Money, Decisions, Happiness and Independence

"When you are able to take decisions on your own,

 then you becomes true independent. 

Not when, when you are able to earn and spend your money on your own"...Hrc

What is true independence?

When you can analyze the results of your decision and can take decisions on your own, then you are true independent. If your decisions results as you wish and don't reduce your current independence status, then only your decision is good for you. Result must satisfy you with what you want.     

Can money give you true independence?
Now a days, earning money or being famous in market is not a big task. So, you can earn money in your younger age. But if you not have intelligence to handle and usage of money, that money will not be with you for long time.
Example= If one gives you a bag full of cash and said-"Spend this money for welfare as you wish", how you will utilize that money?

By purchasing your favorite snakes, food for your hunger of taste?
Until your are Hungry, food will make you happy. When your hunger goes, mind wants new things to be happy and makes you to purchase some other things to spend money. Means purchase of tasty food will not work with a bag full of money.

To spend money from that bag, you can purchase what you want. Can these thing makes you happy and satisfied forever?
No. Absolutely not, with unstable mind you can't be happy with money.

What should we do to be happy and to get true independence?
Example= A mango tree attracts every one when there are yellow mangoes on tree. When mangoes are ripen, tree donates them all to farmer and tree becomes satisfied, happy with this donation. This donation never reduces tree's ability to produce mangoes next year.
Same like, when you are with bag full of money, you can attract many, but when your decision works for welfare of many, makes you satisfied, happy forever then only you can be true independent.

Moral is:"Money can make you happy for a moment. But the ability to take decisions with stable mind and with good predicted results; can make you true independent and happy forever."

Nature of Thing with respective to Mind's states and Time

"Nothing is good or bad, pure or impure. 

Its just our mind's states; which decides nature of thing with respective to time.

 So, control your mind; then you can decide nature of thing"...Hrc

How we decide nature of thing?

The thing which is usable for us is good, which gives us sorrow is bad. The thing which we can see clearly is pure and which is not transparent is impure for us. Is this really like that?

In the post "Waste of someone becomes Treasure for someone else" , thought says nothing is useless in this world.

Example of a Fire.

The fire which gives heat and fire which burn things is same. When we need heat, we can take it from fire, but remember same fire has ability to burn things. Means same fire is good and bad also. Ability to utilize fire makes it good or bad. Our attitude to look at thing makes it good or bad.

Example of a Flower.

The bud gets converted into complete flower in early morning. Flower blossoms well when it is just opened. We worship god with those fresh flowers. After some days, same flower's blossom converted into odor. Morning flower is pure and we can use it for worship. But after some days, same flower becomes impure due to odor. 

But the same flower can be used as pure organic fertilizer in farms. Its the mind's state which decides purity and impurity of thing.

Moral is:"In this universe, every thing made by god is beautiful. Our mind's demand converts thing's nature from good to bad or pure to impure" 

Meditation (Virtual World vs Reality)

"Meditation-connection with supreme soul by controlling mind and body parts"...Hrc

There are many definitions of meditation. Those can help you to understand word "Meditation" and give some hint for process of meditation.

Virtual world vs reality.

Virtual world means which doesn't exist but still it has influence on our mind. If you take virtual world more seriously, this may affect your body.

Reality means which is exist in its true form. Though people try to create world with misery (Artificial satisfaction, comfort), reality never changes. It always come in front of us as we become more and more aware to it.

You close your eyes when you meditate. It creates energy in your body. But when you close your eyes, thoughts start working in your brain and creates virtual world in your mind.

=Example: If you have fear of height; you may see you are at height and going to fall from height. If you have fear for dark; you may see ghosts with closed eyes. These thoughts disturb your mind and you can't concentrate. It results in failure of deep meditation.

How to deal with virtual world?

As mentioned above, virtual world is imagination of our thoughts.When thoughts changes, virtual world also changes. In example of height; you are at height and going to fall from there, this is the imagination of disturbed mind. If you are really at height, why you can't sense gravity then? . In another example of fear darkness; you see ghosts with closed eyes and when you open your eyes, ghost disappears. How to deal with dark? Accept it and think whether ghost have ever touched your body before. No, never. Means ghost is also imaginary object.

You can deal with virtual world by acquiring knowledge of reality and acceptance of thoughts to deal with them.

=Example: In example of fear with height, knowledge is "you can't sense gravity while falling from height" and in case of fear with darkness, knowledge is "ghost never touched you before. Means ghost is in our thoughts,  not in reality".

How to be effortless and go in deep meditation?

When you show complete surrender (same like you do in deep sleep), your body becomes stable and all body parts come in your control. When body is stable, you can focus on your mind. When you have knowledge of reality, virtual world can't disturbs your mind and by practice mind becomes stable. By applying this you can experience deep meditation.

Moral is:"Disturbance of mind can be removed by knowledge of reality which destroys virtual world. When you surrender your body, you mind becomes stable and you can experience love of Divinity"

To know more about mind, refer Mind as River Water and Universe and Its Love for you

Success and Ways to achieve it

"When there are lots of ways to achieve success,

 many people stuck in finding the easiest one.

But when there is only one way, one follows that way and achieves success"...Hrc

When there are many options to achieve success or thing, mind always stuck in finding the easiest one of it. This is human nature. Mind always wants easy and quick ways.Our lots of efforts, time invested in finding easiest way rather than achieve success.  

If we have only one way to achieve success, we follow that path and our time is invested in achievement rather than finding easiest way among all.

If you are at turning point of your carrier, this example is familiar to you.

When we know, there are lots of recruiters are waiting for us with placements, our ego comes up and we try to find easiest one with maximum salary and job comfort. But this attitude wastes our time in finding rather than concentrate on our career path.

If you observer those people who have success, those who are now employers of market, then you will find; these people have no options to make money in their old days. When they got one option, they invested their time, efforts and career interest with that option and achieved success in that sectors.

Moral is:"When you have options, find the one which gives you best results; not the one which is easiest. Don't stuck in finding alternatives, start with what you have today." 

Knowledge, Implementation and Belief in comparison with Eagle

"Eagle flies high in the sky with belief that hot

air and wings will never drop him down to earth surface. So, believe your knowledge and implementation skills in such a way that it will never take you to failure"...Hrc

For to go high in the sky, eagle waves his wings towards sky to go high. When eagle is there in higher skies, he just have belief in hot air and his wings; to be stable there. Eagle just floats on hot air breezes with his big wings and observer earth surface to check where to land.

Our knowledge is like hot air breezes and implementation skills are our wings. 

Hot air breezes allow eagle to be stable in higher skies. When there is no hot air breezes in the sky, eagle need to wave his wings to be at higher sky. Same applies to we also, our knowledge helps us to acquire and be there at higher positions of success in the society. When we are not updated to new knowledge, this absence of hot air breezes of knowledge doesn't help us to be there at higher positions.

When there is no hot air, eagle need to wave his wings to go high in the sky.

Same in our case also, when there are many people with same knowledge level, implementation skills help people to go higher. One who implements well his knowledge, can acquire success early.

But belief in self is more important than knowledge and implementation skills.

Eagle has belief in his wings, that's why eagle dare to look at higher sky. Eagle belief in hot air breezes, so he never waves his wings in higher sky. Still he is there in higher skies.

So, we also must belief in our-self, our knowledge and implementation skills.

Moral is:"You can acquire knowledge and implementation skills. But when you believes them completely, your personality shines more than ever before."

Mind as River Water

"Calm your mind like a river water, 

then only you can be one with sea of knowledge and can roar like waves of sea"...Hrc

How water come on earth surface?

Sun rays heat the water surface of sea. Vaporized water goes up in the sky and forms clouds. Clouds moves with air movement and when cool air come near to clouds, rain starts.

Sea is same like divine soul with infinite knowledge and we are like water drops, which are part of sea water but need to reach there to test infinity of divine soul. 

River water-flow always create rapid or whitewater turbulence (waves in disordered manner) at source of its water; like wise we are before acquiring knowledge. We are disturbed, confused etc. 

When there is sufficient water in riverbed, it is always calm. River is always calm in middle of its journey. In same manner we are, when we have incomplete but sufficient knowledge to survive; our mind becomes calm.

When river comes close to sea, its riverbed is so wide, calm and finally river becomes one with sea water. Same like, when we are close to answer of our curious questions, our mind becomes broad and ready to accept answer. At last when one have enlightenment (Nirvaana according to Lord Buddha), mind roars like sea waves and becomes calm forever; same like water in deep of sea is more stable than water of upper surface or water near seashores.

Moral is:"You are one part of divine soul like a water drop which comes from sea. You just need to calm your mind like river water to enter sea of knowledge."

Waste of someone becomes Treasure for someone else

"Everything is special in this universe, 

a waste thread thrown by human

 becomes treasure for a bird to build her nest beautiful"...Hrc

If you observe wild life very carefully, you may be familiar with this example.

There was a tree with lots of branches on it. There was a branch which is very near to earth. That branch was dried up. For now, that branch becomes waste for that tree. 

One little elephant came there and separated that branch from tree. Little elephant was playing with that branch. The waste of tree becomes treasure for little elephant, as playing with that branch giving him joy. After sometime elephant left that branch on earth.

After some days, decaying process of branch started and it becomes treasure for small insects for their food. Waste of little elephant became treasure of insects. When branch decayed completely, insects left it because it was waste for them now.

Decayed branch works good as fertilizer for earth. It was a treasure for earth bushes, small plants. Like this branch completed its journey with treasure or waste of someone.

Moral is: "Every thing is special, treasure in this universe. We just need attitude towards thing to make it treasure or waste. Everything is beautiful on this earth, waste of someone becomes treasure for someone else"