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Thursday, August 28, 2014
Mahatria, speaking to infinitheists on Subject Plus - link
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Calrity is Power - Voice of Love - Frozen Thoughts - I have to work for money for a daily living and for food. I don't like this idea
I have to work for money for a daily living and for food. I don't like this idea.
Money can do little for you, but money can do a lot through you. So, earn, we must. Earn a lot, we must.Money in the hands of a bad human being will
destroy the existing world. Money in the hands of a good human being will create a new world.
Money in the hands of Osama bin Laden helped him to kill more people. Same money in the hands of Mother Teresa helped her to feed the millions. Lots and
lots of good can be done with lots and lots of money. You can build hospitals. You can build schools. You can give employment to people. Money has never-
ending positive possibilities. There is nothing wrong about becoming rich. In fact, every good human being has the moral responsibility to become rich, so that
he can use his money to do so much good to the world. However, the joy of having is in sharing. So, earning should always be accompanied by returning. Make
giving a habit. Don't wait to have enough before you start returning. From what little or more you already have, start sharing some portion of it. The coffers of
those who give are never empty. Give, and you will be given more.
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Be responsible' is the advice I get from all to be grown-ups. How to be responsible?
Clarity is power - Life is a puzzle...
'Be responsible' is the advice I get from all to be grown-ups.
How to be responsible?
Answer:
In spite of the canvas, despite the paints and the brushes involved, the quality of a painting is the responsibility of a painter.
Similarly, the quality of a sculpture is the responsibility of a sculptor. If so, then the quality of your life is your responsibility and yours alone.
Your life and your death are in your own hands. No blame is allowed. By blaming, you give up the power to change.
By taking responsibility you gain the power to change and thus you take charge of your life. Only when you feel responsible For your life, you can respond with ability Else it will be responding with disability.
Put your hand up and be counted. There is no better way for a man to create himself than to assume responsibilities.
When you assume responsibility, always take it unconditionally.
What it is not unconditional will never be done. There is no point in keeping the 'exit' door open all the time. Burn the bridges. conditions are required only to pass on the blame, in case, there is a failure.
Don't even consider Failure as an option. Where conditions succeed, responsibilities fail. Where responsibilities succeed, conditions are redundant. Just take it and do it.
Responsibility is in ensuring you never let a moment pass by you without you making your presence felt.
Add value to every moment.
Add value to every relationship.
Transform every transaction by adding value to it.
Let nothing pass by you without you adding value to it.
Be an alchemist. Let everything transform in your presence.
In turn, you will be transformed.
In helping others to find themselves, you will find yourself.
Be a reformer. Be the change agent.
Man not only has the power to take responsibility for his own life, but has within him the capacity to take responsibility for the life of others too.
Wherever opportunities present themselves, be the first one to put your hand up.
Followers accept responsibilities. Leaders assume responsibilities.
You take the initiative.
You volunteer.
You step forward.
Announce your presence.
Be counted, and make yourself count.
If I ask you to carry a single granite stone weighing 12kgs and walk a kilometre, you will struggle with it. Now, I ask you to carry your child who is 14kgs for the same one kilometre and you will happily do it. Anything in life that is perceived as kashtam kashtam (difficult, difficult) will only appear to be even more difficult. Do the same thing perceiving it as ishtam ishtam (like it, like it), the most complex of tasks can be done with effortless ease.
Stop viewing responsibilities as a burden and start seeing them as opportunities.
Stop saying kashtam kashtam (difficult difficult) to responsibilities and
step forward to take responsibilities
by saying ishtam ishtam (like it, like it) •
Happiness is in small things; Success is in big things
Meditation is in nothing; And, GOD is in everything...
- Mahatria... Voice of Ra
October 2012 - infinithoughts - What is God's design in this? Is God so cruel? What sense does this death behold? - life and death are beyond Q & A.
October 2012 - infinithoughts - What is God's design in this?
Is God so cruel? What sense does this death behold?
Clarity is Power - Life is a puzzle...
A young-widowed mother toiled alone to make him the Vice President.
He was just 35, survived by his. wife and a 4-year-old daughter.
Successful, no habits, God-fearing, and peace loving...
Last night he died in his sleep.
What is God's design in this?
Is God so cruel?
What sense does this death behold?
- Mahatria Clarifies...
Some intelligence will ask the questions - like you.
Some other intelligence will attempt to answer - like me.
But, life and death are beyond Q & A.
Life just moves on in its own Order, way beyond what appears to be too random to our finite minds.
The pieces on the chessboard don't make the call. Whether to stay put or to move forward or to go back into the box - the player,
The pieces on the chessboard don't make the call. Whether to stay put or to move forward or to go back into the box - the player,
who is playing the game, makes the call. The king or the pawn, you and I, are all mere pieces in an eternal game...
By His call we came. By His call we will be in the game. By His call we will exit the game. And, by His call, we will
re-enter the game, from a different starting position. The game just goes on... beyond your 'Q' and beyond my 'A'.
There is no rationale with which death can be explained. Human intelligence has the capacity to construct logic
around anything... yet, no explanation, no rationale, no theory, and no logic is ever going to soothe the feelings of
the heart, which bleeds at the toss of a loved one. And, even if there is Truth in death, that truth makes no sense to
a heart that is still drowning in its own emotions.
Time alone is the pain balm to an aching heart. With time, the emotions will settle down. With time, the emotions
will shift from 'reeling at the loss of a loved one to 'reliving the moments with the loved one'. In the past, you had
your moments of laughter with them. In the present, unable to accept the loss, you cry by recalling those very
moments. In the future, you will smile again reliving those very moments. Your emotions are relevant just now...
You felt one way yesterday and for the very same reason you will feel another way tomorrow. Time makes traitor of
all emotions.
Emotionally, we always have a fresh introduction unto yourself,
with every passing day...
with every passing moment,
because your emotions are relevant just now.
Life incarnates with a form and a name,
merely for the fulfilment of the soul.
At 5 or 25 or 95, the soul departs from the body on its fulfilment.
The soul embodied for a purpose, served its purpose and
having fulfilled its purpose it moved on.
Why will it continue to sit in the vehicle when this journey is over?
Please Sir, be happy for the soul that ha attained its fulfilment.
We keep our relationships merely at the physical level
and hence we suffer the physical loss.
"Shift the basis of your relationship from the
physical plane to the spiritual plane."
Physically, in bone and flesh, he was with you for 3 years,
Spiritually, without a body and a name, now he will always with you.
'Sometime' has now become 'always'.
So, please Sir, happy for the soul that has attained its fulfilment. •
Lessons from a Dragon Fly
Lessons from a Dragon FLY:
• One of the Water Bug becomes Dragon Fly. Remaining Water bugs think, “Why would anybody give up this comfortable life, great friends, and move up in search of a new life?”
• This water bug to dragonfly story has THREE profound lessons to teach us:
–Realization 1: Great People never thought what is EASY for them. They always thought what is GOOD for them.
–Realization 2: True growth is only when our own past seems like someone else’s past.
–Realization 3: In that one water bug becoming a dragonfly, it will inspire a lot of other water bugs to become a dragonfly.
• The God who created the Mahatma Gandhi, the Mother Terasa, the Abdul Kalam, the Rajinikanth, theViswanathan Anand, the Sachin Tendulkar and the Saina Nehwal is the same God who created us. If they can do it, we too can do it.
• When we are still Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, we develop certain qualities, which make us a Mahatma Gandhi.
• Grow – we must. So, change – we must. So we cannot avoid the uncomfortable transitions.
• Change is giving up who we are to become what we can become.
• The mantra is “Enthusiastic about anything and Excellence in everything”
• We don’t become a Mahatma Gandhi and then develop Mahatma qualities.
Profound Realizations... - Chess coach and my Son
My dear readers,
I used to take my son for chess coaching. Coaches have their own ways. This coach would play a game with my son and defeat him. He would then put all the pieces back in their starting position. He would replay the game along with my son following the same sequence of moves, and in the process explain to him what were the mistakes and what were the good moves. One thing never changed.
Every day he would play another game and defeat my son another time. And, then the whole process of replaying and coaching would be done. However, two things kept changing. One, my son was not repeating much of the earlier mistakes, though he kept displaying there is always scope for new mistakes. Two, the coach started asking my son, what were the coach's mistakes. Much more than the game, the way they analysed after the game was fabulous. I was beginning to understand the ways of this coach.
Eventually, one day, my son defeated the coach. The happiness I Saw in the coach on that day was infinitely greater than all the days when he had been defeating my son. I understood on that day, as long as he was winning, he was winning as a chess player but losing as the chess coach. It was in his defeat, though he lost as a chess player, he triumphed as the chess coach. I also realised that the coach, from the beginning, was never playing the game against my son. He was always playing the game with my son.
Even when he was allowing my son to make mistakes, he was with my son. That was his way of giving my son the experiences to learn. Even when he was defeating my son, he was with my son. That was his way of showing my son where he was and where he could reach. Even when he was making the mistakes, he was with my son. That was his way of teaching my son to master the opponent. Even when he eventually lost to my son, he was with my son. That was his way of winning, by making his creation a winner.
That day, as I drove back home, I had tears in my eyes. My son enquired, "What happened pa?" I replied, in observing your coach, I have understood my god.
In observing the game your coach played with you,
I have understood the game my god is playing with me.
My son, through you I understood, even if
I am not yet a winner,
I know I am on my way to winning in life.
I know He is working on me.
Through your coach I have understood, the ways of my god is the ways of my god. His ways are His ways.
HE is never against me, even when it appears so.
HE is always with me.
HE will win only when I win.
These are transcendental tears my son.
" I know my son understood neither what I said nor my tears.
But it took me so long to understand His ways.
My son's time too will come...
- mahatria...voice of ra
The Path - By Mahatria - What is it? Where it leads us? - 'Faith' is above God.
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Ratria
will be the symbol of Infinitheism.
Ratria, symbolises continuity, perpetuity and
never ending evolution of the body, mind and soul.
Anyone can be one among the crowd. The joy of living life is in standing above the crowd, and in walking a different path. It's a choice you have to make. Make the decision right now. Do you want to be just anybody in life, or do you want to be somebody in life? If you live like everybody, you will become like everybody. Walk the path everybody walks, and you'll reach the destination everybody reaches. Walk a different path and you'll create a different destination for yourself.
If you keep thinking the same way, you will keep doing the same stuff. If you keep doing the same stuff, you will keep getting the same results. Expecting your life to change without changing the pattern of your thoughts is immaturity. Doing the same stuff but expecting newer results is sheer ignorance. If the effect has to change, then the cause must change.
If I have to reach where I have never reached, then I will have to take the path that I have never taken. If! have to achieve what I have never achieved, then I will have to do the things that / have never done before. If I have to accomplish what no one has ever accomplished, then I will have to do what no one has ever done.
If you want to be a pathfinder, then you must be willing to be a path breaker. You cannot have a breakthrough unless you are willing to break with. If you cannot run ahead of others, then dare to run completely in a different direction with the belief that one day this world will follow you.
Come... let us go the other way.
There was a time when the Thinkers provided leadership to the world. Then there was a time when the Mighty provided leadership to the world. Then came the time when Industrial Revolution took over the leadership of the world. From there Science took over to provide leadership to the world. Then came the Economic Revolution, which provided leadership to the world. And now, Information and Technology has been leading the world. While each of these phases of leadership did cause humungous progress to the world, and to humanity as a whole, by their very nature they can only divide and fragment the world. By their innate nature, they cannot achieve the vision of Gurudev Ra.bindranath Tagore, "Where the world has not broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls... Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.- Any extroverted, objective path can only cause further divisions, and certainly not unification.
So, is there a need for another New Age religion?
Certainly No. Another religion will only compound the problems and will not solve any of the existing issues. It will divide the world further, Please understand that lifestyle has evolved. Technology has evolved. Engineering has evolved. Varied fields of sciences have evolved. The field of medicine has evolved. Everything has either evolved or at least everything has changed. Religion alone hasn't. True, in its essence Religion cannot evolve, but it must evolve in its expressions and in its practices. Yesterday's ways don't work with today's mind. If there is so much confusion in the adult's mind regarding religious practices and so much aversion to religious practices amongst the younger minds, it is because religion, in its application, hasn't tuned itself to the modern world.
I don't have to be considered sacrilegious for stating this. In truth, this has essentially been the ways of religion. In essence, every religion, when it was born, was born as an expression of timeless wisdom with contemporary expressions. According to the time and place, in tune with the adequacies and deprivations of the society at that juncture, in sync with the temperament of people, one amongst them unfolded the contemporary expressions to the already prevailing timeless wisdom, and thus a new way of life unfolded for the masses... purely with the intent to provide a better way to life. That has been the very purpose and essence of every religion.
When the verse from The Bhagavad Gita states:
Paritranaya Sadhunaarn vinashaya cha dushkritham,
Dharma samsthapanarthaya sambhavarni yuge yuge"
...meaning,
"For the protection of the devotees and the destruction of evil and to
fully establish righteousness, I appear millennium after millennium."
Essentially, the birth of every religion is only a validation of this truth.
However, now we need something beyond religion.
Even the most intelligent of men become utterly foolish when it comes to their religious sentiments. We have brought disgrace to the founders of each of the religion. We have vulgarised their teachings and preaching. Each and every one of us should cry in shame for the way we have abused the wisdom of our spiritual masters. Let us no more subscribe to this shame. Come... /et us go the other way. Let us embrace God without embracing religious fanaticism. Religious tolerance alone will not be enough. We must renounce religious fanaticism. We must denounce all feelings of superiority and inferiority derived out of religious fanaticism. Remember, true spiritual evolution is to outgrow from the bondage of all religions.
Will God reject us if we go to Him as human beings, just plain, simple human beings, without any religious prefixes or suffixes? I claimed that I am from this religion because my dad said that he was from that religion. Can I today say that I do not belong to any religion so that my son will have no such fanaticism to embrace? I just want to remain the child of God, who will agree with me that he himself does not belong to any religion. I, as his child, too do not belong to any religion.
What blasphemy is this to even say something beyond religion is required? Hasn't every attempt in the past to think beyond religion result in leadership that discounted the existence of God, and thus only gave to the world psychopaths. True! But here we are discussing about a path that's beyond religion, and yet inclusive of God. Let me elaborate...
There is a pyramid to human development. Right at the bottom of the pyramid of human development is 'Knowledge'. We go to various forms of educational institutions to acquire knowledge. As man develops with abundant knowledge, he does realise that there is no potency to knowledge unless he develops himself in 'Attitudes and Skills'. ASK - Attitude, Skill and Knowledge, provides the competence that's needed to succeed in today's world. Anything at the cost of the other, do not help man to actualise or maximise his potential. So, we go to various mentors, coaches, training organisations and other specialists in these fields of human dynamics to develop ourselves in attitudes and skills.
However, ASK provides growth only under favourable circumstances. The simple plain truth is life is never going to be a series of favourable circumstances. That's where 'Philosophy' comes in at the next higher level of the pyramid. You begin to align yourself to the thought process of those thinkers, who have lived their entire life in contemplation of life. This is where the Gurus and Swamis come in. We learn from them, as to, how to see life, We begin to surrender our ways of thinking to their ways of thinking; for they, from a higher consciousness, have an evolved view of life.
The more and more you align yourself to philosophical view of life, the more and more you start feeling the call of Religion. The word religion has its Latin roots: Re Ligare, that is, Re (again) Ligare (to reconnect). One of the essential purposes of religion was to help you to again reconnect to your origin, which is your formless source. So, when you begin to seek religion, you end up seeking God, that formless source. You become a theist. A theist is one who believes in the presence of a higher force, called God. Now, the big question is, "Is there anything above God?" Though your instinctive whisper must have been, "There can be nothing above God," but there is...
'Faith' is above God. After all, only for those who have faith, there is a God. For, those who do not have faith, for them, there is no existence of God. In fact, for them, their pyramid stops with their philosophical understanding of life. Faith is above everything.
In reality, it is not your God, who is making your faith work. In fact, it is your faith that is making your God work. His God is weak because his faith is weak. Her God is powerful because her faith is powerful. It will be absolute immaturity to try and define God. What cannot be confined cannot be defined. Not understanding God is not ignorance. Trying to understand God is ignorance. The lower can never comprehend the higher. The lower can only surrender to the higher. And, all this is possible only through faith.
So, we need a path that can be everything in the pyramid. The new world needs a new path that can provide knowledge of life, mentor the attitudes and skills needed for actualisation and naaxirnisa.tions of one's potential, provide the philosophical spectacles to view life from a higher consciousness, lead man to unite with his origin, and most importantly, instead of defining God, helps man to define his faith.
The time has come for Scientific Spiritual Leadership. I know, the very word Spirituality has been so scandalised and vulgarised, something within shivers even uttering the words like Guru, Spirituality, Swami, Ashrams, and these are words that should actually queue in feelings that are sacrosanct. But, we don't have an alternative. Whether we want it that way or not, the only possibility of a renaissance of an united new world is through a path of Scientific Spiritual Leadership, where the Science of Spirituality is intellectually comprehended, and there is Spiritual centeredness to scientific progress.
We need a path of life that's transcendental of religious bondage. We need a path that's beyond discrimination. We need a path that does not ask man to "Give up his materialistic life," but shows him the way to
"Go up by integrating his materialistic aspirations with spiritual centeredness."
The time has come for a renaissance where science and Spirituality are no more viewed as competing paths but are seen as complementing paths. The time has come for a world where Spirituality provides leadership to science, and science intellectually carries Spirituality to the last man in the globe. It is not enough science meets God. Now, science has to work with God, and God has to work through science. A Voice of Love alone will not suffice to build a new world.
We need a Voice of abundance,
a Voice of bliss,
a Voice of silence,
and a Voice of governing Leadership...
the need is for the Voices of future.
We deserve a world of Holistic Abundance, and we need a path that can give us the breakthroughs to design our own destiny to achieve that Holistic Abundance.
We need a new world. We need a new consciousness. We need a new future. We need a new path. We need a new man... a man, who does not remind us of anybody whom we have seen in the past. Can this be a new beginning! Together, can we cause this new beginning! Even if we are the minority, we should begin.
Come... let us go the other way.
The time has come...
The path of the New Age is born...
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