How to address real Problems? 5 - By Sri Krishnaji

Isn’t true that there will always be polarity? there will be chaos and order . Is is not the same with violence and peace?

As long as we human species live I am sure we will have all these problems. We are masters at creating problems. Where there is no problem we can create a problem. And as long as we are going to be in unawakened state we can create more problems. Yes, all these principles are true - where there is order there is chaos, where there is peace there will also be violence all that is true. But what we have to understand is that most of it is created by us unnecessarily. So whatever is unnecessary that is what we need to stop.

There are definitely certain things that is totally out of our control. But I am sure wars, I am sure destruction of nature, I am sure racial discrimination I think these are problems definitely we can find solutions to if we can awaken to this enlightened state of consciousness. We of course cannot stop from an asteroid hitting earth I don’t think so that’s possible. If that happens then we have a serious problem. We definitely can’t stop if something happens tomorrow and weather changes for some reason we don’t know. like, or if sun becomes suddenly too hot.

These things are beyond our control. We don’t know whether we can control those things. But definitely there are many many problems that we can address as human beings. The way we can bring up our children, the way we relate to our wife or husband, the way we can relate to our brother or sister, the way we relate to our parents, the way we relate to friends, the way we relate to societies, nations. I think all these, I think we can definitely address.

we don’t need so much of conflict and so much of tension because we basically believe that we are the most superior species in this planet. and that you know we can control anything and everything. But unfortunately we are not able to control ourselves and we are not able to control anything that is happening around us.

Though we tend to believe that we can control everything. And everything seems to be constantly going out of control. And the reason that’s happening is because we do not have an awakened state. So yes, the principles you are saying is true but these can be worked on and we can make sure that there is lesser and lesser chaos and there is more and more order. less and less violence and more and more peace.

For example we all know that we can stay healthy if we stop eating sugar. But none of us want to do that. We want to eat sugar and fall sick. And after falling sick we want to say, now ok I want to stay healthy. Yes, the logic that yes health is there because there is sickness, logic is there but you don’t need to have sickness. you can stay healthy, if you really follow the diet and exercise, meditate, do yoga you can stay healthy you don’t need sickness.

So all these principles are right. There is so much that we as human beings can do. There is so much that we as human beings can change. And that’s possible when we awaken to this powerful state of peace.

Free your heart of violence. Make your home a heaven.

In whichever family the woman is disrespected and violated, in whichever family a girl child is violated that family can never prosper. They will lose their abundance.

Domestic violence during global crisis

Our current global crisis has taken many lives and many businesses.

This is obvious.

What is not visible to the naked eye, is the silent torture, that is going on in families all over the world.

Sadly domestic violence is on the rise in every Nation.

Often times, domestic violence is perpetrated by men. And during this period of lockdown, these men who are prone to violence are not going out for work.

Many of them are addicts of some kind.

Their frustration at being quarantined, and not being able to give in to their addictions, is being shown on innocent children and women.

I would ask every perpetrator of violence to introspect, and to break free of their inner aggression.

This would be the right time to do it.

No human being is born violent. Violence is not the true nature of any human being. It is an aberration that could have set in due to numerous reasons.

The first reason could be, that you have over the years allowed the fire of anger, the fire of suspicion and the fire of jealousy to grow in you, and consume you.

Is this your problem? Please reflect and see the truth. There is no shame in ever seeing the truth. It will transform you.

The second reason could be that you have a deep hunger to be loved, and you don't know how to fill your heart with love. You have somewhere equated love with control and having total authority over the other.

You want to own your partner or your children or daughter-in-law, like you own a piece of furniture.

This is something you must understand—Absolute obedience is never love; it is slavery.

Love is only possible between 2 people who respect each other.

When you hurt a person emotionally and physically, what they feel for you is fear or anger.

Love cannot arise in the heart of someone, in whom you have put fear. It cannot arise if you have insulted them.

If you want to be loved, it is never late, take the time- heal the hearts of people you have hurt.

Please reflect -Are you giving in to violence because you are hungry for love, and don't know how to find it, or, are you ashamed to ask for it with dignity and respect?

I want you to know this secret of consciousness - In whichever family the woman is disrespected and violated, in whichever family a girl child is violated- that family can never prosper. They will lose their abundance. They will not receive the grace of the divine.

If you really want to transform, take this step today.

Sit together with your family. Hold each others hands without shyness.

Ask the divine to bless you and your family, to live with peace and love, and to heal your hearts of all anger and bitterness.

With this prayer in your heart, You may either listen to this chant, or chant along.

You will certainly find the beginning of a great change in your life.

The mantra is Hamsa Sohan Ekam, which at its simplest level means I am in the devine, the divine is in me, we are one.

Later in the day, you may also want to take sometime and apologise to your loved ones, if you have ever been violent with them.

And it becomes important that as a family, you forgive and support anyone in the family who wants to transform, and is making an effort to grow.

Namaste

You are what you Eat - By Sri Preethaji

How to celebrate a joyful Ugadi or Gudi Padwa in times like these?
Look at the universe around you. Everything is cyclical. Everything moves in cycles.

If you looked at the world around you, everything is going through a cyclic movement.- The electrons around the nucleus., The planets around the sun, The galaxy around the center of the universe.

And the universe itself is collapsing and expanding.

Even human life goes through cycles of order and disorder.

Human life itself moves in cycles isn’t it?

Birth and death,

winning and losing,

progress and passivity,

health and ill health.

Everything is a cyclic movement.

No human being ever truly lives, when they try desperately to cling to one and resisting and deny the other side of the cycle. You only live in fear of the other side of the cycle ever happening.

Thrill and zest disappears from life. Sacredness disappears.

Birth and death then become more hospital center’s experiences. In a hospital you are born, in a hospital you will die.

Is this all there is to life?

No. Life is a mystery, an experience where you can’t run from anything.

And that is the essence of Udadi, or Gudi Padwa isn’t it?

It is a reminder to pause and bring attention to the wholeness of life without denying anything or clinging on to anything- , the bitter, the sweet, the sour, the spicy, the bland and the astringent - all tastes of life experiences to be accepted.

It is a celebration of life. And think of it - this would be your first Ugadi or Gudi Padwa at home with your loved ones - alone.

You have run too much in life. The Chinese would call this running “yang”. And nature is now saying “be still“. This the Chinese would call “yin” a movement inward.

Life has now put all of us in the stillness mode. Let us celebrate it.

This still and beautifully quiet time, can make you realize that you don’t need too much in life to be happy. The most important thing is for you have a beautiful inner state.

Once again let us remember, staying home can be a sadhana for your evolution, for your family to grow in love- it is also the most significant seva you are doing to save lives. If we Indians, who are more than 1 billion population can contain this epidemic, we will actually be saving the world.

So stay home and celebrate with each other.

Meditation

Shall we move inward for a few minutes and experience the Divine now?

Sit still.

Please close your eyes.

Feel the divine, who is the Antaryamin in all our hearts in any form or name you choose.

Ask the divine to help you accept and celebrate this stillness and togetherness with your family, even as you will celebrate movement and rush in the future.

You may now listen to the powerful Ekam mantra and chant along with it. The mantra is -Hamsa Soham Ekam, which at its simplest level means, I am in the divine, the divine is in me, we are one.

Whenever you are ready you may open your eyes.

Namaste

Dussehra or Navaratri - By Sri Preethaji

Dussehra or Navarathri is a celebration of the mother goddess. However Krishna ji and I see it also a celebration of the feminine in all of us. Navaratri to us is also the journey of a spiritual seeker towards Enlightenment.

Hinduism is one of the world's oldest religion and its timeless messages are often communicated not in the lengthy explanations, but are coded in symbols, they are coded in images.

Most Indians assume Dussehra is celebrated because Durga killed the demon Mahishaasura in some parallel reality, in Some by-gone time.

But do you want to know the truth?

The truth is that we are the goddess and we are the Asura or the demon.

To me the goddess is not a force outside of us. She is the mother, the feminine, the shakthi, the divine womb in which universes are birthed and dissolved, who can be accessed in our consciousness.

And the demon also is not outside us. It is our own unawakened, ignorant, separate self.

They call Dussehra as Navaratri, meaning 9 nights instead of Nava Dina or 9 days. Do you know why? Close your eyes for a moment. What do you see? You see ratri.

Ratri symbolizes the darkness that happens when you are sitting with your eyes shut in meditation. It is an unfoldment in consciousness.

The first three days of Navaratri is the play of Durga.

Goddess Durga accordingly to the myth wakes up the Yoga Maya of Mahavishnu and kills the demons Madhu and Kaitabha.

On the seekers path the death of these asuras means, the dissolution of the two core suffering states of anger and greed.

In a state of meditative awareness, the seeker summons the power of the mother goddess and goes through a deep powerful spiritual process of dissolving all anger related states of frustration, hate and vengefulness.

The seeker through a process dissolves all the greed related states of jealousy, anxiety and covetousness.

The mother goddess as Durga dispells darkness or dispells thamas from our consciousness. With this first milestone crossed, a spiritual milestone crossed, we have transcended Durgati or the downward collapse of our destinies into a disastrous fate.

When we transcend these states with the blessings of the divine mother, blessings of abundance begins to pour into our lives. That is why the 4th, 5th and 6th days of Navaratri are dedicated to mother goddess as Maha Laxmi.