The first day outside the prison!

Today is the first day i really feel alive,
almost the same as i felt when i was maybe four or five,

i have been released out of my prison today ,
after spending my whole life in a jail locked away,

it was a house of misery and pain,
outside the jail, here i find all the happiness again,

as i grew up in the jail, i knew of no other place,
the scale, the wonders of world i knew not a trace,

now i leave my fatigue, my old age back there,
as i discover the child in me here,

full of pain, anger, sorrow was it inside the jail,
as each and every misery of life resided in that hell,

do u know the jail i have been telling u about,
its the smallest ever cell, a dome of nine inch about,

friends, its our own mind and nowhere else,
and we life the whole life trapped in our own mind space,

of the life we dont see the beauty or the wonder,
as inside the mind we keep counting every fault and every blunder,

do you know where to find the sorrow of any sort,
yes no where else only inside the mind's fort,

all fears of future, all the sorrow in the past
they live and multiply in our mind till the life itself last,

chained by your thought and held by fears as bars,
can u recall the last time you ever saw the sky or the stars,

to find happiness and to live you must realize,
stop brooding and brooding, let your awareness externalize,

see the trees, the butterfly, the moon and sun,
be the child again and start having fun,

children by nature are highly aware,
thats what keep them smiling everywhere,

a soldier, a singer, a surgeon, a racer or a player,
losing awareness can finish them,right then and there,

All happiness and every sucess, material or otherwise,
are outside the mind, dear, step out and externalize!

Enlightenment!

Way to the Enlightment:

1.Closing the one and opening the two & Closing the two to open the Third
2. Closing the five and open the sixth,
3. Silencing the one and listening to 100 Billion,
Finally,
4. Silencing the 100 Billion to hear the One!

The Undying Hunger !

    He was hungry. He was puzzled too. He had been hungry as far as he could remember. Every morning he woke up with the hunger. He spent the whole day in consuming. When he was not consuming, either he was working so that he could have more or thinking how to work to have more.
   Now he had spent bigger part of his life. He had consumed more than he even himself hoped to. Today he was consuming 10 times more than he was 10 years back.
Yet, whenever he was alone, when he was away from those consuming less, he was hit by the hunger pangs.
The hunger would never leave him.
Today, after a long time, maybe for the first time, he found himself brooding. He was thinking.
He knew others who were consuming more, but if they were consuming even more every day, that meant their hunger was getting stronger every day instead of dying.
He could not think of anyone, whether consuming less or more,  who was not living for consuming rather than consuming for living.
Oh! Would this Hunger never never die! Would he finally die Hungry!

He spent next month or so in such a brooding mindset.
Finally, one day he decided not to go and spend the whole day for consuming. He would consume only as little, as would keep him alive and working. Then he would see what happens. What was the loss in trying a different approach.
After the sundown, he summarised that it was a day better spent. He was feeling less hungry than he usually did. He was feeling lighter. He slept easily too. He continued it for the next fortnight or so and found that his life had changed completely, for good.
He smiled  a lot more and was afraid a lot less, as there was a lot lesser to lose. He thought more and did lesser but with better results. He could do a lot more with his newly found spare time. He could walk down the glade, sit under the tree watching butterflies and the clouds.
He was happier.
Unknown to himself, he had found his key to the door of the road to paradise.

This road was called by the wise as 'Tao' and the key was known as 'Contentment.'

As per the enlightened, it is the cycle of spiritual evolution. First desires, then actions to fulfill these desires, then more desires, then more actions, and so on till the person realizes the undying nature of desires, then the urge to be free from the undying desires, then questions, then answers, then doubts, then knowledge and finally the Enlightenment.
Unknown to him, this cycle was going on, the seeds in his mind were sprouting, the light was growing. What he knew was that he was Happy.
After all, he knew that hunger was like a fire which expands with more wood and decreases with less.
He knew how to defeat the hunger and be happy.

He knew that hunger could die too!

Rich man wasn't rich till...

A rich man was not rich till he knew a poor man!
A poor man was not poor till he knew a rich man!

My human nature had programmed me to measure my success or competence only with respect to others. Now, this was a problem. This race with the next guy has no end. Nowadays an ad is regular on channels, where a couple is depressed coz their neighbour has a bigger car. Since there will always be the possibility of the neighbour having a bigger car or villa or pay package or smarter kid, coz there is no limit in such matters. Things are worse if I live in a metro or a posh colony.
A woods man was not unhappy till he met a farmer. The farmer was cool till he met the town people. The townpeople felt inferior when they visited the city and so on. There is simply no end.
As long as I evalauted my possesion in a relative manner, I was doomed to inherent inferiority and depression.

The secret is 'Satisfaction'. Satisfaction is not Lethargy or defeatism. It is the greatest virtue that keeps the noise out of the mind. It keeps the mind focussed, aware, efficient and a lot more productive. It makes me uncover and utilize my true inherent potential. The inherent potential of a mind is without limits and simply miraculous, once utilized. However, since I had lived the same way, had the same goals, and pretty much did mostly the same things as my predecessors and theirs and theirs, I had no awareness of this huge power of all powers.
Now that the awareness of awareness is downing, I judge my possesions and material success by the fulfilment of short, medium amd long term needs of me and my family. Anything extra is a surplus. Relieved of the pressure of wants (dangerous, unsatiable and endless) and needs ( lesser and satiable), now I can explore myself and I am happy with what I uncover. Every day more jewels come out of the treasure.
Living with satisfaction has not only made me calm, happier, focussed and more effective, but it has improved all aspects of my life including the career also, which I previously considered the measure of my success.
Satisfaction is also the very first as well as the critical step to Self Discovery and Final Liberation.
Again, the Satisfaction won't take birth in our mind tonight itself.
Just sow the seed and see the wonder. Just ask urself, whether I really need another dress, bigger car etc. No harm or bad thing if I spend over my needs. Dangerous only if I live by what others have.
So, dear friend, If Our needs are fulfilled and we have a bit more, hey we are the rich people! Enjoy!

Rhythm of Life

We do not know about it. We are not sure about it. We can't see/ smell/ touch/taste it. None of the finest scientific instruments including those who can see the atom to those who can see billions of kilometers far away fail to sense it. Surprisingly, we, every single one of us, claim to keep its account always. What is it?
It it Time!
We claim to measur Time, though we can't detect the existence of even a single second of it.
Every calendar, clock, wristwatch, cellphone, computer, TV, dvd upto the microwave seem to be keeping track of Time.
Time is many things to many people.
For a scientist Time is an equation or variable.
For an idle man Time is 'Spare'.
For somebody having a difficult experience Time is an enemy. They call it the 'Bad' Time.
For an aging wrestler, sportsman, beautiful, Time is the most Cruel truth of life.
For a man in his last few years, Time was the most precious treasure, emptied carelessly.
Time is the most fundamental law of the existence of the universe as well as the Life.
What we percieve and name as Time is nothing but the most obvious yet unnoticed fact of the cyclic nature inbuilt in each atom, each phenomenon of the universe. Time is the Solemn Statement of God himself, stating the non existence of any begining or any end. Only cycles seem to exist wherever I see.We first observed this law as well as  the Time itself with the sunrises and sunsets and invented Day, Then hours and minutes. We watched seasons and invented Year. We watched Moon phases and counted months. Our calendars count the days and watches the minutes. Our watches do not measure the time, not at all. They only keep count of the cyclic mechanism, whether springloaded, pendulum, sunlight, sandfall, peizo or atomic. The clocks then compare their cycles with a cycle of nature, ie day and year and fragment it into seconds and beyond.
The cycles of universe are visible all around. Seed to sapling to plant to tree to fruit to seed. Life and death and rebirth. water river to cloud to river.
In all these cycles is the rhythm of Universe. Tao lies in understanding the ways of the universe and being in harmony with them.
So, let us shed our conditioned belief in parmanence of things whether, health, beauty, power or property. God and soul are the only entities beyond the cycles, only the ignorance hides the knowledge.

Flesh is born and flesh dies, while the soul continues in its journey. From the day of the birth itself, the countdiwn begins. some cells of our body die every day. Every day the body is dying a bit and we the igonrant kids are piling up possession for this dying body. We also forget that the care of the soul and its destination.
In the rhythm of life is the truth of the cycles of body and the journey of the soul through these cycles to its destiny, its home, to the source and the end of all seen and all unseen.
The awareness of the eternal journey and the final destination and a little bit of less association with the dying body and its adornations, its temporary and dying glory as well as the temporary and dying possession will orient the navigation of the soul. The awareness will initiate the gradual transformation of thoughts. Thoughts change desposition and that changes the whole life.
Instead of a daily 'Fight or Flight' routine, life can become a vacation.
Just taking the permanent as permanent and transient as transient will beautify the life.
It all will happen gradually and invisibly.
The path of Spiritualism is actually the path of awareness, Awareness of the universe and of the self, till they both become one. The awareness may start like the tiny sparks of the gloworm in the dark night of ignorance but grdually it grows to the all compassing light where truth is as clear and beautiful as the full moon in the night. That is the destination of the soul, to which the 'Guru' points and the soul walks on the path with ever increasing bliss.
The journey of the awareness also begins with the doubt. Doubts raise question, questions get answers, more questions and more answers till the answers become knowledge, knowledge becomes wisdom, wisdom becomes  nature of the self and soon the Enlightenment.
So, let us not be discouraged or disheartened with our doubts and contradictions. Even Buddha had a lot of them through his own journey.
Where there is great doubt there will be great knowledge, where there is no doubt, there will be no knowledge. Accept your doubts as a friend, as the precursors of knowledge and as the begining. When the soul becomes ready, the guidance also comes in form of a Guru as the Zen says.

With the knowledge of the cycles of body and the permanence of soul, begins the journey of awareness.

Welcome to the journey!