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I am posting some more thoughts about spirituality and life to ponder :

It is interesting to know that one of the most common regrets at the time of dying is ‘I wish that I had let myself be happier’ (as hundreds of patients confessed at the time of dying before Bronnie Ware, an Australian nurse ) Many of us won’t realize this until the end that happiness is a choice. We are generally stuck in old patterns and habits (hard conditioning). The so-called ‘comfort’ of familiarity overflow into our lives. We tend live in comfort zone because of “fear of change” and this prompt us to feel that we are happy and content but deep within, we want to laugh and enjoy fully and have silliness in our life.

If we can heal our emotions,
if we can stop reacting to others actions/behavior,
if we can be free from our unpleasant memories,
if we can control the flow of negative thoughts,
then happiness can flows in our life.’

I strongly feel that the immediate purpose of life is to remain happy and joyful. From the very core of our being, we want satisfaction in life. As I have learn’t, the more we care and extend love and compassion towards others, the greater is our own sense of satisfaction and that results in happiness and well-being. Cultivating a warmhearted attitude for others automatically puts our mind at peace. More so, this feeling remove whatever fear, anxiety and insecurity we may have and gives us an inner strength to deal with the problems we face in our life.

You are the only person upon which your happiness depends. You always make the choice to stay happy in each situation and in each moment. If your happiness depends on other people including close ones then certainly you would frequently be landing yourself in sad situations. So if you decide to remain happy then trust yourself and look joy and happiness inside. Also remember that you should not involve yourself in petty and trivial matters in life. Otherwise from a broader perspective, life will surely be a waste of God’s unique gift to you.

The world around us is a mirror- it’s a reflection of our own inner world’. Our own fear, frustration, and negative emotions get reflected in the outer world. It’s a proven fact that what we perceive around us reflects back in our state of mind. The truth is that our mind becomes conditioned to a certain way of perceiving and reacting to this world depending upon our own attitude, behaviour and beliefs. There is a famous saying of Anais Nin that “we don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.” The potential we see in others is possible for us as well and the beauty we see in others is our inner beauty.

We all suffer from wasteful and negative thoughts in our mind. Do you know that the average person has over 40,000 thoughts coming his or her mind on any given day. More interestingly, 80% of these thoughts are negative and repetitive from the previous day. Further, most of the repeated thoughts are perceptions, attitudes, beliefs and opinions about your own and of others.

We humans don’t even have an adequate capacity to imagine the true reality of this world/universe. Take a small example – when you read this statement, you feel that you are stationary but earth spins on its axis once daily eastward at a speed of 1000 miles per hour. As the earth orbits the sun, we are being carried along at 70,000 miles per hour. As the sun orbits the Milky Way galaxy, we are moving at 500,000 miles per hour. Imagine further, that the earth is situated 27,000 light years from the center of Milky Way galaxy (our galaxy is one among 200 billion galaxies in this universe). And one light year is 6 trillion miles.

Soul-to-Self: I, your Soul, always keep your best interest in mind; whenever you consult me while taking decisions or actions. But I know you, on many occasions; you don’t look at me due to the fear that I wouldn’t approve such actions. I always try that you don’t suffer but you make me cry on such times. You know I whisper in your mind, when you take a wrong path or go against my wishes but you don’t hear my voice. When you are in trouble, I come to your support and expand your awareness. I even warn you about your impermanence in this world and your fragile, insecure and fearful nature but I know, your ignorance will make you suffer if you don’t hear me.

“We create our own reality”, said Fred Alan Wolf in 1970s. Since then there has been lot of research all over the world not only by physicists but even others as to how our thoughts and focused attention can affect physical reality that we perceive around us.Now a pertinent question arises if our thoughts can affect physical reality that we perceive then why we are not experiencing it in our life.The answer lies in the fact that first, lack of focusing in our mind as the average attention span of average person is 6-10 seconds per minute that’s’ why it’s so difficult to bring focused attention on anything which we want to perceive.Second reason is that since we don’t believe we can do it – we never have enough time to care anyone else other than our own emotional/ addictive needs. Therefore, most people become frustrated and give up because they have not learned how to cause ‘The Law’ to work for them and provide the results that they want.

I am posting some more thoughtful insights about life in continuation with previous posts… Continue reading

I am posting some more thoughtful insights about life in continuation with previous posts… Continue reading

I am assimilating some more thoughts to ponder about life that are fundamental in nature… Continue reading

I am writing some more thoughts to ponder that are very fundamental and core to our life. Some of these thoughts are parts of my articles posted on this blog… Continue reading

I am recapitulating a few meaningful thoughts/statements about our life. Some of them have been part of my articles posted earlier on this blog itself… Continue reading

Do you know that the average 70 kg adult human body contains approximately 6.7 x 1027 atoms and is composed of 60 chemical elements? Human cells consist mostly of water (65–90%), and a significant portion is composed of carbon-containing organic molecules. Oxygen therefore contributes a majority of a human body’s mass, followed by carbon… Continue reading

“Habituation to any goal – sex or power, say – is literally an addictive process, a growing dependence on the biologically chemicals, that make these things gratifying. The more power you have, the more you need. And any slippage will make you feel bad, even if it leaves you at a level that once brought ecst… Continue reading

I feel the biggest problem or the obstacle in achieving personal mastery is how to control our own thought process. Sustained happiness and success in life, that all depends on the ability to master our own thoughts. The moment we begin paying attention to our thoughts we discover how unruly and unstable they are, our mind jump from one thought to another in a fraction of

Just for the sake of knowing more about Mitchell Heisman and his philosophical thoughts and ideas especially when his suicide was not a result of depression or impulsive reaction but a well thought decision to give up his life voluntarily in pursuits of his conviction, I have gone through his 1905-page suicide note in cursory manner. A 35-year-old man, who shot himself near Harvard University on Sept 23, 2010, has… Continue reading

There is an old Cherokee Parable about Two Wolves’ which goes like this:

An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life…

“A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.
“It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.

“One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt

The mankind since the beginning of civilization has been struggling to search an answer to the most perplexed question about existence and nature of God. Throughout the history, human wisdom has tried hard to understand God and on the way many religions have come into existence. One of the most important reasons as to why man failed to find an answer to this question has been, to my mind, is that we ……… Continue reading

We all born with huge potentiality to grow and evolve while undertaking our life’s journey. As we travel, all of us grow continuously but uniquely. The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our mind. Some seeds we get from our ancestors (by way of genes) and some are sown by others like our parents and Continue reading

Existence of ‘inner self’ or we often call it ‘soul’ has always been a point of philosophical discussion as there is no evidence to indicate its existence in this materialistic world where we always look for empirical evidences. Many a times, we call it just an illusion of our mind. Its presence is hardly felt especially when we lead a busy and enjoyable life as we

I am making an attempt to recapitulate what I have so far learnt in my life. The process of learning and off course unlearning too is continuous and subjected to changes as we grow psychologically and spiritually in our life time. In this blog I have explained many of these lessons in greater detail.

1. Life can never be smooth. Very

Nearly five years back, for the first time, I came to know about lucid dreaming while surfing internet. A lucid dream is a dream in which the sleeper is aware that he or she is dreaming. Since then I was very anxious to experience this kind of dreaming myself. However, I remember very distinctly that on April 24, 10, to my great surprise, I experienced lucid

If we observe very carefully we sometimes in our life come across coincidences that can’t be explained logically. Broadly speaking, coincidences means incidents happening together that would not happen together; these are some sort of occurrences of improbable events. We generally treat such coincidences as merely accidental or random events. However, a famous Swedish psychologist/physicist Carl Jung (1875-1961) for the first time coined the term ‘synchronicity’

In my previous article on this blog I had briefly explained about ‘New Thought Movement ‘or ‘New Thought’ which is a spiritual movement started in U S during the late 19th century and this movement particularly promotes spiritual and metaphysical beliefs. One of the most dominating ideas of this movement has been the law of attraction which says that everything that’s coming into our life, we

The New Thought Movement or New Thought is a spiritual movement which started in the U S during the late 19th century and it particularly emphasizes spiritual and metaphysical beliefs. It consists of religious sub groups, secular organizations, thinkers, philosophers, and individuals who share a set of metaphysical beliefs concerning the effects of positive thinking, the law of attraction, healing, creative visualization, the personal power. It

I feel that the most mysterious and complicated thing in this universe is our mind and more importantly how the mind functions. Since the prehistoric times when the man began to think rationally and start searching the answers of life’s mysteries, mind has been in the center stage of man’s thinking domain. Earliest recorded views/concepts about mind and its relationship with soul and divine forces were

From birth to death, we all travel through undulating roads to complete our life’s journey. This journey is only in forward direction. However, this journey can be ended untimely and abruptly by the God or the invisible force governing this universe. We must therefore continue to grow so as to perform this journey happily and smoothly. This is like a journey through a desert where we

Most of us do not feel jerks while undertaking our life’s journey. However, on certain occasions the life’s journey of many of us looks more like a roller-coaster ride. Hence there are certain events or dates representing those ups and down of this journey, we like to remember for ever ( or to forget as early as possible). Such is the case of an event for

The mind, like consciousness, cannot be pinned down to any specific system or area in the brain. We have seen that the awareness arises out of the simultaneous activities in different region of the brain. Many scientists say that the mind arises from the coherent activities in the brain specially the cortical region. The human brain creates a complex neural network in which consciousness appears along with the mysterious mind

Most of the times we rely on our mind rather than heart while taking decisions or making choices in materialistic dominated life. Very often we ignore our heart’s inner voice. We all know for sure that the heart’s voice is more reliable as it is not based on our ego/ the self centeredness and fear. Now modern science has established a closer relationship between heart and

Earlier on this blog I wrote “10 Hard Questions about life that need answers before we die” on June 20, 2009 in which one of the questions was “Are we the architect of our own destiny? What’s the extent and role of ‘free will’ in shaping the events and the destiny of our life? There is another related question that arises is that whether the life

In the 1970s the physicist Fred Alan Wolf wrote an evocative phrase “we create our own reality”. Since then there has been lot of research and experimentation all over the world not only by physicists but even others as to how our thoughts and focused attention can affect physical reality that we perceive around us. Earlier also on this blog I had posted an article on

Those who have been science/biology students know that the brain is an electrochemical organ using electromagnetic energy to function. Electrical activity taking place in the brain is displayed in the form of brainwaves. Briefly, there are four categories of brainwaves. They range from the high amplitude, low frequency delta to the low amplitude, high frequency beta. Men, women and children of

To practice Taoism one must follow the Tao which is a force that flows through all life. The word Tao means road or way. The followers of Taoism, goal is to find a way to harmonize themselves with the Tao.

Laozi or Lao Tzu was a philosopher of ancient China and is a central

Most of us take homeopathy medicine either frequently or occasionally for treatment of mostly non-serious illnesses. However, we hardly give any thoughts as how it works. The most mysterious thing is many homeopathic remedies/medicines are so diluted that according to the known scientific explanations, they couldn’t possibly have any effect. Suppose we get a medicine of a potency beyond a certain point say 24x or 12c

The concept of ‘karma’ is an integral part of Hindu philosophy. The word ‘Karma’, a Sanskrit word, related in its meaning to the word ‘action’. The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines it as the “sum of person’s actions in one of his successive states of existence, viewed as deciding his fate for the next”. The theory of karma primarily depends on the universal law or the Newton’s

The both, higher self and lower self are our integral part of the body and soul i.e. ‘I’.Both are in ongoing conflict with each other as both compete to pull ‘I’ to their side.The higher self is pure intelligence and free from ego driven desire, fear and lust.While the lower self is devoid of intelligence and is pure desire, fear and lust.We human beings possess

In my earlier article entitled ‘10 hard questions about life that need answers before we die’ I had raised the question, whether human race is evolving to a superior race or just the mankind is growing in a random and purposeless manner. As on date, there are 6776 million people are living on this planet while 134 million take birth and out of total lot 57

“Just as he will have inflicted a wound on a person, so shall it be inflicted upon him.” — Leviticus 24:20

Being a conscious being, whenever we are in waking state, we experience thoughts and emotions. We all have very unique behavior and accordingly we identify with a set pattern of thoughts, feelings and particularly the emotions. This very pattern of emotions (such as arguing with one’s spouse, hating or resenting someone or holding grudges against someone) leads to the addiction of that particular set of emotions

Since our early childhood we have been told by our parents, teachers and the society as a whole that we are the architect of our destiny as we have full freedom to take decisions and actions as per our choice and wish. However, gradually we realize that our genetic constitution and the environment in which we grow play a crucial role in determining the way

India is known as the seat of spiritualism and religion since the ancient times. India is the birthplace of many religions and spiritual leaders. In ancient India the Spiritual Guru was generally referred to as a Rishi ‘Sage’ or ‘Saint’ whereas the word Guru was and still is used in the more personal sense in reference to the Teacher and Disciple. According to Wikipedia, a guru

Consciousness is generally referred to our individual awareness of our unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensation and environment. We always feel that our conscious experiences are constantly changing. When we try to focus or concentrate on one thought, suddenly we notice some totally unrelated or unwarranted thought comes in the mind. This ever-changing chain of thought can shift one moment to the other but we get a

We generally hold a worldview of separateness in this physical reality and that we are autonomous entities, totally separate from other fellow beings because this is how we perceive through our senses. However, in the ancient times especially in India man’s views were essentially of wholeness. The most significant doctrine expressed in the Vedas and the Upanishads, the first philosophical explorations of Hinduism, is that Reality

In the beginning of 16th century, in one of the greatest scientific revolutions ever witnessed, the then prevailing theories of space, time, motion and cosmology were overthrown by Copernicus revolution (i.e. earth revolves around sun and not the earth is in the center of universe).The climax of that revolution was Isaac Newton’s theory of physics in 1667. Newton advocated

We all know that destiny is not a matter of chance but a matter of choice or decision we take from time to time. Destiny is not a thing that comes automatically to us but to be achieved. In other words, the decisions we take all the time shape our future or in other words, the destiny. How far the decisions we take are fully conscious or rational

When the year 2008 was just about to end, one fine evening I got an extremely tragic and difficult-to forget news about pre-mature and untimely demise of my very dearly and close friend Mr Pawan Wadwa on 20th Dec, 08. During my 5-year deputation tenure with central government, he worked with me as Dep.Sec. in Department of Fertilizers, GOI. Belonging to Indian Ordinance & Factories Service

Occam’s razor (sometimes spelled Ockham’s razor) is a principle attributed to the 14th century English logician and Franciscan friar, William of Ockham. According to Wikipedia, the principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory.Occam’s razor is often cited in the following statements. . .

I am trying to summarize some of my expressible feelings and personal thoughts about life.1. The most destructive habit – allowing mind to wander & indulge in negative thoughts2. The greatest source of happiness —– – in helping the poor & needy people3. The greatest fear of loss —– – loss of reputation and self-respect4. The most satisfying work…….. to

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. 2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. 3. Follow the three R’s: (1) Respect for self (2) Respect for others and (3) Responsibility for all your actions. 4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. 5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly

Our mind’s behaviour has remained totally enigmatic and perhaps the most difficult to unravel its mysteries despite overwhelming progress in the field of psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry and behavioural sciences. If we are able to control our mind, I think we can have unbounded scope to exercise ‘free will’. I have made an attempt to capture my scattered thoughts on the mind in the following words:Oh my

After reading ‘The Theory of Everything’ by Stephen W Hawking around a month back, I have gone through a second book with almost the same title ‘The Theories of Everything’ by John D Barrow. In this book, Barrow in largely non-technical terms explains clearly the flavour of what has been going on recently in theoretical physics.

As of July, 8, 2008, the world’s population is believed to be approximately 6.70 billion. Estimates of the total number of people who have ever lived range approximately from 45 billion to 125 billion. However, many of the more robust estimates fall into the range of 90 to 110 billion humans. It is difficult to estimate because of many reasons such like (i) it’s not clear when human

1. Rameshwaram Mandir, TN2. Jagganath Puri Temple, Orissa3. Tirumala Temple, Tirupati, AP4. Sun Temple, Konark, Orissa5. Meenakshi Temple, Madurai, TN6. Khajurao Temples, MP7. Kashi Vishwanath Mandir, Varanasi8. Vivekanand Temple, Kanyakumari9. Sri Harminder Sahib Golden Temple, Amritsar, Punjab10. Dargah of Khawaja Moinuddin Chisti, Ajmer11. Gangoti, Uttarakhand12. Ram Janam Bhumi- Babri Masjid, Ayodhya13. Sathya Sai Baba Temple, Puttaparthy, AP14.Kaali Temple, Dakshiniswar, Kolkata15. Kamakhya Devi Temple, Guwahati, Assam16. Vindhyavasini

In the beginning of civilizationThere was a Man with a primitive mindAs time passed, Man became intelligent and ‘civilized’He made the world a far better place to liveIntellectual advances in science and technologyAs well as social revolution took place around the globeDemocracy and secularism expanded across nationsPoverty, hunger, inequality, human suffering declined across worldOptimism about humanity grew with control over the natural

Even when there is noise, one can hear silence underneathThat is the inner space in which the noise arisesThat’s the inner space of awareness or consciousness itselfWhen you become aware of silence, there is a state of inner silenceAt that time, you come out from collective human conditioning of thoughtsBecoming aware of awareness is the creation of inner silence in mindBecoming

If we could fit the entire population of the world into a village consisting of 100 people, maintaining the proportions of all the people living on earth, that village would 57 Asians21 Europeans14 Americans (North, central and south)8 Africans There would be:52 women and 48 men30 Caucasians and 70 non-Caucasians30 Christians and 70 non-Christians89 Heterosexuals and11 homosexuals6 people would possess 59% of the wealth and they would all

Nature is balancedEverything must be balanced. So are the animals and the beastsSo they live in harmonyHave humans learned from nature and the beastsThere is no harmony among humansThere is no intention among them to live in harmony Nature is balanced. Nature is energy and life. Humans just destroy lifeThey destroy natureThey

When you got up this morning, I (God) observed you, and I hoped you would remember me,No matter if they were only few words, you would me for what had happened yesterday.But I noticed that you were so busy doing routine rituals of the morning and preparing yourself for going to work

I am two men with one body.One wants to enjoy life with pleasure and total freedom.Other wants to be slave with routine and mundane things.One love adventure and passion and wants to dream in life.Other wants to remain happy with repetitive and conditioned life.One is a free bird that wants to hover all around the world.Other wants to be chained with society and his family life.One has

One of the 33 things that I want to do in my life (see details in my previous blog), is to do oil painting. I had never tried it earlier but somehow I feel that I can do it if I make an attempt. In last two months, I have made following oil paintings on canvas (except the first one) without any training or guidance (off course their original paintings… Continue reading

• build self-control and discipline in my life
• make written inventory of all my weaknesses
• enjoy the present moments
• be

The following are some sensible and thoughtful tips, that can be very useful in day to day life.1. I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.2. No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won’t make

There is whole lot of literature in the market as how to get happiness in one’s life. A huge industry of happlography has emerged to feed the felt-need of people searching for happiness in stressful environment. There are many worth reading books in the market but i Continue reading