FAQ

see there is no future and as soon as you live according to that you will become peaceful and more peaceful.

you accept it or not but there is no future. this day this moment this hour this second is the only reality and if you could live this second happily lovingly smilingly the moment that is born out of this moment will also be happy blissful and full of laughter.

time is a chain a string of moments. but the reality is only this moment, one moment gives birth to the next and so, the chain gets created. but if you could hold this moment right trust me your future will also be right. but if you live this moment in worry the moment coming will also be full of worry.

whenever you lose calmness remember, to tell yourself there is no future. why worry about illusions. remember this till you completely become aware that this moment is the only moment.

  See, you can waste your whole life watching others and thinking about others. and at the end of the day, you gonna say oh hell I missed my whole life.

If you are bothered a bit about your life then it is time to turn inside, turn to you. I know it is hard to see self, as all the 10 senses give the perception of the outer world but the outer world can never make you blissful.

eyes see the other, ears hear the other, hands touch the other, and so on but I am the one who is a witness to all these sensations. It is certain senses see the other but there is a double-headed arrow. while the other is at the other head of the arrow I am on this head. and if I can be able to see this head of the arrow I can focus on the self.

I can become blissful this very moment if I stop focusing on the other head of the arrow. In short, if I stop focus on the other.

Now the question arises, how to focus on self. every day make a habit of sitting for 20–30 minutes and talk to yourself. Write on a paper “self-talk, think about self” and hang it in front of you where you gonna sit. in those 30 minutes you must figure out what you want from life what are things that bother me what are the childhood dreams what I want to share with the world what are my weak point what is my strength see how my mind works and what is the thought process it is going through.

Sit daily without a miss. you will get to know about yourself by and by. then the things that bother you, you have to drop them one by one, not immediately but take time and try to drop those things, simply remember it is worthless why to waste this precious moment on it. this remembering is enough to drop the useless. one more tip, forget what is bad just focus on the good things that you want to do. focus on your dreams and that is enough no need to waste time in dropping the bad, rather give the same time to cultivate qualities that gonna help you in achieving your dreams on walking the dream path. those qualities will drop useless themselves no need to work twice.

create a bigger picture of life. and that bigger picture must be only for you. and try to paint that picture, in reality, every single day. every single day when you are walking on the path of your goal you will not find time to focus on the other on the useless.

You have 10 senses 5 knowledge senses which feed you information about every moment and 5 motor senses with the help of them you perform actions. Now becoming more aware of what your knowledge senses are giving you and what your motor senses are doing will increase your awareness. You eat food. Eyes see the food, nose smell the food, tongue taste it, ears hear when you chew all this information is given to you through knowledge senses. 

 Tasting every bite enjoying the taste of every bite. Smelling the food touching the food will make you more and more aware, the more aware you are the more efficiently you chew the food the more easily you digest it, the more easily you pass out the waste. In life become more aware of the situation. With all the senses you try to understand the situation. And you will understand in a much better way. You understand better– you respond better, you respond better– you get better results.

Become more aware of this present hour present minute present second present moment. In the room, you are sitting become more aware. See the colors of the wall and different things present in the room. Check the aroma of the room. See what kind of smell is coming today. Listen to sounds coming from outside as well as the sounds of the things inside TV fan you breathing and all kinds of sounds. When you are fully aware of the environment you are more present in the environment. When you are the more present presence of mind is automatically increased.

Presence of mind is a wrong terminology according to me. Your presence is all that counts. You are more aware, more present, more conscious, now the more you are capable of using the potential of the mind. Not just your presence of mind will increase your ability to retain things will increase. Your ability to recall the past will also increase. All levels of mind, conscious subconscious superconscious are benefitted if you are more aware of this moment. What you are going through, where you are, what is happening around you, become more aware of it. And the presence of mind will be enhanced.

You first got to know what is self. Before knowing self you cannot be in discipline. It is not vice versa that by the discipline you know self or you know life.The first self has to be understood.

Then practicing to be in alignment with that self is the way to achieve self-discipline. It is not that you put chains and barriers on yourself to make it disciplined. No never.

First, know what is a self? You can get the hint from nature. What self would be like? It has qualities of nature. The qualities that the sun moon star trees rivers ocean universe carries with itself. Somewhat similar qualities are there in you too. Some selfless qualities. Those qualities you have to become aware of. When you find yourself performing those selfless deeds you can catch a glimpse of yourself.

Catching a glimpse is not right. I would say doing those selfless deeds you become self. Becoming self for a second is symbolically said as catching a glimpse. Glimpse is a very minute moment of something. When you become self for a few seconds you get that glimpse. And once a ray of sun is found you can tell where the sun is and how it feels like. When a glimpse is seen the whole picture can be understood.

We live as ego, not-self. Do not get mixed up with self and ego. When you do act with a self it is ego. When you act selflessly you act as self.

Then the journey from ray to the sun is the actual self-discipline. The journey from glimpse to actual picture is discipline. Knowing self you can discipline life.

Getting up at 5 eating only veg following some routine doing this and that is not discipline. As you know not whom you are disciplining how can you discipline. These are just raw materials for discipline. Not the actual discipline. Once you are prepared with the raw materials you can go on the journey of discipline.

Gathering raw materials in itself will give you enough benefits. Healthy body, confidence, power, and this and that. And you can stop there itself. Or you can start discipline once you understood what it is.

The moment you got to know yourself, discipline will be understood.

 To remain effortlessly silent is the biggest task of this life. you can break a mountain but you cannot shut down the mind if you want to.

you toss and turn in bed trying to sleep and there is a mind on one side that does everything to make you stressed and tensed.

to remain silent means to be thoughtless. to be thoughtless is to be in the present moment. if you are in thoughts while reading you may physically appear to be sitting in front of the screen but you are lost in some world. you are missing the present.

the brain has one shortcoming that it can process one thought at a time. no two thoughts can overlap. if you could just witness the gap between two thoughts we can move forward. the gap may be very very very small in the beginning. but once you see there is a gap between thoughts you can enlarge that gap.

stretch this gap from seconds to minutes to hours. it is a tough task, a tough task. initially, it is very subtle to grasp but just once you find out that silence between the thoughts we can prolong it.

other ways are also there just observe your breath without talking in the head. observe the blue sky, observe the stars. just sit on a riverbank and think nothing. just listen to birds.

you can also be silent if you take away meaning from sounds. words are just sounds take away their meaning just enjoy the sound. silence is the biggest treasure to be acclaimed. for it, you have to give the highest price too. give yourself up, your ego your thoughts everything burns them in silence. you just are, not try to be.

 anything which takes away the wholeness of a person becomes his weakness.

a child is born whole but parents fill them with so much care attention by and by the baby forget he was born whole. and parents become the weakness of the baby. he can never feel complete without them.

The same is the case with beloved. the beloved becomes obsession we again think what we are feeling is because of the beloved but in reality, you share yourself and that makes the beloved be with you. you give a part of you to her. and you are unaware of it. when she goes away you are left dented. she becomes your weakness.

The same is the case with friends. and these are the real weaknesses of life. because we have never understood how to be in relationships we get bonded in relations and that bondage is the real weakness for an individual.

In a line: Our attachments are our weakness.

dropping the knowledge that you have gathered till this day can make your mind free. we like to memorize as much as we can we want to gather as much knowledge as we can. and that knowledge makes the mind a highway full of traffic.

useful and useless knowledge keeps on revolving in the mind. keeps on moving in the mind. whether we need it or not whether we want to apply it or not but it keeps on circulating in the mind in the head.

you ask questions you give answers you make plans you make strategies you make plots you make music you make chaos all in the mind.

now to free the mind you need to be empty of knowledge. let that knowledge stay inside you but tame it so that it does not interfere with the present moment.

for eg you are eating a dish which you have already eaten in the past. now the mind carries the knowledge of the taste of the texture of that food. now when again you are having the dish the second time the mind will interfere with your present. you want to eat it but alongside mind keeps on comparing that dish was good the first time or it is good this time. but both the dish may be named the same are different. the salt the spices have a unique combination in both two instances. you can not compare the taste. the second time you can not enjoy the dish completely because your mind was interfering and this has made you miss the taste completely the second time.

what is an open mind? now an open mind accepts whatever it is going through at this moment. it neither complains neither clings to the situation but it just sees the situation as it is. without any veil of knowledge to distort the vision. you do not try to fit the situation in the limits of your knowledge but you learn about the thing like you are learning for the first time. whether you know it already but a free mind tries to learn from moment to moment. it leaves behind the knowledge and gathers new knowledge and drops it simultaneously. so that space for newness is left vacant for new things and beings.

to have a free mind first witness what this mind has. just witness what is the thought process in which it is working. is it too judgemental is it too complaining is it too chaotic is it too problematic. just see the activity of the mind from a distance like the viewers present on any ground to see a match like that you just become a viewer. by and by the traffic will be over. the match will be over soon and you can bring forth the silence that is your basic nature hidden under the layers of the mind.

what is namaz? it is prayer, prayer is meditation.

to remember God is meditation and I love Islam because that is the only religion that tells you to take the name to pray in the name of god 5 times a day.

the more you take the name of God more is the chance to realize god. Hindus do not have this ritual Christians do not have it. but it is the beauty of Islam.

you can make your namaz your meditation. there is no need to do it separately. whenever you do namaz make it with full awareness. every word you utter you make sure you speak it loudly clearly consciously. every action body does see it and do it with alertness, do not do namaz like a machine but every time you do it with as much joyously as you could do.

you can become namaz itself if you could melt yourself into the namaz if you could love it. do not say I am doing namaz rather it is the god in me who is doing it and I am just a medium just a body remembering the presence of the divine.

5 times a day do not miss any time. every time do it like you are doing it for the very first time. do not say I just did it hours ago, what is the point again, rather enjoy the whole process of it. enjoy it immensely and intensely. if you could do it in such a playful manner trust me there is no need at all to go for some other technique of meditation. Muslims can become the best meditators as from childhood they are told and rooted with this principle of 5 prayers a day.

la ilaha illallah. 

Whether we accept it or not, we suffer from stress, anxiety, anger, power struggle, jealousy, mood swings, emotional swings, and so on, daily. We suffer from a sense of loneliness. Anybody who denies that is either already enlightened, a meditator, or a liar and there is no middle ground.

 There is one panacea and only one and that is meditation which can cure all kinds of problems in life in the body-mind sphere. I am telling that from my authority. I am not saying so simply because I have read it somewhere. I practiced meditation and I lost all those things which were unwanted in my life.

 Yes, it is true, you would not be able to earn more money, more power from meditation. But you will be earn something more valuable and that is Peace with the self. You will become happy for no reason. Being happy for some reason is of no value as the reason is removed and happiness is lost. You will become reasonless happy. 

 And whatever I am saying is from my experience. And then gratitude will arise in you, a love will arise in you, compassion will arise in you and your sense of perception will be more clear. 

 Then birds will no longer be birds they will be your extensions.

 Then trees will no longer be trees they will be your extensions.

  Then stars will no longer be stars they will be your extensions.

 You will become one with nature and then a sense of belongingness will arise in you which can not be lost ever.

 To be connected to nature; existence again you need meditation.

 I know you have no time, and believe me, that is just an excuse. if you just look at your day and do a little reshuffling of the time you will have ample time. 

 Rather than wasting time on news channels or install and FB can you not take out 25-30 minutes for your self-healing?

  Initially, it is tough but within a few weeks, you will not be able to live without it. 

 If your day is packed with work, take out half an hour from your sleep. 

And that half an hour will be compensated with good and sound sleep. 

  After all, Are you not interested in knowing and reading the greatest book ever created; YOU??

 Take out half an hour, and near the end of your life, you will say that is the best half-hour spend in life.

To be blunt, you will drop the game of success and failure. And that is true success. to come out of the race is real success. You walk one step and success walks away 2 steps. And you are ever behind it.

 But to ease your curiosity, you will be more successful in life. How?

 You will be doing what you are doing with all your senses all your awareness and all your consciousness. Your body-mind will be totally in the task that you will be doing and that will enhance the quality of work. 

 Imagine a driver, driving with his mind in the office, not on the road, what about the chances of an accident. 

 Imagine a driver, driving with his full awareness on the road. what about the chances of an accident.

 You will be doing your work with all your awareness and an open mind and that will surely bring prosperity to you, without any doubt. 

  One can start meditation online there is no problem with that, but the problem arises when the person starts having experiences. Meditation can show results from the first day itself. Then you will wander with those thoughts. You will try to have the same experience on the 2nd day also and so on and so on. but now you will create a wall that will stop you from having further experiences.  

 Online if you are doing meditation with a master who is ready to hold your hand for the entire journey then it is fine, but if the teacher is only giving you the technique then it will create a hindrance. You should be guided from the point of concentration to the point of meditation. 

 Online there are teachers, but not masters, who have read about meditation but have not done meditation themselves and are preaching meditation. they will worsen your case. they will increase your headache. 

Offsite will rejuvenate you automatically. it will give you an impetus to try new things with zeal. 

 Doing something new in the same setting and the same atmosphere is always a difficult task. For example, rather than cooking a new cuisine at home, you go out to a new restaurant. 

 Your senses work more in a new environment. and that is always beneficial. 

 Yes, you can but you should be in constant contact with someone who has already walked on the path, whom you can trust, whom you love.

 The material should be in such a way that it reduces the burden of knowledge rather than giving you even more beliefs and dogmas.