Nature & Us

All nature is made of 5 elements - Earth, Water, Fire, Air & Space

And your body is same - Flesh & Bones is Earth, Fluids is 75% just like on the planet, the agni that digests the food is the Fire, we breath air and Self is the space

The voice (copy & paste)

There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend

Or wise man can decide
What's right for you--just listen to
The voice that speaks inside. 
-Shel Silverstein

Sailing & Spiritualism - 2 ( for adults)

When waters are calm, sailing is smooth and easy & voyage is faster!
When waters are rough , the effort involved in sailing is a lot more

The waters is the state of mind or us internally
Sailing is how we conduct ourselves

Again depending on our SAIL ( Self Awareness I Learn) we will move forward !

Sailing & Spiritualism 1

As per Wikipedia Sailing is the propulsion of a vehicle and the control of its movement with large (usually fabric) foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes the keel or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to move the vessel relative to its surrounding medium (typically water, but also land and ice) and change its direction and speed. Mastery of the skill requires experience in varying wind and sea conditions, as well as knowledge concerning sailboats themselves and an understanding of one's surroundings

For sailing the skill & environment are important but the sail is critical. Now imagine making a sail out of a weak cloth ?? will it be able to hold  the wind & move with it? Will a sail made out of gauze move the boat forward? 

What is the sail?? If my boat is my body & the ocean is the sansar and the journey I make is life , then the sail is SELF AWARENESS I LEARN

Lesson of time

GROWING GOOD CORN ( copy & paste )

Have you noticed how all of life is connected? You probably know about the relationship between honey ants (farm ants) and aphids. The ants can't seem to get enough of the tasty honey dew left behind by aphids, those tiny sap-sucking insects probably living in your garden. These two insects have a fascinating relationship. In exchange for all the sugary treats aphids deposit on leaves, the ants wage fierce battle against wasps, beetles and spiders that try to dine on aphids for lunch. As those aphids keep their ant friends happy, the ants keep their aphid buddies alive. Everyone wins, except the plants, of course.

The ants do better because of the aphids. The aphids do better because of the ants. It's a relationship called mutualism, and the rest of us could probably take a lesson. People, too, succeed best when they help others out.

James Bender, in his book How to Talk Well (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1994), illustrates how it benefits to everyone when we mutually help each other. He relates a story of a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his best corn in the regional fair where it won a blue ribbon.

One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him to learn about how he grew blue-ribbon corn year after year. The reporter discovered something interesting. He learned that the farmer actually shared his best seed corn with his neighbors.

"How can you afford to share your best seeds with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition against yours each year?" the reporter asked.

"Why sir," said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn."

It's a simple and important principle. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbor's corn also improves. He cannot succeed simply by watching out for Number One. He succeeds best by helping his neighbors succeed. That's mutualism.

And I am aware that it goes for me, too. Do I want to succeed? Then I must help others to succeed.

Do I want to live in peace and harmony? Then I need to help my neighbors also live in peace, and the very peace they experience will add to my own.

Do I want to live meaningfully and well? Then I should help to enrich the lives of others, for my own happiness and well-being is bound up in the lives I touch.

In other words, if I want to grow good corn, I need to help my neighbors grow good corn. Call it mutualism. Call it a principle of success. Call it a law of life. I only know that none of us truly wins until we all win.

WHO IS YOUR PILOT?? (copy & paste)

The priest was on a long flight home after a conference. The first warning of approaching problems came when the ‘Fasten your seat belts’ sign flashed on.

After a while a calm voice said," we shall not be serving beverages as we are expecting a little turbulence." The priest looked around and saw that many of the passengers were looking apprehensive.

Later the voice thru the intercom said,” we are so sorry that we are unable to serve meals ; the turbulence is still ahead of us.”

And then the storm broke.

Later,  the thunder could be heard even above the roar of the engines. Lightning lit up the darkening skies, and within moments, the plane was tossed around. One moment it was lifted on terrific currents of air, the next it fell as if about to crash.

As the priest looked around, all the passengers looked alarmed - except one little girl. She sat calmly, looking at pictures in a book, oblivious of the turbulence around her. Sometimes she would close her eyes and then she would go back to her book.

The storm blew over.

When the plane landed and the passengers were disembarking , the priest approached the little girl and asked her why she was not afraid like the other passengers. The little girl replied,” because my Daddy is pilot and he’s taking me home”.

There are many storms that buffet us – physical, mental, financial, domestic and other storms that can darken our skies and may throw us into turmoil. Like the little girl, let us always remember:

"Our father is the Pilot. He is in control. He will take us Home."

The soul & the body (copy & paste)

The Relationship Between The Soul And The Body – Explained With Interesting Examples

Human being means the consciousness, the soul or being (living energy), experiencing life through the physical body, the human (non-living). The body is perishable and temporary, whereas the soul is eternal and without physical dimension.
• The soul is the driver; the body is the car.
• The soul is the actor; the body is its costume.
• The soul is a diamond; the body is the jewelry box.
• The soul is the musician; the body is the instrument.
• The soul is the guest; the body is the hotel.
• The soul is the deity; the body is the temple.


I can use a knife to chop vegetables. I can use the same knife to kill someone. The knife neither decides (outwards) nor experiences (inwards), but can be washed easily under water. Now look at the fingers which held the knife. They neither decide nor experience the actions. They too can be washed under water. It's easy to realize that the knife is an instrument, but it is more difficult to realize that the fingers as well as the arms are instruments too. The legs are instruments for walking, the eyes for seeing, the ears for hearing, the mouth for speaking, the tongue for tasting, the heart for pumping food and oxygen (via blood) around the body, and so on. Even the brain is an instrument used like a computer to express all thought, word and action programs through the body and to experience the results. If every physical part of the body is an instrument, who or what is it that is using this instrument? Very simply it is "I", the self, the soul. The soul uses the word "I" for itself and the word "my" when referring to the body; my hands, my eyes, my brain, etc. I am different from my body.

Baggage allowance

What is my baggage allowance???

With most airlines its a definite number

In the movie UP IN THE AIR, there was a magic bag pack which would take anything , but then not easy to carry

In life there is no limit and we keep collecting baggage - physical & emotional

There is a saying those who travel on faith , travel the lightest...

Where no one can see

Once a master teaching children gave them all a banana and said go, eat it where no one can see.

So one kid went inside a small room.
Another went to a tree house
One went inside a tent
Then one put a blanket over him and ate his banana
Some one hid under a desk
And then there were others who went under the bed or on the roof top etc

One ate it with his eyes closed and claimed that he was in a place where there was no one & he closed his own eyes as well.

But some came back without eating the banana. When the teacher asked why they did not eat , this is what they said

A. If I don't eat it then no one has seen me eat it!!!
B. But God was watching me everywhere!!!!!!!!

Where is God

Usually when this question is asked the answer is everywhere. God is omnipresent. All pervasive and so on...

But here is how to remember this as said by a learned person

1. Look back and be grateful to God for what you have or achieved or become or learnt
2. Look forward and hope God will always be with you
3. Look besides and see God walking/working with you
4. Look within to search for God
5. Look beyond and realise its only GOD everywhere!!!!

The flame and the breeze

Have you observed how the flame flickers when there is a whiff of wind, the candle struggles to keep the flame going. A little help from anywhere helps the flame stabilise.

Now the flame is you , the wind is the disturbances around you on the spiritual journey & the help comes from the God and from many of his conduits

Now if we have to keep our flame going , then we need to protect it from the disturbances. If we keep it in an almost protected room then the light will not reach others!!! so if we keep in say glass box, it will let the light out but will run out of oxygen!!! now if we kind of ring fence it with a glass chimney then the light will be shared & the flame will continue ...and the catch is that this shield needs to be always clean & almost not visible...


We have to live in worldly world, keep the flame going, and protect the flame with an almost invisible shield that lets the light out, but does not let the disturbances in. This shield is the knowledge of the Gita.

When have you arrived?

We often say "Oh, he has arrived in life"

In the cosmopolitan sense this phrase is heard when someone has bought a house or a fancy car or other materialistic things

This morning I met a lady who said, in the spiritual sense ..

Is it when you want no more money
or when you want no more cars or wealth
or when you want no more relationships
or no more responsibilities ....

In her words its when you really want NO MORE and you want to KNOW MORE!!!!!

Sun & Moon

In the solar system we give great importance to Sun & Moon.

In our religious rituals also they have a significant spot.

WHY??
The Sun is the largest, oldest, perennial source of energy which enables life on Earth. Our environment and plants etc and hence our food and as a result our body can exists , thanks to the Sun.

The Moon that cause tides in the ocean and some times high tidal waves is directly connect with us as we are made up of 70+% water. And Moon reflects the sunlight!

Depending on our physical health , our mental attitudes reflect our situation.

Are we happy b'coz we are well, or are we well b'coz we are happy????

Well as some knowledgeable person said, the Sun is the Lord of our body and the Moon is the Lord of our mind.