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TRUE WEALTH

A multi millionaire was travelling in his car.

On the way, he was listening to a Satsang of a certain Saint.

The Saint was preaching that, everyone in the world is after money only. But they are ignorant of the fact that they cannot take their money with them after their death. Still, they are after money and money alone and do whatever possible to earn more and more money in any way.

The millionaire got annoyed of this statement.

He said to himself that since the Saint has no money with him, he is giving a Lecture like this.

The next day, the millionaire called all his employees and advised them to give him an idea so that he can take all his wealth alongwith him after his death.

Every one thought that their boss has gone mad and tried to avoid him.

Days passed by.
Suddenly one day, a stranger approached the millionaire and informed him that he had heard about his query & he has one brilliant idea.

The millionaire could not believe his ears as everyone had declared him "Mad".

The millionaire was very eager to hear his idea.

The stranger first asked him whether he had travelled abroad?

The millionaire said that he had visited many countries.

Then, the stranger asked him what he had done with money before he went to USA?

The millionaire said that he had converted the Indian rupees into American dollars and went to USA.

The stranger again asked him, what he had done when he went to UK ?

The millionaire replied that he had converted Indian rupees into Pound Sterling and went to England.

The stranger asked him why he did all this?

The millionaire laughed and told the stranger that our Indian rupees have no value in USA and in England.

The stranger replied that you are very correct and continued.

Mr. Millionaire, now you want to go to Heaven after your death, correct?

Well, in Heaven, the name of the currency is “Punnya”.
So you convert your entire Indian rupees into the currency of Punnya, so that you can spend it very happily there after your death.

The rich man was convinced and very happy to hear this idea and started doing NISHKAMA Karma and Charity - helping the needy without expecting anything in return.

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Do you want to see the Self?

Then sit silent. Let there gush forth sincerity from the inner depth of your soul. This will give rise to sacred hours of silence within you. Then the light will dawn and you will find yourself seated in the Self.

The worldly scenes of sensual shows will surely cease to tempt, touch and taint you, if you consciously realize your birthright.

Become aware of the drama played on the stage of life. Don’t be a mere ignorant spectator of it. Know your part and consciously act it to the best of your abilities. It is then, you live your life nobly and ideally.

~ Mahavatar Babaji

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KNOW THE ESSENCE OF
ENLIGHTENED LIVING

Life is full of surprises and each surprise is a gift from the unknown. We can’t experience a surprise as a gift as our minds are filled with preconceived notions. These pollute our experience and hence, we lose the wonderful experience of surprise.

We feel bored and this boredom happens because we take life for granted and are indifferent to its mysteries. Learn to train your eyes to see the miracle of life. Is it not a miracle to see when the sun rises, the birds start chirping? Is it not a miracle to see the seed becoming a tree and from the tree, seeds are born… and this process continues? In the finite seed, the infinite possibility is hidden.

Those who don’t take life for granted will have a child-like innocence and you will find them participating in the movement of life with grace and joy. For them success and failure become points of celebration rather than points of frustrations.

How is it possible to celebrate success and failure? The ordinary paradigm is when you are successful there is greed to be more successful. This greed makes you look at the other as a threat and a competitor. When there is failure, instead of learning from failure you whip yourself with self-pity. One could celebrate one’s failures as opportunities to learn.
So, when you are successful, celebrate your success and don’t fill that moment with greed but with joy. Include planning of what actions you should take. Planning is not part of greed but of wise living.

When success and failure come, see the surprise. See how many variables have contributed to it. Don’t lose the quality of being surprised. The moment wonderment is dead you are dead. In every moment, bring the quality of surprise and embrace each moment with this energy. Then you will be able to celebrate success and failure.

What constitutes the soul of enlightened living? Firstly, understand that truth wins and not lies. Secondly, hurt or upset whether you justify it or not, is self-damaging. Thirdly, see opportunity in difficulty and not difficulty in an opportunity.
Fourthly, see every experience and situation as messages from the divine. Learn to operate from infinite possibilities. Next step is finding out, ‘Who am I?’

Observe the ‘self’. Then you will find that the self or the soul is not just the body, or mind but a space, in which the body and mind exists. This inner space takes the form of the body and thoughts. Similar to the space in a room appears to be limited by the room but room exists in space. So too, body exists in this inner space.

To experience this more deeply start by asking, ‘Who is in?’ It will lead you to a new awareness of your state of being. If your state of being is restless, then you make it restful. This discipline will lead you to a bigger question to ‘Who am I?’
This will lead you to an understanding that your ego is blocking the bigger picture of who you are.

~ Swami Sukhabodhananda

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🌷 LOVE , FEAR
&
MEANING OF LIFE 🕊

​​Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment—or unlearning—of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.

Meaning doesn’t lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren’t love—the money, the car, the house, the prestige—we are loving things that can’t love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It’s not that they’re bad. It’s that they’re nothing.

~ Marianne Williamson

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Everybody's the #guru. Everybody's the divine, everybody's the Holy #spirit. Everybody is that catalyzing, awakening, energy and principle. It's just that we haven't been able to see it that way. It's not one singular web, it's multilayered webs, and everything is unfolding at every different level of #reality.

So how does that impact you? The more we #liberate the light that lives inside of us, the more we are free. This is who you are from the dominance of the emotions, from the dominance of the #mind and the #body.

The more you remember your luminous #nature, the more you free your #light.

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DIAMOND NECKLACE

Once there was a king who had presented his daughter, the princess, with a beautiful diamond necklace. The necklace was stolen and his people in the kingdom searched everywhere but could not find it. Some said a bird might have stolen it. The king then asked them all to search for it and put a reward for $50,000 for anyone who found it.

One day a clerk was walking home along a river next to an industrial area. This river was completely polluted, filthy and smelly. As he was walking, the clerk saw a shimmering thing in the river and when he looked, he saw the diamond necklace.

He decided to try and catch it so that he could get the $50,000 reward. He put his hand in the filthy, dirty river and grabbed at the necklace, but somehow missed it and didn’t catch it. He took his hand out and looked again and the necklace was still there. He tried again, this time he walked in the river and dirtied his pants in the filthy river and put his whole arm in to catch the necklace. But strangely, he still missed the necklace! He came out and started walking away, feeling depressed.

Then again he saw the necklace, right there. This time he was determined to get it, no matter what.

He decided to plunge into the river, although it was a disgusting thing to do as the river was polluted, and his whole body would become filthy. He plunged in, and searched everywhere for the necklace and yet he failed. This time he was really bewildered and came out feeling very depressed that he could not get the necklace that would get him $50,000.

Just then a saint who was walking by, saw him, and asked him what the matter was. The clerk didn’t want to share the secret with the saint, thinking the saint might take the necklace for himself, so he refused to tell the saint anything. But the saint could see this man was troubled and being compassionate, again asked the clerk to tell him the problem and promised that he would not tell anyone about it.

The clerk mustered some courage and decided to put some faith in the saint. He told the saint about the necklace and how he tried and tried to catch it, but kept failing. The saint then told him that perhaps he should try looking upward, toward the branches of the tree, instead of in the filthy river. The clerk looked up and true enough, the necklace was dangling on the branch of a tree. He had been trying to capture a mere reflection of the real necklace all this time.

MORAL: Material happiness is just like the filthy, polluted river; because it is a mere reflection of the TRUE happiness in the spiritual world. We can never achieve the happiness we are looking for no matter how hard we endeavor in material life. Instead we should look upwards, toward God, who is the source of real happiness, and stop chasing after the reflection of this happiness in the material world. This spiritual happiness is the only thing that can satisfy us completely.

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AWAKE


​​Each day, the consciousness revolves through three states: the deep sleep, dreaming, and waking states. The waking state is what we refer to as “our life.” However, this life and all that you experience, including the sense of yourself, is only the content and the play of the waking state.

If your name is John, you cannot be John twenty-four hours a day. For when deep sleep comes, even the sense ‘I am’ subsides, and with it goes consciousness of body and mind. In deep sleep you are not a Muslim, Christian, Jew, or Hindu, nor are you a man or a woman—nothing is there with you in deep sleep. But a subtle form of consciousness must remain even in deep sleep for you to know about this state. And everybody enjoys deep sleep. We even buy the best mattresses in order to enter this state where we forget everything.

What does this show us? It shows us that even that beautiful state of presence—that consciousness that shines inside this body as the sense ‘I am’ and functions as the impartial observer of the manifestation of life—is not the ultimate reality.
When you begin to reflect a little bit about these things, a deeper understanding emerges about what we call our self and life. You will come to see for yourself that this waking-state consciousness itself is also phenomenal—it is also seen. Every morning we wake up from our dreams, but to be truly awake, we must also awaken from the waking state.

~ Mooji

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