JEEVAN MUKTI

MUKTI OR FREEDOM IS RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW.
YOU ONLY HAVE TO REALIZE YOU ARE FREE!

The popular belief is that following the sequence of Dharma, Artha Kaama and Moksha, Mukti or Freedom from the life and death cycle seems to be something out of reach, impossible and taking many births, is very difficult to achieve and one in a million get it.

In may not be so, if explored with a different approach. This is based on personal experiences and practical tips of transformation from a reluctant and confused business man to a person who sells from his heart, is innovative and looks forward to every day every moment with interest and passion. A journey and learning of last few years is captured here. You can learn it in a few weeks, provided you are focussed and contemplate on this.

GURU IS RIGHT HERE

GURU TATTVA OR GURU ELEMENT IS MANIFESTED AS BOOKS, VIDEOS, PEOPLE, EVENTS, OBJECTS ACCROSS TIME IN DIFFERENT FORMS.

Trusting gurus who come from a proven lineage starting from Adinath Lord Shiva, I present a compilation of ideas, techniques, thoughts, references as a medium as I bow to my gurus in deep gratitude.

How may of you follow a particular guru? How many of you feel that guru is a person, at a place and was or is existing at a particular time? The guru element is universal and merged with consciousness. As you get the intuition with gurus blessings, you explore, meet people, read books, get questions and meet people who take you ahead on the path. Guru is not limited to one person, one place, one time. It is universal.

DONT BELIEVE ANYTHING ANYONE SAYS

STUDY, QUESTIONS, REFLECT, DEBATE, EXPERIENCE AND THEN BELIEVE.

Our Acharya, Shakaracharya encourages us to explore, study, debate, discuss and experience and believe that experience. He does not encourage belief on someone else. Believe your own experience. This is the a very profound thinking dimension as you take full responsibility of your own journey.

THIS IS A JOURNEY INWARDS, NOT OUTWARDS!

EXPLORING THE SELF, ITS LAYERS, FINDING ANSWERS!

The key is going internal, not external. Spirituality is not in temples, not in himalayas, not in ashrams. They are the means to silence your mind. The journey inwards is the key, which we shall soon find out in the workshop.

WE DONT HAVE A SYLLABUS!

WE ARE STUDYING SPIRITUALITY LIKE 11TH STD MATHS WITHOUT KNOWING 2ND STD MATHS!

Imagine someone opening a book on calculus, trigonometry, probability theory, without knowing the basic mathematics of addition, subtraction etc.

Earlier in the gurukul system, the fundamental knowledge of the self and spirituality was imbibed very early. Once the confusion is cleared, you develop immense clarity of the mind, as it does not get distracted. No wonder in ancient India, even a common man was highly advanced in his or her ways of life, contributing to research, trade, knowledge, rule.

The British attempted to change it with their system, designed to produce non thinking clerks from schools with English education. They under estimated the strong cultural roots of the Indian family system, which continued, generation after generation, the traditions and rituals of their forefathers.

However, in doing so, in most of the people, the rituals remained, and the science was hidden. The new generation wants to understand, to know, to practise, to be liberated. This can be easily done by understanding the basic principles. It's not difficult at all. In fact, to a logical person, it's very easy.

ANCIENT CULTURE MILLIONS OF BOOKS AND SECTS

LEADING TO CONFUSION AS THERE IS NO “SYLLABUS” ON BASICS

One needs quick insights that make sense. No one has the time to study for decades and long hours today. It is not possible and not required. One needs a quick and easy method.

Just like once you know the 17 steps of cooking, you can make any reciepie, once you know the basics of spiritual engineering, you can grasp any path, different paths, diverse views, know the viewpoint of different authors, without being confused.

However, when you don't know the basics, viewing, tasting, each dish looks magical, and you start wondering how they were created.

Just as it is difficult to reverse engineer the 17 cooking methods by studying hundreds of dishes, it is difficult to reverse engineer the basics of spirituality from the best repository of books.

It's always a better idea to learn the basics first!

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

SITTING ON AN APPLE DOES NOT TAKE YOU TO THE MOON!

Apple falling on newtons head (actually it was documented by rishi kanad) is the science and chandrayan is the technology.

If you try and sit on an apple and go to the moon, you will land up in a hospital! To go the moon you need technology. Knowing the science of gravity is the start.

The ancient tools and techniques have to be modified and adapted to todays world to make sense. Example in vedanta is of a snake that appears at night on the rope is an illusion, dont make any sense today as the it is not in our experience…hence the need to adapt and change!

The enlightened ones have written not only about their experiences, but made tools and techniques available to people depending on the social, economic and political situation in those times.

Hence the evolution of the bhakti movement in the last 600 years…as the structure of Bharat was disturbed by invasions, it was the faith that kept the value system intact.

SPIRITUAL TOOLKIT FOR BUSINESS GROWTH

PRACTICAL INSIGHTS AND TOOLS VALIDATED WITH YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE!

Powerful tools get the job done. With a logical engineering approach, here is a quick toolkit to get rapid insights to leading a more fulfilled life, where spirituality and success coexist.

This toolkit is a more efficient method to get things done.

Recall any instance where you solved a problem with multiple tools and got the job done faster, as against using a single tool.

just visualise this tool box the mechanic uses to service the car or a bike! There are so many tools there. Each fit a specific purpose.

MEANING OF “BHARAT” - THE LAND OF SEEKERS

NOT JUST AMED AFTER A KING. BHAYAM RATAM ITI BHARATAM

We are a land where people are in pursuit of enlightenment! Moksha with dharma artha kaama together! Serious work life balance!

While other religions may be about belief. We are a land of seekers. We question. Hence the great Advances in their times in ancient Bharat.

The British introduced inferiority complex in us, have a trash education system to produce clerks.

We are only good for jugad. Not for long term game in personal or professional life. There is not a single product company right now at global scale from India, but in the next decade, there will be. That is for sure.
What is the number of patents you have filed? Why are we not innovating? Why are we still a sweat shop? Reflect on this.

It's moving from today to tomorrow. That's all. It's time to break this now

THE FIRST PURPOSE. JEEVANMUKTI.

MOKSHA, FREEDOM RIGHT NOW, RIGHT HERE. NOT AFTER DEATH.

We relate to people specifically, and in general to objects around us, by establishing roles and relationships.

All roles are linked the physical body. Hence after death, is called the “body” and not the name of the person. Even the name of the person, given by parents, the physical identity is also linked to the body.

List down all the roles you play in life.

ROLES, THAT CREATE THE DRAMA OF LIFE!

WE ALL HAVE ROLES. MANY ROLES

We relate to people specifically, and in general to objects around us, by establishing roles and relationships.

List down all the roles you play in life.

ROLES ATTRACT OR AVOID BEING/DOING/HAVING

ROLES ARE AUTOMATIC, BY CHOICE OR FORCED.

In very role, by doing, having and being, you are moving towards pleasure and away from pain. See the table above and reflect on your own life experience.

More over, roles are themselves temporary. For example, as soon as child of born, so many roles are created, parents, grandparents, uncle's, aunts, nephews, neices, citizen of a country, a human, etc.

With death, All the roles are finished. In between, there are many roles like a subordinate to a boss, that come with time and phases of life.

Understanding of these roles is the foundation of what we are going to explore further.

Let's do an exercise.

List down one role in your life that have

List down the doing being and having you seek and avoid.

Its your own experience.

YOU ARE NOT THE ROLE! ITS YOUR ROLE!

JUST LIKE AMITABH BACCHAN IS NOT DON OR COOLIE AT HOME!

Just as amitabh bacchan acts in movies, but when he goes home, he is amitabh bacchan! Not don!

But we are so engrossed in our roles of father, boss, son, mother, friend that we forget who we are. Our movie shoot never ends. We switch from one tile to another to another without even realising it!

Being engrossed in roles is “maya” or illusion. Knowing that you are the role is the “realization”.

The most fundamental insight of spiritual path is to realize that these are my roles. I am not the role.

You are not even the disciple of your guru, that is also a role. You are not a devotee. That is also a role.

You are not a mumukshu, that is also a role. This is the key.

TWO WAYS TO MAKE ROLES ZERO. IT'S A CHOICE

TAKE SANYAS OR BE AWARE THAT THESE ARE YOUR ROLES!

There are 2 ways to make the roles zero

Take sanyas. All roles become zero. Guru guides you to self realization. However, I have heard from someone that today, even sanyasis are given some targets to sell books, get followers, likes etc! Wow!
Just realize, know, expirence and be convinced that these are my roles. I am not the role. So even when you are in this world, doing being and having, you are fully aware, abundant and accepting. With full involvement and no attachment as the role itself is linked to the body and mind!

WHEN YOU DO YOUR DHARMA, THERE IS NO KARMA

SANATA DHARMA = ETERNAL DUTIES FOR THE ROLE.

When a soldier fights and does his role, there is no karma associated with kiling anyone. Similarly when you beat competition to grow business, you are not compassionate abiout job loss of competitors employees, you are just doing your dharma. Which dharma to follow? The one that has maximum impact on maximum number of people for maximum time. So the dharma of a king is greeter that the dharma of a father. Example Mahabharata war. Dhitrashtra was blided by his sons love, that he did not do his raj dharma properly.

Which are your life experiences where you experienced a conflict of dharmas? Friend vs business? Family vs friend? Etc. list them down

HOW TO DEAL WITH ADHARM?

MAHABHARAT WAR SHOWS THE WAY TO DEAL WITH IT WITH ADHARM!

One question that is asked is if we act as per dharma, we will get punya hence we should not act in adharma even when the other person is doing adharma.

The attachement to punya, papam is also an attachment and played by the mind.

Lord krishna has showed the way when he got drona, bheesma, karna and duryodhana killed in the war by not folllowing strict dharma.

This is a the key to handling people in todays world as most of the good guys are not able to beat the bad guys, and the bad guys sit on our head!

List down the incidences when you felt guilty or ashamed or symapethic in following up for the payment due to you, apprecaiting the other parties problems, inspite of delivering services.

ETERNAL HAPPINESS

THE PURSUIT OF ETERNAL HAPPINESS IS THE GOAL.

We are all in the pursuit of happiness. We saw this, when we do our roles. Can this be made eternal? Lets find out.

THE MAN WHO DID NOT HAVE ICE-CREAM!

HE GOT BORED AFTER 2 DAYS OR RETIRING IN HIS DREAM SEASIDE HOUSE!

With your experience, relate to the fact when you worked very hard to get marks, or a order, or a payment. Then you got the payment. How long did the happiness last?

Isnt it like the man who saved every rupee, to build a vacation house, only to find out after 2 days, that he is not as happy as he felt on the first day and after 1 month, the happiness was gone.

FUTILITY OF FINDING HAPPINESS IN RELATIONSHIPS

HOW CAN 2 VARIABLE MINDS CREATE A CONSTANT HAPPINESS?

Harvard study states that happiness is in relationships. But that too does not last. As it is a function of 2 minds! It is external, so it can not be eternal.

We are on the subject of eternal happiness. Hence the observation.

You have been in relationships yourself. Has it given you extreme eternal happiness? Take a moment to reflect and write down

Relationship and moments of ups and downs

Take 2 minutes to do this.

DOING HAVING AND BEING

WE “DO” TO “HAVE” AND FEEL WE WILL “BE” HAPPY. IT DOES NOT LAST!

List down the things you have done, like ordering a pizza, to have it and then feel happy. By the ways,happiness does not last.
Remember the most important event in your life and the happiness level you had, (like getting married or having kids) and how long did it last

It did not last forever, as it was related to senses and material world.

FLIP IT TO BEING DOING AND HAVNG

BEING - ABUNDANCE, DOING - AWARENESS, HAVING - ACCEPTANCE

Is it really possible to have no attachment to goals and be fully involve in action? Just like it was told to Arjuna by Krishna? In todays world?

Yes it is possible! And very easily. We are half way through it already, with your own life experiences!

YOU ARE TAKEN FOR A RIDE!

GETTING OUT OF THE EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER!

As the mind is engrossed in roles, it is always on the roller coaster ride. One after the other, even in the dreams!

Getting out simple means observing, realising that everything relates to you as a function of the role. The desires, the emotions, are all linked to roles. Instead of getting into the roller coaster, you are aware of the roller coaster and can get in and out if it at will.

OVERCOMING THE EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER

MIND TAKES US ON AN ETERNAL RIDE

Life is a roller coaster ride with ups and downs, slow and fast, some with you, some ahead, some behind and one day it comes to an end. That is the fact. In the roller coaster ride, how does one maintain awareness and not get engrossed in the experiences of the mind? That is the key.

MASTER YOUR EMOTIONS.

HOW EMOTIONS ARE FORMED, THE 6 ENEMIES OF THE MIND AND LIVING WITH TRUE IDENTITY IN THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS ETERNAL

Relax. This is the only flow chart in the presentation! Let

This one slide will tell you, how emotions form. Once you know, the emotions originate from the desires, which are linked to roles, you have clarity. Otherwise, it was an automatic process.

You will still have thoughts of anger etc. But you will not have emotions once you are aware that it is linked to role. Awareness is the key, not the knowledge.

In the workshop, you will find out how to keep this awareness at all times! With a 5 minute process! Thats all.

MIND CAN NOT BE OVERCOME BY MIND TOOLS

AFFIRMATIONS, GRATITUDE, MOTIVATION, FORGIVING ARE STILL IN THE MIND

I have myself used many mind tools, subconscious mind programming tools etc.

They are effective for some, not very effective for others. The time line also varies to show results.

However, they are still operating in the domain of the mind. They are of little use to go beyond the mind, which is given very easily in vedanta.

Have you used any of the mind tools of motivation, visualization etc?

GOING BEYOND THE DOMAIN OF THE MIND!

GOING BEYOND THE TRIADE TO THE DUET

BODY, ENERGY AND MIND TO SELF AND BLISS

You may know about the five koshas. But the insight here is that they are divided into two groups. Group one is where we are exist most of the time.

Group two is where we should be. The tools most suitable are different for each kosha. And are listed here.

For body and energy, yoga marga works the best.

For mind mantras or karma ( mantras homas etc. not karma as in office work) work the best.

For self, vedanta knowledge or gyana work the best. For bliss, bhakti works the best.

Before knowledge of self, what is done is Upasana. After knowledge of self, what happens on its own is bhakti.

So using the spiritual toolkit, you rapidly move from kosha to kosha.

Imagine having a toolbox instead of a single tool! Opening a machine is so much easier with a tool box.

WHY MODERN GURUS DON'T TALK ABOUT IT

THERE IS NO BUSINESS IN THE DUET. ITS ONLY IN THE TRIADE!

In the domains of self and bliss, there is no business to be done.

A few like ramakrishna mission are doing their work quietly running hospitals and the math is giving the spiritual backing…

KNOWLEDGE IS NOT THE KEY.

AWARNESS OF THE STATE IS!

KEEPING AWARENESS

MIND NEEDS AN ANCHOR

Mind is like a ship in the turbulent waters of the ocean of the world where waves of emotions, small and large rock it.

This analysis proves that sound can provide an anchor to the mind. Not any other sense.

Relate this to your own experience of wearing a watch, eating something sweet, setting a picture etc. And realise yourself that only sound can prove to be the anchor.

HEARING THE ETERNAL AUM SOUND

BUZZING, BEES, TV TUNE, MONOTONE, AUM CHORUS…

Your mind has to be absolutely silent to hear this sound. You are training the mind to listen to the inner sound by more and more subtle sounds within. Breathing, heartbeat and inner sound.

GROUP AUM CHANTING

45 MINS. VILE PARLE. SANYAS ASHRAM. SUNDAY 10.15 AM.

Held every Sunday at 10.15 am, we only chant aum for 45 minutes in two concentric circles. Kamal has attended many sessions. I have attended this over two months continuously. I have seen a change in focus and inner connection.

The inner aum.

The group chanting aum.

Awareness of breath and heartbeat.

Create a different state altogether.

You are all invited to attend this free session anytime. Register at the venue.

AUM THE UNIVERSAL FREQUENCY

THE VIBRATION AT BIRTH DOES NOT MATTER NOW. NO HOROSCOPES!

Every being vibrates with a frequency…which is largely set at the time of birth, and can be alerted with strong sadhana.

The key here is the once the being is in the constant vibration of om, the universal frequency, the planets, the horoscope, the luck, they all don't matter at all…

The universal frequency of om drowns their impact by a factor of millions of times.

THE ONE THING TO READ TO KNOW EVERYTHING?

MANDUKYA UNPANISHAD: 12 SHLOKAS ONLY ABOUT AUM!

When Hanuman asked shree Ram, what is the one thing I should read to know everything.

Lord said. Read mandukya upanishad. It is the shortest upanishad with just 12 shlokas and they are only about om.

The key is here. The key is in om.

GEOMETRIC SHAPE OF AUM

GEOMETRIC SHAPE LIKE OTHER VEDIC SYMBOLS LIKE SWASTIKA ETC.

Out of the many ways in which om is written, one wonders, why if the shape of om not symmetrical. Being a sound, in different lipis, om is written in a way to closely resemble the sound, when said. The actual on sound is something to experience. The resonance, the mixed nasal sound, no script can capture it.

Here the Vedic om symbol is described. This is further elaborate by sant dyneshwar in his commentry on the bhagwat gita.

To accommodate in the script, the om symbol was rotated and slightly modified. This now resembles the modern day om.

SHANKHNAAD THE DIVINE SOUND OF THE CONCH

AN EXCELLENT HEALTH TOOL FOR YOU, NOT JUST FOR KEEPING IN PUJA!

Every diety in Hinduism is symbolic and provides clues by its appearance, objects held in the hand, weapons carried, flowers, musical instruments etc.

Conch is held in lord Vishnus hand. It is the symbol of prosperity and richness. The path of her the riches of health, wealth and happiness.

The process to blow a conch properly is described here.

KNOW YOUR TRUE SELF

VIGYANAMAYA KOSHA KNOWLEDGE OF THE SELF!

Let's now explore the vigyanamaya kosha. The layer of knowledge. This is the layer which is one part of a set, which works together. The other being AnandMaya kosha.

VIGYANAMAYA KOSHA

KNOWING THAT YOU ARE CONSCIOUSNESS WITH 2 SELF EXPRIENCES.

Vedanta is only and only about logic. The states are based on your own waking dreaming and sleeping states.

You see the world with your senses. This logical analysis is based on your own experience.

This makes vedanta, self experiential and not based on beliefs on someone else's book or experience.

There are two logical thought processes that prove that consciousness is real. And this is proven by your own experience.b afterall, we are a land of seekers, who believes in their own experience. Not in someone's experience.

The first one process goes like this. X is perceived by y, so i am not x, i am y. And continue this till you can't go any further.. This is described in the first table.

In the second table, the three states of dreaming are described. This methodology proves the same thing, which is proven by the first one.

FORMLESS SELF – ZERO

NIRVANASHTAKAM BY JAGATGURU ADI SHAKARACHARYA

Nirvana shatakam. As you listen the nirvana shatakam, many times over, slowly, you will imbibe its message. These 6 shlokas first describe what the consciousness is not. And then they describe, what it is.

YOU DONT HAVE TO DIE FOR MOKSHA

YOU ARE FREE RIGHT NOW RIGH HERE!

The three conclusions of nirvanashatam are given here. Once you truly understand this, experience it in silence, then in your surroundings, you know what you are not bound by anything. You can now observe the mind, by not being the mind. You can now truly be free, as you realise that you were never bound in the first place. This is the state of jeevanmukta, the first purpose of life.

TRUE FORM OF SHIV LINGAM IS YOUR PURE SELF!

IT'S NOT A NUCLEAR REACTOR, ELECTRON PROTON NEUTRON ETC.

Shiva, signifies formlessness and nirvanashatakam takes you to the formless state. Have you ever wondered, why shiv lingam looks the way it looks? You will realise that it is the purest form of your own self.

Hence many enlightened beings have consecrated shiv lingams and worshipped them as their own purest form.

MUKTI OR FREEDOM IS RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW. YOU ONLY HAVE TO REALIZE YOU ARE FREE!