"Knowledge is good but Ignorance is bliss"

When we read it, it confuses us  how come ignorance is bliss when we all run after knowledge every time. What ignorance is exactly ,Ignorance means just to ignore the things , problems and everything around us which gives us pain. Being Ignorant does not mean we are unaware and outdated with the present world but it means we are ignored with all the kinds of  worldly talks , we are happy and content with in ourselves, We are ignored from all the kinds of comparison & competitions. We are content with what we have received. In order to being ignorant we need to loose our wisdom of I am someone. Because this is the knowledge we have received from the world since we are born.

Knowledge has always made us more egoistic , higher the knowledge , more  difficult for us to keep our window open to learn because we feel that we know everything. When we feel ignorant we always feel there is scope to learn, we always have the attitude that I do not know this, we have good listening skills that time . We are more humble when we are ignorant and when we are humble it means we have deep knowledge . When we have internal knowledge then we can be ignorant and when we only have external knowledge, its one more Step to add up into our ego.

An example which I truly Admire -
One day three students went to learn harmonium from a teacher . When they asked for the fee to learn the same , Teacher asked your fee depends on how much you already know.
The first student said i know it, I am quite good while playing , I am here just for more practice , Teacher said your fee is $100, now second student comes , he says I know how its being played but  I am not so good at this, want to learn better , Teacher said your fee is $ 50 , now third student comes He says, Sir i do not know at all , I am learning it for the first time , Teacher says your fee is $ 10 . All the students baffled while hearing the fees and they asked why such variation and its higher for the one who knows it already and lesser for the one who is total novice at this .Teacher replied - the one who does not know it at all, I have to make him learn from beginning, he does not have his own knowledge about it , he will listen me carefully without using his own mind and will believe what I am saying is correct , so he will take my less time and efforts and  the one who knows it completely will always doubt at my capabilities and will always go with his own tune , will take my more efforts and time , so the fee is just for forgetting what you already know .

"When we forget what we know then only we can further know hence ignorance is bliss and knowledge is just good."

Do not judge anyone; everyone has their own story.

We keep on judging everyone whoever and whatever comes on our way;” We are not born to pass the judgments but just to love everyone and everything.” It has become our habit, everything which our eye catches we have a pre-conceived notion about it, everyone we meet we create an image and when we meet the same person next time; we meet with the same image which our mind has created.

Why we are judging anyone we do not have any idea of their story, what their journey is all about, what was their past, the family they born in, their situations, their karmas, their Sanskar ( which are since births), still we give everyone our certificate of what they are . We think you are good, you are bad. Stop judging and unnecessary adding new karmas in your karmic account. We have no right to say that this is right and this is wrong, you should do this, and you should not have done this, why this person acts like this. There is some reason behind everything and we are not supposed to know the reason of everything but there is reason behind all.

In Bhagwat Geeta , Shree Krishna said “ Every human being has born with their own set of Sanskar of past lives , do not try to change anyone ."

Neither we have to judge or nor we need to seek changes in anyone; everyone is perfect and beautiful in their own way, as everyone is made by God and God makes no mistakes. So accept beautifully everyone without making any judgment because when we judge, we doubt at God’s ability. When we judge we forget to love that person, let’s meet everyone as we are meeting for the first time without any past image and pre conceived notion. Nothing just love and love only

Prarabdha "प्रारब्ध" is Fixed, No One can change it.

"Prarabdha" other name "Fate / Destiny" - A Bundle of good and bad experiences we get in the journey of life which is part of our past karma of many lives , which have been accumulated, which is result of both good and bad deeds . Human cannot free himself from Karmas .

Prarabdha of all the human beings is  fixed , most beautifully said

प्रारब्ध पहले रचा, पीछे रचा शरीर।
तुलसी ये जान के भी मन ना बंiधे धीर

Everything is Pre-decided by god, No one can change his Prarabdha. We put all our efforts to change our Prarabdha but its pre-decided , no amount of efforts can change our Prarabdha .

Someone is rich, Someone is so poor, Some lives long, Someone dies so early , Someone is getting married early, Someone getting it so late. Someone is longing for a single child and someone is bestowed with it without any wish.

What is this , is there any control?

No control on result but yes full control on present karmas. We cannot defend ourselves saying that it was in my Prarabdha , our past karma's made our present and our present karmas will make our future . InBhagwat Geeta Shree Krishna Said "कर्म करो और फल की चिंता मत करो" and along with that he said "अशोक रहना तेरा धरम है"means you have to put your efforts and whatever comes after that you have to accept it fully with happiness, no regret, no desire to change it but to accept it and while the desire of kings also remains unfulfilled . Let’s be happy and content our Prarabdha is good because God fulfills basic needs of every individual in our Prarabdha without any comparison.

The Door from comparison enters , happiness exists. We should notlet go it and be happy whatever we have got. Keep putting our efforts and then embrace whatever is being gifted by God.

Its nothing just a "Mind Game"

How surprisingly it is, a mind which has no physical & financial power  yet so powerful which is beyond any other power.

Mind or I can give it other name is Mann "मन".

Our physical power is 2% and 98% its mental power or mind power .Our body reacts on the basis of signal given by mind.

let’s take an example you are so tired and unable to get up , you feel like you are unable to walk now even a single step , your body has no power this is the signal given by mind that you worked hard and you are tired now , you cannot do anything , but suddenly you realized that your home has caught fire, you will not even for a second feel like you are tired and you will put your all efforts to extinguish fire , mean to say this is just that energy was within but priority was different , let’s assume you cannot run and suddenly you badly followed-up by a stray dog , you will start running like anything, so mind is there which rules the entire body.

If our mind is strong we can uproot the mountains too. If our mind accepts I am well, I am happy then physical and a financial thing has no power to make us feel that I am unwell. If our mind convinces us that I am blessed, I am rich, I have received a lot from nature, god & my surroundings then nothing in this world can make us feel low. Happiness is nothing it’s just a state of mind.

If we are waiting that tomorrow will bring me happiness so it’s just a false hope because tomorrow never comes and it brings its own challenges. Stop waiting for celebration tomorrow, let’s celebrate today. Mind it so powerful depends what you feed it with positivity, patience, love & gratitude.

let’s create the world of our choice by giving signal to mind of our choice

Desires Make us beggar while desire less makes us king

I feel the other name to be given to desire is just being sick.

Let’s talk about symptoms of Sickness -

Restlessness

Irritation

Impatience to recover fast

We feel the same when we have any desire.

Imagine whenever in our life we have come across any desire, we feel impatient to fulfill the same but we forget the fulfillment of desire is not end of desire, it’s just a gap till we are again trapped by other desire and this cycle goes on and we keep on experiencing the relief and pain, happiness and suffering goes hand in hand. This is nothing just fulfillment and Un- fulfillment of desire which keeps us happy and sad. We have grown up experiencing the same without realizing when and where is its stop. We often get confused if we will not desire, we will not grow. If we will get satisfied we will stop where we are, but do you think that our prayer gets answered or we get what we are destined for so why to ask for something which is already in our destiny and no one can give us something which we are not destined for .So why we are making desires, completion of desire is just like adding fuel into the fire there is already a fire which is burning every moment and we are adding fuel into that to make it worse, once a desire gets fulfilled , next is in pipeline we feel there is a single desire but it has a long chain attached to. We feel on completion of our desire we feel a sense of achievement, sense of happiness but this happiness lies with us till the next gets emerged , so how peaceful we will be when there is no desire, there are efforts, there is planning but no desire . Why to buy sadness when we are meant to be at peace.

“Man Proposes and God disposes “let’s stop the fight between our wish and God’s will, lets match it and feel as everything happening from my will and see the magic of our peace."

Attachment- Main reason of our Suffering and Pain

Attachment to anything and anyone brings only pain and sorrow in our life .If we have ever experienced pain in our life then somewhere it’s because of attachment , attachment to the place, attachment to the person , attachment to the position etc., we are living in the world which is full of uncertainty , filled with changes only and we are attached to the things which will change for sure , nothing remains permanent and we get attached badly to the things and people believing that it will never change , will never leave us , will stay with us, it’s great myth. The world is changeable and changes are taking place every moment, somewhere things have already changed, somewhere things are about to change, no one can refrain himself from changes, everything is changeable except the truth which is true through ages

Aad Sach, Jugaad Sach, Hai Bhee Sach, Naanak Hosee Bhee Sach

Let’s enjoy at the fullest whatever we are with at this moment , because everything is for us but nothing belongs to us forever.

let’s say we go to any of the five star hotels to enjoy our vacations, where there is good staying and dining arrangement for us, all the facilities are there for us but nothing is ours, we came there for some time and then we have to go back , we cannot take even a spoon with us from there, else we will be called as thief and we enjoy without any attachment in hotel as we very well know that we have to go back , same we have to return everything to God, it’s for us to enjoy not to take it with us, but in hotel we remember that we have to go back while in life we forget we have come to this world with return ticket.Lets not get attached to one thing, we shall start loving this as everything is a passing show , lets watch instead to become its form.

Another name of disappointment and pain-Attachment

Sit with yourself- Make an appointment with yourself

 In this era where the life is so fast and we all are just running , we do not have time to sit and relax, we feel the need to talk to others but have we ever felt the need to talk to ourselves, in morning when we wake up, we just rush for our regular routine , we do not take out 5 minutes to feel the need to sit and ask that what is going through my mind , what I am still looking forward, what is upsetting me, what is driving me , what makes me feel good, what gives me sad feeling , what I am doing , what I am thinking , no we just do not feel the need to get ourselves questioned , to know our inner status, how stable I am from inside , whatever is happening outside , how much impact it has on my mind . Sometimes  we need to pause at some moment and rewind what I am doing and why I am doing all this, it’s time to stop and come back with double force. We forget our purpose what we have come for in this world, what is costing me my peace of mind , the ultimate aim of my life is just “ peace of mind “, Do not give it to anyone , no one  deserves to take your peace , its solely yours , there is price for everything in this world so peace of mind also comes with high price .The price that we have to pay for is to control all our senses with all the force which compels us to do an act, to speak a word, to think anything wrong which gives a pleasure , gives us a temporary happiness but make sure takes our permanent peace away, Ready to pay this high price to feel blissful.

Let’s do not procrastinate anymore , take an appointment with yourself & search your peace which is within.

"Words are free , how you use may cost you "

Words - " We learn to speak when we are just 3 years old but what to speak , I guess it takes entire life to learn." Words are not visible yet so powerful ", most of the times if we have been troubled, we must have realized,  its just because of our own words , Words actually do not carry any physical existence , its just a sound which goes into air & disappears forever but the place it inhabits in a person's mind , it remains forever & no amount of apology against a wrong word can bring you the same relation , same person back. A beautiful word can make some one day ,can give someone power , can get you blessing, our words should be like that people love to hear us.

we fire off our reply without thinking much through, sometimes without a wrong intention we utter something which we were not supposed to, we reveal out may secrets which should have been very discreet . "You are ruling & you are master of your words till it is inside , once the same has been uttered now it is master & we have to be aware of its consequences." A beautiful word will not cost us anything , though it will get us happiness .

A word once spoken from , it flies with air and will come back to us at the most unexpected time , and till it will come back to us through some other person , it remains in air , so please make sure whatever is been said , we should have heart to embrace the same as it is awaiting to come back weather a beautiful word or a harsh word we have to welcome with whole heart .Lets be aware of our words , it should be so much powerful that it gives life to someone .

W-               Wait & Weight -     Is it important to speak, do my word or silence carries  weight
O-                Observe-                 Is it the right situation, person, time to speak
R-                Rate-                      How I rate my words before I give it to someone else
D-                Decide                     Now it needs to be spoken or not

Why i loose my peace of mind?

We all must have felt ourselves bit disturbed at times, but have we ever sat down & ask ourselves who has caused me  this pain, who has taken my happiness away & left me with this sad feeling and when we try to see the reason around, we will feel many people and many reasons behind our this feeling Why but this is nowhere true, because we have lost our peace in mind so the thing you will find where it has been lost , so peace will be there in the mind only.

We often say I am disturbed because he said wrong words, he behaved badly, I could not get this which I was dreaming for etc., there are multiple reasons  but if we again see the list of the reasons behind my sadness, there is no one outside, it’s my thoughts/Ego/Desires which are bothering me .Mahatma Buddha has said one of very beautiful thing –If your thoughts do not disturb you even God does not have power to disturb you. No one from outside has power to make us feel good or bad , we are enough powerful for our happiness .

Our thoughts are very powerful and we often lose our peace of mind , our peace of mind is the most expensive thing in this world, behind our every act, word and whatever we do , we want peace of mind & we need to make it that much expensive so that  no one can buy this from us.