Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Lessons from Life - III

Love is the highest vibration. Since this is a heavily misused word, I refer to love as that being unconditional and that gives freedom. Love that does not give freedom to the other cannot be termed as love. At the same time, freedom is a great power and with great power comes great responsibility that the "other" should recognize and act. We are all born free and thus it should remain so. 

Society conditions us in various ways, even how we are named. To realize our true self, we have to break all illusions of who we really are and only then can any meaningful answer be found to the one true question "who am I?"

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Money != Wealth, Wealth > Money

Money = What you work for

Wealth = What works for you, even while you sleep 

Money and even wealth can buy assets, but not skills. All the money in the world can help you get good piano teachers, but can it teach you real piano skills?

What are we all if we are not able to cultivate our individual skills and talents for our own happiness and for the betterment of the universe?

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Freedom 

Earthly Love < Pleasure < Money < Power <  Divine Love < Skill < Time < Self Love <  Inner Peace < My Morals < Freedom

My Morals = personalized and completely dynamic Inner moral code by which one lives. Every individual needs to define this for themselves for their happiness and not be influenced by any books, scriptures, etc. If one's individual morals goes against the prevailing collective moral code (say law and order), there will be consequences that one must be ready to face

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Concentration = Focus outward on a single point

Meditation = Focus inward, slowly working one's way to observing thoughts

Awareness = Focus outward and inward and more importantly on body sensations and emotions, the gap between inward and outward. Do not focus exclusively on thoughts. Attention on thoughts gives more energy and power to thoughts. If you want thoughts to reduce for inner peace, one must learn to focus on the body sensations and emotions like anger, lust, etc and not focus too much on thoughts.

Awareness > (concentration + meditation)

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Sadness = Love becomes duty, Happiness = Duty becomes Love

When Love becomes Duty, it is important to spend "me time", recuperate, recover and love thyself and turn back some part of the duty back to love. The other non transferable part can remain as "duty with boundaries" for one's inner peace

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Gifts 

The best gift is just money, cause money gives the "other" the freedom to "choose" what they want to buy with it for "their happiness".

True charity does not need branding and advertisement. If you are right handed, one's left hand must not know what the right hand provides

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Mantras

One must not chant mantras for which they do not know the meaning of and it's effects on oneself and the greater universe and that which does not make them happy to chant. One must specifically avoid mantras which require a certain amount of repetitions for intelligent beings would question the very need for such repetitions. One must avoid chanting in groups as the intention of the group must be set clearly first before chanting as well as ensuring all participants understanding the meaning and significance of what they are doing

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Healing 

Food can heal

Water is life

Movement is life

Life is energy in movement

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Peace
 
There's a calm after every storm and there's a storm after every calm. Prepare for both by honing your awareness

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Schedule
 
Your soul, body and mind need to work in unison always. Timetable your life accordingly as per your needs
 
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Inner Peace

For peace, detox your mind

To detox your mind, detox your body

To detox your body, detox your immediate environment

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Thoughts 

Not all your thoughts might be yours. Don't attach too much importance to them. How you "act" is far more important than the thoughts you get.

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Me Time
 
Never let anyone regret or guilt trap you, especially for spending "me time"

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Observation 

Learn to "observe" without "labels".

Would a rose smell as sweet by any other name? Sure it would

The label conjures up associated facts with totally unrelated things and can lead one easily astray from pure observation and hence pure awareness

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Judgement
 
Live life without judging the "other". The lack of judgement will lead to a loss in discernment which will eventually work against oneself, but it is far better to let atleast the first interaction be judgement free. It is better to have loved truly and lost than to not have loved at all out of fear. If you have loved and lost, heal yourself before you can love another without your judgement or your discernment getting in the way of true happiness. The heart always knows the right thing to do, but to follow it, one needs to be fearless to overcome the mind's discernment especially if one has already experienced failure. Do not fear the mind's discernment, for it helps you survive, but do not let it colour your life with one or even more tainted experiences, for that's what destroys your true essence of being a loving personality
 
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Gods & Devils
 
We are all the devils for each other. We can however choose to be the Gods for each other
 
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Happiness
 
Happiness is 99% effort and 1% divine grace.Even if you are not able to achieve 99% effort, let the bulk of the effort be yours truly
 
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Discipline
 
Perfection is the enemy of discipline

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