EVERLASTING SUCCESS.

SUCCESS is MEANINGFUL if it is EVERLASTING.

FYI: Article might be too philosophical for some people.

Story of our Life from Birth to Death how to become successful? 

Success in our day to day life means 

1. Maintaining & entertaining our body and bodily requirements.

2. Trying to acquire degree, wealth, power, position and fame.

3. Have good family, friends and followers.

Material success is part of our life can't be ignored and we should not deprive ourselves from material necessities. If we carefully examine our life success is all about trying to find better facilities for "Eating, Sleeping, Mating and Defending " that's all. Animal can do the same thing without education & hard labor then what is special about human life?

What happens to our success at the time of death?

1.  Material body: We pampered our body throughout our life, keeping physically fit, use all kind of beauty makeup to look young, try to protect from disease...etc. After death body will perish ends in Dust.

2. Our wealth, power, position....will go to someone else immediately after death.

3. Our family, friends and well wishers have given company throughout our life, at the time of death they will come up to graveyard not beyond that. 

SUCCESS is MEANINGFUL if it is EVERLASTING. Is there any ultimate, true and everlasting success? Yes, as mention below.

1. Success is to Knowing ourselves or Self realisation.

2. Success is about building up our character or personality.

3. Success is to know what is purpose of my life? Life without purpose is failure.

4. Success is having everlasting passion, enthusiasm, happiness and love.

5. Success is inquire about how to resolve permanent misery due to Birth- Aging- Disease and Death?

6. Success is inquiring about Absolute Truth the source of everything.

Our deep feelings, emotions, developed consciousness ( mind, intellectual and ego) means our spiritual success is reflection of our Soul in outer world & will accompany with our Soul after death. Our present & next life happiness & overall outcome is based on our Spiritual Success which is EVERLASTING.

Besides maintaining & entertaining ourselves we should use our little bit of passion to inquire about spiritual success. Efforts to perusing Spiritual Success does not go in vain. In repetitive Birth-Death cycle such people born in either Aristocrat or Yogi's family to have opportunity to finish their goal....and finally get liberated from Birth-Death cycle. 

Bg 6.41 — The unsuccessful Yogi is born into a family of righteous people, or into a family of rich aristocracy.

Bg 6.43 — On taking such a birth, he revives the divine consciousness of his previous life, and he again tries to make further progress in order to achieve complete success, O son of Kuru.

Real problems of our life is janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi (Birth-Aging-Disease and Death) BG 13.9. ( Vedabase.com ). All other problems of our life are surrounded by Birth-Death cycle.  

**************************

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).

LOVING RELATIONSHIPS.

COMES WITH RESPECTS & SPIRTUALITY.

RESPECTS:

When any relationship gets closer we find out all the good, the bad and mixed about each other. In few years of marriage life or any close relationship we find out the weaknesses, the strengths and the idiosyncrasies of the other person and with that come familiarity. With familiarity it  breeds contempt, we know each other ugly stuff and one points to the other and respect disappears becomes something else, relationship becomes very dysfunctional.  So if you have a close relationship, a loving relationship it's essential that there is respect. Even if you know all the shortcomings still respect the other person.  

SPIRITUALITY:

A learned person is he who can see the good quality more broadly spiritual equality in all living beings regardless of their life form or who they are or where they come from or their culture, their background, their religion. There is intrinsic world within every form of life. As a eternal, knowledgeable and blissful soul I should respect every other form of life moving according to the laws of nature. In every form of life there is aspiration to reach to the supreme goal of life.

Bg 5.18 — The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater [outcaste]. (vedabase.com).

"FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT".

**************************

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).

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".

************************

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).

COPY and PASTE.

Copy and Paste are good commands for your computer but not for your life.

Today in Tech Age world many information available at our fingertips. Whenever and wherever we need can just copy from search engines and paste wherever required. The culture of ‘Ctrl C’ & ‘Ctrl V’ is very rampant so much so that its just available on the right click on your command.

We frequently use these commands while preparing project, presentations, writing articles, assignments etc... difficult to survive without it. There is no problem using ‘copy’ and ‘paste’ commands while making reports or presentations but do not apply same in our life. Many people now a days want to ‘copy’ others lifestyle, hairstyle,  speaking style, dressing style...even in Spirituality and ‘paste’ in their lives, in the name of being well received by others or in the name of fashion. And when they can’t copy completely end up with frustration while comparing themselves with others. 

Comparison is a systematic way of undervaluing your uniqueness and indirectly insulting creator. God has created us, if he wanted to make us someone else, he would have rather created some one else and not us. So we need to be grateful for our individuality and focus on ‘our plate’ instead of looking for what’s there in ‘others plate’. Animals can teach humans better in this regard - they focus on what they have but not what they lack. 

The Bhagavad Gita (3.35) has something similar to offer, “It is far better to discharge one's prescribed duties, even though faultily, than another's duties perfectly. Destruction in the course of performing one's own duty is better than engaging in another's duties, for to follow another's path is dangerous". And the Gita (18.45) also assures that everyone can attain perfection by working according to one’s nature. We see in Mahabharat also that Pandavas followed this principle and everyone respected each other’s talents. No one tried to copy each other rather they encouraged each other and that was one of the reasons of their victory in the fratricidal war.

While living in this world we need to bring out best within us and use our God-given talents to make constructive contributions and not just live a life filled with ‘copy’ and ‘paste’ and  fulfilling other’s expectations from us. 

Article written by HG Krishna Dhan Prabhu from ISKCON.

***************************

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).

ANXIETY EPIDEMIC.

FYI: Talking about avoidable cause of anxiety. Anxiety due to chemical imbalance in body has to be treated medically.

MLK ( Martin Luther King ) said we live in age of guided missile and misguide men. Technological power have outrun our spiritual power. The means to live have outdistanced us from purpose to live. Guiding external world have misguided our inner world. Recent studied showed many people all over the world live in anxiety disorder. Anxiety leads into depression and suicide, WHO said approximately 1 M people committee suicide every year. 

In our day to day life we are making so many mental decisions for our daily material needs like buying clothes we look at the brand, store, color, design...etc based on our social status. Throughout the life for our daily needs we make more decisions then our mental capacity, it is over worked for our mental machinery and source for anxiety. After age 40-45 people in general suffering from some anxiety due to more responsibilities, chronic health issues, family issues, jobs related issues, socioeconomic problems.....etc. Some of our problems overblown by our mind, LIFE DETERMINES PROBLEMS WE DETERMINED SIZE OF THE PROBLEM.

Life is like a rocking boat get unstable with ocean of material waves. If we analyze the any problems of life three things are common.

1.source of identity 

2.source of shelter and 

3.source of pleasure. ...........

We are trying to connect our identity with social status, designation and also identifying ourselves with physical body which all are false or temporary identities. Throughout the life we work very hard to maintain our bodily demands & care based on our false or temporary identity cause for varieties of misery and anxiety. To relieve from anxieties we take shelter of some kind of recreation pleasure activities which are also temporary. In short connecting ourselves with temporary identity ( cause for anxiety ) and taking temporary shelter & having temporary pleasure can not cure anxiety permanently.

By Hearing/reading the Scriptures we realise that my real identity is not based on social status, designation or physical body. Once we understand that my true identity is I am eternal Soul living in physical Body our outlook will change, we will make thoughtful decisions for our needs & care not based on our external status and life get less complicated. Based on our true identity our source of shelter and pleasure will also change. Just like to stabilize rocking boat we need to anchor the boat to fix objects similarly we need to anchor our shaky Soul from material misery with Supreme Soul that is our real shelter and source of eternal pleasure or Bliss. 

Bg 16.11-12 — They believe that to gratify the senses is the prime necessity of human civilization. Thus until the end of life their anxiety is immeasurable. Bound by a network of hundreds of thousands of desires and absorbed in lust and anger, they secure money by illegal means for sense gratification.

Bg 15.7 — The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind.

Bg 18.58 — If you become conscious of Me, you will pass over all the obstacles of conditioned life by My grace. If, however, you do not work in such consciousness but act through false ego, not hearing Me, you will be lost. (Vedabase.com)

Beautiful explanation by Chitanya Charan Dasa from ISKCON.

https://youtu.be/UGKGS_JhhyE

*****************************

I am inspire to hear & read Vedic Scriptures & other philosophy by regularly listening Sri Pandurang Shashtri Athvale known as Dadaji ( speak on Srimad Bhagvad 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 Bhagvad 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).

PLANT BASED DIETS.

Recently done many studies are supporting plant based diets to lose weigh and improve longevity. Plant based diet can reverse and cure heart disease & many other diseases. Beside foods our life style, 30 minute walking or any exercises, our thoughts and family & friends support help us to live healthy & long life. HOLISTIC approach to live happy & healthy life.

PREVENTION is BETTER then CURE.....EVOLUTION is BETTER then REVOLUTION. 

Out of 8 limbs of Yoga ( Yoga means state of consciousness, it is not about physical fitness ) one of the important step is Ahara or Food we eat. Food is very essential step to purity our senses & mind. Physical fitness is another limb of Yoga.

Scriptures also described about type of foods we eat & it's effects on mind. Three kinds of food according to the three modes of material nature or consciousness. 

A. Foods dear to those in the mode of goodness increase the duration of life, purify one’s existence and give strength, health, happiness and satisfaction. Such foods are juicy, fatty, wholesome, and pleasing to the heart like Fruits, Vegetables, Milk products and Whole grains. Animal fat is also available in the form of milk & milk products like butter yogurt, cheese...etc.

B. Foods that are too bitter, too sour, salty, hot, pungent, dry and burning are dear to those in the mode of passion. Such foods cause distress, misery and disease.

C. Food that is stale, tasteless, decomposed and putrid, and food consisting of remnants and untouchable things is dear to those in the mode of darkness.

Former President Bill Clinton & Vice President Al Gore and many CEOs of big big companies have changed for good to be Vegetarian. Plant based diet help us and environment...it is Win....Win situation.

In modern fast running material world it is not possible to follow all above mention guidelines, we can try our best.

**************************

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).

HOW DO I LOVE or LIKE EVERYONE?

Life is all about loving relationships with everyone ( in theory sounds very good but very difficult to practice). How can I love or like everyone in this world?

LOVE BEGINS FROM ORIGIN: Love is unconditional normally limited to few lives surrounding or connected to us can expand to unlimited lives including nature once our consciousness expand.

Best example in this world of pure unconditional love is between mother & newly born. Other loves are mixed with lust ( desire & sense gratification) depends on our develop consciousness. If we love ourselves as it is then possibly we can love or like someone as it is.

1. If you love your parents then you love your siblings:.....Just imagine the moment you find out while meeting unknown person in city that he/she is your lost brother or sister while ago....all of a sudden your relationship become so deeper....because both of your parents are same.

2. If you love your body then you can love your hair, nail, finger or other body parts.....

People like to comb & style the hair, polish the nail..etc... Once hair or nail fall down from body then nobody cares.

3. If you love your spouse then you can love spouse's family ( in laws....LOL)...

3. If you love your country then you can love your countrymen.....

4. If the leaders of groups ( leaders of societies , state, countries, spiritual groups....etc) like each other & seat together with interpersonal friendly dialogues then their followers will have relationship among each other.

In short love begins or connected with origin. When we love the roots or origin we will love the whole.

Similarly IF YOU LOVE OWNER, FATHER, ROOTS or ORIGIN of THIS UNIVERSE ( ..with many names..) THEN YOU LOVE or LIKE EVERYONE INCLUDING NATURE.

Bg 14.4 — It should be understood that all species of life, O son of Kuntī, are made possible by birth in this material nature, and that I am the seed-giving father.

FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT. 

**************************

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).