Namaskara Mudra

Various connotations have emerged in print and visual media expounding the meanings of namaskara mudra. Here truth reveals itself.

The Rishis knew from their research and practice that there is only one love... God's Love. And that every other emotion is futile... a waste of precious life-force energy.

They also found out that God's love is constantly flowing through each one of us. In their meditations, the realisation dawned that God's Love flows through us so it can be shared.

They were faced with a logical question. If God's love is flowing through each and everything all of the time, then why share?

The answer came - By sharing anything, we enhance its quality and quantity. If we share joy, we experience more joy. If we share unhappy stories, we will get to hear other's unhappy stories too. What you share just multiplies.

Hence, namaskara mudra, the position of meeting of palm and fingers of both hands, is a practice of sharing God's love. By sharing God's love with as many aspects of creation as possible, the rishis opened up the themselves to gushes of God's love which helped them be in bliss.

Here is how you can practice Namaskara Mudra -

Position your hands with both hands held together with palm and fingers on the breast bone in such a way that they are pointed away from the chest. Holding this posture breathe. With every inhalation, receive God's love into you through the crown and chest and when you breathe out, direct God's love out of your chest. Practice directing God's love to everyone and every thing and soon you will realise that your state of awareness has risen to a state of love and joy.

Make this practice a priority which will help you stay in your natural state which is pure love and joy.

Namaste.

--Mahesh Krishnamurthy

The Soul

Eyes are the window to the Soul. When I look at anyone, I look at their eyes and connect to the Soul within. This will reflect my reality. 

However, when I have perceptions, thoughts, feelings, emotions and beliefs, they form a veil preventing me from connecting to the Soul in the body I meet. I instead focus on details which seem different from what they are because of the thoughts, feelings, perceptions, emotions and beliefs and that forms a veil.

This begins the process of learning... learning where I am and where I need to be. All practices of forgiveness, practicing unconditional love and acceptance, are practices that help remove the veil. 

The journey of life is to remain without the veil so we can truly live the life we have come to live.

-- Mahesh Krishnamurthy

Merge in God

Meditation is to discover your hidden abilities. The more abilities your discover, the more abilities you will uncover. Where is the end then? We don't know if there is ever an end. In God, there is no end.

While discovering your abilities, you also discover your potential to love more, be more inclusive, and to be more in command of your situation. You experience an aura of divinity around you. You begin to live in God and allow God to live in you.

Remember, God is never distant or distinct from you.

There are countless methods of getting into meditation. Here's one for you;

Thumb Meditation - 

Sit in a comfortable position, either cross-legged, or on a chair. Have 1-2 pillows on your lap. Place your right or left forearm on the pillow with your fingers forming a fist. Stick your thumb out. Begin witnessing your thumb. By witness, is to just observe without looking at the details. Keep observing this way until you become completely empty and enter into a state of meditation. When you observe for more than 30 minutes, you enter into a state of Samadhi.

Be aware to use the same hand, be it the right or the left everytime.

Its only through meditation that you merge in God.

--Mahesh Krishnamurthy

Never Say Sorry...

I am sorry. It is such an easy phrase which hangs from almost all of our tongues. These magical words seemingly makes our life perfect. We can do anything, any how, say anything we want and get away with 'I am sorry'.

This habit and pattern has been passed on from one generation to the next from centuries and across countries and continents and it is possibly one of the most adopted habits and patterns.

Did you even know that the word 'sorry', literally is used in an expression of compassion or condolence towards others. You don't used 'sorry' to defend yourself!

I use the word defend because, we use the phrase 'I am sorry' to mask or cover up our act so we can quickly get out of the situation. We shy away from the situation. We don't want to resolve. We don't want to learn.

On the contrary, the best way to move forward is by resolving the issue or experience by learning from it. Many people however, do not know how to go about the learning. 

What's the way?

The highest way that is advocated is to focus every part of you towards the learning. For you to learn, first, you need to own up unconditional responsibility for what you have done. Own responsibility only for what you have done, not for what others have done or for what others want you to own up responsibility.

Owning up responsibility for what you have done is the most courageous step you can take. Owning up responsibility for what others have done is self sabotage. It's a step taken out of emotional weakness.

Once you have owned responsibility, initiate active steps so as to never repeat your thoughts, words and actions ever again. 

How to learn from experiences?

Once you have owned up responsibility for what you have done, don't shy away. Stay with the experience mentally all the time without prejudice, guilt or shame. Allow the experience to reflect back to you from all sides. Be with yourself and your experience. Know that this experience has come to you for your learning only. What others have to do with their part of the experience is something they have to figure out. Don't worry about what others think of you or say to you. Your only objective now is to learn from your experience.

As you allow everything connected with experience to just be, the learning will happen. Your openness to receive the learnings is crucial. Allowing is very important. Resistance will breed judgment, so don't judge. Just allow.

This way you can learn from every single experience without giving into judgment and the emotions that judgment breeds.

Always choose to be a learner, a warrior of wisdom. Choose not not to live in shameful, sinful regret and repentance.

--Mahesh Krishnamurthy

Befriending Death

People are afraid of death. It is the unspoken word in families. People reprimand children and verbally silence others who, during conversation, speak of living persons in the context of death.

What is death? Why are people so afraid of death?

In the Hindu mythology, the God of Death, Yama is depicted as a dark skinned divine persona sitting on a buffalo and with a strong rope in one hand and a mace in the other. Depictions in the picture story books show Yama throwing a noose around the neck of a person whose lifetime is apparently coming to a end, and dragging the soul out of the body seemingly, ending the existence of the destined person. Death is projected in such a fearsome way.

I am writing this blogpost as it has been received, so you, the reader may know the truth. Read it and you may share it with any other person who is ready to receive this information or the terminally ill persons who are in the waiting of their end.

If you know what silence means, the rest of the information is easy to assimilate. 

Silence is profound, deep, complete and all encompassing.

During death, silence deepens. As silence grows deeper, it gets deafening. In this silence, everything is enveloped. It is as if, every particle of everything gets filled with silence bringing everything to an abrupt end.  And everything with which you have identified with the most, your ego, is wiped out. There is nothing. Neither darkness, nor light. There is indeed nothing. This nothingness, the loss of one's egoself is what we are fear.

When you meet people with terminal illnesses like cancer, HIV, AIDS, and also the aged people, look into their eyes and you see fear. They are fearing death in the waiting. Why waste time in waiting? Why not meditate?

Meditation is a process of finding silence which is within us and befriending the silence. Once you have befriended silence, visit silence everyday and several times a day. Then, you will not fear silence anymore. You will then embrace death.

For those who embrace death, there is no death. There is only eternity or infinity.

-- Mahesh Krishnamurthy