Knowledge on Decision-making

1.  Correct decision is possible only after clarity, realization of truth, Clear understanding.

2.  Clarity is possible only after research, analysis and keen observation.

3.  Research precedes experience.  Rich experience empowers minute and wide research.

4.  Experience is of two kinds: a) primary experience from our own actions, b) secondary experience by reading books from the experienced, by watching related videos, by listening to lectures of the learned in that field, in general, to know the experiences of the already experienced.

5.  Actions precede our efforts, take place in favourable situations, and are boosted by our interest and involvement (self-motivation).

6.  Our efforts are based on and driven by our needs, impulses, desires and emotions.

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Of Life Force, Old Age and Death

Life Force:
     A group of trillions of fundamental, self-rotating energy particles in the body is called life-force.  Certain number of energy particles leave our body constantly due to the repulsive force of the Earth.  However the sexual vital fluid (svf) that is produced at the brain and comes to the center of the body after puberty retains sufficient number of energy particles in the body with its attractive force.  Our health and youth are depending on the bio-magnetism which is produced by life-force (energy particles) whose density relies on the amount of svf located at the center of the body.  Hence, the density of the life-force will vary in different ages due to various factors.  Sperms in men and steroid hormone in women are collectively termed here as svf.  This svf exits our body
(i) sometimes involuntarily during sleep.
(ii)  voluntarily through sexual intercourse
(iii) voluntarily through masturbation
(iv) naturally at the time of death
     Life is maintained by this life-force and the bio-magnetism produced by it.  The food we take reaches several processes and at last becomes our body.  First it becomes chemical juice, then blood, flesh, cholesterol, bones, majai, and at last sexual vital fluid.  .  Thus food is the source of sexual vital fluid that is the source of life-force that is the source of bio-magnetism that is the source of our youth, immunity power, the energy to operate our body organs, sensual experiences and the functioning of our mind.

Old Age:
    The production of svf is not at the same quantity in all ages.  It decreases after 40 years and ceases at 60 generally.  Bio-magnetism produced by life-force eventually decreases.  Our body cells which are intact and energetic because of this bio-magnetism suffer a lot and lead to shrinks in the skins.  The weakness of nerves also gives rise to hanging of flesh -what we call as old age knocks at our door now.

Death:
     Pain is the initial signal of the short-circuit in our body.  Incurable diseases exhaust the bio-magnetism in our body whereas accident takes away great amount of bio-magnetism in no time.  Consequently short-circuit in svf results in the total quit of svf from the body.  Life-force which is a dependent of svf also quits the body.  Bio-magnetism which is a dependent of life-force also gets away.  Death occurs.  Body and mind stop functioning.  The decomposition starts.
     Soul and life-force are entirely different.  The former refers to the imprints of our experiences and actions passing from generation to generation through hereditary whereas the later is a group of self-rotating energy particles which we call 'akash' in the universe, one of the five elements constituting nature. The exercise to retain life-force in the body and maintain youth is called 'kayakalpa' in yoga.  To learn kayakalpa and know more about life-force and bio-magnetism, contact World Community Service Center, Chennai, India or make a call to Temple of Consciousness, Aliyar or anywhere in the world (www.vethathiriyam.org)
     
     

Impermanence and the knowledge

Knowledge starts growing up at the realization of impermanence.  Nothingness exists for ever.  Everything emerges from and ends in that nothingness.
     What we see is not object or person, but function or movement of a group of fundamental energy particles only.  For example a pen is but  a group of atoms functioning a particular speed.  This function starts  , continues for sometime and ends in nothingness and then there is no more a pen.  For all groups of atoms, we have given different names such as person, object, air, fire, mountain, this and that just for identification or to differentiate it from other thing.   If we delete the names all are but mere group of atoms.  These atoms which came from nothingness have electrons which become in course of time protons and then later the same atoms become neutrons and at last black hole and nothingness.
     Light or darkness - which is great?  Darkness.  Because that exists permanently.  Light comes and remains for certain time and dissolves into darkness. Sound or Silence - which is great?  Silence.  Because it remains for ever and sounds are just passing clouds in that everlasting silence.  In the same way our mind is impermanent but absence of thoughts is permanent.  Before and after life what exists?  Not mind but thoughtless state.
     Nothingness is like ocean and the universe is like waves in it.  Waves emerges from the ocean and at last, within short period, mingles into it.  Ocean is one but waves are many.  Nothingness is one but the universal objects and the groups of atoms are many.  Before and after death what remains is true but life is an illusion because only that can remain for ever can be truth, not the one (life) that is impermanent.
   Go back in your life and think whether your school-day friends are now with you.  Think whether the dress you had worn at your childhood days are at present with you.  Are you working or living in the same place where you were doing the same before 10 years?  Mostly the answer is No. Understanding Impermanence is the key to release your knowledge from the jail of illusions. 

The Three Sides of Man

Every man has three sides:
1.  The Known:
     This is how he looks to others - people's judgment about him.  It may be a mixture of true and false values.
     It is from how he acts or speaks while in contact with others or from what he owns.

2.  The Unknown:
     This side is man's private area known only to him or one or two very close to him.  It holds his real strength and weakness, a record of his real nature.  Usually man hides this area from others because it has so many ugly scenes, his failures and disappointments in the past that the people with him now do not aware of, and his private crimes.  This private side of man is not generally known by other people who look at only his physical  appearance and the respect, power and luxuries he enjoys. If it is known to all, then even great political leaders, spiritual leaders and all other respectable(so called) celebrities should be in jail.

3.  The Unpredictable:
     Nobody except destiny knows this side of man.  Passing time reveals it.  Even man does not know about this side - how he is going to be.  What will happen tomorrow to him, where he will be tomorrow, with whom, under what circumstances, whether with fortunes or misfortunes, with respect or shame are hidden from nature.

Towards Understanding Human Body and Nature!

Anything that functions should either produce energy within or receive energy from outside for its function.   Everything in nature is but a group of atoms in different proportion.  For these groups of atoms we have given name such as man, animal, mountain, planet and the like.  Nothing in nature is still since everything is a group of ever rotating atoms.  Let us take for example our earth that is a group of atoms.  If we divide apart all atoms, there is no such thing as earth.  Each atom in the earth is not in the same place.  They are rotating and moving here and there within a specific area according to the sameness in no of electrons, protons and neutrons within them.  Earth is not in the same place and within earth atoms are not functioning in the same place; within atom, electrons and protons are not rotating in the same place. 

We may think that only the earth and other planets are moving around the sun and the father of the solar system is in the same place, in the centre.  But actually the sun is also moving in the space with all its children within a vast specific area and in the same way other suns in the space.  Everything is rotating in the universe, then what about man?  Yes, he is also rotating.  All human beings are rotating in the space with high speed along with the earth.  If we look at the earth being away from it, being in the outer space, we can realize this. 

                Man is but a group of atoms in beautiful proportion.  He is made up of five elements which are the components in nature as well.  Solid, liquid, gas, fire (heat) and aakash (primary energy particle) are the five elements everywhere in nature and the same make man.   Our bones, flesh and all such organs are solid, whereas blood and water are liquid; ever breathing oxygen is the air within us; heat is also maintained at 98.6⁰; aakash is but a group of primary energy particles called life-force.  The distance between two self-rotating small energy particles in the life-force is greater than the one in other group of atoms in blood and bones.  That is why we could not see life-force that actually preserves the body from decomposition. 

                Everything in nature functions (rotates), eventually loses its energy and compensates the loss with energy from its own production or from outside.  Man is also an energy container.  He spends energy constantly.  Every second thousands of cells are destroying from his body organs and, with the energy he receives from food, the loss is compensated with the production of new cells.  Dead blood cells are also compensated in this way.  The air he breathes becomes carbon-die-oxide but the loss is compensated constantly with the oxygen he breathes.  Similarly, the life-force also loses its energy by constantly producing bio-magnetism that operates our body organs and our mind, and refreshes with new energy taken from the sexual vital fluid bagged in the centre of the body that we call sperms.   So the body we had few minutes before is not the one we have now.  Every second we are a new man.  If the energy supplied to the body by way of eating, drinking and breathing is stopped for one or two days we can practically realize how much energy is spent from and how much loss occurs. 

                Life-force is but billions of energy particles rotating throughout the body.  Bio-magnetism drawn from life-force in our body is the main reason for our all activities such as being awake, working, seeing, hearing, thinking and so on.  Imagine for example, when we wake up at 6 0 clock in the morning; the sum total of bio-magnetism in our body is 80 units.   Every hour our life-force produces 5 units bio magnetism and up to 10 o’ clock at night (16 hours) we gain 80 units bio-magnetism in addition.  So we shall have (80 +80 =) 160 units.  But it won’t be, because we have to spend 7.5 units per hour for our activities and for the function of our mind.  So the loss in the day would be (7.5 x 16) 120 units and the remaining balance at night 10 o’ clock will be just 40 units which are basically required for the function of our body internal organs such as heart and blood circulation.  So the body becomes tired and we feel sleepy.  Then we sleep at night for 8 hours, we store (8 x 5) 40 units of bio-magnetism.  So in the morning thus when we reach (40+balance 40) 80 units, we automatically get into wakefulness.  Again we start our day-to-day activities in this way.  Suppose we are awake even after 10 o’clock at night neglecting the warning signals (yawning, tiredness, etc.,) of nature, then our body organs (eyes, ears, heart and brain) have to function with low-voltage and automatically they lose their durability as in the case of our home appliances such as mixer, grinder and TV.  How dangerous it is to burn the midnight oil at nightclubs and discotheques in merrymaking.   Note:  The amount of bio-magnetism being stored in body will be different from person to person depending upon their age, physical health and mainly the number of energy particles in their body that will vary depending upon the quantity and quality of the amount of sexual vital fluid they have.

Towards Understanding Knowledge!

No one wants to be ignorant. One may like to read all the great books of the world and to know everything but life is too short to quench our thirst. Knowledge is life-long acquired and class rooms are not the only treasure houses of knowledge. This article attempts to explore possible ways of acquisition of knowledge.

To know about something through understanding is acquiring knowledge about it. The more you gather knowledge about something, the more the kingdom of your mind expands. Your thinking arena widens and strengthens. When you know more than what others know about a particular subject or field, You become a master; an expert to resolve the issues related to it; a judge to pass valid judgements about it. Your service is required to the society and you are paid for the invaluable knowledge you possess. There is no limit to accumulate knowledge but there is limit in imparting it to others - you can give now only what you have up to now.

How to improve knowledge is the essential knowledge one needs to acquire first. The chief, fundamental and authentic source of knowledge is books. There are millions of books about millions of subjects in thousands of languages. Browse on the Net and know the books of all time. These books are the fruits of profound thinking of geniuses. You become what you read and hence read selected texts of Master Minds. Reading should be constantly and deeply. Check yourself. We don't buy all the best books we have so far heard about. We don't read all the books we have bought and we don't practice all the books we have read. A good book is one that is for people of all Ages and the one that turns you into a new leaf, burning away all your ignorance, illusions and misconceptions. The following are some books that you may try:

1. "My Experiments with Truth" by Mahatma Gandhi

2. "The Ramayana" by Valmiki

3. "The Mahabharatha" by Vyasa

4. "The Four Vedas" in Hinduism

5. "The Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan

6. "Thirukural" by Thiruvalluvar

Secondly the way to improve our knowledge is through thinking. To think is to know. Silence nurtures thinking whereas noise poisons it. To be emotional and impulsive is easy as well as dangerous but to be serene is to be thoughtful and creative. It is all in your mind that functions from 1 to 40 cycles. If it is at 20 cycles or above, it results in emotional state of mind and makes us weak and incapable of many things. When the mind functions between 8 and 14 cycles, it leads to creativity and thoughtfulness. Between 1 and 7 cycles, intuitions and inner revelations are at peak and mind itself reveals all knowledge about Nature and men and matters. One can progress towards this stage through systematic and constant meditation practice. Understanding precedes knowledge and silence precedes understanding. On the other hand, the question 'why?' stimulates your thinking and takes you to the world of wisdom. But don't stop with single 'why?'. Ask 'why?' at every answer you arrive at every 'why?'

Learn through experience is the another way to dig out the treasure. Your working experience imparts you more knowledge than what you acquired at schools and colleges or what you heard from others. To know and to practise are not the same though the former precedes and helps the latter. The knowledge you gathered is confirmed to be true and becomes yours only when it is tested or put into practice. Reading a book about swimming and driving doesn't make you a swimmer or driver. It is the practice and experience that makes you so. So mere reading of the map won't work and we have to travel to reach the destination. This fact answers why people are suffering in the world that has thousands of gospels and ethics.

Learning through errors is yet another way of improving our knowledge. Failures teaches you more lessons that success fails to do. Both the winner and the loser are the gainers. We succeed and we know what we should do. We error and we know both what we should do and what we should not. Both are knowledge-builders. You are squeezed by fate, disappointments, failures and loss but only to take the best essence of knowledge and lesson for life out of them.

Finally to conclude our discussion, we may proceed to 'learning through patience.' It is patience that makes you realise truth which gives rise to concrete knowledge about an issue at hand. The one who makes you angry is the best teacher who teaches you patience. Emotions kill your reason that patience rescues. Knowledge cures a problem and never aggravates. Observe (don't merely see) everything and everybody and your understanding would tell you that you have thousands of lessons to improve your knowledge.

Mind and the Secret World

Puzzling Questions:

Did we ever ask these questions in our life? : Where were we before our birth? Where do we go after our death? We say, B.C but which is the very first year? Now it is 2012. How long will it go and which is the last year? Where is our soul in our body? What about ESP? How can I get that power? or Are they not real? I want to be young for ever. How to escape from the clutches of old age and death? We never seriously asked and never gained meaningful answers. These and many more questions of this kind belong to the Mystic World.

Challenges - Possible or Impossible?

How to foresee my future or anbody's? How to read the pages of tomorrow or next month today itself? How to watch the plays of destiny beforehand? Without areoplane, I want to fly in the world. How? These are odd and unnatural ( you may even call 'mad' ) questions or challenges. The strong belief that everything is possible by MAN gives rise to the thought that there must be a special key to open this mystic world. There must be interesting nevertold (or rarely) answers to these scarcely touched questions. My articles (in series) would deal with this issue step by step.

Mind - Is that that Key?

  Human mind is so powerful when it is so peaceful and pure. It is the vast deep ocean into which as deep as we go, so much as we can take pearls of wisdom. It can expand bigger than the universe and shrink smaller than the atom. It can take the shape of any object or person and absorb their nature or character; it can travel faster than light and remain motionless like the dead, by strenuous practice. It is only the mind that can be all and know all by being all. Hence, it must bring or be the key to the Mighty Gates of the Mystic World.

The Characteristics of the Wrong Key:

Let us now know who is not eligible to enter this world. In the name of thinking, our mind generally, mostly, traditionally, habitually and repeatedly displays in the mind-monitor our past experiences, present engagements, and tasks and the hopeful expectations of the future. These mundane commitments are the barriers and make the mind ineligible to have access to the Secret World. The visa is denied to the mind which is worldly, weak, wicked and emotional. Their efforts will result in vain for the time being, until their nature changes.

The Characteristics of the Right Key:

  Eligibility conditions are two to apply for visa to such mystic world: (i) Unselfish and Pure Mind that is blessed with divine guidance or intuition on the way, and implies assurance not to misuse the power and knowledge revealed from that world. (ii) Systematic self-practice to take the mind to the most peaceful state which, then, reveals and becomes answers for all mysteries, stunningly burning away all age long ignorance. Wait for the next door to open on our way.

Money - A Password to Heaven and Hell

Are you in search of Mr. Money? Or, would you like to read the interesting things about him? Or, would you like to stay with him honestly? This article aids you on your way to understand, welcome and deal with Mr. Money?

Towards Understanding Money
An ordinary paper certified to have value is called money, just as an ordinary stone generally recognized and valued by most of the people is known as gold. I go to a hotel to answer my hunger, or I go to a textile shop to check my eligibility for buying dress. They ask me whether I have worked. I say "yes." They ask me to show evidence and I produce a piece of paper called 'money.' Hence money is token of my labor. What I earn by labor is my money. So money is not (your) money if you possess it without sweating on your part even though you have inherited it. If you do not deserve to possess the money that you have now in your hand, or bank account or as your property, you may rightly be called as a thief as per the wordings in the dictionary of Truth.

The Real Value of Money
A thousand rupee note (Indian money, for example) is found by the side of the road. Imagine, first a typical worldly man passes on that way. His heart jumps to sky to pick it up. He looks around and rushes home with a prayer not to be interrupted or enquired by anyone on the way. Secondly, imagine a sage, the renouncer of all to visit that place. He may leave the place quite undisturbed by it or he may simply smile at it to think how the world tries in vain to tempt him. Finally imagine a street dog. It looks at it, sniffs it, then urinates on it and leaves that place in search of something valuable ( eatable) to it. Tell me now - " What is the real value of money?" Money has no (fixed) value at all. It is the needs and desires in our mind and our so-called imposed knowledge of it that adds value to money. You may promise billion dollars to an angry uncivilized tribe begging for your life, but in vain since it values nothing to them. The more you grow intellectually the more the value of money changes to you.
Bank Versus Stomach
You are made into a billionaire but dropped into an uninhabited island where nature also provides nothing to eat. Will your money answer your hunger? In the absence of money, food and water will suffice your survival but not vice versa. Man is mad after money without raising the question - how much do I need it? He is never content with what he earns or what he has. The more he earns, the more his desires and so-called needs grow. The horizon moves back as much as he goes ahead to reach his destination. The society fuels his burning heart. His valuable peace and freedom, and the divine delight from nature are swallowed by this hungry monster 'Money'. He is sleepless and just for money stays away from the care and affections of his own better-half and blood relations. Why should man build his own prison with the bricks of money and power?

Money - A Password to Hell
Since your life on earth is impermanent, the money you have cannot be yours for ever. Is money a prostitute? The money which was with someone once is at present with you and will be with yet another one tomorrow. Like a whore, it attracts everyone irrespective of gender and age who uses it and passes it to others for their use. In fact money jails you with all illusions; it spoils your mind opening all gates to the wicked world; infects your health sucking all your energy by addicting you to all bad habits. Money offers you more rights to sin, more rooms to hide and more emergency windows at danger. Besides, to be money is to be with fear - it means, you have uninvited guests with smiles at your door such as burglars and kidnappers. You remember money and your children forget labor. They find joys and freedom behind your money which favors them to ruin. Think why money should favor very few and fall in love with them who are called billionaires and are held in high esteem in a his own country where beggars are held in contempt and unemployment issues drive the victims to crimes which offers employments to police and lawyers. Money simply smiles at all these dramas.

Money - A Password to Heaven


Everything in nature plays dual role - constructive and destructive. A knife which saves a life being in the hands of doctor, kills the same being in the hands of a murderer. Fire which lights up your dark home like a comrade, burns it with rage like a foe. Likewise money which is a key to hell is also a password to open the Golden Gates of Heaven. It takes you from the hell of poverty to the heaven of joys. The necessity of money is felt from your very birth where the surgeon needs to be paid. The inescapable hunger, accustomed dressing, thirst for knowledge, longings for your dream house, search for your life partner and such needs of your children and other dependants are all answered by Mr. Money only. Sometimes, for your own funeral and grave, you need to pay in advance. Money promises you social status, rescues you in accidents, aides you in your expensive research, empowers you for your tours and travels around the world and qualifies you a more independent philanthropist. With money, you build your own heaven.

Mr. Money, the chief guest who visits your abode has to be sent off but ensure yourself that the entry and exit paths for him should be paths of labor and virtue respectively.

Money Begets Money - No Family Planning Here

Most of the retail investors who have one of the following feelings must know the remedy nearby.

1. Now Market is low. If I invest now i will definitely get back several times more within 2 year. But all my money are in the market.

Remedy: Whenever you invest, keep 30 per cent in reserve for bottom-fishing.

2. I bought the shares only as long term investment. But last week or month I sold it. Now the same share is rising up and up before my eyes. I can't endure it.

Remedy: Good stocks are not prodigal sons. Don't worry, they will return home robustly richly. Fix a target date or target amount for selling until which never think of selling unless there is a bad news about it.

3. Everybody bought and I also did the same.... but now after my purchase it is coming down continuously. Oh my god! I'm lost. Or Oh my god I should have sold yesterday or last week itself. Now the ball is out of my pocket.

Remedy: Enter the market when everybody exits. Exit the market when everybody enters. It means: Buy when there are most sellers, and sell when there are most buyers.

4. All my shares are in long term investment. Now I have to simply watch all ups and down without any chance to play or participate.

Remedy: Whenever you invest allot 1o percent for short term investment, that too in potential shares in low price. Be active and don t touch the systematic long term investment.

5. Many technical analysts and many recommendations! I am totally confused what to buy and when to sell.

Remedy: Be a thoughtful role model and not a blind follower. Do self study and rise to the great position of wisely recommending to yourself, your own thirsty soul.

6. I have urgent expenses. I have to sell my well nurtured shares. No other go! Why destiny plays game with me when I'm having a dinner with my Fortune?

Remedy: Divide your cash, whether profit or savings or any other income, into several headings one of which must be for your unexpected expenses (at least fifteen percentage). Otherwise your bright sky will be clouded with these expenses.

7. Out of fear or sudden impulses, I sold all my worthy shares! I have pricked my eyes with my own hands. Why all this nonsense?

Remedy: If you realize immediately, re buy the same shares even with little loss that is minimum punishment for your emotions. Do meditation daily and keep your mind calm to take wise decisions - that
is the permanent remedy for your emotional errors that may sometimes bring huge losses. Wish you Good luck as well as Deep Thinking.

Battle Against Mr Stress? War-Techniques for Victory

Preface to Family Stress

Our mental stress caused by or emerging from the members of our family is what we call as family stress. It includes our everlasting, often repeating what-to-do worries - Of course, a hungry monster, always swallowing our peace, smiles and inward genius. Why all this mental stress, especially from our family which must have been a heaven on earth? Those who aired our heart now seem to be heavy burdens. How many divorces at how many times! How many suicides from dejected and the frustrated! How many murders dressed in natural events! How many lonely sinking ships on the sea-shore, in the corner of park and bus stand! How many thunder and lightning in how many hearts and eyes?! Some turn into poets and philosophers but surely many undergo death-in-life.

Who is that Bloody Stress-manufacturer?

Who showers on you the stress, especially in your family? Your spouse makes you think - "Marriage - betrothed in heaven or hell?" The promotion of your life-partner from unknown to the known, then to the best-known and at last to the worst-known clearly indicates the birth and the growth of your stress. Wife's fancy and frenzy, son's education and vacation, father's debt and your indebtedness, grandma's operation and your empty purse and many more such occasions switch off the light in your heart.

Reasons for Door-Lock and Keys:

1. Change Yourself and Destiny Will Change: Your likes and dislikes and your beliefs and non-beliefs conflicting with your better-half's (?) is the main reason. You may like the growth of brain while your wife, the growth of purse. When you love to be buried into the books, your knife, sorry wife may like to sail on the waves of entertainment. Your belief in charity may be full-stopped by her serious finance policies. But both of you are destined bulls of a single cart, having no choice of running on different directions. You cannot change others but yourself. Remember everyone has to think, speak and act through his own character and knowledge in the provided (or destined) circumstances. No body will be really interested to change according to your expectations- a hard nut to crack. Adapt yourself suitable for others - the ball is in your coat.

2. Do Rehearsal for Your Role:

You have already experienced and you know how your family members will react in particular situation. Foresee the scenes and look for your better role; have the rehearsal in your mind in advance. Mr. Stress who comes to wage a war against you will be defeated downrightly and quite unexpectedly.

3. Manage Your Money Wisely and Kill Mr. Stress:

It is a fact that unnecessary expenses leave emergency needs in hunger. Your inability to face the inevitable needs turn into stress and eventually burst out on others to balance your self-loss. Look for opportunities to raise your income sources. Strictly follow your ideal budget that cares for forthcoming expected and unexpected expenses in your family. Manage your money wisely and the weapon of Mr.Stress will become blunt.

4. Manage your Time and Say Goodbye to Mr. Stress:

Is there no timetable in your hand for your daily activities? Because you think, you are not a VIP. If so, change your attitude because your bending work makes you bend to stress and gives birth to lot of irritation and threats. Schedule your family and official duties, needs, commitments and even leisurely hours for building your own heaven and you will grow above all VIPs. You will never complaint about your dependents - "they don't realize my likes and needs!" and vice versa.

5. Mr. Stress Behind the Repetition of Past Errors:

Why should we, like a host, build best nest for Mr. Stress by ignoring our past experiences and repeating the same errors? Most of the civil wars among the family members take place on the same ground and constantly breathe life to Mr. Stress. Why to repeat errors and blame destiny! Learn lessons from past errors and be the King of the Kingdom of Peace.

6. Detached Attachment- Best Stress-killer:

During mental stress, your soul may long for freedom from family ties. Renunciation is essential and recommended but in the right sense. We cannot ( and need not) go to forest like the renounced and nor can we deny or forget our moral responsibility to our blood relations and dependents. So, be water on the lotus leaf. Your wife may take you somewhere against your wish and principles, engage yourself physically and be a spectator of all dramas but inwardly detach yourself from the happenings. This is detached attachment - a fine stress killer. You are doing this because they should not be hurt and eventually you are not hurt, no stress for you - the right reward for your matured approach. Play your role sincerely on the stage of earth and remember that it is only acting and not real. Act, act, act until the screen drops down and the drama of life ends

7. Mr. Silence - Immediate Stress-killer:

Practice meditation daily, reserving at least 20 minutes in the morning and evening and it will prove to be immediate stress-killer. Silence reveals our own weakness and burns all our ignorance which forms the basis for most of our stress. The more you grow peaceful, the less your stresses will be. Mr. Silence, son of Mr. Wisdom and Mrs.Perfect, will be the right person to enable you to wash out all stresses in your life permanently. Be quiet and be quite.

Ignorance - Your Fatal Enemy to Your Personality Development!

Towards Understanding Our Enemy:

Having no knowledge or little knowledge about something is what we term as 'ignorance'. Forming wrong notions or misconceptions about something or somebody without realizing their real nature is also ignorance. No one wants to be but everyone has to be in some way because we cannot know all in our short (also impermanent) life journey. When Lord Buddha propagated -'desire is the root cause of all sufferings', he actually condemned man's ignorance about the impermanence of worldly things that resulted in his desires and attachment to the mundane life. The objective of this article is to mirror how ignorance is the root cause of almost all personal, family and social issues, to alarm how dangerous it is to be ignorant and to light up the heart of darkness with some remedial exercises.

Your Weakness and Your Enemy's Strength

Look back at the barbarians of the Remote Age who cut the heads of thousands of slaves and offered flood of blood to appease their angry pagan god. We are startled and shocked to see how ignorant they had been. So, one man's ignorance is another man's death. What about moderns? A college student commits suicide just because he had expected more and failed in the exam. A husband knocks his better-half(!?) down to death just because she quarreled or questioned. The price of ignorance is death. How much valuable time, and energy is wasted throughout life all over the world, after mad love, lust, quest for wealth and thirst for power and name that only the sunset of life reveals! In fact, one third of our life drowns in sleep, another one third is consumed for our struggles and labors for survival, and the remaining one third, in innocence and ignorance!

Reasons and Remedial Exercises

(i) Break Your Chains and Ties

Religion (which says 'God is truth') is to realize truth, to possess it, to be with it and to become it, not to shut door to it. A religion that desires to keep its followers in ignorance is not a true religion. We always draw a circle around us and remain happy to be within. How many circles and chains are around us - religion, family, tradition, custom, so-called status, culture, habits and principles? Rousseau rightly said - "man is born free but everywhere in chains". Let us not be a well-frog but a sea frog as Vivekananda voiced. Please come out of your own circles and stop forcing others to be into the circles you draw. Accept truth wherever it is, in whatever religion it is and whoever says it. Because it is the Fire of Truth that alone can burn all your ignorance.

(ii) Change Your Points of View

In your life change in views indicate your progress in knowledge and experience. Look at the same thing, person and problem but by standing at different places. Exhaust all possible viewpoints which enable you more to understand your surroundings and the persons you contact. A managing director should wear the dress of a customer to understand the quality of the product and customer's expectation, satisfaction, desires, needs and much more in true colors. The MD should put on the dress of the office assistant who reveals more about the inter-personal issues and grievances in the company. A father should not think like a father. He should be his wife, his son, daughter, cook, gardener and the like. Because the more you have points of view, the less your misconceptions, problems and ignorance will be! Change the directions of your life-journey to acquire new knowledge and experiences to divorce your ignorance.

(iii) Journey Through Time

Think of what you often think. Your min reflects your experiences and commitments in the nearby past or your what-to-do tasks in the nearby future. Your remote past or future is never (or scarcely) visited by your mind. Be prepared for journey through time, try the following exercise and see the result how much of your ignorance is immediately burnt:

Step 1: Sit on a selected peaceful place where no-disturbance-state is guaranteed, and close your eyes.

Step 2: Start thinking of what happened in your life 5 years back; after 5 minutes go back 10 years back and do the same; similarly move back in time up to the incidents of your childhood days.

Step 3: Now, from your date of birth go 100 years back and see how the world was (imagine with so far gathered knowledge of history); then go back 500 years, then 1000 years and like this up to the origin of man. Your broad mind now says - 'how narrow-minded I had been so far'

Step 4: Do the same but going ahead in time and visualize how the advancement in your life, in the world and in science will be - up to several thousand years ahead.

(Note: Your mind should be peaceful and emotionless to bring out better results in this exercise)

(iv) Journey Through Space

Where are you now? Come out of the earth at once and being in space see your country. How many people how small in size are moving here and there, and engaged with how many activities. Now watch other countries and the happenings there. Now see how fast the earth is rotating around the earth, and run a race with it if you can. Who is the pilot of this gigantic airplane? Where is the engine that enables to run everlastingly without rest? O.k. Stop. Now go beyond our solar system and cross all such solar systems in the space (several millions in no), and stand at the edge of our universe and see where your earth is. It is not at all seen. You feel that you are a small particle of dust in the whole universe. Your ego is burnt. Compare your short span of life with the everlasting one of the universe. What is your contribution to making and function of universe? You are a colorful soap-water bubble wandering innocently and merrily to be burst shortly and become no more. Our life is but a journey from nothingness to nothingness through existence. Now let us go back to our earth to start our routine life, but with broad-mindedness without being tempted by the words of worldly people who may tempt you by saying "Ignorance is bliss."