Month: April 2018
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The less the suffering, the lesser is the ego. The more you suffer, the stronger your ego becomes!
According to the Upanishads, as long as you think that life has a purpose and you run behind that purpose, you are an egoistic person. When you realize the beauty of the purposelessness of life, you have dropped your ego. The master is the one who makes you understand the purposelessness of life. Whatever you…
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When you resonate Existence, it will simply keep giving you what you need for that moment, even before you seek it!
When you are not so concerned about your ego getting hurt, you will have the courage to take any jump. All your so-called worry is actually about your ego getting hurt. When you are free from ego, you will act with more freedom and courage. You will be more willing to explore. When you are…
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Drop seriousness, and bring sincerity and sensitivity to life!
All our comparison with other people begins with what we think of ourselves. Jealousy disappears when we understand our uniqueness. We may then create another problem. We may believe ourselves to be so special that we start taking ourselves far too seriously. What is seriousness? Seriousness is nothing but paying undue importance to something, at…
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Once love starts flowing, jealousy and possessiveness and all that simply become non-existent!
Jealousy does not allow you to experience your true nature of love and bliss. It arises out of misunderstanding life and yourself. You misunderstand love to be something outside of you that has to be acquired. Not only that, you think love is a quantity that needs to be shared. That is why you are…
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Meditation technique to overcome jealousy
Jealousy is closely related to many negative emotions like anger, greed, possessiveness and depression. All of these emotions will dissolve when we break this cycle of jealousy. Jealousy cannot be overcome either by escaping from it or hating the object of jealousy. All you need to do is just be fully aware when the feeling…
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If you can look but not be affected by what you see, then you have found the right way!
Actually, jealousy has no solid existence. In that way it is like darkness. Darkness does not have an independent, positive existence. Darkness is not the presence of something. Darkness is just the absence of light. In the same way, jealousy has no independent, solid existence by itself. It is just the absence of knowledge or…
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The only way to really live and enjoy life is to enjoy the very doing itself!
We all function around the three axes of doing, having and being. Doing for having, without enjoying being, is the sole cause of all our misery. Doing never catches up with having! Every time you work hard and fulfill one desire, suddenly that desire loses its pull over you. As enlightened master, Ramana Maharishi, says…
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Existence equips you with the energy to fulfill all that you will need to live a happy and fulfilling life!
Suppose there was a huge ladder and everybody in the world was asked to stand on it in ascending order of success in any field such as beauty or intelligence. You would probably position yourself somewhere in the middle of the ladder. There are many people above you but there are also many people below…
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Meditation Technique to Be a witness
The sure way to handle any emotion including guilt is to be a witness. Just watch it. Hindus call it being a sakshi. Don’t do anything. Anything done under the impact of a negative emotion is bound to be wrong. Later guilt will arise. Just be a watcher, a witness. See it. It is there.…
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From head to heart meditation technique
Sit down and close your eyes. Take slow and deep breaths, just for a few minutes. Along with it, feel that your head is being pressed into your heart, into the chest region. Become totally headless. You have no head now. You are headless. Feel that you are breathing from the heart. Feel that you…
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Meditation Technique to relieve yourself from powerlessness
Re-living is relieving! The best way to relieve yourself of guilt is to re-live it. Sit in a meditative mood. Close your eyes and one by one bring to surface each of your guilts. Re-live the wounds completely. Do not console yourself about the guilt. Open your eyes and write it all down in detail.…