seeing the process...

We normally judge events as good or bad, right or wrong....In a path breaking insight, It became clear to me that content is immaterial to our ability to experience real joy. Irrespective of the nature of the experience or the content under question, the process of experiencing is bliss.The ability to experience things, events and people as they are , declutched from our perceptional filters is "spirituality".

opportunity calleth....

There is no blessing which can't become a disaster and no disaster that cannot become a blessing.

- Richard Bach

Being in the "presence" is about being in the "present".

- Sri Bhagavan

intelligence and knowledge

It is a knowledge and information oriented world.Merely accessing knowledge does not make one intelligent.
Intelligence happens when there is an awakening to our fundamental suffering.Intelligence enables acceptance and acceptance leads to surrender.Surrender is an aspect of intelligence; when we are able to see things as they are beyond mind filters.
I have had the privilege of meeting so many people who are not at all knowledgeable, but are very intelligent.At the same time, I have met people who are very knowledgeable but could hardly qualify as intelligent. There are also intelligent people who are knowledgeable.
Intelligence is not about the intellect.It is a natural state of being that emerges as we awaken to our fundamental suffering.

surfacing....

Today and yesterday, a very close friend of mine, an old spiritual seeker has been spending extended time with me for the addressal of a personal problem.
A few years back, the same problem had crippled him and disrupted his personal and family life threatening to rupture his core relationships.
He had managed his situation then.
But the suffering lingered only to resurface recently.
Is it not true of many of our lives that so many of us brush off uncomfortable situations of our lives under the carpet, only to see them resurface at inopportune moments.
We manage our sufferings by running away from their apparent causes.This is only a cosmetic redressal.
We need to face our real situations and our lives on an as is where is basis and accept our realities.
Acceptance is the foremost aspect of healing while denial is the strengthening of the very forces we try to overcome.
Let us see our lives and the patterns that characterize it. Events occur to enable our patterns and conditionings to surface.
Let us breathe the air of freedom.

liberation - a necessity....

given the degree of uncertainty in our lives and our general groping in the dark for the most basic of things, i perceive liberation and declutching to be a fundamental need in our lives, not a past-time pursuit or a hobby as spiritual pursuits seem to have become of late.

Our ignorance of basic principles of life which govern us is astonishing. We equip ourselves with skills to live with but seem to have really nothing worthwhile to live for.

Most of us are very knowledgeable but hardly intelligent.

Our entire lives are an escape from our intrinsic boredom. We want to keep ourselves occupied.

But keeping ourselves occupied does not fill us, nourish us.The emptiness only expands.

and we wear our masks, pretending to smile and laugh while our hearts are heavy...

The fundamental meaninglessness and boredom is crying for addressal, we are afraid to pause and see.We would like to occupy ourselves , escape from the void and find meaning in various things.

But then, the momentary diversions flatter to deceive...we are soon back to square one, seeking new toys/activities to hide behind...

The fundamental pain deep within us persists...

Liberation is the answer, de-clutching from the mind, the need of the hour....

Let us awaken to our basic realities hidden behind our elaborate masks....

Surrender...

Enlightenment is always through surrender, but surrender is achieved through intelligence.To surrender, you need great intelligence.To see the point of surrender is the climax of insight , to see the point that you are not separate from existence is the highest that intelligence can give to you.
- Osho

right or wrong?

Met a group of youth today.

They were in conflict as regards their conflicting lifestyles at home and college.

They wanted me to give a perspective on right and wrong of various activities that occur in their lives.

The way i have understood it, activity is immaterial. Any activity can be lifted to lofty heights or remain in shallow depths, depending on our state.

It is our state of awareness or a lack of it which makes all the difference. Awareness is the only morality paradigm.

-inspirations from Sri Bhagavan

experiencing...

All of us feel a need to get out of misery , boredom etc that suffocates us time and again.

We try to change the activities, the people and various other external props to escape the boredom.After a while , it is the same story. The new activity or person becomes boring.

In a path-breaking insight, Sri Bhagavan says that joy and love are in the process of experiencing, independent of the content in question.

Whatever be the event, if we are able to complete our cycle of experience , the result is joy, love and bliss. Normally , our mind filters prevent us from experiencing events and things as they are. Judgements and commentaries come in. As we watch the event, it is imperative we watch the accompanying commentary, be it labelling or judgement.

And even as we watch, we are freed of the mind clutches.

The result is our ability to see and experience things as they are, not through the prism of our perceptions.

And this seeing is joy, bliss, love; call it what you may.

The very nature of experience is bliss.

awareness

To be AWARE

• is to be free
• is to love
• is to be holy and sacred
• is to be one with the source(Divine).

- Sri Bhagavan

Awareness is a factor of our consciousness levels . The rising of our consciousness levels is a Gift of Grace, the benediction of Sri Amma Bhagavan and the Oneness Movement for one and all.

To be in a state of perennial awareness is the goal of our lives...