The need of the time for Indians in India is attitudinal change. Today India has developed and competing in the global race. Every innovation, trends and lifestyles emerging in USA reach India within seconds. We have changed a lot to cope with modernity. Our dress, food, language, culture everything is changed. But what about our attitudes? Religious and cast discrimination, behaviors, rushing and restless nature, selfishness and many biased attitudes have never changed. We never use dustbins and make the surroundings polluted. We never respect the queue system. Even in temples we bribe. Laziness, short cuts, ignoring traffic rules and fighting in common places, treating women as secondary citizens….so many attitudes are to be changed. This generation has become a bad example for the next generation. We always believe that science will save us. What a wrong idea? It is true that only righteousness will save us. Let us take a new turn to develop a constructive and positive attitude. We plant trees but we forget to water them. Let us spread the awareness of attitudinal change from today. 

Today I came across an article while I was reading the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and culture published by the University of Florida. The title of the article is “The journey of the Universe: An integration of Science and Humanities”. The author Mary Evelyn Tucker writes: “Cosmology has ancient roots embedded in certain aspects of the world philosophies and religions. Thus science along with philosophy and religion help us to recognize ourselves as participating in a larger integrated whole. Humans are the microcosm of the macrocosm-they are the mind and heart of the vast, evolving universe.”

Vedas say “annor aniyan mahatho mahiyan” meaning Ishvara is the one emerging as an atom as well as the Universe.

If we realize Aham as brahman that’s everything.

Westerners have started their journey towards the truth of Vedas.

Some people are reporting that they are not able to communicate with me easily through mobile phone. One reason is poor signals at ashram.

Another reason is busy schedules. The best way is to connect with me through meditation.

Always a guru has 16 kala or  the mind links. All the 15 kala will be engaged to attend someone in front. But the 16 th kala will answer your call even with out me knowing that. Your problem will be solved.

How to connect yourself with the 16th kala?

Visualize the guru and just concentrate at guru mandala with mirgi mudra and chant “Om Im Gurubhyo namaha”

 Try this mind connection.

My mission in this birth is to bring peace and prosperity through motherly love and compassion with the wisdom of Sri Vidya, the non-dual and yogic philosophy in this world.

Love all…. serve all…..

The power of silence

When you chant Om continuously you will find a silence part between two Oms. Concentrate on that silent part. Your silent meditation begins and stops chanting and is in silence.

During sleep our physical body heals itself. Like that silence is a conscious sleep. You awareness lights up a new brilliant flame within you in silence.

At the first level we stop talking. Thats called vak mounam. But we will speak in mind. Stopping that inner self conversation is very difficult. Once we stop that also then it is called mano mounam. What great saints like Swami Ramakrishna and  Vivekananda practiced was Maha mounam – the silence of the soul. It may not be possible for all.

But try to stop the inner conversation for at least an hour. Then that will solve all conflicts of the self and begin a new experience in life.

 You know while doing the proofreading we used to miss the spelling mistakes. Like that we commit lot of mistakes unknowingly which may hurt others and in turn they may return negativities. The power of silence removes all such mistakes. Silence takes us to the core of living.

When we learn an art or vidya we must face five kinds of obstacles. They are desire, ego, anger, worry and doubt. Desire dries up patience. Ego never allows us to learn. Anger makes us forget all we learn. Worry wastes our time. Doubt leads to confusion. All these five negatives form maya – illusion.

Then we start believing that we know everything.  What is the solution to remove these five devalues and to reach heights of learning. Yes, it is the Gayatri mantra that can remove illusion. Chant at least 24 Gayatri mantra 3 times a day and see the change in life. I recommended 24000 Gayatri sadhana to a person who was suspended from Govt service due to a false allegation on him. After the sadhana he was re-appointed and came out of his crisis. Gayatri is a problem-solving mantra.

Power of words

Everything begins with a word and ends with a word. Word is everything. But no one minds this. We use words ignorantly and innocently. Most of the time we speak words without a meaning or intention. But it may react to people and bring positive or negative results. Words have the power of fire, more than fire. Thats why if it hurts, it never gets healed. Plan every word before delivering. By way of studying one’s word, we can tell about his or her health status and life experiences.

The past cannot be rectified. But use the present which is a real present given by the universe to develop a beautiful future. Utter only positive and sweat words. Do not hurt anyone by words. Words thrown in the cosmos live forever and yields results.

Repeating mantras purifies our past sins and creates a great vibration around us. Always chant the sacred beejas louder and purify the space where you live. Chant silently and make the inner space pure.

Create a new future with the power of words.

Sakta advaita is the basis of Sri Vidya sadhana which was not much emphasized due to the domination of other traditions. Unless we understand the philosophical part sadhana can’t be achieved.

Generally, people think about how to make use of friendship and relationship. but one must think how to help friends and relatives.

After the introduction of MLM in India people believe that the network is to sell some products. This attitude spoils the relationship soon. We should be open and frank and be ready to render service and at the same time do not yield yourself to others for the sake of relationship. The best way to be happy is to cut of your unwanted relationship which always make you hurt. Smile please but do not let others think that you are ready to be deceived.

The phrase “collective consciousness” has various interpretations based on psychological and sociological perspectives. Here we mention this phrase in the context of a group or global thought as a whole. It is constructed by ideas, experiences and information. For example, after the tsunami tragedy everyone is afraid of this term. Some people who want money and power create disturbance in the collective conscious by way of spreading rumors and fearful thoughts. I can say it is thought violence. We are unknowingly forwarding such posts and trigger the spread. So, it is better to verify the messages before forwarding. And in another angle it is better to avoid spreading horror messages as it will not heal the issue but increase the stress in an irrelevant zone. It will make the messenger also weaker.

Lots of positive things are available. We must try to spread the messages of life, peace and global harmony. Now it is our duty to chant peace mantras for the sake of global unity and harmony and to make the collective consciousness stronger.

It is all about how you take things. Do you take something serious which is not serious? Then life becomes difficult.

Learn the art of forgiving, life will become beautiful.

Once when I was travelling in a taxi at Kolkata the car was hit by another vehicle. Immediately both the drivers jumped out. There was heavy traffic. I expected a grand and long fighting scene. But to my surprise, the drivers checked their amount of damage. By god’s grace it was not heavy. Both returned to their seats smiling and started driving the car. After a moment of silence, I asked the driver why he simply left the other man who caused a damage to his vehicle. He said that it was not fight worthy. What else we will get through a simple fight other than traffic jams and delays for most important journeys? Only we will get a lot of curses from other travelers. The driver told me that he had simply forgiven the other man.

To my great astonishment, I learnt a lesson from that Sikh man with turban, beard and heavy body. Real courage is not fighting. But we need more strength to forgive.

Life is also a journey. If something happens like the above narration let us try to forgive the opponent who has no bad intention.

Redoing things improve the quality of your work or presentation. You know why your mother’s cooking is very tasty? Because she had been doing this for quite a long time. In the same way try to re do the things. What you have dropped as failures are not final. Repeated attempts lead to heavy practice and results in success one day. Always we see someone successful, and we try to do things as they do. But we do not understand the time and efforts invested by them behind the success.

Before starting the day sit in a calm place and plan for the whole day. Do the things in mind and visualize the successful outcome. Then it will not materialize, it means that your mind power is not enough. Again, plan it, visualize it and do it again. I am sure this time you will post me happy news. So do not leave your attempts without success. Do it again.

Recently we visited a family at Coimbatore. The head of the family, Mr….aged fifty received us. We were sitting in the hall waiting for the priest to organize the homa. Mr. Called his wife ” bring some water”. Wife fetched a glass of water for him. He was comfortably sitting and took the water. After some time, he called his son to search the newspaper.

Son gave him the paper. Immediately he called his wife to bring his spectacles from the bedroom. The priest asked for something. Again, he called his wife. I thought he is sick. That’s why always he depends on someone for his needs. When enquired I understood that he is perfectly all right.

The problem is this: he has no idea of self-reliance.  Self-help and self-reliance are the essential virtues. Everyone should learn and practice those human values, and we must make our children exercise the habit of self-reliance. Do not call anyone to help you always. Try to finish all your duties by yourself. It is good for a healthy life. And more over people will not run away from you fearing that you may order some petty work on them.

Listening is a natural ability. We learn how to speak from our childhood. But we never learn how to listen. True listening needs attention, alertness and concentration. It is true that deep listening gives us good understanding and a strong memory. Students can use listening for their great success. Everyone should practice listening for their success in their career. If a doctor does not listen to patients’ problems, he may not be able to treat them properly. If an advocate avoids listening to his client’s grievances, then he cannot judge the truth. Why that much, if a mother does not listen to the cry of the baby she will not feed.

For a true listener patience is a gift. A listener will have super creativity…

Making someone happy is a wonderful experience in life if possible. When I decided to make someone happy, I thought it was a simple task. But it is a difficult thing. We do not know what will make a person happy. So, I decided to take a random survey. The person whom I met first told me that nothing else can make him happy other than money. When I asked how much he quoted a figure which is beyond my reach. The second one said he needs his father back……who died four months back…. without settling his debts. I left him unnoticed and went to the third person and asked his requirement. He asked for his love, and I asked where she is now. He said she has got married already. I was too tired in this job of making others happy.

Next week my friend met and asked me why I was sad. I told him my experience. Immediately he said ” my dear friend. First, you make yourself happy and do you know for sure what will make you happy?” I was not able to answer him immediately. All the sorrow or happiness what we experience is a relative reality. Later I understood that absolute happiness never comes from outside but comes from the inner self. The true nature of man is happiness only. Then I found I am always happy but sometimes it is enveloped by some unwanted things. If such things are removed, I will find the true myself full of bliss and happiness.

Remove the things that are hiding your true happiness. You will find a smiling cute yourself with in you.

All these years I have learnt how to simply walkway from uncomfortable situations without stress. People always change. We are not sure when they will welcome us or when they will ignore us. But I am in the same attitude of kindness always. This is a blessed life to me. Why should I change? I bless and wish only good for people with unconditional love. Never mind if they praise me or not. Sometimes people depart from me suddenly if I am not giving them an appointment to meet me immediately as they required forgetting all the lifesaving blessings what they received in the past. What can I say is nothing but their innocence. I will be there at their service whenever they think of me without any bias.

ॐ असतो मा सद्गमय ।

तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय ।

मृत्योर्मा अमृतं गमय ।

ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥

Om Asato Maa Sad-Gamaya |

Tamaso Maa Jyotir-Gamaya |

Mrtyor-Maa Amrtam Gamaya |

Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih ||

Meaning:

1: Om, (O Lord) Keep me not in the Unreality (of the bondage of the Phenomenal World), but lead me towards the Reality (of the Eternal Self),

2: (O Lord) Keep me not in the Darkness (of Ignorance), but lead me towards the Light (of Spiritual Knowledge),

3: (O Lord) Keep me not in the (Fear of) Death (due to the bondage of the Mortal World), but lead me towards the Immortality (gained by the Knowledge of the Immortal Self beyond Death),

4: Om, (May there be) Peace, Peace, Peace (at the the three levels – Adidaivika, Adibhautika and Adhyatmika).

Perseverance is the important human value for reaching the peaks of success. The Oxford dictionary states that perseverance means “steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.”. Some people who report their failures should learn perseverance. If you give up when you try to enter into an ocean with a boat, you will be thrown back to the shore. But continuous struggles will take you to sail in the silent inner ocean soon.

All struggles are at the beginning only to make you withdraw. I will loudly declare that a great success is hidden behind your fear. Crack down on the fear you will see the dawn of real success immediately.

Inquisitiveness is inquiry, research, or asking questions; eager for knowledge; intellectually curious. This nature of inquisitiveness is the basic requirement to build our balance in our knowledge bank. We always look into matters in the surface level, and we lose many beautiful opportunities as the seeker of water drilling the ground and stop just one foot above the water level.

The following are the prerequisites for knowledge building. Data collection, organization, editing, analysis and decision making. In this analysis is the major part and unless we don’t possess the quality of inquisitiveness we may waste our time and we claim that the reason for our failure is fate.

Every detail is essential for making our life complete. Lack of knowledge is the basic reason for violence. Knowledge leads to peace and nonviolence. Search of knowledge needs inquisitiveness.

Inner harmony is an essential state of mind for wellbeing. What is inner harmony and how to attain the same? Inner harmony is nothing but an equal state between our intelligence and mind. Intelligence needs reasoning. Mind is feeling for any reason or even for no reason. Always there is a nonstop conversation between mind and intelligence. When we try to buy something during a weekend shopping the intelligence will wake up and ask whether that is essential or not. Then considering the inner voice we would drop the purchase. Sometimes when the intelligence make a good reasoning the mind will dominate and overcome the intelligence. The story of success begins with the balancing of those two which leads to inner harmony. Agna chakra is the center in between eyebrows for attaining inner harmony. Just take a deep breath and close your eyes. Concentrate at eyebrow chakra for five minutes. Chant ” Om Shum Om”. Visualize the two plates of a weighing scale moving up and down and finally rest in balance. Relax and the day is yours…

Making something different is another tool for success. Always man needs new things. The word NEW is an attractive one to all. If you are speaking the same old story again and again your friend will try to quit from your circle. Some people artificially say new, but they bring the same thing in a new wrapper. It is not worth it. It is something like the Life boy soap which is advertised as new life boy always. But any body work creative they can role this world into a new horizon. It is noteworthy. They are the trend setters. Who can eradicate jeans or noodles from the habit of the young world? Why can’t we become trend setters? Yes, it is possible. Think and create a new idea or a worthy different thing which will be a trend setter. It may be an invention or a novel thing. The only requirement is a fresh creative mind.

Slowly the family system is diminishing. Once in India there was joint family system and still now there is a legal act called Hindu undivided family act. But later joint families divided themselves into micro families. The brothers started leading their individual families. Recently parents and sons or daughters living as separate families also came across a case in which husband and wife are now running two families.  they meet. Where are we going? Family is the strength of human society. Now we are giving our voices to uniting nations. But we are divided and fragmented without families. When we inquire into this issue, we find ego and desire are the major devalues which break the family into pieces. How to develop family harmony and lead a committed life? How to remove ego clashes among the family members? How to manage the controversies with the elders? How to tackle the generation gap?   These are the questions to be answered urgently. Unconditional motherly love is the only glue that can unite broken families. It is very much ironical that we have broken links with our relatives, but we have so many linked ins in our social media networks.

Preparation is the value we learn from ants. They prepare themselves for the rainy season very long before. But we never prepare ourselves for the future. All seasons are not the same. Like that all days are also not the same. When good times are running, we do wonders and achieve many things and we declare all those successes are only because of our hard work and talents. But when we meet with failures, we never accept that it is because of our laziness and carelessness. We claim that it is because of our Saturn who is influencing now our birth chart. But we can also face the influence of Saturn if we prepare ourselves little

earlier. Savings, health care, risk free investments, reducing speed while driving vehicles, giving alms, doing charities, visiting sacred places and holy dips, listening to guru’s lectures and obeying the words of elders are the precautions before the beginning of our bad period.  Let us prepare for our good time also. We always expect something good to happen. But we do not qualify for that. Prepare, learn, practice, test yourself, admire seniors, be polite, maintain good relationship with humility then expect something good to happen.

Ten great tips for success

1. Complete information

2.Passion and work must be the same

3.Net work

4.Quality in service

5.Dedication

6.Transparency

7.Simplicity

8.Time management

9.Financial control

10.Final and most important: spirituality.

The secret of luck is optimism. Most of the lucky people are optimistic and they think positively. Everyone will meet opportunities as well as obstacles. Successful people are those who concentrate more on opportunities. While I crossed a place next to Brook fields on the roadside I used to notice a person who is sitting with number plates. His job is to paint number plates. After some time when my car stopped near him due to the traffic jam I noticed, he was selling helmets. Recently two days back I was moving slowly on the same road; it was raining heavily. Just a flash of thought came to me about that roadside painter. What will he do in this heavy rain?  Suddenly I saw him…. He was not wet because he was holding a beautiful umbrella and was selling many colorful umbrellas. People who ride on two wheelers stop at him and buy his timely product with friendly smile and enjoyment.

We know many people who never turned to their work due to heavy rains.

I no longer believe in pain. I believe in the wellbeing for me and others.” This must be our basic thought for every day. Do not turn to the negative sides. Just ignore and do not give importance to negative ideas and thoughts. Do not share gossip about negative news with others. Just ignore them without even reading or listening. Share wonderful positive and affirmative thoughts with your friends. Delete all negative images from your memory. Create a list of positive images about your success, happiness and achievements and visualize them many repeated times. You are now slowly starting to build a great future of immortality. Go with in… Your success story begins …there are no limitations there…independent…mighty…great…life forever.

Once a woodcutter reported to his doctor, “Now a days I am not able to cut more logs as before. Why doctor? Am I getting old?” The doctor checked everything and found all normal; finally, he asked him a question,” When did you sharpen your axe?”. The wood cutter immediately remembered that he had forgotten to sharpen his axe for the past 6months!

We forget to update our knowledge to maintain our life in this ever-changing world, but we claim we become unfit due to aging.

Aging makes you more knowledgeable and you become a source of knowledge!

In everyday life we meet many situations and end with feelings deep in the heart. Slowly day by day if not attended properly they become harder and settle down permanently. They are hurt, fear, anxiety, sorrow, greed, insultations, revenge etc. We have been taught already that these are negative feelings. So we do not bring it out and share with nobody but try to suppress them inwardly. Soon they erupt as our health issues or we behave differently due to the hidden feelings.

Happy living has a secret of coping up with such feelings. For example, if you sit and worry about a hurt feeling what you will get? Instead of that do Basthrika pranayama for at least12 times and think the negative feelings are drained out. Inhale fresh air and realize this sukha pranayama heals your body, mind and soul.  Then visualize a positive event in the near future. “Om  Bram Breem Browm Swaha” is the best mantra remove negative thoughts and to shower positive energies.

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba’s teachings are based on 5 human values. They are Sathya, Dharma,Shanthi,Prema and Ahimsa. He lives forever in our hearts as mother, father, guru and God as truth- sathya and love- prema- sai.

Once Baba said, ” There is in everyone a spark of truth; no one can live without that spark. There is in everyone a flame of love; life becomes a dark void without it. That spark, that flame is God. He is the source of all truth and love. Man seeks truth. He seeks to know the reality because his very nature is derived from God, who is truth. Man seeks love but God is love and love is God.”

Food and lifestyle are the main reasons for all our ailments today. All are chemically produced, DNA altered vegetables and grains. Preservatives also cause great hazards. What to eat and what not to eat are the questions. Here I am emphasizing the purification of any food. Salt wash is the best technique to remove or neutralize toxins and contaminate any grains or vegetables. At least once a month we should have a saltwater bath or sea bath. Try to procure organic foods. We can also plan for roof gardens. Diet planning according to one’s health condition is also important. For example, if some say drink 6litres of water in a day it may not be suitable for another person. So, plan your diet with expert consultation according to the personalized suggestion.

When I was studying the art of creating lucky charms, I came across a simple and powerful one. I would like to share the technique here.  Following is the depiction of the lucky charm.

Draw this in a 3″ x 3″ card and keep it with you. The presiding energy is the energy of “kleem”. You can write kleem inside the image. The day of installation must be a full moon day. This will give protection, health, wealth and all prosperity.

Do not forget to concentrate and meditate on this lucky charm with prayers. Soon it will start helping you.

Observation is a valuable practice for which we always give less importance. Recent research says human capacity of observation in the modern way of living is only about 6 seconds. Most of the people read just the headlines in the newspapers. In the same way many forward messages without reading it. Because of lack of observational ability, we lose many opportunities in life.  Start learning the art observation. It needs a basic practice of observing breath. Every day before starting your meditation watch your breathing for 5 minutes. Look into every matter deeply. Do not miss even a small piece of information. Notice all and then form a whole idea. Doctors keep the patients in observation to treat them properly. Let us keep our problems in observation to solve them permanently.

Spiritual agriculture is a growing field all over the world. India has the best opening for this as it is a divine land by nature. Spiritual agriculture includes mantra chanting and giving the power of prayers to the cultivation. This reduces the usage of fertilizers and toxic pesticides. Plants grow rich and with divine energy. You can also try this in home gardens. Keep a separate kalas water in the puja room and perform all your pujas. After finishing your regular prayers enhance the power of water in the kalas with more mantras like gayatri. Then wish the water with love and positive energy. Sprinkle the water on a rose plant or any plant in your garden. Observe the growth of the growth and post the message to your friends. In our ashram we do the same with coconut trees and the yield has improved remarkably.

Today people are fighting for human rights. But we never remember about our human responsibility. What is the difference between right and responsibility? Right is a freedom to be assured or protected whereas responsibility is a value to be developed subjectively. Let us examine how fighting for rights can be replaced by responsibility. The subtle truth is that if you do your duty your rights will be assured and protected. But when we develop our fighting nature it leads to loss of peace. Stop fighting and start your duty naturally, right will come to you. When you complete your responsibilities perfectly no one can take over your rights.

One day a devotee asked me in Satsang, “Swamiji, Some people say that God never needs money! So we need not donate money in the temple Hundi,  but directly we should do charity to human beings as they are in need. Is it right?”

My answer was this: Helping human beings is good. But why to stop offerings to God? Offerings are made to God not to satisfy his needs. But they come to you multiplied by many times. Singing suprabatha is not to wake up God but to awaken your inner self. According to shastras every human being has five responsibilities. They are Pitru yagna, rishi yagna,   Nara yagna, Butha yagna and Deva yagna. We should first worship and do offerings to our ancestors and gurus. We should help human beings who are suffering, we must feed animals and birds and finally we should do prayers and offerings to God. If you put money in hundy also it is used for poor feeding or pujas again. God will not accept if you neglect humanity at the same time any charity will turn waste if you neglect God. There are some people who want to criticize religion, and they will ask you to stop offerings to God. Religion is not against charity as religion itself is charity.

A great question to Lord Krishna:

What is the meaning of life?

A beautiful answer to it:

When a person is born, he has breath but no name and when he dies, he has name but no breath …

The space between this breath and name is life!! Our life becomes meaningful when we understand “ I am not this body, mind, sense complex but I am pure consciousness.”

Hesitation is a bad enemy for success. It is a pause before a word or action. Indecisive mind leads to hesitation. Past experiences also force us to hesitate in the present. For example, a person who lost his business ten years back hesitates now to start a new business. It is wrong. I do not ask you to forget the bad experience. But we must learn from our mistakes and start in a new direction. The only thing that we must ever do is move forward What is the alternate? Confidence is the alternative step, when you face hesitation, face it and replace it.