Sympathize

 

The world today is a difficult one for children. Tough competition, too many temptations and parental ambitions and controls. Not to mention the constant peer pressure.

When I see parents slogging after their children, a part of me knows their challenges and another part sympathizes with the children’s inability to be just children. They bear too much responsibility.

The children of today mature very fast. There are no silly pranks, innocent honesty, the exposure to a rustic life and connection to the earth. Everything they are groomed for generally is goal oriented. In a way, this is not a bad thing. I guess times have changed so much that perhaps, they may never know the days we saw.

Of course, parenting is a tough call today. You have to be very hands on and steer the children towards healthy living. That means keeping them away from temptations of the wrong kind.

By the same token, the distancing of family elders may deprive the children of emotional anchors and wholesome well-being.

Well…. These are just observations. The wheel of life is turning. Times are changing. Progress is being newly defined. Values are being re written. Priorities are vastly different.

It is a different world to which old timers are willy nilly adjusting. Some still suffer with attachments which bring in much sadness. And some have understood that they need to accept inevitable situations and move on.

Ultimately, there IS no option but to accept and adjust. We have the power. But we need to understand the current scenario in order to generate that power and once that point is reached, it becomes easy to let go and move towards your source with peace and joy.

Surekha Kothari

www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com

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Evaluation

 How can anyone else but the person concerned evaluate the impact of personal experiences? The emotional impact, maybe a shock element or a feeling of being let down, expectations unfulfilled … anything. We should know we are all different. But we still judge apples and oranges together, knowing their characteristics to be different from each other.

So, we can evaluate only ourselves. Actually, we are capable of judging only by our standards, many of which may not apply to the people you are attempting to evaluate.

The moment you want to remark about another, stop! Think instead of why they disturb you enough to talk about them. It’s not them. It is you. If we don’t want to know their story, we can respectfully leave them alone to continue their journey. There are enough and more challenges in it, more than we ever will know.

Surekha Kothari

www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com

surekhakothari.wordpress.com

Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari

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Dharma by Design

 

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Divine

 

I think we need to understand that by praising someone else generously does not diminish US in any way. There is never any need to stay away from praise and no need to be insecure either.

Life has taken different turns for each of us. Some of us were unable to fulfil our dreams and may still be smarting within.

Tell me, did we not get other opportunities? Did we take them? If we were stuck on our unfulfilled desires, we could not move on. And probably that’s when we started getting envious of people who saw a dream and fulfilled it.

Never mind! We are all a part of a grand plan and equally divine.

Let us not measure ourselves through our own expectations and desires.

So, believe in the grand plan and keep your generosity intact. It will not diminish you, in fact, quite the reverse.

Surekha Kothari

www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com

surekhakothari.wordpress.com

Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari

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Hindustani Book

 

Opportunities

 There is a strange mechanism at work in the universe. The moment you start living with gratitude and grace, not giving space to any dark thoughts/ energy, there are some opportunities that come to you to serve humanity.

I have wondered about this and concluded that while we are in a state of chaos, HE does not want to burden you further. But your burden is self-created. And only YOU can elevate yourself from this situation to a higher plane.

Life really works like clockwork if you let things happen, without getting affected.

God is within and around us and HE can propel

You into meaningful activities if you let HIM.

Surekha Kothari

www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com

surekhakothari.wordpress.com

Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari

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Perspectives

 How short life is! When will it occur to us that we are the light? We are here to spread light in the dark spaces, not let darkness envelop us.

We live with perspectives but do not develop the right ones. We choose to live within our subconscious minds with old memories and experiences. And keep reacting to old patterns.

It is only through our conscious minds that we can train to see our light and acquire the freedom to shine, instead of being fearful that our light will diminish if we share it.

On the contrary, the more you share it, the more it multiplies.

Surekha Kothari

www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com

surekhakothari.wordpress.com

Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari

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Destination

 Sometimes I wonder! At the end of the day, what do I want from anyone? What do I want that I don’t already have? I can take lots from others if they are in the mood to give. But then? It is a one sided energy exchange, Isn’t it?

So, then I need to return that energy. And I have no clue how clean and pure intentioned energy it was that I internalized due my desires. It has taken me a while to understand this concept no his truth!

Now I see clearly why saints always gave of themselves. Their energies are so pure that humans can only benefit from them.

In Bhagvad Gita, the concept of surrender is the automatic merging with that pure energy which starts to drive your life when you withdraw from that ego state that wrongly thinks that YOU are doing whatever is happening in your life.

You know, aircrafts that are aided by the direction of the winds reach their destination faster. Similarly, when the Lord becomes our charioteer like HE was Arjun’s, Arjun never returned to his earlier state of confusion. His dharma was the aircraft aided by the grace of the Almighty.

When you start to see this, everything becomes the will of God. HE guides you through the storms, protects you from adverse experiences and helps you across from this end to that end … smooth passage for our soul!

Surekha Kothari

www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com

surekhakothari.wordpress.com

Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari

Sympathize

 If we recorded our daily output of words and played them back to ourselves, how many words would be those of criticism and gossip of others?

The state of our minds can be really understood by this exercise.

I am sure most of us realize what we are saying and the intention behind what we are saying. It is just the compulsion to say it that is often suspect, even disturbing.

Speech is a gift we need to use very carefully. Even when we sympathize with people without this gift, we don’t mend our ways.

If we cannot say a good word, it is better not to say anything. For the sake our own minds which will get polluted and we then have the extra work to clean them up.

Why not then just be quiet and peaceful and watch the world go by? Instead of taking on unnecessary piles of rubbish that was never yours to carry in the first place.

Surekha Kothari

www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com

surekhakothari.wordpress.com

Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari

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