MY CONSCIOUSNESS.

First stage of Self Realization is to know myself where am I standing in terms of my nature or consciousness. What is my defect?  How to raise my standard or Develop higher taste in life?

CONSCIOUSNESS HAS NO RELIGION and NO NATIONALITY.    

Our speech, action, behavior and tolerance all are depends on our consciousness or nature. We all have seen & experienced that while facing desirable or undesirable situation everyone of us react differently depend on our nature. This is the cause of the varieties of happiness and distress. Our behavior is reflection of our Consciousness ( mind, ego & intellect).

Human and all other living species have three kind of nature or Guna (Sanskrit word) described in Scriptures known as three modes of material nature. 

1. Mode of goodness (Satvik nature) : Person in this mode is full of spiritual wisdom not so much affected by material miseries. He/She is very effulgent, self satisfied or self contained, self controlled and compassionate to everyone. Has lesser desire for sensual pleasure or sense gratification. 

2. Mode of passion ( Rajshri nature) : Person in this mode have unlimited desire for sense enjoyment and works very hard to fulfill those desire. Whole material world is more or less in the mode of passion. We need Mode of passion to survive in this world.

3. Mode of ignorance ( Tamsi nature): Arrogance, anger, harshness, greedy, envy, too much self centered...etc these qualities belong to those of in mode of ignorance. Person in this mode prone to have bad habits, overeating, oversleeping....etc

WE NEED to INTROSPECT OURSELVES WHERE is MY MATERIAL MODE or MY NATURE or CONSCIOUSNESS FITS in ?

Our material modes or nature or Gunas fluctuates throughout the day. Some times of the day we are in really good mood and some time in worst mood. We are mixtures of three modes. Other meaning of Guna is rope means to tie down something. We are tied down by these ropes or modes of material nature in this world causes for varieties of happiness & distress.

Goal of human life is how to raise my standard and come to mode of goodness 1st and remain steady in any given situation of our life and eventually transcendent from these modes of material nature and come to spiritual platform......will free us from Birth-Death cycle and all miseries of this material world. Yes it is possible by understanding the Scriptures and spiritual practices ( whichever scripture & spiritual practices work for us ).

"FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT".

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I am inspire to hear & read Vedic Scriptures & other philosophy by regularly listening Sri Pandurang Shashtri Athvale known as Dadaji ( speak on Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Veda based discourses & western philosophy ) and association of Swadhyay Parivar every Sunday in Swadhya Kendra. 

FYI: Good source of Vedic literature: Vedabase.com (Srimad Bhagavad Gita is the essence & Srimad Bhagavatam is the nectar of all Vedic scriptures).

I also hear and read discourses & articles on Vedic thoughts & other philosophy from Srila Prabhupada, his disciples & grand disciples (Rasamitra Swami, Chaitanya Charandas Prabhu, Sutapa Das, Amarnath Dasa, Bhakticharu Swami,  Urmila Devi Dasi,  Radhanath Swami, Lal Govind Prabhu ( Gujarati & Hindi) Prahalad Maharaj in Surat (Gujarati) .......and many more from ISKCON......). 

I am posting some article based on Vedic scriptures and literature. Of course I use Google search to collect some data. Thanks to Facebook for providing platform.

It is always good idea to share our good thoughts & knowledge with others. Besides my parents, spouse, teachers, family & friends GREATFUL to EVERYONE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED in MY LIFE.

Hopefully my enthusiasm will continue by grace of Guru & God (Absolute Truth).