How we impact our World

How we impact our World

(Based on the teachings of Guruji Krishnananda)

Our every thought, every emotion and every act impacts the world. 

Our thought, good or bad, reaches others and triggers a chain reaction. It adds to the misery or the happiness in the world. So, let us be very, very responsible. Let us keep all our thoughts and emotions positive and pleasant.

Let us be calm always. Following just this principle will ensure the welfare of the individual and the whole world.

Do not respond to a situation or a person instantaneously and automatically. Be calm for the briefest moment and pause before responding. There is an ocean of Bliss within us. When we are calm we get connected to this ocean. The peace we experience from it will make a world of difference.

Let us respond from this state of inner peace instead of reacting automatically. If we can do this, our response will always be positive and peaceful.

This is how we live a Spiritual life. This is Sadhana. Sadhana is not just meditating for hours. It is being awake and aware every moment, in our every response to the world.

Knowing this and understanding this is good but it does not help unless we begin applying and practising it in everyday life.

Let us be aware of the impact we have on our world and make conscious efforts to practise being calm as much as possible. May all this help you.

Unwanted Baggage

Based on the teachings of Guruji Krishnananda

Guruji Krishnananda

A meditator once told me—“Life is beautiful now. There is so much of peace. I had a lot of anger and bitterness in me towards a person from many years. I realised that it is senseless to carry this rubbish that spoilt many precious moments of my life. I threw it out. These days, the conflicts arising out of differing attitudes and egos of people around me do not bother me. I have realised that it is I who has to change and rise above. Meditations have transformed my life.”

When someone speaks like this, I feel elated. It is not merely the expression that touched me! It was the sincerity.

How true it is! The realisation that it is senseless to carry the baggage indicates genuine transformation.

Why do people carry such baggage forever, in spite of regular Meditations? Is it because of the ego, or because of the reluctance to forgive, or because of their inability to forgive a hurt or a slight?

The ego has endless problems. It remains dormant as long as we go on pleasing it. It blurs our vision and complicates our life. It cannot see reason, beauty and peace.

Spiritual Progress begins only with Self-Transformation, which is possible only by conscious effort and not by mere Meditations.

Meditation and the effort to transform must go on in parallel.

To forgive and forget requires higher Love and a higher perspective.

The baggage stays with us until we grow, recognise it and throw it out.

Importance of stillness

Importance of stillness

All answers, all solutions, all possibilities and opportunities are within us. But we look for these things outside. Instead of exploring outside, we have to look within. We have to find them within us and bring them out, manifest them.

 We have to learn to manifest answers, solutions and even new questions.

 How do we learn to find them within us and manifest them?

 We have to begin by entering a state of stillness. That is why we meditate. With Meditations everything happens. Meditations have to be taken seriously. In stillness we become aware of all these things being within us.

 When we enter stillness, we become aware of many things, the most important thing is that of a Presence. This Presence is God Himself. We also become aware of what the Presence carries.

 We become aware of the vastness, unconditional love and oneness. Not only do we become aware of these things, we begin to experience the Presence and all that the Presence carries; we experience true love, we become one.

 After experiencing all these, we have to manifest them with a strong intent and conscious effort.

 You have to contemplate on these things. This is what regular and intense Meditations lead to.

Guruji Krishnananda