Small Habits Big Changes

Small Habits Big Changes

What our sarasar vivek ie power of discretion suggests to bring in transformation in life.

I think being integral part of this entire universal system, we must have this basic awareness - like universe, I shall make every effort to keep myself and every living entity around me happy,peaceful and joyful.

Small Habits Big Changes - Respect to every living entity !

Do we cause harm even to the small insects?

Small Habits Big Changes - Rising  Sun through the water bottle !

Are we able to see through the things or simply rely on what appears ?

Small Habits Big Changes

Small Habits Big Changes - Pet Cat !

Do we have compassion for our domestic animals ?

Small Habits Big Changes - Skyline that makes one introvert

I have experienced and learnt the reality that by implementing the above feelings in practice I have been able to -

• give due respect to supreme values of life like freedom, peace,love and compassion.
• honor and respect every living entity.

Small Habits Big Changes - A silent dove !

• understand significance of polarities in values like truth and untruth, moral and amoral, justice and injustice, ethical and unethical.
• make right choices while making decisions in life.
• accept the consequences of own decision making in life.

Small Habits Big Changes

So one will realize that  this small yet effective and significant habit will bring transformation in life.


What do you think ?


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Seeking Happiness

Seeking  Happiness

Man's Quest for Happiness

Seeking Happiness - Man's Quest for Happiness

Seeking Happiness

Man is in next stage of evolution compared to animals which are controlled by four instincts- aahar, nidra,bhaya, and maithuna ie food,sleep,survival and procreation.

Man is one step ahead in that he seeks happiness. The meaning and significance of happiness for every individual varies.

For example one may get happiness indulging in non-veg food. Another may seek happiness in veg food. The right one is obvious!

Our sarasar vivek ie power of discretion indicates that seeking happiness not at the cost of happiness of others is necessary.

And seeking happiness is natural instinct in human being.

Seeking Happiness

Generally one is unaware whether the happiness he is seeking is worth or not.

Next problem is one generally seeks happiness originating from external factors in the world. And realizes that those factors are not in his control and permanent one. This realization leads to frustration, disappointment and depression.

In fact,happiness is within us. Let us not forget, being happy is more important than becoming happy involving unnecessary efforts and needless hard work.

But being unaware one goes on trying to seek happiness from the world around.

In the process one realizes that such happiness is momentary. Consequently one looks for next kind of happiness. And this process is a continuous one. And we wonder why one constantly runs towards happiness putting in all possible efforts.

And we must not ignore the fact that we must discover happiness in small small things in life we can experience but unfortunately we ignore the same.  For example, seeing sunrise, sunset, observing kids, flowers and so on.

We can find a number of such small small things in life wherein we discover happiness.

Seeking Happiness

Next point is while craving for happiness of different types,one is not able to set out priorities.

Also, one often fails to understand the significance of type of happiness one is seeking. Whether it is healthy,positive,achieved in a non-violence means and so on.

And having achieved happiness is not enough as one also wants to share it.

I think all this complexity can be avoided if one is aware of -

• meaning and significance of supreme values of life -freedom,peace,love, compassion.
• meaning and significance of polarities in values like truth and untruth, ethical and unethical, healthy and unhealthy, violence and non-violence, moral and amoral and so on.
• having understood the above,one should make right choices while making decisions
• necessity to develop preparedness to accept the consequences of one's own decision making.

Having implemented the above,one will not constantly run after happiness but applying sarasar vivek achieve good,healthy,positive happiness towards transformation in life.

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Books That Will Change Your Life For The Better

Books That Will Change Your Life For The Better

And You Will Definitely Read

As my dear readers know well, One's downfall in the life can be avoided by Sarasar Vivek i.e. power of discretion.  

For this, quality reading is essential  to strengthen  Sarasar Vivek i.e. power of discretion.

In this context, I am eager to introduce my dear readers with the books that will change our life for the better.

Of these, the first two books I have read  in the recent past and felt that I must keep posted my readers of the same.

1. Inner Engineering- A Yogi's Guide to Joy by Sadhguru

Around the time when I decided to retire voluntarily, certain queries were rising in my mind - like Who I Am ?, What is relation between mind and body and their interdependence, why it is essential to maintain balance and rhythm between them ? What is energy field ?  How it can effect us ? What is spirituality?

Post retirement I had enough time to devote to my passionate hobby of quality reading.  In that period, my son present the above book by Sadhguru which I eagerly read and got familiar with the transformational concept of Inner Engineering.

This is the powerful practice that enables the reader to synchronize mind and body with energies around and within towards infinite power and the possibilities.

Part Two of this book is significant which contains insightful revelation on Body, Mind, and Energy. The last chapter Joy is really meaningful.

Even a light and casual reading of this book will change one's life for the better.
    

2.   Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing

Last month only I read Marathi translation of this book.  The books is about the author's own experience of her self-realization, her near death experience leading her to a significant insight, her ability to effectively interpret her interaction with the power within and foresee effective cure from cancer, and most important, her identifying the real cause of cancer.

The author, shares her life spectrum right from her birth to her near death experience and back to normal life and the significant changes that she experienced in her post recovery life. All these are really pearls of wisdom related to suffering from cancer, illness, existence of fear in mind, pure love and its tremendous power, and the humanity.  And I am sure an  avid reader would not like to miss.


3.  What if This Is Heaven? How Our Cultural Myths Prevent Us From Experiencing Heaven On Earth.   


The Author, Anita Moorjani, after her near death experience as shared in her book Dying to Be Me, shares her insight on truth that is beyond and above awareness of the common people. While dwelling upon the conditioning one is subjected to right from childhood for generations together, and which are assimilated as truth without any inquiry, the author  here emphasizes the importance of analyzing this mind conditioning on the way to self realization, and how our cultural myths prevent us from experiencing heaven here itself.  And to substantiate the same the author here shares  her own experiences in life that lead to revelation of the need to understand the real crux of such upbringing in life.

I have not read this book.  But after reading the brief introduction of the book, being eager to read, this book is on my list to read in 2019.



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Is It Normal To Not Feel Normal ?

Is It Normal To Not Feel Normal ?

HOW TO OVERCOME THIS ABNORMALITY ?

Not to feel normal on a daily basis is not normal. 

If we apply our sarasar vivek, we find the obvious reason for the above symptom.

It may have two probable aspects. Health of body and /or mind.

If one is physically not alright then one needs medical advice.

Second  probable reason is no sound mental health.

For physical health 

• one must pay attention to physical hygiene. 
• Taking daily bath,once or twice a day
• drinking pure water 
• no outside food 
• observing strict diet as per doctor's advice 
• maintaining clean nails, etc.
• physical exercise

And one pays too much attention by opting for bath soap, Ayurveda and  herbal soap.

However, for mental health one has no clear  and effective ideas to be implemented. 

For mental health 

First of all, one is not aware of mental health and how to achieve it.

As in case of physical health, the way one is aware of the quality of food intake,for mental health also one must be equally aware of what one needs to feed own mind.

And how can healthy feeding of the mind be achieved?

The five sense organs one uses to perceive the world around can be used effectively.

One must -

• see good and healthy things 
• read quality books
• watch quality movie,TV show
• befriend quality people 
• always be in the company of wise people
• hear healthy thought (satsang), music etc.
• touch healthy things, avoid touching garbage and dirt etc.
• smell-one must have the sense of quality thing and able to detect bad things immediately to discard at once.
• tongue to be used for healthy speech which is good for oneself and for others also.
• painstakingly ensure that the mind is engrossed in positive thoughts, things,scene,vision,company.

Is is normal to not feel normal?

And most important and effective thing is never forget quality reading.  And of course, reading only is not enough.  The wisdom learnt by quality reading must be implemented in practice. 

This will ensure leading a normal life where it is normal to feel normal every day.

Correct ?  Please comment.

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Do We Regret Being Born ?

Do We Regret Being Born ?

Do We Ever Wish We Were Never Born?

Life is very strange - the famous saying.

It is always advised to be aware of our sarasar vivek ie power of discretion and apply the same on the path of transformation in life.

In childhood one gets introduced to several aspects of life - love of parents,company of siblings and attachment thereto-the peers- the beauty of mother nature-the concept of the Guru-

In teen age,one is a bit rebellious,dream pursuer, always miles away from reality,the natural attraction towards opposite gender,

In later stage one gets engaged in pursuing career, getting settled etc.

Then follows the inevitable sansara and related botheration.

And then efforts to fulfilling obligations,responsibilities,the success and failure in meeting the same and the resultant frustration,helplessness, anxieties.

And the stage is reached when health problems come up due to ageing.

The Atma, the soul starts feeling “Enough now!”.

The great Marathi Saint Tukarama has said “ Ya samsarachya paee Harinam athavat nahi.”- Meaning, the Atma is so much engaged and busy in mundane issues of life that there is no time even to think about God.

Add to this the suffering related to ageing,the soul gets fed up,frustrated,hopeless and the resultant dominant feeling of “ Why I was born at all!”

And thus there is dominant feeling I was never born.

The Hindu religion's concept of life reincarnation is very significant in this context. The soul goes through 84,00,000 life cycles going through evolution from single cell living entity to complex human being,the last stage of evolution. The recent research revealed this number as 87,50,000. Therefore, it is always advised not to waste human life by downfall to lower form of life to avoid going through rigors of life cycle again and again.

Thus,ultimately the concept of Moksha, the great salvation,liberation from life cycle.

And surprisingly this revelation is realized at the Sandhya Chchaya  stage of life, ie. old age.

Therefore, one must always be aware of own sarasar vivek ie power of discretion and apply the same effectively to achieve transformation life towards spiritual progress.

That's the life.

What are your feelings?

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