In Reality, the Guru follows You

A Guru, as a person is an enlightened man. He is the one who, through one or many practices, attained salvation to become ‘one with the absolute consciousness’. He from there on, lives a life beyond this physical body. He has dual presence, one physical and the other as consciousness. In every moment of his life, he has his awareness placed in the middle of physical and conscious planes, so that he can enter physical or conscious state as per the requirement.

A Guru does multiple jobs. In physical state, like every one of us, his works are limited. But in the state of consciousness, his works are limitless. Great Gurus are the ones responsible for keeping our Earth intact otherwise, our Earth would have faced more severe catastrophes than we are facing now. A Guru is more powerful when he is in the state of consciousness. He can foresee any catastrophe and with his powers minimize the effect of the disaster. What little natural disasters we face now are only the minimized effects. However, the Guru always obeys the Universal laws and do not interfere in nature more than a certain extent. The Nature also obeys to the call of the Guru.

In the present world, people believe in so called Masters who exhibit magic. They call this as miracles. A real Guru also does Miracles, but they are very sublime. They do miracles through their grace while they are in the state of consciousness. Normally they do not do or entertain any physical miracles.

From the physical state, the Guru performs the duty of removing the ignorance from the Minds of the people through his discourses or any other relevant method. Here, one should note that, the methodologies adopted by Gurus are different but what all have experienced is ONE. One Guru would have attained enlightenment through Mantra (Chants), other through Bhakti (Devotion), some other through Gyan (Wisdom) and some other through Karma (Work). Whatever the path may be, all have experienced only ONE. The Divine essence is ONE and does not differ from person to person. After attaining enlightenment, the Guru preaches the method what made him to reach the height. So there are numerous Gurus preaching different paths. But all roads lead to same destination, sooner or later.

Every disciple is linked with the Guru not only in this birth but from numerous previous births. When a Guru attains Realization, he searches for the souls linked with him. Obviously, his search is in the state of consciousness. He functions from the state of consciousness to attract the souls towards him in the present birth too. When a disciple finds his Guru, he himself has not searched. He was brought by the power of the Guru working in subtle level. So in reality, it is the Guru who follows you. . .

-      My humble contribution to Guru Tattwa (The Philosophy behind Guru) and Peace be with all.

FACTORS AFFECTING GLOBAL PEACE

There are numerous factors that affect Global Peace, listed by various people, organizations and countries over centuries in the initiative to attain Global Peace.  Though there are so many intrinsic factors, they can be classified under broad categories. Some of them are listed below:

Religious Differences

Every religion says that God created this entire world. Apart from major know religions, there are numerous religions across the globe, which have their own ideals. For centuries, there was no connection between the people of various parts of the globe and so they strongly believed in their own religions and their advocacy. But in the present communication era, the globe has shrunk and so do the Minds of the people who stick to the means of the religion and fail to realize the destiny. 

Communal Wars

Communes supposed to be the oldest for of living and had been very successful as a unit. But through ages, wars always prevailed between the communes due to various reasons primarily to prove the superiority of one over the other, grab the lands and territories and influencing one’s ideology over the other. But in the present era, everyone has the right to grow and prosper irrespective of communities they belong to. In spite of the change, people are clinching the older roots and sink in elapsed ideals of their own community.

Poverty and suffering

Irrespective of the sound economic growth of the countries, poverty prevails everywhere. Many governments and service organizations announce many relief packages for eradicating poverty. But the truth is that, all the benefits are not reaching the deserved people due to lack in operational efficiency and greed of the middle people who swindle major portion of the Aids for their personal benefits. Moreover, mere social service is like free boarding and lodging given to hostel students without any teaching or classes. Life Education should be primary for the poor as it gives them strength and attitude to overcome poverty and stand in their own leg.

Corruption

Corruption is grabbing the wealth of others for the sake of comforts of one's own body and family. Corruption prevails in many countries top to bottom. People are more concerned about their self and family comfort. This selfish attitude coupled with desire for material wealth has prompted people into corruption. The scientific advancements have done very little to prevent corruption. Corruption cannot be prevented unless there occurs a mental transformation among people that cultivates love and compassion for others and leads to spiritual realization.

Differences in Faiths and beliefs

Faiths and beliefs come from the instincts and impressions sown in the sub-conscious mind of every individual. Faiths may be personal, methodical, theoretical, practical, political, social or religious. Conflicts occur when one tries to impose his/her Faith on the other, which is happening in day to day life across the globe.

Differences in doctrines

Every individual, organization or government has own doctrines. At all levels doctrines are set as the guiding principles for functioning. It is obvious that in this diversified world no principle can be accepted by all and differences are inevitable. But the distortion of peace occurs in the manner the differences are cited. If there is a violent means of expression of difference, there is always method on the other hand. But this depends on the choice.

Terrorism

Terrorism is the act of distorting peace by following violent path resulting in loss of lives and properties. Again, terrorism is the result of faith of the terror groups in adopting the path of destruction and their belief in their own ideology. The governments are forced to pay in the same coin to fight against terrorism to establish peace. Sadly, the ultimate goal has not been served till date.

Urge for power and prosperity

For ages, this has been a vital factor of peace distortion. Right from the era of Kingdoms to the present Governmental rule, countries try to expand their territories for showing their power. In the past, countries like India were susceptible to invasions for looting the wealth. From the macro level of Governance to the micro level of individuals, the tendency to establish power and gain prosperity is evident. 

Non availability of resources

In the process to fulfill the needs, either primary needs like food and water or luxury needs like accumulation of wealth and enhancing the resources, Peace is distorted some way or other. We can scale this from small level burglary to war between countries. This is the result of trying to enhance their sufficiency in crude and destructive means. This tendency prevails in almost all people and countries in some level or other. But the intensity differs. Looting the natural wealth for satisfying personal needs also is categorized under this.

Natural Disasters

This one is not under the control of humans. Volcanic eruptions, Tsunamis, earth quakes, flood, cyclones, fire, heavy rain, draught etc keep occurring for ages and all living creations have to live with this. Certainly, natural disasters are one of the vital peace disruptors. 

Is Global Peace an Utopian Dream?

Humanity is striving for ages to strike a chord of Peace. In present day, United Nations Organization with the cooperation of the Governments of several nations has established norms for establishing Global Peace. There are also several UNO wings working in all the countries for Peace establishment. In addition, there are millions of Non-governmental service organizations and billions of Volunteers working round the clock in the Mission of Global Peace.

In spite of tremendous efforts:

Ø  Every day, there is death toll due to terror attacks

Ø  Every day, there is a corruption scam blowing up

Ø  Every day, there are instances of thefts, rapes and murders

Ø  Every day, there are deaths due to hunger and famine

Ø  Every day, there are riots due to some reason or other

Ø  Every day, there is quarrel among family members, friends and neighbors

Ø  Every day and everywhere, there is pain, agony and suffering

Peace is the true nature of every Human Being. The Natural tendency of every individual is to try to establish Peace and happiness to himself, his family and surrounding. We earn and spend only to attain peace and happiness. We strive to create a peaceful situation but failed to realize that Peace lies within ourselves and cannot be created from outside. Peace can neither be preached, nor be practiced. It has to be experienced. Peace is not dependent on any external factors as many organizations list as Peace distorters.

Peace is not a utopian dream. Peace is the ultimate reality and can be experienced by every human irrespective of social, economic, cultural, religious, lingual and national diversities.

If a disease can spread from one individual to another and if a riot can spread from one part to another, Peace is also of the same nature. Peace, from one person can easily spread to his family, to his community, to his society to his nation and finally throughout the world. Peace is contagious.

So the best possible way to experience Global Peace is only through Individual Peace.  Peace is our Birth Right and Let us Claim it Now. 

GLOBAL PEACE IN ONE MINUTE

Naturally a question arises, how a phenomenon not achieved for ages can be got through in a single minute. If we analyse deeply, most of the things happen in the world in less than a minute. We might have waited for long for a particular happening, but when the time comes, it actually happens in less than a minute. Little further thought would reveal that we only wait for the time….the minute of happening of a particular event and not for the event itself. People of India would have fought for more than 200 years for independence but it happened just at the point when the Independence declaration was signed…at 12.02, 15^th August 1947. Till the previous minute, India was under the British rule.

So efforts might have been put for ages to attain Global Peace, but when time comes, it happens in less than a minute. So “Global Peace in One Minute” is not a dream but a realizable fact. 

The Essence

It is an evident fact that the essence of all religions is “Peace and Harmony”. Only the path and methods are different. This is natural and understandable. Only in past few decades, the communication system became more advanced and the due to the invention of aircraft, the time of travel between the countries diminished. Before that, people in one region were totally ignorant of the other regions. So they developed doctrines what they felt right for them and followed what was acceptable to them for their circumstances. So there evolved numerous religions, those were initially confined to particular area alone. Later due to invasions, development of trade connections etc. religions spread to the other regions.

In countries like India, there are numerous religions existing between the populations. India, in the past had encountered many religious riots. Likewise, conflicts between the different sects of the same religion have also become inevitable. The key reason for this condition is that people failed to understand and realize the essence of the religions, instead stuck to the mere formalities of the religion. People developed faith only on the methodologies prescribed by the religions, believing that they are the total followers of the religion. Most of the people think that their religion is superior to the other religions. They are totally ignorant of the fact that all religions are only different paths to the same destiny. They have failed to realize that the essence of all religions is one.

Stress-free Life

For every disease, whether known or not, there is a cause. Then the disease will be reflected outside in the form of symptoms. If someone finds something strange in his regular body function, then he visits a physician. He examines the symptoms and conducts relevant tests to diagnose the nature of the ailment. Then he recommends some treatment which when undergone in regular procedure as prescribed, the ailment is cured.

If you can understand the cause of every ailment, then we can adopt the preventive measures so that the ailment is totally avoided much before the occurrence. But is everyone capable enough to understand the cause of every ailment? For that you need to understand the basic functionality of transmission of impulses, the body-mind relationship and ways to control the mantle of your own human system.

Research says, more than 85% of the diseases caused in the human body are psychosomatic in nature.  And you must also realize that there is only one factor that is the originator of all the 85% of the diseases, the Stress. The stress caused in the physical body transmits the corresponding impulses to the mind that results in mental stress. Similarly, any mental disturbance has the corresponding effects on the physical body. But is it possible to lead a life without Stress in the present scenario?

To understand about Stress, we shall go little deeper into the subject. Stress is classified into two, Eustress and Distress. For example, a mother urges her child to study his daily lessons. Is she not creating a Stress in the mind of the child? If so, then is it not harmful? No, this is the positive form of the Stress, the Eustress that serves as motivator and helps an individual to attain greater achievements. The achievers create this Stress within themselves voluntarily by following many techniques such as Auto-suggestion, in order to achieve the goals in stipulated time frame. So Eustress works on improvement of an individual. On the other hand, Distress is a negative factor leading to many harmful effects. Many Psychosomatic disorders are caused by the Distress.

Psychosomatic Disorders are the results of the disturbances caused in the mental plane due to the physical problems and vice versa. So it is a negative blend of ‘Feeling’ and ‘Emotion’. In case of any occurrence, wanted or unwanted, the corresponding impulses are transmitted to the brain cells through Vagus nerves. Then a comparison takes place with the already existing impressions of the Cerebellum and the resultant action is triggered, which becomes the emotions in the Mind and expressed as feelings through the Body. If an unwanted situation happens, then the brain cells activate the excess secretion of Adrenaline, which results in anger.

If we further deeply analyze the cause of Stress, we can zero down to only one factor, the “Expectation”. Expectations are already created as imprints in the Cerebellum. They are caused by perceptions, past experiences, opinions and trend projections. When the real life situation does not happen as per the expectation, then the resultant is the ‘Stress’.

One thing we have to understand. Due to the scientific advancement and development in the standards of education, the intellect for every individual has grown many folds. The present day children know more things than their fathers and grand fathers. But the “Mind” is the same. Due to high intellectual capabilities, the quest for development has gone very high and hence the Stress factor has also sky rocketed. Thus, Stress has become a major unmanageable factor that results in the physical disorders and diseases.

We can find that our ancestors are better managers of Stress. It is not that they never had Stress or faced with Stressful situation. They had, in fact much worse than us.  The medical facilities were not much advanced as in present days. The sophistications weren’t there in those days as we enjoy now. But they managed the Stress very effectively. They had certain qualities which we have lost due to our intellectual development and logical reasoning.

They had more “Faith” than us. Either they believed in God or believed in themselves. They never allowed the Stressful situation to form imprints in the Brain. Instead they channelized them by sharing with reliable people, elders, friends, life partners, relatives etc. They ventilated their Mind in the form of prayers to God. They pass on the problems to God and left them in His hands to take care of.

In our days, we don’t have that much Faith. We question the existence of Supreme power. The sharing has reduced as the mutual trust among people has diminished. The gap between the parents and children has widened. Now, we grew ignorant of the ‘ventilation techniques’. Our schools though taught several subjects on languages, arts, science and mathematics, have not done much on the Life skills or Moralities. We don’t know how to get rid of the Stress factor from our Mind. So many people get satisfied with temporary solace by addicting to undesirable habits. The Habits do give transitory remedy by diverting the Mind but on the other hand, the addiction creates harmful effects in the body and mind level. So the only solution to lead a life free from Stress is the Yogic way of life.

How a Yogic Way of life can make us lead a Stress-free life? It makes you to understand that Stress is not caused by any external factor of situation but by the way you react to the external stimulus. Yogic way paves for cultivating a solid Positive Character, unshakable Faith, unleashed Courage,   abundance of Love, Clear Intellect, cleansing of Thoughts, Balance of Body-Mind-Intellect and ultimate surrender to the Supreme. The imparted by Yoga, when practiced for 21 days will become one’s routines, get groomed as habits and finally transpire into Qualities.

Thus Stress-free life is a birthright of every human but only he has to take initiatives to find out the means. If a person transcends himself to the higher plane, then the worldly problems appear to be insignificant. Thus he develops a protective shield against unwanted feelings and evolves a new paradigm of Higher Consciousness to lead the Life of Bliss and Ecstasy. 

Psychosomaticism

Human Body is a greatest contribution of the Nature. Studies are still going on in order to discover the total functionalities of every organ. Brain is the most significant part of the Human system. This muscular mass is made of numerous cells each one performing varied functions. So the study of the functionalities cannot be subjective but is rather objective.

If an action happens in the human body, say, someone is touching your hand, then immediately the impulses are transmitted to the brain and reach the cells of the Hypothalamus in the form of instincts. Immediately, the brain cells respond to the impulses, with reference to the impressions already created in the Cerebellum, the back brain. If the person who touches your hand is dear to you, then you react in the amicable way. This is because of the impressions formed about the concerned person already exists in your back brain. Rather, if the person is the one you hate, then you react in a hatred manner for the touch. This is also from the impression you have about the person at the back of your brain. The nervous system is very fast in reaction. You only need few micro seconds for the brain system to respond to the external stimulus.

Now from the above action it is very clear that the there is a close relation between the body and the mind. Only your thoughts are converted into your actions. Your body is responding only to what your mind says. So with this Body- Mind relationship, when the body is subjected to some external stimulus, naturally it has the corresponding reaction in the mental plane. This has to be first understood before going into the subject of psychosomatic disorders.

Mother and Children

The Earth is our Mother. The forests, greenery, oceans, mountains, lakes, trees, flowers, fruits; all are the properties of our Mother. We are all protecting the Wealth of our Mother Earth and so we are all the ‘Trustees of the Globe’.

Every individual’s responsibility is to take care of the parents, wife and children. What you will do if your mother falls ill? You will take her to a hospital or call a doctor to ensure that she gets proper treatment and recovers fast. Now, our Mother Earth is ill. She has got high fever. Her body is boiling. What we must do now?

If a forest fire breaks out in a particular area, the forest officials rush to the spot to extinguish the fire. It is their duty.  They have been trained how for that. They rush to the fire spot keeping their life at stake. They have to rush there as it is an emergency situation.  Similarly, an emergency situation has happened to our Mother Earth.

Millions of years ago, there was only complete darkness. But amidst the darkness, there was SOMETHING which started manifesting. What was that SOMETHING?

Take a room with furniture, books and racks. In the night, if the lights are turned off, can you see anything? Can we say that there is nothing inside the room, as we don’t see them? Similarly, there was a THING inside that darkness. That THING generated thoughts which subsequently created a BANG along with the SOUND. That SOUND is called PRANAVA NAADAM. The bang resulted in emission of huge volumes of fire atoms that due to the movement, gathered mass and formed fire balls. These fire balls condensed into liquid and further solidified. The solid particles due to the movement generated magnetic field that paved way for rotation and revolution aspects and as a result developed polarities. Thus originated the Sun, the Stars and the Planets. The Sun being large and as a result of its powerful magnetic field made the planets to revolve around it, forming a solar system. Several solar systems form a galaxy and several galaxies constitute this Universe. So the THING that was responsible for all this creations exists in the center of this Universe.

Now coming to our Planet Earth, the crust is in the form of solid, the transitional part filled with liquid (which is essentially water) and the burning gases in the form of fire constitute the core. Now due to global warming, the water from the intermediate part is getting evaporated. We can say many reasons for this.

Primarily, we drill deep bore-wells and suck water directly from the middle of the Earth. Because of the population explosion, more water is required is required to satisfy the needs and hence more bore-wells are dug, going deeper and deeper. This has enabled the hot gases in the core to rise up and fill the void created by the diminishing water. The mixture of hot gases and underground water forms the lava. Due to further increase in Earth temperature, volcanic eruptions occur.

Secondly, the gases emitted from the factories, automobiles etc. rise up and form a layer surrounding the Earth, next to the Ozone layer. This layer shrivels the density of the Ozone layer that guards the Earth from harmful radiations of the sun. As a result, more infrared rays and ultraviolet rays penetrate these layers and attack the Earth causing the Temperature raise. Not limiting to this, this layer of gases called ‘Greenhouse gases’, block the infrared rays that are reflected back from the Earth to the atmosphere and send them back to Earth. This augments the Mercury rising further. Other reasons we can pile up such as deforestation, extinction of lakes and other water bodies and so on. Scientists say that the Earth’s axis is shifted by 3 inches. Because of this the climatic conditions have changed. We can notice that the monsoons are not happening in time that it supposed to happen. Spring season can be distinctly felt in the western countries. Now we see that the spring season is also coming with a delay.

What happens during aging? Till the age of 40, the quantum of new body cells produced is greater than those that are destroyed. So the growth in height, weight, skin complexion everything happens till 40. After that slowly, the rate of production of new cells deteriorate, and hence the shrinking process starts. Similarly for Earth, now aging is happening.

Earlier the trees were more in numbers so the total amount of carbon dioxide emitted by humans and animals were absorbed by them for photosynthesis and more amount of oxygen was made available in the atmosphere. But now, the human population is several times more than the amount of trees. So Oxygen shortage has happened. This is the reason for immunity deficiency resulting in the Human body becoming vulnerable to diseases.

Taking the case of Himalayas, the mountain range can be called the spine of the world. In a Human body, if the spinal cord is affected, the whole body system collapses. Similarly, if any adversity happens to Himalayas, it affects the whole world. There, the glaciers are melting at a higher rate. This may cause flooding of the rivers in India and China. But after the flood, there occurs the scarcity for ice to melt further and hence there is a danger that the Himalayas turn into simply rocky ranges making the perennial rivers to dry. If all the rivers dry up, then where can the humans and animals go for water? Also the flooding of rivers and melting of ice cause the rise in sea levels endangering the coastal cities to submerge.

Man has become so busy in accumulating wealth. We can see that people have become too selfish and always care about them and their family alone. To some extent the communal binding is there but that serves only communal riots. The National bond and patriotism has become zilch and so is the Global responsibility. In earlier days in schools, there would be silence mourning on the remembrance days of great National leaders like Mahatma Gandhi. But now, how many know what the death day of Mahatma Gandhi is? The greediness and the passion to accumulate wealth have made Mankind more Selfish and led to self-centered behavior.

So what shall we do now? Every morning, we bless our Mother Earth with the following words “Long Live Mother Earth” 3 times. The words of blessing from the children collectively form a powerful thought stream and give energy to our Mother Earth to recover herself. So as the ambassadors of Peace and Trustees of Earth we shall all do this daily.