Towards Reality

In acceptance,  peace

In love, space

In gratitude, detachment 

In service, deservingness

In Now, Action

In charity, anonymity

In kindness, equality

In moderation, reality

In duty, surrender

In surrender, mergence

In mergence, joy

In joy, grace 

In grace, bliss

In bliss, being

In being ,doing

In doing, being

In passivity, activity

In activity, passivity

In above amamalgamation, negation

In negation , God - The Ultimate Reality 

Top ten lessons in the last decade

Its been ten years since I came to U.A.E. . But where do we really live? In Chennai? In U.A.E? In a villa ? In a studio? In a 2 bhk ? Wherever we may be physically, we actually live in our thoughts and have all the freedom here. The Freedom of thoughts. It's important to keep our thoughts beautiful, clean and pure.Some important takes from life's journey in the last decade.

1.Acceptance of what is.

2. Non judgement and overcoming the fear of others judgement.

3. Living in the NOW. Now is all that exists, this includes letting go of what was or what will be and the ability to adapt to changes.

4. Gratitude for what is without taking anything or anyone for granted.

5. Do the duty continuously,selflessly,sincerely. 

6. If the results of action is not to your liking  do not slip into inaction.Practice patience, hope for the best and motivate yourself to carry on your way.

7.Do not take words very seriously both good and bad. The voice from within should validate what comes from outside.

8. Enjoy the flow of love and affection while giving people the space they need.In love, space.

9. Practice Equality,brotherhood towards all fellow beings without any differences or priorities.Admire and appreciate the good things in others.

10. Faith, prayer and surrender can change anything.Do your best and leave the rest to God.

Be open to learn,unlearn,relearn and more importantly APPLY the learnings in life.

Contentment and growth

While contentment is a blessed state of mind I was wondering what lies behind it or is it complete by itself.

How do we arrive at contentment?

Contentment usually comes when a certain goal is fulfilled, it can be by self effort or life can just give us what we want through some other person  without our personal effort.

How can contentment be disturbed?

When we have a conditional contentment,  contentment can be disturbed when underlying conditions shake.

At times we may be content with what is but an awareness of something better can create a desire for that better and disturb the content state of mind. Unnecessary comparison with others may lead to discontent.

When we are grateful for what we have then we would never be disturbed when another person has something better than us.

When we no longer choose to race or follow the crowd, when we arrive at a state of inner contentment with what is, are we in some kind of a stagnation or not focusing on the potential growth?

There is a possibility of stagnation unless we learn to live life using our full potential using our will power.

Contentment and growth can go together when we gratefully accept the present as it is and use our full potential to be a better version of our own self breaking our own records.Ideally when we apply gratitude we can be content at the same time use the will to become better.

Life is not what we have, it's more about what we are or what we become.

Deeper lessons on Acceptance

 Over the last decade I have been trying to learn the lessons of Acceptance, write about it and apply it in my life. It was more about acceptance of unexpected or dynamic situations in life, acceptance of people with different personalities and mindset. In tolerance we avoid conflict and make peace  with the situation, in acceptance we make peace both within and outside us.

Acceptance paves ways to peace but acceptance does not mean becoming a passive observer to everything and becoming stagnant. Acceptance is complete only in action.  We accept the what is and act for the betterment.Mere acceptance without action sooner or later leads to stagnation. Suddenly a sense of awareness comes into our mind about stagnation creating ripples of restlessness in the peaceful  mind. Well every thought which comes to us from within is for us to act on it. Dont let this restlessness pave wave to self pity. Instead understand that nature puts us through restlessness to move towards further betterment, practice self Acceptance, be gentle on your self. You have already come a long way upto here. Tell yourself ,  "I am good enough, but I need to take action to become all the more better".

Whenever your own flaws or limitations comes to the awareness of your mind, practice Self Acceptance and Self help through Self efforts in an attitude of Surrender. Attitude makes a big difference in this journey.These are the baby steps towards Self Mastery.