LIFE MUDRAS

 The MAN – a creature on the face of this earth capable of thinking, having feelings, and emotions. As society evolved so did the MAN. Blessed with a powerful physical ability vis a vis woman. The expectations and roles of the man too evolved and the bar raised every passing day. A male child once he descends is fitted with templates. * Be a man. * Don’t cry like a woman. * You are the torchbearer of the family. And many more. The layers of artificial attributes keep on adding every day. But sadly the man is never allowed to display the real him. Tears, intense emotions are a strict NO. MAN O MAN

  "So Aryan, did you ever have a girlfriend?" Aryan's fiancée Rohini asked him. "Well, virtually yes, but practically no," Aryan replied. "What ?? I did not get you..." She said and twitched her nose. "Well it's a long tale, are you sure you would want to hear it?" Aryan asked. "Sure sure, go, ahead," Rohini said. Aryan started, "During my college days, I was never a handsome and fit guy like I am today." "Self-praise haan!" Rohini intercepted. "During those days, I was a dull, boring, and unattractive guy with a nerdy look. Also jealous as every other friend of mine had a girlfriend, but I never had one." At a 31st December party, I had been out drinking with my friends especially my friend Sohan. We were good friends, but he was of those mastikhor type. Sozzled up I was. The rum let my emotions loose that night. I blabbered to Sohan that I did not have a girlfriend and was regretting it. Like a p...

(In the Hindu religion, LAXMI is the Goddess of wealth) " I am Laxmi", she said. I simply looked at her! The contradiction of her name reflected in her attire. Dark skin, crumpled clothes with loud colors, a large bindi adorning her forehead. Laxmi had come to take care of the additional work in my house. She had a son and daughter-in-law, barely in her forties. “My parents married me off very early Memsahab," she said, sipping her tea. She was an early riser. 6.35 am and she would be at the door. At times I felt guilty ... jealous too! My inflated ego of corporate life would deflate before her professionalism. The utensils would be shining, her cleaning was neat and she went about her chores like the formulated excel sheets in my laptop, utmost precision... Weeks passed, I returned home from work one day, to some commotion at my building. An elderly lady had passed away. Neighbors paid condolences and the cremation took place after 2 days. Their children came from abroa...

Emotional poison - strange isn't it? This is what we create by our reaction to what we consider injustice. Some wounds will heal, others will become infected with more and more poison. The moment we are full of emotional poison, we need to release it, and we continue releasing it by giving it to someone else. The methodology - By hooking that person’s attention. Let’s take a situation of an ordinary couple. For whatever reason, the wife is mad at the husband. She has a lot of emotional poison from an injustice that comes from her husband. The husband is not home, but she remembers that injustice and the poison multiplies inside. When the husband comes home, the first thing she wants to do is hook his attention. As soon as it happens the transfer of poison happens and subconsciously she feels relieved. As soon as she tells him how bad he is, how stupid or unfair he is, that poison she has inside her is transferred to the husband. She keeps talking and talking until she gets his att...

1......Be Impeccable With Your Word – Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. 2......Don’t Take Anything Personally – Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering. 3......Don’t Make Assumptions – Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. 4......Always Do Your Best – Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgement, self-abuse, and regr...

“Inspiration is a magical thing, a productivity multiplier, a motivator. But it won’t wait for you. Inspiration is a now thing. If it grabs you, grab it right back and put it to work.” “Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.”

“Ego takes everything personally." Emotion arises, defensiveness, perhaps even aggression. Are you defending the truth? No, the truth, in any case, needs no defence. You are defending yourself, or rather the illusion of yourself, the mind-made substitute. It would be even more accurate to say that the illusion is defending itself. If even the simple and straightforward realm of facts can lend itself to egoic distortion and illusion, how much more so the less tangible realm of opinions, viewpoints, and judgements, all of them thought forms that can easily become infused with a sense of “I.” Every ego confuses opinions and viewpoints with facts. Furthermore, it cannot tell the difference between an event and its reaction to that event. Every ego is a master of selective perception and distorted interpretation. Only through awareness—not through thinking—can you differentiate between fact and opinion. Only through awareness are you able to see: There is the situation and here is ...