Addiction V/S Passion

Good morning friends.. 

Today we will talk about addiction.. 

What is addiction..

A compulsory habit with the prime purpose to seek pleasure ..

What is pleasure 

An illusionary state of happiness ..

Why does addiction increase ..

Because illusionary state of happiness is short lived .. we find that this momentary happiness is not enough we want more .. so either we take overdose or we change addiction .. 

What types of addictions are there ...

Most harmful : drugs , alcohol, tobacco etc 

Also harmful : TV , Social media ( unless it is your job or requirement ) news paper , tea , coffee , talking , shopping , even bathing , sleeping , eating, work, movies etc .. 

In short anything which the body requires as a desperate need is addiction .. we have seen people not able to sleep without taking bath .. not able to pass stools without tea , cigarette even newspaper.. ( now what has newspaper got to do with stools 😂) 

Let's reframe addiction : "Anything which the body requires regularly to be "happy" and absence of which makes us "sad" is addiction .. "

Drinking tea is not bad .. but dependency on tea is bad 

In one line .. "Milega to chalega nhi Mila to bhi chalega " 

I will take another drastic example of addiction ( how good things also become addiction) 

I have a habit of drinking lemon water with honey every day .. when I am at home it is manageable .. but when I am travelling many a times it is not possible.. but I manage without it .. I have seen people getting disturbed when their routine is upset ... And the whole day is spoilt .. 

" Routine itself is a big addiction "

How to remove addiction??

Addiction and passion are 2 sides of same coin .. when we seek pleasure outside we become addicted .. when we seek pleasure inside we become passionate.. 

And when we stop seeking pleasure we become joyful 

And joy is permanent state of happiness..

We will take detailed steps to stop addiction in next blog 

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Importance of a Guru

Let me share a joke with you all.

Once there was a priest who used to be an ardent follower of God. So much was his belief in God that he had submitted his entire life to God.

One day floods hit that village and everyone ran for shelter. The priest stayed in the temple and whenever asked would say "God will protect me" 

The water rose and everyone started vacating the village but the priest stayed saying "God will protect me" 

The water rose to first floor and a boat came to rescue the priest but again he denied saying "God will protect me" 

The water rose above the temple and the priest stood on top of the temple arch praying to God to help him. A helicopter came to his rescue and still he denied saying "God will help me" 

Inadvertently the priest drowned and found himself in front of God. Immediately he started cribbing "God I was an ardent follower of yours and you treated like this to me. My whole faith is devastated."

To this God replied "Son I sent the villagers to you .. I sent the boat and the helicopter to you.. but you would take none.. what is my fault.." 

Friends do we realise where the priest was wrong ..

Ego ... Many a times our knowledge creates an ego that we forget to see the God in every human being.. we feel as if God is a separate entity and human beings are just mortal beings .. whereas each and every creation is God's miracle and we need to be humble enough to learn from them. 

All said and done there comes the role of a Guru.. As Sadhguru once said in an interview that Guru is like GPS for travellers. So we need to be humble enough to accept Guru's in our life.. 

Even if we are the MD of a company or a learned priest if we want to learn cooking we need to make a chef our Guru even if he is just 12th grader. Like wise in any field if we need to excel we need coaches , Guru and mentors.. these are the persons who have already travelled the path the hard way and could save us lot of hard learnings and mistakes. 

A learned man thinks he is the ultimate.. A wise man always thinks there is so much to learn and grabs on every ounce of knowledge humbly. 

When someone asked me who is your mentor .. I always feel I don't have a single mentor ... I have my parents , my teachers , my friends , the books I read , the movies I saw,  the colleagues I met , my Juniors and my bosses , and society as a whole which has been mentoring me.. 

I take this opportunity to show my gratitude towards all for shaping me... I

I would like to finish by reciting this Doha by Saint Kabir 

My Guru and Lord were standing in front of me and I was wondering whom to bow first .. I bowed in front of my Guru because he was the one who brought me to the lord ..

We are what we eat

Friends we already discussed in our previous blog that we are energy bodies vibrating in a certain frequency. And how does this energy body survives or functions .. basically on an input and output mode.

What are the input modes?

5 senses organs : What we see, what we hear, what we touch, what we smell, what we eat through our mouth.

Since everything is vibration so every input is a vibration whether positive or negative.

Each vibration has an effect on us. So negative vibration has negative effect and positive vibration has positive effect. 

If there is an input there has to be an output.

What are output modes? 

Again sense organs : What we speak , what we touch. Rest organs are not involved in out put. 

The rest which is not digested goes out through our excretion system. 

Now coming back to the mid point and that is digestion. We digest what we eat, hear, see , feel and smell and these vibrations become a part of our body.

Science has proved that any matter which dies starts decaying. That is, it starts becoming acidic. And acidic nature is negative energy. This energy is required for destruction and then only construction is possible. 

So if we eat stale food, listen to stale negative news , stale scenes , stale smell, then we are actually inviting negative vibrations in our bodies. Resulting in us becoming negative and hence attraction negative energy. 

Coming back to specifically non vegetarian food .. it is not bad to eat non veg food. 

Neither we are promoting the cruelty faced by animals while being killed. Watch National Geography, a lion kills it's prey in a more cruel way. 

What are we saying then. 

Simple .. non veg foods have 2 bad qualities 

1) The process of killing them emits negative emotions and emotions being energy waves go into our energy system and make us very negative. Just check behaviour pattern of hard core non vegetarians, they are generally aggressive. 

2) Most of the non veg is stale and has lot of acidic (negative) content. If we see in animal kingdom mostly animals eat freshly killed prey and all the animals who feed on stale prey like hyena, vultures are not beautiful creatures... They emit negative rays. 

Hence we should not eat non veg, not because of external reasons but for our own internal reasons. 

If we see only human beings are provided with all set of teeth. Carnivorous animals have more canine teeth and herbivorous have more molar teeth. Only human being have both, but at the same time the canine teeth are not well developed.

What is the conclusion. 

1) Avoid non veg as much as possible.

2) Eat non veg only when survival is the issue. 

It is written in our ancient scriptures 

If we kill an animal and eat for survival then it has no ill effect.

If we kill an animal and eat for our greed and carnal desires it has a great negative effect. 

It is the intentions that matter .. otherwise this whole world is a 3D myth and a drama of construction and destruction.

#GoVegetarian

The power of mantra

We all by now know that we are all actually energy bodies vibrating in a particular frequency.. (if not then visit our law of attraction video). We also understand that certain frequency attract certain frequencies and repel certain frequencies. 

At the same time we think and thoughts are vibrations we send to universe. Fortunately unfortunately we send thoughts @ 1 thought per sec approx and these repeated thoughts get manifested in our lives. 

The question now is why then are we suffering. The answer is we suffer because of lack of consistency in our thoughts. We are very fragile and keep changing our thoughts depending on our experiences. Since most of our experiences are negative we tend to sway between positive and negative thoughts.. moreso towards negative thoughts and hence the outcome. 

What is the solution..?? 

Out of many solutions which we discuss in our workshops (Body Mind Soul) one of the powerful tools is "Mantra." 

What are mantras ?? 

Every sound in this universe is a vibration. And mantras as we hear are a collection of sound vibration which have a certain impact due to its frequencies which it emanates. Like Gayatri mantra has the frequency of manifestation. Shiv tandav stotra has the frequency of destruction and creation etc etc. Mahamritunjay mantra has the frequency of boosting the immune system and thereby enhancing longetivity. 

Every mantra was developed, tried and tested by sages , practiced and passed them down to us for our benefit. We need not analyze them like we never analyze electrical equipments, cars, computers.. we just follow the instructions and make our life easy. Similarly make use of the mantras and make your life easy. 

One thing which I would like to add here. Mantras have nothing to do with religion. Aadi saints never had any religion, neither Hinduism is any religion. It was and is just a way of life. It is only in the last 2000 years or so we have become "constipated" with the "concept" called religion. 

Use mantras to your advantage and live a life full of health, wealth and abundance. 

And lastly I would like to add that "Om" the most powerful vibration is the frequency of creation. Create your destiny by chanting "Om" .. when we continuously chant any mantra our own body vibrates in that frequency and we attract the same results. That is why it is said chant any mantra at least 108 times. 

Happy manifestation. 

#BodyMindSoul 

#SartracGlobal 

Shiv Stotra Mantra for you all

https://youtu.be/Ibkz9L5_FRk