Making Your Mind Your Best Friend

It is very simple, if you want to rely on the astrologers to decide how you should lead your life then of course you have every liberty to be commanded by them, and I have no idea where you will finally land up!

The course that appeals to me is simply follow your heart's pull. If you feel that a particular way of connecting with the Infinite that is God suits you, then that must be explored and do it fully without any doubt about it.

If you follow your heart and at the same time mumble that you don't know what is in store for you, rest assured your desired results will be far cry from reality.

So, first learn how to walk on your own feet in life, that needs self confidence and tremendous trust in the Divine in YOU.

Humbly call God by any name of your choice and worship any deity with a simple Name or mantra. You can always do japa (or chanting the Divine Name) for any Divine Name that touches your heart and connects you easily to Divinity and Grace. You will surely find your Home!

Someone may work and work and work to reach a Spiritual Goal or connect with the Divine while yet another may appear to do nothing, and yet all of a sudden obtain to a very High level of Spiritual Attainment. You may wonder why the connection happens with one soul and not another.

You connect for the simple reason that you are ready for it, that is how the Universe works. Connections are not co-incidental. They are caused by your good work in the past. Your good work now is paving the way for the future.

You don't have to be like me, or someone else you may admire, you just have to be like YOU, for you are Unique and Matchless. Be your SELF, and you will share the same joy of the Spirit. We all need to embrace all that is good in everything that on the surface looks to be bad. Thus our heart will become the Sacred Space where the Divine can shine without any hindrance.

We all are gifted with many many good qualities and possibilities. However, in most of us there is hidden part of us which is not very happy to be who we are. We are judmental and critical of ourselves often, even for the most mundane things like not being able to stay focused or complete a task. This lack of self Love can hamper our progress on our Spiritual Path.

How do you come to bring more self Love and self acceptance into your life? First wake up in the morning and appreciate the gifts that you have, thanking God for all the Blessings. From there, start your day with a bit of stretches and meditation, and then follow up with a strong determination to complete the tasks that you are prioritizing for the day. Even if you have too many things to do, first learn to prioritize and then don't jump around without completing the task at hand. Have check list, strike off with happiness that you have completed the tasks.

At night pat your back for the good job done for the day and at the same time RESOLVE to do even better the next day to leave no task earmarked for the day as incomplete before you come to sleep.

As you grow in appreciation of yourself and all the gifts the Divine brings to the world through you, you will grow in your own self-esteem and Glow and Glow!

Oh! I enjoy each of these wondrous inventions of modern science, all the cell phones, and internet, and i-pods that have brought us closer in time, space dimension. My hats off to all the scientists who are working night and day to bring the next techno-marvel that will put the generations in AWE! We humans are gifted with the most sophisticated subtlety of intellect and mind and no wonder we are flooding the world with the next best gen x model. It is so much fun!

But mind you, you can enjoy every gift of science provided you are first anchored in your Spirit within, through meditation and silence. It is not just science, even with money, my answer is the same. Nothing per se is wrong, it is how we use it, that makes the difference. Are we getting subservient to the gadgets? Are we getting slavish with money. If yes, we are in trouble.

Nature offers us hundreds of options, just as She manifests in trillions of forms and colors, showing Her infinite creativity. We are here to have the Grace of Nature to the extent that we are not gripped by pride and greed.

My only suggestion is always follow the path of moderation. Use everything as long as you are not used by the gadgets. Insanity is the tendency to abuse and misuse, as long as you use and respect the gifts, it is never a harm either to the user or the others.

I follow a daily routine, respecting the Time, and always go by priorities. I don't rush and don't allow anyone to know that they can use me. I respect every one, but i always remember my time and my priorities and my discipline in life. I don't want to do things that i don't want to do and then put the blame on others saying that others are forcing me to do it.

This gives me enough time to enjoy each of these gifts of the Modern Science including its researches on how Science is coming closer and closer to the Science that Sages of India discovered in their inner Spirit or how the Objective Science is being reconciled with the Subjective world of Spirit.

Just understand what you want to achieve in life and don't rush. One at a time, relax, pause and let the power of the distilled mind manifest the material realities. You will be happy, you will not feel that these gadgets are causing any harm to anyone.

As long as you are worshiping your sanity of friendly mind, you are fine, the insane world will not distract you even with its repetitive invitations. This is my experience i am sharing with you.

Love and gratitude to the scientists of the outer and Inner world.
Baba