Mahesh M Kelkar

Renunciation of desire : Self Forgiveness

2011-05-02T11:46:00.000-07:00

When we learn to forgive our self then and only then we will be able to forgive others

When we forgive self we get detach to the part that wants to keep us trapped inside a circle of blame, shame, guilt, and fear. These are a part of our ego.

Most people think that when you forgive someone, you are doing them a favor and that's not true. When we forgive someone else or something that self have done, we really are helping self.

When we are unable to forgive ourselves or others, it stays in our energy field until we can. If we don't clear that energy in this lifetime through forgiving and releasing it, we will have to resolve it in another lifetime. This is a desire cycle. We need to get rid of these desires to be on path of salvation.

Thought on Self / Braman

2010-11-14T15:09:00.000-08:00

# If individual identity is lost, how can one transmit belief?
--> To a detached mind, belief is unnecessary
The unreal has no existence; the real never ceases to be

# If god is identified with 'Self', why bind him in an earthly form?
--> When 'I' and 'He' become 'One' then the truth comes into being. When nothing exists; the 'truth' remains
Every self is universal. Becoming aware of this is true knowledge

# Belief: If Vedas are Eternal, then no harm shall come to me --> Eternal Vedas Protect Me

# True Knowledge of 'Self' leads to Liberation. He who knows the 'Self' controls the gross, the living mental, rational and supra-rational being.

# For those torn by worldly sorrows and assailed by ignorance to the whole world, need to reveal the secret of 'self'.

# Ego free possessions proof read tranquil at heart, devoid of lust, humble and pure, he is worthy of becoming 'Brahman'

# Who with pure intellect and fortitude controls this sensual body and shuns sensation like sound, will be free from attachment.

He whose mind is unattached subdued in thought, desire free and free from action, through renunciation, attains perfection

Renunciation (Sanyas), alone leads to Salvation (Mukti)

2010-11-14T11:13:00.000-08:00

The six kinds of renunciation are all commendable. They are these:
1. The first is never experiencing joy on occasions of prosperity
2. The second is the abandonment of sacrifices, prayers and pious acts
3. That which is called the third, is the abandonment of desire or withdrawing from the world. Indeed, it is in consequence of this third kind of renunciation of desire, which is evidenced by the abandonment of all objects of enjoyment (without enjoying them) and not their abandonment after having enjoyed them to the fill, nor by abandonment after acquisition, nor by abandonment only after one has become incompetent to enjoy from loss of appetite
4. The fourth kind of renunciation consists in this: One should not grieve nor suffer his self to be afflicted by grief when one’s actions fail, notwithstanding one’s possessions of all the virtues and all kinds of wealth. Or, when anything disagreeable happens, one feels no pain
5. The fifth kind of renunciation consists in not soliciting even one’s sons, wives and others that may all be very dear
6. The sixth kind consists in giving away to a deserving person who solicits, which act of gifts is always productive of merit. By these again, one acquires the knowledge of Self. As regards this last attribute, it involves eight qualities. These are truth, meditation, distinction of subject and object, capacity for drawing inferences, withdrawal from the world, never taking what belongs to others, the practices of Brahmacharya vows (celibacy; abstinence), and non-acceptance (of gifts)

If we follow these renunciations (Sanyas), we are on the path of Salvation (Mukti)

Pitru Paksha

2010-10-02T14:10:00.000-07:00

Pitru Paksha is the death rite performed during the ceremony, known as Shraddha or tarpan. It falls in the Hindu lunar month of Bhadrapada (September–October), beginning with the full moon day (Purnima) that occurs immediately after the Ganesh festival and ending with the new moon day known as Sarvapitri amavasya, Mahalaya amavasya or simply Mahalaya. Pitru Paksha is compose of the fifteen days of Malaya Paksha consists of 15 Tithi (also called Thithi) and they are Pratipat, Dvitiya, Tritiya, Chaturthi, Panchami, Shashti, Saptami, Ashtami, Navami, Dasami, Ekadasi, Dvadasi, Trayodasi, Chaturdashi, Amavasya (new moon).

The tradition of 'Pitru-paksha' as mention above is nowhere mentioned in the Puranas. It was Chanakya who is believed to bring in the concept when he observed that many officials were taking leave for 'Shraddh'. Some would take leaves two to three times a year to perform 'Shraddh'. Since banning the ritual would invite wrath from society, he suggested that fifteen days in the month of Bhadrapada as 'Pitrupaksha'. He also suggested 'Sarvapitri Amavashya', the last day of this period for the same rituals to be performed if one missed doing so in this period. It was a solution that Chanakya devised to reduce the percentage of non-working hours in Government,while still managing not to hurt social feelings.

Reference: The Times Of India Pune; Date:2009 Sep 05; Section:Property; Page Number: 13

कर्तुम, अकर्तुम ,अन्यथा कर्तुम

2010-07-18T12:45:00.000-07:00

Once we practicing the openness of mind and intelligence (Buddhi); we start realizing that there are no boundaries to worldly life like responsibility, work or destination.

In a forward path of life, mind needs to be made fix (thus mind get stable) and allowing Buddhi to play a role of "कर्तुम, अकर्तुम, अन्यथा कर्तुम"

In Multi Universe Infinity God' View Approach is Irrelevant ...

2010-03-07T12:49:00.000-08:00

Multiverse offers a plausible answer to the quantity of dark energy in our universe...

Use of the holographic principle to connect to Multiuniverse...
Vilenkin and Garriga figured the entire multiverse must similarly have a holographic image living on its boundary. In the case of the multiverse, though, the boundary is not a frontier in space, but in time, infinitely far into the future.It is required to derive a measure for the multiverse by studying its boundary instead.
It turns out that zooming in on part of the boundary is equivalent to selecting different, finite slices of time in the interior of the multiverse. To see how it works, imagine you are standing in a dark room with your back against one wall and facing another wall. You switch on a flashlight, which illuminates a large oval on the far wall. As you walk towards the wall ahead, the illuminated oval shrinks. The further away you move from the back wall where you started, the smaller the area of illumination becomes. In other words, there is a clear relationship between areas on your future boundary and distance from your starting point. In a similar way, a particular area on the boundary of the multiverse is associated with a particular time inside it.

Holographic principle, which says that the physics inside a region of space-time is equivalent to the physics on the region's boundary. You can think of a black hole as equivalent to a hot gas of ordinary particles on the boundary of the universe. And since a hot gas of ordinary particles never loses information, neither can a black hole.
The lesson from the holographic picture is that no observer should ever see information disappear from the universe. If Alice is watching from a distance as an elephant falls into a black hole, she will see it approach the black hole's event horizon, at which point it is incinerated by the Hawking radiation, which sends it streaming back towards her as a sad, scrambled heap of ashes. Meanwhile, Bob, who falls into the black hole along with the elephant, sees the elephant cross the horizon safely, and live happily for some time before hitting the singularity in the black hole's core.
According to the holographic principle, both stories must be true. But how can the elephant be in a heap of ashes outside the horizon and alive and well inside the black hole? It would seem the elephant has been cloned, but the laws of physics prohibit such duplication of information.
Cosmologist Raphael Bousso explains the paradox results from the mistaken idea that we can describe what's happening both inside and outside the horizon simultaneously, when in reality no single observer can ever see both at once. In other words, for physics to make sense, you must restrict your description of the universe to what a single observer can see. It's a profoundly different approach from the old idea that we can describe the entire universe from an observerless, God's-eye-view.
Talking about the multiverse as if it can all be directly observed at once, Bousso says, leads to an even greater nonsense than trying to simultaneously describe what's happening inside and outside a black hole horizon.

This also means that there is no need of God's eye view approach in Multi universe (at Infinity) due to space-time dimentions.

Such steps have been define bewtween Dvaita and Advaita.
As science is getting introvert to person from global (dvaita)
At advaita relativity does not exists and hence view is not required.

Earth Pole, Maya and Advaita

2010-02-11T09:25:00.000-08:00

It is a famous puzzle that if a bear start journey in straight line take a 90 degree turn and go straight and again take 90 degree turn and walk straight to reach to same position. What is a color is bear. The answer is White. Logic is that longitude and latitude are always crosses at 90 degree, so bear standing at center of the pole and walk on one of the longitude and then to latitude and then back to pole. All are in straight line and pole angle is zero. Theoretically, this angle is zero, but technically, there is an angle. This is Maya & Pole is Advaita. Longitude and latitude a human network created but removing this Maya; at the origin there is Advaita only. This is also emphasis that Existence of Adavita in every example.

Age of Universe : Indian & Modern Astronomy

2010-01-22T11:39:00.000-08:00

According to the Big Bang theory the universe expanded from an extremely dense and hot state and continues to expand today, a common analogy explains, carrying galaxies with it is like raisins in a loaf of bread. It is estimated that the Big Bang occurred 13.3 billion years ago. Hindu Mythology has been counting in yugas.
One yuga has 43,20,000 years (4.3 million ). One day of lord Brahma, the creator is 4,3200,000,000 (4.32 billion years)therefore his one year is 4,3200,000,000 into 360 which comes to 15552,000,000,000 (15552 billion years ) and his age 100 years which makes it155200,000,000,000 (1555200 billion years). This could indicate the age of Sun which may turn into a cold star, or that of the Universe, after being in existence for 1555200 billion years.

As per Hindu shastras the 50 years of the life of lord Brahma are over and we are in the 51st year. One day of Brahmaji has 24 manus and each manu has 72 mahayugas of 43,20,000 years . We are in Vivasat manu, of which 27 mahayugas are over and we are in the 28th . Kalpa (a cycle of the universe during which all the heavenly bodies return to their original positions) is said to be of 4,320,000,000 years .There are names of 30 kalpas given in matysa puran. The yugas under manus of different names goes to show that our rishis with their divine powers were able to see the cycles of time and their difference. A time period they recognized can be similar but not the same even if you consider a time span of billions of years.
The Mahabharata war was fought more than 5100 years in dwapar yuga and Rama fought Ravana some 8, 69,000 years ago in treta yuga . Considering the age of lord Brahma, Rama’s win over Ravana and Mahabharta appear recent and Anno Domini 2010 years ago is like yesterday.

Reference: http://www.journalofastrology.com/article.php?category_id=6&article_id=270

Om Purna...

2010-01-14T14:19:00.000-08:00

"Om purna mada purna midam

Purnaat purnam udachyate

Purnasya purnam adaaya

Purnam eva vasishyate

Om shanti shanti shantih"

Universal is Infinite
Self is also Infinite
Universe & Self combine to form Infinity
Addition / Deleting from Infinite left with Infinity
So, have an eternal peace

कोऽहम् - WHO AM I

2009-11-22T11:30:00.000-08:00

I am not the following

1) The gross body which is composed of the seven humours (dhatus) viz.-
i. Rasa (fluid) Dhatu,
ii. Rakta(blood)Dhatu,
iii. Mamsa (Muscle)Dhatu,
iv. Meda(fat)Dhatu,
v. Asthi (Bone)Dhatu,
vi. Majja (Neurons)Dhatu and
vii. Sukra (sperms) Dhatu

2) The five cognitive sense organs, viz.
i. the senses of hearing,
ii. touch,
iii. sight,
iv. taste, and
v. smell

3) The five cognitive sense-organs, viz.
i. the organs of speech,
ii. locomotion,
iii. grasping,
iv. excretion, and
v. procreation (enjoying)

4) The five vital airs, viz
i. Prana (Area: Heart to Throat & Function: Respiration, Colour: Golden),
ii. Apana (Area: Navel to Soles of the Feet & Characterized: downward movement & Heaviness, Function: Excretion. Colour: Yellow),
iii. Vyana (Area: Body, Function: Circulation Colour: Sky Blue),
iv. Udana (Area: Throat to Head, Function: Upward Movements, Colour: Green), and
v. Samana (Area: Navel to Heart, Function: Digestion, Colour: White)

5) The mind which thinks

After negating all of the above-mentioned as 'not this' that…
Awareness (existence-consciousness-bliss) which alone remains - that I am

Maya: Vishnu,Brahma, Shiva and Purush, Prakruti

2009-11-01T12:00:00.000-08:00

Shiva (of Hindu) represents the Our Body. Our Atma is in a form Lingam as presented by Shiva and surrounded by the very high speed vibration of our body (vasana / Pancha Kosha). These Shiva structure is same in Male & Female and hence Shiva is also a representation of the Ardha Nari Nateshwar. We realise all these in our Dhyan and Samadhi. Parvati, Ganesha, Karthik, Nandi, Kailash, Mansarvar, Shiva’s Gan and all other representation of the Shiva has a direct association with out body being realize in various stages of our Dhyan.

Vishnu is a Sattva Tatva (Preserver), Brahma is a Raja Tatva (Creator) and Shiva is a Tama Tatva (Destroyer). All these process combines to form the Maya process. Maya structure is essentially in a form of Purush & Prakruti.

Guna guneshu vartante | Iti matva na sajjate

2009-10-04T11:12:00.000-07:00

Bhagavad Gita 3. 18, which reads:
"tattva-vit tu, mahabaho giwa-karma-vibhagayo/i |
'guna guneshu vartante' | iti matva na sajjate. |

"tattva-vit tu, mahabaho giwa-karma-vibhagayo/i |
He who knows the tattvas does not cling to the two distinctions of the guwas and actions.

'guna guneshu vartante' | iti matva na sajjate. |
Guna behave as per his characteristics and knowing this atman is aloof and simply observer to it.

Realizing the myth of the world

2009-09-05T13:08:00.000-07:00

All great persons knows that world is myth in their own way and hence they can play in maya. But their own way is not the whole way and hence they have limited success.
Quote of Alexander states clearly that he is fully aware about the myth of world, even though he was fighting for the same
‘‘Bury my body and do not build my monument. Keep my hands outside. So that world knows, who won the World had nothing in hand when he died- Alexander the great.’’

Transcendental Life

2009-06-29T00:01:00.000-07:00

Transcendental Life is with out invovlemnt of self and live in temporality (a linear procession of past, present, future). We need not to live as a person, but in a continues meditation. We are not doing as such any act but simply witnessing & performing our duties. This is a process of fading self. This is not a state of split life, but a move towards monism.

Transcendental Life not a state of split life and far above level compare with Transcendental Meditation (a meditation technique introduced in 1958 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi).

Realizing Kali to Black Holes and Hawking Radiation to Moksha

2009-06-20T12:34:00.000-07:00

Mythologically, the only Hindu goddess that is above Shiva is Kali. In true sense physical existence is more important than Maya. As Maya is existed due to physical existence. The real Moksha path is physical existence to understanding the Maya and back to physical existence for decay. This is a why a black magic is affecting to physical existence even in decay cases (Refer : Adya Shankaracharya & Kapalika - interaction). The Hindu mythology has put the form as Parvati to Shiva to Kali and it is been clearly mention that Kali is a form of Parvati but above the Shiva to kill the demon Daruka (existence).

Interestingly this is similar to the Black hole to galaxies and decay (as proposed by Hawking radiation).

As per Advaita, there is no difference between All living, non-living and self. These all are manifestations of Maya. So when a person realizes the Maya then he can create Maya. Moksha happens with decay of existence and it is also mention as a Turiya Avastha (Kaivalya Pada) in Patanjali yoga sutra.

In a reinvented modern science the Turiya Avastha is link with Hawing Radiation resulting into the decay of black hole. In the end process of both there is end of life (existence) / black hole. Also Hawking radiation pair of Matter / Antimatter to its similar we have the cycle of wish and fulfillment of wish. A decay can happen only if one of the particle leaves with back hole energy and so does the fulfillment of wish makes end of life. If one wish creates the another wish then more life and so if there is no escape of particle black hole will continue to remain.

So, let us have a no wish (not consider this as a wish) and continue to be live in order of fulfillment of wish for which we have born.

Keep performing our duty

2009-06-13T11:22:00.000-07:00

karmanye vadhika raste, Ma phaleshu kadachana;
ma karma phala he tur bhuh, ma te sangvasta karmani

This means that
Keep performing our duty,
But lay not claim on its outcome.
Be self & don't own the out come of karma ,
Also, neither lean towards inaction.

This is a way a person actually lead the life; knowingly or unknowingly.
It is observe that life's material success & failure are very little own by us.
Success & failure took place due to our own wish designed for this life.
We are born to do certain karmas.
However it is upto us, as how we take these karmas to logical end or taking further logistics / another life.

We need to be a third party of self, having no wish but to simply observe the events.

Mirabai composed

2009-04-22T23:23:00.000-07:00

Mirabai composed:
- If by bathing daily God could be realized Sooner would I be a whale in the deep;
- If by eating roots and fruits He could be known Gladly would I choose the form of a goat;
- If the counting of rosaries uncovered Him I would say my prayers on mammoth beads;
- If bowing before stone images unveiled Him A flinty mountain I would humbly worship;
- If by drinking milk the Lord could be imbibed Many calves and children would know Him;
- If abandoning one's wife would summon God Would not thousands be eunuchs?
Mirabai knows that to find the Divine One The only indispensable is Love.

Lisi's Theory of Everything & Shree Yantra

2009-03-30T10:13:00.000-07:00

Lisi's model attempts to describe all known fields—the gravitational spin connection, frame, Higgs, gauge bosons, and three generations of fermions—as different parts of a single superconnection over a four-dimensional base manifold.
In Lisi's model, the base is a four-dimensional surface—our spacetime—and the fiber is the E8 Lie group, a complicated 248 dimensional shape, which some mathematicians consider to be the most beautiful shape in mathematics.
Lisi describes several deficiencies in this model. The most important deficiency is noted as "poorly understood," inclusion of the second and third generations of fermions in E8, relying on triality.
Lisi presented the diagrammatic connection of particles. These diagrammatic presentations are similar to Shree Yantras.

Lisi's Theory details
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Exceptionally_Simple_Theory_of_Everything
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0711/0711.0770v1.pdf

Shree Yantra
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shri_Yantra

Why Does the Universe Exist? An Advaita Vedantic Perspective

2009-01-25T00:18:00.000-08:00

It was argued there exists a lacuna in the literature with regards to an application of theories constructed a posteriori to the question, “Why does the universe exist?” It is suggests that, in contrast to modern logicians, the ontology outlined in the doctrine of advaita vedanta was purportedly constructed a posteriori using metaphysical knowledge acquired through ASCs (e.g., samadhi). It was further contended that experiential knowledge of the manifestation and dissolution of the universe is accessible during certain ASCs associated with advaita vedanta (e.g., kevala nirvikalpa samadhi), but not during ordinary or normal waking conscious—and is thus “state specific” or “state dependent”. It was suggested that such experiences might provide valuable insights into the external and internal causal mechanisms of the universe that are unobtainable a priori.
Two a posteriori derived creation theories associated with advaita vedanta (e.g., the theory of simultaneous creation and the theory of non-causality) weresubsequently applied to the question, “Why does the universe exist?” It was argued that, from the standpoint of drishti-srishti vada, the question “Why doesthe universe exist?” is unanswerable because: (1) The human intellect is annihilated at the precise location at which the universe dissolves into its purported cause (a metaphysical entity referred to as Brahman). (2) As Absolute Subject-ivity, Brahman cannot be rendered an object of conscious awareness and thus experienced. Consequently, a complete causal explanation of the universe cannot be formulated on the grounds that the “initial conditions” (i.e., Brahman) are unknowable. Extrapolating from the theory of ajata vada, the question, “Why does the universe exist?” may not be addressed via a causal explanation because: (1) the universe in the orthodox sense of “all space, along with all the matter and radiation in space” is held to be a delusory perception; and (2) when veridically perceived the universe is an uncaused appearance in Brahman.

Reference:
Adam J. Rock, Ph.D. The University of New South Wales Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia
http://www.transpersonalstudies.org/ImagesRepository/ijts/Downloads/Why%20Does%20the%20Universe%20Exist%20An%20Advaita%20Vedantic%20Perspective.pdf

Guidelines of Life

2009-01-11T09:49:00.000-08:00

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Five Pillars of Life
Never Lie.
Maintain Self Discipline.
Do work with Dedication & Concentration.
Maintain Good Habits & Meditate with Contemplation.
Respect Self & All.

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Five Facts Of Life
I want to recognize self as Pantheist & Omnipotence as Brhaman.
I am Monists.
My life path is guided by Guru.
I am immortal, but food is required for healthy & mortal body.
Happiness is a state of mind and not in Gratification.

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Change Process: Accept -> Act -> Understand -> Realize -> Demonstrate -> Live
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Whatever happened was good.
Whatever is happening is good.
Whatever shall happen will be good.
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Don't lament the past.
Don't worry about future.
Present is here, take care of it.
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You did not bring anything with you.
Whatever you received was here.
Whatever you give was here.
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What is yours today belonged to somebody else yesterday.
What is yours today shall belong to somebody else tomorrow.
Change is law of nature.
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Whatever you do; Do it without “I”.
You will experience liberation by doing thus.
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“Brahma Satyam Jagan Mithya Jivo Brahmaiva Na Aparah”
Brahman (the Absolute) is alone real; this world is unreal;
and the Jiva or the individual soul is non-different from Brahman.
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Meaning of Complex Word
Contemplation is to consider one particular thing for a long time in a serious and quiet way.
Pantheism God is everything and everything is God.
Omnipotence (from Latin: Omni Potens: "all power") is unlimited power.
Monism hold that the Universe is really just one thing, despite its many appearances and diversities.
Gratification is the positive emotional response of happiness in response to a fulfillment of a desire.

Being Lucky

2008-12-26T10:01:00.000-08:00

Always in a positive mind set

Work as an owner

Be of your Own

Loop quantum cosmology (LQC) & Status of the World

2008-12-14T11:37:00.000-08:00

Loop quantum cosmology (LQC),

Loop quantum cosmology (LQC), had managed to illuminate the very birth of the universe - the idea that our universe could conceivably have emerged from the collapse of a previous universe. LQC is verified, the big bang will give way to a big bounce and we will finally know the quantum structure of space-time. Instead of a universe that emerged from a point of infinite density, we will have one that recycles, possibly through an eternal series of expansions and contractions, with no beginning and no end.

Status of the World

Adi Shankara claims that the material world is not absolutely false; it appears false only when compared to Brahman. Under the influence of Maya, the world appears as completely true. Karma, an aspect of the material world, is true, so the world cannot be false. The world is like a reflection of Brahman; therefore it cannot be totally false. The world is a logical thing which is perceived by our senses; the term “false” is applied to things which are unable to be perceived by our physical senses. So under the influence of Maya, it feels that world has start & end. But actually world no beginning and no end.

Thus Advaita is clearly matching to the LQC. Hence, LQC seems to be in line of Advaita.

Patanjali Yoga and Advaita

2008-12-09T10:07:00.000-08:00

Patanjali divided his Yoga Sutras into four steps as follows to understand the Monism (Advaita)

1) Samadhi Pada : Understand citta-vritti-nirodhaḥ.

2) Sadhana Pada : Practice citta-vritti-nirodhaḥ.

3) Vibhuti Pada : Realise the relationship between self and outside

4) Kaivalya Pada : Experience Monism thus Advaita

Advaita & Astrology

2008-11-25T10:44:00.000-08:00

Advaita means Non-Dualism means Monism.

Astrology is to know future.

Advaita does not recognize space, time and object.

As space, time and objects are all unified in the Advaita.

So in Advaita, there is no future and no past.

Astrology doesn’t exist in Advaita.

Power, Success & Respect

2008-11-13T12:05:00.000-08:00

Power, Success & Respect; all three are intangibles part of person.
Interestingly, all these three needs to be earned, not demanded.

Every person has its own way to define the Power, Success & Respect to his satisfaction.
Person uses these measures for his achievements in professional, public & personnel life.

Life is always beyond the Power, Success & Respect.

Advaita Management

2008-11-09T09:50:00.000-08:00

Maya is a perception of the business; we need to come out of this perception to know the real business around.

When we realise the Brahman, we realise its non dualism. In business, we focus on the customer and client, who use our product / services. All our latest management programs are focus on it. However we need to focus on to understand the customer and improving his performance to grow our own interest. Then only we can achieve the non dualism in business.

Every business has its own challenges and success factors, but fundamentals of the human and hence business never changes.

From Dream to Reality Management

2008-11-08T09:17:00.000-08:00

Dream to Reality Process Management

Capture Dream
Create a Vision
Form a Mission
Set the Goals
Formulate the strategy
Make a Action Plan
Implement plan
Monitor Plan & Actual
Revisit the Vision, Mission, Goal, Strategy, Action plan to achieve the Dream

Subhashit

2008-10-14T09:40:00.000-07:00

ये केचिद् दु:खिता लोके सर्वे ते स्वसुखेच्छया |
ये केचित् सुखिता लोके सर्वे तेऽन्यसुखेच्छया ||

Whatever persons are unhappy in this world, they are so because of their desire (greed) for their own happiness. While those who are happy in this world, they are so, because of their desire for the happiness of others. People are miserable because they strive for their happiness and do not obtain it, while those who strive or exert to make others happy become themselves happy!

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उद्धरेदात्मनात्मानं नात्मानमवसादयेत् |

आत्मैव ह्मात्मनो बंधु: आत्मैव रिपुरात्मन:ाा

Be cause of your own progress, don't be a cause of your own degradation. You yourself are your friend or enemy (no one else).

That is, a person will prosper or ruin due to his own deeds, he has to select what he wants.

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सत्यं ब्रुयात् प्रियम् ब्रुयान्नब्रुयात् सत्यमप्रियम् |
प्रियम् च नानॄतम् ब्रुयादेष: धर्म: सनातन: ||

speak true, speak what is pleasant to others. don't tell truth which is not pleasant (which is harmful) (similarly) even though pleasant, don't speak false, this is Darmah You will find this "eshah dharmah sanatanah" in many subgashitas normally this is kept at the end. to emphasize on what poet is trying to say. other such part is "iti smrtah", "iti nishchayah" etc.

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समानी व: आकूति: समाना )दयानि व: |
समानम् अस्तु वो मन: यथा व: सुसहा असति ||

यथा व: सुसहा असति ||

ऋग्वेद

This is the last 'shloka' in the Rigveda. It states - Let your conclusions be ONE (or be alike), Let your hearts be the same (or be alike) [So that "everyone" feels for the same particular bad/ill in the society in the same intensity. It may be the common experience that not all feel for the same problem in the 'intensity' that we as individual may feel for that. Due to this there may be lack of 'collective' efforts to solve that problem]. Let your minds think alike/similar. May all these factors make your organisational-power an impressive one. This 'shloka' can be called as an 'sanghatan-sukta' i.e. guidelines for building an impressive organisation/nation.

Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak had ended his book 'Geeta Rahasya' by this 'shloka'.

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Reference: http://sa.wiktionary.org/

More about ego

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- Ego causes most of the problems we face in dealing with others.
- There were no real answers or solutions on the conscious level of the mind.
- There are as many ways to view the world as there are persons in it. The point of perspective is not how you view it but from where you view it.

- The ego that the mind creates in order to give it a means to confront the onslaught of the outside world. A world that it feels threatened by. Certainly, fear has its place in the dissolution of relationships, just as it does in most of our activities.

- The ego interprets the information presented to it by the senses and cognetively assesses them and through the mind, produces thought. These thoughts are then transformed, by the ego, into emotions. Emotions are the body’s response to thoughts. Our emotions arise out of these thoughts.

- Realized Time in case of Ego: The past no longer exists except as bits of memory and the future is not here and is only an image in our mind of what might be. The only time that really exists is the present moment.

Reference: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Lifestyle/Spirituality/Mind_Set_Is_ego_necessary/rssarticleshow/3508877.cms

How to make reason more reasonable

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A. C. Grayling discussion

1: Reason stands against values and morals
Shaping a moral and humane world requires more than reason, says Archbishop Rowan Williams

2: No one actually uses reason
If we had to think logically about everything we did, we’d never do anything at all, says neuroscientist Chris Frith.

3: I hear "reason", I see lies
Science is routinely co-opted by governments and corporations to subvert people’s ability to make their own decisions, say sociologist David Miller and linguist Noam Chomsky.

4: Reason excludes creativity and intuition
Reason is lost without art, says Turner prizewinner Keith Tyson.

5: Whose reason is it anyway?
Real people don’t live their lives according to cold rationality, says bioethicist Tom Shakespeare.

6: Reason destroys itself
Even in formal mathematics, reason breaks its own rules, says mathematician Roger Penrose.

7: Reason is just another faith
Unconditional reliance on a single authority is never sensible, says philosopher Mary Midgley.

Advaita Vedanta...

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The teachings of Sankara can be summed up as:
“Brahma Satyam Jagan Mithya Jivo Brahmaiva Na Aparah—
Brahman (the Absolute) is alone real; this world is unreal; and the Jiva or the individual soul is non-different from Brahman.”

Tenets of Advaita Vedanta

Brahman (the Absolute) is alone real; this world is unreal; and the Jiva or the individual soul is non-different from Brahman.
The Atman is self-evident (Svatah-siddha). It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny the Atman, because It is the very essence of the one who denies It.
Brahman is not an object, as It is Adrisya, beyond the reach of senses, mind or intellect. It is not another. It is all-full, infinite, changeless, self-existent, self-delight, self-knowledge and self-bliss. It is Svarupa, essence. It is the essence of the knower. It is the Seer (Drashta), Transcendent (Turiya) and Silent Witness (Sakshi). It is always the Witnessing Subject. It can never become an object as It is beyond the reach of the senses. Brahman is non-dual, one without a second. It has no other beside It.
Sat-Chit-Ananda constitute the very essence or Svarupa of Brahman, and not just Its attributes.
The world is not an illusion according to Sankara. The world is relatively real (Vyavaharika Satta), while Brahman is absolutely real (Paramarthika Satta). The unchanging Brahman appears as the changing world because of a superimposition of non-Self (objects) on Self (subject - Brahman). This is called Avidya.
The Jiva or the individual soul is only relatively real. Its individuality lasts only so long as it is subject to unreal Upadhis or limiting conditions due to Avidya. The Jiva identifies itself with the body, mind and the senses, when it is deluded by Avidya or ignorance. Just as the bubble becomes one with the ocean when it bursts, so also the Jiva or the empirical self becomes one with Brahman when it gets knowledge of Brahman. When knowledge dawns in it through annihilation of Avidya, it is freed from its individuality and finitude and realizes its essential Satchidananda nature. It merges itself in the ocean of bliss. The river of life joins the ocean of existence. This is the Truth.
Because samsara (or duality) exists due to ignorance or Avidya, Knowledge (Jnana) alone can make an individual realize his true nature. Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Raja Yoga etc., are necessary only to purify the individual and to help remove this Avidya. All other paths culminate in Jnana.
Brahma Jnana is not about acquiring any external knowledge (as Brahman can't be an object of knowledge), it just about removing the Avidya or Maya.

Reference:
http://www.shankaracharya.org/
http://advaitaphilosophy.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/advaita-vedanta-philosophy-of-adi-shankaracharya/

Self-actualization & Transpersonal Psychology...

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Self actualization

Self actualization resides at the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs...

Maslow doesn’t think that self-actualizers are perfect. There were several flaws like

- They often suffered anxiety and guilt

- With absentminded and overly kind

- And unexpected moments of ruthlessness, surgical coldness, and loss of humour.

Two other points he makes about these self-actualizers:

- Their values were "natural" and seemed to flow effortlessly from their personalities.

- They appeared to transcend many of the dichotomies others accept as being undeniable, such as the differences between the spiritual and the physical, the selfish and the unselfish, and the masculine and the feminine.

Transpersonal Psychology

Issues considered in transpersonal psychology include

- Spiritual self-development,

- Peak experiences,

- Mystical experiences, s

- Systemic trance and

- Other metaphysical experiences of living

Five key themes in particular featured prominently in transpersonal psychology definitions:

- States of consciousness,

- Higher or ultimate potential,

- Beyond the ego or personal self,

- Transcendence and

- The spiritual.

Reference:

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/maslow.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpersonal_psychology

Trap of (emotional) Appreciation…

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Persons get the appreciation, if others are benefited by its act…

Thus, appreciation becomes inflation; increases as more people got benefited…

Person who does the act is merely a role player of the requirement…

If person opinion that act originator is self; then he falls in a trap…

This trap will make you slave, to work for others for the appreciation…

Work for self and satisfy for the self makes out of trap…

Life in a Neutral stage…

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Everything is Ok and still something is not ok…

Being responsible and also nothing will stop…

There are plenty of the resolutions and few have answers…

There is no ego and many things still hurt…

Don’t have any wants and plenty to be got…

Lots are done and lot more to be done…

Theory is good and praticle is in progress...

In short, Life is in a Neutral Stage…

Constant...

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Perception of the perception is a perception…

Relativity of the relativity is relativity…

Dilemma of the dilemma is a dilemma…

But

Ultimate truth of ultimate truth is ultimate truth…

Destiny

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As human beings are unaware of the ultimate truth falls prey to the destiny…

Destiny is predefined experiencing path of the life…

Me involvement into these experiencing paths creates the new paths of life (birth – death cycle)…

Destiny has his own way and I / Me has nothing to do with it…

The ultimate truth is that; I was / is / will be a free from all including the destiny…

Comfort Zone

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Every person creates the comfort zone to live…

Person tries to adapt to the change situation to create the new comfort zone…

Progress of the person who changes his comfort zone to another level…

Maturity of the person is depends on the personal belief left in the comfort zone…

Life & Exprience...

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Life is nothing but the sets of the experience…

Each experience has objective and independent ness…

Experience objectiveness has the source from self…

Actually, self creates the experiences to know the world…

When experiences has source other than self; then it is a fictitious experience…

Six Characters…

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Human desires falls in one of the six character namely Sexual urge, Anger, Greed, Temptation, Ego, Jealousy…

These characters can not be eliminated…

But, Character can be made useless for its affects…

One of the way to make these character useless as follows…

Sexual urge: Find the source of the thoughts before it is in action…

Anger: Take out that 'self is a supreme'…

Greed: Remember that enough is never enough…

Temptation: Understand that there is no limit…

Ego: Realize that Person cannot be a bigger than it’s surrounding…

Jealousy: What we get is of our own self desire only…

Evaluate...

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Evaluate the self contribution in self success (look for the environmental factor, timely help by other person, self intuition, self efforts, if done differently - roots of the same)…

Evaluate the self image…

Evaluate the relationship jugglery …

Evaluate what emotions are meant to self...

Evaluate what resources (money) are meaning to self…

Evaluate how you differentiate with others…

Evaluate what do you like means...

Evaluate what is the role of I and Me in life...

Real Life and Philosophical Life…

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Meditation is some time (30 min to 120 min) job in the real life

But meditation is continuous process in Philosophical life…

There are winners / losers, successes / failures and achievements /collapses in real life

But keep doing best without thinking of output in Philosophical life…

Life has the philosophy in the real life

But way of life is a philosophy in Philosophical life…

Relativity to Singularity…

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Life begins due to relativity…

Space and Time are integral parts of Relativity (special / general)…

Life is a made up of the space and time which is related to the mass, energy, momentum…

Space is not biding; but time has time dilation… so do the life…

In relativity, I compete with ME…

Relativity vanishes in singularity…

In singularity, I & ME are same…

I and ME…

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‘I’ is an universal…

ME is associated with ego…

ME needs space and time to live…

ME keeps competing with I for the survival…

All the time, ‘I’ is an observer of ME…

In life, ME keeps changing and ‘I’ remains ‘I’…

Expectation…

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We all frame our wants in the form of the expectations…

So, expectation is the other side of the coin of wants…

We set the expectation to satisfy self or to have peace to self...

The beauty of the expectation is that it makes other person responsible for the fulfillment (remember that wants are self generated)…

Since the expectation liability is on other person our wants / expectation increases…

All resultant situations have “can do” matching to the “to do”; this means that wants and expectation are same…

This is a dualism that keeps working this world…

Me ego works on this dualism till Me belief on this dualism perception…

To know the source of expectation, we need to realize these erroneous beliefs…

The ultimate peace lies without any belief (this includes the belief of ‘without any belief’)…

Wants…

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The fundamental economic assumption is that the finite resources available are insufficient to satisfy all human wants. All economy is depends on these assumptions…

The life becomes the circle of the illusionary fulfillments of demands from My space people to Self…

Every human being living in the duality / relativity leads to the dilemma of the imbalance in wants / demands to availability of resources…

Monism leads to the removal of the duality...

Thus with monism; it is not required to have wants …

Fear...

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Fear of unknown is a great threat to everybody....

The biggest unknown thing in the world is death...

In normal life we deal with many unknown and uncertainty events and situations...

The origin of the fear is in the survival of self in unknown...

We need to deal with such uncertainty with our known / intuitive skills and knowledge...

There is no Death fear in realized "ME" in Origin of unknown...

So, if we know self, then we will not have fear...

Success or Failure…

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We are often in such a mud that all lotuses are taken out...

But then we have the fertile place to grow the lotuses...

One should not be in a blame game or to be a part of the rat race...

Keeping the self in most adverse situation is by knowing self only…

Those who broke down to situation or bend to the adverse situation are in an illusionary world…

Illusion only results more illusion…

Success and Failure are part of the illusion…

One who know the self; knows the world…

Do it for self only…

Illusion follows the Self…

Optimistic or Pessimistic…

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Depending ego level person can be optimistic or pessimistic…

More egoistic person normally turns to be pessimistic…

Also some times extreme negativity experienced person is pessimistic…

The good part is that Pessimistic person normally tries to prepare for the bad incident…

However, pessimistic person loses the charm of the life…

Whereas optimistic person enjoys the life…

But optimistic person often fall prey to depression and sometimes to illusion on failure…

Actually optimistic person overestimates the self and pessimistic person underestimates the self…

The key is to understand the Self…

Remember that ME is Monism…

A person should not be either optimistic or pessimistic; he should be self…

None of the situations are bad or good; they are just the situations…

Being neutral to situations is also not so correct...

One should not be part Optimistic or Pessimistic emotions…

It is an ultimate truth that those entire dual nature situations are "non existent"…

Realize ME…

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Realize ME…
Me, my self, my family, my society, my locality, my people, my country, my world, my way, my success and my cosmos...

Everything is about ME only...

ME started to look for ME…

So, Life is all about to look & realize ME (Monism) …

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ME lost in MY Space…
It is felt that ME in MY keeps changing all the time from child hood to till date

MY space increases from ME to the country to cosmos

In this process ME starts to look outward

MY expansion of space involves the more and more people involved

After some point MY Space limit expansion is done by the people in the space

So, ME get lost in MY space...

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MY Space Dynamics…
MY space becoming the so wide that those boundaries are dynamics …

All knows ME in MY space…

MY ego has bonded the ME and MY space…

So in MY space, ME and MY are difficult to separate out…

MY space is actually a part of MY space People’s Space…

There is a perfect give and take relationship established at various levels of MY space…

Various relationships are maintained in MY space people with ME and vice a versa like hate, love, respect. But ME and MY space people are bonded by their boundaries…

Now, MY space people keeps moving in and out of the boundaries based on the give and take relationships and in some cases deal is complete and other cases not…

So, Ego is something that keeps working this cycle…

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Ego in MY space...
ME got outward due to ego...

Ego has various outwardness like social, cultural...

There is some desire behind each ego...

The desire can be any thing from perfectionist to just a "cool" guy...

This desire needs to get fulfilled by some means in MY space like appreciation...

MY space is of Ego...

In same way MY space people have their own ego...

Thus, MY space is not of the people but of the MY Ego...

This is like the economic cycle of the small town or global...

The world of the demand and supply...

So, it is interestingly that ego is attached to ME...

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Ego in ME...
MY space people identify ME as ‘Ego ME’...

Actually ego (MY space people) identifies ego (ME) only...

Ego is composing of the assumptions...

These assumptions are opinion, facts and dreams...

ME identification is his own opinion, facts and dreams to MY space people and vice a versa...

To realize ME, I need to know the source of the assumption...

So, to realize ME it is to know the assumption...

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Assumptions towards ME…
Assumptions are formed due to the mind frame works…

Mind frame works based on the sets of experiences by ME…

These experiences are composed of the sets of emotions…

Emotions are sourced from the feeling of five senses viz eyes, noise, ear, touch & taste) and pensiveness...

Feelings & pensiveness are based on the thoughts process by ME…

So, Thoughts process forms ME…

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Thought Process to ME...
Thought process is basis of all our activity…

Thoughts are from the conscious brain or mind…

But then source of the thoughts are based on the purpose of the life…

Our whole life is around cause of the life...

What ever happens to us, it is aligned to the purpose of life…

All the time we are living for the cause of our life…

So, cause of the life identifies ME…

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ME in Cause of Life….
Every ME has the cause of life…

ME born & grown up in a particular situation…

Cause of life select these sets of condition…

All luck factor incidents are linked to this cause of life…

All know that life has the cause…

However ME is not aware about the cause of life…

Every ME needs to identify the cause of life…

ME is to be a Third Party of MY Space to know the cause of life…

Thus, ME is starting to get the rid of the layers of the MY Space…

Ultimately ME left with cause of life…

So, ME gets attached to the roots of cause of life…

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Roots of Life to Desire and ME…
Roots of life are based on the desire…

Desire creates more roots of lives…

This is a vicious circle of the desire and life…

It is a desire that creates sets of rules for life…

Desires craft the cause of life…

Desire makes the guidelines for the thought process…

There is a reincarnation of desire…

So, ME is not desire…

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ME…
ME is attached to all the life processes…

At every mode, ME is separately identifiable…

ME attached to one desire then it that ‘Desire ME’…

If ME is identifies to other desire then it is other ME like in MY space people…

ME gets many layers on it for identification like Desire to Cause of Life to Thought Process to
Assumptions to Ego…

When ME is outward it is attached to the life process…

Thus, ME is ME then it is free of all…

If we take out all the association of ME; then all ME are same…

ME is universal and everywhere…

Desire vortexes (black hoe) attract the energy force to start the life process…

So, ME am energy and free of anything and everything…

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ME... !!! ???

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