What words shall I write of Him 

He who writes every word through me, 

yet remains beyond words.  

Paints a million dreams,

yet remains beyond all colours. 

He remains but a dream to me

for when I know Him, I know Him not.  

He sees everything through me,

yet I see Him only as the Invisible one. 

It takes centuries to know Him,

yet you know Him only as Mystery.  

I feel Him as a feeling 

yet He is beyond all things felt. 

He dances a million dances every moment, 

yet stand still behind them all. 

Breathes a million breaths each moment, 

yet lies within its gap. 

He dances and plays with me, 

as only a consummate Lover can, 

yet is beyond all things lovable. 

He touches my soul 

and lets me burn in His love, 

yet remains untouched by it all. 

He is and He isn’t. 

I am, when I am not. 

He is, when I am not…

Such moments come

when madness takes root.  

Or is it when He takes over,

as love? - God knows.

So now, when He speaks

I listen.

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OUR PURPOSE AS HUMAN BEINGS

We are all here to learn, how to be better human beings. But we learn this, not by doing better things, but first by 'being' better beings ourselves.

When we are loving and joyous beings ourselves, we naturally express this love and joy to others, and express it through our words, thoughts and actions, to create more of who we are within. Then our very being expresses its essence, love and joy, so openly and abundantly to all Universe, that every one is further inspired to do the same in their lives.

We are here to become inspirations for ourselves, by first learning to be who we are within, and then allowing our true self, our essence, to express itself, through us. Be like the candle, which first lights up itself, and then lights up a thousand lamps with its light.
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Yahi hai is duniya ke reet,

ki Shahenshahon ke kabrein

rehti hain sooni,

aur Fakeeron ki mazaron pe

jalte hain roz deep. 

THODI SI ZINDAGI

Zindagi he to hai

jeene do isko

khud he.

Mat roko issay abhi

Jee lene do zara

Bhatakne do  issay

Daro nahin ke

toot jaygi

judi rahegi to bikhar jayegi 

Jee lene do issay abhi

Jahan bhi umang

le jaye issay

beh lene do...

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Happiness is to see the world in a grain of sand,
and heaven in a wild flower,
to hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in a single hour.
— William Blake

Reconnection is the best way to bring about any change, reconnection to our inner self.

So instead of trying to change people, rather focus on ways to reconnect them, to their own inner self.

A part of us is already at peace, just as a part of you has already ‘self-realized’, so it is only a matter of focussing on that light so that it can grow. Our greater self already lives within us. 

The seed has been sown already in us; it is only a matter of allowing it to ripen. So, the best advice for those on the spiritual path would be to allow, to just be. Let go and let God.

Similarly, focussing on others negativity only aggravates it, as what you focus on grows. Your interactions with them will include more of the same negativity that you so focus on, so focus on their most positive aspect and you will soon only have to come face to face with only that, as we only invoke that in them.

So, if we stay ‘connected’ throughout our interactions with other people; that is what we will ‘aggravate’ in them - connection. Soon we will only interface with their ‘tuned-in’ part. As it is our energies that create our interactive experiences, so stay focussed and stay connected. If we continue to behave in a connected way, soon others will also activate their own inner connection.

TO HELP OTHERS CHANGE, lead by example, help them reconnect; bring them closer to their own inner source of guidance to bring about permanent change.

Just as a hurt child only needs to be soothed back into connection, soothing is the greatest healing art, just as loving is the greatest transformative art, for who will not be transformed if they realize that they are love and respected for what they are.

Trying or teaching others to change is futile for once they are reconnected within they will change automatically. As their higher self takes over, change is natural.

Nothing wises us up, as seeing consequences of our actions, and that is the formula Universe uses as well. It never punishes any one, for it sees no crime, only bad choices, so to educate us it only makes us aware of the consequences of our choices, sometimes instantly if we are living consciously or in subsequent lifetimes when the energetic consequences of our choices comes a full circle; and that is what changes us.

Only when we are inspired to change, from within; that change can be permanent. May the 'inspired one' rise in all of us.

RECONNECTING WITH OUR BEST SELF

Our best vision for our self already resides in us, as the Self.

We get a glimpse of it each time we connect with the divine, and so we want to instinctively move towards it.

We only need to focus on the light, and our reconnection, and let that light grow in us. As what we focus on, does.

Accepting our darkness as a part of our humanity, dissolves it, and helps our light that is our divinity, grow.  We feel the discomfort within ourselves when we connected with our true self. So, we only need to keep our connection and let it grow.

You will notice what you want others to change in them; it is exactly what you need to change in yourself too. As we focus on what we carry within, so accept it and change yourself. As always only all change begins with self acceptance, and all love with self love.

When you focus on their light, your own light grows, and you draw their 'lightness' out in them and in yourself. Your interactions will become all about your collectively lightness and not about your darknesses.

Look for good qualities in others that you can absorb, so that you will attract more light towards you.
Above all, just ‘be’ the light that you are, and the rest will take care of itself.

The journey is meant for those who are ready for it, for those whose souls have chosen to walk on the path, in this lifetime. It is all decided in the life scripts we wrote before our incarnation. By ourselves we human beings decide little.
Paths and solutions open to those who are willing to wait, even for lifetimes. The answers come not when we want them, but when we are ready for them.
The rest of us, just wander around, waiting for grace to descend upon us; and we are taken by the arm into the light divine. The Lover comes looking for us then. He reveals Himself to those, whom He chooses. So, as and when we get ready, new paths and solutions open in front of us, so do our life challenges, as through them we learn about the light we carry within, and it is this light that then illuminates a stretch of path ahead, and so the journey continues endlessly, into an ever expanding Source of light.

INVINCIBILITY, THE END OF HUMILITY.

The moment, a nation starts feeling invincible; or a king starts assuming he is always right, a saint starts thinking he knows it all, a relationship starts feeling indispensable, or a human being starts reaching out towards immortality, Nature starts dismantling them. As Nature doesn't want us to get trapped in the pursuit of external power or happiness, as it only takes us away, far from our own source, of who we really are, within.

TRANSIENT HAPPINESS. The day we proclaim to ourselves, "O! I am so happy", we invite a fear of loosing it, and thus we loose our happiness in that moment, as our fear than attracts experiences of what we fear. Though, if we choose to stay humble, we can stay happy forever.

TRANSIENT KNOWLEDGE. The day we start trying to 'right' all the time, to be perfect or righteous, we start going wrong, and off from the path. That is why perfectionsm is the biggest curse on the spiritual path. To be perfect is to invite imperfection into our life, and humility in our imperfection is the only way to stay perfectly on the course to our self.

TRANSIENT ENLIGHTENMENT. Tthe truth is that you are never really there, as the journey never ends. And you are never really wrong, as each time to think you do, that is when we actually do, otherwise you are just learning to do better, one set at a time.

People who cannot make mistake cannot ever grow into wholeness, as greatest mistake maker attain the fastest to the fact that perfection is a futile race, rather finding perfection in the moment is the way that enlightened masters suggest towards bliss of God. Knowing that all universe is a rhythm between exhalation and inhalation, knowing and unknowing, fortune and misfortune, expansion and contraction, growth and decay, connection and disconnect, clarity and confusion, and creation and destruction. Nothing lasts as everything is bound by the transient nature of life.

THE ETERNAL NATURE OF LIFE. One day, we might visit farthest of galaxies, yet there would always be many more being discovered each day, we might discover cures of all our known diseases, and would still find more terrible diseases to find cure of, we might kill all our enemies and quieten all our dissidents but still there might be more that would stand up against us. We might travel to the farthest of cities and still might find that there are newer cities to visit. Astrologers might believe they can predict every world events correctly so that we are safe mostly, but much to our surprise and theirs, the world functions in strange way, that seem more mysterious as we try to unravel them.
 
THE DAY WE START believing we know enough to keep ourselves safe, or have done enough to keep our life under our control, it starts going haywire. Thus makes us realize that our world view is still not mature enough to exert our supremacy over divine laws and we still have so much to learn from the world, about the world and the people around. We can always find one person who is wiser, smarter, better looking, happier or just plain lucky than we are. That is when we realize that the pursuit of external power is futile and backfires on us; as the source of all that is external remains within.

Willing to stay vulnerable can be our greatest strength, as that is only when can we begin to repose our trust in the divine, and in our Self. Making peace with our vulnerabilities and turning them into our strengths is the greatest challenge of life.

EVERY IMPERFECTION IS AN OPPUTUNITY TO GROW. The pursuit of perfection as driven by the ego is the biggest imperfection and in fact it truly is the pursuit of unhappiness and increasing frustration in life, as life is not designed to be perfect.
That is why to have imperfections in our lives, we chose imperfection circumstances to grow up in as a soul and imperfect people to come to us as friends and imperfect life circumstances to come our way, to remind us that perfection is finding peace and happiness in the imperfection of life, and true perfection can only be find with the One who is perfect already - the Divine.
So all search for perfection, or perfect happiness is a journey towards 'our' source of greatest happiness and joy - the Self.

WHAT WE RESIST, PERSISTS, just as what try to overcome, avoid, dislike or fight against externally, only grows in power, as energies it with our denial and fear. So whatever we fear or dislike experiencing not just follows us around but also grows, as we attract to our lives what we think about the most.
This also holds true for every problems we try to tackle only externally, while ignoring the source within. As what we try to avoid or resist externally is always, our own truth, and once we accept ourselves just the way we are, we no longer need to be reminded of it, that is when we become whole, and can be called - ' Having healed'.

WHAT WE DISLIKE OR HATE always resides within us first; only then do we meet it on the outside, so that we can recognize its presence within us. We might spend the rest of our lives correcting it in others or in the world outside, so that we won't have to face it or change within ourselves; or we might fix ourselves up, in the first go and then never see it again. That way we are being pro-active with our lives rather than being passive, by waiting for others to remind us of what we need to change within.

To stay humble is the only way we can brave the storms of life, where a blade of grass stays on, while giant oaks falls apart. It is when we connect with our inner power, or the power of the self, we realize, how futile this race for external power is and has been.
Inner power is so readily available to us that to struggle for external power seems such a waste of effort and time. Being centered in our self, we have access to all the things we want in external life, as that is when what we want is also what universe wants for us. Being in harmony with the Universe is the way to external freedom and power.

And that is the greatest divine paradox, when you don't want it, you get it. And this hold true for everything in life.

MOMENTS OF DISCONNECTION.

Disconnection happens the moment we step out of the flow, and we do so when we let go of the energies of humility and gratitude, that is when we loose our connection too; as our connection is made up of the thin thread of humility and gratitude.

I am 'humbled' by the universe each time I loose my connection with humility and gratitude for the connection. Thus it lets me know that no matter how ‘big’ I might become externally, within I am just the same as a fellow being, a sparkle of light divine, so much for all our external achievements. And thank God for its graces, universe can bring us back to our senses, within a minute of our disconnection, as its love for us is infinite, always.

In moments of confusion, connect with the source, within; as it is our best guide.

Arrogance is simply another sign of inner disconnection, it’s like we trying to become light while denying the Light that we already are. With connection, humility comes natural, as we realize who we 'really' are.

Human arrogance has its origins in our feelings of separation from the divine, the source of all power. Just as when we try to appear divine, we forget that we already are.

Usually we become arrogant, when we try to become something greater than who we think, we already are. Though the truth is that we can never be greater than who we already are - divine, we only have to become ‘more of’ who we are. The desire to become ‘great’ comes from not feeling 'great' within, or feeling small, which itself is a sign of inner disconnection. All self esteem issues are signs of inner disconnection, as we don’t hold ourselves in the esteem our self deserves. So, to grow, we only have to accept, more of who we are. That is what becoming is all about.

 
WISDOM - THE GIFT OF HUMILITY
 
Just as having lots of thoughts doesn’t equate to being wise, having lots of spiritual ‘thoughts’ is not the same as being spiritual.
True spirituality which signifies our connection with our spirit is marked by a rise of divine wisdom in us.
It usually rises only when we are ready to drop our human reasoning, and intellectual prowess, which usually are blocks to divine wisdom. Philosophy is basically life wisdom, and life wisdom always demands us to be creative with our every single choice, and that is what our intuition guides us towards, as universe is above all, is a Creative force field. Making it part of every day life, makes us a creative person.
Everybody has the potential of leading a creative life, and not just the so called 'creative' people, who are in the field of arts. Life is a creative process, as all growth happens when we are able to make creative choices in life. Making creative choices is being truly wise.

It is wisdom only if it helps you live a better life. Otherwise it is only a sheer mental concoction that we are passing around as wisdom, and masquerades never takes us closer to the eternal, only devotion does.

Bliss is the first symptom of the presence of divine wisdom.  That is why, the true mark of a spiritual person, the one blessed with divine wisdom as well, would be his inner bliss, as divine bliss is the first sign of divine wisdom.

We often confuse our knowledge base or our intellect as our 'wisdom', though they can be starting points but at some point, they too have to be dropped to become worthy of divine wisdom, which is way beyond what human reasoning can ever achieve.
A wise man would always be happy and blissful, while an intellectual person would always wondering, why he isn't.

An intellectual person can confuse himself or others for a wise one, though in the end, our life should signify our inner truth, as it does with a wise man - As within so without. That is why the mark of a true spiritual person would be his playfulness and lightness of being, it would be a reflection of the inner Light.

"Only when you release everything of knowledge,

do you receive anything of knowledge." 

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CHOOSING TO BE AUTHENTIC

When we are courageous enough to be our Self, we find that we are able to pick up those who aren't so, and soon we start drift away from them and vice versa.

When we raise our vibrations to a more authentic level, by being authentic ourselves, we would stop ‘vibing’ well, with those who still vibe at a lower level, they would start irritating us or feeling discordant, like never before, as universe is now pushing us to shift to different group of souls.

On our part we have to make sure to constantly shift base to newer, healthier thoughts and people who vibe with them will naturally move in, naturally attracted by those thoughts, as law of attract suggests, like attracts like, so we would also start attracting authentic empowering experiences to our life, as we have started being authentic ourselves.

On our part, we have to ensure we make enough space new thoughts and people, by letting go the old one go on their own.

Similarly, we find that we are no longer indulging in things that used to give us a false sense of pride, importance or love, even relationships that were earlier so important to us begin to loose all their sheen, as we are internally shifting towards building a more our authentic relationship with our own inner self.

Slowly, as its presence expands within our life, its effects start showing all around. Simply following the law of attraction, all true things start getting attracted to our lives, truer experiences that give more meaning to our lives, and bring us a step closer to finding and then following our life purpose, one choice at a time. Come to think of it, all this happens just because we decided to be true to ourselves, and as always it is truth that sets us free, eventually.

And what a wonderful beginning it is, to an authentic life.

PRONOIA- A person enjoying pronoia feels that the Universe and the world around is conspiring to make their life, a happy and joyous one.

It is just the opposite of paranoia, and is a joyous new movement, hitting the world right now!

Let’s choose to be ecstatically happy and flow with our joyous inspirations in our life. Things Universe has lined up for us to choose from, so that our life gets more and more joyous today onwards.

That is why, choosing only what gives us joy, is the state of choiceless awareness. It is the only state worth having, where we just flow from one choice after another, which add more joy, and fun, into our life.

It is the possibility of having such a life that makes us ecstatic immediately. So, let’s only make those choices which makes feel as love at first sight does.

Joy is what the soul feels when it finds a choice which is in perfect harmony with our self, so let’s decide that we will only make those, ‘love at first sight’ choices, for the rest of our life.
 
Just for today, let's only focus on what's good in our lives, think of all the things we need to be thankful for to the Universe. Let's appreciate the goodness that abounds in our life. Let's tune in to the good news in the world, the good things that are happening in our life. So that it may then grow; as what we focus on does.
 
Let's wait and se how Universe will unfold a joyous day for us, what an anticipation to live with, what new wonderful things will come your way to learn from and enrich your life with.
 
Let's also become neutral to all the negatives in our life, be it in situations or in people, their behaviours and even our own, yet again let's try not to enhance their negative traits, instead let's focus on what's good in them, let's suspect every ones 'badness', their negative traits, let's rather believe that there are some wonderful traits in them that we have yet to discover. So we will be vigilant towards other people’s goodness.
 
The truth is what we try to avoid or fear experiencing grows in our experience, so lets be proactive, state that you want to have joyous and happy interactions with everyone you meet or be with.
 
Let's look for all the positives in life, and do all joyous things today, think of joyous people and situations we have experienced, so that we may attract more of them in our life.
 

GIVING UP AMBITION FOR INSPIRATION

When you are led by your ambition, one day you find yourself in a place, where your heart never wanted to go, all along. So you get disappointed and disheartened by your inner emptiness that you now clearly feel, and want to get out of it, but find it hard to give up your old power game, that kept you fulfilled all this while. This carries on for a while till you realize that even that doesn’t fix it for you, so you finally look upwards for an answer and find it within. You thought success was all about power, while it was about joy all along. Now your old life feels pale, in face of the new reality that has come into your life, you are ready to dismantle it, but not without knowing what will replace it, but it breaks down nevertheless.
True changes are possible only when after the tug of war; you finally surrender and begin to live the life you were meant to, all along, an inspiration led life.
And how do you follow your inspiration? Just follow what give you most joy, in the moment. An inspired life is always a better option, and you knew it, all along.

LIVING BEYOND THE PARADOX

This Universe was created by God in a joy mood. So the best way to live in it, is living every day, every moment joyously. Because when we do that, we are following our joy and joy is the best guidance system we can ever have.

The Vedas also described this creation as the ‘Leela’, as a play of consciousness. So, let’s always remember the world has been created by a paradox Himself, - God, lets not fight the paradoxes, rather learn to live with them, in joy.

Perfectionism is the greatest imperfection, and our imperfections are divine gifts of wisdom.

And what we struggle for we block it. Enlightenment happens not because we tried hard, it happens when we quit trying, and learn to be.

We all feel kicked to having stepped on the ‘spiritual’ path, and gone beyond the ego, but the moment we say I am beyond ego, we realize, it is ego that does all the talking.

The desire to be free of desires is also a desire, and when we let go of all our desires, we realize we owe our birth to desire itself. The Universe is a creation of divine desire. That is when we discover the sacred nature of desire.

What we feel lack, we repel, and what we fear, we attract more of, into our life.

When we really know that we know, we know that we know nothing. When we live to do the right thing, we never go where it is right for us. The moments we think we are being our wisest, are actually those when we are being our foolest. Sometimes when we are trying to be strong, we are actually being weak, as to be vulnerable can be our greatest strength.

We all like to play around in our mind with the question & answer, chicken & egg paradox, don't we? The reason, I assume behind it, would be to confuse us human beings so that we can finally wise up to quit reasoning with God, and become worthy of knowledge divine. Only when we can drop the mind, can we be free enough to go, where our thoughts can never take us.

That’s why wisdom is not in doing the ‘right’ thing, but in doing, the thing that feels right. And what feels right is always joyous, as life is a flow of joy.

Wisdom comes through intuition, and intuition is soul’s way of staying continuously in joy, as by being in a choiceless awareness, is just being in the flow of joy.

Universe is large enough for all paradoxes to co-exist, that is why we have a plethora of belief systems floating around, for us to choose from, though we are also free to create a completely new one, if it pleases our fancy.

The wise sit in the plane beyond the paradox of good and evil, of right and wrong, with the Creator himself, while the rest of us, are kept busy in the illusion, till we are ready cross over, into the Light divine.

We might feel if we can reason well enough, we can find our way to be happy, while truth we don’t a reason to be happy, we can just be and be happy by ourselves too. All children know that, and practise it too by themselves, no wonder it the happiest time of our life. It seems when we started growing up, we start forgetting who we are, and then take all that effort to go back to remembering what we just knew instinctively as child. Most wise men become child like, in their demeanour, as they have successfully retreated back to their joyous state.

That is why learning is mostly about unlearning, and enlightenment, is not about knowing, it is only about remembering.

In mysticism, the divine fool is considered the enlightened one, as when you get to know God, you realize that is what you really are. The moment you decide to become God's fool, you become privy to His knowledge.

That is why the Enlightened one gets up and starts dancing in divine love, sine He is no longer trapped in the illusion created by thoughts and opinions.

To become a fool is to be privy of wisdom divine, till we feel pride in our knowledge we keep ourselves away from all things divine, if we only become playful in life we can learn the essence of all life – joy, as God created this world, in a joyous moment, that is when you begin to share a single emotion with Creator Himself and begin to know the world as He does.