LUST (part 1)

Dedicated to sweet sis Dipanwesha and Sattwika and to all my teenage friends..!

In love even an object is elevated to life. Stones and trees speak to you; the sun, the moon, the entire creation becomes alive and divine. In a lust even a living being becomes a mere object.

• Lust brings tension; love brings relaxation.
• In lust there is cunningness and manipulation; in love there is playfulness.
• Lust focuses on a part; love focuses on the whole.
• In lust you want to grasp and possess; in love you want to give and surrender.
• In lust there is effort; love is effortless.
• Lust brings violence; love brings sacrifice.
• Lust demands; love commands.
• In lust you are confused; in love you are focussed.
• Lust is dark and monotonous; love has many modes and colors.
• Lust says, "All I want you to have is what I want." Love says, "I want you to have what you want."
• Lust causes feverishness and frustration; love causes longing and pain.
• Lust imprisons and destroys; love liberates and sets you free.

If someone's lust is interrupted, they become angry and start hating. Hatred in the world is not out of love; it is out of lust.

"Shiva", the embodiment of "innocence" and "love", was meditating. His meditation was disturbed by an arrow of flowers from the lord of lust. As soon as Shiva awoke, he opened his third eye and lord of lust, "Manmathava" - one who churns the mind - was reduced to ashes.

Cheers!

ATTACHMENTS..(part FINAL)

TO: NO ONE! :)

Craving comes from encouraging thoughts of pleasure. Yet the actual experience of pleasure may not be as pleasurable as the memory of it. Whether you encourage a worldly thought or a Divine thought, they both bring you pleasure. Worldly thoughts lead to indulgence, which brings you down from pleasure to disappointment and dejection. Divine thoughts take you up from pleasure to bliss, intelligence and progress in life. Worldly thoughts bring pleasure only as memory, while Divine thoughts come as reality.

Question: "What is a Divine thought?"
I am not the body; I am bliss, 'satchitananda'; I am unbounded space; I am love; I am peace; I am light.

Question: "What is a worldly thought?"
Worldly thoughts are about money, sex, food, power, status and self-image.

Truth is hidden by the golden veil of mundane. Pierce through the thin glitterring sheath and know you are the sun.

ATTACHMENTS..(part 2)

Continuing...for Nipu again!

Attachments cause feverish breath. Feverish breath takes away your peace of mind. And without peace of mind, you come apart and fall prey to misery. Unfortunately most people do not notice this until it is too late. Before you get scatterred too much, gather yourself together and get rid of your breath of feverishness through surrender and sadhana - spiritual practices.

When you are drowning in the ocean of attachments, surrender is a life jacket. Without fighting attachments, observe your feverish breath and go to the cool place of silence within. Your first step in this direction is directing your attachment to knowledge, to the Divine.

Your non-attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the Divine is beauty! :)

Cheers!

ATTACHMENTS..(part 1)

Something for Nipu!

Krishna means the most attractive. He is the divinity, the energy that attracts everything to it. Krishna is the formless center that is everywhere. All attractions from anywhere come only from Krishna.

Often people fail to see the spirit behind the attraction, and merely hold onto the outer shell. And the moment you try to possess the shell, you will see Krishna has played a trick; you will be left with an empty shell in your hands and tears in your eyes.

Do not be tricked by Krishna - be clever like Radha. Krishna could not escape from Radha because her whole world was filled with Krishna. If you can see that wherever there is an attraction there is Krishna, then you are Radha, you are in your center.

The mind moves towards beauty, joy and truth. Krishna tells Arjuna in Gita, "I am the beauty in the Beautiful, the strength in the Strong, the wisdom in the Wise." In this way he arrests the mind from moving away from him.

SENSES

The senses are like fire. Your life is like fire. Whatever you put into the fire of senses burns. If you burn a tire, it creates pollution and a foul smell. But if you burn sandalwood, it creates fragrance. Some fires pollute and others purify.

Celebration happens around bonfire. Grief happens around the cremation fire. The same fire that supports life in winter also destroys.

You are like fire. Are you the fire that creates smoke and pollution, or the flame of camphor that creates light and fragrance? A saint is a camphor flame that creates light and fragrance of love. He is the friend of life.

The highest quality fire creates light and warmth. A medium quality fire creates light but also a little smoke. The lowest quality fire produces only smoke and darkness. Learn to distinguish the different fires. If your senses are engaged in goodness, you will create light and fragrance. If engaged in impurity, you produce smoke and darkness. It is "samyama" that transforms the quality of fire in you.

THE YOU THAT YOU WANT TO CHANGE

More for Nivi than for NJHM.

Being in a crowd when you are alone is ignorance. A feeling of oneness in crowd is a sign of wisdom. Being alone in a crowd is enlightment.

Knowledge of life brings confidence, and knowledge of death makes you fearless and centred.

Some know how to celebrate when they are in a crowd. Some can only rejoice alone in silence. I tell you to do both. Celebrate when you are alone and celebrate when you are with people.

Celebrate silence and celebrate noise.

Celebrate life and celebrate death.

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Cheers!

MISERY

Dedicated to NJHM!!!!! 

Memories make u miserable or wise. Memories of the events and experiences of the changing finite world bind you but memory of your nature liberates you. Memories of the ever-changing relative - however good or bad - bring bondage. Memory of non-changing self elevates awareness. Memories of past events and worldly concerns constrict the vastness of the Self. It is all a matter of where you are, of what you are. If you are ignorant, it is because of your memory. If you are enlightened, it is because of your memory.

Forgetfullness of the infinite is misery. Forgetfullness of the trivial is ecstasy.

Know the impermanent nature of the world and events. KNOW THAT PAST EVENTS DO NOT EXIST IN THE PRESENT. Accept the past as it was. Be dispassionate and centered. Do service to the noble. Increase 'prana'- the vital breath, the force of life. Be in the presence of Divine. Go to the moon! 

Cheers!!

Tits and Bits from this TEENAGE HEART...: ReLaTiOnS!!!!!!

Tits and Bits from this TEENAGE HEART...: ReLaTiOnS!!!!!!: "Sometimes persons with whom u have lived for ever behave like strangers,but sometimes strangers whom u have just met,feel like you..."