This life is based alternately as Unknown-Worldly-Reasonable. Let’s share views where debate abounds from time immemorable, without giving away to Abuse & Violence.

An example, (myself visiting USA): ‘I meet an Indian at a market and ask him, “Are you from India?” Replies, “No, from Pakistan, but my wife is from India”. Oh! I say, “I am from Mumbai”. He replies “How nice, she is also from Mumbai”. I ask, “Where in Mumbai?” He says, “She stays in MALAD and I have visited them many times”. I say, “Well we could meet and talk a lot as I am also from MALAD!” This incidence shows, we get closer and interact amicably when we have similarity between us. “Birds of the Same feather flock together” is well known. Thus discussion can be a nice Social set up when we talk of Spirituality and Science.

Social condition bridges the Spiritual and Scientific understanding. We can now define each. Religion is a social setup where spiritual philosophy is a part and we try to prove some of the situations scientifically based in a particular Culture. So religion (worldly) developed politically during a certain Period at a certain Place due to an important Person. Most of the ancient preaching by realised persons had no written text. Those illustrious poetic words were memorised in a set tune. This could be interpreted variously, so leaders misrepresented to suit their own selfish ends. Many great philosophical thinkers did not get political support and so did not develop into a cult. Those which developed into Religion were due to the kings’ clout and sometimes spread by force. Most of the intelligentsia who could not experiment in their own country, travelled where peace existed. So history tells that India was a place where philosophy developed through research in ‘Gurukul’ (residential schools) run by Saints. Here bountiful nature and hospitable people helped these intellectuals to think further and experiment without worrying for the physical condition. So Yoga and six philosophical ideas came into existence. Here, body was a part of Science to be experimented till death was defied. Thus an understanding of Life-n-After (Spiritual) was defined till existence of Soul and its constituents were made known to all. Then body and its control by the senses were to be regulated. Here the leader (guru) who guides the students had to control Ego and Desire, or else the system could be overruled by lineage and will be taken over by the pampered son. This has been the case in our society. The unknown (sprit) had to be connected with existence and its laws of Life. The ‘Cause and Effect’ theory and law of Karma (deed) was created into philosophical rules as ‘Upanishad’. Life and living was studied and public counselled to change accordingly. The story of ‘Valmiki’ was known as a great saint, after he was transformed from a looting and murderous outlaw (dacoit).

The social arrangement which connected our Body with the surrounding had to be ruled by an Intellectual mind. These humans had to be studied and defined. ‘Vedanta’ as the sixth ancient philosophy analyses in details stating, “We live by Choice and not by Chance”. Humans are looked upon as five types, based upon the relation with the surroundings:

1) Stone-man is one who lives depending on others and is totally self-centred.
2) Tree-man grows by sharing with closely attached who help themselves.
3) Animal-man is ruthlessly attached to same species (family) only.
4) Human are emotionally bound, reasonably defends rights with laws, not instincts.
5) God-man remains detached, desiring little for survival by serving others.
Humans are animals but Intelligent-animal, Social-animal and Rational-animal. Lastly God-man is elevated kind of selfless personality, always desiring realisation by trying to know the unknown logically through this body. We have to strive for this in Spirituality.

Also another form of analysing takes place by differentiating ‘Self’ and ‘World’. At every moment there is interaction between these two, where ‘My’ denotes World and ‘Me’ denotes Self when we ask “Is it my …….?” Answer ‘yes’ will denote world. If not then it is me = self. We find that even our Name belongs to the world. The world is developed by Scientists, Economists, Politician, teachers of today who go to build desire and motivate for worldly gains. But Self is developed my Saints (God-man). We have noticed that most of the projects have short life. The world is continuously changing and selfish short goal desires serve only the economic conditions. But, if the Self is developed before the World, then the projects can be lasting. The self and selfless serving acts are nearer to the Truth, which is everlasting. The everlasting things in the spirit system are the Soul and GOD.

We have related the Social and Scientific terms and seen how spirit is connected to the social set up. Now, how does the logic in Society relate to Science considering the Spirituality? The unknown is always seen as the image of the known. The self is considered as the shadow of the world. So the attributes of GOD is taken as the equivalent to modern definition of Energy. GOD is the Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent growing positive Energy, which can reduce due to our deeds (Karma) into the crashing negative energy (the devil).

Yes, if the Self is not properly trained by the society, then the world will slowly and steadily increase into negative energy (Global warming). Short sighted desires will finish this beautiful world as we have lost quite a lot of things which we see now in the Museums.

Spiritual<————-Social————->Scientific

BRIDGE

The month of ‘Shraavan’ (monsoon) is filled with Religious fervour. GOD is remembered as ‘Ganesh Utsav’ by Hindu, as ‘Pradushan’ by Jain, as ‘Ramzan’, by Muslim ….
This season plays upon the Mind of people and we try to keep ourselves Happy. The Body now has to act positively and indirectly keep the Mind blissful conforming to nature. The season activates the growth in the Nature by flowering of plants and sex in animals.
Our Body & Mind are inter-related. We wish to rest, when our body is painful and mind is stressful. The mind is more powerful than the body, as our Body does not act if Mind does not command. Body is limited, as we can hit as far as we can see and aim. But the Mind does it wherever and whenever required. The Body is also limited to one birth, but mind can make it immortal.
Food for the Body is what we eat, but the Mind’s food is Meditation. This food can be eaten raw from the tree or after cooking and then in a plate. The process depends upon the persons taste, condition (outer) and suitability (inner). How and what we eat is expressed through our Mind. Meditation (worship) can also be without or with a Form (Idol, Process). We cook and eat along with our relations in a society or in a forest (ashram) along with friends or alone.
The Mind is studied indirectly by psychologists through behaviour (action) of Body. This powerful part of Human was studied by the help of ‘EEG’ machine. To prove something as Scientific, we need physical experiments. Our senses perceive to prove and fulfill as Logic & Statistics are lesser part of science. Science is based on data collected and reasoned out (analyzed). Also result has to be repetitive. So logic is Developing science, still to be thorough.
Then ‘How does Yogic feat defy science!’ Certain results were recorded during a test on Yogi under condition by an EEG machine. The data analyzed in a graphic scale of 0 to 22 ranges gave some understanding of the behaviour. In the range of 0 to 4 it is deep sleep to dreamy state. From 4 to 7 the person is calm and steady but awake. This is Meditative state. From 7 to 22, the condition grows to turbulent, agitated and disordered state. Here one is expending energy in this state. So the gaining of energy is in the Meditative state. By practice one can connect own Inner energy with the vast Outer energy. This particular point between 4 and 7 called ‘Dhyaan’ and ‘Samadhi’ is when ‘Yog’ (joining) takes place. This is when the heart beat reduces below 72 per minute and energy gets stored in us.
The Body encases a part of Mind called Soul/Spirit. The encapsulated Energy called soul carries impressions (Sanskaar) as result of deeds (Karma) done by the Body & Mind. The Soul increases to a state of higher Level till infinity. The basic constituents of soul are Freedom, Peace and Bliss, as our self always tends towards this goal. A part of soul, which carries the impressions of deeds reflect in our attitude as result/reason for being in a particular state. This is based on ‘Cause & Effect’ system. The experience being the best teacher, establishes an Attitude through character building in steps. Adversity/Problems keep changing our aptitude by Revealing->outburst of Emotion->Hardening->Egotistic->lost Self->Softens & Wisdom over-rules->Experiment with truth->Results & Reason->changes Attitude->new Character. This could take several births as the Soul keeps changing dress (Body) by law of system (GOD).
Our Intellect which is part of Mind controls the bodily Senses. This is realised during Meditative state. The achievement comes through THREE Main stages of ‘Yog’… ‘Karma’, ‘Bhakti’ and ‘Gyaan’. ‘Karma Yog’ (action/Hand) contains daily chores where mind agrees that it is not the Doer (service being the motive). This includes Hatayog, Tratak, Tantric rituals (process) with Humbleness. The Tamasic/workaholic Guna (attitude) is more prominent. The process leads to ‘Bhakti Yog’(emotion/Heart), when connected to family/society. Here stress is on GOD’s name with ‘Mantra’ (chant), ‘Tantra’ (process) and ‘Yantra’ (instrument of ritual) help in concentration as good/right Karma. The ‘Rajasic Guna’ is foremost here seeking to lead (even as donations). Then ‘Gyaan Yog’ (intellect/Head) creeps in with reasons and text analytically. Here analysis of every action turns into Philosophy of Life (Upanishads). The ‘Saatvic Guna’ is outstanding here. Guru (teacher) is playing important role in this (although helps in all types Yog). The Serving attitude is seen more in ‘Karma Yog’. The humbleness is reduced if designated a leader. Superstitious nature is seen in ‘Bhakti Yog’. Ego increases in ‘Gyaan Yog’. Ego being the reason for our rebirth plays a truant part and so humbleness can vanish into Desire. The simultaneous practice of these Yog makes a complete human, termed as ‘Raja Yog’. The ‘Saatvic’ conditions set in to impose upon the attitude.
Finally ‘Raj Yog’ can bring into a certain point in the Meditative state. Thus these processes of Yog together lead us towards ‘Uparati’ (detachment). More practice creates ‘Dhaarnaa’ (steadily desireless) when we lose emotional interest in our beloved relations. This help in attaining ‘Dhyaan’ state, when we are engrossed in Meditation remaining aloof from the wants of the society. The desires are cremated (burnt) and we are transformed (reborn) into a new life. The state of ‘Dhyaana’ can be as a sudden calmness after climaxing into a tempo as crescendos called ‘Uthsav’. The last state of ‘Samaadhi’ touches us and we are not aware of our Body.
The Mind now is so powerful that the soul can be transferred to a different plane. This Mind can also rule the Body to make it immortal. The supernatural Human is now called ‘God-man’ superior to other state (from stone-man, plant-man, animal-man and human) considering the relation with others in the society. God-man state is many a time misconstrued as non-loving person by layman. Now path leads towards salvation……
The self-realisation takes place, but stages of ‘Siddhi’ (attainment- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhi) come as obstacle to create desire and ego in us. Unless these stages are surpassed, we cannot attain ‘Trinetra’ attitude perpetually, which is also a Siddhi. The state makes us see the Past and Future. Transferring soul and Rebirth at-our-wish is finally achieved named ‘Moksha’.

God is Truth. God is present everywhere. God is all pervading power who governs this universe and keeps in perfect order. God (THAT) sends every human-being in this world for some purpose. God does not have a body to perform all work, so THAT does everything through different bodies.
When a child is born in a family, parent forget everything about God and start taking care of it as their own. They take care of it and try to give all the comforts according to their capacity. When the child becomes of school going age, parents start dreaming for it. They think of its well being. They unconsciously put the seed of their choice and they want their inner wishes to be fulfilled. They plan their child to become a doctor, engineer. Officer, big businessman etc and shine it like a star. They give all the facility to their child and feel happy. They absolutely forget THAT’S plan.
When the child reaches its school final, parents hope get shattered, when it could not perform according to their wishes. Few days, they are disappointed and hope to get better in future. They start dreaming again for the next opportunity. Those processes go on and on. At last the child become an adult and gets everything according to its capacity and luck. Still, parents never lose their hopes and wait for the future.
This way life continues and hope grows. One day when parents die, the child’s life is fulfilled with what parents wanted. The child feels unhappy that its parents could not see its progress.
Hope is the life and it gives light to life. Hope keeps the person alive for a longer time. Human –being forgets THAT’s WILL and hopes for fulfilling its wishes.
Never to forget as Without God’s wishes no leaves stir, no birds fly, no sun shines, no cloud forms, no life appears, no death occurs. Then why an ignorant human-being does not understand the repercussion of HOPE and make him an unhappy being. God realisation can bring the person closer to Reality i.e. presence of God.

Song of Hope:

Life ends when Hope diminishes,

Hope ends when faith decreases,
Faith ends when cheating begins,
Love ends when freedom loses,
Freedom ends when strength applies,
Strength ends when morality effects,
Morality ends when principle dies,
Principle ends when mind effects,
Mind ends when death proceeds,

Death ends when Life begins….

There are many meanings of the word love in the dictionary. Many people say that love cannot be defined and some say there is no love in this universe. Love is affection. When the word affection comes to our mind, it gives the impression of motherly love to their young ones. Another meaning is fondness. It means the liking of some material objects. Some say its kindness. Through kindness, love diminishes because of dependency. Another meaning is caring—if love is only caring, then out of sight! Is it so?
The word Love is misinterpreted by the word attachment. Attachment is the most powerful weapon of binding. The first attachment starts with physical body. Then all other attachments crop up. Attachment can be compared with strong glue that affixes the mind and misinterpretation starts with love. Attachment grows when there is pleasure. Whenever there is attachment, there is infatuated love and fear. Attachment brings misery and love cannot bring misery to life as love is bliss.
Then the question comes, what love is. Love is eternal life. Love is freedom, independence and perfection. Love is trust. In every relation the meaning is the same. Mother wants her child to grow according to her choice or her family’s choice. Is it then love? That means mother wants the child to be her asset. The husband says that he loves his wife the most and protects her every moment. He does all the work and does not allow his wife to do anything. Do you think that, it’s Love? He is indirectly making his wife dependent on him. Imagine if he dies or is transferred to other place, what will his wife do then? Is it Love then? She will be in a soup then for these days. Inversely same with the love shown by wife who makes him incompetent when she is away. If parents want their child to study what they want, whether the child loves to do it or not, then in later life will he be successful or happy? If happiness disappears from life, it is not an eternal life. If there is independence and freedom in any relationship it grows in a healthy way. Some mothers do not allow their son to go abroad or any other place for better job. They do not allow son to buy a new house for his family that means there is no freedom of mind. Is this the Love then? That means mother is taking son’s freedom away and then mental miseries begin. Love lifts the person into height of success. Inner talent flourishes when Teacher trust the students.
There are many examples of real love in this world. Love is giving independence and freedom to the individual. Then the person will live to the fullest. Love is giving freedom to think independently by trusting wholeheartedly.

Every human  in this universe is born at a certain level. In Spirituality, it is called three Gunas— Sattva, Raja and Tama i.e. Constituents or Disposition. Everything in life is bound and dominated by these Gunas. The life, the action, the progress now or after are determined by these Gunas. These Gunas are qualities or attributes in simple language. Whatever work, every human being is doing is dominated by these qualities.

Sometimes we don’t understand the life and action. We, ignorant human being, think that those who are poor may be suffering due to their Gunas. Those who are rich are enjoying their life with abundant wealth, may be for their Gunas. The question arises in the mind that if Gunas or the qualities of material nature are the level of life, then why rich or poor feel unhappy.

May be the true happiness lies in Renunciation. What is Renunciation ?  Renunciation is an act declaring, that something is surrendered or disowned. In simple language, we can say, leaving the worldly pleasure.

One such incident, I wish to write as it is a true event. Once my friend and myself were coming from our work place. Everyday we used to discuss something about spirituality. That day she asked me about happiness. I said, happiness is the state of mind. Happiness is born from the satisfaction of a thing or idea. It cannot be acquired from the material possession or material comforts. A rich man has all the comforts, but is he happy? There is a poetic stanza, “As much is given, is less for him “. Our argument was going on and on.  By the time the bus, came to a halt. The road was totally jammed. We saw  a sandwich seller selling sandwich. When he was making and throwing out the sides of the bread, a poor man under the blanket immediately  was collecting those sides of the bread. The poor man was in a sleeping position. We really wondered and looked each other amazingly.  I told her “this is happiness. The person does not bother whether it is dirty, whether anyone will notice him. He does not bother for his house or material life. He does not bother to have clothes”. We both got down from the bus and tried to see the man. The sandwich seller said that he lives here and does not bother even if he doesn’t get anything. He always smiles and sleeps. Since two years he is selling his sandwich, but never saw him angry at anything. We left the place and knew the meaning of Happiness. Some questions are not clear in the mind of my friend till today.

I believe that, as the time passes human-being perceive the real value of life without understanding the word Gunas or attributes of material nature. When the human-being understand there is no happiness in worldly pleasure, he will realise the different levels of Mankind.

After 21 years of teaching service when I decided to leave my job, I was very happy as I thought God may have wanted me to do something else. I always believe God whole-heartedly as His calculation is never wrong. He puts you in proper place, wherever you are to be fitted.

When I was in school and college, I never liked teaching profession and wanted to become a doctor. After passing my 10th ,I opted for science, but in 11th std I found that I was very poor in physics. I could not continue science .In graduation,I took Economics honours. Then I got a chance to do my post graduation . But somehow God wished me to do my B.Ed . I completed B.Ed and got married. My father-in law wanted me to do my M .Ed.

When my children become little grown up I started my teaching . That time also I did not realize,why God  wanted me to go there. I thought may be by chance I’m here in this profession.

When I was doing my counseling course, I realized, when one of the teacher asked a question”Did you any time change the life of a child?” Yes I’ve. I answered.The child’s parents were uneducated ,poor and didn’t know how to control the child from unwanted activities. With love and care I may have brought some changes in him. That was my reward.

When I joined in college , through that skill of counseling, I motivated, consoled many students. They are still in my contact. Now I know that God never be wrong as He is the best Planner.

During Vedic period, teacher was regarded  as Guru and teacher’s wife as Guru Maa (mother). Guru is the person who shows the path to improve in life. Guru is given the place of ( Brahma, Vishnu & Maheshwara ) God. So it was the purest relationship on earth. One can imagine how much responsibility the person should have to become a Guru. He had to control his vices. Guru in those days, used to teach the disciple to become a complete man.

When man started progressing slowly, school and college were established and teachers were appointed. Students bow their head, heart and soul to the teacher. They fully surrender themselves to the teaching community. They treat them as their parents in the schools or colleges.  Small children believe their teacher more than their mother in many contexts.

Parents protect their children. They save them from unwanted events. They protect them from devil’s hand. They want their offspring to grow and blossom like flower. Everyone recognizes the beauty, fragrance and service of the flowers. Parents want their offspring to flourish like flower and spread the fragrance everywhere.

When a teacher does not play the role of Parent and indulge in immoral, corrupt, devil like behaviour, the Society will go to hell. Students fearlessly surrender to the Teacher and the teacher in turn build up their character. The biggest sin is committed when this Trust is broken.

Small children learn Social values, Moral values, Humanity, Brotherhood, etc. in school and colleges. They apply everything they learnt in school later in their life as they grasp from 2.5 years to 15 years the most.

At the end, why people choose this profession. Now-a-days it has become easy to take up this profession when no other course is possible. They did not have the talent to grasp those values which right education can give. While selecting Teachers in Schools and Colleges, spiritual, emotional and moral quotient has to be given importance.  Questionnaire should be set to evaluate. If they can’t keep the value of relationship, it is not correct to be in this noble profession. Divinity should not be affected by unwanted act.

It is difficult to imagine what we have not seen. No one has seen God in this world yet. So it is difficult to imagine God.

We imagine God as our mother, father or friend etc. Whatever way  we  like to see Him. We imagine devil or evil as big head, dark complexion etc because from our childhood it has been portrayed and feared in this manner. When we imagine alien from other planet, we imagine them as we have seen them in movies.

The person who first created devil, alien, God etc in his mind and created them in our mind for us to believe in that manner.

Always my mind asks, who is God? If god is not a figure then what he is. Why are we addressing him as He?  If he does not have a figure or body, then why are we addressing masculine gender?

Many people researched and said that He is Paramatma ( soul of souls). Human being has a soul, which can be felt  by its performance. The soul exists in human body. Then where does Paramatma live? How does He perform  his duties? Example can be taken as electricity, where we see that electricity begins from a particular point and ends with the light in the bulb. When air blows we see the leaves stir. Where is He then?

Everyone in this world imagine according to their capacity. Many believe that there are five Dham   (Place) where souls live. They are — Swagolok (Heaven), Vaikunthalok, Paralok, Tapalok, Shivalok. Who decides where the the soul has to live? Is it the soul itself who decide where it has to go according to its action or reaction?

That is why, it is my only wish to see God in his actual form.

We always think that when our body is doing some work, we are in action. But while sleeping also we are in action. As long as we live we act. The action differs from individual to individual. We act according to our nature and we get it from our previous action. ” The inherent tendency, the innate bent, aptitude or urge present in man as his individualistic nature is Vasana or Desire. It is a result of his past action”. Whatever we do  in the past, produce the present desire and present desire rises to future action. Desire is the cause and action is the effect.  That means action and desire  go  in cycle.

Now the question arise in every body’s mind that how to come out of these desires. Man is the most intelligent animal and has a choice of action. Other animals inherent by nature. They cannot think of anything. We are  living in the society and  bound by some man made laws. We  some times have to listen to our elders and follow them. If we want to come out of this cycle of action and desire, we have to train our intellect. We should acquire the proper knowledge to make a decision. Sometimes we fall into trap by other person’s decision and action. When we will come out of this situation and take our own decision, we can control our desire and save ourselves from the cycle of action and desire. Desire should be according to ones capacity.

Unnecessary or wastefull Desire creates faulty and sad Action. Happiness is when we are out of this circle.

Is not inaction the Best action to end all desire and the cycle ?