Spirituality Discover GOD As Child

Have always thought of god as a father, up in the heavens somewhere. But can you see god as a child?
When you think of god as a father, you will want to demand and take from him. But when you see god as a child, you have no demands.
God is the very core of your existence. You are pregnant with god. You have to take care of your pregnancy and deliver this child into the world. Most people do not deliver. Whosoever delivers can also grant wishes.

God is your child who clings onto you like a baby till you grow old and die. This child clings onto the devotee, crying for nourishment.

Take care of your God! Atheists lurk around the corner! Doubts, disbelief, and ignorance are the atheists in your mind.

Spirituality Solves: Confusion

A decision is required only when there is confusion. When there is no confusion, then there is no need of a decision.
If on your desk there is a piece of wood and a biscuit, you don’t have to decide which to eat, do you? Decision is always about choice, and choice is always confusing. The more decisions, the more confused you are, swinging always between pain and pleasure. So, all decision-makers are confused!

In you, there is an actor and there is a witness. An actor is either confused or decisive, but the witness just observes and smiles.

Action is spontaneous (no decision) when there is no actor. The more the witness grows in you, the more playful and untouched you are. Then trust, faith, love, and joy all manifest in and around you.
Are you confused, decisive, or happy now?

Spiritual Buddha Quotes

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

What we think, we become.

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.

Infinite patience and smart Shopping

Suppose you go to God to get a boon. When your intention is to get a boon, then you are in a hurry.

Another person knows he already owns God; he is not in a hurry for anything. Infinite patience comes up in him. Now what is “owning God”? Realizing that the Divinity and His entire creation already belong to you. Usually you shop in hurry at the supermarket and rush back home. But when the whole store is already in your home, you’re not in a rush to shop; you’re at ease. Your hurry to get something throws you off balance and makes you small. Have an “eternal wait”—infinite patience. Realize that God belongs to you. Through this awareness or through practice you will reach infinite patience.

Now “To develop patience, do we observe the impatience?”

Just observe the thoughts and feelings and don’t regret them. When you know you are part of the divine plan, you stop demanding. You know everything is being done for you. You are taken care of. Usually we hurry the mind and are slow in our action. Impatience means hurry in the mind; lethargy means slowness in action. It is better the other way around:

Patience in the mind and dynamism an action is the right formula.

Spiritual way to get rid of: SORROW

If you are unhappy, you better check if one or all of these is lacking:

Ø Penance
Ø Dispassion
Ø Surrender
Penance is agreeing with the moment, total acceptance of all pleasant or unpleasant situations. Dispassion means I want nothing and I am nothing. Surrender is I am here for you, for your joy. If you are grumbling, then these are lacking. When you accept the situation, when you take it as penance, you cannot grumble; when you come from a state of dispassion (I don’t want anything), you don’t grumble; and if you are surrendered, you will have no complaints.
If you don’t do it willingly, you will do it later in desperation. First you will say, “Nothing can be done.” Then later in anger and desperation you will say, “I give up, I want nothing, I have no choice—to hell with it!”

All these three—penance, dispassion, and surrender—they purify your mind and uplift you in joy.

-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Spiritual LOVE

There are three kinds of love: that which comes out of charm, that which comes out of familiarity, and Spiritual Love. Love that comes out of charm does not last long. Out of unfamiliarity you are attracted, then once you become familiar, you quickly lose the attraction and boredom sets in, like in most marriages. This type of love diminishes and brings fear, uncertainty, insecurity, and sadness.
Love that comes of familiarity grows. You feel more comfortable, for example, with an old familiar friend rather than with a new person. But this love has no thrill, no enthusiasm, no fire to it.
Spiritual Love supersedes both these. Spiritual Love is ever new. The closer you come, the more charm and depth is there. Spiritual Love has comfort, enthusiasm, and familiarity. There is never boredom, and everyone keeps on their toes.

Worldly love can be like an ocean, yet an ocean has a bottom. Spiritual love is like the sky-limitless, infinite. From the bottom of ocean, soar into the vast sky.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The Little Monster In My Head: EGO

There is the problem of this ego. It is the little monster who lives in my head, crouched behind my good sense, waiting for the opportunity to cause trouble. It always wants to be right. It doesn’t matter if it is right or not; it will rationalize, it will justify, it will risk friends, family, and peace of mind-just to win, to be “better”.
Now, knowing this, I have the advantage. When this ego tries to convince me it is okay to manipulate others, or behave like a spoiled child, or be angry at someone for doing the same thing I do, I can look at the situation and say,” Hmmm, here is this little ego playing its games again.” But only if I choose to do so.

The key is that I do have a choice. This ego would like me to think otherwise-that life is a competition to be won or lost. It would like me to react to its endless tricks instead of laughing at its antics. It would like me to perpetuate its games. But when I use the knowledge, I observe and absolve rather than react and retaliate; then I sail through the situation I encounter, unaffected and unafraid.