It’s truly heartwarming when experiences like these are shared by participants after my meditation workshops- “Every day we thank you and Gurudev for blessing us with the divine practice of Sahaj Samadhi🙏🏻. Life looks more simpler and it has helped me in controlling my temperament with my teenage kid😄. Now I look at the situation from different perspective and try not to punish myself for other people’s words, thoughts and opinions…… Quite an enlightening process I feel.” As shared by Shweta Rastogi ji, Internationally recognised painter from Canada.
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Ans) “Love is” – When we give without expecting to get back anything in return. Like watering a dry plant.. May be insignificant to the mind, because we will not be getting back anything from it, not even a thank you. But the human mind is conditioned to only give to get back something in return. Even if it is just a wish to get back love in return, it is still transactional in nature.
Q) Why are Relationships so complex and why is it so difficult to maintain them?
Ans) Objects surrender to humans and so it’s easy to love them. They do not question, rebel, threaten, judge.. and so it’s easy to love things over people. Objects are real and we have strong connections with them, isn’t it! That’s how so many objects have filled the world today. So much consumerism, so many shoping malls have sprung up in the World.. our shopping trips are not always need based. it is just easy to love objects because they are surrendered to its owner. so we accumulate them to have more and more..
Being in love with objects is like chewing a bone which has no taste in itself. The Dog bites it and finds its very juicy. But if in one’s life-journey one did not evolve to experience that the juice is not in the bone but the gum which was bleeding, one will only be like on a merry go round trip. Returning to the same spot again and again, accumulating more and more and more . . From chasing one desire to another but not being able to experience fulfilment. (Please refer to Gurudev’s commentary on Ashtavakra Gita for more)
The goal according to me is to love oneself.. to be in absolute love with oneself. And this is only possible when we connect with our inner spirit. Meditation is a tool to connect within. The nature of our spirit is pure Love. And when we are in our true nature we give without wanting anything in return. Like we see Gurudev, he is spreading love in the world without asking anything In return from others. And that is pure love . And they say – Love moves the World.
Q) Can one heal with love?
Ans) Yes! When we meditate we communicate to our own body cells & organs – heart/lungs/kidney/liver etc, that we love them and that we care for them. And that heals our body.
Attention is love. Just like when we give attention to a child he/she feels happy. When we meditate we are giving our body cells attention. which are working 24/7 for serving us. That attention is love. Think about it – we attend to only those we love.
Health is the nature of body. When we neglect and do not communicate with it diseases happen. Like a spoiled child who never got attention and he/she became rebellious.
Gurudev says that this body is like a temple which houses our Spirit/God in it. Let us pay respect to this beautiful temple by attending to is, meditating everyday without fail.
A royal moment as the Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, and Second Lady Usha Vance graced the rug-making showcase by K.P – Varamlife.
Honoured and humbled to receive their badges of appreciation, celebrating the timeless artistry and exceptional craftsmanship of India.
The Craftsmen of India are unparalleled and their commitment towards their art is truly inspiring. Wish to do more to support these skilled artisans over the years to come. This event further deepened this resolve.
Q) How can I be authentic in my role as an anchor while talking about people who were good in art but messy and muddled otherwise?
ANS) Vasudha Didi – There are four things:-
Role and You – You are not your role. You perform your role and come out of it. The role of an anchor is not you. And so you may not agree with the personality of your client and may not want to follow him/her for life lessons but still play the role of an anchor for their show.
As you grow on spiritual path, you will realise and maturity will happen to you to see life in its totality. Different personalities also have a place in the whole and have are playing their roles. Beyond good and bad, shoulds and should nots..Everyone is conditioned according to their life lessons and they perform based on those conditioning of their mind that we call samsakara. Even that personality was an outcome of those samskara. None of us are perfect and all of us have flaws.
Reminding oneself of this will bring compassion and you will be able to appreciate the positive qualities of that person. If you really care to be authentic – Do a little more detailed study and see what good things your prospective client has. Not necessarily award winning but those things which seem significant to you. And talk about those things that inspire you about them.. but this will require more effort.
If you still disagree with the character, then you have choice to deny anchoring for that person politely even if it has commercial gains. Ultimate choice is yours.
Q) Should I increase my resources or reduce my business because the demand is increasing and we are falling short on time?
ANS) Anchoring is also a business in which you are providing service. If you want any business to grow, you will have to make investments on required resources from time to time. Otherwise you will burn out and all other roles and responsibilities will get impacted. Also, when you come back to the business in that burnt haalat, you will not be able to do justice to business also. Business is all about taking calculated risks. Without the capacity to take risks a business cannot grow. This is an answer from the role of a business woman that I play. And As a sadhak -The spiritual path empowers us and gives us confidence. That spirit in us is undefeated. The more one identifies with that spirit inside the more risk one can take because fear vanishes naturally with that identification of one with one’s immortal spirit.
So there is really no escape from taking risks. Allow yourself to fail. And be ready to take another risk even after a failure. Life is a beautiful exploration of one’s capacity. Which may remain unexplored if one chooses not to take risks. Every exploration is filled with risks but that’s the fun of it, Isn’t it!
A devotee shared that Gurudev shared these pearls of wisdom yesterday. And I sat up to ponder. Here is a reflection of what I understood of this..
“अचाह से बल मिलता है।”- “चाह” का होना इस पल को अपूर्ण कर देता है। यह सोचना कि भविष्य में कुछ और होगा, तब जीवन पूर्ण होगा। इसका मतलब है कि हम अपने स्वभाव में नहीं हैं। लेकिन जब हम स्वभाव में होते हैं, तो पूर्णता होती है।“यह पल पूर्ण है” का भाव होता है। ऐसे व्यक्ति को कोई हिला नहीं सकता और न ही लालच देकर लुभा सकता है।
“अकिंचन से सहजता मिलता है।”- अपने स्वभाव में हम सहज होते हैं। “मैं कुछ हूँ, खुश हूँ” यह दिखाने का प्रयास नहीं होता। अकिंचन का अर्थ है स्वभाव।
“अप्रयत्न से प्रेम मिलता है।” प्रेम में प्रयत्न नहीं होता। माँ बच्चे को बिना प्रयत्न किए ही अपने प्रेमवश सब कुछ देती है। हमारा स्वभाव ही प्रेम है, और प्रेम में प्रयत्न नहीं है, बस स्वभाव है।
Swa + bhav – the most beautiful state, childlike..
As we celebrate Uttarayan today let’s pray that our life force also moves upward…
My reflection for today – What can be achieved in life is only limited by the boundaries of my small mind. Which the mind creates around the infinite power (that is me) and this small mind restricts my efforts.
Defeating the small mind and being reminded of that infinite power within me and giving my best to life this very moment.. Again and again and again.. Is the upward movement of life force “Uttarayan” in true sense, isn’t it!
May our life force move upwards with the movement of the Sun. A very Happy Sankranti to all.
Like dust covers objects our past experiences (more traumatic) cover our memory. The light of the self is obscured and the memory identifies with experiences and one may think “ I am a victim”. And then we mirror Victimhood in our life. What a loss.. As if an Elephant thought he is an Ant and wasted a lifetime feeling itself so small like an Ant..
Lord Rama never held his mother Kaikeyi responsible for his fourteen years of Vanvaas. How many challenges did he face, unimaginable, isn’t it! He was wise, and he had a larger vision of life, he knew it was part of the play and she was just a pawn, playing her part. On his return he refused to enter Ayodhya without receiving blessings from mother Kaikeyi…
Being aware – Life is absolutely fair. All in my life is my own Credit/Debit Balance, my own Karma. Being grateful that I paid my debt in the past (that traumatic experience) Knowing It’s a new moment, to meditate and remember again who am I, not a Victim for sure, Not an Ant for sure.. rise and shine the light within, dropping the memory of the past. Dust must be cleared, it’s soon Diwali time, let’s prepare for Lord Rama’s homecoming. Lord Rama Who is the light within my Heart.. 🎈
Vasudha Jhunjhunwala 