Is our Economy really Economising our Existence?

Economy has made the world society a self consuming one. It’s a dangerous whirlpool which consumes everything. This is the way our economy was designed. It is called a self sustaining one, which is not true. Our economy is not economising our existence. Its consuming us.

It is neither self governing, self propelling, nor is it self sustaining. It is indeed self consuming. Its gone out of control. It cannot be rectified. It just needs to be broken down.

To feed this model economy, everything is made sellable and everything has to be purchased.

Further, our work must be only to earn money to live. Since, everything has to be bought, our passion for creativity may not earn us enough to keep us alive even to fulfil our basic needs.

This is why our schools are created. Our schools prepare us to be as our economy commands. And the school children, unaware, are sucked into this system and forced to take professional courses with the one intention of making more and more money, only to pay for their living.

Over the decades, we have only seen prices of every commodity rise. This is the proof that the economy we are supporting and feeding is self consuming. It will only rise further, meaning, we can only go one way. There is no turning back.

Barter, in India and the other countries way back in the past, was maintaining a strong economy by sharing one’s produce with the other. This way, money was not central to every form of trade. Certain commodities were available for trade and certain for money. Labour was for passion and rewards such as food, shelter, education, land, and so on.

Our ancient civilisations such as the Incas, mayans, and the Indians of the Americas, were all traders. Economies were strong and self governing. There was truth, justice, joy of living.

This is what we must turn to, if we wish a firm future for our children and our world.

— Mahesh Krishnamurthy

Know your headache... don't pop that pill

Headache is a very common symptom we face. And it is one of the most medicated symptoms too. 

Why do we have headaches? The most commonly attributed reason is - stress.

What is stress and more importantly, where is this stress?

Did you know, in your body stress can be experienced somewhere and stress can be exhibited elsewhere?

A headache need not be always to do with your head!

It may be an exhibition of some other symptom altogether.

There are five parts of your head that ache normally. They are;

1. The frontal part which comprises of your eyes, forehead and sometimes along with the temples
2. The eyes and the eyebrows
3. The right and left sides of the temples or the right and left sides of the head
4. the top of the head and 
5. The back of the head 

When you are thinking about a situation wanting to navigating away from it and your belief system says its not possible, you consciously fight your own resistance, your projection. Such a situation will cause a lingering pain in your eyes, on both your eyebrows and a headache in the forehead and both temples. During such pains, it will be difficult for you to keep your eyes open. IT is commonly labeled as migraine.

When you react to a situation and this produces anger and frustration in you, your anger triggers bile secretions from the gall bladder and acid secretions in the stomach. This triggers a sharp shooting pain over your eye brows and will proceed to the top of the head. In such situations, bright ambient light will make it worse. This is also commonly labeled as migraine.

When you express a strong displeasure to something being said and you react angrily within or express it out, your gall bladder secretes more bile and your acids are also secreted in the stomach. Such a situation can trigger a nerve pain from the jaw, to the back of the ear and can land up either behind the ear or rise up to the top or sides of the head.

When you have not digested your food well, you will get a dull pain on the left eyebrow and headache typically on the left side of the head.

And, when you have chronic indigestion, you will likely have a headache on the back of your head. This is also applicable to situational indigestion. This means, a situation does not go well with you and you are not able to digest the facts of the situation, you will still have a headache on the hind side.

Treating your headache

None of the above symptoms require medicating the head.

Here are some workable suggestions.

1. The frontal part which comprises your eyes, forehead and sometimes along with the temples 
• Close your eyes and focus on the pain in your head. It will seem to intensify.
  
  Now you have identified the pain and have painstakingly defined the area where it is lingering. Next, separate the pain and see it on a mental screen (white or black coloured screen) and see it there instead of your head. You will see the intensity reduce and your pain will be gone in sometime.
  
  
2. The eyes and the eyebrows and the top of the head
• Take two wet betel leaves. Separate the leaf tips and fix them on your temples. Next, put one wet leaf under the chin and the other on top of your head. Within no time, you will feel relief and your headache will be gone.
• You may also be required to eat your food when you are hungry and not stop abusing your body.
• Do not eat food if you feel nauseous.
• Due to emotional disturbances due to anger, the capillaries in the head might get compressed reducing oxygen supply to your brain. Simple deep breathing can also help reduce your headache.
• Sleeping while lying down can be an excellent remedy.
  
  
3. The right and left side of the temples or the right and left sides of the head
• Here, you will need some therapy or medication. Again, the medication is not for the head, it is to flush out the excess bile and acids from the body. A laxative that flushes out excess acids and bile will be most helpful. A therapy known as ‘Marma Chikitsa’ which originated in Tamilnadu and is called ‘Varma Kalai’ is a very powerful technique to relieve your such symptoms and that too, in no time.
• You may also be required to eat your food when you are hungry and not stop abusing your body.
• Sleeping while lying down can be an excellent remedy
  
  
4. The back of the head
• This pain is usually caused due to indigestion of foods and also of thoughts. Too much of thinking produces unnecessary stress. The best remedy to get rid of this pain is to stop eating and drink adequate water (the quantity of water that makes you pass urine 6-7 times in a day) and fluids including fruit juices.
• You may also need to monitor your sleep patterns. People who sleep excessively and are sluggish also get such headaches.
• Drinking Jaljeera water usually helps.
  
  
5. There’s another kind of headache which shifts from one side to the other. This kind of headache is caused due to gastritis which forms from not abstaining from foods. 
• Focus on your headache. Identify its presence. Next, as you breathe in, imagine you’re breathing in a fishing net. Encapsulate the pain and bring it out with the fishing net. Within 2 minutes, your headache should go. **This therapy has been derived from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Jyotsnatika, 5th Chapter of the book published by Kaivailyadham, Lonavala, Maharashtra.

I have found the above treatments working well with headaches.

There are other kinds of headaches which are caused due to tumours and lesions in the brain which is a rare occurrence. One must not confuse or use the above information as conclusive treatments.

— Mahesh Krishnamurthy

Life is a Projection

Every aspect of life is just a projection. The projection is all around me. It's so real that I can see it, touch it, feel it, smell it, eat it, and drink it too. And I can also share my projection with you.

Just like me, every one is projecting. This world allows us to project. This is the dimension of projection. 

Once I've projected, I need to deal with my projection. If I choose to react, I'll give my projection more power. If I just look at it, I allow it to exist. Then, it's like a plant not watered. It'll whither away. 

All I need to do is to act as if there is no projection. And all of them will whither away in time. 

I need to remember to put up my best performance and win the act. That's all I’ve got to do.

My act must be so good that no one can know who I really am!

I am God, after all! And I’ve been using my power to project. Now I will show myself that I can see through the projections into eternity. 

This is playing Maya to Maya. Life is then beautiful. And it'll be less solid and less rigid.

My life purpose is to be the one I really am.

I love this game of life already. You are also welcome aboard.

-- Mahesh Krishnamurthy

Fear - Of Losing Loved Ones

Fear is one of the emotions that is basic which affects the very basis of our existence. It affects the balance of our lives and also works itself into a few organs in our body and gets us to exit our bodies earlier than we expect.

According to Ayurveda, fear affects the excretory and reproductive organs of our bodies. This means, fear affects the urinary bladder, urethra and colon in both sexes and further affects the uterus in women and the prostate gland and testes in men.

Now, that’s not the topic of discussion. What we intend to discuss is that fear can express itself in us in various ways and fear is also one of the ways the ego identifies with to seek attention. One of the ways fear expresses itself is “The fear of losing loved ones”.

This fear is almost like a shadow play. It goes unnoticed, unexpressed and unresolved. In the end, if the person we love exits before we do, our fear gets a boost with a fictitious realisation of “I knew this would happen.”

How is this fear born?

It might seem silly, but this is true. When we are low in self respect and self love, we begin to think negative. The reason for negative thinking is only to seek attention. Th ego seeks attention and so we behave. If this negative thinking goes unchecked, we begin to create fictitious stories in our mind. One of the stories we will create is the dying of our loved ones. Once we have created these stories, we feel fear of this story coming to life, meaning, that the person we love will in reality die.

In order to negate the possibility of such an instance happening, we begin to fight out thoughts.. Since our thoughts are subtle and not tangible, we cannot control them. However, we can always change the way we think. When we don’t know how to change our thoughts, we only fight our thoughts. Then, we will either control the ones we fear will die or we may get depressed.

The remedy is not in taking psychiatric medications or sleeping pills. Its not in blindly following any saints and sages. It does not go even if you got yourself any yantras or learnt any tantra or mantras.

This fear will go only when you, in your awareness, ask yourself this question…”Must the ones I love die only because the ego wants some attention?”

This question alone will slowly dissolve your ego identification with the fear and such fear which does not have an ego identifying cannot survive.

You can definitely overcome your fear of losing loved ones and any form of fear for that matter. Stop identifying with fear and you will win the battle.

— Mahesh Krishnamurthy

Why expect Gratitude?

A few weeks ago, a lady whom we know told me that whenever she sees me, she has tears of joy in her eyes and she cannot explain why.

A few days ago, another gentleman told me that whenever he needs some clarification, he sees me come in his dreams and answer his doubts.

I was pleasantly surprised. It is so easy to get carried away and feel great about yourself. "I am so great that I come in peoples dreams." It does not take time for us to feel invincible.

I wanted to find out the greater scheme of things. So, I enquired within. The answer came thus;

When any person perceives in his or her mind that I am divine and that I have answers to their queries and doubts; the divine descends in me and works through me. The person gets the answers and doubts cleared. What’s more… I-body-mind-ego, the instrument, is not even aware of the moments when the Divine is working through me.

So, why take credit for something I'm not even doing? It’s all happening through me only because someone chose to see the divine in me. Instead, I need to be grateful to the person who saw the divine in me. And in those moments when the Divine was working through me, I was indeed getting benefitted in the highest and best way.

I-body-mind-ego was being served and serviced for free.

Similarly, when we involve ourselves in social service, we need to cast credentials aside.

When we are serving humanity, it is important not to expect credentials in any form. God is working through us because the people needing help called on Him and He chose us to express Himself as Love and Healing. Why then, must we expect any credentials in the form of gratitude?

Expectations kindles the desire for name and fame. It breeds anger, unhappiness and sorrow.

Instead, we need to be grateful for the opportunity that God has given us to have Him flow through us-body-mind-ego.

Feel grateful and be cleansed in His Love and Healing.

When all that is, is love and is healing, who am I?

— Atma as Mahesh Krishnamurthy

Man Divine

Man is only aspect of creation who mirrors His creator. What does this mean? Man has the ability to manifest and un-manifest situations. Man alone has the ability to act as the divine directs or as the ego commands.

Man does not realize his ability, however he continues to manifest as his ego commands. He manifests and then cries about his creation as something he never wanted. His manifestations contain anger, fear, sorrow, envy, jealousy, hatred and sometimes murderous intent that prevents him from living peacefully and joyously.

Animals live in nature and on the same land which comprises plants, shrubs, trees, and grasses.  Nature supports all animals. When animals walk on the land, there is no evidence or mark left on the land that can reveal a presence of the animal being there, unless of course, there is just wet soil which bears a mark of their presence. 

When man walks on grass, it turns out that man's foot alone destroys the grass and creates a walking path. No other animal’s walking destroys the grass it walks on. Such is the vibration we carry. Divinity is no longer expressing itself through mankind. We are using this Energy and our ability to bring destruction upon ourselves and to the environment we live in. We have lost the appropriate ways of using our ability to manifest divinity. 

It is our responsibility to realize the very purpose of our existence, which is, to restore the highest vibrations on this earth with its flora and fauna restored to its natural glory and in the highest and best way.

Our ancestors lost their ability to development and so called education that teaches us to use nature selfishly. Our future generations need to be awakened so they stop following our ways and instead look up on nature as their guru, as their mentor, as a friend, and see themselves as one amongst nature.

The way forward is to help children inculcate a daily practice of meditation, of living in peace, of communicating with nature. We need to teach them to resolve situations lovingly and peacefully instead of choosing conflict and creating confusion.

The practice of being an observer of all that divinity has manifested and to respect all of creation as necessary elements of nature that rightfully exist amidst us and along with us.

The test will prove itself successful when our children stand on grass and the grass will still shine and be as green as ever.

- - Mahesh Krishnamurthy

Our Politicians are Mandated

For over a decade, we have been watching politicians deliver their speeches, promises, vent their ires and also speak their lies. We have also seen the top political journalists host shows trying to pitch one politician or his party with the other and the whole nation watches the fun. We have been a very encouraging audience to all the mudslinging which is why these shows have been successfully running even after a decade.

Little do we think and feel about India’s politicians.

From my childhood, I have seen politicians in only one light…

Politicians are people who become rich quickly robbing our taxes and own luxurious villas and vehicles

Politicians are people who demand respect from society and they are a nuisance at times

Politicians lack the empathy about our nation and they are here to loot our wealth and store it away in some Swiss Bank Locker.

…

And I know, I am not at all wrong and also that I am not a lone thinker of this sort! This thought is in the collective consciousness. Almost everyone is thinking this way.

Arvind Kejriwal made a difference. And before you feed your sprouting thought, let me tell you, this article is not about Arvind Kejriwal or Narendra Modi.

This article is about us and the politicians we have chosen.

I am sitting at the Hyderabad Airport waiting to board the flight to Bangalore. The television screen at a distance is beaming a debate on the Malegaon Incident. The debate is heating up into an argument and the host of the event is supposedly opening a hornet’s nest. None of the people present here are anymore interested in watching this show. May be, people in their homes are glued to their television sets as do many arm chair patriots who bad mouth our country and the politicians they have chosen.

Do we care about politicians?

Why this article?

I have come to the realisation that we have chosen the politicians who are managing our country. This is not funny. We need to realise it for all the good reasons.

What does this mean to you and me?

We, the people have a mandate. A mandate is an authority that a person or an office seeks from people to perform a service on our behalf without payment from the people, which is us.

The Indian Constitution was written so the people we choose, to govern our country work with some principles. These principles apply not only to the people we choose, but to all the citizens of this country whether literate or illiterate, man or woman, adult and infant.

And, more importantly, we have authorised the politicians to speak on our behalf. Which means, whatever they speak in public, which is considered for the record, is something you are okay with.

You are okay with it because, you choose to listen and do nothing about it.

If you care, we need to remind ourselves that our politicians are mandated. This means, they will only speak and act according to the mandate that they have sought from us.

If not, we have the collective legal and moral responsibility to replace the politician representing us.

Before every election, every political party publishes an election manifesto. We, the people of India, need to read the election manifesto so we know which party will carry our common mandate forward.

How many of us have read the election manifesto of any party? We are disinterested, not involved and non-participative.

If a party comes to power because you voted for it, and if the election manifesto carried programmes which are not in favour of the common people, which you are unaware of, because you never read it, who is responsible?

Further, will you then cry foul?

Wake up citizens!

With every election, comes the election manifesto of the parties. We need to address the common need of the people of India and not of some day dreaming politician who wants to realise his personal dreams and aspirations.

It is because of our laziness that our politicians have begun calling themselves leaders. We have no leaders, we only have representatives. They are representing the people who elected them, who’s mandate they are carrying forward.

Our Prime Minister is our Chief Administrator. He oversees the functioning of our Chief Ministers (Administrators of States). Our CM’s oversee the administration of the corporators and other elected members. They are all mandated.

The overall objective is just one… To carry our mandate forward for due implementation in the highest and best way.

So, here is a suggestion.

Let us draft a common manifesto for our community, district, town, city, state and country. The party that is elected to govern our community or the country have a mandate to follow. Our mandate.

We are responsible for our country. Let us not blame our politicians. We have given our country away to them without a mandate.

Let’s wake up and hold the reins of our representatives who have been running a free ride. Let’s come together. Today is the day, now is the time.

Next steps…

— Mahesh Krishnamurthy