Mindfulness & Meditation !

MINDFULNESS is a state of an intense presence, in the present tense. 

It is such a joyful state of existence, 
that its exact experience is beyond any form of expression. 

The closest most of us come to being mindful in our daily lives is quite unknowingly, when someone or we ourselves find ourselves staring into a nothingness in space unaware of times or when we all are fast asleep every night; thoughtlessly. The best of such an experience, is encountered during a dreamless, dense and deep sleep - which only a few of us are blessed to have regularly. This only happens when one can manage to sleep in a state of a complete surrender (detached from the prevailing circumstances in our lives) to the force that actually breathes 'life force' (prana) into & out of, each of us every single moment in night, and makes us arise the next morning; while we are actually highly unaware of its subtle yet powerful and magical presence.

Not all of us who go to sleep every night, awake & arise the very next day.

Each one of us someday surely, will not arise or be awake for another magical day.

This is the only certain & changeless promise that Life has to offer to us.

This is the highest or the only supreme Truth of the entire existence and is obviously worth being aware of or mindful of, in every single breath that we inspire, as most certainly one of them would be the very last of our inspirations, before we finally expire.

Mindfulness, then appears, is a state demonstrated by every single living species and all the magical beauty, every single day, in an animate or inanimate display around us. Amidst which, we still manage to live with a mind-full of chaotic, cluttered, insecure, random, unregulated thoughts, ignoring the obvious message, so subtly/ secretly yet beautifully displayed.

Probably, every single existence (skies, earths, oceans, glaciers, mountains, rivers, trees, flowers, animals, reptiles, birds etc.) in its natural state, is so self-situated (Swastha - Sanskrit word for health, meaning - to be situated in one's own self - physically, mentally and spiritually); that to me this now seems to be a subtle but specific demonstration of Life's inherent or default state of existence. 
This strikingly then seems to be an indication or a clue/ hint for the entire humanity. We have been so stressfully wandering in this wonderland of existence (Physical Life, Here) trying to seek answers to the unknown, beyond. The answers, I imagine would naturally flow to us, if we just try & seek to re-imbibe the natural state of our own mindful existence, that actually comes as a default setting within our cerebral software, in system-settings.

MEDITATION is a state of intense Mindfulness. 

A state, wherein the mind, the body and the soul are undifferentiated.
The UNITY - indivisible, uncompounded, formless. 

During meditation all the energy, attention or awareness at the disposal of our beautiful mind, is now focused deeply within & onto the mind itself, by the mind, which eventually has the potential to take us into a infinite realm beyond the thinking mind and that seems to be the precise purpose of experiencing this state. 

The state of boundless abundance or freedom, freedom not only from the external bondages, but more significantly from the inner knots of complicated and convoluted thoughts. Freedom from this heavy chain of relentless thoughts, rigid mindsets or dogmas that our minds can subtly but successfully get us trapped into, if this powerful energy available at its disposal, is focused just onto the sheer physicality & in this wonderland of existence, the life Here.

This formless state, probably a source of all the creations;
also seems to be a destiny, that the entire manifest and un-manifest existence Here, all share. 

                                "The light of Lord flashes in the Lightening;

                                The light of Lord flashes in our Eyes.

                                It is the Power of Lord that makes

                               The Mind to think, desire and will. Therefore,

                              Use this Power to Meditate on Lord."

                                                                             The Kena Upanishad  (IV.4-6)        

Is My Guilt, inbuilt...?

If Yes, then Why is my 'Guilt', Inbuilt…?

Why is my guilt inbuilt?

of the ‘sins sensed’ from dusk to dawn;

‘A Guilt’ - so powerfully built, of craving for ‘The Want’.

‘The Ego’, my splintered mental satire,

whips my sense horses, fuelling ‘The Desires’;

Commands...un-enough…!

till ‘The Will’ wilts...!

…it’s so un-content since forever...?

A desire for ‘The Unity’ ultimate,

doctored by thy ‘Master Mind’;

renders my ego bizarre, dry & blind.

It sees and hears, it smells, it tastes and smiles,

then it even lunges selfishly to touch;

It trembles, it holds, it quivers & shivers,

then it moans, it groans & then crumbles...as such.

It senses, primal yet perennial,

ahhh…a pleasure so pure;

It feels timeless though transient,

hmmm…this seems to be a treasure for sure…?

Bragged & dragged, by the Master for miles;

Thy soul in stillness, does only so much as it smiles.

Entrapped is thy Soul, in a breeze of physical wallop;

My Mind Masters faster, than the dear horses can gallop.

With such explosive passion for horses,

…Is it merely an abyss, this amazing Horse Power…?

Do I feel the Breeze?

…which so caresses, kisses, envelopes...!

or Do I still not?

Breeze is my Soul,

Breeze is indeed Her’s,

Our shells from inside out, this breeze does enclose…!

Still with all my will,

Do I even feel my soul?,

Do I even not feel Her’s?

…Am I thoughtlessly being Mastered into a denial..?

My Master now desperately seeks,

a companion of breeze;

for my impulsive, possessive, physical needs,

just to reach Her out & just heat 'n' freeze.

When she can talk so much softer than me, and

she can walk so much swifter than I;

while she can think so much deeper than thee, but

She can only shout silently as thy.

Just to feel Her for ever,

deep from inside out…but still;

…Why is my Soul revolting thy Master’s clout…?

Shall I, effortlessly release my ‘Horses of senses’ Here,

to ignite-in Her(e),

a pursuit so romantically resolute.

As I, darkly desire a pleasure secretive...!

Of course to have, eternally have Her(e).

Ohhh please…enough is un-enough, for Mind…

…as My enough is the only eternal I seek,

till it might, just temporarily Be...?

                                        OR

Shall I, struggle to restrain my ‘Horses to senses’ Here,

as nothing-in Her(e),

remotely appears any absolute.

As I, decently realise a realm relative…!

Only to have Her(e) & to inevitably leave Her(e).

Heyyy please…only eternal is enough, for Soul…

…as perhaps The eternal is the only enough,

for My Self, is a transient Thee…? 

The Guilt it seems is deeply inbuilt...somewhere deeper within, nowhere remotely outside. 

The Guilt - is the Fight, is the Daily Battle that each of us embattles ourselves with, every single morning between Our Powerful Senses commanded by Mind - The proverbial Master Vs. Wisdom of Life, enclosed within our eternal Souls.

To Live our Life, without even remotely paying attention to, or even trying to resolve this eternal battle, being fought every second on the terrain of our  super sub-consciousness; is to live a life - ignoring the most important challenge facing our own peaceful existence. Ignorance is only bliss, till it no longer is...!

I have tried to put forth the War between heart and mind...!
I have tried to represent the immense similarity shared by the physicality & chemistry of attraction, felt by each one of us towards this mesmerizing material world and our magnetic mutual opposites…while thinking of making money and/ or love...in every single nanosecond…if the whole existence of billion years is simply condensed in a 24hr clock time.

The perennial small battles constituting this eternal War;
waged between the horses of senses and charioteer, the soul,

fought by each of us in every single moment, in every tiny thought,

while attempting to choose between the unapparent yet illusive choices,

the battlefield then it appears, is somewhere deeper beneath the physical human terrain...probably very intra-cellular, in every single cell…no may be even sub-atomic.

Between:
more and enough,
release and restrain,
indulgence and prudence,
gratification and meditation,
accumulating and donating,

receiving and giving,

having and leaving,

horsing and nursing.
selfishness and selflessness,

enough and eternal.

.

In an effort to make one realize that, the calculated enough is very relative and only infinite eternal comes quite close to a probable absolute, through these questions that have been haunting a fragmented human terrain, since its inception. To realize that the War we fight is within ourselves and not with other-selves, that the war we fight is within and not without, that the war harbours dis-ease and only peace deep inside can summon ease, and that the elusive peace too, is in our hands as is the decision to go to the war, despite appearing not to be.

Is Ego-driven, an Eco-driven way of My Life ?

When 'I' live My Life with Ego-drive switched on, I feel persistently challenged but 

When 'The Life' lives me on sans-Ego mode, I feel incessantly empowered.

The former way of living is a historically conditioned human-pattern, in a rampant and unregulated practice in this civilised world. But, the latter mode of evolutionary living, is a self-regulatory one and is reasonably difficult to practice amidst the prevalent power-trips on the former mode of travel.

The Ego-driven mode in such a shorter-span (HUMAN existence), is without doubt - quite enticing, energy  craving-consuming-craving, 'I'-enhancing, ego-inflating, instantly gratifying, expeditious, enthralling but exhausting, a finite & health-at-risk mode of travelling in the Here.

Where as probably over a much cosmic span (LIFE, in existence), the sans-Ego mode - unsurprisingly would turn out to be an enormously ecological, effortless, engrossing, economical, energy-sharing, ego-deflating, enlightening, health-enriching, exhilarating & endless mode of travelling in the Now & the Here-after. 

The capacity to realise that we have the ability to think, to choose and modify is what separates us Humans from the rest of the existing Life. This 'ability' comprises an exclusive application installed in our most advanced cerebral software systems. But, unfortunately we tend to use this advanced application quite sub-optimally and not precisely in the way it was supposed to be. 

We must choose selflessly & wisely, as every single choice we make, in every single moment of our daily lives, is not happening without a consequence and these consequences affect not anyone else out there but Only Us. 

Effort or Ease ?

Thoughts of themselves have no substance; 
let them arise and pass away unheeded. 

Thoughts will not take form of themselves, 
unless they are grasped by the attention; 

if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.
                          – ASHVAGHOSHA

A Thought/ urge or an idea is a spark of pure energy or an impulse that manifests in the grey zones of our restless thinking fields (mind or awareness) - mostly out of nowhere & usually with an effortless ease. This thought when thought-upon may appear to be absolutely impossible to conclude, illogical to reason and illegitimate to norms at the time of inception but nevertheless it takes birth. The most beautiful thoughts are born to those who are at peace (calm) with themselves (in their minds) and these thoughts then gradually unfold themselves with an effortless ease (magical) when they are brought up with a selfless passion, an absorbed attention but without an attached intention. Then, the logistics of this unbelievable journey are taken care of by an overwhelmingly infinite energy of the universe (the supremely organising & creative intelligence) around and inside us. One then inadvertently positions oneself to share, realise & achieve immensely on any journey where fun, thrill, enthusiasm & uncertainty turn out to be the enthusing companions. 

A Plan is a systematic scheme of acts, events or intentions that our brain struggles with, consumes a lot of energy in the process and then synthesises it around a specific thought process, in order to achieve an imagined destination - which does not actually exist in the present moment anywhere in the universe. So, in effect is not a reality, as it does not even exist. A plan then represents a series of actions or measures put in place with an intense attachment to the imagined target or a goal in our mind thus inevitably inviting insecurity, doubt, anxiety as exhausting companions on the way to an imagined goal. The goal may be realised, but that plan now may not appear, to be an energy efficient pathway to the podium. Loss, ecstasy or gain, pain or panic would be suffered on the way and now the desired achievements may not seem, what one would have imagined them to appear like, from your then present - the non-existing past. The toughest trick is to be ultra-flexible even while executing your well-planned plans, and that is the most difficult part of a structured plan - having back-up plans represent this unpredictable behaviour of a plan.

We all have seen so many of the best laid plans going astray despite having the best of energy & intentions at their disposal and the simplest of lofty thoughts resonating in a thunder, despite not harbouring an attachment to a specific plan. Things usually do not turn out as we would have meticulously planned for them, in many instances; whereas passionately harboured thoughts achieve much more than our own imagination despite lacking a logical & logistical plan.

Then, it is highly likely, that all the detached journeys are supposed to be enjoyed like there is no tomorrow; the realised destinations then would merely become transit or connecting points amidst magical &  thrilling adventure of an endless journey, which starts from, a pure spark - the thought. 


As our minds progressively attain, an intense awareness, a focused attention, and are absolutely available in the unfolding reality of the moment, the energetic sparks then begin to transform into pure potentiality. 

'To Urge is Human, 
To Plan is Divine.'

Death as a LED !

IF, Life appears to be such a fantastic invention of the Supremely creative intelligence in a mode of intense Meditation (single-mindedness of purpose), thus enjoying itself through Its endless designs;

Then, Death surprisingly seems to be an inescapable purpose of this invention, recurrently refreshing our awareness to the relentless throb of life energy, each of the living entity is, in every living moment.

LED - Life Enriching Destination.

Tolerance - A Tool to Realise Magical Action

Tolerance is a perfect tool to deal with the 'disappearing' dualities 
of hot & cold,
of likes & dislikes,

of rich & poor, 

of gain & pain, 

of sweet & sour, 

of success & failure, 

of happiness & sorrow, 

of gratification & satisfaction; 

that predictably recur as a simple, alternating but endless pattern in the lap of time. 

Realisation of this simple fact, that the investment of your precious energy in an attempt to 'like' one aspect of such a recurring pattern, is to inevitably expose yourself to 'dislike' its inevitable-half; which ultimately amounts to suffering in ignorance and is not of much consequence, when we near our terminal - the most certain part of our life.

The 'Right to Action' does not impart one with an implied control  over its result. One should just be engaged spontaneously and fearlessly in serving the event armed with an absolute authority for action but totally detached from the result of his performance. The very fact that you should not exercise your right to the result for a specific action, also implies in the very same spirit that you never have a 'Right to choose inaction over action'. 

"To execute actions with pure, selfless & spontaneous intensity, 

is to ensure that results shall be in disproportionate generosity."

Realisation - Remedy Resides Within !

We are not here to fight for our loss or for our gain, 
we are not here to prefer our pleasures over other's pain;
we are here to realise the oblivious but inevitable,
we are here to transcend death using life as a cable.


We have become trapped and torn by duality of mind,
when it was neither created nor any existed of a kind;
this would for sure re-cycle back to where this all began,
if this had to manifest, this would have to melt again.


We only suffer mentally till we finally decide against,

it pains mentally till we aim only for physical gains;

we can patiently melt down and then prevail for ever,
coz a honest heart always prevails over a mind so clever.


Peace deep inside is ultimate, is beyond desires & drives,
drive your desires but be at peace between earth & skies;
patience leads to peace but only with constant perseverance,
a peaceful relaxed mind is a desirable and affluent existence. 

5 Basic Truths of Existence

The Science of Eternality explains, the 5 basic truths of the pure eternal existence, as they are:

1. Isvara, The Supreme Controller 

2. Jiva, The Subtly Controlled 

3. Prakriti, The Material Nature 

4. Kaal, The Cosmic Time &

5. Karma, The Activity (actions-reactions) 

The first four are the pure eternal whereas the fifth one is not, the trick is to eternalise it.

Nothing here can be manifested (Divine creation) or manufactured (Human creation) without being controlled, somewhere, somehow; and as is obvious in both the prevalent scenarios, the creator is the ultimate enjoyer and the creation is means to an end.

"Ordinary actions when purified to the core & 

unadulterated by attachment, transform into Extraordinary ones."

The only way to eternalise your activity, is to purify it - to liberate it from material contamination, mukti, and thus totally be part of the pure & eternal constitution. To act with intense purity,  uncontaminated with the attachment to the fruits of your actions, is the way to eternalise the karma, and not by non-performance of action. 

"The intense actions lose pure powerful potency,

 whenever they are tailed with any material expectancy."

Designation - Target the Ultimate

The desire for promotion to the next designation is very natural and an evolutionary essence manifested in the bubbling thread of endless energy that Life is, one should never compromise on the grandiosity of one's deep seated ambitions for the ultimate designation, both in the engaged work and spiritual Life; there is always a next-level up, no matter how high you may reach. The only limiting factor ever, is you yourself.

But, 

the clarity of vision, 

the purity of passion, 

the density of focus, 

the paucity of distractions & 

the intensity of your actions determine the spikes and troughs at work and life in this gravity defying space.

Unwavering faith with humility imparts you with an immense self-belief, fearlessness & selflessness, which uploads your system with the high-octane fuel required to propel you up towards the target orbit out of this mundane high-friction trap that we have enclosed ourself into.

Promotion - The Next Level Up.

"This opportunity to exist under essential parental recommendation, 

is basically a limited, life-time* promotional offer; 

*FINE PRINT here is - not to seek, panic or stampede for an attachment or an extension,

 but to let Life have you limitlessly, to qualify for an out-of-turn promotion to the Next Level."

The Forces, that constitute Timeless Nature !

"When calm water swells up into a tall cruising wall, 

when patient earth cracks up and perforates, 

when slumbering mountains yawn and spew,  

when vital winds race in an unchallenged F-1,  

when boundless skies, split up to shower, and

when pure fire dances amidst all others to claim its share;

The things that usually get brushed and washed away, 

the things that get uprooted and swallowed in, 

the things that get smoked, grilled & singed, 

the things that get flown, torn and blown apart, 

the things that get drenched & get drowned in, 

the things that just vanish up in fiery flames;

are basically the very same things that either intently exist or were very intentionally manufactured to withstand the onslaught of these infinitely iconic natural forces, which inherently govern this Universe and are ironically harboured as the fundamental  constituents of every single creation in existence."

So, nothing actually is being created or destroyed in the final assessment. It just gets transformed at specific intervals, based on the timeless timetables, where the basic forces, the fundamental constituents of life take turns creating, consuming and then recreating themselves into an illusion of physical wonders,  the Matrix - though seemingly surreal, yet magically unreal.

"Infinite worlds appear and disappear in the vast expanse of my own consciousness, 

like the particles of dust dancing in a beam of Light"

- Ancient Vedic saying

Perfect Pandemonium ... !

"An immensely subtle, inadvertent or a slight subconscious shift in Nature's podiums, postures or patterns, irrespective of its presentation, contrastingly manifests as a precisely perfect pandemonium from a materially human perspective. Perhaps, as we humans volunteer to suffer, stress and fear much more than all other species put together, probably due to our being in a continuous state of denial to comprehend the real purpose of existence of this ethereal realm.

Sadly, despite being the most evolved and despite having the realisation of the inevitable."

Regularity & Renunciation

"Regularity is a timeless & tireless rhythm exhibited by nature, 

governing each and every vibrating form of energy;

Renunciation is an ageless & selfless work ethic adopted by nature, 

governing each and every transformation of energy."

NB: Regularity as in Discipline, Renunciation as in detachment from the fruits of action.

Famous Five Senses - For Navigation or Gratification ?

The Famous Five Senses --> A Beautiful Mind --> A Discriminating Intellect --> An Energy consuming but very Fragile Ego -->The Calm Visionary Wisdom --> Soulful Silent Stillness, is the centralising ladder pattern that climbs its way to the top - the Source of Universe, is also the upside-down Timeless Tree (Kalp-Vrakhsha) of Life with its trunk & then roots rooting up in Cosmos. 

Aware of the basic design of this imperceptible Tree of Life, you shall diligently climb the fragile shoots of this inverted tree upwards-inwards but only if you are powered by a disciplined unification of 5 energetic senses, providing you with an unparalleled gravity defying force shepherding you back to the source of your existence; thus you shall escape the deadly design of physical existence, and shall defy the treacherous trap & you shall successfully defeat death to become invincible and an immortal.

Ignorant of the principle of the invisible Tree of Life, you shall pursue downwards the scattered slim shoots of senses downwards into the glittering material oasis of life, to explore, to taste, to explode with the illusionary dangling fruits of painful-pleasures, you suddenly shall loose the grip and slip from the sexy shiny slimy leaves even before you realise, into the abyss of mortality, defeated by design, getting entrapped and savoured by death time and again.

Senses as can be seen in every other species around us, are primarily being deployed very carefully as special sensors/ instruments for safe & timely navigation through this thorny, tricky, thick jungle/ game/ maze of life. Probably they were meant to be harnessed only in such a way, as the 5-when-merged become 6 - the quintessential 'sixth-sense, the intution - the gravity & logic defying perceptions or inputs revealing the grand design'. Disciplined unification of the 5-powerful senses provides us in addition with a safe, strong, sensible sixth sense, that is indeed a very powerful navigation tool.

Senses as can be seen exclusively in one species around us, are forcefully being employed as impatient but powerful horses flying in an auto-pilot  (exploring-gratification mode), beyond any control by an insecure Mind but on the contrary dragging your mind far down, ever discriminated by Intellect, controlled by a fragile Ego with Wisdom deported to exile. These five fragmented faithless horses then become wild, losing the critical sense of direction without their shepherd - the sensible sixth one. Thus, assuming such painful proportions differing in directions, they shall ultimately tear your body-mind apart by fragmenting them, until painful death takes charge after you have been foolishly scattered & stupefied by your own seductive senses. 

Three Potent Practice Points - Da Da Da ... !!!

"Damyata, Datta, Dayadhvam" - To 

1. Be Self Disciplined, 

2. Provide before being asked,

3. Be Compassionate.

When one practices Life with these three tough but potent points as the core guiding principles irrespective of the situations, one manages to successfully escape from the duality of painful pendulous fragmentation of ourselves into physical & spiritual entities - that subjects us to opposites like hurts & pleasures, likes & dislikes, pain & gain, good & bad, sweet & sour, unlike any other species.

Beyond this fragmentation, lies the blissful unification of mind-body-soul that despite being subject to similar diverse forces manages to stay silent, still, calm realising the transient nature of recurring patterns trying to convey something very profound, thus conserving precious energy for something more productive and focused.

Passing Pleasures or Perennial Joy - The Choice is Yours !

To Desire, is to seek supreme soulful satisfaction in our imperfect senses when there is none, mortals like us cannot be permanently pacified by transiently gratifying sensual pursuits & resultant pleasures; but only by the spiritual awareness of what lies subtly inside each of us, when what we seek is only a lasting joyful union with Loveternal !

To Fear, is to be insecure & suspicious of the designs of the Careful Creator, the Unknown, our Source and thus to imprison ourself away from the unchosen but abundant flow of energetic freedom around-inside us, not to realise that we are ultimately destined for an inseparable unity with and the resultant immortality that our Source is.

The fears of limitedness, loneliness, likes-dislikes, unknown - render the limited insecure mind fearful, thus pressurising and constricting its flow of thoughts into seeking more, desiring more, craving for more asap in a realm of transient physicality thus sadly propagating the vicious pattern of pursuits, entrapments and pursuits; is it necessary to struggle ?

The desires born out of panic, out of fear of loneliness, fear of limitedness, fear of likes-dislikes, fear of incompleteness, soon entrap the desirer into seeking the limited due to the limitedness of his generated tiny thoughts; when we are to receive unlimited being born to the abundant unbiased unlimitedness. 

Ironically, in present times the prevalent intense, insecure, fearful desiring patterns buttressed with feeling armed with an illusionary freedom to choose, we inadvertently but painfully and very securely chain our own self with our limited desires, then blame everyone else except our selfishness for the state that we land ourselves into. The self centric beings that we have proudly evolved into, is the reason for the unhappiness that we feel, the emptiness that we palpate, the loneliness in our thoughts and none else. 

To Realise this basic principle of existence, is to feel Life as an effortless endless energy, encompassing eternity...A Lifeternal...!