Serious is out, fun is in :-)

I know i kinda bored you all for sometime with some serious spiritual stuff. And my apologies. Its just that today night i had a big laugh and kinda felt very easy. The innocent laughter made me feel wonderful.

A lill smile. And hence decided to reopen the gates to Rajmarga which i had closed for some time.

On my journey i met lotsa spiritual gurus. Most of them were serious and made people also serious…including me. I kinda got bored with all that serious stuff. So had a great laugh at myself and thought of reopening Rajmarg….

Only for those who don’t make spirituality a serious stuff but who can enjoy a good light laugh about anything and everything.

For more on how to enter or initiate yourself in Rajmarg, click here…

Entering aloneness

The source of  this post is Rajat. Who asked a question in his comment…where he asked how to enter deeply into aloneness?…thanks Rajat, the response inspired this post!!

Here is what i had written in one of the chapters of a book on Rajmarg… hope this helps

The first step is discovering that one is alone and experiencing that aloneness in differnt situations…like a crowded place, in a meeting, while making love, while with friends… once you begin to discover the aloneness…begin to discover what all you do to run away from that feeling. Watch everything that you do. Some start eating, some start calling friends, some get on to FB , Some smoke. You are not supposed to stop anything, just keep observing.

When one begins to just be with feeling of loneliness. One discoveres it is not as difficult feeling to be with as we think it is. And as you begin to be with that feeling, you get in touch with the deep yearning for something. This is a crucial point in the journey.

When u can be with it, slowly you begin to gain freedom and then being alone is no more an issue. Slowly it turns into a non-threatning experience, then joy and then ease. And finally when you can experientially be with this aloneness there is no more fear.

When you reach that state you are now free to love . To love without the fear of being alone.

You discover your renewed ability to love deeply, you discover you have a huge reservoir of love which is abundant…and then all you want to do is give… now you are ready to love…and the object of love or love doesn’t matter.

Also now you begin to fall in love with your own self.

- excepts from Rajmarg…Bringing awareness to loving…self and the other

There are some Rajmarg meditative excercises that i suggest, during this time. If you would like to know more, drop me a line. Wish you Happy aloneness

You are alone!!! And thats a good news ;-)

Whether you fight it or feel resigned to it, but it is a fact. Even in the deepest embrace of your beloved, you will discover that you are alone. What you think, feel and experience is yours. No one else can feel that. In an intimate union, at times we glimpse the oneness with the other. But we come back to ourselves. And even in that oneness. There is only One No other. Thats the open secret. It is open but no one can see it. And when they see it they want to run away from it.

And then the misery starts, we want to be with someone. And then when we can’t, we feel something wrong with us. Something wrong with the existence or our fate. I have seen people feeling even most lonely even in the most intimate loving relationship. Because even for a moment the other person goes somewhere or does something which one doesn’t want, the loneliness creeps in.

The addiction to have the other, robs both the the opportunity to see within. No one is growing and both are stuck.

If you enter the loneliness fully and befriend it. You will know that you don’t need anyone. And only when you don’t need anyone for anything, only then can you love fully, unabashedly…like you have never loved.

Discovering and embracing your inherent loneliness, can set you free. Free to love. Free to love someone. Or Free to love the whole universe. Discover your freedom NOW ! Embrace your aloneness NOW!!!

Final surrender – To yourself ;-)

People go around the world to find whom to trust and surrender fully. They go from one master to other. Like we go shopping. Discarding one after the other. The fortunate ones come back home to themselves.

If you carefully see, you are afraid of surrendering to yourself fully.

Constantly seeking approval, wondering will I be right or wrong. Trying to match up some one else’s ideas. And thats where the possibility of surrender gets killed.

When you begin to trust yourself fully, you discover the joy of spontaneity. Being spontaneous is the first step to love yourself and honoring your spontaneity is the first step to surrendering to the divine within. When you return to the innocent, spontaneous child that you were, you will begin to taste a joy which is sweeter than anything else in the world.

A gentle nudge. Ask yourself ” What do I spontaneously want to do in this moment?” and then just do that. No matter how stupid or soulful the thought looks like…Honoring your spontaneity  is a great path to reclaiming your joy in life. Do it and see what unfolds…you will find a new you emerging everyday, that you have kept locked in the closet of the known. Surrender to yourself and set it free.

Ever present silence

Some might find it funny but if you notice silence is ever present.

Take a moment. May be even as you are reading this. And notice the obviously miraculous. Each sound that you hear. No matter where it is coming from. Has a beginning and then a certain time of presence and then it goes. A sound is never constant.

And if you intensify your awareness of all the sounds that you are listening to in this moment, you will find that from silence all noise arises. And then to silence it merges.

No matter where you are, whether in office, or home or on a street. Naturally and effortlessly, take a pause. Witness all the noise around. And to your surprise, the sound will take you deeper into the silence.

The ever alluding yet ever present silence.

Also a question to ask if you find a quiet time.

What is the quality of my silence? No matter what answer comes, hold it lightly and let it go. Expand your freedom one moment at a time. You will learn a lot about the nature of your mind in those answers. Do not be deceived by any of them.

Just hold them lightly…

Trusting Life

“How can I trust everything will be fine?”

A deeper question that I see many seekers struggle with no matter which path they have chosen and how many years they have spent on the path.

Whether they seek the lofty image of being enlightened or they seek a better job, better career, better relationships or like a CEO friend of mine says a “better next quarter”.

Sometimes we are so afraid of the future that we keep investing huge amounts of energy to make sure everything is handled. Life is actually very simple. Whether you trust it or not, it will continue unfolding.

If you are forcing yourself to trust by some forced meditation or affirmation, just get in touch with the base energy of this action. It is no more pure. You are trying to manipulate your own mind. And the effort is coming from a place of “If I do this, everything will be fine”.  And if I don’t then everything won’t be. I find this hilarious. In this universe there is no “in order to”. X doesn’t necessarily lead to Y, just because it seems so sometimes.

And precisely that’s one of the reasons many so-called manifestation exercises don’t work.

If at the core, there is trust; one need not be bound to anything. One will create fearlessly. No technique is needed. You flow and life flows with you.

Ask a simple question…Why I don’t trust? Whatever answers you get, just let them go. Hold them lightly with a possibility of them being baseless. Just do it gently, slowly experientially expand your trust and see what happens.

Being Alive – A miracle

One of the greatest miracle, is suddenly being present to the miracle of being alive.

It is one miracle we are seldom in touch with. The beauty of human beings is we always take this miracle for granted.

Just imagine, that whatever you are perceiving, witnessing and seeing in this moment or any moment, is a gift of being alive.

Being fully present to being alive is just a small awakening in its self.

When last did you just stop and were present to the miracle of you being alive?

You can access it in any moment. In a bored boardroom meeting to being in stuck in a jam. It is like satori. And the beauty is it is so simple. Wherever you are and whatever you are doing, just become aware. Ask a simple question “By virtue of being alive in this moment, what all can i become aware of?”

And watch your consciousness expanding. Just allow everything possible to fall in your awareness. And then enjoy the effortless process of everything falling into your awareness.

Try it. Its good fun.

All it takes is an effortless beginning

A beginning is a beginning. When it is effortless, it is more fun.

Because then your attitude is not serious. You are playful and you are playing it like a game.

If there is anything new you wish to start, try beginning it effortlessly.

Whether its a new diet, new exercise regime or anything new you wish to start, just try and start it effortlessly. As if it doesn’t matter.

Too much effort is a way of violating the soul’s perfection. Too much effort make us feel little uncomfortable. Then we are worried about the drive getting over.

When you are effortless, you are fearless.

Try it on. And see what unfolds for you.

- Wisdom of Raj Marg

Being with

Being with any thought, emotion, person, reaction of other or reaction of self, can allow you to be at ease at any moment…

Our trouble starts when instead of being with something, we begin to think about avoiding, fighting, ignoring what it. The beauty is none of it helps…

The whole universe is designed for all of us to learn “Being with” anything. Because only when we are able to be with an experience completely only then we are able to complete that experience. Everything present in your life which you are resisting is calling for the same thing…

Explore what it means to you “to be with” something fully. You will discover the secret of being easy with all that is

- Raj Marg : Hold it lightly

The final freedom

The final freedom is the freedom to be.

It is about unearthing and acknowledging your natural wholeness. It is the end of many delusions which one gets entangled in when one is exploring a spiritual path or path of self discovery.

It is about “pure living” – a term which is clarified and experientially facilitated in clarity sessions or Raj Marg retreats.

It is acknowledging reality the way it is and allowing an effortless awareness to slowly get integrated with your life. Many who are walking this path, call it a way of approaching and observing life. It ensures clarity, balance and simplicity.

It is so simple that whenever one gets it, the first reaction is that it can’t be that simple.

All traditions, spiritual paths have spoken about the same truth. However, very rarely one is able to live that in day to day life. In my opinion Zen and Taoism came closest but have lost their relevance with times. As the masters were missing to reinterpret to fit the current context.

The final freedom is a new paradigm of seeing life, the whole existence and your unique life all at the same time. It is about re-discovering the natural harmony which surrounds your every day life.

In short, in dramatic spiritual lingo, it is about “awakening” or “waking up”.