Effect of Thought On Health And The Body

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. At the bidding of unlawful thoughts the body sinks rapidly into disease and decay; at the command of glad and beautiful thoughts it becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty. 

Disease and Health,like circumstances,are rooted in thought. Sickly thoughts will express themselves through a sickly body.

Strong pure and Happy Thoughts build up the body in vigor and Grace.

                                    - As a Man Thinketh "James Allen"

Who is a Master?

In life we all meet many people who label themselves as Zen Master,
Reiki Master, Tao Master and so on....And every one has a different
perception about which master is who and what and how are their
teachings...

I would like to share a small story on this word called MASTER...

Who Is a master?

Once there lived two jewel makers... They made excellent designs and
were famous for their jewelry designs... One day they both decided to
make a master piece and started working on it...
One of them put all his mind and effort in his creation... He decided
to make the best one and the best design and started processing the
gold... As he started processing, the gold started glittering.. The
more he dipped the piece of gold in fire the more he found that the
gold was becoming more pure and pure... He felt more excited and kept
on the gold into fire again and again.. He felt even more glad of his
work and with all the head strong attitude he put the gold into tough
process...

And the other one without much in his mind did his work with so much
of compassion and gratitude towards the piece of gold he had in his
hand... He always thanked the piece of gold for choosing him as its
creator...

Finally, the day has come, where all the other jewel makers were very
eager to see the ornament made by these two ornament creators... All
of them gathered in a hall to see the master piece..

The first one came in front with his piece and it was shocking to
every one... All found it broken and the maker stood with his head
down... He learnt that his head strong attitude and his harshness
towards his piece of gold, broke the gold-piece and left it no
where... The piece of gold could not come out as any ornament... May
be it is forced to choose another life time...

The other maker was the winner and won many awards for his creation...
He kept his master piece untouched by anyone in his personal space all
his life... Copies of that design were made, however master piece
remained a master piece...

With all the humility let us all request and pray to all the masters
and creators to allow the flow of their teachings with all the
compassion and gratitude towards their upcoming masters and creators..
Let us not break the evolution of a being with harshness in words and
deeds on the name of teaching before they flower.... REMEMBER... The
harshness may lead to any extent... ARE ALL THE MASTERS READY FOR
IT...

"Master is the one who knows and understands that it is not his
greatness that people stand for him, its the greatness of all those
who stand and Masters greatness lies in accepting all of them
unconditionally..."

I experienced... How about you?...
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*ARPITHA*
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Source: source.arpitha@gmail.com

Real Story of the Soul

Soul is not Physical

Soul is a tiniest Consciousness of the Original Consciousness

Soul doesn't have physical shapes

Soul has only the shapes of Experiences

Soul doesn't have the load of Physical weightage

Soul only have the load of Experiences weightage

Soul always awaits for new experiences

Soul always awaits for different kinds of experiences

Soul always awaits for all situations

Soul always awaits for understanding all situations

Soul never has failure except only when Suicide is committed (as its said 'Suicide is the highest crime')

Soul has only Success

Soul has only ever new things

Soul when occupies a human body faces one life situation

Soul later tries to crave for different life experiences

Soul needs 400 life times to understand all human life situations

Soul becomes a Experiences Treasure once it undergoes 400 human life time situations

Soul many times takes birth i.e., entering the physical body

Soul many times takes death i.e., leaving the physical body

Soul many times faces dishonors, sorrows, rejections

Soul many times experiences honors, happiness, awards

Soul becomes a complete knowledge treasure

Soul receives enormous experiences from every life time 

 Soul receives special insights of knowledge from each and every experience

This is the Story of the Soul

Soul primarily is a experience treasure

Soul as a consequence is a knowledge treasure

This is the Real Story of the Soul

--- Patriji's latest concept from Dhyanandhra Pradesh Magazine June 2012 issue - translated

Creative Power Of The Spoken Word

As humans we have created language to communicate with each other.  The spoken word is something that would touch a person and create a response in them.  Language is a powerful tool that carries emotions, codes, and tones that produce a powerful creative energy.  We are who we are today because of all the words we thought, spoke, or listened to.  Words spoken are very powerful, they become self-fulfilling prophecy. Words thought do not have as much power as words spoken.  Spoken words carry tones and codes which manifest.  Words have the power either to create life or to create death.  So you can either bless your life with your words or curse your life with your words. 
One of the Buddhist Gatha (a Gatha is a poem which serves as a reminder for every activity of life) says:- 
"Brushing my teeth and rinsing my mouth, 
   I vow to speak purely and lovingly. 
When my mouth is fragrant with right speech,
A flower blooms in the garden of my heart." 
Our spoken words can build a world of peace and joy or it can build hatred and discord. 
With this reminder let us choose to bless each other with our words, let us use our words to talk about solutions and not create stories of our problems.  Let our words bring out the truth in us and others, let us not use untruthful words for self-interest or to impress others. Let us not use the power of our words to gossip, criticize or to condemn. 
Let us use our spoken words to declare Divine Favor, to call in the light of understanding, to call in good things, to call in faith and love. 
Let us use the spoken word for truth and kindness. Let us nourish each other with the sweet fragrance of rght speech, so that the flowers in the garden of our Heart can bring "Heaven" on Earth.  Let us remind ourselves that we are the builders of 'Heaven' on this Planet. 
Blessings!

By Premlatha Rajkumar

SACRED SEXUALITY

BY Robert Thesis

Ecstatic Moments on the Tantric Path

“Sunday morning arrives. We practice morning meditation and drink our ritual cup of tea. There is an obvious innocence and passion in our morning greeting as we embrace each other. Today, like every Sunday, we take a break from our full time jobs, community service and parenting responsibilities. We have agreed to make every Sunday a day of complete rest, play and lovemaking, in the tantra tradition.

This is a spiritual practice—our bedroom becomes our temple, our home our sanctuary. We have arranged candles, incense and other artifacts that speak to our hearts. An altar displays memorable photos, special gifts received and cards with words spoken from the truth of our being. We make our bed into a sacred temple and, sitting before each other, we invoke deities, our guides and family members who have passed over, to join us in this celebration of spirit and body. Sometimes we connect our breathing with our attention on our energy centers, or chakras. Other times we sit in silence, deeply connecting with God and each other, even as our minds continue to mutter the importance of unfinished projects, unfulfilled deadlines.

For the next several hours, we massage, caress and stimulate each other, riding the waves of energy that build upon each other. Slowly, we begin to sense a presence within us that is profound and exhilarating. Gazing into each other’s eyes, we see the face of divinity reflected back to us. It is truly breathtaking, even as the mind so dutifully questions the reality before us. We inhale deeply, taking in the next wave of ecstasy that flows through the body. The energy builds, but this time it is more powerful. The sense of losing ourselves begins to merge with another emerging sense—that of connecting deeply, profoundly, in healing and touch. Yet another wave, and our bodies feel the energy intensely, like a sweet honey swimming within every cell, touching parts of ourselves that remind us of a feeling almost forgotten. My God, it feels like home, bringing tears and laughter, embracement and gratitude.

Did we experience a physical orgasm? Sometimes we do, but it doesn’t matter, for we have experienced trust, intimacy and whatever we call this divine quality of ourselves. The mind’s agenda is now but a whisper. We give thanks for this opportunity to know the pleasures of being a physical, human being. We offer our blessings to all who, like us, were misled about their inherent beauty. We bow before each other, recognizing the courage to be so vulnerable, so present! Thank you spirit for this gift of love!

Ecstacy & Balance

Tantra is about ecstatic experience. Ecstasy is not a word often used in this culture to describe our day-to-day reality. In fact for many of us, an ecstatic or blissful moment happens so seldom that we have grown reluctant to believe it exists at all. We’ve learned to accept a poor substitute, a diminished self that has become easily satisfied by daily routines. And yet, the yearning to connect with something greater than ourselves continues.

Tantra is also about balance. We recognize our male nature as being aligned with the mind. This aspect of ourselves is very good at doing things, perceiving the rational, logistic side of life. Our female nature resides within our heart, offering an intuitive, nurturing ability to perceive our life from an unlimited perspective. Learning to maintain a balance between these seemingly polarized aspects of our selves requires absolute honest reflection. The ecstasy experience of union with another is the byproduct of achieving this balance within ourselves. These ecstatic moments offer insights to our conflicts, resolution to dilemmas that appear unworkable and fresh ideas to a weary and tired mind.

Tantra is a map to that place greater than ourselves that we so yearn to connect with. It is about trust, open communication and freeing our passions. It is about revealing our creative potentials, loving ourselves and sharing that love with others. It has become our way of life, finding those ecstatic moments while mowing the lawn, washing the dishes or driving down the freeway. Each moment is another opportunity to stretch ourselves and open our senses to the divine moment, no matter how mundane the activity. Tantra is about using our imagination to create change, feeling inter-connected to life. It is about bringing balance, cooperation and partnership to the male and female aspects within us. Ultimately, tantra is a journey within, looking and feeling for that authentic voice. It is a path that seeks solutions without blame, action without violence.

If you are reading this article, perhaps you feel the pain of this planet’s ills and are disillusioned by the state of human affairs. Such feelings can depress the way we experience personal life. And yet, denying ourselves a connection to our natural birthright—to feeling fully connected to our body and the universe—makes our efforts to change this world less effective. We are being asked to do nothing less than energize an emerging culture that values and respects all of life. To do this successfully, we are also being asked to break the fetters within ourselves that diminish our abilities. I feel we are being asked to look duality in the eye with a love that has no agenda. This is tantra.

Divinity through Sexuality

Some of the greatest gifts and the grossest misconceptions about tantra have to do with sex. Although it is true that lovemaking has become our yoga— an opportunity to experience the truth of ourselves—it is equally true that it has taken me and my wife many years of exploring into our true natures to arrive here. I spent most of my adult life searching for the elusive quality of divinity, only to find it in the most unlikely of places. Like most people, I was taught to separate my sexual experiences from my spiritual relationships. I was surprised, overjoyed and overwhelmed to experience what I call my divine nature through the art of making love in the tantra tradition.

Perhaps, in a different lifetime, my awakened divinity would find me ascending into my God self, leaving this earthly plane behind as I am embraced by my angelic family. But my life’s real story has been a journey to discover my divinity within this body, coming full circle from years of guilt, shame and denial. Like peeling an onion, the layers of conditioning have been stripped away to reveal a truth about a collective wound that we all seem to share in common. I now embrace this wound with tremendous compassion.

Where did we ever learn to believe that we don’t deserve and are not worthy of love? Why do we believe that this is not a safe world to express love in? And how do we move from this place that fears being vulnerable, hurt and disrespected? How do we learn to trust our heart? How do we openly communicate with our partner what gives us pleasure? How can we learn to stop identifying ourselves as the by-product of our social upbringing? Can we simply listen to our partner, without taking it personally, when they find the courage to give voice to all the lies we inherit? When are we going to reveal in our relationships the magical, spontaneous and adventurous soul that got lost in all the pressures to not be that?

A lot of us are in relationships now, or have had past relationships that feel disconnected from our passion, ability to trust and receive love. We have learned to maintain a mask that serves to protect the wounded aspects of ourselves. We have discovered that by removing ourselves from our emotions, we don’t feel the hurt.

Paradoxically, practicing the art of touching and receiving presents a new relationship for many couples. Re-establishing our connection with spirit and earth shifts how we draw our energy and needs from the finite source of each other to an unlimited source of abundance. Learning to maintain this connection, we stop looking to others to do for us what we feel we lack within ourselves. This energy work is a vital part of our tantric experience. Learning to feel the energies all around us allows us to more deeply explore the merging of our bodies and souls.

Learning to explore our sexual identity asks us to relate to our emotions as the powerhouse behind our thoughts. As I learned to trust my ability to use love to transform my fears, I began to safely explore the deeper traditions of tantra. Intimacy and vulnerability became my ally in my relationship with my partner. Now we choose balance, acceptance and self-love as our spiritual foundation.

We feel deeply honored to share with others a spiritual practice that has transformed our sexual experience and our perception of our day-to-day reality. It is a way of life that honors and respects all aspects of ourselves as being whole and worthy of love. As much as I desire to live in a world that honors and respects all of life, I know that it begins with me. Learning to be the peace I desire in this world, be self-respect, honest and tolerant, it then becomes more than just another concept, prayer or idea. It becomes reality.

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PARENTING WISDOM

Every human parent strives to provide the best for their children.  Every parent wants to see their child grow into a happy, healthy individual.  It brings a lot of pain when things go wrong, for you have brought up your children thinking that you know what is best for them.

Many times children are looked down upon as little people who do not know anything, and well-intentioned parents, teachers, and gurus try to impose their beliefs, ideas, fears, rules and laws on the children.  The result produces fear,  when there is fear there is no place for love.

It has become a collective learned human behavior to always be behind the children telling them what they should do and should not do, and also believe that punishment was for the child's good.  This created so much fear in the child, and fear made the child to break the laws and also be careful not to get caught.  By creating laws and fear we are teaching them to cheat and lie. We go on infecting children with ideas which have not even proved valid in our own lives.  Many things we ask our children to do might not have been acceptable to us when we were in their age.

By forcing our children we do not allow them to be authentic, they fear that they would hurt us if they are true, and they feel hurt when they are not true to themselves.

Many times we forget that we only gave a part of our physical bodies to our children, but the Spirit that activates the body comes only from the Creator. Children were never our possessions in the first place, in this planet we are only their guardians.

If we realize this truth, we will also come into the understanding that we really do not know what is right or what is wrong for our children. They were brought into this world by the Creator through us.  And the one that brought them into this world knows them more than we do.
Parenting is an art, and the best and most effective way to parenting is to serve as an example and not to impose our will.

Children need privacy and freedom, they are also individual souls who need to be respected, and allowed to be themselves.  They are not here to fulfill somebody's ideas.  Their future is open and supported by a loving Creator.

A wise parent is one who is there to give support, courage, and confidence to the child without harassing the child to live up to his/her expectations.
A wise parent understands that every human is beautifully programmed by the wisdom of the Creator, there are no accidents, and everything goes according to the program.

The best gift a parent can give the child is allowing and accepting the child to be his/her natural self wherever it leads to, and you will be surprised by the magic and miracles that get created by this acceptance.
Blessings!

By Premlatha Rajkumar

50 Best Quotations

1. We create our own Reality.
2. “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw
3. Do, what you love.
4. Follow your passion.
5. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. KNOW THYSELF!!!
6. “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” ― Dr. Seuss
7. “Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso
8. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein
9. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” ― Mark Twain
10. “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” ― Albert Einstein
11. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead
12. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ― Anne Frank  SO, EVERYBODY SHOULD TEACH MEDITATION.
13. “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” ― May Sarton BE A MASTER.  LIVE LIFE OF YOUR DREAM.
14. “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” ― Gustave Flaubert  READ GOOD BOOKS DAILY.
15. “Death ends a life, not a relationship.” ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie WE ARE ETRNAL BEINGS.
16. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ― Isaac Asimov  CULTIVATE  SPIRITUO-SCIENTIFIC  TEMPER.
17. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” ― Virginia Woolf   ENJOY  NORMAL  FAMILY  LIVES.
18. “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” ― Oscar Wilde LIVE  LIKE  ZORBA  THE  BUDDHA.
19. There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections.
20. “Life is to be enjoyed, not endured” ― Gordon B. Hinckley
21. Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
22. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard KNOW YOUR PAST LIVES.
23. “The more I see, the less I know for sure.” ― John Lennon
24. “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.” ― Abigail Van Buren
25. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” ― Anaïs Nin
26. “We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.” ― Paulo Coelho
27. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” ― Lao Tzu
28. “Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.” ― John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature
29. “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.” ― Kalu Kalu DO SERVICE.  TEACH MEDITATION.
30. “If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.” ― John Irving
31. “Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
32. “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
33. “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
34. “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” ― Stephanie Perkins,
35. “It is not the length of life, but the depth.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” ― Oprah Winfrey
37. “There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.” ― Lemony Snicket
38. “There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.” ― Lemony Snicket
39. “Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.” ― Henry Miller
40. “You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert
41. When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.-Paulo Coelho
42. Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.
43. “eventually, everything goes away.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert
44. “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, (unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that that situation is over, ) you cannot move forward.” ― Steve Marabol
i45. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” ― Helen Keller SANGHAM SARNAM GACHHAMI
46. “Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.” ― Brian Tracy
47. you make your own happiness(, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.”)― Emily Giffin48. you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.” ― Emily Giffin
49. “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” ― Michel Legrand
50. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” ― Oprah Winfrey
51. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” ― Wayne W. Dyer
52. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ― Marcus Aurelius
53. “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.” ― Coco Chanel
54. “Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
55. “When a man becomes her own best friend life is easier.
56. “The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.” ― Oscar Wilde
57. “Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?” ― Brian Tracy
58. “You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.” ― Brian Tracy
59. If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart.
60. “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” ― Khalil Gibran

By Pyramid Meditation Delhi.