10 Mantras for success

These are the 10 mantras for a success in life.

1. Know your idea of success: We can never generalize idea of success. Different people can have different idea of success. A person has to identify what is success for him self, then start working towards that. The vision for success has to be made earliest in life, more early you know your innate capabilities and build your idea of success, the better.
   
2. Know your self: The biggest challenge for any individual is to understand himself. Everybody has a different innate capabilities, intellect, hobbies and vision. We should never follow social stereotypes or get into peer pressure, rather one should be able to draft his own vision. You should be clear what gratifies you.
   
3. Sharpen the saw: The world is changing, everything is subject to change and you will have to change. As Darwinian theory says "The species who can adapt them selves according to changing environment, survive". You need to make sure everyday you are making a steady progress for your goals.
   
4. Hard Work: There is no alternative to hark work, no one can scape it. In the world of cut throat competition hard work will pave your way to success. One has to be sure that hard work is going to give some fruit in future, if somebody is trying to move that wall whole day and says that he did hard work that hard work is worthless.
   
5. Trust your instincts: Every human or animal is endowed with natural instinct. Our instincts or gut feelings are message from God or Nature, they guide us, show us path in darkness. We all have to take difficult decisions in life. At some point or other you will find yourself in dilemma. Instincts or omens show you path, follow them. One should be careful about self induced illusion and fantasy, not mistaking them with instincts.
   
6. Maintain Good health: Everybody knows health is wealth, stay away from unhealthy lifestyle and habits. You will never be able to enjoy life, no matter how much fortune you posses. Stay away from sensual gratification (pleasure drown from senses).
   
7. Interpersonal Skills: Interpersonal skill is ability to deal with people, ability to persuade, ability to say no without making people angry, making friends. Your success will largely depend on interpersonal skill rather than professional skill. Good interpersonal skills and social networking will pave your way to success.
   
8. Think win-win: Alway think win-win while dealing with people. Nobody likes to be in loss. If you want something then be ready to give something equivalent. Your leadership capabilities are another important aspect of your personality.
   
9. Discipline: Everybody can make plan but it is the discipline and persistence which translates dream into reality. It is discipline and self control which differentiates great people from common people.
   
10. Balance your act: Extreme will always make you measurable, rather practice moderation . Learn to balance your work with entertainment, socialization and physical rest. All work and no play makes Jake a dull boy.
    

"Strength is life, weakness is death." -- Swami Vivekananda

Mantra for Meditation and Inner peace

Try this wonderful, religion neutral mantra meditation. People who do not believe in God can treat it as mental conditioning exercise. It is for the people who are looking for inner peace and success in life.

O Lord I seek your grace. I dedicate my life for your service.
Forgive me for all my sins that I have done intentionally or unintentionally (retrospect about sinful events at the same time).
I will stay away from falsehood, violence, stealing and sensual pleasure.
O Lord, help me subside ego and hatred in my heart.
O Lord, cultivate love in my heart.
O Lord, keep me away from disease and laziness.
O Lord, show me path and give me strength to accomplish my goals.
I deserve happiness (repeat many times in mind)
I deserve success (repeat many times in mind)

Note: Chanting mantras should be done in mind and with understanding and feeling their true meaning. Do it before sleeping in night and after taking shower or at time of prayer in morning. Repeat it many times in single session.

Reasons for Stress, Stress management

Let us try to define stress. Stress is psychological response to given physical and social circumstances. This psychological response may manifests itself in physical diseases. It starts with thoughts, thoughts affect mind and mind affects body. Today majority of mankind is under stress. Stress can not be controlled until person is strong in terms of philosophical knowledge. Smoking, Alcohol, Coffee, Energy Drinks are unhealthy options. Various means of entertainment are very temporary solution. Exercise/Sex / Healthy Lifestyle/Yoga/ Meditation/ Medication can do little help but they do not go at the root of the problem.

Let us try to find psychological and philosophical reasons and solutions for stress.

1. Fear: Fear arises due to some insecurity. We can be insecure about anything which we want to preserve like health, life, wealth, relationship, job, various means of pleasure etc. Feeling of fear directly affects our heart beats and kills it consequently. Now we can generalize that origin of fear is attachment to some object that we want to preserve or get. Philosophy can help here. First of all we should leave the illusion of control. The truth is we can not control anything. Government tries to control economy, parents try to control child, businessman tries to control business, boss tries to control subordinates. How successful they are? Do we conclude that we should leave everything at the mercy of chaos or destiny? Existence or non existence of destiny both can not be proven. So the right approach toward life is that we should do our part, we should listen to our inner voice, we should do our duties honestly, according to understanding and consent of our intellect. Then leave everything on chaos or destiny. We can not control events but the response. We can loose everything any time, whole family looses life in a car crash within seconds, so there is nothing to fear. Set your self free from fear and enjoy blissful freedom.
   
2. Overload: Now a days everybody is overloaded. Students, professionals, house makers, businessmen, sports persons, film stars everyone is overloaded. When we are made to do things, more than our mind or body can endure, with or without our consent then we call it overload. Effect of overload is evident from muscle injuries of sports persons and Heart/ Kidny related problems of business professionals. If we want to handle overload then we must draw a line somewhere. This line is going to come with a price tag, it is not free. One who is willing to pay the price will reap the benefits. There will be some fear associated with the line that we are going to draw. Then we have to overcome fear with the rules of handling fear. Again the choice should be made by person according to his understanding of the things. There is always some loss associated with a gain.
   
3. Social conflicts: Let us analyze it, starting with a joke. "I have figured out, what is wrong with my life. It is other people". Human are social animals and there can not be a purely cohesive environment. Here is the solution. We should try to foster compassion inside us for one who is lower than us, with respect to anything like knowledge or wealth or health etc. The person who is underprivileged is most likely to hate a person who is privileged. We should practice friendliness with one who is equal to us. There should be respect for one who is better than us in any way. If a person is better than us, surly that person will have a ego that should be respected. There is another category of people who are always there to do something which is going to make us measurable. We should show indifference to such people and behavior if it is not doing a great harm. Relationships can be harmonized through mutual sacrifice and better understanding.
   
4. Unfulfilled desires: We all have desires. The very existence of life is because of desires of the mind which acts on the matter and manifests itself in various formates. If we do not have desires then why do we live, there has to be some purpose behind living our lives. If desires are not fulfilled they manifest themselves in aggression, frustration and depression. Sometime they become reason of various psychological and physical ailments. Rule number one, we should have rational desires. Rule number two, there should be clear distinction between genuine desires and fantasy. We all fantasize, fantasy is beautiful and source of pleasure. If genuine desires of life are fulfilled we should be contented with that. If by trying all means our genuine desires are not fulfilled still we should be contented with that and leave the things to destiny. Try to find some purpose of living and live the life, as it is a time pass. Be spontaneous about life and be satisfied with what you have. I would like to summarize with the statement that "Try to fulfill your idea of happiness but do not get attached to it, all desires are never fulfilled, they are there to keep us on our toes and make us unhappy, control them."
5. Inner conflict: Inner conflict takes place when there is conflict between multiple personality layers of a person. In simple layman terms, when we have to make decision amidst multiple conflicting self interests. We are all victim of duality of life, we all find ourselves in a situation where we have to choose between two or more options. When we are in such situation we see loss/profit in some format, no matter what decision we make. This inner conflict results in great mental trauma. One should understand the fact that every situation will have equal profit and loss associated with it, so when you are in dilemma just choose any one of the given option without worrying about result. The decision has to be made by the person in context by prioritizing intelligently, moreover one has to be ready for bearing loss for some profit. Some time short term loss results in long term profit. One should not feel guilty later, for the choices he has made today.
   
6. Jealousy: Jealousy does not contribute to stress directly but it destroys inner peace. There is no reason to feel jealous. The absolute truth is that, King or Pawn each one is equally measurable. Everyone actors, sports persons, businessmen, workers, students they are all in situations which are pleasant and unpleasant at the same time. It is the week human mind which things that attainment of a certain scenario will lead him to happiness, but that very scenario will take that person to yet another set of problems. This world called Matrix that is designed that way. An epic on philosophy called movie Matrix, a must watch movie for everyone.
7. Guilt felling: Like jealousy, guilt does not contribute to stress directly, but it destroys inner peace. When we do something or made to do something which is wrong or sinful according to understanding of our intellect, then we get guilt feeling. This is a mental feeling but kills our health insidiously. Right or wrong is not absolute, it is relative and it depends on intellect of a person, for example doing one thing may be right for one person and same thing is considered wrong from another person. One thing is right in one culture and same thing is wrong in some other culture. We should try not to do anything wrong according to understanding of our intellect. If we do something wrong knowingly or unknowingly then we should try to forgive ourselves to get away from guilt feeling.
   

Now I would like to give three general solutions for any type of problem in life:

1. Indifference : It simply means do not bother about the problem and accept the reality. You live life in such a way that gain and loss both become same for you, hence you will have peace of mind.
   
2. Karma Yoga: Try to make things better without bothering about results. It means giving your best, fulfilling your duties and leaving the results on fate.
   
3. Free Will: It means, you decide your goal first then you think of the means. If you have faith that goal can be achieved and you keep pushing the things. That faith is called free will. The goals can be achieved but there is a huge risk involved if your faith was miscalculated by you. You end up pushing so much energy and your efforts fail. But if one has complete faith then anything can be achieved. One more thing, prepare your self for the suffering that will come along.
   

I would summarize by saying that, these are the guidelines, one has to use common sense and tune with his intellect. The earth is crowded by humans and every human want to live with maximum resources, while the resources are limited. Stress is there at macro/global level, stress in the life of individual is macro level stress. It does not mean we have to loose hope, most of the people can get benefited if the guideline are followed. Take a new hobby, nurture a relationship, take on a new venture, try different things in life you will be happier. Life is beautiful and ugly at the same time, try to look at the brighter side of a situation or scenario, you will be happier.


Dark side of stress management:

Do not conclude here, there is another side of the coin. There are times when stress is good, it keeps us on our toes and it makes us smarter and stronger. If stress is not there, no body will stretch himself and everything will stand still. Students will not score well, employees will loose productivity, we will not witness great sporting contests, scientific discoveries etc. The show must go on. The person in context has to manage himself and find out whether stress is creative or destructive. The middle path or the path of moderation is best way out. A person has to analyze his thought patterns properly or take help of psychiatrist or spiritual Guru who can help understand himself better.




"Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon" -- Aristotle

Meditation Techniques

Here is a list of meditation techniques. They have to be done in orders starting from first one.

1. Put thumb of left hand on the left nostril and breath in deep with right nostril. Now put middle finger on right nostril and breath out with left nostril. Repeat it many times. Now we have to do it with right hand. Put thumb of right hand on the right nostril and breath in deep with left nostril. Now put middle finger on left nostril and breath out with right nostril. Repeat it many times.

2. Breath out abruptly many time with full force but do not push too much or some harm can take place. While doing it make sure you are throwing out with lungs not stomach. It has to be done only in morning with empty stomach.

3. Inhale deep inside, hold it and count 6 in mind then exhale, again hold and pause count 6 and again inhale deep inside. Do it many times.

4. Breathe in and out in most natural way. Feel the friction of air in nose while inhaling and exhaling. Don’t think any thing else but focus on breathe. Very soon breathe will become calmer and deeper. This will make you forget everything else. If this exercise is done carefully it will take the individual to Samadhi.

5. Breath deep in and out. Each time you breath feel the oxygen reaching your vital organs one by one. Like feel for sometime that oxygen in going inside heart, it will make heart strong. Similarly one can feel oxygen reaching lever/ Kidney/ legs or anywhere. Repeat this for one organ many times.
6. This is mantra meditation, it has to be done with understanding and feeling true meaning of mantras being chanted in mind. Breath deep in and out. When you are breathing in feel that the happiness is coming inside the body and while breathing out feel that sorrow is going outside the body. Repeat it many times near about for two minutes. Do the same thing for other opposite emotions like love/ hatred, strength/ weakness, health/ disease. It can act as a mental conditioning exercise also.

7. Use 1st and 3rd meditation technique for five minutes to calm down your brain after it, imagine a blue color butterfly in pit of the throat. Image it is flapping wings with each heart beat. Try to feel the synchronization between your heart beat and butterfly flapping wings.

Notes:
1. Sometime they seem boring but you should persist. After few days you will start enjoying.
2. Presence of a good quality meditation instructor who is very experienced makes the process easier and more effective.

Advantages of meditation

I have written this blog for bringing awareness about meditation. It will try to explain how meditation can help us living better life. I will harmonize meditation theories with modern science.

Our current education system gives us nothing but a tool for survival, which looses its edge in course of time. It gives us fish, not the art of fishing. One fish can help us for one day but art of fishing will help us for lifetime. In our school we learn about history, science, business but there is no school that can teach us right way of living. I will explain how meditation can solve general problems of life.

What is meditation?

One pointed mind at a single object of concentration is called meditation. Meditation has many types and objective. Our mind always keeps processing thoughts which is natural. Thoughts may consist of knowledge, fantasy or some memory. Objective of any type of meditation is to stop bubbling thoughts in mind and concentrate at one place.

Work of any type is meditation. Watching our breathing pattern is meditation. Looking at something or listening to something without thinking anything else is meditation. Even thinking about something without thinking anything else is meditation.


Objective can be good health, better concentration power, detachment, reaching higher reams of conscience etc. I will discuss about these things in detail.
Stress
What is stress? Stress means, pressure more than one can tolerate. If we try to do or made to do something which is beyond our capability, willingness or control then we will be under stress. Filling of stress and fear go hand in hand.

Stress is a psychological feeling but it affects our physical and mental health directly. Since the mind gets disturbed the stress can manifest it self in various diseases. First of all stress disturbs our mind and we loose sound sleep because of anxiety and fear, then it kills our heart because of rapid heart beats. When Heart becomes weak, extra pressure is transferred to Lever after some time Lever start becoming weak then Kidney comes next. Stress simply kills these three most vital organs.

Now let me explain how meditation helps here. As I have mentioned earlier that meditation is concentration of mind at single point. While we meditate then we concentrate on something else hence we tend to forget the thing which has given us stress. It produces detachment which stops the inertia of thoughts those had produced anxiety feeling. Hence one gets a peaceful mind and person restores this sleep and consequently health. Fifteen minutes of meditation can give relaxation of hours of sleep. Once we get peace of mind we tend to foster a rational attitude towards things. The very origin of stress is irrational targets sets by us or others. Once we acquire a rational mind we start believing that we can not control certain circumstances but we can control how we react and feel about circumstances. I do not have to mention that unlike any drug, meditation does not have any side effects. It is purely natural to body.

Increased brain power:

How do we define a powerful brain? A brain having better reasoning, cognition, ability to memorize facts, recall facts is a powerful brain.

A better memory or reasoning only comes from concentration. Every one has some natural capability for reasoning and memory retention, but with the help of meditation one can increase brain power in most natural way. Any type of drug will have its side effects but meditation is very natural to mind and body.

Let us explore meditation more in context of brain power. Every creation in this world is because of concentration of the brain. In order to create something we need to concentrate or imagine something. Better concentration results in better creation. Every manifestation that we see is result of thoughts directed toward a direction, towards a result. Before anything takes a physical format, it is already created in mind. Any work like programming, memorizing, arts, reading, painting, sports, architecture design they all require concentration. More we can concentrate better we will do. Meditation helps stopping bubbling thoughts inside our minds. Once we get control over bubbling thought we can direct them in desired direction.

Now few justifications for meditation in context of sports and physical activities. Let it be any sport like tennis, cricket, gymnastics, body building etc. Every sport requires concentration of mind. Better you concentrate better you perform in sports. In bodybuilding one has to focus only on muscles while doing exercise. In tennis, player has to concentrate on ball, anticipate opponent's moves and formulate strategy while playing. In cricket batsman has to focus on ball and preserve inner peace. All great sports person Pet Sampras, Rodger Fedrer, Sachin Tendulkar, Kapil Dev, Vishwanathan Anand they all have one thing common, that is a peaceful, humble and calm demeanor.

Better health:

Let us try to understand how meditation helps in getting better health.

I will try to harmonize meditation theories with modern biology. Let us understand how our body functions. All our body parts are connected to brain through nervous system, which is made of network of neuron cells. All the perception of outside word is sent to brain by neurons cells and brain gives commands to parts of body through nerves. We have natural capability to heal ourselves. Say for example we get a scratch and little wound is created. In course of time the wound will be healed even though we don’t use any medicine. Broken bones also get connected again. How do these things happen? It happens because we have natural capability to heal our selves. Even thought we have most chronic health problems like blood pressure, diabetes, liver dysfunction our brain is continuously trying to heal these problems. Our busy lifestyle does not give brain time to heal our organs.

In meditation process when we are in deep mental trance, the brain gets ample of time for healing the body. Fifteen minutes of meditation can compensate hours of sleep. This is the only secret why person who meditates enjoys better health than others.


Let me show you philosophical paradigm of meditation in context of health. Most of the health related problem arises because we have some kind of emotion that is against our true self. Persistent emotions which are against our true nature lead to diseases. Our lifestyle also plays a vital role when it comes to health but our emotions have a lot to do with our health.
For example feeling of fear and anxiety leads to heart related diseases. Guilt feeling weakens our immune system. Meditation helps us reaching our true self, understating what kind of emotions drain us out of energy. Once we enter the stage of mental trance and inner peace, self healing process gets triggered. If we carry emotions which are aligned with our true nature we will have more energy then ever before.

Attainment of a rational mind :
Attaining a rational mind is the most challenging thing for a human. We make decisions, judge something, analyze something, reach logical deduction based on what we have learned so far in our life and what our conscience allows us to think. Our teachers, parents, elders, bosses, peers all affect us. Apart from people's influence we are all affected by our experiences, leanings in life and we are prejudiced by greed/jealousy/anger/vengeance/vanity. We make decisions based on these factors. Meditation helps us breaking these shackles. Everything in the universe is relative. Appearance of the things depends on person to person. Meditation takes the mind at a level of conscience where we reach absolute. Then we can see the things the way they are in most pure format. Once we attain a rational mind, we start discovering ground realities of life, become mentally and physically stronger, take unbiased decisions, become more ethical. Our actions become more aligned with our true self. It results in feeling of bliss.

Happiness :
What exactly constitutes happiness?
Everybody has some understanding of things which are right or wrong. We imagine that our lives should run in a certain way. Television, news paper and other media are defining happiness for us. Who are these people who make movies, advertisements, serials, sell magazines, write book? Are they telling truth?
Who has validated them? What is authenticity of information that they expose? What we may perceive as happiness can tern out to be great misery and what we think is misery can be source of grand joy.
We hardly know what exactly we like or dislike. Happiness is different for different people. We just don't know who we are, what we like, what are we meant for, what is our true nature. Meditation helps us attain inner peace which results in realization of our true self. Only after self realization true bliss is achieved and life terns into celebration.

Better relationships:
Meditation helps us becoming aware of ourselves. We become more aware what we like, what we don't like. In some way or other each individual is same. Everybody has emotions like love, fear, anxiety, hatred etc.
Once we understand ourselves we can understand other people. If we get ability to step into somebody else's shoes we will have better interpersonal skills and relationships. Meditation also induces feeling of love which is like glue for any relationship.

Self control:
Most of the people know what they should do or what they should not. We all know nice things that we can implement in our lives. We make many Birthday and New Year resolutions but we are hardly able to finish them. We want to quit bad habits but we can not. We want to be disciplined but we can not. Book-stores are filled with self-help and personal-growth books. People read them and throw them in trash. Just reading a self help book doesn’t helps much. We have to change overall approach toward life and overall way of leaving.

Human action is driven by the thoughts those appears in mind. We are just slaves of the random thoughts those appears in our mind. Meditation helps us control our thought processing. Through continuous practice of meditation we master the art of controlling thought. As soon as we master the art of controlling thoughts we start controlling modification of mind hence our emotions or actions.

Philosophical and religious significance of meditation:
What is life? How to find purpose of our lives? What are we born for?
Where we are heading? What will become of us?
We have our Master and PhD degrees but we are simply illiterate when it comes to knowledge of philosophy, spirituality and way of living.

Philosophy means love for wisdom. The philosophy has a different name in Indian scriptures that is called “Gyana Yoga”. The freedom from bondage or ignorance through knowledge is called Gyana Yoga. Detachment can happen through meditation also and through knowledge also. But when the mind of individual is not prepared to receive very high-end wisdom, any type of philosophical discourse will be useless for such person. Meditation helps brain prepare for receiving and understanding philosophy. Meditation has another name called “Raja yoga”. Raja Yoga and Gyana Yoga both culminate at same place that is freedom/ bliss/ enlightenment/ Kaivalya / Moksha etc.

Now let us try to understand religion. Yoga philosophy knows religion by another name called “Bhakti Yoga”. Devotion of life and every action to God having form or formless is called Bhakti Yoga. Once we surrender ourselves totally to God a new dimension of life begins. Bhakti Yoga (religion ) means living every moment of life for God, doing every action for God, total surrender to God, having complete faith in God. Raja Yoga (meditation ) if done with utmost care and seeker of God reaches a very high level ( Seedless Samadhi) then full realization of God will take place. But normal concentration exercises can’t take an individual to full realization. It takes guidance of teacher and years of practice.

I would summarize that "Raja Yoga / Meditation' or "Bhakti Yoga/ Religion” or "Gyana Yoga/ Philosophy" all culminates at same point none of them are better than other. The way of reaching absolute truth is different.


What do I sell?
*Meditation for reducing stress.
*Meditation for increasing brain power.
*Meditation for self healing.
*Meditation for tuning with cosmic energy.
*Meditation for enlightenment.
*Yoga postures.
*Philosophic solutions to general problems of life.
*Lifestyle consulting.
*Help people quit bad habits.
*Help people loosing weight.
*Ways to be happy.

Example meditation technique:
Sit at a silent place. Breathe in and out in most natural way. Feel the friction of air in nose while inhaling and exhaling. Don’t think any thing else but focus on breathe. Very soon breathe will become calmer and deeper. This will make you forget everything else. If this exercise is done carefully it will take the individual to Samadhi (ultimate stage of


Few misconceptions about yoga.
1. One has to go to Himalaya in order to become Yogi.
We can be Yogi and at the same time lead a common life.
2. One has to leave all worldly pleasures like tasty food, family, become monk and go to Ashram in order to be Yogi.
Yoga doesn’t means complete renunciation of pleasure. Instead yogi enjoys the pleasure more than anyone, because he can control it.
3. A household can not be yogi.
All greatest sages of ancient India were households.
4. Yoga belongs to only Hindu religion.
Yoga is a scientific study of understanding body, mind and soul. Science and reasoning can not possibly belong to any particular religion they belong to everyone.