to God & pray it to be utilized for noble purposes.
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When I do not exist
In deep sleep, I do not exist.
It is of no practical use. I am not enjoying anything. Yet it is mandatory.
How odd?
Most of the things I enjoy and value are not mandatory; I can do without most of them.
These things are left behind when I go to deep sleep.
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To Live Or To die
To be or not to be
To love or not to love
To work or resign
To stay or leave
To invest or not
Constant conflicts between heart & head are experienced so that you realize the following very simple fact.
These conflicts push you towards the priority no. 1. This is “peace of mind”.
This time ask which decision will bring PEACE & choose peace of mind.
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Secrets you should never know.
Are you worthy enough to know these secrets?
Information is not knowledge. Experience and understanding bring knowledge.
Finding the right information, thinking & meditating over it will bring understanding & experience i.e. insights & knowledge.
You are here not to gather information about others but insights about your self.
Good judgment comes from bad experiences & a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
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Where do you go, when you sleep?
I give you some information; now try to convert it into knowledge.
How would you know what happens to you when you are deep asleep?
You go to sleep and sometimes you dream.
Who is sleeping?
Who is experiencing the dream?
Who realized that it was a dream?
Are you one or many?
Where do you live in this body?
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God as I know him
He is the one who loves. He is the one who cares. He is the one who tries all the time. He is the one who brings me everything.
He is the one who is always with me yet I am not impressed as my focus is on my responsibilities, my passions, my priorities.
He can wait till I retire.
It is one side affair only. From your side only.
Why can’t I love you the way you love me 24 X 7 eternally without judging or expecting anything in return?
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Mum is the word
I was told to visit earth in far off space.
What is space & what do you mean by earth as I only knew him and nothing else existed except him; yet lo I was separate & speaking & hearing to him as well.
He went ahead and said that it a planet in vast space, the wind blows there, fire burns, water gurgles & earth brings forth bounty for the birds, animals, insects and humans.
Do they know you, I asked.
Very few know me but they remain mum.
Why I asked?
Because MUM is the WORD and the WORD is me.
Hearing & understanding this, I again became mum & was dissolved in the silent pure AMNESS beyond the WORD.
The word is popular as AUM or OM or ANAHAD SOUND.
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The blue eyed Saint
You gave me many experiences but I was unable to understand thyself until you sent me to the blue eyed saint.
Your experiences came between me and the blue eyed saint.
My ego that you love me and I knew everything about you was the barrier.
“Arguments will take you nowhere.”
Above one sentence from the saint on his chalkboard brought me to the path of understanding thyself.
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Drink & be intoxicated
Relax, withdraw your senses & immerse yourself in the sound of nothingness reverberating inside you.
It will bring you home.
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The gift
I asked for strength and you gave me difficulties to make me strong.
I asked for wisdom and you gave me problems to solve.
I asked for prosperity and you gave me brawn & brain to work.
I asked for courage and you gave me dangers to overcome.
I asked for love and you gave me troubled people to help.
I asked for favors and you gave me opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted, I received everything I needed.
My prayers have been answered.
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Answer it at your leisure
Where are you in your body?
Who are you?
Where is this “I” in you?
Where did you come from?
Where will you go?
Why do you close your eyes when you pray?
Is there any intelligence behind you, this world & your personal world?
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Answer it now
Close your eyes and think of your past life so far.
What events come to your mind immediately?
Good or bad?
Pleasant or painful?
Similar memories will flood you when you will be dying.
What are you doing to manage your memory?
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It’s a question of a question
Why am I not successful?
Why I am not loved?
Why am I not happy?
Why am I always stressed?
Why am I so sensitive?
Why am I so restless?
It’s a question of asking one RIGHT question.
Find it.
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Not becoming another brick in the wall
Each one here has the following three options:
Beat them
Join them
Rise above them
Which option are you following?
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New version of God
No new version is possible.
God remains omnipresent, omniscient & omnipresent all the time behind all the forms.
Only our understanding & feelings about God keep getting revised & refined with passage of time.
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Simple complexities
Your personality can be divided into four parts:
Everything that you know about your self
Everything that you show to others i.e. your image
Everything others know about you but you don’t
Neither you nor others know
“You are an eternal soul” is the 4th part.
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The being
You are a multi dimensional being:
A human being
A wise man
A guardian
A master yogi
A karma yogi
A guru
A saint
A Jivan mukta
The liberated one
Pure Consciousness
God
You are the one, permeating me.
~~**~~
Direct to home
We are always at home. It’s a matter of cultivating right feeling, right understanding and meditating on self.
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Your processes & you
A process can be depicted as:
Inputs → Set of interrelated & interacting activities → Outputs
Inputs (Information through your senses i.e. eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin)
↓
Set of interrelated & Interacting activities (Awareness about entering sensory information; segregation; identification and discriminating the information as per your likes & dislikes; usefulness & non-usefulness; actionable or not)
↓
Outputs (Physical gestures/actions, spoken, written words, thoughts, feelings, sensations)
Are your outputs under your control?
Do you react to the inputs or respond to the inputs?
Are you trying to control sources of your inputs?
Are you aware about the sensory inputs entering your system?
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Nature of liberation
What gets liberated?
The sense of “I”.
Liberation is from what?
The identification of self with world, its objects & expectations from them
What does liberation result in?
Eternal Peace
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Knowing your boundaries
Whenever you feel angry
Whenever you feel tempted
Whenever you feel greedy
Whenever you feel weak
Know that you have reached the boundaries defined by you.
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The Jar, the pot & the fish
Space in the jar:
Close an open jar with lid and move around with this jar.
What happens to the space in the jar?
Has the space also moved or remained stationary?
Pot submerged in the ocean:
Submerge an earthen pot full of water in ocean.
What would you call the water inside the pot? Ocean or ocean conditioned by a temporary earthen pot.
The fish:
A fish swimming in the water is asking “What is water”?
How will you explain water to the fish?
Like the filled earthen Pot in ocean, you “the pure consciousness” are conditioned by a body & a mind and like the fish you want to know “What is consciousness?”
You can only feel your self.
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Monkey Mind
Imagine a monkey who has drunk whiskey and has got hold of a knife and has also been stung by a scorpion.
Our worldly minds are in the same condition.
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Within without
The Pure consciousness permeates everything.
You the pure consciousness, remains within this structure of body & mind and even without this structure.
If you are able to withdraw your ego for a while and meditate on self, you can realize the self.
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Radiant me, silent me
You can meditate on your self as silent, radiant self-effulgent light permeating the body-mind.
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I am blessed
Do not consider fulfillment of your worldly desires as blessings of God. Even animals get their sensory pleasures.
The true blessing of God is self realization i.e. end of all dreams & illusions about world & its objects.
The day you realize your self a soul, neither born nor dying just watching over the experiences of body & mind, you are blessed by yourself.
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SMS from Great masters
Buddha –Compassion
Mahavir –Non violence
Jesus – Love
Krishna – Work as worship
Mohamed – Serve
Guru Nanak – Serve
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God & the spider
A spider weaves the web to catch its victims.
Our minds keep planning & scheming to gain by enticing others in our plans & schemes.
God & Spiders are not caught in their web but our minds ultimately become victims of their own plans, schemes & attachments.
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Bugs in the software
Our minds follow object oriented programming. We all are bound by objects and find them to be the source of our pains & pleasures.
We love them, we hate them, we cling to them yet we need our own space too.
Do you see the front end: people, places, things, addictions, money, sex, fame etc?
Do you also see the back end? Your thoughts, feelings, sensations & impulses around objects which propel you to action.
Everyone is running on software passing through birth, growth, maturity, decay & finally death.
Sense of I & mine are the bugs in the software.
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Connecting to the web
As an internet connection & URL is needed to get connected to a website, similarly a mantra connects you to the web of consciousness.
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God must be crazy
There are so many problems on earth.
God could solve all the problems in one second and we could enjoy here peacefully.
Is he non existent or deaf or choosy?
We:
God must be crazy
Or he might be lazy
When it is about God
Everything is so hazy.
God:
Lots of demands & lots of work.
No words of thanks, no salary, no perks.
Why should I make it easy? You jerks.
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Jagat & Sansar
Things like The Cosmos, the Galaxies, Sun, Moon & the Solar system, Earth, People, Animals, Vegetables, and Fruits etc are part of The JAGAT – The objective reality.
SANSAR is the subjective reality as experienced & understood by each one of us living in the JAGAT.
So there is only one JAGAT but infinite SANSARS.
You & Your family shares the same JAGAT but each one of you have different SANSARS.
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No dreams are real
Dreams are projection of internal data related to mind’s suppressed desires during its waking hours.
Dream state is like experiencing virtual reality.
We experience the dreams in the same way as we experience the world and its object.
From the point of view of Pure Consciousness, the short duration of time spent on earth is nothing but a dream.
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I want to break free
I just want to be free from all this hard work.
I just want to be free from all this dependence on others.
I just want to be free from law of this place.
I just want to be financially free.
I just want to be free from this disease.
I just want to be free from fear, insecurity & inferiority complexes.
I just want to be free from demands of my boss, my wife, my kids .
I want to be free from this earthly existence and be a free spirit.
The most important thing for us is FREEDOM.
How many of us understand this?
How many of us are consciously working for our FREEDOM?
Where are you struck?
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Let it be
For meditating on self, withdrawal from your SANSAR is necessary.
Withdrawing from your SANSAR is not easy.
One of the ways is to accept everyone & everything as they are including yourself and LET IT BE the way it is.
Just focus on your self. Collect your mind scattered in the objects of your SANSAR and on meditate your SELF.
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The exit
Entering sleep is like dying. Just pay attention to you thoughts & feelings when your are about to sleep.
Time is moving into the future.
The present moment will become past.
Decide to focus on people, things, activities, events which bring memories & feelings of happiness.
If you are living in the NOW fully, you will automatically feel happy and you will be collecting a happy past and creating a happy future.
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Neti, neti
All joys of this world are of short duration. The only permanent joy is the bliss of self realization when one comes to realize his/her eternal nature as pure consciousness.
Neti, Neti means NOT THIS, NOT THIS.
So when you are enjoying worldly pleasures, just say NETI, NETI to your self to remind that this is just a glimpse of bliss of the self and will end soon.
This practice is continued until one realizes one’s changeless true nature as pure consciousness.
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The most essential life skills
There are only two life skills that each one needs to learn.
Unfortunately these skills are not taught in any school or university. We learn it the hard way i.e. by suffering alone.
These essential life skills are:
Managing one’s emotions well ( Is your remote in your hands or in the hands of the others?)
Creating wealth ( Are you creating wealth for some one else or for your self?)
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Top view
All is God i.e. pure consciousness.
All is in God.
All is God’s.
All is ONE.
No one is separate from God.
All heart felt desires are fulfilled.
Everyone is being taken care of.
There is no past & no future for God.
God is always in the PRESENT that is why God is able to sustain this JAGAT 24x7.
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Wealth, Love, Sex and God
God is the wealthiest.
God is Love.
God created sex.
Seek God present in you and get fulfilled.
~~**~~
Escaping the reality
Seeking God in one self is not escape from reality & responsibilities but turning to the only true & eternal reality.
Self realization is the only responsibility one has towards oneself.
All other responsibilities are only time pass activities which bring egoism, stress, tensions, worries, depression, separation, setbacks, diseases, sorrows, pain, suffering & finally death.