Chitra Roy - Ek Pal Tero Charan Smaran

Ashtalakshmi 1

The first form of Lakshmi is Adi Lakshmi i.e. Knowledge of the Self. How many years have you been alive so far think about it,how many years of your life have passed so for 30yrs-40yrs-50yrs, how many more yrs are you going to be here on this planet. But have you ever paused and thought where did I come formm where am I going to go, what is my source.Knowledge of your source is Adilakshmi.If you notice the entire basic course revolves around the ashtlakshmi.

Adilakshmi only comes to the seekers. Now look how many seekers are there on this planet right now .How many people out of 6 and half billion are actually interested in knowing the purpose of life. In some forms everyone has these ashtalakshmi’s but the degree varies from person to person.To enhance this Adilakshmi in our life.

For those who are on this path your journey has already began you just have to follow it through. Spending time with knowledge gives rise to adilakshmi.Spending time with your personal sadhana or your personal practices gives rise to Adilakshmi.We all want to be knowledgeable but yet we do not want to spend time with what gives us knowledge, isn’t it. Everyone is eager to give our pearls of wisdom wherever we can yet we have never taken some time to go deep within us and enhance that sampatthi that wealth within us.

So first and foremost is Adilakshmi does not come to everyone also…only a handful will get it and here right now you already have it if not you would not have made it this far also, it is not possible.So you can pat your back…well done.

Knowledge of the self …what can we do to know ourself more.Doing more of your spiritual practices, everyday spending a little time with some knowledge.Guruji has given so much of knowledge isn’t it.You can name, anything you want to know it is available. Nachiketa who was blessed with the wisdom of death he spend several years following the lord of death to receive this knowledge and Sri Sri comes and just gives it to you in the book Wisdom for the new Millenium in the topics- ‘Death & Beyond and Karma & Reincarnation’.

What took Nachiketa several years following Yama to recive a knowledge is given to us just like that yet we have never taken time to go deep into this knowledge.What adilakshmi does is takes away the fear of life & death.The more you enhance adi lakshmi in life the more fear goes away from you.Have you noticed many of us have fear of death, fear of losses, that fear goes away. Those who have adilakshmi they will radiate with smile, they will be so free and happy in the moment.Lack of adi lakshmi is what brings fear in your life.


The more we attend to this wealth of knowledge about the self the more we will be away from the fear of life, the more we are free and we can live and enjoy our life also. Fear and anxiety hampers the progress of your life. By enhancing this wealth in our life we attain that fearless state of mind as well. So spending a little time everyday reading some knowledge, some meditation everyday, do whatever connects you to the self.What can give you the knowledge of the self is the self alone. The more we associate ourselves with the self; more the knowledge of the self arises also.


Now look at our life, how much are we caught in the external environment that sometimes we completely loose the touch with ourself so caught up in the external of our life.That is when fear and anxiety comes also.The moement you shun that outside,come back to your self you meditate sometieme.You come out of Sudarshanakriya what happens, a complete state of fearlessness isn’t it just calm and everything is still inside you.Adi lakshmi is awakened in that state:)

Diwali & Ashtalakshmi ....Intro

Diwali is another wonderful occasion to be grateful to the Master for all that life has to offer.Diwali is a festival of lights.We celebrate the triumph of good over the evil.Its significance is laid out in the sanskrit verse 'Asatoma Sadgamaya Tamasoma JyotirGamaya, Mrityorma AmritamGamaya Om Shanti Sahnti Shanti!. Which means lead us from falsehood to truth, from darkness to light, from death to immortality.This is a time for celebration and contemplation.When we remember those who are less fortunate.Those who may not be eating as heartily or celebrating as festively.Share the blessings that you enjoy this Diwali.


D-DEVOTION
I-INTENSITY
W-WONDER
A-AWARENESS
L-LOVE
I-INTUTION

I was browsing through the you tube videos yesterday for i wanted to know about Ashtalakshmi and guess what. I came across an absolutely fantastic series of videos by Dushyant Savadia who is an International Art of Living Faculty.

Snippets of the Video....Enjoy!Ashtalakshmi by Gurudev in the words of a Devotee...








It’s a very sacred and a hidden knowledge and this knowledge was revealed by Guruji many years ago and somehow it is not spread to man y people because the more it is sacred the more it is secret and today millions of people the fortunate few are able to receive the knowledge at the right time. Guruji has been an embodiment of this knowledge very rare to be found on this planet. As an instrument I am sharing this.

Lets understand what is Lakshmi first. Within India itself there are so many different religions, within Hinduism and Jainism there are so many castes and sects but regardless every culture prays to Lakshmi.In westernized format Lakshmi is prayed in different ways.In Sanskrit Lakshya means the goal. Lakshmi means the one which assists you to go to your goal.The one which carries you to the goal. Lakshmi has 8 forms.8 forms by which one can reach to the goal.



Goal is Narayana or the self or conciousness.Ashtalakshmi is the 8 ways to reach to the goal.8 mediums of reaching to the divine.And that is why in India also in the Hindu religion Lakshmi is always placed at the feet of Narayana because if you have Lakshmi, Narayana also comes with it and if you follow Narayana Lakshmi has no choice but to be there also. Whichever is easier?


To reach Narayana is sometimes difficult to automatically go into consciousness’ and meditate and reach to the self so we take support of Lakshmi to reach to the self. So what are these 8 forms.....

Learning Malayalam....

Hey I have started to read and write Malayalam.Today was my first lesson. I have learnt the first alphabet "AA" in Malayalam.Malayalam is my Mother Tongue. It is a member of the Dravidian family of Languages. Malayalam alphabet Malayalam
Origin


Malayalam first appeared in writing in the vazhappalli inscription which dates from about 830 AD. In the early thirteenth century the Malayalam script began to develop from a script known as vattezhuthu (round writing), a descendant of the Brahmi script. Malayalam is also regularly written with a version of the Arabic script by Muslims in Singapore and Malaysia, and occasionally by Muslims in Kerala.


Malayalam, a Dravidian language with about 35 million speakers. It is spoken mainly in the south west of India, particularly in Kerala, the Laccadive Islands and neighboring states, and also in Bahrain, Fiji, Israel, Malaysia, Qatar, Singapore, UAE and the UK.





When we start to study a language, first we have to learn to write and pronounce the alphabets. After that, we have to study to write and practice different words which include those alphabets.It really feels like ive become a child all over again ..back to school. ....wow!

Now i will be practicing it everyday and one day before my next visit to Kerala i can confidently read the names of different areas in Kerala on the bus name plate without help? Now i am sure that would be really an achievement, isn't it:)

By the way MALAYALAM is the only language which can be pronounced in the same way, whether you read it from left to right or rihgt to left ....cool na!

Guruji’s Diwlali Message during Dhanteras in Rajkot Gujrat

There are different kinds of prosperity not just of wealth(Samruddhi). Some people have lots of money but they are always unhappy. Take a Sankalpa and pray for the happiness of everyone.That’s the real wealth.Air, Earth and Time are also wealth. Utilize this wealth of Time properly.Gyan ka Dhan. One who relishes the wealth of knowledge he can reach the divine.Havan Se Samruddhi Hote Hain.

Sabke Man Mein Prasannatha Jaag Uthathe Hai.Prasing the divine forces through yagyas and Dana- sharing.Sabka Sanman Karte Karte Atma Mein Vishram Karna Dhyan Hain. Guruji then spoke about Bramhanaad where 1200 Sitarists performed on one platform and Antarnaad where 2700 Hindustani Classical Vocalists performed in the presence of Poojya Gurudev. Guruji said that it has now become his habit to make the Impossible …Possible

Guruji was praising the land of Gujrat and said the “Shuddha Shakahare Bhojan Gujrat Ka Garv Hai’-Pure vegetarian food is the pride of Gujrat. Guruji spoke about Annabramha which was conducted in Ahmedabad on 2nd Nov wherein 5000 varieties of food were cooked and served to underpriviliged children.

Guruji then said the million dollar statement which made crowd go spellbound. He said “ Tum Apne Aap Paap Se Mukth Nahin Ho Sakte Mein Tuhe Tumhare Paap Se Mukth Karne Ki Jemedari Leta Hoon. Apne Karma aur Dharma Dono Ko Samarpeth Kar Do” Just surrender all you desires and just know that God knows whatever you need.

Guruji then spoke about a doctor in China who had 7 diseases.He used to consume 500gms of medicines every single day. He started taking long walks in the garden and chanting ‘OM’ everyday .In just one year he was cured from all his ailments completely. It was absolutely miraculous.

Guruji said the ‘Instead of saying Oh! Out of sorrow say ‘OM’!:) Ek Tatva Ka Abhyas Karon. Isse Sabhe Badhayen Door Ho Sakten Hain. Gaan, Gyaan, Dhyan Aur Daan karma jaroore hain. Zindagi Ke Har Kshtra mein Safaltha Prapth Hoge.Narayan Ko Pakdo Tho Lakshmi Tho Aayege Hee!

VINODJI'S GYAN......WOW

The 4 A Formula

Awareness of what’s going on in my mind when I am exposed to a situation. What is that situation doing to my mind. Why am I irritated or what in me is the irritation. What is then trigger and drive in me to act perhaps in confrontation, perhaps in agreement with the situation. This comes through an evolved state of awareness.


Alertness: I am surrounded with changes and change is inevitable it continues to happen. My wisdom will allow me to be alert to the changes. To infer from the changes, to derive from the cause of the change and what things have changed to. And if I am not alert that things have changed around me then I cannot choose to adapt.

I need to enhance my Awareness Alertness and Adaptability. The fourth of A is my attitude. Most of the time if my focus is on things that are not in my favour I generate stress perhaps even resistances, frustrations and inhibitions because im not able to change. So the attitude needs to be attended to. Sometimes how much ever I am alert and I am driven to change the situation around me the situation does not change most of the time or the environment remains static or I am not moving along with the change.

So there is a mismatch between what is going on within me and the environment around me. Now I need to change my attitude. When my attitude is in agreement with the inevitable happening through me, when my attitude is calm and is to give in then most of the time I find that the environment has changed to my favour. For example: I decided to leave home at 10 am but then the bus did not come at that time but because I was not bowed by that situation and I changed my attitude.


So though there was delay in the bus for half an hour there was another announcement that the bus is coming in 10min.So many times people are attempting to change the environment and the situation without attending to their attitude.The secre is that you attend to your attitude and the situation and the environment will change in your favor.



Functionally we have some roles but unfortunately we start thinking that our role is our identity. And if I start believing that the role that I play is my only identity and then when the role changes because change is inevitable. The roles around me keep changing and I will be expected to play various roles that’s going to be a demand that comes on me to skip from role to role and various job descriptions. Few of them may not be even told to me I may have to infed myself


But if I am too rigidly attached to the role that I am playing then my flexibility is at minimum.Then I cannot slip in and out of any role with ease.So the state of readiness of my mind to slip in and out of various roles that inevitably is going to be bestowed upon me and when my state of readiness to move through various roles is nill then I experience stress. And when I am under stress and the roles have changed then my expressions becomes out of irritability, annoyance, unsteadiness or even destabilized mindset Such an expression further disharmonizes my environment in other words I will have a disharmonized environment for me to live in

So my caution should be thjat I should be able to create a cordial ambience around me so its good for me to live in. Not everything can become planned and prepared. Many things I may have to leave it to uncertainities.What is the state of my mind and what is the risk quotient that I can move through uncertainties with a Smile. Currently because of stress or because of conditioning of the mind perhaps my focus is on the impossibilities.


I need to graduate out of this and arrive at a mindset which gives me a vision of the possibilities and not restrict me or limit me to impossibilities. I am becoming spontaneous because I am seeing possibilities and I have agreed to move through uncertainties.

With this formula in place I can be a source of encouragement to others.So if I connect to my energy and enthusiasm I can become a source of encouragement to other people also. And if that is the case then I am a source of inspiration to people. If I am an inspiration to people the listeners are there, if the listeners get solace, comfort and relief from the state that they are in, but if somebody comes to you and they do not get relief, solace and comfort in your presence, instead they get agitated in your presence then you cannot be an inspiration.


To be an inspiration also you need to enhance your credibility in the eyes of your listener. The listener is going to decide how credible you are to decide wether you are a reliable person and a dependable person. So my objective is that I need to inspire other people by encouraging them. My listenr in their assessment of dependabilitiy, credibility and reliability on me they must assess in my favour. For this I need to connect with my enthusiasm and energy.For that I need to get spontaneous and for that I must have confidence to move through uncertainties. This formula in place it works well. Most of the tiem we prepare and plan in order to eliminate uncertainties. The irony is that you cannot always eliminate all the uncertainties. I formulate it as UPS- Uninterrupted Power Supply.

Uncertainity-Possibility-Spontaneity

Life.....

Life with a Guru
Is so full of beauty and truth
Every moment is so precious and graceful
Every relationship becomes all the more interesting
Every opportunity is absolutely enthralling

Life is like a fruit salad
So simple, so interesting and yet so colorful
Sometimes its like a Dance and at times like a melodious Song
With all its challenges and paradoxes
Life is still like a climax scene of a movie that I wait with eager, enthusiasm and a smile to encounter.

Life is really like a movie
With romance, comedy, melodrama and tragedy
But with Sri Sri in my life
Its no less than Shakespeares Othello, As u like or Macbeth!

Life with a Guru
Highlights the key words even in Oxford Dictionary
Awareness Belongingness Commitment & Devotion
Freedom Gratitude Happiness Intution
Joy Konnection Love Meditation
Novelty Optimism Patience
Quick Reverence Smile
Trust Unique Victory
Wonder Xmas yahoo Zeal