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Does Peter ever have a bad day?
I was asked this question recently at the end of an interview. I had not thought about it, but when I did I realized that I do not have "bad days". I used to when I identified with Peter, with a limited personal self. In fact, it would be accurate to say that every day is a bad for an individual self, even if we perceive it at the time as the most perfect day we've ever experienced. Every day is a bad day for the separate self. Simply the experience of being a separate self is a complete nightmare. Without the experience of a separate self suffering is impossible, completely impossible.
But while you still experience a separate self, an identity, a me and others, you will perceive good days and bad days. The good days are relatively better than the bad days. The bad days are relatively worse than the good days. There can be extremes of good and bad.
Without the separate self identity none of this exists. Suffering does not exist. Bad and good do not exist. These are simply thoughts that you once believed. There is a sense of an underlying perfection to everything, but this is not mental. It is not a thought or belief. It is simply a felt and experienced truth of the nature of reality. To be honest, there is nothing that you can say or think about it, as those would just be more thoughts and not fundamental reality. You use words, as I am doing now, in order to communicate as well as possible with a very limited medium. Perhaps that is why people enjoy sitting in silence with me so much. I don't have an explanation or thoughts about why this is either.
If Peter believes he is Peter, then every day is a bad day. If Peter is free of such beliefs, then there are no longer any bad days.
That's my experience. Whose experience? There is no who. Perhaps you can see the limitations of language.
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There are 30 Mahurats of 48 minutes in a day and 1st and 2nd Mahurat called Brahm Mahurat. The first two mahurats are considered most auspicious for meditators (Sadhak).
At this time most meditators meditate throughout the world.
When you meditate at this time you get the benefits from these meditators.
Your meditation happens easily at this time.
How do you calculate Brahm Mahurat?
Let's take today's (11th Nov 2021) Sunrise at New Delhi: 6.41 am.
Now, 6.41 am - 96 minutes ( 48x2) = 5.05 am - this is the time the first Brahm Mahurat will start.
For second Brahm Mahurat = 5.05 am + 48 minutes= 5.53 am second Brahm Mahurat will start at 5.53 and will continue till 6.41 am.
All meditators who have experimented with meditation and Samadhi came to one conclusion - 48 minutes of meditation at first Brahm Mahurat is most rewarding for Sadhak.
Happy meditating!
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When you realize there is only eternity, you know it’s not limited to “you.”
You’re not eternity moving through a parade of deteriorating zombies.
You’re the light of consciousness moving through the prism of time, producing a rainbow that isn’t different from light.
When the rainbow “disappears,” it’s absorbed into the light that it actually is.
A momentary distortion made it appear as a rainbow.
A misunderstanding caused the rainbow to experience its existence as limitation and death.
When it looks inside itself, it will laugh.
If you think you’re limited by time and mind, you think everyone else is limited, too.
When you realize your limitless nature, all “others” are none other than this.
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According to Adi Shankara's commentary on the 1000 Names of Vishnu, Achyuta means "one who will never lose his inherent nature and powers". The name also means "immovable", "unchangeable", and as such is used for "the One who is without the six transformations, beginning with birth".
In Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna calls Lord Krishna ‘Achyuta’. He wants the immovable to start moving for him! ‘Achyuta’ also means one who has never fallen. Thereby Arjuna wants to suggest to Lord Krishna that He will never fail him."
- Arjuna said: "Thinking of You as my friend, I have rashly addressed You "O Krishna", "O Yadava’, "O my friend", not knowing Your glories. Please forgive whatever I may have done in madness or in love . I have dishonoured You many times, jesting as we relaxed, lay on the same bed, or sat or ate together, sometimes alone and sometimes in front of many friends. O infallible one (Acyuta), please excuse me for all those offences." (Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 11, verses 41-42)
Solipsism is the belief that external reality is your mental projection.
It’s only you, surrounded by zombies.
We can easily see the error by thinking about dreams.
Dreams are projections, but your dream self isn’t surrounded by zombies.
Your dream self is a projection too, like the other dream characters.
Your consciousness isn’t in your dream body.
Every dream character has an equal claim on it.
Non-duality maintains the Self is the only reality.
Nothing else has independent existence.
At most, it’s an internal reflection, like a dream.
“You” are a character in your own dream.
Because there’s only one Self, you must be in your own dream.
There’s only You, but this doesn’t mean the “others” are zombies!
It means you have 7.7 billion bodies.
Not to mention the animals, plants, insects, single-cell organisms, and minerals.
You’re playing all the parts.
Why do you feel like you’re a single character, running around having adventures?
Why, in your dreams, do you feel like you’re climbing a mountain, when you are clearly yourself and the mountain?
That’s just how dreams work.
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How to manage job, family, Seva without getting overwhelmed?
Question:
Can you please give direction on how do you manage a job, family, personal endeavor, and Seva while not getting overwhelmed? I have a tendency to say yes to many things, but in the end, I’m just playing catch up on my to-do list. How to manage the tasks and yet not be overwhelmed?
Answer:
The answer is knowing [not intellectually but experientially] the difference between Karta bhava and Nimit bhava!
Karta bhava – Doership
One who feels he is ‘the Doer’, usually gets overwhelmed. Yes, Doership is like a swamp. And Doership happens only to the ambitious mind. Ambition indicates a lack of self-confidence! When you know you can achieve something easily, you are not ambitious about it. You are simply confident about it.
Ambition means the thirst to prove, the desire for challenge, the want to get out of an uncertainty, etc. This is contrary to self-confidence where there is no thirst to prove anything, where there is no desire for challenge, where there is no uncertainty.
Ambition is total ignorance of the Self. Confidence is complete knowledge of the Truth! And the Truth is that ‘You are not the Doer, You are not the experiencer, You are just an instrument through which life is flowing’!
Nimit bhava – Non-doership or Being an instrument
One who knows clearly that he is merely an instrument of the divine, never falls into the Maaya of Doership. He has total confidence that if something needs to happen through him, it will. If something does not need to happen through him, it will not. So he works from the ‘Purusha/Consciousness’ being a Sakshi/Witness. He does not work from the “Prakriti/body-mind complex’ being a Doer.
It is next to impossible to have this total confidence without Self-knowledge. With the knowledge of the Self, there is nothing left to achieve, for the entire nature of existence is merely a play and display of one’s own consciousness.
People take pride in being ambitious. The wise man will only smile at them.
With Self-knowledge nothing is challenging to you, nor do you need to make any effort. Nature is ready to fulfill your intentions even before they arise, giving you no chance to crave or desire. Nature does not allow the wise to have a desire/ambition/doership, and the unwise to fulfill or get rid of the desire/ambition/doership.
How to gain that Self-Knowledge?
Just wake up to the highest Truth! The Truth is that everything is already happening, you are not doing. Whether it is office, family, Seva, it is all but a happening. It is a river of Karma flowing by its own current, let it flow. You float on it like a leaf. Then you won’t be overwhelmed, you will just float with the current. You won’t be over-whelmed even in a whirlpool of situations.
Shanta bhava!
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