THE THOUGHTS OF LORD KRISHNA

How to control the thoughts which becomes compulsive - I'm Not My Mind

2020-09-30T11:06:00.003+05:30

We are our body, mind and soul. We try to identify ourselves with either one of these or a combination. When you identify yourself with your body you are more interested in this worldly pleasures. You think that you perform all the actions and are interested in the results of it. Identification with your mind causes thought to become compulsive. Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgements and definitions that blocks all true relationship. It comes between you and yourself, between you and your fellow man and woman, between you and nature, between you and God. It is the screen of thought that creates the illusion of separateness, the illusion that there is you and a totally separate "other". Thinking has become a disease. Disease happens when things get out of balance.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly it becomes very destructive. You are not using your mind wrongly- you usually don't use it at all. Actually it used you and this is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The mind has taken you over. So you think you are your body and are very much interested in the actions performed by it and its results. This is wrong. We have already discussed in detail how to detach yourselves from your body. The second one is thinking that we are our mind and creating a flow of thoughts. This is also wrong. Just because you can solve crossword puzzles or you can invent anything, it does not mean you are using your mind. Actually you are not interested. Let me ask you this: Can you be free of your mind whenever you want to? It means you have to switch off your mind for sometime and whenever you want to.

Are you conscious enough to do that? Or you say Oh I forgot it. Now the mind uses you. You are unconsciously identified with it, so you don't even know that you are its slave. You were possessed without knowing it, and so you take the possessing entity to be yourself. The beginning of freedom is the realisation that your are not possessing the entity. - the thinker. Knowing this enables you to observe the entity. Now we are discussing or in the process of how to detach ourselves from the mind.

The first step is to stop thinking or switch the "off" button. The second step is to realise that you are ruled by your mind or the mind uses you. So realise this that your mind uses you and observe it. You actually do not have the habit of observing yourselves. You only observe others. That is because the screen of thought separates you from others. To detach yourself from your mind stop thinking and observe your mind and realise that you are not the possessed entity. The moment you start watching (that you are thinking) or observing, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You start realising that everything arises from beyond the mind. You are awakening.

This is one way of looking inside. Looking inside is not looking inside your body. It is observing the mind and quieting it. Having the awareness that you are watching your thoughts and stopping it. Now the mind becomes still when you continuously do that. This is awakening. How to do that? How to watch the thinker? It means you are watching yourself as the third person. Always watch your thoughts, watch your actions as though somebody is doing it. You can free yourself from your mind. This is the only true liberation. I am not asking you to stop thinking completely. Start listening to the voice in your head as often as you can. Pay particular attention to any repetitive thought patterns in your head perhaps for many years. Always listen to the voice in your head and be there as the witnessing presence.

When you listen to your voice listen to it impartially. Do not judge or condemn what you hear, otherwise you become the voice again and the mind will take over you. The voice is separate and you are only listening to it. Realising this sense of your own presence is not a thought. It arises from beyond the mind. So when you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. As you listen to the thought, you feel a conscience presence - your deeper self - behind or underneath the thought. The thought then loses its power over you and quickly subsides, because you are no longer energising the mind through identification with it. This is the beginning of the end of involuntary and compulsive thinking.

When a thought subsides, you experience a discontinuity in the mental stream - a gap of "no mind". At first the gaps will be short, a few seconds perhaps, but gradually they will become longer. When these gaps occur, you feel certain stillness and peace inside you. This is the beginning of your natural state. So try and understand that we are not our body and mind. Get yourself detached from the body (read the previous blogs) and start observing your thoughts.

Will continue on this

Namasivayam.C

Why Am I Not Satisfied? What To Do?

2020-09-28T20:22:00.000+05:30

Now we are to some extent very clear that what makes this body to perform actions. What is the reason we are either very happy or struggling in this life. What is suggested is we should look more of inside rather than outside because our body through the senses and the sensory organs, we are made to look outside to enjoy the material benefits. Material benefits are ok but we don't get satisfied with how much we have or we don't have. We always crave for more. So to get more satisfied life and peace we should try look inside or in other words we should try to identify ourselves with our soul. This is the beginning.

What is the difference from seeing outside and inside?

Outer world is full of material benefits. When a person always thinks about material benefits he thinks it through his five senses and sensory organs. That is why the preference, likeness, attraction differs from person to person. Because each person's view through their senses differs. So he/she thinks/see the material world through their senses, so develops an attachment towards it., From attachment comes the desire. So first he thinks, then develops an attachment and finally gets desire towards it. This is applicable to everything he sees. Then his mind is disturbed. Now mind begins to wander. He gets attracted and begins the process of possessing it. If he gets it he feels happy but if he does not gets it he gets angry, frustrated. So he keeps on trying. Even when he gets what he wanted he goes for another and another and this process continues. Some of the things he desires comes to him. Most of the things don't come to him.

So if at all you possess something or you don't possess something your mind has to be the same. Don't get too excited or too frustrated. Both the emotion or feelings will create a bond between you and the result due to an action. Anything you felt happy after achieving something will give a good bonding and you get attached which develops a good karma. The opposite gives you a bad karma. So to stop developing a karma whether is good or bad you get detached from the results.. It is always the results that either makes you happy or sad. So if you don't achieve what you desired you become frustrated and your mind starts dominating you. Mind scatters leading you to do lots of destructive actions. Because of your scattered mind your knowledge gets weaker. You become restless, take revenge, become coward, etc. So understand what makes you all this?

So whenever senses and sensory organs join together you get happiness or sorrow, Success or failure, likes or dislikes etc. So there are always two things you may get because of seeing through five senses and sensory organs. This is how it happens. There is no alternative. That is why you have to close your eyes and observe yourself. What is that you really want? Don't think about your future or past. Always be in present. In the present ask yourself, Am I happy? What do I want?

How to be in present? My mind always thinks about past failures and makes me to think about the future. So how to be in present and how to develop it.

Will discuss

Namasivayam.C

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Why do we get attracted to the Outer World? - We desire more for material benefits

2020-09-23T18:23:00.004+05:30

So far we have discussed about three things

What are the three types of Karma?
What are the three types of Guna?
What are the three stages in our life?

Based on the above three factors we may live a happy life or a struggled life. Now when we understand these principles clearly we can always convert our life into more peaceful and tranquil. So the first thing a person should identify is what is his dominant character (Guna) and then he must try to convert that guna into Satva guna. Only with Satva guna a person can achieve more happiness in his life. The rajasa guna will always create an attachment to the karma or the action done which will attract a person more to the materialistic benefit where no one gets satisfied and his/her demands increases. The Tamasa Guna makes you to do irrelevant things which is not very important in life and leads to laziness and sleep.

A person's action or activities is based on the above three characteristics (Gunas). This characteristic will work on further with the five elements, which in turn attracts the five senses with the external and active senses. Now whatever has been seen or felt or manifested by these senses will be accepted by your mind, and makes your knowledge to accept it and due to this you will develop pride and this will make you to think that you are your body.

So based on the above discussion we are more interested to look outside. We get attracted to the outer world because we identify ourselves with our body. Why are we designed to look outwards. That is based on Karma. So when a person is always looking outwards, he gets attracted towards the material world. He gets more attracted and he commits lots of mistakes because he is not satisfied and his demand is always more.

On the contrary look inside the body and its functions. The heart, lungs, liver, brain, kidney etc. does not get your permission to function. It works on it's own. So the beautiful and vital organs are created by God inside the body. When any one of these parts fail to function you are collapsed. So to get peace and happiness you should always look inside and not outside. Your soul is situated inside the body. All vital organs that makes us to live are situated inside the body. But we don't look inside. Why?

The decision to look inward or outward is not made by us. It is decided by the following concept..

Parkruthi along with three types of Gunas (Characteristics)
Five Senses - Eyes, Ears, Nose, Mouth, Skin
Five External Senses - Light, Sound, Smell, Taste, Touch
Five Active Senses - Speech, Hands, Legs, Genitals, Butt
Five Elements - Fire, Water, Earth, Sky, Wind
Mind, Knowledge, Pride

So Prakruthi along with three gunas will manifest the outer world with the above 23 elements. This is how our body performs an action (Karma) whether it is good or bad based on our dominant character.

Now what is Prakruthi?

Prakruthi - The Material Nature:

This is also called Maya or Illusion. We will be surrounded by this Maya as soon we are born. Once Maya or Illusion surrounds us you will forget everything what happened before our birth including the days when we were in our mother's womb. Material nature is the separated energy of the Supreme Lord. Material nature is not independent. She is acting under the directions of the Supreme Lord. Material nature or Prakruti is female and she is controlled by the Lord just as the activities of a wife are controlled by the husband. Prakruti is always subordinate, prevailed by the Lord, who is the predominator. Prakruti is always under control of the Supreme Lord, whether inferior or superior. The Superior energy – living entities and Inferior energy – Material nature are both predominated, controlled by the Supreme Lord.

We should be free from modes of passion, goodness and ignorance

Material nature is constituted by three qualities:

the mode of goodness,
the mode of passion
the mode of ignorance.

The manifestation of prakruti may be temporary, but it is not false. The material manifestation takes place at a certain interval, stays for a while and then disappears. This cycle is working eternally. Therefore, prakruti is eternal; it is not false.

Hope you understand the above theory very clearly. Keep thinking on this until we meet.

Namasivayam.C

The Three Types Of Gunas {character) - Which one is yours?

2020-09-20T23:12:00.001+05:30

So in the last blog we ended with if we can change this course of life of continuous struggling by requesting to God. We have actually accepted to live this kind of life with God before our birth, based on our average karma of our previous seven births. So now we feel that we have taken too much heat in this life. Ok what could be the solution. Do God nullifies some of your bad karmas so that your sufferings are also decreased.

The answer is YES. Bhagavadgita gives you the explanation for this.

Please read the previous blogs to understand better as this is a sequence blog.

Before we address the solution we will explain in this blog, the 3 types of Gunas (characters). In the previous blog we have discussed about how this body performs an action. It is not we, who performs the action. An action is performed by Prakruthi (material world), according to the guna {character) a person has along with 23 concepts.

So we will discuss in detail about the Gunas. Gunas are of three types. They are

1. Satva Guna

2. Rajasa Guna

3. Tamasa Guna

The above gunas binds the soul within the body. These three gunas creates the interest in materialistic pleasures, selfish thoughts, attraction, physical pleasures in mankind etc

What is Satva guna?

Satva Guna is pure, which gives light and cannot be destroyed. As it is pure in nature, it looks very brightened and cannot be destroyed. A person who has satva guna will find peace and tranquility in body and mind. His body brightens and glows based on this guna. Disturbance and sorrows leaves from this person. He is able to meditate on the Lotus feet of the Lord. His mind wandering becomes less. His mental disturbances decreases. Sorrow and laziness decreases and he increase his enlightenment. It binds the soul (Athma) by the connection it has on happiness and wisdom.

Satvaguna also ties the humans with karma bandha on happiness and wisdom (gnana). If you feel that because of this Guna I am very peaceful or I am leading a happy life you get controlled by the action you do based on these guna. On the contrary if you feel that you have gained wisdom in life based on this guna again it leads to karmabandha. It creates an affinity in life. But these are on positive sides. But still Lord Krishna says you should detach yourself from the benefits of the actions done.

With this guna you can request God to lessen your sufferings. God may nullify some of your bad karmas.

What is Rajasa Guna

Rajasa guna is based on desire. It is created by cheap desires (asai), bond (attachment), and selfish thoughts (mamakaram). It binds the soul with karma and the results of the Karma. So anyone who has this character will definitely be attached with the results of the Karma whether it is good or bad. Then these type of persons will be able meditate, think about God, attain salvation because he is fully engorsed in the benefits of wordly pleasures. This rajasa guna is developed in mankind based on his/her attachment to desire, attachment etc. Rajasa guna is the seed. Desire & attachment are the tree. So both are inter related. So basically any person who is more inclined to desire, attachment and selfish thoughts will be more of Rajasa guna. This creates a bond with the actions of the karma performed which leads to birth and death cycle.

That means you cannot request God to change your present state of suffering. God will not nullify your bad karmas. Digest on this

What is Tamasa Guna?

This guna is developed by persons who believe that they are the body. It develops for the persons who has no wisdom. This binds the soul by laziness, sleep and by performing non result actions. It decreases the wisdom or knowledge in one's body and mind. It attracts the persons who has more attachment to body. So children with these type of guna will not study well and be more lazy and will be sleeping most of the times. They may also be doing the unimportant things. So it is not the fault of the child, it is the guna or character which is developing these type of attitudes. Even grown up people may not be interested in doing any work. They feel lazy most of the times.

That means you cannot request God to change your present state of suffering. God will not nullify your bad karmas. This will also lead to life cycle of birth and death.

Satva guna will lead to happiness and wisdom (gnana)

Rajasa guna will lead you to perform the action which will create karma bandham

Tamasa guna will make you to do non result action which will create laziness and non interest in anything.

So we have discussed in detail about the three gunas a person may have. A person may have any of the above gunas or the mixture of the above gunas. Now try to identify what type of guna you have.

We are discussing about how we can detach ourselves from our body. We have also discussed how this body performs an action. The first thing is, the body performs the action through Prakruthi (material world, the memories hidden in our sub conscious mind from our previous births.

Prakruthi performs this function in association with the three types of Gunas. So what memories you have brought forward from your previous birth and based on this what guna you have developed in this birth. And these are again associated with the three types of Karma which we have already discussed in our previous blog.

Think about it.

Will meet soon

Namasivayam.C

Enough Is Enough. What Next?

2020-07-28T14:00:00.003+05:30

In our previous blogs we have seen how karma, whether it is good or bad affects our life and decides how we lead our life in this birth. Whoever has read the previous blogs, would have now realised why we are suffering in this birth due to health or wealth or in relationships. This is the first step of realisation in life. So one has to fully understand and accept this as a fact. The average karma good or bad from the previous any seven births are calculated and given to us by God to carry on in this life birth. We have accepted to carry on this karma with us, both good or bad, before our God to live this life. But now feel what we have accepted with God is plenty. If it is good karma, what we are enjoying in this birth and living happily means, then we have no issues. But if we are enjoying the bad karma and struggling in life we, are not able to bear it.

How to lessen this burden? Can we get some relief? Is there a solution? Ok before that we should also understand why do we suffer? In our previous blogs we have written about how this body is made and how we should detach ourselves from this body. If we are not our body then who we are?. First thing what we should understand is that we are not our bodies. We are our souls (Atman). Try getting connected to your souls. We happen to think that we are our body because we perform the actions with the help of our body. For eg: We walk with our legs, We eat with our hands and mouth, we talk with our tongue, so any action we perform we do it with our body and its parts. So we think that we are recognised by our bodies.

Now there is a question. If we are not our body then who performs the actions? Ok now think who performs the internal functions of our body? How does our heart beat? How does our liver, pancreas, kidney etc function? Are we performing it. Do we have any responsibilities on any of these internal functions? Then how does it function? Similarly our external actions like sleeping, running, walking, eating etc are not performed by us. Think of people who are not able to sleep without sleeping pills, people who are not able to walk, who are not able to speak, who are not able to see? So none of these are performed by you. You are just watching the action, pain, joy etc as a soul.

First get this thought into your mind, soak it and think about it. Think of a situation where you were not able to perform an action but still you wanted to do. For eg; you wanted to eat more but you were not able to do, you wanted to go for a morning walk but you over slept. This may happen to everybody or anybody. In this blog I am just giving you a situation to understand and realise who we are and why we have born on this earth. Please understand this concept well. We will go slowly on this and after understanding this basic concept I will connect you with Bhagavadgita for a solution on how to get rid of our sufferings.

Please believe we have a solution

Will meet soon

Namasivayam.C

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Three Types Of Karma - The Good, Bad, Ugly

2020-07-04T14:08:00.003+05:30

In the last blog we have concluded with a question.

What are the three types of karma we have brought with us when we were born? Let us discuss that in detail now.

This blog is a series of articles discussing about life principles. So read from the first blog and come back here for a better understanding

These are the three types of Karma

Sanchitha Karma
Praraptha Karma
Agaamya Karma

Let us see what it is:

Sanchita Karma: These are all the good and the bad karma executed by oneself during our previous births

Praraptha Karma:

This is the average karma based on the previous births to be lived in this birth. As discussed in the earlier blog a random of seven previous births, good and bad karma is taken and an average is calculated to carry forward in this present birth.

Agaamya Karma: The karma performed in this birth. This karma will have no effect with the current living.

These are the karma which forms the basis for the current living. So this is the root cause of all our problems we face in this life. Ok now you know the root cause of all your problems. Can you change it?

No. Because we have agreed to clear these bad and good karma in this birth with God. So this is one of the main purpose we have born into this world. This is the higher purpose which we have agreed which cannot be taken back.

So I have answered the two questions which we have raised in our previous blogs.

What is the root cause of our problems in our life?
What is the purpose of our life?

Ok now what is the solution? We will address that later. Before that we will try and understand

What is Karma?
How is this Karma developed which is deciding our life?

You should have heard about, We are what, What we think?

Karma is simply an action performed by us. Eg: Sleeping, Walking, Sitting, Talking etc are basic karma. Apart from that, any job we do like business, career for a living is also Karma. Any actions resulting out of Love, affection, anger, lust, resentment etc is also a Karma. Based on the Karma we do it is termed as good or bad karma.So whatever Karma we do in this birth will not be counted for this birth. In real life examples we can see that a very good person by heart and his deeds may suffer a lot in this birth and a very cruel person who does all wrong things may live a very happy life.

So we should not get confused with this because the good person is suffering not because he is good in this birth and his actions are good in this birth (Agaamya Karma). He is suffering because of his past bad karma (Praraptha Karma). He is very kind and good in this life because he has realised the effect of bad karma. That is the lesson or gnana he has received. So even though he is suffering, he will try to be good and live a good life.

On the contrary the bad person is called like that because of his bad deeds and actions in this birth (Agaamya Karma). But he is living a peaceful life in this birth because of his good and noble actions in his previous births (Praraptha Karma). Now you know what a Karma is and how it affects your life. This is the basic thing we should understand. we can move to the next step only after accepting this. Now to answer your second question.

Karma is developed through thoughts, words and actions.

Thoughts - Any thought good or bad will lead to good or bad karma. The karma developed by thoughts, if it is good or bad, has to be enjoyed by thoughts only. For example if you think good thoughts like we should help others, we should take care of our parents, etc these thoughts will develop a good karma. If we think of bad thoughts like, taking revenge of others, thinking of bad things happening to others will develop a bad Karma. Theses thought process develops a karma (good or bad), and has to be enjoyed by the thoughts. So in this birth if you have always negative thoughts that means in your previous births you mostly had bad thoughts. If you have positive thoughts in this birth that means in your previous births you were very positive by thought. This is basic

Words - Similarly you speak kindly, affectionately to others based on your good karma developed by words in your previous births. Anger, resentment, hatred develops because of our words due to bad karma we have developed from our previous births. Karma resulting out of words or speech has to be enjoyed only by words or speech.

Action: Based on the thoughts we have and how we speak, we perform an action which again results in karma. If our thoughts and words are good, we may end up in an action like helping the needy, doing good social works, charity etc. Otherwise we do bad actions like blackmailing others, taking revenge, murdering, etc. Karma resulting out of action has to be enjoyed only by action. For example if we hit others or cause any harm to others we will get the same harm to our body in this birth or we may develop health problems which leads to severe pain in our body. Karma is a boomerang whether it is good or bad. You will always get a reaction for the actions you have done.

These thoughts, words and action which is a result of good or bad karma from our previous births forms the inherent characteristics of a person. From this inherent characteristics, attitude is developed. So your life is formed based on your inherent characters and developed attitude based on your karma of your previous births, which you have accepted with God to live and clear these karma in this birth. So we lead a happy life or a struggling life based on the good or bad Karma we have performed during our previous births.

So you cannot change this. This is our main purpose of life. Ok now what is the solution. Can we do anything on this? Now I realise that I am facing too much of hardships. Can I ask God to change some of these bad karma which I have done earlier to change the course of my life. What is God's answer for this.

We will continue in our next blog.

Namasivayam.C

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Why Life birth happens? What are the 3 stages of Life? - In which stage are you now?

2020-06-30T14:51:00.004+05:30

The last blog was completed with the following two questions

How we can detach ourselves from the body?
What is the purpose of our life?

Sometimes during our course of life we used to ask ourselves what is the purpose of our life? Why we are born? Because we get stuck in life at some point. We don't find any solutions and we meet a dead end. Why these things happens to us? How we look at life? Or what do you think life is?

We are born. Till some period our parents take care of us. We go to school, college and educate ourselves to face this world alone. We are more influenced by our parents, teachers, friends and relatives. We are also influenced by the place we live in, the surroundings and the people. So based on these we get lot of information and sow all these thoughts as limiting beliefs and we develop an attitude within ourselves and look at the world as we are.

So none of these are controlled by you. It happens as a flow and you are just flowing with the sequence.At young age we are taught that we should study well get high ranks take a high profile job and start earning money till we exist. Parents, Teachers, Friends all of them advice on the same line and we try our best to meet these standards in life. How far we are successful in this young age. Life will be smooth if we study well, getting higher proficiency in studies, Join the best college for the best professional course, get placed in a reputed company with higher salary and a satisfied job. This life phase is the first phase from birth to 24 years of age. If your successful in the first phase, well move on to the second phase. But if we fail in the first phase what happens? Some don't get a good education, not good at studies, Somehow got a degree but no job. Fine Still move on to the second phase.

The second phase is from 24 to 60 years of age. At this phase most of us are either employed or unemployed, get married, have children and earn as much as you can, buy a home, buy lot of materials, get your children married, and get settled in life. OK how many of us are happy at this stage or having troubles at this stage. The third phase is from 60 years till death. Retired life. So life has 3 stages to pass on. The first phase will go smoothly whether we are successful or not. Because whatever happens we will be taken care by our parents. The problem starts only from the second phase. Most of us will not have problems and struggling in all the phases. We will be extremely happy at one phase. Balanced life at one phase and struggling at one phase.

We don't worry much when we are extremely happy and things are moving forward. Getting stuck in life happens only when we struggle very much. When we are fighting it alone without no support. Now why this happens. It all has happened or will happen because of the actions we have performed in our previous life cycle. Nothing good or bad happens based on the deeds and actions we have performed in this birth. We don't know how many births we have taken earlier. What are the karma or the actions performed in the previous births are taken into account. Also karma done by human births are only taken into account. No animals, plants and other living elements except human beings are bonded by their actions or Karma in their previous lives.

So how much human births you have taken, (say you could have ten or fifty or hundred or more), an average of seven births are considered to weigh all the good and bad karma or actions done in these previous births. Based on this average weighed karma, your life is designed in this birth. You have accepted to live this life with the supreme power and you have taken this birth. But you will not remember any of these after you have born because maya (illusions) surrounds you. So you go through all these 3 phases of life either happily, or balanced or struggling.

So now you know, why this life what you are living now is existing like this. Just understand this correctly and accept it as it is as a first step. Because it was you who accepted to live this kind of life on this earth with God based on your previous seven lives Karma. Now we know why this life is so happy or miserable. This is the crux of the problem. This is the root cause. So people should realise that the life what they are living is not what they have achieved. If you are very successful in life please don't think that you made your life successful. Also if you are struggling in life it is not you who have brought this to this stage. It is all predetermined and decided on your course of life.

The Karma (the sown thoughts in our sub conscious from the previous births) we bring into this birth are of three types which is designed to live this life. If you read this blog from the first you will understand that this blog is discussing about how to know the root cause of our problems in life and how to do do a correction. For this we should know

Why we have born on this earth?
What is the purpose of our life?
Who do you think you are?
How to get detached from this body and other earthly materials?

So many questions to be answered. Now we have got the answer for the first question. We have understood. Why we have born in this world? Now to answer the second question, we should know some life principles before?

Now what are the three types of Karma we have brought with us while we were born?

We will discuss that in the next blog

Namasivayam.C

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How To End The Problems In Our Life

2020-06-19T20:10:00.000+05:30

1. So how we can detach ourselves from our body?

2. What is the purpose of my life?

So the discussions on my last blog lead to the above two questions. Now that discussion started because we were searching for how to end the problems in our life? Problems are of two types. One is natural problem, the other one is created problems. Most of the problems what we face in our life are almost created problems. How these problems are created. It is created by our body. How the body creates problem. We will not talk about the body's inner functions which is very essential for us to live. We will talk about the body's external functions.

Whenever we perform an action by our body like eating, walking, sitting, running, driving etc, we think that we actually do it. Because we always think we are our bodies. If someone asks you, "Who are you?, we normally say, we are our body, mind and soul. But more importance is given to our body. That is the reason we care more about our external body. But the actual truth is we are not our bodies. And any action like mentioned above is not done by us. Then how are these actions performed by the body. A physical body as such is inert. It cannot perform any actions. But the body is made of or work under the influence of Prakruthi (World or the various thoughts impregnated in our sub conscious mind under various births)

So the prime reason or the starting point which directs the body to perform is Prakruthi. Now how this Prakruthi functions?. It is influenced by the three Gunas (Character), Satva, Rajasa and Tamasa. (We will explain these three types of characters in a separate blog). So now a person will have either one of these characters or a mixture of these characters. Based on the character he has, his body will perform an action using 23 concepts which is given below

1. Eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin (Five Senses).

2, Light, Sound, Taste, Smell, Touch (External Senses)

3. Speech, Hands, Legs, Genitals, Buttocks (Active Senses)

4. Sky, Earth, Fire, Water, Wind (Five Elements)

5. Mind, Knowledge, proud.

So to summarize we should understand that Prakruthi ( the various thoughts impregnated in our sub conscious mind under various births) influenced by either the three types of characters which was inborn with a person does an action with the 23 concepts. This is how a body performs an action.

So we should understand this concept very clearly to know how our body does an action. So we should not think that we are actually doing it. Now this thought that we are doing an action with our body creates a bond between us and the body. So we start thinking that we are our body and we get ourselves attached to it and to the actions performed by it. Because we get attached to the actions done by our body, we get a reaction from the karma (action). It can be either good or bad. We will live a happy life if we get good Karma or we will lead a miserable life if we get a bad Karma.

So the attachment we have towards our body and the Karma (actions) our body executes, we either suffer or live happily in our life. So to avoid this situation and come out of this worldly pleasures and sufferings we should get detached from our body and the actions performed by it. Because we were strongly believing that we are our body and we perform the actions.

So understand the above concept very clearly and start to believe that you are not your body and you don't perform the actions. So that answers our first question.

Is detaching our self is very easy to be done than said?

Then who are we? What is the purpose of our life? We will discuss the above two questions in our next blog.

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Golden Nuggets on Bhagavadgita

The Root Cause Of Our Problems And The Solutions Part -3

2020-06-18T21:41:00.003+05:30

So in the last blog we were talking about finding some solutions to our problems. Before we get into this we should realize what is the crux of the problem. What is the root cause of the problems we face in our life. I hope everyone will accept that desire is the root cause of all the problems. That is one factor. The other one is we have an attachment to our body. When we shoot a question to anyone like "Who are you?" Most of us will answer that I am my body. So I take my identity through my body. I realise myself as a body, so what happens is any action you do with your body say eating with hands, walking with legs seeing through eyes, hearing through ears will make us to come to a conclusion that we are driven by our body.

So we give more importance to our body and take care of it. So we are so attached to the actions performed by our body and we are very much interested in their end results. What Bhagavadgita suggests is Do your work and don't expect the results. So when we detach ourselves from the result or when we do not think about the benefits we derive due to that action, we will not be bonded due to that Karma (action). when there is no bondage you will not have a reaction based on the actions you have performed. So due to non reaction good or bad karma doesn't affect you. So this is the way you can get relief from the sufferings, disasters you face in your life. But do you realise what it is? So how to get detached ourself from our body. If we are not our body then who we are?

So how many of you have thought on these lines. Just come out of the usual way of thinking and let us try to think out of the box. We are actually our souls. All our souls have taken a physical form on this earth to complete the task in this world. So the next question arises. What is the task we have taken to complete in this world. So how many of you have asked this question? In other words this question is often reframed and asked as "What is the purpose of my life?" So how many of you have got the answer for this?

This argument gives us the answer for why we have so many troubles and hardships in our life.

Two things we should know to get our answers.

We should get detached from our body and treat is as a different element. We are not our bodies. We are our souls who has taken the physical form to complete the task in this world.
What is the purpose of our life? Why we are born into this.

Just think about these two things. Is it really possible to get ourselves detached from our body.

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Thinking Of Liberation From This Material World - Who deserves it

2020-06-01T16:10:00.006+05:30

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Welcome back to my blog. Bhagavatgita gives us life lessons and it teaches us how to come out of this materialistic world and and how we should turn our mind towards mukthi (Liberation). Ok now what is mukthi? And why we should seek it? Throughout Bhagavatgita Lord Krishna explains about the yogas we need to practice to attain mukthi. Mukthi is getting liberated from this worldly pleasures or materialistic benefits and attaining the Lotus feet of Lord Krishna.

We have taken lots of births in this world and continue to do good and bad things based on our previous karmas. Have we ever thought, what is the end to it? Why we are not seeking an end to it. First of all do we ever know why we are having multiple life cycles. Why there is continuous suffering, hardship, misery, poverty etc. There are lots of negative ailments in our life like anger, resentment, revenge, lust, violence etc. Why do we see these kind of negative patterns more in our life?

Everyone wants to live a happy, satisfied and peaceful life. But how many of us try to be what we want to be. Our whole life is based on three important factors. Wealth, Health and relationship. You cannot find a person who is very happy in all the above three. Either he/she will be happy with one or combination of two. Someone may be rich and have enough wealth to buy anything, he may have a good partner and happy in his life, but he may not live a healthy life, He has money to take good medical care, unfortunately medicines won't work based on his body conditions. So even though he is rich, he is not able to live happily.

The other scenario is, he or she is very healthy and has a very understanding partner but very poor. He is running to pillar and post to earn money and whatever he earns is hand to mouth only. Is this person happy. The other one is very rich and stays healthy but no relationship or stained relationship. So one way or the other this materialistic world does not give us full satisfaction. we always go behind what we don't have. So life becomes miserable sometimes. Ok now how to change this situation. Is there any remedy to this.

It is all in the mind. It is the state of mind. It is the belief system that we have developed over the period of years. All those limiting beliefs we have sown inside us. Not only these but there are various other things and patterns which made our lives to the level of what we are now. Do we see some similarity here. Ok now let us try to find some solutions to these problems. How we can come out of these situations.

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Bhagavatgita - How To Understand

2020-05-30T17:09:00.006+05:30

Throughout Bhagavatgita you can see that Lord Krishna has discussed about two types of Yoga. One is Gnanayoga or sangyayoga the other one is Karma yoga or yoganishtai. To attain the lotus feet of God, shastras describes three ways. They are Gnana, Bhakthi and Karma. But Geeta discusses only two ways because Bakthi yoga is mixed with the other two ways.

The narration of Bhagavatgita happens in the battlefield of Kurukshetra between Kauravas and Pandavas.

It is the hesitation of Arjuna to wage a war against Kauravas, made Lord Krishna to advise Arjuna on why he should not get back from the war because he is facing difficulty to kill his own brothers, gurus and close relations.

He says how Karma is very important for Kshatriyas to participate in the war and not to get back. Bhagavatgita is a big Ocean and every time you read or re read you get new ideas and concepts out of it. I am writing this blog just to share what I have understood from the book. I had the privilege to read the book completely once and I was so absorbed by the content the Gita gives us.

There are lot of great things told about Gita in comparison with other holy things and it is described in such a way that always gita out stands the other. For example Gita is superior to River Ganges as Ganges gives mukthi (Salvation) to people who only go to Kasi and take a dip in her. But Gita comes to all the houses and gives mukthi.

Another one is Person who chants the Gayathri only will get mukthi but gita will give mukthi to everyone whether he reads it or hears it. Ok now what is mukthi? (Salvation) and why this is our purpose of life. Let us discuss about this in our next blog.

You can give me your feedback and thoughts in the comments section. Let us make it interactive. I am just sharing my thoughts and views about Bhagavatgita as i have understood. Share your views also so that we can exchange ideas.

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Understanding Bhagavatgita

2020-05-30T17:01:00.002+05:30

Bhagavatgita also known as a manual for humans on the art of living. I was very much interested in reading this book from 2004 when i bought a copy of this book during a train journey from Coimbatore to Chennai. But I was not able to continue the book after reading ten pages. I was not able to follow the book. But recently by December 2019 I was able to read this book and this time with more understanding.

What made me to read this book now with more concentration and devotion. Earlier I did not have a guru to guide me on my purpose of life. But now I have a guru who has clearly showed me what is the purpose of my life. Everybody has to know this. My purpose of my life is to attain the lotus feet of Lord Krishna and end this materialistic life. Is it that easy. And how to do it. Bhagavatgita has the answer for this.

And moreover it is narrated by Lord Krishna himself. After knowing the purpose of my life, it motivated me to read the book with more understanding. I am just going to discuss in this blog about what I understood from the book. I have also made videos on this and uploaded in youtube. You can check the link below to view the video also.

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