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Unnimaxx · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 4:24 pm Post subject: Little Things for Life

WORRY AND FEELINGS

The head worries and the heart feels. They cannot function at the same
time.

When your feelings dominate, worry dissolves.

If you worry a lot, your feelings are dead; you are stuck in the head.
Worrying makes your mind and heart inert and dull. Worries are like a rock
in the head. Worry entangles you. Worry puts you in a cage.

When you feel, you do not worry.

Feelings are like flowers, they come up, they blossom and they die. Feelings
rise, they fall and then disappear. When feelings are expressed, you feel
relieved. When you are angry, you express your anger and the next moment you
are all right. Or you are upset, you cry and you get over it.

Feelings last for some short time and then they drop, but worry eats at you
for a longer period of time, and eventually eats you up.

Feelings make you spontaneous. Children feel, so they are spontaneous.
Adults put brakes on their feelings and they start worrying. Worrying about
anything obstructs action while feelings propel action. Worrying about
negative feelings is a blessing because it puts the brakes on those
feelings, preventing you from acting on them. Usually one never worries
about positive feelings. Worries are uncertain. Worrying takes away your
energy; you cannot think clearly when you worry.

Offering your worries is prayer and prayer moves you in feelings.

When you think you are feeling too much then you start worrying about your
feelings. Let's not worry about it and feel our food!

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Unnimaxx · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 5:18 pm Post subject: DEALING WITH BLAME AND ACCUSATION

DEALING WITH BLAME AND ACCUSATION

When someone blames you, you feel a heavy load on your head, and when you talk about it you spread the unpleasant feeling all around you. At this moment wake up and see you are Being and nothing can touch you. This is all just a drama, which you yourself have created. You have gone through this over and over again. All the blames you face in your life are your own creation. Knowing this, you feel free and light.

Owning responsibility for all your experiences in life makes you powerful and will put an end to grumbling, planning counter attacks, explanations, and all those host of negative tendencies. Owning full responsibility you become free.

When someone blames you, directly or indirectly, what do you do?

Do you register it in your mind and get emotionally upset?

Do you dismiss them altogether without taking a lesson from it?

Do you talk about it with people and waste your time and otherÒ³ time and money?

Do you pity yourself and blame your shortcomings?

Do you blame the other person right, left and center?

Do you generalize and eternalize the problem?

Then you are not living up to the knowledge. You need to do the basic course at least half a dozen times and read all the previous knowledge sheets.

Do you laugh at it and not even take notice of it?

Do you treat it as a non-event, not even worth talking about, let alone taking any action?

Do you treat comments and accusations as passing clouds and more of an entertainment?

Do you discourage dwelling on unpleasant and negative moments?

Do you remain non-judgmental and absolutely unshaken in your space of love?

Outwardly you may be calm, but do you also remain centered and calm within you and not even take pride in your growth or wisdom?

Then you are a pride to your tutor - the Master.

Unnimaxx · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 2:41 pm Post subject: * Are You Happy & Peaceful? *

Everytime you are unhappy, miserable or disturbed, you are coming in
touch with your own boundaries.. .and what can you do?
You can feel thankful: "Oh! this is my limitation.I came in touch
with my boundaries." then, the moment, you turn the whole situation
into a prayer:" Let there be peace, not just in me, but in
everybody." Prayer is that moment, when you come in touch with your
limitations.

It is the limitation and the boundary that are the real cause of your
disturbance. You are peaceful, joyful and happy, as long as you
havenot come incontact with your boundaries. The moment you come into
contact with them, the mind starts "Oh! Because that person did this,
this happened this is bad, that shouldn't be; it should be like this
way..." At that moment, what can you do?
Just say, "My Lord, You made me become aware of my boundaries. Now,
you bring peace. You do it. I am giving it all to You." That very
moment, you start smiling; there is such a sigh of relief! However
hopeless the situation may be, you will walk through it, sing through
it, dance through it. This is love.

In hindi, the word love is 'Prem'- written with two and a half
letters. There is a saying:" Who is a real Master, A Pundit, a wise
person? - Not the one, who has studied a lot of scriptures, but the
one who has studied the word with two and a half letters!" This two
and a half lettered word is,'this moment'. It is a test of the
moment. When you get in touch with your limitations, your boundaries,
or the small things that come along, then observe... Are hemmed in by
your boundaries.. . or can you maintain your freedom,your non-
judgemental attitude and innocent love in your heart? Is it
continuing? If it is, and if you can become solid in this, then
nothing in the world can rob you of peace!

Unnimaxx · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 2:42 pm Post subject: SELF CONFIDENCE AND AMBITION

Ambition indicates lack of self-confidence!

When you know you can achieve something easily, you are not ambitious about it. You are simply confident about it. Your ambition indicates challenge and uncertainty, which is contrary to self-confidence. So one you has total self-confidence cannot be ambitious!!

At the same time a person who lacks total self-confidence cannot be ambitious either!!

For ambition to be, one must have a little bit of confidence and total ignorance of the Self.

It is next to impossible to have total confidence without Self-knowledge.
With the knowledge of the Self, there is nothing left to achieve, for the entire nature of existence is mere
play and display of one's own consciousness.

People take pride in being ambitious. The wise man will only smile at them. Ambition can never be for
something you know you can achieve effortlessly. You can only be ambitious about something for which you have to put effort, which poses a challenge and of which you are not even certain you will be able to achieve or not.

Moreover it takes away the joy of the moment.
With the Self-knowledge nothing is challenging to you, nor you need to put any effort. Nature is ready to
fulfill your intention even before they arise, giving you no chance to crave or desire. Nature does not
allow the wise to have a desire (ambition), and the unwise to fulfill or get rid of the desire (ambition).

Do you still want to be ambitious ?? Or is your only ambition is to get rid of ambition !!

Unnimaxx · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:39 pm Post subject:

Conversion make confusion, confusion make coise and coise make
pandemonium and it is a curse of the modern day society that is
being indulged in by any sect. If you think it is ok to denigrate
Hindu gods and prey upon the weak and gullible, then what is wrong
in Pepsi claiming that it is a health drink? Why are their laws
for truth in advertising? Yeah right. Rightfully, there are
laws against conversion by such tactics, and all these pantywalahs
should be arrested and put behind bars. Even if they are the anybody
who silentyly encourages such illegal acts. Sure, arrest the
hooligans who desecrate worshipful places but put them behind bars
who are desecrating the minds of the gullible by telling them
their gods are to be blamed for their condition, and that only
God will make them happy and healthy.

Unnimaxx · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:48 pm Post subject:

When
I was quite young, my father had one of the first telephones in our
neighborhood. I remember well the polished old case fastened to the
wall. The shiny receiver hung on the side of the box. I was too little
to reach the telephone, but used to listen with fascination when my
mother used to talk to it. Then I discovered that somewhere inside the
wonderful device lived an amazing person - her name was "Information
Please" and there was nothing she did not know. "Information Please"
could supply anybody's number and the correct time.
My first personal experience with this genie-in-the-bottle
came one day while my mother was visiting a neighbor. Amusing myself at
the tool bench in the basement, I whacked my finger with a hammer. The
pain was terrible, but there didn't seem to be any reason for crying
because there was no one home to give sympathy. I walked around the
house sucking my throbbing finger, finally arriving at the stairway.
"The telephone," I thought.
Quickly,
I ran for the footstool in the parlor and dragged it to the landing.
Climbing up, I unhooked the receiver in the parlor and held it to my
ear. "Information Please," I said into the mouthpiece just above my
head. A click or two and a small clear voice spoke into my ear.
"Information."

"I hurt my finger. . ." I wailed into the phone. The tears came readily enough now that I had an audience.

"Isn't your mother home?" came the question.
"Nobody's home but me." I blubbered.
"Are you bleeding?"
"No," I replied. "I hit my finger with the hammer and it hurts."
"Can you open your icebox?" she asked. I said I could.
"Then chip off a little piece of ice and hold it to your finger," said the voice.
After
that, I called "Information Please" for everything. I asked her for
help with my geography and she told me where Philadelphia was. She
helped me with my math. She told me my pet chipmunk that I had caught
in the park just the day before would eat fruits and nuts.

Then,
there was the time Petey, our pet canary died. I called "Information
Please" and told her the sad story. She listened, then said the usual
things grown-ups say to soothe a child. But I was un-consoled. I asked
her, "Why is it that birds should sing so beautifully and bring joy to
all families, only to end up as a heap of feathers on the bottom of a
cage?" She must have sensed my deep concern, for she said quietly,
"Paul, always remember that there are other worlds to sing in."

Somehow I felt better.
Another day I was on the telephone. "Information Please."
"Information," said the now familiar voice.
"How do you spell fix?" I asked.
All this took place in a small town in the Pacific Northwest.
When
I was 9 years old, we moved across the country to Boston. I missed my
friend very much. "Information Please" belonged in that old wooden box
back home, and I somehow never thought of trying the tall, shiny new
phone that sat on the table in the hall.
As
I grew into my teens, the memories of those childhood conversations
never really left me. Often, in moments of doubt and perplexity I would
recall the serene sense of security I had then. I appreciated now how
patient, understanding, and kind she was to have spent her time on a
little boy.
A
few years later, on my way west to college, my plane put down in
Seattle. I had about half an hour or so between planes. I spent 15
minutes or so on the phone with my sister, who lived there now.
Then without thinking what I was doing, I dialed my hometown operator and said, "Information, Please."
Miraculously, I heard the small, clear voice I knew so well, "Information."
I hadn't planned this but I heard myself saying, "Could you please tell me how to spell fix?"
There was a long pause. Then came the soft spoken answer, "I guess your finger must have healed by now."
I laughed. "So it's really still you,' I said. "I wonder if you have any idea how much you meant to me during that time."
"I
wonder," she said, "if you know how much your calls meant to me. I
never had any children, and I used to look forward to your calls." I
told her how often I had thought of her over the years and I asked if I
could call her again when I came back to visit my sister.
"Please do, she said. "Just ask for Sally."
Three months later, I was back in Seattle. A different voice answered, "Information." I asked for Sally.
"Are you a friend?" She said.
"Yes, a very old friend," I answered.
She
paused. "I'm sorry to have to tell you this, she said. Sally had been
working part-time the last few years because she was sick. She died
five weeks ago."
I was stunned. Before I could hang up she said, "Wait a minute. Did you say your name was Paul?"
"Yes."
"Well,
Sally left a message for you. She wrote it down in case you called. Let
me read it to you." The note says, "Tell him I still say there are
other worlds to sing in. He'll know what I mean."

I thanked her and hung up..I knew what Sally meant.

Never underestimate the impression you may make on others.

Unnimaxx · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject: TRUTH ONCE FOUND

TRUTH ONCE FOUND

It is the intellect that divides and that synthesizes.
Some creatures in the world only synthesize and some creatures
only divide. But the human being has both abilities, he divides
and synthesizes. Ants only synthesize, they bring Things Together And Build An
Ant Hill. But Monkeys Cannot Synthesize, They Can Only Divide Everything. You
Give Them a garland for example, and they tear it to pieces and throw it all
over the place. A monkey can only divide, or analyze. But a beaver synthesizes,
it brings all the wood together and builds a dam. Birds also synthesize such as
the Weaver birds.

A human being both analyzes and synthesizes. So you analyze from the relative world
and synthesize to find the one. The intellect divides to find the truth. Truth once found
synthesizes everything.

When the intellect becomes quiet, it brings out the intelligence. Often people think that gathering
information makes one intelligent. This is not so. It is the "samadhi" which brings out the intelligence.
An unintelligent man, in spite of having all the information, cannot be creative. An intelligent man
without much information can be creative.

A sign of intelligence is to see the one in many and find the many in one.
There is an old Sanskrit proverb: The first sign of intelligence is not to start
anything. The second sign of intelligence is if you have started something,
you have to continue it to the end.

If you have annoyed somebody, don't stop it in the middle, take him to the edge.

Unnimaxx · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:19 pm Post subject: LOVE AND AUTHORITY

LOVE AND AUTHORITY

Love and authority are totally opposite values yet they co-exist.

The grosser the consciousness, authority has to be more pronounced. The more
refined and subtle the consciousness, lesser is the need to exercise
authority.

When you are gross, you demand authority and when you demand authority, love
recedes. Asserting authority indicates lack of confidence and love. The more
evident one's authority, the less sensitive and effective it will be.

A sensible person would not demand authority at all... but will assume it.
(laughter) The most effective CEOs will not make you feel their authority,
for authority can never bring inspiration.

Your sincere servant has more authority over you than your boss, isn't that
so? A baby has full authority over the mother. Similarly, a devotee has all
the authority over the Divine, though he never exercises it.

So, the subtler you become, the more authority you gain.

The greater the love, subtler will be the authority.

The lesser the love, the more pronounced will be the authority.

Unnimaxx · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:35 pm Post subject: WHO IS PLEASING WHOM?

WHO IS PLEASING WHOM?

God created man and the whole world with so many varieties, so many good
things. God made so many types of vegetables, fragrances, flowers and
thorns, dragons and horror, to please man and keep him entertained. But man
got more and more depressed.

God then acted tough and man had to start pleasing Him. And so, man kept
himself busy pleasing God and he became happier since he had no time to get
worried or depressed.

So, when you have someone to please, it keeps you on your toes and you feel
happier. But if your whole aim is just to please yourself, you will get
depressed.

Pleasure simply brings more craving. But the problem is that we try to get
contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through
service.

Do not see intention behind somebody else's mistakes.

Unnimaxx · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 2:35 pm Post subject: FRIENDSHIP

When somebody criticizes, you don't worry.......
Stones are generally thrown only at  tree full of fruits !!!

How true is this.

Mouse Story..a message. A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer  and his wife open a package.

"What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover  it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning.

"There is a mousetrap in the house!  There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me.  I cannot be bothered by it."

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house!  There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The pig sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry, Mr.  Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray.  Be assured you are in my
prayers."

The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The cow said, "Wow, Mr.  Mouse.  I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose."

So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's  mousetrap alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.

The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught.  In the darkness, she did not see it was  a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.

The snake bit the farmer's wife.  The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever.  Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.

But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbours came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

The farmer's wife did not get well; she died.  So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.

The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.

So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember -- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

We are all involved in this journey called life.  We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.

ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY; OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER FOR A REASON.

One of the best things to hold onto in this world is a friend.

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Unnimaxx · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 3:29 pm Post subject: THE PRIMAL INSTINCT

Fear is an impression of the past
reflecting about the future of the present. When people deny fear, they become
egocentric, when they recognize and accept fear, they go beyond...get free from
it.
Total lack of fear is possible only in
utter chaos or utmost orderliness. A saint or a fool have no fear. But
everywhere in between there is fear. Fear is essential to preserve orderliness
in the world. It is a primal instinct.
FEAR OF DEATH PRESERVES
LIFE.
FEAR OF WRONG KEEPS THE
RIGHT.
FEAR OF SICKNESS BRINGS
HYGIENE.
FEAR OF MISERY KEEPS YOU
RIGHTEOUS.
A CHILD HAS A PINCH OF FEAR SO IT IS
CAREFUL AND ALERT WHILE WALKING. A PINCH OF FEAR IS NECESSARY TO KEEP THINGS
MOVING SMOOTHLY.
Because fear is love standing upside down,
everything that can be interpreted with Love can also be interpreted with fear.
For example, a child clinging onto its mother. This can be interpreted in both
ways - out of Love or out of Fear.
This primal instinct can be totally
transformed through Awareness of Divine Love.
Do not try to eliminate fear. Just meditate
and know that you are nobody or that you belong to someone special...

Unnimaxx · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:39 pm Post subject:

Life is very uncertain.  Before it takes you away, realize it is a dream, a burden or a joke.

Someone asked:  What about life is a joke?
Answer:  A joke you do not question.  If you question a joke, it is no longer a joke.  Do not question a burden either.  It is a waste of time to question life and its events.

The burden makes you go deep.  It gets you to the core of yourself.

Realization of a dream wakes you up.  And seeing life as a joke makes you light.

The only certainty is that life is a dream, a burden or a joke and only when you realize this can you be centered.

Unnimaxx · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:38 pm Post subject:

four different ststes of meditation.

1 : One is the state in which thoughts disturb you ...

2 : Another is the state in which thoughts does not disturb you.

In the second state, they simply hover around in your consciousness and you are aware of that you are in samâdhi. It is part of meditation.

Experiences of smell, sight, vision, taste and sounds come under Vichâra, the second type of samâdhi or awareness.

3 : The third type is the blissful state.
Have you noticed that after you do Sudarshan kriya or any breathing exercise you are in a different state? When you sing bhajans you are on a different space of samâdhi. The mind is still elevated, the consciousness is still elevated.

4 : The fourth meditative state is really the deep experience of meditation where in you do not know anything. Just the awareness that you are. Just that you know you are, but you do not know who you are, where you are. Nothing else is known. Just `I am present´. This is the fourth state of samâdhi.

Unnimaxx · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:42 pm Post subject: REVERENCE AND OWNERSHIP

REVERENCE AND OWNERSHIP

Often you do not have reverence for that which you own.

Whatever you revere becomes bigger than you.

When you have reverence in all your relationships then your own
consciousness expands. Then even small things appear to be significant and
big. Every little creature appears to be dignified.

It is the reverence in every relationship that saves the relationship. Often
you lose reverence for that which you own, and this happens unconsciously.

When you have reverence for the whole universe, you are in harmony with the
while universe. Then, you do not need to reject or renounce anything of this
universe.

Reverence in ownership frees you from greed, jealousy and lust. Cultivate
the skill of having reverence every moment in your life.

Unnimaxx · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject: Effort won't work

Effort won't work

The moment you make an effort to love somebody or to be happy, you cannot.

The entire world lives on trust. Every aspect in life moves with trust.

In order to trust, you must first understand your doubt. You doubt yourself, and you doubt people around you. And then you doubt in the existence of God.
More Doubt. Just examine, what do you doubt? You doubt always in something good---whether it is in you or in someone else. When you are depressed, you never doubt your depression, but when you are happy you doubt: "Am I really happy? Is this really what I want?" And then you say, "I'm not sure..."

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