Who God is to me. . .

You can call God by any name that you choose: Allah, Yahweh, Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Shiva, etc. But from where I stand in the world I believe that is only one Great Soul, one entitity that connects all of us together. I was raised Hindu - a religion with I believe 3 million deities or avatars of God. See to me that Great Soul resides in all of us. And from time to time common everyday people like you and I rise to do amazing things - over the course of time these people are looked up on as Gods because of those amazing feats that they ended up accomplishing.

I believe that the Great Soul that ties us all together gives us the chance to live life our way. That's why regardless of the tensions that religion does create - the message of God was spread from one corner of this world to another. God was okay with whatever name you called upon, whichever way you decided pray to that soul - it was okay as long as you did good. To me God gives me one thing - the power of thought. In earlier posts on this blog, I have talked to you about the concept of Aham Brahmasmi, you may also have heard of a book called the Secret or in Psychology something called Cognitive Behavior. All of these schools of thought point to one thing. They point to the power of positive thought. My God, irrelvant of his name gave me the power to think and build the world that I want to build. The unfortunate part is that we have fallen prey to competitive houses of religion that are more interested in denouncing other's beliefs rather than promoting God's words.

I honestly believe that the connection between Love and God is that love was the remedy to every problem. God has shared this through every religious text, every religion and every prophet he sent on this earth. It is sad that we live in a world where we have begun to doubt the power of our own mind and the reality that our mind creates for us. It is sad that we live in a world where we turn to people and think they will guide us when at the end of the day all you have to do is believe in your God and put love out into the world.

God to me is faith - faith in my beliefs, faith that if I give love unconditionally, I will recieve love unconditionally. Faith that while bad things will happen to me over the course of my life - God will always be there to protect me. I dont have to call on him or pray to him - I just have to carry out every one of my actions with Love in my heart and that is prayer enough. Faith - that the power of my own thoughts, regarding my own reality( which is unique to me) will attract everything I ever imagined but the path to that comes through unconditional love for ALL. It doesn't matter if I'm Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Buddhist, Taoist, or any other religion that I have forgotten, I have faith that job of all religions was to spread the word of love, the word of God.

That's who god is to me . . .

Love all and let the light within shine bright.....

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Why bad things happen to good people. . . .

You ever why wonder why bad things happen to you? The old saying goes that when it rains it pours. I dont know about anyone else but in my world when it rains it Monsoons. A LOT. Like many of you I have sat around on multiple nights thinking to myself why these bad things happen to us. Why is it that we can put so much good out into the world and bad things happen to us.  Well us to understand this I want to remind you of the Ramayan.

Its really a simple story for those of you that don't know it - God is reincarnated as a throne prince, gets married to the fairest maiden in the land, has to go into exile for 14 years because of a jealous stepmother who wanted the throne for her biological son, his wife gets kidnapped by by the most evil king in the land who can only be killed by being hit on a very specific part of his body, he has to set out into the world with just his little brother, wodden shoes and a bow/arrow to fight an entire army and Evil kingdom.

Now I feel obligated to remind you. . . THIS WAS GOD!

As you sit through and think about all of the good things that you have done and compare them to the bad things that seem to be happening, here are few things I want you to remember.

Lord Ram, our hero of the Ramayan, was God himself but he had to follow the laws of the land. Our world is filled with good and bad, like night and day, like fire and water, its the balance of a nature an essential truth that you need to understand. Sure being God, he may have cheated knowing he was God and knew what was coming next. But he still had to endure the same pains, the same suffering and the same blows that you and I have to deal with on a daily basis. But for those of that know the Ramayan you also know how the story ended.

Evil was vanquished, the evil kingdom was utterly defeated, Queen Sita was saved and the Lord Ram took his rightful place as king. The Ramayan teaches a lot things but one of its greatest teachings doesn't get focused on a lot. The way all of this was possible by a guy with Bow and Arrow, a little brother and wodden shoes was because of the people he met along the way. People that helped him, supported him and when the time came they laid there lives down for him. Yes many of them knew he was god and thats why they did it. And who could forget this fellow:

Hanuman-ji knew who Lord Ram was but he also represented something very interesting. He had God in his heart like all of us do. My point for all of this is simple. Sometimes we meet people that need our help, whether its some money, food, clothing, words of advice or a simple and hug reminding that everything will be okay. So the next you think about not helping someone just remember one thing - GOD RESIDES IN ALL OF US. This long and difficult journey of life can only be completed through love and peace. We are all connected, all of us, by the bond of god within.

Bad things happen to good people as a reminder, to always be there for another, if Lord Ram needed it you do too. The Ramayan would not be a story for the ages if people didn't rise to help one another. The world today needs people to rise once more, the God you are waiting for is inside of you and needs you. So tomorrow morning give someone a smile or a words of encouragement - remind them god is here, there everywhere!

JAI SHRI RAM!


Love all and let the light within shine bright. . .

Meditation

Lets look at this from a scientific point of view first.  We have 5 senses, they are receptors that carry a signal to our brain where that signal is then translated and understood by us. That's why two people can experience the same event - but we can remember them completely differently. Our brain is what helps us understand the reality in front of us.

Now there is a spirtual context that we NEED to remember. According to many eastern religions this is an age, Kalyug in Hinduism, when the soul of mankind will be lost. We are born into this age to find the divinity, the true power of our soul. All of us are special, we all have the capacity to be great because at the end of the day we are all the same. We all have souls and each soul is interlinked to that master soul - call him God, call her Nature, call it whatever you want. The main reason in this age our souls are lost is because of the Maya or distractions that are put in front of us - money, material desires, sexual fantasies and each one of these takes away from fulfilling the Karm(a) that each of us is supposed to fulfill. The Bhagvad Gita - the greatest conversation known to mankind was God talking to one of his disciples about how mankind will survive and thrive in Kalyug. In one of its chapters Lord Krishna talks about how to meditate and the importance of it. To make everyone's life easier I have linked you to a video found on YouTube just in case you dont have access to the Gita.

Each person's expirence is different with meditation but here's what I know: 
1) You get better at it with time - there are lot of thoughts that cross your mind every second, a majority of them are sub-conscience. Try to meditate for 5 minutes in the real beginning. Over the course of practicing and doing this on a consistent basis you will notice that you will start losing track of time.
2) As you meditate thoughts will come into your mind, dont focus on them just let them go crazy without giving it any attention, this is the Maya of Kalyug - this is what makes your soul lost.
3)You will know you are at peace, trust me - during my earlier days of meditation I would freak out because i would realize that I stopped breathing and come out of my meditation earlier than I should have. Dont worry! As you meditate you will slow your heart rate and the feeling of not breathing is your body is relaxed and at peace therefore not needing as much oxygen as it does when its moving. Look at it this way Meditation is the opposite of running, literally.
4) Focus on the tip of your nose. Meditation lets you sense/see with your 3rd eye, know to many of you as your Sixth Sense. Its there trust me. By focusing on the tip of your nose you are aligned to that third eye and eventually once you find your 3rd eye will not need to focus on the tip of your nose.
5) When all of the noise(thoughts) are gone and only one thought remains just listen. You will get the answers you are looking for because honestly from where I stand - that's god talking to me. Telling me how to move forward. I started writing this blog because of that one thought.


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LOVE. PEACE. HAPPINESS. FOR ALL.

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