Chanting

Mohitji, the only disease that the human kind has, is the fear. All others come from fear.  Fear comes from many reasons. A very common reason for fear is continuously thinking 'I dont have',  'loss', 'losing out', 'being deprived'. In a nutshell, THINKING OF ALL FACTORS, THAT "WE THINK",  WE LACK. Fear is born from here. Thinking of 'LACK".

There is a way to get over it. We have to STOP THINKING OF LACK, and start the day with thoughts of 'WHAT WE HAVE'. We are so very engulfed with continuously thinking of what we dont have, that we forget to think about what we have. This is a common ailment, due to the pressure of the society, which has already marked what one should have in order to be accepted by the society. So, we actually, without knowing, start living for others, trying to meet targets set by others. Its time, we set our own targets and standards. We must respect and love what we have. The fear of living will automatically vanish.

Here is a simple way. Practice chanting (loudly), in your own language, about the things that you have. You have to write your own mantra. This can be like this (just an example):
1) I have a lovely family
2) I have beautiful daughters and sons.
3) I have a wonderful wife who loves me.
4) My life is becoming better and better every day, in every way.

If you wish, you can also chant about your material possessions:
1) I have a lovely house.
2) I have a very smart car and I love it
3) My clothes are the best and I have them in plenty.
4) I have a cycle
5) I love walking to the office

But again, there can be a mix up here. For the sake of 'chanting', one need not stress oneself to posses car, house, cycle. This is for everyone and anyone, immaterial of the fact of what one has. This chanting is all about what one has. And not about what one does not have. So please write your own mantra about what you have. You know better. The chanting should be done every day at least 20 times, twice a day. And preferably in an isolated place, locked room, open ground. Or else, it will sound very stupid and others will mark the person as mad.

This method of getting rid of fear is one of the ways to instill positive energy in us, to re-program our subconscious and to drill in us, the confidence that we need to fight fear. This is a small, simple step towards 'Aham Brahmasmi', which in various ways means, 'I am the creator' /  I am part of the Universe / Whatever is in the Universe, is present in me’ (and ‘whatever is in me, is part of the Universe’).

Who??

The other day my friend, in his early fifties, said "kichchhu bhalo laaghchhe na". Simply translated, it means "I dont like anything anymore"/ "I am done". Two days back, another frined, around fify, closed all his successful businesses and started planning to do something small from his home. I asked him why he closed all his businesses. He said “I dont like it any more”.

What it is that we dont like ? The weather? People around us? Walking? Driving? Eating? Sleeping? Everything? And anything? How is it possible that after living in this beautiful world, for about half a century, we suddenly dont like anything anymore?

I often wondered about it. I have also felt this many times. And I am sure, all of us, at some point of time, feel this at some point of time. What happens to us? Why do we feel this ''dont like it any more''? My doctor friends will tell me "You lack energy, take some Vitamins". My friend who 'didnt like it' any more, told me that he wanted to go to some temples in the evening to listen to some religious lectures. My friend is just around fifty. And when he said, "I wanted to go to the temples to listen to some religious lectures", it sounded to me like "I am finished and now I want to hand over my life to others to do anything they want to do with me". Dying before death?

This is very interesting. Why very often, many of us, feel this ‘lack’? Why this emptiness? Why this সব কিছু থেকেও কেন মনে হয় কিছু নেই। Why, in spite of having everything that one should have for leading a normal social and healthy life, one should still feel that one has nothing! What is it? Or should I say ‘WHO’ is it?

A pilgrimage by the rivers of India

June 16, 2011. I Have arrived in India last night and have been immediately engulfed by its hot and humid conditions. I have come from a temperature of between 9 and 15 Deg C. Its about 40 Deg C here in India. This time I would be in India for a longer period of time than what is considered professional.  Although the journey that I have started as a pilgrimage of the Indian rivers, should take a life time to complete, I will try to cover as much as possible in as little time as possible.

Will start soon with the river Narmada, in Gujarat, with a little place called Chanod, where I immersed the last remains of my father. Wanting to do it for the past three months. Probably this is the time.