Friday, March 8, 2013

Sri Aurobindo's conviction about yoga


Sri Aurobindo mentions Self Perfection as an object of yoga rather than self - annulment.
The challenges in the world before us are " Imperfection, limitation, death, grief, ignorance, matter". He says these are the first terms of the formula - unintelligible till we have worked out the wider terms and reinterpreted the formulary. he sees them as the initial discords of the musician's tuning. As an objective of yoga, he would like the sadhaks to construct perfection out of imperfection, discover infinity out of limitations, immortality out of death, divine bliss out of grief, rescue divine self- knowledge out of ignorance, reveal spirit out of matter. He concludes the article by stating "To work out this end for ourselves and for humanity is the object of our yogic practice"
I feel to pursue these objective, one need to be physically, emotionally, mentally and psychologically stronger beyond all the doubts that may arise out of the setbacks. Looks like a distant vision. Frustration arises out of our Ego's demand to see the perfection within our limited view. But what Sri Aurobindo accounted above as object of yoga are the humanity's ultimate goal. In other words,the humanity's ultimate goal, if taken as individual's objective within his present life time, considering the intensity of the work involved, it is termed as yoga.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Different ideas i have shared else where. I request the subscribers to share and enlighten me if my undersgtanding is not complete.

Consecration
Brooding over the past is not going to help any one in the present. Dreaming about the future at the cost of the present is like attaining Samadhi and when the dreamer comes back to the present, he will feel miserable. Living in the present is the greatest attainment one can achieve in life. The person living in the present can rewind the past, travel to his future with out loosing the control over the present like how the well trained saints attain samadhi and return back at their will. Consecration is capable of achieving this Timeless eternal.
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Opinions
The opinions are like sharp edged swards. and they affect the person about whom the opinion is formed. To overcome all opinions, one need to be stronger mentally and emotionally. Non. Stop physical work with enthusiasm to carry out the work with mental clarity and originality will break all the sharp edged opinions and will make them inactive weapons.
Forming opinion is a skill as for as studying organizations performances are concerned. It is positive. But opinions formed out of gossip and ill will are to be stopped as they in long run will bounce back and affect.
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Goodwill and Gratitude
Goodwill and Gratitude go together. Gratitude carries in itself goodwill. Goodwill is the.the outcome of Gratitude towards Divine. So Goodwill is Gratitude and Gratitude is Goodwill.

Gratitude is a rare but sure medicine for any problem. If one faces any problem, he can go behind his memory lane and will surely find ingratitude behavior of himself towards someone. Internally, if he reverse it and bring an attitude of gratitude and feel grateful for that person, the problem will vanish. This is a powerful tool of Life Response.

If one is grateful for the protection given by Divine constantly, whether we are aware or not, the divine will grant not only protection but prosperity too.
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Initiative
The starting place of initiative is Real idea. The outcome is creation. There is nothing in the Universe without initiative. Universe took initiative to create human beings . It is the turn of human beings to initiate the inner journey towards evolution. The beauty here is to shift our initiative as Divine initiative. That is Consecration.
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Generosity and Meanness
Generosity is granting what one is incapable of receiving. Meanness is demanding someone, what we can not give to others. If we analyse ourselves, it will be revealing. We may understand how many times we have demanded from others like that.
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Knowledge available in Gadgets
Sri karmayogi wrote"Education is the yoga of Society". Internet is a manifestation of that yoga which makes the knowledge of millions of years possible by clicks of buttons.
Integral yoga is the yoga of divine which makes the integral knowledge possible to the World. Society is striving to bring the knowledge of so many thousands of years in the gadgets of each person.
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Punctuality
Punctuality is one value which is capable of bringing prosperity. Knowing Very well this fact, not following that is constitutional ignorance and for some, original ignorance. The fact is that the statement holds good to me.
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Development and Knowledge
Development comes to a society or to a country in a zigzag manner. The atmosphere allows the muscle men to achieve first. When the society gathers Values, real development will take place. It has been the experience of development in various countries.We can call it as the fight between the ignorance and knowledge at the time of atmosphere of development. Knowledge will prevail upon ignorance. Now in india, it is the waiting time for knowledge but gathering momentum.
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Hour of God
Every person have one opening towards Evolution. At right time, the same value will give a real meaning. Till such time, it will be like a blowing of trumpet in the ears of a deaf man. That time is called the hour of god. Hour of God is now, if one is vigilant to know his opening. 
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Transformation
Transformation is nothing but changing the darkness in our being to one of light. It is the knowledge in the place of ignorance, Truth in the place of falsehood, Ananda in the place of pain and suffering and soon. In other words all the eight aspects of Soul to be regained from the changed opposites that we are involved in right now.
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Transformation

Transformation of emotion's limitations made mind possible in the human beings. Transformation of mind's limitations will make the super mind possible in the human beings. That is evolution.
Transformation is not a very rigid tough thing to do. The shift, required in each place, need to be made in our consciousness is called transformation. The shift should be an upward movement. If it goes downwards to emotional or body's habitual impulses, it is in the nature of involution. The toughest upward shift for each individual is the secret domain for his abundance.
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Law of Attraction as explained in The Secret book is the work of Mind and Emotion to accomplish what one wants through the universal Force. Consecration is the experience as introduced by Sri Aurobindo is the process by which one crosses the limitation of mind, emotion, and body and touches the Truth Consciousness(Supermind) which is the source code for the universal Force.
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Values are the subtle vehicles to reach us to prosperity
Values are aspects of Truth. Truth expressed in Life in different forms. They are called Values. Cleanliness is a physical Value. Cleanliness of Singapore indicates that Singapore as a Nation, aspired the truth of Cleanliness. Orderliness is another Truth. Punctuality, Regularity, Trust, Trust Worthiness, Quality, Systematization, Standardization are all different aspects of Truth expressed appropriately at different places or different situations or different levels. The World evolved many millions of times from its primitive forest living only through Values. The indwelling Divine Consciousness, in the process of Evolution, by using the Aspects of Truth brought out this phenomenal Growth. Values can take us to the subtle plane and hence will reveal the new horizons of life what will not be visible for when there are no values in life. Behind any progress in the world, there will be a value visible or hidden. I would call the Values as the subtle vehicles to reach us to riches. The success Stories of Countries, Continents, Big Corporates and significant Individuals have one thing in common. That is Values. The subtle vehicles took them to the prosperity.
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Aspiration-1
Real Idea, the Divine Will, through Consciousness Force worked out the creation by hiding its full knowledge and brought out ignorance. Aspiration is the Consciousness Force that is finding out the hidden Divine and Truth. That is Evolution.
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Aspiration-2
The mechanism that move the world forward is the Aspiration. Each individuals` aspirations gathers momentum and becomes a movement to achieve some thing great. Gandhi, Teresa, Anna Hasare and many more are the human faces for different aspirations. Human Aspiration is the key for evolution.
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Goodwill
Showing goodwill to others is spiritual capacity. The Divine will expressed in life is in the form of goodwill from others. The Divine will now is to carry out evolution. Evolution in life is called development. Hence the development to one and all is the will of the Divine. Showing Goodwill to others means that we are expressing the Divine will.
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Self Giving is the key for any thing in the world to manifest. Divine let itself to become the creation of universe and living beings. Now it is the turn of man to leave his limitation and ego to attain the divine in his life.
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On Teachers` day
Generally students remember the impression of those teachers who some how influence them by their deeds or personality. But if we analyse our knowledge, we may not be able to locate from where we got that knowledge. The knowledge would have been from a tough unacceptable teacher or from a timid shy uninspiring teacher. My thanks to one and all who contributed for my present knowledge base.

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The bubbles of surface mind

The bubble like problems give pain when pricked by some incident or some one. It is for the surface mind and the pain takes us inwardly. If we are aligned with Mother and her force, the pain will disappear instantly.
Alignment with mother will clear all the bubbles of surface mind with out pain or pricks and will give silence and peace of the subliminal mind.
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Default Unity of purpose

Divine has got a purpose in creation. The universe has got a purpose in evolving the living beings and humans in the world. Society has got a purpose to accomplish. Countries have got their own purposes. The individuals have got their own purpose of life. In essence, every purpose is one from the point of view of the super mind. There is a unity of purpose in the diverse purposes.
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Alchemy

Thoughts entering from outside into our personality is real. Baghawan Sri Aurobindo stopped the thoughts outside and attained Silence. He reached this attainment in three days which would normally take for others ten or twenty years.

In Esoteric practices, it is written that, thoughts have got forms and colors. Each thought according to its nature will attack a particular chakra in the form of thought entities and elemental, which stays in the specific chakra and keep the mind and emotion fully occupied. Generally the stress and other thought pressures are the cause of this fact.

Mother's Light and Mother's force is capable of dissolving all the thought forms and emotions and that is why we get instant peace while praying to Mother.

What Sri Aurobindo achieved in three days, With the yogic attainment, Mother and Sri Aurobindo offered the silence as a gift to all who pray them.Transformation of one's nature will stop the respective negative thought forms outside our personality and attract positive thought forms. Consecrating the thoughts to Mother will transform the thought forms in to positive ones(Supra mental truths)that is Alchemy.
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Default "That reminds me of the time"

"That reminds me of the time" is the phrase used by Dale Carnegie for training people in public speaking. People need to narrate an incident and should relate it with an incident in his life using the phrase "That reminds me of the time when i was"
Each moment in our life is the reminder of some connecting incident in our past. If we correctly relate our problems to our past with the right incident in the past what we call the seed incident and reverse our attitude attached to that incident, we will overcome similar problems in our life. Similarly if we identify the seed for our opportunities and enhance the attitude attached to the seed, we will get the opportunities in queue.
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Influence

A new born baby, start influencing by crying for food in the first hand and extend it to other areas of requirement. If that crying technique does not work, it tries to influence through other method. Through out the life, man is either influencing or being influenced. Man from birth to death is in the vicious circle of influence. The human choice is between two options, either to choose the evolutionary influence or to choose the revolutionary influence. Better evolve.
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Power of Love - the secret behind accomplishment

In the union with the Divine, Love is the crown where work fulfills itself in knowledge. When the self will becomes divine will by union, all the actions have their source form the Divine and infinite source of energy is available for all works. When one acts with love, the work fulfills itself with greatest knowledge possible for that work. If we consider greater works of the world, we can see all these three elements bundled within. For any work to evolve beyond our limitation, we need to seek the love with divine and the knowledge required to fulfill that work will enter the work as a spark. Our part is to be with gratitude for the Divine's accomplishment which is another form of love.
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Omnipresent reality

When we consecrate, our consciousness move to the psychic which touches the supermind, the ever present reality and instantly we get result which is beyond our limited personality's limited result. When our focus is in our result, we get only the intermittant glancings of the supermind in order to ascertain to our mind and ego that we get the big result through a travel to supermind. Instead, if our focus is only towards supermind(Aspiration) with out such an expectation, the everpresent reality is possible. The work is called surrender instead of consecration.
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One in all

All the fields of Knowledge are expanding like how universe is ever expanding. The universe has got its origin which is Divine from where the universe got manifested. Similarly all the fields of knowledge have got a base which is called Bramha Gnanam. If we understand the central theme of any field of knowledge, the theme of Bramha Gnanam will be hidden within every theme. It will be difficult to locate this base in any field of knowledge since each such field is expanding limitlessly in different directions. The same applies to Life also unless we consciously turn towards divine to establish divine Life in our life. The Bramha Gnanam is to understand that all are integrally the one. Seeing one in many is the essence.
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Paradigm Shift - Being of Becoming

Transforming the "Consciousness of Becoming" in to "Consciousness of Being" is "Being of the Becoming". It is a paradigm shift in consciousness. The tool to shift the paradigm is Consecration.
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Awaking from ignorance

Awaking from ignorance is like waking from sleep. Ignorance in a particular aspect is like sleeping. When you get the touch of knowledge in that particular aspect, you have the continuity of the earlier(may be earlier births) experience in that particular field like how we continue our affairs of previous day or previous time before sleep. Consecration will bring that awakening in that field.
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Brahma Jananam - the divine's source coed for ignorance

While consecrating, one will be able to access the essence of the knowledge gathered over various births as sparkling ideas for the present problem(or an aspect of ignorance). The knowledge available to any individual on any aspect of ignorance may even go beyond the essence of experiences of various births. But if this Bounty of knowledge descends to a person, it may be called as Brahma Jananam, the divine's source code for that aspect of ignorance. Mother have sanctioned this to every devotee in her capacity as Chit sakthi in the Nature of evolution.
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Humility to Mother
Humility to Mother takes one out of ego. Materially she sanctions the boons to those who are humble. Spiritually she offers experience of one boundless energy in action. One can practice humility by feeling the Mother with in every other person and offering praam to the Mother with in every other person.
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Peel out the negative by a purification process
To get the strength. layers of weakness need to be removed like how onion is pealed out, Knowledge is hidden in ignorance. Joy is hidden in our day to day problems, Light is hidden in the layers of darkness and so on.
Any one of the purification processes will release the strength out of weakness. The work is simple to say - Peel out and put in fire(Psychic) what is not required. Doing is the challenge. Unleash the secret of creation for evolution.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

CORPORATE VALUES

Values are the aspects of truth. Truth expressed in life in different situations in the form of values. The truth for a place is revealed by the tidiness, cleanliness and orderliness. The truth for a program is determined by the punctuality, the quality of event and so on. There are various corporate values which drives the corporates to exponential growth. For example, a hotel chain who attained the first position from the eighth position, was mainly due to the new value adapted by the particular carporate, value for people. Even the hourly workers were given atmost care and respect after they adapt the particular value. This brought them from eighth position to the first.
When the CEO was interviewed, he explained the mechanism. "Unless we give respect to the employees, how can we expect them to give respect to the guests?" was his response.

We can quote many more incidents and examples. The Values are in fact driving the world forward. From Nomadic life, man evolved in to a respectable society only because, he started valuing values.