Spirituality lies in attitude, not in activity/s.

source of thoughts....

Thoughts flow through you and not from you. You are not the originator for the thoughts. Hence, your thoughts are not your thoughts. You just are tuned in to them in the realm of the universal mind. To identify with them ;condemn oneself, feel guilty, feel proud , feel frustrated etc is hence unintelligent. One is a process within a process, dynamic every moment of the way.

- inspirations from Sri Bhagavan

love and joy

Love and Joy cannot be experienced in the realms of the mind.The mind and its' contents are "incapable" of love and joy. Liberation from the mind is enlightenment.

Love and joy are projected ideals for most of us. We "try" to "love" when we are intrinsically incapable of the same.It is quite horrific. It is a concept of love we are trying to fit in. Just recognising our incapacities and helplenessness in our current states of being is enough to liberate us. However, we tend to act unnaturally and mask ourselves. Integrity of self-recognition without condemnation or guilt is the key to liberation. We need the other's need of us. To us that is love; being indispensable for the other. To feel secure , we fall into a trap of keeping up our utility value in the other's life. We want to feel "needed".

Else, we feel "threatened" in relationships.

Love and Joy are intrinsic qualities of realms beyond the mind. They just flow like a river, flooding all in their wake.One does not have to "try". One just "is".

- inspirations from Sri Bhagavan

thoughts-the creator

All that we are arises with our thoughts.With our thoughts, we make our world.
Buddha

Dussehra-the irony

Dussehra - a celebration of the victory of good over evil..a festival of immense hope..but what really happens...it has become a mere ritual..the spirit of celebration is distinctly missing from the human psyche.Horror stories of dead ritual with a lot of unwilling participants abound. One of my relatives has to wake up at unearthly hours and go through untold hardships to bow to the needs of dead ritual thrust upon her by an elder. Such stories abound. Makes me wonder; how many of us "know" our Gods...knowing as different from believing....for the vast majority, they are yet another concept borrowed from tradition.Knowing is different from believing. We hide behind convenient concepts without ever trying to explore the realities behind them. Some of these concepts are very intelligent and beautiful. That is a matter of personal perspective. A lot of us chose to abuse and put up with abuse in the name of dead ritual and habit. Some of us though chose to abide in a spirit of love for our dear ones for whom it may have a lot of meaning.That is fine.It happens in awareness and is a gesture in compassion. Jai Mata Di!!!!!

personal debugging....

Understanding a problem is more often than not the key to its solution. It has been my observance that more people end up barking up the wrong tree when it comes to resolving and addressing acute personal issues.There is a discernible failure of intelligence in the process, even if the people in question are high achievers in their chosen fields of endeavour. And when we seek solutions at the wrong place, the problems remain unsolved.

when we do a software debug, we do a lateral as well as backstep analysis involving user levels codes, assembly codes, machine codes , hardware configurations and so on.As we take the backward steps to address issues, there is a full stop when it comes to Silicon and Germanium as switching devices.They have certain attributes which are a given, kinda sacred which can only be used/manipulated to suit our conveniences. The basic attributes are sacrosant.

I wonder why we dont use the same mechanisms to life...look inward and see the basic stimuli and catalysts to event manifests in our lives. We focus only outward....and look at reasons why certain things happened or did not happen...

My personal explores in inner realms have led me to the conclusion that our outer universe manifests are reflections of our inner worlds.And setting right of issues inside play a critical role in healings outside.

A couple of women were chatting by the window pane.One of them, the owner of the house was remarking on a lady drying clothes on the lawn of a neighbouring house. She was mentioning that the clothes seemed still so soiled and dirty and was quite critical of the same.It was then that her friend reminded her that the dust was on her window pane and not in the clothes.

So it is with life..we seek to change the world when all change is essential within ourselves.

Our purpose.....

a traumatic co-existence with wanting to discover my "purpose" in life has been a loyal presence for much of my life. a sense of "meaninglessness" has crippled me for the most part. It has paralysed me, rendered me non-functional. Second hand concepts , be they borrowed from ayn rand or jiddu or bach, have remained just that, concepts.I have nothing against various concepts, but seeing them for what they are , just "concepts" and projections far removed from my actual reality has helped me. I remember a prolific creator in the written medium, "osho" once creating a beautiful and expensive product. It found a lot of takers; who found just 1 line scripted inside; write your own story.....the entire book was blank...

Borrowed concepts , to me are like reading a map.They can never substitute for the actual act of visiting the place. They serve as indicators in the realms of human consciousness; but they are just that and nothing more. My "experiences" are uniquely mine, but where spiritual processes have helped me are to grow in my "abilities" or "capacities" to experience. For me , there has been a move away from "contents" of events or processes to an emphasis on "seeing" them non-judgementally. "Seeing" itself has been an "universe" of explore, with levels of my abilities to really "see" emerging....

The process saw a reshifting of my basic questions, a re-orientation of perceptions, which intrinscally had answers...or rather a dissolution of certain conflicts....my tools of explore also witnessed changes...i discovered faculties beyond the mind....this emerged from a realization that when the mind and its content is part of my conflict, it can atbest rearrange the conflicts.a solution or dissolution of the conflicts have to emerge from realms beyond the mind.The intrinsic attributes of the mind make it a wonderful tool for addressal of issues such as the creation of a chair or a car or a software programme....we have to use the mind; but a fundmental discrepancy I observed was that the mind with its accumalations has begun using us....and that creates the absence of joy and love and such other things that we aspire for...

we try to fit our lives into "concepts" that we have accumalated...because of a fundamental "incapacity" of the mind on such deliverables.....Conflict is an intrinsic quality of the mind as it is.....a residue forever remains on the best of our decisions...our "concepts" of right and wrong, good or bad, are forever dynamic and contextual.

me, the creator

a lot creativity in the world seems to have emerged from anger, frustrations etc which have been redirected to awesome creative expressions. While it has found an outlet for expression, it has rarely, if ever , managed to effect "healing" of the creator..the frustrations have remained, if not augmented...ready examples abound....leading one to wonder whether projected ideals and concepts are just that..projections of the mind....in a conscious or unconscious escape from immediate realities...I have personally gone through this process...where there is a tendency to move away from my immediate reality into realms of "projected ideals". I have tended to escape my failings by ascribing it to larger canvases..i have moved away from my centre....of influence as well as responses. My explores into this situation have been startling and very illuminating....I have discovered my universe to be my own creation..the creation of thoughts as they occur through me..teh thoughts themselves have their seeds in mental formations and conditionings "collected" over lifetimes of human existence...the entire human consciousness flows through me..i tune in to some part of it...i have watched my self being a prisoner of blueprints, good or bad as my perceptions would tend to describe it.Personal crises have explored and discovered ways of releasing oneself from the same, i gratefully acknowledge my spiritual master who has been a key enabler for me....various aspects of the enabling process and related expressions have formed part of this blog from time to time...and would continue doing so....

if u experience the suffocation of life....as i have, a stranglehold emerging from unfathomable domains, generally blackboxed into words such as "God".....mebbe my sharings would serve as a mirror....there is no uniformity in the express of human conditions, but if we carefully observe, there is a stark universality in life processes and mechanisms...the fundamentals of misery and conflict remain the same; their triggers and formats of expression may be different...

from here and there...

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true." ~Richard Bach

"A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder." ~Eileen Caddy

thoughts-the creator

thoughts viz. the energy of thoughts create events in our lives...and thoughts emerge from the bank of mental conditionings and perceptions, both individual and collective acquisitions. If events unsuitable to our desires are arising consistently, it is imperative to become aware of thought patterns which manifest it.The moment we are aware, the crippling patterns are released and we begin manifesting a success pattern. While immediate causes may be there, the root causes are critical for healing oneself of chronic patterns.When we encounter failures in our endeavours, we normally manage our disappointment through a blame game. We find reasons to justify the event.While not condemening the act, it is imperative to note that this does not enable our movement forward. As an event/artistes enabler, it has been my privilege to watch successes as well as failures. Neither of them necessarily have been solely a comment on skill or talent levels.But attitude has made a lot of difference.Some people are able to conserve higher energies by being more forgiving, less judgemental and less resentful.Huge pockets of creative energies are released thus. On the other hand, I have seen greatly talented people fail on account of their acute positionalities on various issues and aspects of life, a tendency to judge incessantly and dissipate a lot of energies through general cribbing. These have a direct impact on creative flows. While we may label different kinds of energies, energy is fundamentally one.Low self esteem as well as arrogance in our abilities is also a critical energy pattern for a lackof manifests.Humbleness and gratitude, emerging in a recognition of the spiritual process of creating is an absolute essentiality for manifests, as is perceiving oneself as part of the larger collective process.

When I talk of success here, I imply the genius level oF ACHIEVEMENT.