Day: March 18, 2010

Embodiments of Wisdom! Who will take the Mantle?

A lot of the great spiritual masters of our time are reaching over 65 plus in age and have matured to provide the world with fabulous teachings and understandings – Ram Dass, Ram Butler, Krishna Das and many others whom I am not mentioning here. On these shoulders we stand. These teachers have been students as well, have gone through the fire of doing their sadhana, applied the teachings they have learnt over a lifetime to their everyday lives, taken the commitment of their relationship to great masters to transform themselves and the world around them, and have become embodiments of wisdom to the world.

As this decade moves ahead, who will come forward to take on this mantel and make sure today’s world, today’s youth see the same grand vision they saw inside. How will this amazing process move on? How will the teachings be passed on over the next decade, so that the world we live in still retain these lights (new lights) whose presence, fire, devotion and understanding have woken up many. How will the universe ensure there are individuals who will chose the path of silence, understanding, knowledge, beauty and wisdom, and channel those to others in the world through a state of non-doership?

Are you over doing It?

Often people are “overdoing” it. What I mean is people get obsessive about their jobs, careers or businesses. They act like that is what defines them. They go out of balance trying to prove to their bosses, stakeholders, partners how hard they are working, by putting in uncalled for and unreasonable hours pretending to “work”. They ignore their families, friends, the rest of their soul – hobbies, music, nature, mountains, meditation, poetry, art and silence. Then when its gone…the job, business etc., they are sitting at pubs drinking, mopping and feeling sad for themselves, utterly lost, as if that is who they are.

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Addicted to “Feeling Rushed”

There are very few things in life which are absolutely time and mission critical. Usually these are life or death situations or situations where you are performing or have an appearance at a particular time and place. Outside of that (and a few others) I would say almost 80% of things in our daily life are not time and mission critical. But we still make it so. A client always wants things “yesterday” for no real reason or rhyme, cars refuse to follow the red light (almost like everyone is rushing for an emergency to the hospital is it?), people sit in a restaurant and want food immediately (even if they are not in a hurry). We are addicted to “feeling rushed” and in fact have fallen in love with that feeling. It has become so endemic in our culture (especially urban India) that when a person is relaxed, calm and joyful and apparently in no real hurry, to either execute his or anyone else’s work or to get from one place to another, people almost look at that person with a sense of shock; almost to say “Hey buddy, which planet are you from”. And it’s not just individuals who behave like that – some of the chief culprits are businesses, who live on the edge of insecurity, which fuels this culture of “rushing” around.