Conscious Living

The most common reasons for fear or anger in a conversation doesn’t arise from what is spoken. A lot depends on how words are spoken and what emotions we use to communicate.

When we lose ourselves to our emotions, we run a risk of influencing our words with fiery emotions. That can cause our intentions to be misdirected and our emotions displaced. We lose the outcome altogether.

Recently, my son and I were walking by a vacant site in which an engineering machine company was digging a bore well. My son, who had never seen this machine until then asked what it was… and this analogy of the difference between self worth and self importance struck to my imagination.

If you wish to succeed in life, you have to find the shortest way, and that is to follow principles that have been laid out, that already exist. There is no point in reinventing the wheel.

In ancient India, people recorded their evidences of successes and shared them freely with anyone who needed them.

Take a look at our Puranas. There are immense resource of evidences that can guide you to your personal success.

My daughter had recently earned an invitation from a prestigious visual arts Association. As a gesture of appreciation, I wanted to gift her an iPad so that she can continue her hobby. While I was waiting for the device to be billed, I watched young boys, just out of their teens, may be, enquiring options to trade-in their iPhone 11 for the latest iPhone 12.

I stepped back from my judgments and then a thought came gliding in… What for has God sent me here? I know there is something for me to learn from this experience. A beautiful voice spoke from within… A real devotee sees God everywhere. Instantly, there was light everywhere. There was joy everywhere. My eyes filled with tears of joy.

Does emotional pain of your son, daughter, spouse, friend, parents or siblings affect you? A client called me a few months ago and said that she was having a brotherly affection towards a doctor who treated her. He too reciprocated in the same brotherly fashion. However, a few months later, he began to demand more time and attention from her. He was behaving like a baby. For her, it was like a string around her neck. She felt strangulated by his demand for attention. Do your relationships also have similar tags?

when you follow a schedule, you are respected for it. People make their schedules around yours. No one tries to disturb you. On the contrary, if you did not have a schedule, you are taken for granted. No one takes you seriously.

Karma means consequence. Every thought, every word spoken and every action taken has a consequence. This consequence is what you are living now. Consequence is nether good nor bad. It simply is the result of your thought, word and deed.

Imagine a quiver full of arrows. The arrows that are in the quiver are the future. The arrow that is struck on the bow is the present. And the arrows that have already been fired and are travelling towards the target is your past.

Karma is the greatest teacher. It helps us realise many truths of life. Let me share one such story which helps us learn some necessary truths about healing.

A lady of Chinese origin came to my office with excruciating fissure pain. I performed her Nadi Pariksha and suggested a medicated oil. She used it for 2 days and called me saying that 80% of her fissure had healed. However, she mentioned that before coming to me, she had visited an 85 years old ayurvedic physician and his medicines had no effect on her. So, she had called him after getting relief. The old physician, upon listening to her question of why she hadn’t prescribed this specific medicine said that he had not remembered to prescribe this medicine to her.

It was not his fault. It was her karma which was burning that had prevented the physician from remembering the name of this specific medicine.

Whether you are at home, office, with friends, wherever, never let your anticipation turn to expectation. To anticipate an appreciation, a kind word, an understanding by someone, of your situation, that something good will happen is ok. It doesn’t bother you if that thing you anticipated doesn’t happen. When you anticipate that something nice will happen and it doesn’t, you are not upset. However, when you expect something good to happen, you stop everything you are doing waiting for that good thing to happen. And, If it doesn’t, all hell breaks loose.

So, keep your anticipations alive and expectations at bay. Anticipation doesn’t take your happiness away from you. We all anticipate that tomorrow will be better than today, right! Let us continue to live in that anticipation.