Making Your Mind Your Best Friend

Yes, the tragedy is heart breaking. But have we, as the human society, done justice to the purpose that Life has given to us? Our purpose was meant to fulfill the need to love ourselves and others, and live a life of simplicity and devotion.

What have we done instead? We fanned greed all over the world. We took things for granted. As a result, the collective consciousness has been polluted over a period of time. Now that the fertile ground of negativity has spread, the terror is let loose all over. Who is responsible? Is it just the terrorists? We are also responsible, each citizen, each nation, in this world.

It is time we come back to ourselves and took a look inside ourselves, to find that the ultimate source of disruption in the world is within us, that is, in our own mind. We are inimical with our own mind. We surrender to all sorts of negative thoughts, and keep fanning them until things go out of our control. Is that not a kind of terrorism of the self, by the self?

Let us wake to the call of the Universe at this hour, going beyond all sectarian views of the religions, and work for a universal spiritualism that would create human Beings out of humans. Let us work for peace by beginning first with ourselves. No politician in the world can give peace to anyone in this world. It is a gift that only you can give to yourself. I can give peace to myself, and we can all give peace to ourselves, through the practice of prayers and meditation.

We can do a great world-changing service by just worshiping our own breath, which has no religion. There is no Hindu breath, no Christian breath, no Buddhist breath, breath is Universal. Just watch your breath with all your heart in it, witness the universe flowing through you, blessing you from within and without. Healing the world all around.

You and I cannot fight against terrorism unless we first stop the disruption in our own mind. The process of healing our minds would ripple over to the other, and the other, and the other. Eventually, it will spread everywhere to envelop the entire world in peace.

Reach for God Through All You Do!

You do not reach God through meditation alone. God is also found in appreciating happiness in your daily life. Enjoy everything you do in life…when you drive to work, when you work in your office, when you spend time with your family. Appreciate everything as a gift from God. When you wash dishes you are doing the work with the help of dishwashing powder, water, etc. Things that are a gift from the universe. Enjoy them thoroughly.

When you continuously enjoy the hours of regular existence, God will slowly reduce your burdensl you will have more time for matters of the spirit. But, if you work hard with contempt towards work, you may get more money or higher promotion, but you make little progress spiritually.

You may ask, can I not get God realization faster through meditation than through work? Do not believe those who do 8-10 hours meditation daily are progressing faster spiritually. Sometimes those people may regress by developing pride. You came to the world not only for yourself. Your wife, son, mother, and society, all have reasonable and useful expectations from you. Do not think you can go to a quiet monastery, or deep in the jungle, and automatically find peace. There are problems there, too. Find God through your daily life, by finding happiness in everything you do now.