*What is spiritual maturity? 1. Spiritual Maturity is *when you stop trying to change others, ...instead focus on changing yourself.* 2. Spiritual Maturity is when you *accept people as they are.* 3. Spiritual Maturity is when you *understand everyone is right in their own perspective.* 4. Spiritual Maturity is when you *learn to "let go".* 5. Spiritual Maturity is when you are able to *drop "expectations" from a relationship and give for the sake of giving.* 6. Spiritual Maturity is when you *understand whatever you do, you do for your own peace.* 7. Spiritual Maturity is when you *stop proving to the world, how intelligent you are.* 8. Spiritual Maturity is when you *don't seek approval from others.* 9. Spiritual Maturity is when you *stop comparing with others.* 10. Spiritual Maturity is when you *are at peace with yourself.* 11. Spiritual Maturity is when you *are able to differentiate between "need" and "want" and are able to let go of your wants.* *& last but most meaningful !* 12. You gain Spiritual Maturity when you *stop attaching "happiness" to material things !!* "Wishing all a happy Spiritually matured life.
Tuesday, 7 March 2017
Spiritual Maturity - As shared
*What is spiritual maturity? 1. Spiritual Maturity is *when you stop trying to change others, ...instead focus on changing yourself.* 2. Spiritual Maturity is when you *accept people as they are.* 3. Spiritual Maturity is when you *understand everyone is right in their own perspective.* 4. Spiritual Maturity is when you *learn to "let go".* 5. Spiritual Maturity is when you are able to *drop "expectations" from a relationship and give for the sake of giving.* 6. Spiritual Maturity is when you *understand whatever you do, you do for your own peace.* 7. Spiritual Maturity is when you *stop proving to the world, how intelligent you are.* 8. Spiritual Maturity is when you *don't seek approval from others.* 9. Spiritual Maturity is when you *stop comparing with others.* 10. Spiritual Maturity is when you *are at peace with yourself.* 11. Spiritual Maturity is when you *are able to differentiate between "need" and "want" and are able to let go of your wants.* *& last but most meaningful !* 12. You gain Spiritual Maturity when you *stop attaching "happiness" to material things !!* "Wishing all a happy Spiritually matured life.
Meditation is the best form of prayer
Meditation is the best form of prayer
There are two attitudes that we have to pay attention to. One is when we go inward, we say everything is Ok. Not a blade of grass moves without Divine intervention. God has kept us like this, so let it be so. Everything is Ok.
This is the attitude when you have to go inward (Nivriti).
When you have to come out and work (Pravritti), then you see perfection in even small details. Wherever you see imperfection, you have to pay attention on how you can correct it. Find out ways to improve on all the things.
So while acting, we see where we can improve and what we can change.
When we retire into meditation and say that everything is perfect, only then we can go in.
Usually when people close their eyes and go inward, they say, ‘This is not ok, that is not ok and find fault with everything’. They can neither meditate, nor be quiet. And in activity, people think that everything is fine the way it is, why do we have to do anything about it? Then, we are at a loss.
So when we are acting, we see what we can do and when we have to retire we say everything is Ok. This attitude will help you go deep in meditation.
I want nothing
I do nothing
I am nothing
These are basic principles of meditation. We have to pay attention to this thing.
So we move into our sadhana, our practices with a trust that we will be taken care of, we are being taken care of.
~~HH Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Eye Opener- as shared
Eye Opener
Why is the world? Why are we here?
What is our purpose? Why must we live and suffer and die?
Without God, there would be no answer.
We do not know the great extent of God’s purpose,
but we do know that we as individuals,
each and every one, must somehow fit into that purpose.
We can only know God as He has revealed Himself to us.
We know His principle attribute is goodness.
Therefore, His purpose must be good,
and we can best serve that purpose by aspiring to the highest
standard of goodness that we can conceive.
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COLOURS IN SILENCE
COLOURS IN SILENCE
Remember
the talismanic super star of Bollywood carousing and gyrating during the
festival of colours and singing the popular number, rang barase bheege chunar wali rang barase in the iconic film
Silsila.
The
lyrics, the rhythmic music and its rendition by an extremely successful actor
is etched in our memory banks. This song was picturised against the backdrop of
the festival of colours, Holi. Today people dance to the number with reverie
and gay abandon.
Holi is
an ancient Hindu religious festival. This is known as the festival of colours
or the festival of love. The festival is symbolic
the triumph of righteousness over depravity and the diabolical. It is also
believed that the festival also marks the onset of the season of spring.
It is celebrated all over India and various
parts of the world too. The celebration is all about merriment, thanksgiving and
enjoyment. This ancient
Hindu festival, celebrated on the day after the last full moon of the Hindu
calendar, invariably falls sometime between the months of February and March.
As per Hindu mythology there once lived a demon king
called Hiranyakashyapa, whose brother was annihilated by Lord Maha Vishnu. To
avenge the killing of his sibling, Hiranyakashyapa fervently prayed to the Lord
and was granted several boons.
Once feeling empowered, the demon became arrogant and
hubristic, believing himself to be God, began terrorising people. As he assumed
himself to be a celestial person, it was his diktat that subjects of the
kingdom worship him instead of the
creator. So much so, the fiend and cacodemon desired that his son Prahlad (an
ardent devotee of Lord Vishnu) to pay obeisance to him only, rather than Lord
Vishnu.
However, Prahlad was not cowed down by the threats and
continued to meditate on Lord Vishnu’s name. Enraged, Hiranyakashyapa crafted a
wicked plan where in Prahalad was to sit on Hollika’s lap on a pyre. Hollika,
who was the evil king’s sister, was purported to be immune to the perils of
fire. It so transpired that the authentic and true devotee Prahlad emerged
unscathed while Hollika was charred to death. Subsequently, Lord Vishnu in his
Narasimha Avatar devoured Hiranyakashyapa.
Holi is also associated with gaiety and variegated
colours. Physically it is a testimony of colours, but if we delve deeper the
colours are various shades of the mind where efficacious thoughts subsume
nugatory and Sisyphean thinking process.
Lord Krishna, the complete incarnation of Lord Vishnu,
played the festival of Holi with the Gopis and Gopikas of Vrindavan and
Nandgaon with wide usage of colours. Thus, over a period colours (VIBGYOR) were
associated with the festival. The spraying of colours not only purged antipathetic
thoughts among the inhabitants of the times but also suffused the environment with
jollity and radiance.
Holi is also the spring festival to bid adieu to the
winters and in some parts of the country the celebrations became associated with
harvest spring. Farmers, upon witnessing their stores refilled with new crops
celebrated Holi. In doing so they expressed their gratitude to the divine
forces and were filled unlimited happiness. Therefore, Holi is also known as ‘Vasant
Mahotsava’ and ‘Kama Mahotsava’.
Holi is not to merely playing with colours, but to
connect with nature, the mythical stories and to become a witness to silence
within ourselves. It is a roadmap to become intertwined with deep tranquillity
and hush and shush when enveloped by
rambunctiousness and cacophony which envelopes us.
The Art of Living Advanced Meditation Program conducted
during Holi provides the seeker optimal conditions for going deep within,
quieting the mental chatter, and experiencing profound rest and inner silence.
This program builds upon the Sudarshan Kriya breathing technique offered in the
Art of Living Happiness program.
The practice of silence – of consciously withdrawing
the energy and attention from physical distractions- has been used in different
traditions throughout time as a gateway to physical, mental, and spiritual
renewal.
Participating in various course techniques and processes
which have been specifically designed transports the animated and perky minds
of the seeker beyond the mundane to experience a sense of peace and renewed
vitality.
It has been succinctly put that, “From the
lanes of Mathura and Vridavana, the colours of Holi have spread all over the
country. These colours also carry the message of love, brotherhood, and truth.
So, whenever you splash Holi colours on somebody, you give him a promise of
being truthful towards him always, maintain brotherhood with him lifelong and
shower him with all the possible love throughout your life.”
Thursday, 2 March 2017
National Anthem
Surrender - H. H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Everyday Krishna would go in the garden and say to all the plants, “I love you”. The plants were very happy and responded saying “Krishna, we love You too”. One day Krishna rushed quickly into the garden very alarmed. He went to the bamboo plant and the bamboo plant asked, “Krishna, what´s wrong?” Krishna said “I have something to ask you, but it is very difficult”. The bamboo said “Please tell me. If I can, I will give it to Yo...u”. So Krishna said “I need your life. I need to cut you”. The bamboo thought for a while and then said “You don´t have any other choice. You don’t have any other way?” Krishna said, “No, no other way”. And it said “OK” and gave himself up.
So Krishna cut the bamboo and made holes in it, and each time, He carved the holes, the bamboo was crying in pain... Krishna made a beautiful flute out of it and this flute was with Him all the time.
24 hours a day, it was with Krishna. Even the Gopis were jealous of the flute.
They said, “Look, Krishna is our Lord, but yet we get to spend only some time with Him. He wakes up with you, He sleeps with you, all the time you are with Him”. Gopis asked the bamboo, “Tell us your secret. What secret do you have, that the Lord treasures you so much ?” And the bamboo said “The secret is that, I gave myself up, and He did whatever was right for me, in the process I had to undergo a lot of pain.
And the Lord does whatever He wants with me, whenever He wants with me and however He wants with me. I have just become His instrument”. So this is complete surrender: where God can do whatever He wants with you, whenever He wants, as He wants. Trust Him completely and have faith in Him and always think you are in His hands... what can go wrong?
This is Samarpan or Surrender.
-Sri Sri
Two minute management course- As shared
Two minute management course.
Lesson One ...
An eagle was sitting on a tree resting, doing nothing.
A small rabbit saw the eagle and asked him, "Can I also sit like you and do nothing?"
The eagle answered: "Sure, why not."
So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the eagle and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit, and ate it.
Management Lesson - To be sitting doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.
Lesson Two ...
A turkey was chatting with a bull. "I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree," sighed the turkey, "but I haven't got the energy."
"Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?" replied the bull. "They're packed with nutrients."
The turkey pecked at a lump of dung, and found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night, the turkey was proudly perched at the top of the tree.
He was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot him out of the tree.
Management Lesson - Bullshit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.
Lesson Three ...
A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold; the bird froze and fell to the ground into a large field.
While he was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on him. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, he began to realise how warm he was.
The dung was actually thawing him out!
He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.
A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him.
Management Lessons -
(1) Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy.
(2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
(3) And when you're in deep shit, it's best to keep your mouth shut!
This ends your two-minute
Management course
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