What you sow, so you reap.
Majority of the religions concept of GOD will fall under the category as under.
1 As BRAHMAN
2 As SUNYA
3 As a CREATOR
Human life is an outcome of an evolution. We all would have started as an unicellular(ameba) and evolved to become a multi cellular, after taking several birth as some being or other till a human form is taken. It is believed by majority of the religions that the purpose of birth is “ to understand GOD to reach GOD”. Hindus and Buddhists believe that it is an opportunity for human being to march towards liberation. Liberation means move from the process of “BIRTH TO DEATH” to “NO DEATH”. Liberation will halt the life and death process and it means “be with God” or “be God”. Does that mean human being should strive to be immortal? So what is immortal? Great emperors, artists or anyone who lived some 10000 years back is not known to us today, however great he/she was. Mortal means that which is subject to death. When we talk about mortal human being, does it mean a person who is born will have to die? So who is born and who dies? Is the death confined to physical body?
Physical body of a human being is a conglomeration of “pancha bootha” and combination of Gross body(Sthula Sarira), subtle body (Sukshama Sarira) and casual body (Karana Sarira). So when death occurs who dies? When a person dies the gross body(Sthula Sarira) which is made up of 5 elements (Space, Air, Fire, Water and Earth) will get back to respective 5 elements. Modern physics says that energy is neither created nor destroyed. So the 5 elements change form upon death of physical body. Death occurs to the physical body by way of old age, disease, accidents (which breaks the body) and suicide. Knowledgeable death like Jeeva Samadhi and Mukthi. All beings which die will have to be born again as per karma pala.(Sanchita Karma)
After the gross body becomes unusable the subtle body(Sukshama Sarira) and Casual body (Karana Sarira) along with mind join together and stay in the space or be absorbed in a relevant subtle lokas as per the frequency of the person who has lived in the world. This combination takes reincarnation as per his sanchitha karma. A normal being may get a suitable womb as per his karma immediately and for someone who is very virtuous or evil may take many hundred years to get a suitable womb for reincarnation.
Karma siddhantha, Jeeva Samadhi and who attains mukthi are not reborn. Karma siddhantha is one who does not take any of his actions to himself but attributes it to God’s decision. His actions do not accumulate karma because he takes every single happening during his life time as decision of GOD. A jeevan muktha is one who brings his life energy to head or saharara and stops his breath and have all thoughts focused on this activity and stops breathing after his life energy becomes so feeble. A person attains mukthi if he is so devoted to God that he surrenders to GOD always and also during death.
So if one has not learnt to live then he should at least learn to die. If not, learn either of the two, then he will be born again and again till one learns to live and learns to die.
What is learning to live? What you sow, so you reap. What you think is what you become. A bundle of thought is mind. Desire is the cause of sorrow and rebirth. So what do you think is the connection between these statements? Happiness is the art of living. Happiness is not from external material or situation, because external will have start date and hence it will have an end date. Happiness unending should be from within you. No strong desire with seamless happiness will fetch you a great boon called no birth. If this happiness should be seamless then it is not for the body it is for something more than a body. It means death is only for the physical body, and subtle body.
Any birth happens with an inbuilt GOD force called Atma or Brahman. Atma is neither born nor destroyed. It is indivisible and infinite. Atma is God within you. Life force and mind is just a manifestation of Atma. Mind’s manifestation of an illusory “I” out of ignorance is Ego. If that wrong notion is removed and mind is manifested as Brahman then birth death cycle is stopped. This is Liberation. Different faith understands this differently. Eg., Dvaitha philosophy says, we come from God so we get back to God. Buddhists say we come from “Sunya” and the process of getting back is called “Nirvana”. Advaitins say everything is Brahman and hence we dissolve to become that one called Brahman. The crux of all faith is just to destroy the false ego. It may be through Jnana Yoga, Bhakthi Yoga, Raja Yoga or Karma Yoga. All these are just the path to summit.
Conclusion
Let your faith be as per any religion or your wish to see God be in form and you name him as anything. But "I" is what it is. It is all in the mind
The world and mind rise and set together simultaneously but of the two, the world owes its appearance entirely to the mind. The mind is nothing but a bundle of thoughts which are strung together like beads by single unending thread of primary “I” thought. All forms of yoga, meditation and rituals can be at the best the preparatory exercise and can in no way lead to freedom. Pursue the source from which the “I” thought arises. “I am” is the clue to find the self. Such inquiry will not lead to an intellectual answer but dissipate all other thoughts in the first leg and ego itself later.
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STRESS
Note : This is only a scribbling note. These are purely my understanding. These may or may not be the correct one. This is not to hurt anybody's feeling.
STRESS
A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, "How heavy is this glass of water?" Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it.
"If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance. |
"In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."
"And that's the way it is with stress management. If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on. As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest. When we're refreshed, we can pick it up again. Whatever burdens you're carrying now, put them down for a moment. Relax; rest, before you pick them up again. |
Moral : Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, and be best to yourself. Life is short; take time to enjoy it.
Be a Lake !
The old Master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it. “How does it taste?” the Master asked. “Awful,” spat the apprentice. The Master chuckled and then asked the young man to take another handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and when the apprentice swirled his handful of salt into the lake, the old man said, “Now drink from the lake.” As the water dripped down the young man’s chin, the Master asked, “How does it taste?” “Good!” remarked the apprentice. “Do you taste the salt?” asked the Master. “No,” said the young man. The Master sat beside this troubled young man, took his hands, and said, “The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount we taste the ‘pain’ depends on the container we put it into. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things ….. Stop being a glass. Become a lake!” God Bless You! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Death asked Life
Why does everyone loves you and hates me. Life replied Because I am a beautiful Lie and you are painful Truth Temple is a 6 letter word Church is a 6 letter word Mosque is also a 6 letter word Geeta is a 5 letter word Bible is a 5 letter word Quran is also a 5 letter word So, Religion is not a matter The love we have only matters A Lovely Logic for a beautiful Life Never try to maintain relations in your life Just try to maintain life in your relations Always welcome the problems Because problems give you dual advice First, you know how to solve it Second, you know how to avoid it in future 3 stages of Life: Teen Age – Has time & energy – But no Money Working Age – Has Money & Energy – But No Time Old Age – Has Money & Time – But No Energy We are very good Lawyers for our mistakes Very good Judge for other’s mistakes World always say – Find good people and leave bad ones. But I say, Find the good in people and ignore the bad in them Because No one is born perfect A fantastic sentence written on every Japanese bus stop. Only buses will stop here – Not your time So Keep walking towards your goal Negative Thinkers focus on Problems Positive thinkers focus on Solutions Never hold your head high with pride or ego. Even the winner of a gold medal gets his medal only when he bows his head down Define TODAY This is an Opportunity to Do A work better than Yesterday African Saying: If you want to walk quick, walk alone If you want to walk far, walk together Confident Quote: I have not failed. My success is just postponed Entire water in the ocean can never sink a ship - Unless it gets inside - All the pressures of life can never hurt you unless you let it in | |
