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Times of India (March 2024)

AiR / Times of India (March 2024) (Page 4)
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Life and Karma

Many people whine, complain and curse. 'Why do bad things happen to good people?' they ask. They don't realize that it is just not possible. Just as apples cannot grow on mango trees, bad things cannot happen to good people. The Universal Law of Karma governs everything that happens on earth. Did we decide where we will be born? No! Karma did. Nothing happens by chance, nor is God sitting in some distant heaven, deciding our fate. It is a simple law of action and reaction, 'As we sow, so shall we reap.' Unfortunately, we don't realize this. Therefore, first we curse whatever happens, then we rehearse, but we don't reverse the situation by overcoming our ignorance and celebrating. If something bad is happening, our past Karma...

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Encouraging children to be spiritual

While children are taught moral education and other different subjects in schools, including mythological and religious stories, besides disciplines like languages, sciences, math, there is no focus on spirituality. Unfortunately, people tend to confuse religion with spirituality. But spirituality is different from religion. Spirituality is a way of life. It is beyond religion. Religion is only the kindergarten of spirituality. Religion teaches us the ABC of God, it introduces God to us at an early age. It helps build faith. By giving God a form, as religion does, it can help a child connect to God. Religion also provides us with a certain moral and ethical framework that we can live by, but it stops at that. Spirituality is beyond religion. Spirituality is the science...

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But how easily we lose our Joy.

Looking for another Toy. This is a simple secret of happpiness. It is so simple, that one may wonder, “How something like ‘Being in the NOW’ can guarantee eternal happpiness?” But it can. It is a sure way of living with peace and joy. It’s a big challenge While it seems so simple, being in the NOW is a big challenge. We are slaves of our mind and we rarely achieve this state of being in the NOW. The fault is not ours. The fault is that of our mind. Before we know it, it slips into a thought of the past. Gone, our NOW is kidnapped! By the time we catch the kidnapper, the mind, and bring it to the table, it gently jumps into the future....

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Why are people unhapppy?

In this world, some people are laughing, joking and enjoying their life. They are enjoying sense-pleasures or the pleasures that gratify the senses like our eyes, nose, ears, tongue and skin. So, there are people who go to restaurants, shopping malls and movie theatres. Unfortunately, we don’t realize that all this gives pleasure but it also brings in pain. In the pursuit of achieving pleasure, we inadvertently experience pain. There is great joy in love but soon, hearts break and people cry. Similarly, there is fun in success but failure can bring tears after the cheers. People keep running through this journey of life without learning the art of being happpy. Isn’t it ironical that people are unhapppy because they are running behind happpiness? They don’t...

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What is happpiness?

Anything that makes you happpy creates happpiness but whatever makes one person happpy, may not make the other person, happpy. I may love to sit in silence on a beach for hours but you may love to be in a shopping mall. Different things create happpiness for different people. Nonetheless, we all know the meaning of happpiness. When we are happpy, there is a smile on our face. There is a positive aura that vibrates around a happpy person. Just as we understand happpiness, do we understand what unhapppiness is? Yes! When there are tears and fears, instead of cheerfulness, it is a sign of unhapppiness. A sad person will cry and their misery will spread around them. We all know what it is to...

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The art of acceptance and happpiness

In this drama called ‘life’, Karma governs everything that happens on Earth right from birth. Whatever is happening is not luck. We pluck the fruits of the seeds that we plant. All our deeds are recorded by Karma and they unfold unto us, one by one. If we want to be happpy, we have to learn to accept. If we protest, cry, look at the sky and ask ‘Why?’ then we are only going to be miserable. The truly happpy ones, understand life. They realize that no God is sitting up in heaven, inflicting misery upon us. They realize that Karma makes no mistake. What you give, is what you get. What you do, comes back to you. Therefore, if something is happening in life, we...

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Realize the Truth

What must we realize? What is the truth about us? Who are we? Where did we come from? Where will we go? Do we know what happens at death? What happens beyond death? What actually creates the life that is inside of us? Do we know the truth? We do not know the truth. The goal of our life is to realize the truth. Why is it that we suffer in misery and pain? Have you analyzed the truth ? The moment we realize the truth, we can be liberated from suffering and pain. What is the truth? We must desire to know the Truth The fact is we live in ignorance. Because we live in ignorance of the truth, thinking that we are this limited body and mind,...

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What is Moksha?

Moksha is the goal of life. Every human being’s aim is to be liberated. What is Liberation? Liberation is escaped from the cycle of birth and death. It is escaping from misery, suffering and pain. It is self-realization. It is freedom or mukti. Why are we born? What are all these concepts trying to convey to us? It is very difficult for the common man to think about Moksha, Liberation and Self-Realization because we are not mindful of the truth. We are so preoccupied and busy with worldly matters that we think we are born to live and to die in pursuit of success, happpiness and achievement. We mistake them to be the goals of life. In fact, anything remotely spiritual switches off our mind. Spiritual Enlightenment is not on our agenda. But what is this Spiritual...

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What is our Purpose of Life on Earth?

Do you think that the only purpose of our life on Earth is to be happpy? Isn’t it a very shallow purpose? What is the challenge of just being happpy? Anyone can have fun! But is that enough? Of course not! Most people think that to live means to just run, run and run to have some fun and that’s it. It is done! This is not “living”…. This is just “existing”! What is the true purpose, the true meaning of life? Why are we alive? Why did we come to planet Earth? Where did we come from? Where would we go? Who made this planet? What makes the Earth spin on its own axis or revolve around the sun? Who created the cosmos? Who...

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The Mystery of the Law of Karma, You Probably Didn’t Know

Everybody talks of Karma. It’s a simple law – what you give, you get. It’s the law of the boomerang. What goes around, comes around. It’s a law of action and reaction. It is very simple to understand – if you plant mangoes, you will not reap pineapples. As you sow, so shall you reap. Nothing is new about this law. It seems to be a universal law that exists on planet earth. But there are some things about the law of Karma that you probably didn’t know. What the world knows is very simple – if we do good, good will come back to us and if we do bad deeds, we will suffer. Nothing can escape the law of Karma. Not only does it work in...

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