ENCOURAGE: SPIRITUALITY IN SCHOOLS & COLLEGES

India, the country with enhanced richness in its religion, culture and beliefs does not promote Spirituality. It is quite a shame that, we are getting rid off from our basic prerequisite of life, which is an asset received from our ancient gurus & sadhus (sages).

Ancient scriptures written by our sages are the pillars of the Indian society which are getting extinct due to modernization and molding of our self in western culture. Young generation across the country is unaware of our culture, civilization and didn’t even recognize our precious history.

This is due to the fact that our education system concentrates only on western subjects instead of our foundation subjects, like Spiritualism etc. Ancient sages in their Gurukool (School) or Hermitage or a Monastery teaches their students from the very basic thing which are linked to Spiritualism and Indian cultural activities such as yoga, music study or religious instruction.

The aim of these Monasteries is to develop the individual from their inner (soul) to the outer body by mean of physical & spiritual teachings which includes Meditation (Yoga), Sadhna (Bhakti), Yajnas, Prayers etc. Due to such an atmosphere, the Gurukool was established in a peaceful location and very near to nature like in forests & mountains, so that the individual sacrifices the materialistic world and understand the basic concepts of life.

However, the schools in today’s modern time cannot be located in forests but still they have forgotten the idea of “Simple Living & High Thinking” provided by Asharam. Even modern schools and their teachers are very fond of attaining and teaching the western civilization which leads to end of our treasurable culture and religious beliefs. 

Britishers who ruled our country for an about 200 years, already infected us from the virus (their western society) and we are still trying to practicise it and allowing the same to destruct our culture, due to which our young generation are in danger and does not have the knowledge of our glorious past.

So, why can’t we support our wonderful culture and take steps to protect it by sharing the role & concept of Spiritualism in young fellows. So that our next generation acts as a strong defender and by virtue of it, we can save our country’s rich religion & beliefs.

“ADDING SIMILAR SUBJECTS OF SPIRITUALISM OR MEDITATION IN OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM MAY PROVED TO BE VERY DECISIVE IN SENSE OF BUILDING OUR NATION, A STRONG ELEMENT IN FUTURE”

GURU (Master) & GOD.....Contd.

As stated in earlier blog, The Guru (Master) is a Bridge between the Humans and the Holy God.

Guru directs his disciple to the correct path which leads him to the God. At each & every forward step, hurdles of different types will arise, but at the same time, without losing his patience, he has to move forward as per the Master’s guidance.

It is the prime responsibility of the Guru, to help his follower by directing his disciple to  pass successfully through the tough phases of life.

Consider the diagram below:-

EXPLANATION:- 
At one end, a Living Being is waiting to meet the God at the other end. In between both of them, there is a life span of 60-70 years in this materialistic world, which is full of mean & selfish people. The overall span of life covers with the outcome the positive & negative deeds credited in their account.

When the living being (human) starts to move forward towards the God, he will be surrounded by the 5 Basic Enemies of Life, viz. Lust, Anger, Greed, Attachment & Ego which further blocks the way out to reach God.

At that instance, the role of Guru (Master) starts, which guides the disciple from time to time throughout the life. The Master even accelerates the electrons of the individual, so that he can ignore the materialistic world and get rid off the life cycle of birth & death.

That’s why, our ancient sages said in their scriptures:-

A GURU (MASTER) THROUGHOUT THE LIFE IS COMPULSORY FOR ALL.

GURU (Master) & GOD

No one will disagree from the fact that, Mother is the first teacher/ master since from their childhood. Later on, this place was succeed by school teachers, guardians like grandparents, uncle, aunts etc. for physical & mental growth.

But for a successful spiritual life, one have to choose a Spiritual Guru (Master) for achieve the main aim of life. Selecting a Guru (Master) in one’s life is very important in comparison to choose other things friends, spouse, etc. because only Guru is the person who has the power to direct his learner to the correct path.

Guru, by directing his student to the correct path, provides the momentum to the body’s inner soul which further enhances the strength & power of the individual. He acts as a messenger between the individual & the god and has the capability to represent the correct figure, values of the almighty.

“Most of the people consider their Mentor (Guru) as God, which is completely wrong but a Guru can act as a BRIDGE which connects the individual to the God.”

However, the prime duties of a True or Real Guru (Master) have the very basic responsibilities which are as follows:-

1.) He can describe about the holiness of the God, the supreme creator of the world.

2.) What is the basic reason of life cycle of birth & death and how to get rid of it.

3.) He can teach about the effects of Good & Bad Deeds (Karma).

4.) Necessity of Salvation and how to attain it, etc.

KUNDALI JAGRAN (AWAKENING OF SOUL)

Beyond human mind and body, One of the most important, powerful and minute creation of God is the SOUL. No one has the capability to explain “SOUL”, as very few people feel the power of its existence. It cannot be visualized, touched or felt until we energize it to a certain level.

“The Process of Awakening of Soul is known as KUNDALI JAGRAN (In Hindu Mythology)”

Kundali Jagran can be achieved through Direct Meditation, Yoga Activities or by Enchanting Mantras.

One should have to activate and boost its inner strength to feel the essence of it. This process is used to purify the complete system of the body whether it is physically or mentally. Awakening of Soul provides you divine power and leads to the state of mental peace.

Five (5) major impurities which get extracted from the system, by the process of Kundali Jagran are:-

1.     SEX or LUST (KAAM)
2.     ANGER or RAGE (KRODH)
3.     GREED (LOBH)
4.     ATTACHMENT (MOH)
5.     PRIDE or EGO (AHANKAAR)

A normal human being is completely occupied from the above 5 things which results in a huge disturbance of the Soul to its reality and facts. The person seems to be active in physical word but inactive from inside. Due to the above realities, the inner progress becomes motionless which leads the person’s mind to negativity.

Kundali Jagran awakes the beginning of actual spiritual experience, which is very simple, natural and necessary in terms of reaching the goal.

And obviously, The Goal of each and every individual on this earth is to achieve the status of Salvation.

SALVATION (Moksha)

SALVATION (Moksha in Hindu Mythology) is the process by virtue of it the Soul cannot enter in any life cycle and will never come to existence in future. In short, the soul exempt to born & death cycle and attains peace.

The word "Salvation" needs to be understood properly as most of the world treats Death as Salvation, which is wrong.

As I stated in my earlier posts, God sent us on this living planet so as to burn our remaining deeds (karma). These deeds (karma) are already reduced to some extent by our soul which completed their desired span in hell/heaven. After that only we arrived on this planet.

God allows us (us here stands for only human beings not animals, birds etc.) to enchant his name so that our books of deeds finishes within the life cycle, which allows your further to mix our soul with the God's.

Ancient saints use to mediate for years to achieve Salvation but in current scenario, we are so busy with our schedules of life, that we are unable to do so. Henceforth our beloved god makes the steps easily so that we can reach him.

One of the easiest and best ways to achieve Salvation is to enchant the God's name regularly.

We can remember him all the time by thanking him for the things he had given to us and making our life perfect. We can start and end our day by mesmerizing him. We can thank him that he made us healthy by health, wealthy by wealth and provides us the basic amenities like food, shelter and clothes. We can pray for his blessings so as to live happily with peace & prosperity.

By connecting with the divine power of god and doing such things, I am sure God will lead us to the correct path and help us to achieve Salvation within our lives.

IDENTIFY YOURSELF

Most of the people recognize them by their official designations, on which they have been appointed viz.  CEO, CMD, Doctor, Engineer etc. They loved to identify by their designation as they feel pride and honor from inside. But this results an ego formation in their mind that they are superior from others and under this influence, they starts misbehaving with their friends and colleagues.

Actually, they are ruled by their portfolios & designations and are bound to behave like that.  As they are spending time like a King, they ignore basics aspects of life.

Person with such an attitude forgets that:-

1. They also have born and will die one day
2. They also take the same food and water to live
3. They also wear clothes
4. They also sleep and wake up in the morning
5. They also feel love, pain, sorrow

So where is the difference between the Rich and Poor, CEO and a common employee, etc.?

God is common to all of us and the same way he treats. He is just fulfilling the wishes and desires of peoples after analyzing their deeds in the past. 

He produces challenges in front of all and wants to see whether they remember him in their good as well as in bad time. He used to check everyone throughout the life by assigning tasks to them. 

One has to pray god and appraise him for what he provided to survive on the earth. Also, always try to move one step forward towards god by keeping in mind that :-

"We are just a drop of water who started his journey, to end up in the ocean"

Once our account reaches to zero in terms of good or bad deeds, our soul will reached to its destination, i.e. Holy feet of god.

HELL OR HEAVEN - BOTH TEMPORARY

People throughout the world think about life after death, but their mind is incapable to think beyond only two things, which are HELL and HEAVEN. And most of them want to enter Heaven as we heard a lot of that place viz. Gods, Angels, Full of peace etc.

In short we can say that:-

“Heaven is a Galleria of all good stuff at a single place whether tangible or intangible”.

Heaven as in books, described as the holiest place where Souls of good people resides. Good people here referred to the persons, who added a lot of positive deeds (Karma) in their account during their stay at earth.

HELL, just opposite to Heaven is a place, which also comes after the life ends. This place is full of pain, misery, sufferings and in fact it is a home full of negativity inside.

But Hell is better known as:-

“The area where the Souls get punished due to their Sins added in their account during their period of stay”.

God, the supreme power has the rights to evaluate and allocates the Soul, to enter either Hell or Heaven. As per Hindu Mythology, Chitragupta is the holy god who has been assigned with the task of keeping complete records of human beings on the earth. And he is fully responsible for allocation of souls into Heaven or Hell.

But in both the cases, the Souls have to complete their span in their respective places viz. Hell or Heaven and later on they have to move forward so as to enter into a new body.

As 100% of Soul’s Goodness cannot be Utilized in Heaven

&

100% of Soul’s Sins cannot be Burnt in Hell

So

God directs the Soul (good/bad) to enter the life cycle

SALVATION (MOKSHA):- GOD ALLOWS THE SOUL TO ENTER THE CYCLE OF BIRTH & DEATH AGAIN, SO THAT THE SOUL GETS ONE MORE CHANCE TO ATTAIN SALVATION AND HENCE IT GET RID OF REBIRTH CYCLE.

Both Hell & Heaven are temporary, Only Salvation is permanent and allows the soul to rest in peace.

Now, It’s up to the person, What he want?

1)     Heaven

2)     Hell

or

3)     Salvation (Moksha)

UNSATISFIED HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

We have plenty of food to eat, ample of clothes to wear, beautiful home to live, but still we are unhappy from inside. Why is it so? Why we feel miserable & greedy? Why we feel restless internally? Why we feel jealous from others?

                                     

This is because we forget to enlighten our self-consciousness, we are lacking co-ordination from our inner world and focusing to the malicious outside world which is affecting our peace. We are following a normal human behavior, in which we are diverting our self towards the lavishing lifestyle instead of boosting our inner strength.

There was a time, when a person earns just to fulfill his family basic needs, like food, clothes, shelter etc., he used to live happy with immense joy and peace but now the time has changed. Even a millionaire or billionaire, wearing costly suits, shoes are not happy and feels insecure throughout his life, because he is earning beyond his needs and thinks to expand his balance sheet progressively.

Following are some basic and effective methods to overcome from above mentioned disorders:-
1.)    Meditation (Yoga)
2.)    Chanting/ Reading verses of God (Mantra)
3.)    Fast once in a week or take unsalted meal
4.)    Mute for hours
5.)    Concentrate on inner peace by sitting at a calm place

People among the world consult doctors to overcome such situations and spend their valuable time & money. However, one has to think deeply with a positive attitude and asks himself a simple question, 

“WHETHER HE LIKES TO SIT IN A DOCTOR’S ROOM OR SIT ASIDE A SEA SHORE”.

The results of these methods are excellent as it directs the individual’s mind in a positive direction by allowing him to work on his brain, which subsequently increases its inner personality & strength, sensibility, activeness, +ve attitude, behavior, etc.

We shall thank God, rather blaming him due to sufferings as he has provided us the remedies which are free of cost and easily available.

POWER OF THE BRAIN BRINGS FLASHBACK OF LIFE IN THE END

Have you ever experience your past days of school in your dreams which you want to memorize after 10-15 years, which you were unable to recollect normally? I hope this happens to almost everyone and the same happened to me when I was returning home from my daily routine.

Today, due to some traffic jam, I changed my route to an old one which I used to take in my early school days. Of course as I said, a FLASHBACK runs into my mind which recollects the images and sequences of things happened in my past. Our powerful brain calculates and flashes different things which changed/ unchanged during the tenure.

FLASHBACK is a psychological phenomenon in which an individual has a sudden, usually powerful, re-experiencing of a past experience or elements of a past experience. These experiences can be happy, sad, exciting, or any other emotion one can consider.

While driving I feel that the flashback which came to my mind was not totally clear, or say the visibility of the past was not clear, it was something like a blurred image/ video. I keep on pressurizing my brain to demonstrate the clear picture of my past, which I want to see again, but I was unsuccessful.

Later on, my mind concludes that while dreaming during the night, the thoughts/ images/ videos/ flashes are pretty much clear, visible and realistic as it was happened. But the question arises WHY IT WAS SO REAL IN NIGHT DREAMS?

ANSWER: - Actually, it happens when a person feels relaxed, cool, calm n free from stress, and as the person is happy from inside, his brain takes him to the journey of the past where he cherished some of the golden moments of his life and projects the same in his dreams. These dreams/ flashbacks are of very short duration

BUT, MANY OF OUR SAINTS SAID, WHEN A PERSON IS NEAR TO HIS DEATH BED, BEFORE HE LEAVES HIS BODY, GOD ALLOW BRAIN TO PLAY FULL MOVIE OF THE PERSON’S LIFE CYCLE, SINCE FROM THE START viz. BORN, PLAY SCHOOL, TEENAGE LIFE, YOUNGSTERS, MARRIAGE, ETC., ALL THE THINGS HE SPENT ALL OVER HIS LIFE TIME. 

BECAUSE AT THAT TIME, HIS BODY IS MOVING TOWARDS THE ENDING PHASE AND HIS BRAIN DOES NOT ALLOW HIM TO MOVE FORWARD EXCEPT LOOKING BACK INTO THE PAST.

SIGNIFICANCE OF BIRTH AS PER HINDU MYTHOLOGY

The word “BIRTH” makes us memorize the joy & happiness due to coming of a newborn into existence. Birth allows the newborn to commence the life in this world, where he/she has to face many positive as well as negative things.

                                    
Normally the human behavior, while facing positive things have no time to think, “WHY WE BORN & HOW WE CAME INTO EXISTENCE”, but whenever a person feels pain & sorrow, he/she thinks about these facts viz. 

“WHY WE CAME HERE, JUST TO SUFFER, TO FACE THE CHALLENGES OF LIFE”.

At that point of life, the mind is so stressed that he is unable to think out of the box and again concentrates on his problem. But still the question of “WHY & HOW” is in person’s mind and his sub-conscious mind always directs him to explore the reason.

1. HOW WE BORN- Apart from biological process, we all read and hear stories that, there is something we called it as “SOUL”, which drives our body internally. Holy books of Hindu Myths signify that, the Soul roams and moves in the universe and waits for the right time to enter in this world in the form of living being.

                                    Only Soul has the capability, which provides us the inner power to run our body apart from outside power we get from food, air & water. The Soul does not require food, air, water or anything to survive. Hence we can say that “SOUL IS A UNIQUE AND A VERY MINUTE PARTICLE OF GOD”, which cannot be seen through naked eye.

SOUL- Never Dies (Intangible)

BODY- Always Destroyed in the End (Tangible)

SOUL has the power to ENTER/ EXIT the body as per God’s wish, however God’s wish is based on the DEEDS (Karma) performed by the living being.

The question still remains active, Why God direct the Soul to enter into the cycle of life & death?

2. WHY WE BORN- As stated above, SOUL is a form of (inner) energy, an unique particle of God which is roaming in the universe. This SOUL wants to get back to its parent, to meet its end/ to mix again from where it has been derived (GOD), but unfortunately does not have the adequate power to reach its origin. It is as simple as that, A DROP OF WATER WAITING TO END IN THE OCEAN.

                                                                        The SOUL does not have so much power to reach its destiny, so it waits outside the living world (universe) and waits for the god’s direction to enter the cycle of birth & death. As GOD, the almighty being so generous, he favors the SOUL (as it is a part of it) and directs him to enter a body to ENERGIZE it, so as to reach the God’s place and achieve SALVATION. After attaining the phase of Salvation, Soul never enters the living world.