Perspectives

Revelations can happen in the most interesting places and at the most unexpected moments and places. 

In the morning, milk arrived and after collecting the litre of milk packet, holding by the tip and on the kitchen slab, I cut the pouch corner to pour the contents. Just then, my inner voice spoke up... "Which is the upside in a milk pouch?" I looked at the print and realised that I had turned the milk pouch upside down and cut the bottom. 

If I turn it around to what was initially the up side, milk from the pouch will spill all over. So, i asked myself; which is the upside? 

Then the inner voice spoke up;

"Perspectives change with changing situations." 

What was once the upside, need not be the upside forever. The way I am holding the pouch is now the upside. In life too, perspectives change with change in situations. So, it is wise to adapt to the changing situation so we can remain stable.

-- Mahesh Krishnamurthy 

Beware of that Television

The television seems to be an important asset to our lives. Little do we realise the potent pill we swallow silently every day as we watch the television.

During the telecast of any event or screening of a movie on the television screen, several advertisements cut across. These might be of insurance, home loans, vehicles, and so on. Since we decided to watch the telecast or the screening, we decide to stay seated and watch the in-between commercials also. They are only playing a few minutes every hour or so. It does no harm watching them, is what we think.

Do we pay attention to what is happening to our subconscious?

Our subconscious behaves and understands differently than our so called conscious selves. The subconscious does not see anything different from itself. It perceives everything happening to itself. So, how does that matter? Here is an example;

You are watching a cricket or soccer match on the television screen. The telecast breaks for a medical insurance commercial. The commercial shows a person or one of his family members suffering a serious health condition and they show the person being shifted in an ambulance to the hospital and then, the medical insurance card is shown, and a sense of relief on the man's face. As you read this, you visualise a typical commercial, right?

The subconscious perceives the whole commercial as a real event transpiring in the life of the body it is working through. Emotions of fear, concern, sorrow, grief and what not surface during the telecast. It does not matter whether you are aware of this or not. It still happens. The telecast resides as an experience in the subconscious. It's now a part of you.

If one of your family member or any other you have known gives in to ill-health, the subconscious will express these emotions and you will have to deal with them. The primary experience gets strengthened. What's worse, these emotions play up in your sleep because, the subconscious, in its natural way, wishes to clear all unresolved experiences. So, the unresolved experiences are thrown onto the mind's screen for resolution and these experiences play up as metaphorical dreams. And you wake up groggy with incomplete sleep because, all night, you've been either watching these dreams not knowing what to do with them, shooing them off or fighting them.

There are several practices to clear what you've absorbed. What's easier is to restrain your senses and be aware of what you're observing.

-- Mahesh Krishnamurthy

The Third Eye Drama

The Yoga and Meditation fraternity has been going gaga over the third eye for several years now. The practice of activating the third eye, the seat of intuition has been on for several decades. Whether or not the third eye is activated is anybody's guess.

The fact is all of us are not truthful while sharing our experiences. Humility is being truthful with yourself at all times without diluting or altering the experience in anyway.

The Third eye, which is located between the eyebrows is the plane of observation and perception. When we are born, we observe without perceiving, and we are naturally in the state of our highest intuitive awareness. We naturally feel attracted or repulsed to people and places. This state exists until we are about 3 years of age. When the ego takes over, we stop observing and begin perceiving. Perception leads to judgment and this narrows our intuitive ability and also our ability to observe diminishes.

What's the difference between observation and perception?

When we observe, there is no resistance. We are in the flow. Everything is a happening within and outside of us and without our mental interference. When we act, there is a result to the action and that is perfect alignment with the happening.

When we are perceiving, we feel independent of the happening. We feel affected by the happening. We feel a lack of control and so we begin to judge events as right and wrong only so we can gain control. The only control we gain is over our perception and judgment and not over the happening. The happening is Universal and our perception and judgment is the doing which is personal.

The Journey from me to We to ONE 

So, constantly focussing our attention on the third eye gets us to be the observer once again. We are removed from being in the perception and judgment of the happening. When we begin observing, intuition is available to us. There is nothing to activate or awaken. It's always been there. Now that we recognise it, its available to us. We move one step closer, from me to we.

When we listen and act according to the intuition, the intuition which is ONE, will direct towards the ONE. Acting according to the intuition will move us from we to ONE.

The journey of life is to move from me-we to ONE.

So, instead of getting into the third eye activating drama, be the observer and you will be ONE again.

-- Mahesh Krishnamurthy

India for Indians

A few years ago some political leaders announced that Maharashtra was only for Maharashtrians and that all others have to get out. That statement created quite a furore and people from all walks of life took objection. The cinema Industry too voiced their version that they were Indians first. Some Maharashtrians including Sachin Tendulkar chose not to follow the political leader's voice and declared themselves Indians first.

So, the call of the political leader was interesting in a way. Can we similarly initiate a call, India for Indians? But, before that, we need to clarify, who is an Indian? What makes a person an Indian? Does merely being born here or having an Indian passport make one Indian? My views are laid out below;

I'm an Indian because...

I aspire and contribute towards-Cleaner Air, Cleaner Water Resources, Lesser Sound and noise Pollution, Clean Streets, Clean Administration, Greener & Peaceful Surroundings, Preserving Forests, Rivers, Streams, Lakes, Ponds

I exemplify by maintaining -Clean Home, purity of thought, speech and action, Purity of Heart through Yoga, prayer and meditation. I will honour my faith and that of others. I use my intelligence for the common good of my brethren (fellow Indians), I work to my highest potential, I maintain a high Self Confidence and protect my Integrity and that of my motherland, I share love and compassion with all of creation, I follow traffic rules and develop sensitivity towards pedestrians and follow a pedestrians first principle, I conduct my business ethically. 

Amidst all these, I strive to be a better human being and make India a better place for ourselves and our visitors.

To me, there is no greater joy than a mass enlightenment.

We all need to start. We, the people of India need to bring back its glory. We need to shine as a country for the world community to lookup to for direction. We need to be the torch bearers.

Come, let's inspire one another and start the march towards enlightenment.

-- Mahesh Krishnamurthy