Why are you not experiencing any inner peace and fulfilment?

Why are you not experiencing any inner peace and fulfilment?

Are you confused that:
“Even after sincerely doing everything your spiritual gurus asked and taught you to do, why are you not happy? Why are you not experiencing any inner peace and fulfilment?”

This might be the most blunt and shocking post you would ever read. Because no lollipop guru is ever going to tell you this as bluntly as I am going to tell you today.

If you are the disciple (Arjuna) that has come to your spiritual guru after running away from your circumstances (your Kurukshetra), then of course how can you have peace? As Lord Krishna (Arjuna’s spiritual advisor & guru) explained to Arjuna in ‘Bhagawad Gita’, peace comes after Kurukshetra. After you overcome your circumstances and win your daily battles, then only you can experience peace.

If you are afraid of the Cross, it’s obvious that you can never incarnate your Christ.

If you are afraid of facing Mara and his three daughters, then it’s obvious that you can never become a Buddha.

This whole new age evolutionary movement has created a big lie and illusion about the spiritual journey. And the Indian lollipop spiritual gurus are equally responsible for creating many fallacies about the spiritual path in not only Indian minds but, they polluted the western minds as well. 

Spiritual journey is not about running away from our circumstances, from our daily fights, but facing them and winning them as per the divine laws. Spiritual journey is not about running away from adharma (vices), but overcoming them. 

The truth is spiritual journey is full of trial (tests) and tribulations (annoying, frustrating and catastrophic events) meant to test the spiritual initiate at every step, and anybody who tells you otherwise is a liar.

Being Spiritual does not mean living in an ashram, shunning material life. Being spiritual means to live life fully but as per Dharma (divine laws; the Commandments of God).

You have to understand that eternal peace and happiness are the final prize of this journey but, they are won after many battles. No one can have eternal peace and happiness on this plane, on earth. Only in Nirvana, one can have eternal peace and happiness. And nirvana is won after many battles, trials and tribulations.

It’s not a path for weak people who run away at the first sight of difficulty or for the one who is looking for an easy way. 

If it was so, Lord Krishna would have never left Gokul (his childhood home) and Lord Rama would not have gone to the forest (vanvas) leaving his kingdom behind.

Lord Buddha overcame Mara, Lord Christ overcame Satan in the desert when he was fasting there for 40 days, Lord Krishna overcame Kansa, Lord Rama overcame Ravana.

To gain Nirvana, we have to fight and win our daily battles within and without. 

But what do most spiritual aspirants or seekers do? The moment they have to face themselves – their Mara, Satan, Kansa, Kurukshetra or Ravana; they run away. 

And they keep changing spiritual gurus and spiritual organisations, hoping one day to find a way to find peace without facing their Mara, Satan, Kansa, Kurukshetra or Ravana. 

Let me tell you dear seeker, there is no such way. Stop running, stop fooling around, come home and face your Mara, Satan, Kansa, Kurukshetra or Ravana. Otherwise, life after life you will keep searching, keep running like the deer in search for the musk, but you will never find it.

One thing I have learned after more than 23 years on the path, it’s not a 100 metre dash, it’s a marathon and in a marathon only those win who keep running without stopping and without changing directions or goals. It’s a path for the tortoise not for the hare. On this path you need the tenacity and steadfastness of the tortoise to win. And the winners take the prize of eternal peace and happiness.

If you want continuous support and guidance in your spiritual journey to win your daily battles and overcome your difficult circumstances, join GOD YOGA today.

To your peace, happiness and fulfilment….

Rich, Famous and Hungry: The Poor in Soul

Rich, Famous and Hungry: The Poor in Soul

Hunger is usually associated with the poor. That is the bodily hunger for nutrition and food. But there are other types of hunger that the poor have never known. These types of hunger are the domains of rich and famous:

The hunger for more power,
the hunger for more fame,
the hunger for more followers,
the hunger for more appreciation,
the hunger for more money,
the hunger for more security,
the hunger for more awards,
the hunger for more likes.
etc., etc….

And now, the social media feeds and fuels these hungers to disproportionate magnitude.

I wonder if there is even a single moment of peace and fulfilment in a celebrity’s life?

It’s like the story of the devil who is never satiated. The constant desire to post and please the followers, how does it feel?

“It comes in a moment when I capture something happening, and I go, ‘Oh, that would be great for Instagram. I should post it.’ I know it’s boring, but that’s genuinely what I do,” Singer-actress Selena Gomez, who is one of the most followed celebrity on Instagram told The Hollywood Reporter.

It seems the poor are living to feed the hunger of their body and the rich and famous are living to feed the hunger of their minds, both classes poor in soul and spirit. And the middle class torn between their hunger for food, clothing, a roof over their head, and the hunger of their minds.

So if you want peace, happiness and fulfilment, please stop feeding and fuelling your hunger of the mind. Because till you are hungry you can never know and experience true peace and happiness. You will never be fulfilled.

Instead, start doing something about the poverty of your soul and spirit. Start feeding your soul and spirit. As Lord Jesus Christ said, “First seek the kingdom of your father and everything else shall be added unto you”.

This applies to the middle class, to the poor and to the rich and famous. If you would be rich in your soul and spirit, everything else including the hunger of the body and the hunger of the mind, will be taken care of.

Join GOD YOGA today.

To your peace, happiness and fulfilment…..

Life Is Like A Dish

Life Is Like A Dish

If there is less salt in a dish, it doesn’t taste so good. If you put more than necessary, the dish becomes poison. If you put too much pepper, again the dish doesn’t taste good, nor if there is too little pepper. 

Now, salt is so necessary, isn’t it? But if you put a lot of it in your kheer, a sweet dish, or you mix a lot of it in your chocolate milk, you won’t be able to eat or drink either. 

A dish becomes good if everything in it is in balance. A meal becomes good if it is balanced in protein, carbs and vitamins, etc.

In life also, one needs balance. Food is good, music is good, work is good, sex is good, rest is good, holidays are good, prayer is good, virtues are good; but everything in moderation.

Moreover everything in its right time and right place. Otherwise it would be like putting salt in the chocolate milk. 

A toothbrush on the dressing table is as out of place as a toilet brush in kitchen. Yes, having sex on the dining table may seem rebellious and give you a kick in your pants, but it is as out of place as having a photo of your deity in your toilet.

Life becomes good when everything in it is in balance and everything is in its right place and at the right time.

The one who makes money his God is as out of balance as the one who hates money.

The one who treats sex as entertainment is as out of balance as the one who thinks sex is sin.

The one who works too much and forgets his family is as out of balance as the one who ignores his work and worry too much about his family.

One who does not exercise his body is as out of balance as the one who over-works his body.

The person who sets his priorities right and practices moderation is the one who ultimately comes out a winner.

Live with moderation, you will live a more tasty and long life. Bon appetite.

To your health, harmony and happiness….

Your Fears & Weaknesses Are Your Biggest Traitors

Your Fears & Weaknesses Are Your Biggest Traitors

No one can oppress you unless you do not give others permission and authority to oppress you, that is a solemn truth.

There is an overt permission and then there is inert permission. When you do not act or raise your voice against oppression, then you are giving the oppressor an inert permission to oppress you. “Inert” is defined as “lacking the strength to resist” leading to “inertia”. Inertia comes from Entropy, the law of least effort.

The Law of Least Effort is a law of the cosmos, that works in everything. Under this law everything is subject to entropy. Entropy means that everything in the universe eventually moves from order to disorder, unless an effort is not put otherwise. For example, let’s say you have just built a magnificent mansion. Now, unless you regularly clean, maintain and repaint it, this beautiful mansion will turn into a dilapidated house with time. 

This same law works in our relationships, business, professional competence, body, mind and soul. In simple terms, whatever is not improved will atrophy. 

Because of this law, we do not resist oppression when it is mild. This emboldens the oppressor. And slowly he or she keeps on increasing the intensity of his or her oppression.

There’s a fable that, “If you throw a frog into very hot water, the frog will jump out, but if you put the frog in room temperature water and just slowly heat the water up to a boiling temperature, the frog will die there.”

Now I don’t know whether that’s true about a frog, but it’s sure as hell true about most oppressed people. Initially, they do not resist mild oppressions and this inert permission is enough for their oppressor to continue his or her oppression and the oppressed never realises when the oppression reaches to a boiling temperature. But usually then it is already too late.

Now, the million dollar question is: “Why on earth, you allow someone to oppress you even mildly?” 

The answer to this question is very simple. Either, you have some weakness, some lack of competence, or lack of character, or wrong attitude, that the oppressor exploits. Or, he or she exploits your fears. So, in reality, it’s your own weaknesses and fears that are your biggest traitors. 

So how do you overcome your weaknesses and fears?

That’s what you will learn in the most practical sense inside GOD YOGA.

So, join GOD YOGA today.

To your empowerment and enlightenment….

Is What Pleases You and Others the Right Thing to Do?

Is What Pleases You and Others the Right Thing to Do?

Or Doing the Right Thing the Right Thing to Do​?

Are you with God and His Laws or with Society and Its Flaws? 

“A King may move a man, a father may claim a son. That man can also move himself. And only then does that man truly begin his own game. Remember that howsoever you are played, or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone. Even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power. When you stand before God, you cannot say “but I was told by others to do thus” or that “virtue was not convenient at the time.” This will not suffice. Remember that.”

~ Baldwin IV (Kingdom of Heaven, Hollywood Movie)

Either Please God, Or Please Society

There are rebels without cause. People who do not live to please the society, who live to rebel against society. Like the hippies in the seventies.

Then there are pleasers without cause. People who live to please the society, who worry about their “self-images”. They have no care for what they are doing, but how do they look to others. If they are assured that others won’t find out and their “self-images” won’t be tarnished, they will do whatever pleases them. They live by no principles. Only principle is how does it affect their “self-image”. These people only fear the society, they have no respect for God’s Laws.

So, either you can live respecting God’s Commandments and worry about how you will face Him on the Judgment Day. Or you can live pleasing your family, friends and society worrying about “What will they say?” In these times of Kaliyuga, you can’t expect the societal norms to match God’s Commandments. The “Will of the Absolute” is totally absent on this plane.

Either, you can do “what is right”. Or, you can do what is pleasing to you and others. Most of the times, both do not match.

Of course, when you do what is pleasing to you and others, you receive immediate pleasures, however short lived they might be. Doing “what is right”, often times bring hardships in the short term, entails sacrifices on your part, entails facing tough situations and the result only comes in the long run.

That is why, most people live pleasing themselves and society, and only remember God when they visit a temple or church. And also when they land in trouble. But even in those times, they never care for His Commandments.

Then, when you see a person suffering terribly because of some physical problem, financial problem, emotional or relational problem, or mental tensions, you think why is there so much pain and suffering in the world? Because looking at the “self-images” you are unable to discern what wrongs they have been doing whole their lives! 

Pleasures vs Happiness

The hard truth is you can’t have both – short term pleasure and long term happiness. You can only have one. If you choose short term pleasure, you will be choosing long term suffering. If you choose short term sacrifice, you will be choosing long term happiness. Which one you choose is your free will.

In The Katha Upanishad (Kathopanishad) – The Path to Knowledge of the REAL, Yamaraj – the God of Death tells Nachiketa:

अन्यच्छ्रेयोऽन्यदुतैव प्रेयस्ते उभे नानार्थे पुरुषंसिनीतः ।

तयोः श्रेय आददानस्य साधु भवति हीयतेऽर्थाद्य उ प्रेयो वृणीते ।।

“Two kinds of Karma chain a person. One is right, while another is pleasant (easy and tempting but leads to suffering later). Blessed is he who, between them choose the right alone, but he who chooses what is pleasant, loses the true end.”

श्रेयश्च प्रेयश्च मनुष्यमेतस्तौ सम्परीत्य विविनक्ति धीरः ।

श्रेयो हि धीरोऽभि प्रेयसो वृणीते प्रेयो मन्दो योगक्षेमाद्वृणीते ।।

“Every person is faced with two choices: the right and the pleasant, a wise person chooses the right even though it’s not pleasant; a fool chooses the pleasant with only instant gratification in mind and suffers later.”

It’s a constant fight between choosing Pleasure or Happiness.

The Soul seeks Happiness.
The Senses seek Pleasures.

PLEASURE ➡️ Small Indulgence/Give In ▶️ BIG Pain & Loss

HAPPINESS ➡️ Small Discipline ▶️ BIG Gain & Fulfilment

It’s a choice you make every day.
Stop choosing fleeting Pleasures.
Choose Happiness.

Just employ your WILL to follow the Small Discipline in small small moments everyday instead of giving in to Indulgences. Not only you will save yourself from BIG Pain & Loss later, also you will Gain long term Happiness and Fulfilment.

The more you will use your WILL to not give in to the temptations of Pleasures, the more your WILL becomes strong.

Social Currency vs Karmic Currency

There is “Social Currency”, things that you do whether in person or digitally on social media that enhance your social value, your value in the eyes of the society.

Then there is “Karmic Currency”, actions that you do that enhance your karmic account, your real value in the cosmos.

Time is a perishable commodity on this plane. So you have to choose, whether you will live to earn “Social Currency” or “Karmic Currency”.

Some people are so deeply programmed to please the authorities, whether it’s their parents and teachers in childhood, or their peers in teen, or their bosses and spouses later, they just do not know the difference between right and wrong. When they come in CFEL, instead of following the Dharma, the laws taught to them, they just make a false appearance of following the guru trying to please him. They seldom understand that the guru will be pleased when you will start walking on the right path. And when the guru is not pleased with their false “self-images” and reprimands them for their wrongdoings, they become disillusioned with the guru, they start disliking the guru.

Then they move to the other side, that of self-righteousness. At one side are people who have no care for right or wrong, they only live for pleasures. On the other side of the spectrum are people who have programmed beliefs about righteousness and whosoever does not come good on those beliefs, is judged and accused of wrongdoings. These people live judging others.

Self-Righteousness Doesn’t Make You Right

Of course, how easy it is to affirm your negative beliefs and make corresponding rules for yourself to apply on others!

Just like Calvin affirms above: 
“I don’t believe in ETHICS (God’s Laws) any more”
and makes a RULE for his life:
“The ends justifies the means. Get what you can while the getting’s good. Might Makes Right! The Winners write the History Books.”

So it’s a SELF-RIGHTEOUS rule ignoring the God’s Laws, in fact not just ignoring but audaciously disrespecting the God’s Laws and others.

But what Calvin forgets and is soon reminded by Hobbes is that if the “OTHERS” also start following the same rule then he will only receive pain and suffering.

Thus, whatever you do to others affirming your own rules which your egos make to feed themselves and thrive, definitely give you a short term high and pleasure. 

But, you forget that “Your Rules” are over-ruled by God’s Laws. 
Thus, in the long term, it all comes back.

In the long run, whatever you give and howsoever you treat others is paid back to you in the same coin and that too many many times over.

Be Aware that all the Self-Righteous RULES that you live by daily while disrespecting the God’s Laws are only setting you up for pain, suffering, disease, death and hell.

So beware! 

*Self-Righteousness Doesn’t Make You Right*

​Do the RIGHT THING and you will end up all right. Try to do things to please others and you will end up displeasing all. 

In all circumstances, do the RIGHT THING, not the thing that pleases somebody. That is the mantra for happiness and peace.

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