Life in this world has a lot of conditions to keep it running stable. We have several aspects to take care of and doing great in one and missing out in other areas in life wont do much good.
We need to work on all platforms of physical body, mental, emotional, intellectual, spiritual and social needs. How you run your single day is how your life would be. Little things add up eventualy after weeks, months and years. Therefore, the secret of compounding your efforts and seeing success is in your daily routines. Do not under estimate what a 30 min daily routine can do to you after months of consistent practice.
So my friend have good daily routines for all these aspects of life by dedicating time and energy for each one of these areas to have a balanced, healthy and peaceful life.
Physical Health
1. Diet - routines important
2. Exercise - routines important
3. Oil massage - routines important
4. Herbs and supplements - routines important
Mental, Emotional and Social Health
1. Socializing with close family and friends
2. Managing your stress levels from work and other life situations
3. Keeping your emotional health stable by being mindful and aware of your surroundings and the people around you.
4. Staying away from mean people or narcissistic type of people or those that you dont get along so well. Stay Far away from those that drain your mental energy like vampires. Keep those only with who you feel peace and calm in their presence.
5. Regulating Sleeping habits and cycles and early to bed.
6. Keeping your space organized and clean
Intellectual Health:
1. Learn something new about anything for making your life better. It could be religious/spiritual or technology that helps make life better or about health or pyschological impact and needs.
2. Keep the intellect sharp by regular connection with advanced wise people who have seen the life and have a vision. You are made of the closest five people who you regularly associate with. So choose association wisely.
Spiritual Health:
1. This goes beyond the 3 dimensional life we perceive with our senses and mind
2. Prioritize Spiritual happiness which is beyond senses mind and intellect for it's the core of your heart. Spirit is above the body mind senses and intellect.
3. Learn spirituality from ancient texts and those that are experts in that field.
More later….
What is Life?
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Suppose we have mistreated others grievously in the past. We may resolve to never forgive ourselves as a way to make up for those actions.
However, what does making up for our misdeeds require? Externally, offering apologies and reparations. And internally changing our mental impressions, which are the impellers of our various actions. When we mistreated others, that action arose from an underlying psychic impression of unkindness. If we want to make amends and treat others better in the future, we need to replace that impression of unkindness with an impression of kindness. And the only way we can change our inner impressions is by consciously choosing to act kindly. This means that we treat others kindly — and also treat ourselves kindly.
Can't we be kind toward others and harsh toward ourselves? Possible briefly, but not sustainably. Why not? Because our habitual actions are determined less by our conscious intentions and more by our subconscious impressions. When we remain unforgiving toward ourselves, we are acting unkindly toward ourselves, thereby reinforcing the inner impression of unkindness. And because our mind dwells much more on ourselves than it does on others, our unkindness toward ourselves will form stronger impressions than our kindness toward others. Over time, these impressions of unkindness will overwhelm the impressions of kindness and impel us to act unkindly toward others too.
To sustainably change ourselves, kindness has to begin at home: we need to forgive ourselves. Pertinently, the Bhagavad-gita (12.13) urges us to be a kind friend toward everyone, wherein everyone includes us too.
One-sentence summary:
When we refuse to forgive ourselves for our past misdeeds, we are unwittingly trying to make up for our past unkindness toward others with our present unkindness toward ourselves; but the only sustainable way to make up for unkindness is by kindness, toward others and toward ourselves too.
Think it over:
What does making up for our misdeeds require?
Why can't we be kind toward others and harsh toward ourselves?
In which area of your life do you need to forgive yourself? What is holding you back? How can you remove that obstacle?
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12.13: One who is not envious but is a kind friend to all living entities, who does not think himself a proprietor and is free from false ego, who is equal in both happiness and distress – such a devotee of Mine is very dear to Me.
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Humility, which is lauded as a prime virtue in the Bhagavad-gita (13.08), is often misunderstood. One such misunderstanding centers on how it can be developed: we may believe that if we contemplate the many wrongs we have done in the past and beat ourselves up for them, we will thereby develop humility.
It's true that contemplating our past mistakes can help counter the toxic growth of hubris, which is the opposite of humility. Hubris centers on an overestimation of ourselves, especially our talents and virtues. Our mistakes remind us forcefully that we are not as talented or as virtuous as we thought we were, thereby pricking a hole in our hubris. However, hubris is shockingly stubborn; as soon as we forget our mistakes, it rapidly resuscitates itself. To prevent its resurrection, we need to stay aware of our mistakes – or more precisely, of our limitations that those mistakes point to.
How can we stay aware of our limitations? By acknowledging, at least to ourselves, that we can't just take up any difficult task that we want, presuming that we have the necessary ability; and that we can't let ourselves go into any provocative situation, presuming that we have the necessary virtue to avoid getting provoked. When we thus unhesitatingly acknowledge our limitations, we make honesty the natural and sustainable foundation for our humility.
Unfortunately, instead of acknowledging our limitations, we sometimes obsess over the mistakes we committed and beat ourselves up for them. Such self-flagellation only breeds negativity: it makes us believe that we are too flawed and fallible to ever do anything worthwhile; it depletes our confidence that we can do some good, however small; it eventually destroys our will to even try to do any good. Thus, we end up becoming reservoirs and radiators of negativity.
That's why we need to evaluate whether our contemplation on our mistakes is helping us or harming us.
One-sentence summary.
Contemplating our mistakes to stay aware of our limitations fosters humility; contemplating those mistakes to beat ourselves up breeds negativity.
Think it over:
How can contemplating our mistakes counter hubris?
How can we stay aware of our limitations?
How is beating ourselves up for our mistakes counterproductive?
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13.08: Humility; pridelessness; nonviolence; tolerance; simplicity; approaching a bona fide spiritual master; cleanliness; steadiness; self-control; … [ – all these I declare to be knowledge].
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As each one of us humans is an irreducible individual, we all will have different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. This will sooner or later lead to mutual differences of opinion. Generally, we learn to live with such differences; we consciously or unconsciously adopt the motto, "Live and let live."
However, such coexistence becomes difficult when the two sides see the differences of opinion differently. Suppose one side considers the difference super-important, whereas the other side considers the difference to be inconsequential. This second side doesn't get worked up about the difference, whereas the first side gets worked up about that difference — and gets even more worked up seeing that the other side is not at all worked up. The first side labels the second side insensitive, even monstrously insensitive. Incensed by such labeling, the second side labels the first side hypersensitive, even rabidly hypersensitive. And thus begins the wall of polarization that separates, scalds and scars both sides, making the lives of both miserable, even unlivable.
How can this be avoided? Through empathy, The Bhagavad-gita (06.32) urges us to see the shared spirituality that can unify all of us; this implies that just as we take our first-person experience seriously, so do others take their first-person experience seriously. If the first side tries to understand why the other side doesn't consider the differences so serious and the second side tries to understand why the first side considers the differences so serious, both can come to a better mutual understanding, even if they don't come to mutual agreement on that issue. With that improved mutual understanding, they can connect with each other better and thereby learn how to live with their differences.
One-sentence summary:
Differences of opinions can be lived with; differences in opinion about the importance of those differences can make life unlivable.
Think it over:
Why are differences of opinion natural?
What happens when two sides differ about the importance of their mutual differences?
How can such a mismatch be addressed?
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06.32: He is a perfect yogi who, by comparison to his own self, sees the true equality of all beings, in both their happiness and their distress, O Arjuna!
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From Ananta Vrindavan: Dear devotees, here is my most recent production - a short video of Srila Gurudeva sharing Krsna consciousness with others around the world. Hoping such blissful times will come again soon!
The Bliss of sharing Krishna consciousness
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Just like you infect yourself when you are around people and places having contaminated substances like viruses or bacteria, we infect ourselves by simply the actions, thoughts connected with modes of nature(rajo, tamo and sattva) and extend our repeated cycle of birth & death life after life. Actions, thoughts pertaining to Krsna is like vaccine which keeps us immune to the modes of nature. Rajo guna and tamo guna does more harm than the viruses in actuality.
Infection of this Material world and Medicine!
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 12 March 2021, Simhachalam, Germany, Zoom Meeting)
Why try to control the material energy? Why try to manipulate it? Why try to force the hand of destiny? Instead, just take it as it comes. And under each circumstance, just make the best of the situation. And if we do so, then surely we will get the mercy of the Lord!
Krsna is conquered by all, but most by the devotee who gives the most, who does the most.
Love is the foundation of everything. It is not like a sentimental wet blanket. Sometimes, we hear of impersonalists speak about the cosmic love and how one has to connect to that cosmic love, that all this cosmic loving energy is all-pervading and if one simply connects to it then they will also become like an instrument of that love. That is the impersonal loving energy, like a wet loving blanket. Love has nothing to do with that. Love is personal. And love means you have to do something to capture me if you want me to love you. Real love is based on conquering. We have to do something that is really dear to someone else if we want to conquer them. That is the basis of love, that is the basis of the spiritual world. Everyone is trying to do something extraordinary to conquer Krsna. And Krsna is conquered by all, but most by the devotee who gives the most, who does the most. Pure devotional service attracts Krsna and that is the secret of the spiritual world. And when we attract Krsna, then miracles start to happen, then we become uplifted above the mundane.
This is a humble attempt to collect information on the spiritual subject matter for my own purification and for the benefit of the World! Lot of focus is made here to provide a one-stop solution for all problems of life! The most secret of all secrets is revealed! Vedic wisdom here unveils your real self. The perfect self-realization system(Bhakti Yoga) made so simple like never before!
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