Chapter 1 Verse 9,10,11

Chapter 1 – verse 9

Duryodhana says that he has a good team of warriors all ready to fight and die for him.
This indicates that death was sure for those who were on his side.
He feels that victory was possible as he had a wonderful army.

Verse 10-11

He boasts that Bhishma being on his side the strength of his army increases as compared to Bhima who was on the other side and was less experienced.

Duryodhana is comparing. Though the Pandavas are a smaller team led by the less experienced Bhima, Duryodhana is ascertaining that victory is his, forcing the fact that Bhishma was on his side.

He then tells his men that each one must support Bhishma as he is aged and protect him.
Somewhere deep inside the fear lurks inside him so he addresses all the men thereby being very diplomatic again.

He knew that Bhishma and Drona would support him and not have a bias as even during Draupadi’s cheerharan they had silently watched.

Here we see Duryodhana suppressing his fears by forcing the thoughts about the strength of his men and diplomatically pleasing them all by praising them.

He is only pushing the fears deeper inside as he is unable to face the thought of losing the battle.
His thought of fighting for the kingdom is not wrong.
His thought of fighting for the rights to rule is not wrong too.
But the way he is doing it is wrong.

His other actions wherein he humiliates his brothers and their wife is unacceptable.
His greed, hatred, anger etc. were his negatives which was making him blind to his own faults.

Touching another’s wife, usurping the land by cheating, not allowing his brothers a fair share of the land reflects on his strong negative emotions, thoughts and actions.

Each person has both qualities.
But when the negativity builds up  positivity is reduced and vice versa.

For this I would like to state a small story:

Once upon a time there is an old man. He is telling a story to his granddaughter about wolves. He tells her that there are good wolves and bad wolves and she says that the bad wolves must be killed.

So he says that, then feed the wolf you want and starve the wolf you want to kill.

The wolf we feed will grow bigger while the wolf we starve will slowly die.
  
Similarly we must feed our positive traits and starve our negative traits.

Like anger, greed, hatred etc. must be avoided and not reflected upon or aired.

Whereas the positive habits of love, goodness, caring, kindness etc. must be reflected upon and repeated again and again.

This way we feed and grow the positive wolf and slowly by neglecting the negative we end the negative wolf.

• Let us from today reflect only on our positive traits and keep enhancing them more.

• Any word or action that hurts the self or the other person is negative.

• Take care of the self. Observe, introspect and walk ahead on the path.

• Awareness and attention is necessary. If you are aware and you are attentive you are in the present moment. Rest will fall in place automatically.

Who is perfect?

Never leave a true relation for few faults…nobody is perfect. Nobody is correct at the end. Affection is always greater than perfection.

I received this message as a forward and it got me thinking about perfection. Is there anything or anyone that can be just perfect?

Perfection is an individual perspective and what may be absolutely perfect for me may not be for you. So it’s a vague term and cannot be generalized.

So we can conclude that the word perfect cannot be used as a measure.

Then again the ‘Never leave a true relation for few faults’ points to the words ‘true relation’. What is a true relation?

Is there a false relation too as an opposite? I always felt relations were just relations where we related to some or the other person in some manner. True and false would never be used as a tag to go with a relation.

The word here could be ‘Good relationship’. Good and bad would mean you are happy or unhappy in the relationship as you have some issues or expectations that are not fulfilled or vice versa.

The sentence that nobody is correct is actually correct! Nobody is either correct or incorrect as then again it’s an individual’s perspective of what is right of wrong.

Nothing is right or wrong….thinking makes it so…I had read this somewhere.

The last one that affection is always greater than perfection rings true. Affection is definitely greater and superior emotion and perfection is just a mathematical conclusion. Affection is positive and will turn the bad relations into good relations.

Expectations are the root cause for relationships to go off track. The more we expect the more we pressurize the other person and chances are that there will be times when the person may not be able to meet our expectations. This brings guilt, sorrow and anger.

Relationships are to be nurtured and there should be love, acceptance and forgiveness. As humans we relate and somewhere in this tough scenario that we are living in today, we are slowly losing our humanity.

We, instead of ascending stay rooted to our base nature and at times are no different than the animal world. We have a mind, we have the power of choice. WE can choose to love, choose to ascend to higher realms.

We have forgotten our true nature of peace bliss and love. We need to shrug off the negatives in ourselves and rise to divinity which is us…

How to remain positive in negative situations

Today I decided to make a presentation video and upload it on youtube.

Generally I enjoy writing and that is what I did! That is when my children decided to make a video and upload it on youtube.

Find the link below and will soon make some more videos on similar lines –

Happy watching!!

Here is the script of the same video:

How is it possible to remain positive in a negative environment?

This is a very commonly asked question.

We have read in the scriptures, listened to learned Saints and agree with what they say, want to do what they say but when we are facing the situation or in the situation, we find it difficult to do so.

Why does this happen?

The thought that

it is easy to say and difficult to do comes on our mind.

See for this we need to understand about the ‘self’ in detail.

Generally we listen to gyaan or knowledge and try to apply it in our life. It never works that way unless it is for saints who have begun their spiritual journey in the previous life.

We need to go step by step-

• We must cleanse our physical body – the sthoola shareera.

This is possible through yogasana.

• Next we must practice correct methods of pranayama – pranayama is not a breathing exercise.

It is regulating the  prana in the right manner.

• As we practice yogasana and Pranayama we feel our body is suppler with the aches and pains reduced considerably.
• This allows us to sit in one position for a longer time thereby allowing the prana to flow freely during pranayama and making us even healthier.
• Now this relieves the mind of a lot of clutter making us more peaceful and calm.
• This when practiced with discipline helps us meditate.

• Meditation is not doing something. Meditation is a state- an effortless state of just being.

• This again clears the mind further and makes us peaceful and calm.
• Now when we listen to gyaan or read the scriptures the wisdom hidden in the words that we hear actually filters in as the mind has now become calm and clear.
• Confusion is less, spirit of enquiry is more and the desire to learn and ascend to higher realms is growing.

So as you become calm you start emitting positive vibrations around you which generally will reflect in the environment around you. Yet at times when the situation outside is not to your liking you must be in your state of mind and not allow the outside actions to create a wave in your mind.

Still if you are not clear how to do it, I would suggest certain steps:

When something wrong or negative is happening and you are not a part of it and yet you are physically present in the situation

• See if you can bring a change about by explaining to the concerned persons and trying to bring about a peaceful negotiation.
• If not, if no on listens to you, sit and pray. You can chant mantras, play mantras and bhajans on a tape in a very low volume, read scriptures, listen to positive songs/bhajans/tunes on earphones. These are external devices that you will need to calm yourself and to hold you from becoming a part of the external situation.
• Finally understand that it is a movie/TV serial that will eventually end. Give only that much importance as it deserves only that much.
• If you too panic or behave negatively then you are becoming a part of the serial. Do you want it?
• Being aware helps and to be aware at all times start working on the body, prana and mind…

NOW!!

Vibes or Appearances?

Souls recognize each other by vibes not by appearances…

Received it as a forward from a friend of mine… Liked it and it also got me thinking especially when another friend of mine too wanted to understand the deeper meaning in it.

Now is there a deeper meaning to the above? Souls or atman recognize each other by vibes and not appearances…

Vibes are what we feel – like for example we get good or bad vibes about people or places. We feel it and that’s how we communicate about it.

It is basically feeling the energy of the place or how we felt in that place which tells us about the vibes of the same. It is same about a person also. We get good vibes or bad vibes about certain people. It is something we feel and yet many a times unexplained.

To understand the same we need to understand about the soul.

Atman is energy and thus there is a vibration. The vibration is the attraction parameter here. The souls meet after several lifetimes and in this lifetime they feel the vibes they had felt earlier. They recognize on the basis of this vibration. There is no other way!

Appearances change. Physical body is the appearance or the clothing of the Atman. Each lifetime its different, it keeps changing. Just like even after a person changes his clothes we still recognize them or even after a person ages, wear dentures, spectacles, sports grey hair yet we recognize them! As we introspect on the subtler energies, the vibrations are what help us recognize each other.

All energy bodies are vibrating at a different frequency. We too as humans are vibrating at a different frequency. The fact remains that we are vibrating and it is this subtle vibration that creates these vibes. We feel the vibes… we feel the energy vibration…

‘We’ here, is the atman, the soul. The body is made up of five elements and will end one day by merging with the five elements. Yet the subtlest energy, atman remains and it vibrates. This vibration is what stays at all times and joins us to the souls who we meet in order to resolve our karmic accounts.

So eventually appearances never matter as, though we feel that our awareness levels are minimal and we are body conscious souls, yet deep inside we all know, obviously we know, coz that is the truth. Appearances fade, just like clothes. What remains in a relationship on the body consciousness level also is the vibration. What we feel about the person, how we feel and when we feel…It is always about the vibes.

So even after changing clothes over lifetimes we still recognize another soul by vibes as appearances keep changing while the soul does not…

Who is to say?

Some questions I saw on a blog…The deep desire to explain my perception and perspective of the same led me to writing this post.

Who is to say we aren’t a bunch of schizophrenics with the same distorted view of reality simply locked up together?

We are not a bunch of schizophrenics. But yes most of us do have a distorted view of reality. And no we are not locked up together.

We are not what we are and yet ‘I am that I am’…

I mean we are not what we think we are. And to know the real me or the real you the introspection must continue. “You seek and the answer shall come to you”. Most of the lot do not seek and just accept things and in fact all that is there as the ultimate reality. This I believe is a distorted view of reality.

We are free? Who can lock you? Who can lock me? And where? This universe is infinite. There is no way you can find either the beginning or the end. In this infinity you and me, and all others are a part of this universe, a part of the universal energy. Then again the universe is not outside. It is within us. Within you and within me… Am I outside or inside the universe? Am I a part of the universe or is the universe a part of me. It is none. There is only one. There is no duality. Duality is just a perception of the reality and so thus is a distorted view of reality.

The ones around us can lock us physically, mentally (with beliefs), control us and yet we are free…Like the birds? No! Not even like the birds. We are free on a higher realm. Can anyone control your emotion? Can anyone control how you feel or what you feel about a particular thing? The mind is free to go wherever, whenever…Who is there to lock it? Except the self!

Or that we are simply a dream of a greater mind, and that one day life as we know it shall end simply because somebody else shall wake up?

Life is permanent. No one was born no one is going to die. The dream is the play that we are enacting while in different roles. It is the body we shed. The soul can never die…coz it was always there…and so never born. Yes, life shall end and some day we will wake up to reality. That is the day when you will realize who you are, what you are and that is the day of awakening. Until then, we are living a dream, not aware not actually living and yet we call it life!

Who is to say we aren’t a secluded corner in a snow globe or a parasite in somebody’s stomach?

What is snow? What is rain? What globe? We? Who am I? Once the realization of who you are dawns, that is the day you realize that there are no corners and that there is seclusion even in company.

Parasite can be either that you are dependent on someone for everything or a worm which again means the same thing. It is only you who can decide the value and the worth of your existence. Whether you are a parasite or you are feeding other parasites or having your own entity connected to the one and only one supreme consciousness, living in the light of the divinity, secluded and yet not alone.

Who is to say we move at all and that all physics is not based on utilization of the rotation of the earth?

Who said we move? And then again who said we can’t or we don’t? Physics is a science. Who made science? There is one step always left to understand after one reaches the ultimate in science or quantum mechanics. There is a science not known to us and yet we know it. It is only that we are shadowed and clouded by the strong belief systems and the discoveries and inventions. If only we look beyond, beyond quantum and beyond the entire science that we know of from books, from reading, then you will discover the true science, the truth of your very existence and the truth of this universe and that it is all one and the same.

Rotation of the earth? Theories support all that. So does science. Is the earth actually rotating? Are we moving? Does all this make any difference once we realize that we are infinite with infinite potentials?

Who is to say we are real…who is to prove that life is not merely a delusion?

No one can say that you are real. And yet if they say, will you believe? You might, but it will be on the superficial level. Your mind, your inner self will not agree coz you have not experienced it. The day you experience the real you, you will know how real you are. And surely as you understand I do not in any context refer to the physical body.

Life as we are living it is surely a delusion. It is a dream, an illusion and we float through it never recognizing the true self. No one can therefore prove that life is a delusion or is not a delusion. There can be theories supporting either side of the argument. But then, who wants to hear those arguments which you know is baseless? Why baseless? If only there was a way to measure life, its propensities, then one could have a strong point of argument. So ultimately there is no proof and no supportive theory which is meaningful. Also, why bother? Let it be an illusion and yet let me live with the knowledge that life is ‘living’ and I am beyond that. I am not a life…I am forever.

Why can nobody guarantee to me the truth of reality, of the universe?

If only there was a theory of what reality was, than a guarantee could be given. The universe as we see it, as it is seen by the scientists and the quantum theories is one mass of energy. So, how does one say that energy is what the universe is made up of? Yet is it not the truth? Is it not energy in variables that we see around us? Is it the truth? Are ‘you’ in this physical form a truth?

What is the truth then? Only you can find out what it is, by yourself. When you close your eyes you will see the universe within you. If you care to look you will see. Believe me. And still we say we are a part of this universe. How? Are you a part of the universe or is the universe within you? Are there any boundaries surrounding me or within me?

Yes, there are! Boundaries of restrictive thoughts and beliefs… Someone said the universe is there outside and you are a part of it. I believed it, coz I had not experienced the truth. And what is the truth? The truth again is that the universe is infinite and so are you. You are not separate and it is all one.

Why is the concept of time so vague and bizarre? Why does chaos provide order? Why have we created the concept of time and become slaves to it.

There is no concept of time. It is just a conditional adjustment to which we all live and survive. Can you for a few hours not look at what the time is? Can you have your house not having a clock or a time piece? Mine doesn’t and yet we are all going about doing things in the exact routine. It is just that we have become dependent on the physical entity of the clock. Time is in our mind and we need to start learning to operate the clock within us. All we need to do is turn the key. Remember we would have time pieces and watches which would run only when we would turn the key or it would be dead.

Have we become like that mechanical watch today, after shouting out loudly to the world that we have evolved!! Or even worse, are we battery operated like the new age clocks and run only when charged or replaced? Have we not become a slave to those physical clocks? Is it not time to turn the key inside us and become aware of time, if at all there is something that is time? Is it not time to peep inside…deep inside to seek answers for questions that are formed by the half informed ‘the so called evolved humans’? Are we not all in the same boat? Why are we lost in this entrapment of ours? Why did the time come for us to ask questions for which we know the answers? It came, coz in the name of progress we shut of all our powers and all our wisdom and started acquiring knowledge which is always a perception of the reality or the subject and never the actual truth.

Does chaos provide order? Or is it that we just believe in it and accept it as something that is true. What is the truth? Chaos is chaos and can never provide order unless your state of mind in that chaos is in a calm state. This applies to the universe too. Chaos leads only to more chaos. There is no order in reality as today all we see around us is chaos. But when you close your eyes and see the universe within you and around you, you will see that though in the physical realm there is something that is in disorder or chaos, yet there is calmness which is ‘you’…

If the sun did not set, would night not come?

Absence of light is darkness. Is it right? Who said the sun sets? Who labelled darkness or lack of light as night? It is a trap set by us for ourselves. It is like those video games where the player gets trapped until he finds the key to the next round. There is no day and there is no night and yet the world that we live in has all these concepts. When time in itself is just a concept how does day or night make any difference. We use the same for our convenience and it is just fine and just so required as long as ‘you’ know the truth!

If the earth did not move would we not age?

Age? Who said we are aging? Does having grey hair or passing years mean we are old? Yes, only if one believes it. I do not! When I was never born and am never going to die, how does it make any difference what the age of the physical body that I now adorn is? Age is just another concept that we all need to use just in numerical and not in the heart or the mind. It is only this body that will age, deteriorate and that too only if you want it to. There were sages who never aged, lived till they wanted to and moved on (left their body) when they felt like. It is this science that we have all forgotten as our eyes were focused on those text books and knowledge within it that was piled up in front of us. If only we would have looked beyond those words, beyond those books we would have seen the wisdom which again is not knowledge.

If the earth got sucked into a black hole at the right angle would we really just time travel without being sucked in?

Why does the earth have to get sucked into a black hole at any angle for you to time travel? You can time travel, now in the exact position and place you are sitting. No! I am not joking. Teleporting was real and now only plane travel and space travel is real!! Humanity has progressed? Or digressed?

Even if the mythological tales or the ancient stories seem to be reeling out a whole lot of unbelievable stuff we just enjoy reading the same and visualizing life at that time. Can you guarantee me that you were not part of that time? That you never teleported, that you never flew and that you never had wings and so are incapable of doing the same things now coz its only something you read.

It is difficult right now for you to just close your eyes and time travel. But believe me it is all there right within you. But for that you will have to clear the cobwebs of beliefs and very strong impressions of what the reality and truth is in order to first find the ‘real you’ and once you do it, all this will seem just so simple. You will feel like you have solved the toughest jigsaw puzzle ever and once you see the ‘done puzzle’ in front of you, you sigh and laugh and wonder what took you so long!

Who is to say that life is not a delusion? Who is to prove that reality is real and that the universe is comprehensible?

So now that you know what life is, and how real reality is, the last question that remains is ‘is the universe comprehensible?’ It, in simple words means, is there any logic behind all this? Is there any meaning or clarity in the whole thing that we believe is the universe and what we call as life?

A simple answer would be to not look for logic ever. There was never any logic and will never be. The reason for the entire team of scientists trying to find some logical answer for everything is where we all are feeling we are more and more evolved wherein the actual fact of the matter is that we are just moving further away from the truth!

Be simple, become simple. There is no logic and there is nothing that is real and nothing that can be reality. It is infinite, you are infinite and the day you understand this, you will have all the answers.

The whole thing summarizes to one single thing and that is to seek, seek the truth that is you. Who are you? Where are you? What are you?

And please do not go for any physics or scientific theories. There are just too many. It will create further impressions on your innocent mind that seeks answers. It will complicate to the point where you will forget what the question was and eventually end up accepting a deeply researched theory and start believing it to be true. Won’t you then be moving away from what you wanted to know?

Just sit back, relax and open your mind, dust away the beliefs and baseless, illogical explanations and impressions that have formed a very thick layer and look for the answers. Surely you will find them…

God bless!

Positive++++++

I guess my special reader Saya is a bit upset after reading my latest post (Down in the dumps)….
Yeah, I am generally quite positive but at times life just seems just so sad and well 😦
But I am back to normal and totally +++++++++++++ now 🙂

Well today is special for me as it is my birthday!
I woke up absolutely positive ready to enjoy the day. While many people feel that birthday means a year of your life reduced, I feel it is gaining an extra year of good experiences and feelings….

Life is meant for living. So live it as positively as possible. Look for the positive in the negative. You think it is not possible? It is believe me…
It takes time for us to realize that there are so many hidden positive energies in the negative happenings in life…

We are trapped in the negative energy and fail to see the light…We enjoy the darkness and the sorrow and try to go deeper and deeper into it as though trying to punish ourselves…
There is no need for that…it is absolutely not required.

I was supposed to be on a trip for two days enjoying at a beach resort for my birthday…
Some events made it impossible for me to go and I had to stay put in the house 😦

If I had taken this negatively I would have had a truly sad birthday. But my family tried their best to make the day special and that was what finally mattered…

A loving family who loves you enough to do something special for you on your birthday…..
There is nothing on this earth that can replace the love and affection we receive from our loved ones…
My friends, my family all wished me a great year ahead…….

I am feeling quite peaceful after having spent the entire day with close ones 🙂
I am as positive as I could be and I hope I will not be disappointing my special readers anytime too soon….

Are you a happy person?

How do we define people in our lives? We do say about some people “Oh! He is a sad person”. What exactly do we mean by that? Sad person………. The person is sad about something or the person is generally sad about everything or rather feeling sad at all times…..

And then there are people who are always smiling and seem happy. We are attracted to such persons. We feel a strong pull when we are around people who give out positive energy. We feel good you no… like as if something is just right and that maybe nothing might go wrong or something like that….

Now when I actually sit and think, are those ‘sad people’ really sad and those ‘happy people’ really happy? Yes after a lot of thought I felt it is true that when people say “he is sad”, the person is usually not a very happy person and maybe looks for things in life to feel sad about.

A happy person on the other hand would look for all the positive signs in life and think of ways to be happy. Every person will have his sad and happy moments in life. At times situations are so distressing that even the happiest person would shed a tear or two and feel gloomy. But a happy person would look for happiness in the sorrow and try to influence others who are facing similar situations.

I actually like to be happy and try my best to be happy at all times. I look for the happy moments in the sad ones and at times it gets reflected in my writing too. Saya has out of curiosity asked me (in a comment on “Time just flies….”) if I am a happy person. Yes. I would say I am a happy person but have had sad moments like all of you….I have gathered a lot of strength from sad situations in life and have not allowed these situations to take away my happiness……

We have to seek happiness in life. Happiness comes from within us. We have to look for it and feel it. It is very easy to feel sad and depressed and very difficult to be happy and spread happiness around us.

Choose the difficult path as it has a beautiful end. When we watch a movie don’t we all wish that however difficult the life of the people in the movie, the movie would end on a positive note? It is our basic human instinct which seeks happiness in everything around.

There are so many people out there who are facing so many problems and difficulties. Not all are sad. Amongst them you will find a few who have that smile, a special positive energy which says “I am gonna come out of this….” Look for that sign……It is there right within you….